Spotted this on NPR. Apparently there is a yearly student painting competition, the winners of which get hung in the Capitol in DC for about a year until the next set of winners. One such, "Untitled#1" by David Pulphus went up last June, and apparently a group of Republicans have decided it was "offensive" and have been alternating taking it down ( Read more... )

Got my first Kuriositas bulletin in awhile...  Satsop, Washington began an atomic power plant in 1977, only to abandon the uncompleted result when they ran out of funding in 1983.  The result, an fascinating video trip through the ruins of something that never really was. My thanks to Kuriositas for the link.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

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Kuriositas does it again - These are fun.

Kuriositas
The Art of the Japanese Manhole
17 August 2014

The Japanese have a wonderful relationship with their manhole covers: they treat them as art.  Here is a selection of the ornate, the artistic and the slightly bizarre.
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Or, what may be one of the most useful public sculptures the world has seen in awhile, given that it is made of aluminum making it fairly safe for the sealife, set in the intertidal zone, and intended to stay there indefinitely. Anyway, this work by Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping is definitely cool. Click the photo to go to the article (with lots ( Read more... )

As those who have been keeping track of the woes of Detroit may know, the governor's satrap has called for Christie's to value the contents of the municipally owned art museum, which houses what sounds like a pretty irreplaceable collection. Not, he says, to sell it, but the locals are understandably dubious. Anyway, there has been some literally ( Read more... )

Before every filker and their cats send me this link.... :)

Beached Whale Art in Greenwich, London
Saturday, June 22, 2013


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Rapid City, South Dakota embarked on a public art project in 2000, consisting of statues of all past presidents of the United States on various street corners downtown. They've caught up to George W Bush, and I gather Mr Obama's is in the works and will appear after the next election. My favorite is the one of Thomas Jefferson (see below) but they' ( Read more... )

Hey, steampunkers! Get a load of THIS....

The Forevertron of Dr Evermor


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