“Art” is in the eye of the beholder. Global warming “art” is often lodged in another place in the body.
From AOL News:, this artistic project is described as: “…off London’s Millennium Bridge. Taiwanese artist Vincent Huang used two glass penguins and a stuffed toy polar bear for the eye-catching project, which aims to raise awareness over climate change.”
Never mind that polar bears and penguins don’t share the same icecap, it’s “art”.
Read the story behind this at AOL News.
Also, the idea of suicidal animals to raise awareness on global warming is not new, it was used last year in this video below from an outfit called Quercus in Portugal. The “artistic rendition” above is simply a low budget copycat.
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The only shocking thing is that there are still people who believe that being sensitive will save the world.
Being sensitive is the last thing the world needs. Would all sensitive people please take their precious little sensitive feelings and go take a reality check.
Sensitivity will not save the world nor the environment. Sensitivity just gets in the way. Sensitivity just makes everything a mush of confusion and ignorance.
My take on the subject:
Is the green propaganda going too far? http://bit.ly/9UNwLe
In words of the late Eric Morcambe, this boy’s a fool!!!
Patrick Davis (01:21:21) :
Even more craziness. Yesterday was a typical summer day, and it was warm overnight…in fact at about 10:30pm, it was still 31c. Not unusual for Sydney inner west and summer and westerly winds. But today we get more climate garbage;
Ahhh, summer warmth…
If your approaching winter is anything like the one over here, you’re truly lucky, at least you have a few months to prepare instead of being blindsided.
Have you seen this?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100222140619.htm
Someone is doing research to study how to bash climate skeptics in the mass media.
Good news for those who fear over climate sensitivity and tipping points!
900 Pinatubo’s don’t make an Ice Age research shows!
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/900-pinatubos-dont-make-an-ice-age-research/
Antonia (00:41:12) :
My, that’s a really convincing scientific argument, isn’t it. These arty types are clueless as to how ridiculous they are.
Not all of us ‘arty types’ are quite so abysmal. When one of them asked what would be the next fashion after ‘conceptual art,’ I suggested ‘contraceptual art.’ They were not amused. Looks like I got another prophecy right (must become a shaman – seems my totem animal is a whale).
Peter Hearnden (01:43:18) :
Isn’t art often disturbing? I can thing of plenty that is. I can also think of plenty of artists once ridiculed who are now much more respected.
…and plenty of artists once respected who are now much more ridiculed. Perhaps you’ve had too big a dose of Adorno and the Frunkfart School (deliberate error; no insult to the city).
Ahh, tax season, the joy of having 30% of my hard earned cash confiscated. This year, can I specifically request for not sending my dollar to NASA?
More climate craziness!
Water vapor, the next eco scare!
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/water-vapor-next-demon-gas
Suicidal roos and emus are rather common, and warming has buckleys to do with it.
theres five cars in town with panels smashed and it wasn’t drunk driving:-)
the Feral Camels caused accidents by licking dew off the Ghan Train lines..
as to the artists rendition of symbology, I,d prefer he hung there, a much more vaild statement..
dying for ones art? or similar..
re syndey warmist hype, I am using a wheat bag to keep warm in Feb? in aus.
A lousy 3 nights when it was no covers…sure some hot days, but not that many.
and Autumn will be here all too soon.
Mark (01:11:10) :
> Erm, it’s hanging under a bridge. How the hell are people supposed to have their awareness raised when they won’t see the stupid thing?
I saw it a few minutes ago from New Hampshire.
> [anthony] Never mind that polar bears and penguins don’t share the same icecap, it’s “art”.
Check the photo – they’re separated by an equator.
I think I can see the population of the world splitting in two (literally) – on one side the climate realists and on the other side the true believers of AGW.
One side (the climate realists) will be prosperous, free-thinking, and open to debate, forward looking, democratic and mainly at ease with itself. On the other (believers of AGW) will be a totalitarian dictatorship, bereft of ideas, bankrupt, scientifically illiterate, constrained by dogma and profoundly unhappy.
I think I will go with the former.
All this ‘raising awareness’ that’s been going on for the past two decades has really reaped dividends, hasn’t it?
The masses – who I presume are the target audience whose ‘awareness’ needs to be ‘raised’ – are becoming ever more skeptical.
I guess they’re smarter than they’re given credit for, and are seeing ‘raising awareness’ for what it really is: propaganda.
Your world has now been Disneyfied. Start singing with your cat.
This is the way to go!
Congressional criminal investigation of Climate Gate!
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-and-the-law-senator-inhofe-to-ask-for-congressional-criminal-investigation-pajamas-mediapjtv-exclusive/
Here are some more guys in trouble:
http://news.aol.co.uk/fewer-great-whites-than-tigers/article/20100219013151025995897
“Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in San Diego, he told how the discovery was made by colleagues from the Census of Marine Life.
He said: “I recently heard a report from the team that’s been tagging great white sharks. The estimated total population of great white sharks in the world’s oceans is actually less than the number of tigers.”
That’s the first I ever heard that tigers were shark predators….and I thought cats didn’t like water.
There are no comments on the survival rates of the team tagging Great Whites.
r (04:36:20) :
Have you seen this?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100222140619.htm
Someone is doing research to study how to bash climate skeptics in the mass media.
That fits. Guess where it originates, The University of Colorado at Boulder.
Ever noticed how most of climate science seems to flows from The University of Colorado at Boulder, in one way or the other? Why is it the world center? Climate searches on it return fractions of a million.
re Peter Hearnden (01:43:18):
What you describe is a (post-) modern disease – some people apparently feel very much “superior” through pretending to find deep meaning in ridiculous things. For once we are lucky in that the general public, despite a hundred years of campaigning, has largely stuck to their common sense: programming Arnold Schoenberg or Free Jazz is still a guarantee for half-empty concert-halls except in places where the Rich and Clueless are thick on the ground…
johnh (00:52:57) :
And someone paid for that !!!!!
It’s much worse then that: “Someone is GETTING paid for that”!!!
Darn it, Anthony! First you hit us with more of the philosophy-of-science issues, and now this artsy-fartsy stuff today. My brain is hurting from all this thinking you’re making me do.
Art stunts such as this one are the reason I have not kept up with the contemporary art scene. I stopped paying attention about the time that Julian Schnabel’s plates began falling off his canvasses. One can only épater la bourgeoisie just so many times before even it responds with a great big yawn.
“JB (05:01:30) :
I think I can see the population of the world splitting in two (literally) – on one side the climate realists and on the other side the true believers of AGW.”
I often use the example from Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gullivers Travels’ to illustrate where AGW sides are headed;
“…Gulliver is a source of fear and awe to them, and participates somewhat helpfully in the Lilliputian war against Blefuscu, a lengthy conflict that has arisen between the big-enders and little-enders (depending upon which side of a boiled egg one must crack in order to eat it).”
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12611
cheers David
DennisA
Perhaps they mean Tiger Sharks?
This reminds me of the four American civilian contractors who were hanged from a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq, back in 2004. It appears that all terrorists (including eco-terrorist artists) think alike.
Jim
Allen ‘M’, Chris’Z’
I didn’t actually say I like it as art, I don’t much, just that people might see it differently in the future.
I think you’re entilted to your view and I think I am to mine. OK?
Don’t worry folks, those aren’t real animals,
It’s just Al Gore, Pachauri and James Hansen dressed up in Polar bear and Penguin suits.