Defund The Arts

"Found Compressions 1 & 2"

whoa...

Next winter, I'm going to place a sign next to my sidewalk with "Lake Calgary" printed on it so I don't have to shovel the snow which should turn to ice by mid december. Perhaps put a red line and 2 blue lines in case someone wants to skate, bury a loonie at center ice.

But I'm not charging anyone $4 k for this... so you're welcome.

Doubt it. 'Arts' funding is one of those wealth transfer sacred cows that Canadians and Quebeckers love so much.

Hey, that doesn't beat the female "artist" who drops eggs from her v@g1n@

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=95a_1397947174

i think the blue tarp gives it some necessary colour .

Ill ask Duhhhhhh Farrell here in Calgary . the true 1%er.

Funding these artists who are really bad, is like funding the CBC. Neither can compete against their competition, but they both believe it is their divine right to exist.

Funding losers is so Canadian. It doesn't cost anything to tell someone that they just aren't good at what they "feel" they're good at. But I guess that would be too much like being a good parent.

The tarp lent an air of mystery and promise sadly lacking in the original garbage aspect of the piece.

Robert Bateman was a very successful "artist" who made a good living by selling his works for "profit".

It is no wonder that the Canada Arts Council parasites disliked him so.

Sasktoon City Council voted recently that all new city construction have "public art" funded at 1 percent of the building budget.

Now if the city dump and the new city art gallery were at the same location, it would save residents a $100 million easily.

City residents would prefer to have voted to name the unfilled potholes in the roads with the name of their favourite City Councillor.

Here's a real long shot! This "artist" makes perfect sense and is providing a valuable service to society.

According to the Clean Air Council less than 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled each year. The council also states that recycling one ton of plastic bags costs $4,000, while the recycled product can be sold for only $32.

See that? The "artist" is pointing out that recycling plastic grocery bags makes absolutely no economic sense and is only happening because our stupid governments impose and subsidize stupid 'feel good' programs so that they can show 'environmental leadership.'

Naw, that would be just too cool!

I thought about doing something similar to a couple of 'random pile of iron' pieces at the U of S when I went there. I would not have guessed something even lamer would get built.

I figure this piece of literal garbage will disappear with in 2 years.
These cons give real artists like Kate a bad name.
Just shows you how gullible politicians are to so called Urban artists.

Will this art become invitingly aromatic during the Summer?

Or will the tightly wrapped decomposing waste spontaneously combust? What happens if a bum puts out his cigarette on the bsle?

In some cities, this would not be a problem, the rodents would carry the bales away overnight. I hope one of the sanitation workers accidentally cleans it up.

A bit of blue & red paint & you have got another 1.8 mil $ Voice Of Fire ,4G was a bargain to be on the bottom floor of another budding artist.

Where was the art? All I saw was 2 shrink wrapped pallets.

Yup, profit for sure. Started up in 1983 and processed both LDPE and HDPE, but refused to try and run zytel nylon as it ran to hot with a very short transition, thus rather dangerous for low skilled workers. I turned a operating profit at first fiscal yrs end, even the back mgr couldn't believe that.

Please don't defund the arts until I finish my current masterpiece, Blank Canvas 4 by 6. By finish, of course, I mean when I cash the cheque.

I'm sure I have some scrap lumber around here I could "arrange" into a $4000 work of art.

And by "arrange" I mean throw into a rough pile.

In fact, I think I'll do just that tomorrow and post it on my blog.

I could use a new drum sander. :)

I'm willing to wager that those who insist on publicly funded "art" couldn't tell a Monet from a Picasso.

And they're the cultured ones!

I agree with Red Green. "If I can do it, it ain't art." And I can put garbage, recyclable or not, on the street.

At what point do we say enough. If this is considered art then the stuff I put to the curb every Friday nust be a master piece.

Here in Ottawa I mentioned this story to a colleague. She told me that a couple of years ago the National Art Museum has some Tom Thompson paintings in storage while they had on display one piece called "Ceasar's leg" which is nothing more than a mannequin's leg with some hair glued on and another of a rope descending on a diagonal called "the rope"

You continue to expose your lack of insight. Fatal flaw. I'm against grant monies being made available for artwork and to prop up arts organizations. I've posted that here before.

My dislike of Robert Bateman is three-fold. His work is cold, perhaps because some of his subjects have spent a lot of time in the freezer. (Yes, it's true.:) He has degraded the value of art by hawking HUGE print runs of his paintings. Bev Doolittle did the same thing. Some art buyers are gullible. Look at a Bateman and compare his work to the work of Carol Evans, also from Salt Spring Island. She sells limited edition reproductions, but not on the Bateman mass marketing scale. My third point has to do with the Climate Change hysteria. Bateman is anti-oil; he's a master manipulator of that hysteria. He's more intelligent than Al Gore is, but he's still a zealot perpetuating a scam.

"I'm against grant monies being made available for artwork and to prop up arts organizations. I've posted that here before."

Where?

I never gave an opinion on Bateman's art, other than mentioning the profit made from it.

And I don't care for Batemen's politics, never said I did and as I said before, everyone has an opinion

Oh, I see.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/you-taxpayer-co.html

Kate, your BFF Kathy Shaidle lived on gov't. arts grants for years.