“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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You know what’s really scary
It’s sitting at a red light and seeing a Toyota Prius coming up behind you.!
It looks to me like the climate models are “Global Warming Art” to “raise awareness”.
Guess it’s a theme…
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What is that? Junk made in China hanging off a bridge?
If you don’t like the fact that junk is made in China, don’t buy it in the first place.
Makes me ashamed to have ever been an artist.
I’m always bemused by the claim “aims to raise awareness over climate change.”
Exactly how many people do they think who see this spectacle aren’t aware of climate change?
Must be post normal art.
It’s only appropriate that the last gasp of the Warmers be a symbolic destruction of the the animals they profess to want to save.
OT – According to Fox News (www.foxnews.com) the Met has “quietly suggested” that a new, open, global temperature acquisition program be launched.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/23/britains-weather-office-proposes-climate-gate/
Al Gore’s Holy Hologram (05:13:41) : “Your world has now been Disneyfied. Start singing with your cat.”
It’s a world of laughter, A world of tears. It’s a world of hopes, And a world of fears. There’s so much that we share, That it’s time we’re aware, It’s a small world after all.
It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small, small world.
There is just one moon, And one golden sun. And a smile means, Friendship to every one. Though the mountains divide, And the oceans are wide, It’s a small world after all.
It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small, small world.
[And I now apologize profusely, and slink off to my corner]
“Under the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981, s. 1 it is an offence to
make, cause or permit a public display of indecent matter. The test for
what is indecent is wider than the OPA test for obscenity. It is generally
thought to be matter which is shocking, disgusting or offensive –
something that may cause offence or embarrassment to the public.
In determining whether a display is indecent any part of the matter which
is not exposed to view shall be disregarded. “Matter” includes anything
capable of being displayed, except the human body. There is also no
public good defence.”
Funny write-up on “Raising Awareness”
All of the world’s problems can be solved through “awareness.” Meaning the process of making other people aware of problems, and then magically someone else like the government will fix it. This belief allows them to feel that sweet self-satisfaction without actually having to solve anything or face any difficult challenges
And for the record, that is a humor site and not meant to be taken seriously.
This is the best Polar Bear/Penguin art I’ve seen, certainly much more imaginative than that above. Hell, the way things are going it may be prescient!
http://i34.tinypic.com/2qk8e38.jpg
If this display was on a bridge in America, I would expect that various groups would protest its racial insensitivity. But, you never can tell.
It might be going a bit too far to say it isn’t art, but it’s fair to say it is deeply stupid art. This reminds me of the woman with the CO2 canister in Greenland. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/fun-with-co2-in-greenland/
I’ve heard it said all my life that “art” is in the eye of the beholder. (Some say that’s true of “beauty” too.) I think there’s definitely something wrong Anthony, I can’t see a thing.
Much that passes for “art” is simply garbage and/or zillions of fecal coliforms in the street. I understand that in the Middle Ages they had “art” everywhere. I believe it often brought tears to the eyes (until they started to put it in pipes and dump it into the nearby river that everyone drank from –that’s another side of art, it can make you so sick it kills you).
To the “artist” and his/her Patron, “It” is “Art” -sometimes. To the rest of the world, “it” is whatever they say it is -always.
Sorry Anthony, it’s probably on my end.
I still can’t see anything:-)
All I see is three animals that just discovered they weren’t getting free health care.
I guess the meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder.
mrpkw (05:36:50) :
johnh (00:52:57) :
And someone paid for that !!!!!
It’s much worse then that: “Someone is GETTING paid for that”!!!
Climate Change jobs are all the rage:
http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=86193488&JobTitle=Senior+Advisor%2c+Climate+Change+Adaptation&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=N&pg=1&q=Climate+Change&re=0&AVSDM=2010-02-09+14%3a39%3a00
Senior Advisor, Climate Change Adaptation. 119,544.00 – 165,300.00 USD /year
Or just go to http://www.usajobs.gov/ and perform a search on ‘climate change’.
I’m not sure at what point my moral compass can be purchased, but I’m sure there is some sum of dollars which will make me an AGW advocate, if not necessarily a believer.
A couple of months ago my girl friend gave me this picture to hang in my home-office. I guess she got tired of my rather continuous chortling at the latest antics of the Hockey Team.
NickB. (07:58:27) :
Funny write-up on “Raising Awareness”
All of the world’s problems can be solved through “awareness.” Meaning the process of making other people aware of problems, and then magically someone else like the government will fix it. This belief allows them to feel that sweet self-satisfaction without actually having to solve anything or face any difficult challenges
And for the record, that is a humor site and not meant to be taken seriously.
There is truth in humor, however. This is a root cause of the (societal) situation we are in at the moment.
When faced with an issue we may feel ‘something’ about, the easy way out is the Bake Sale, or when that proves to be too taxing a few dollars of fluff from our pockets. Our government style has given as an even more useful mechanism: the ability to throw other peoples money at a problem that we perceive.
This is a triple benefit whammy for simply raising awareness while we don’t need to do much; when we do it’s usually something we’d do anyway (bike ride, bake a cake, watch TV…). The benefits are that it costs us next to nothing, someone else is responsible for enacting it, and it punishes those we don’t like.
This is not “art-naive”, this is as dangerous as dog hanging by communist revolutionaries; there is fanaticism behind.
‘Geoff Sherrington (01:36:16) :
Sorry for the length of this – I can’t vouch that it is authentic, but it resonates with aspects of carbon trading schemes.’
Geoff probably didn’t get an answer. David Miliband is the Foreign Secretary. His brother Ed is at DEFRA. He probably ducked out as well because the letter wasn’t for him.
Charlie
I still can’t see anything!
What are you folks looking at?
That’s not art.
Now this is art:
http://danglinginvective.blogspot.com/2009/12/doe-deer-dead-deer-on-couch.html
Kate (02:16:22) : “For all our Swedish readers, Dagens Nyheter is reporting that due to a breakthrough in fusion research in the U.S., we may have controlled fusion in two years.”
What Isaac Asimov called “My Built-In Doubter” tells me not to hold my breath.
Google ad I got at the top of the page.
Supplying the energy to keep civilization going is a dirty business?
We need to produce an opposing “parody” video showing animals shivering in a frozen, ice encrusted landscape. Polar bears, penguins, and the chimp would work just fine. Then pan out and up into the sky with the focal point remaining on the spot where the zoom-out started (like zooming out in Google Earth). And, what is revealed is the original focal point being on the equater in South America, and the entire earth is frozen over. A caption materializes that says: “What if they have it wrong? . . . this, happened in the past . . . and more than once”.