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Trying to beat out Davenport Iowa in the burgeoning Office Supply Art field.
(Thanks to Wziemski)
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Trying to beat out Davenport Iowa in the burgeoning Office Supply Art field.
(Thanks to Wziemski)
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What is it with large office supplies?
Posted by: Suzy Q | July 28, 2006 at 10:16 AM
Also....First!!
Posted by: Suzy Q | July 28, 2006 at 10:18 AM
Should be suspended above a giant trash receptacle.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | July 28, 2006 at 10:18 AM
sniff...sniff...I've never been so proud to be a Buckeye!
Posted by: 24-aholic | July 28, 2006 at 10:20 AM
Philly (at least I think it's Philly) has a giant clothespin.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | July 28, 2006 at 10:20 AM
a growing nexus of tourism thrills
there's a frustrated, wanna be writer for you.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | July 28, 2006 at 10:20 AM
I'm having a hard time connecting free and oil company at the same time.
Posted by: Olo Baggins of Bywater | July 28, 2006 at 10:21 AM
I like Dave's idea of a giant post-it...
Posted by: Siouxie | July 28, 2006 at 10:26 AM
so this is the definitive public art
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | July 28, 2006 at 10:27 AM
Ah, Cleveland. How I miss your ridiculous "artwork" that makes absolutely no sense.
Posted by: Kara | July 28, 2006 at 10:28 AM
Let's not leave Washington, DC out of the conversation: http://www.nga.gov/feature/sculpturegarden/sculpture/sculpture1-fs.shtm
Posted by: Big Red in VA | July 28, 2006 at 10:31 AM
Those taxpayers should be very very
pissed offproud.Posted by: Punkin Poo | July 28, 2006 at 10:36 AM
Now, this Yowza is art I'll pay to see
Posted by: 24-aholic | July 28, 2006 at 10:41 AM
um, just the picture, not so much the rest of the page. Sorry, I'm still a semi-virgin linker
Posted by: 24-aholic | July 28, 2006 at 10:43 AM
if there were a strumpfest in Wyo, it would look something like this. (my favorite piece of public art)
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | July 28, 2006 at 10:47 AM
we have a giant toilet bowl here in albany. c'mon dave - you wanna see that! [actually, its a 'theatre' known as the 'egg', but when you're driving into town, all it needs is a flush handle and a seat]
Posted by: queensbee | July 28, 2006 at 10:58 AM
I work in an office building in White Plains NY where the plaza in front of it once hosted this. The picture isn't detailed enough to show how the hearts are embedded with all kinds of random and presumably symbolic bric-a-brac, tools, toys, etc.
When the piece was installed, the building was privately owned but was bought by my employer, a NY state agency in the 90's. They hated the piece and fought against the town tooth and nail to have it removed. After many years, my agency finally convinced the town authorities to have it sold to a private sculpture museum, after doing all the work to find a buyer and paying for its removal and transport.
So far as I know, there have been zero complaints about its removal.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | July 28, 2006 at 11:04 AM
negotiations are still going on for the gigantic ink pad...
Posted by: insomniac | July 28, 2006 at 11:07 AM
Philly (at least I think it's Philly) has a giant clothespin.
yes...it is Philly...we used to call it Giant Gumby...remember: Its Always Sunny In Philadelpia
Posted by: Chaz | July 28, 2006 at 11:10 AM
LisaBFF - You're (not your) right about the clothespin in Philly. There's also a plaza that has giant Sorry™ pieces scattered all over it.
Posted by: sthnbelle | July 28, 2006 at 11:12 AM
That is an atrocious show
Posted by: 24-aholic | July 28, 2006 at 11:12 AM
Not sure exactly what THAT says about our fine city.
Posted by: sthnbelle | July 28, 2006 at 11:12 AM
In our state zoo there is a series of metal sculptures, each one representing an extinct species of bird. The sculptures look nothing like birds, though each has a cut out image of the bird in question.
When I worked there I was told it had originally been installed outside a mental institution but it had to be removed because it upset the residents. So we got it instead.
Posted by: bookworm | July 28, 2006 at 11:39 AM
Baltimore for a time had the worlds largest trash can outside Resco (where the trash goes). It was big and silver and I was glad I didn't have to drag it to the curb.
Posted by: Baltimore Kat | July 28, 2006 at 11:49 AM
goes to bend some rebar into a giant paperclip in hopes of public funding
Posted by: crossgirl | July 28, 2006 at 11:50 AM
I'm not going to take the time to track down a picture of it, but a while back, a story about the 100 ears of six-foot tall concrete corn in a field in nearby Dublin was blogged and discussed. While not puclically funded, I still think this is a piece of art that just cries out for juvenile vandalism, like a hundred six-foot condoms or something.
Posted by: mudstuffin | July 28, 2006 at 11:57 AM
They should have put on Ellis Island.
Posted by: MrBill | July 28, 2006 at 12:11 PM
Here is the corn mudstuffin. I am also very near Dublin and used to work across the street from that horror of "art". We always wondered why the city just didn't give the money back to the taxpayers.
Posted by: 24-aholic | July 28, 2006 at 12:12 PM
*snork* imagining the corn with the
profyl propfilx condomsuh...protective coverings on 'em... nice visual mud...Posted by: Siouxie | July 28, 2006 at 12:45 PM
sthnbelle *snork*
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | July 28, 2006 at 12:51 PM
More giant office supplies.
(all found here)
Posted by: Sarah J | July 28, 2006 at 02:06 PM
Sarah J-You find the best links! (And yep, that's the clothespin I saw in Philly.)
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | July 28, 2006 at 03:38 PM
A little gem from my home town - Berwyn, IL:
cars on the needle
Posted by: Cat R. | July 28, 2006 at 04:01 PM
I love that there's a guardrail around that, Cat R.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | July 28, 2006 at 04:05 PM
I never noticed that, Meanie! We also used to have a giant cement garbage pile (or something like that). It was just this huge blob of concrete with all kinds of junk stuck into it - toasters, window fans, whatever. Debris kept falling off and hitting people. It took them a lot of years to take that down. This one is still there.
Posted by: Cat R. | July 28, 2006 at 04:10 PM
Ha! found the garbage pile!
Posted by: Cat R. | July 28, 2006 at 04:12 PM
Anybody else get the feeling that some artists just look around their apartments until their eyes alight on some random object and declare "I can sculpt that!"
Posted by: almne | July 28, 2006 at 05:36 PM
Almne..
What is really fasinating is that they actually get somebody to buy the stuff, (usually with tax payer's money).
Posted by: Bill in Bossier | July 28, 2006 at 06:19 PM
In the words of the sage, Cleveland rocks!
Posted by: Betsy Ray | July 28, 2006 at 10:19 PM
I live in Cleveland. Every time I see that stupid stamp I mutter to myself "just say no...." And speaking of "art"...who told Christo he was an artist? I mean, wrapping a doghouse? and then draping Central Park with lovely orange tiny-tots racing flags? A first-grader would have more imagination! I don't know how it was funded, but if the government gave him a grant for that, then I'm all for cutting government funding for the arts.
Posted by: Cleveland Sports don't Rock | January 03, 2007 at 02:33 PM