There's a certain symmetry in the action of transforming useless waste from a failed industry into worthless art.
When Solyndra filed for bankruptcy last year, thousands of employees were let go, dozens of vendors were left high and dry, hundreds of millions of dollars were lost -- and millions of glass tubes were abandoned in a San Jose warehouse.
Now some of those tubes, a signature design element of the company's cylindrical solar panels, have found a second life as modern art.
If by "symmetry", you mean "screwing over the taxpayer and small business in equal measure".
h/t Nicholas
Obama: Heh heh, sorry guys but I guess my 'gut feeling' approach didn't work out. ... Say, anyone heard what the basketball score is ??
Spooky really. It is almost like a shrine honouring Obama's failed policies. I think I am beginning to understand why some still support him - it is a case if blind devotion.
This is a good thing.
It provides something tangible to point to and say, "This abstract sculpture represents the willful waste, by Obama, of a half billion taxpayer dollars on failed Leftist environmental and economic initiatives."
Did you hear Netscape went bust? This whole web browser thing must be a passing fad.
Amazing . . an art installation that only cost taxpayers $750 million dollars.
Excellent value for taxpayer's money.
Romney's campaign should make sure there are demonstrators at every Obama appearance,carrying a Solyndra tube.
They could carry signs that read,"Vote Obama and Watch our Country go Down the Tubes".
Yet another triumph for the Obama administration - unprecedented recycling.
Well, strip away the usual artsy-fartsy bloviation that accompanies an installation like this, and it's quite possibly a pleasing thing to view. And a fitting reminder of the huge scam of taxpayers' dollars by the Obama gang and Solyndra, if indeed one can draw a distinction between those two entities.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of the glass tubes are still sitting, a huge mass of wasted money.
We need someone to grab a few truckloads of this stuff and make a huge "art piece" that spells out "Obama is a disaster" or something like that.
'Kinda puts another slant on seeing through Zero's incompetence and duplicity, verdad?
Come to think of it Romney should tour the exhibit. Keep in mind too that the "art" is on display at Berkeley, a place whose inhabitants would vote for Obama even if he had horns and ate children for breakfast. Only a radical leftist would make a shrine from the scraps of Obama's failed policies.
Notwithstanding the obscene wast of Solyndra...
I don't find this surprising.
At one point, with a bit of inspiration from a friend....I began welding stuff together from my scrap bin.... Put it in the pickemup truck and off to the saturday market. It is amazing what ya can demand fer sumthin', ya can call art..
Bonus...cash....
I think the name of the art piece is absolutely inspired! Note that it is SOL Grotto, not Sol Grotto, as in where we are with Mr. O. - SOL. And little light to be had, as in a grotto.
Artists, even when they make junk they get something right.
Kevinw you cannot be serious. Netscape went under largely because Microsoft killed it. It was a great company that had a great product. Solyndra went under because its technology was a failure - and worse, *vast* sums of taxpayer money was flushed down the toilet.
I challenge you to put hard facts on the table demonstrating that Netscape = Solyndra.
SOL Grotto = EL Wasto
Note that Rogers shut it's video rental places as soon as Blockbuster folded....it wasn't about competition from Blockbuster but rather video rentals was competition to Rogers Cable.
TJ "Netscape went under largely because Microsoft killed it"
Netscape failed because it didn't comprehend the speed of a rapidly evolving market. Microsoft wasn't the only free browser. I used other ones way back when. Microsoft has killed a lot of companies that had a good idea last year.
Woooow, trippy.
Hope the artist got thousands of dollars in government grants to create it, and then sells it for hundreds of thousands with plenty of tax breaks on the proceeds.
Damned capitalists are getting in the way of artistic business to much to often these days.
And here's something else the Democrats and Obama are involved in
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/are-the-democrats-delusional-on-abortion.php
Their meeting is going to be filled with abortion talks - and nothing on the real issues: the economy, jobs, debt, medicare, entitlement reform, tax reform. The GOP must focus on these issues and not the peripheral 'personal' issues.
And Obama's into yet another social issue, besides abortion: education.
You can be as educated as you like and if there are no jobs, so what?
Obama and the Democrat's unions, capital taxes, and regulations have driven manufacturing overseas, and the high taxes on small business have closed many of them. No jobs. Nothing to do with education.
One man's junk is another's treasure. I applaud the entrepreneurship of the artists who took worthless glass and made a decent piece of art. On top of that they were U of Berkley professors to boot. Leftoids should be proud that this was a recycling effort. Taxpayers should still be pissed off with their government wasting money on this green crappola.
Scar MSFT killed netscape because they bundled their lousy IE browser with windows. But that's not the point kevinw was making. His point was that just because Solyndra tubes are now worthless junk does not mean solar energy is a boondoggle.
I don't think the Netscape analogy is correct and I think solar is mostly a boondoggle.
Well worth the read:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/02/china-solar-energy/
20,000 muslims planned for at the DNC.. Where is the Bummer taking the U.S.?
MUST SEE TV tonite on Anderson Cooper..yup,CNN! He really takes Debbie does Deceipt Wasserman Shultz to task for outright LYING about Romney in email. Could there be an outbreak of truth-telling in the msm after Tapper spilled on their bias??
One day soon there will be literally acres of rusting wind mill farms . Perhaps they can make metal statues from these? No doubt most will become habitat for animals.