Main Street Meltdown - New Ice Sculpture - Oct. 29, 2008 [voices4demoracy]
]]>Ok, I was there, where was the sculpture?
]]>The real problem is that there's currently a huge sculpture where that ice is supposed to go!
]]>Then I do the opposite, of course...
]]>"On October 29, the economy will melt down. Not the general economy per se"
But not entirely out of the question...
]]>... Just don't open the door to the "What is art?" debate. Please!
]]>...5 foot tall, 15 feet wide, 1,500 pound ice sculpture of the word "ECONOMY"...
With my stock portfolio in the toilet right now and the threat of a restricted job market, I don't think I could justify spending money to construct a massive ice sculpture only to illustrate the obvious. Glad to see that some people are having a bit more luck than me.
]]>At least the meltdown can be used to water the flower beds...
]]>Ice...? ICE???!!! It's transparent (unlike our backasswards failed regulatory system). It's fat free (unlike our backasswards failing economy). It won't leave a mess when it's finished melting. No, if you're going to melt something in proverbial effigy...you should use:
Ice Cream
]]>That's the only reason that I'm going to drop by this thing on my lunch break. *fingers crossed*
]]>Not exactly tied to the pic, but is he saying that the economy will ideally "freeze," because that's all I can interpret this as meaning.
]]>After the show is over, the onlookers have to be running for their lives. The execs are literally coming after them with their flamethrower! Melting the economy wasn't enough apparently!
]]>Unregulated? Because we all know that planned economies never have this kind of problem and flourish like flowers in Spring time!
]]>Unregulated? Utter bullshiat.
]]>Artists Ligorano/Reese say, "this sculpture metaphorically captures the results of unregulated markets on the U.S. economy..." while the unregulated art market embraces exploiting global panic.
Hurrah! for banal public exhibitions!
]]>What a country!
]]>So the location makes zero sense.
Something interesting is that the Supreme Court in NY is the lower court. The higher court is the Court of Appeals. So "Supreme Court" is a misnomer and it should be called the "Inferior Court".
]]>In Amerika the banks now hold up you
]]>How about I come to Wall Street instead with a giant plastic balloon that says "INFLATION" on it and attach it to a hydrogen source and continuously pump it up until it explodes in a fiery fireball of DOOM?
]]>I think the debt clock is more pointed, by far, whether or not you'd classify it as art.
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