The World Is Being Run By Crazy People

26 Replies to “The World Is Being Run By Crazy People”

1. With all those holes, there couldn’t be a more fitting monument to the city’s financial plan…

2. This makes the Calgary city council a posterboy for the definition of the word STUPID!IMO

3. As was ritten in the holey book in the book of holes – ” and they knew not their holes from the ass on the ground”. Amen!
   Is this a stage prop for the next public exhibition of MG’s “swan hands”?

4. a bearing?
   wow, takes an artist to think something so thin,angular and holey would be a bearing.

5. Politicians at all levels fancy themselves as philanthropists, not managers or CEOs. Things would run smoother and more efficiently if they would do what is necessary well and leave the non-essentials to other, privately funded organizations.
   Being a patron of the arts by voluntarily donating to art projects would result in better art and less waste. Personally I prefer the structures themselves to the decorations but to each their own.
   Reason TV has a 3 good reasons why government should not fund art.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzHovOB1Vc&feature=player_embedded

6. So now “art” is a part of any stimulus plan? I guess being commissioned to do a piece of art for the city still better than lining up at the hog trough they call endowments for the arts.

7. Could they give the money to homeless persons named “Art”?

8. They must have the same rules in Vancouver because there sure is a lot of crappy “art” around.

9. . . . which is why so much publicly funded street art tends to consist of bland things like bronze sculptures of humans sitting on park benches, taking up a perfectly good spot to relax, but at least giving tourists a tacky photo opportunity.
   Glenn Gould! CBC World Headquarters, Front Street, Toronto!

10. here is a juxstapostion.
    Alberta start’s enforcing new distracted driving law and polie are ready to enforce it.
    new airport underground tunnel to be lined with all kinds of art work!!….and cops at both ends!!!!
    F@ckin retards!!!

11. I always went about art as stuff I would buy at charity auctions thru my business. I have some great paintings that I picked up there. The charities didn’t seem to mind my contribuion.
    This sounds like a different form of charity. I ain’t buying it.

12. I, the Phantom, hereby volunteer to take that $1.6 million bucks. I guarantee I can create some kind of installation in that tunnel that a po-mo art critic would like that nobody else will pause for a millisecond to look at. Nice aluminum ribbons on the wall, or half a plastic moose stuck to the ceiling, something “innovative”.
    After all, I am an artiste. My mum says so every time I paint her house.

13. I just noticed, that’s some really crappy welding on that “Bearing” sculpture there. I bet its going to look AWESOME when the silver powder coat starts to flake.
    How long will it be before a homeless guy throws a tarp over that thing and starts living in it?

14. Attention Calgarians: You shall behold your art and you shall love it. By order 233.56 of the City Council.

15. At first I thought it was made with rolls of duct tape. Now that would have been art, and useful if you had a package to send and the stores were closed.

16. why do I find a citation of the hated MSM, front and centre here at SDA?
    hypocrisy rules on the right wing !!!

17. We have a long history of holey art.
    Holey Cow
    Holey Horse

18. This is typical of minor league cities with major league pretensions.
    I remember reading that Kansas City boasted that it had more fountains than Rome. That may be true, but honestly – who plans a trip to KC to see their fountains? Eat their barbeque – sure. Maybe catch a Chiefs’ game. But I’m pretty sure that everyone here, if they had to choose, would pick the eternal city over KC. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal – I can understand anyone planning a vacation to those cities. But, unless you want to go to the Stampede, or are a diehard Flames or Stampeders fan, what possible reason would you choose Calgary for?

19. At first I thought it was made with rolls of duct tape.
    ~anne (not from Cornwall)
    Me too.
    It’s art if it makes you feel something when you experience it.
    I gaze upon that and feel rage and frustration at how my taxes are being spent.

20. No homebrewers here? It’s a giant hop ball. You’ll thank them when you get to taste the beer.

21. That 48 Fargo up on oil soaked concrete blocks in my front yard is art.The rusted out fenders and box and the battered beaten body, it’s life blood fluids drained into the soil,are a metaphor of life in a harsh world.
    By-law says it’s an unsightly premises.

22. Van Gogh is art. Monet is art. Michelangelo is art. Inuit sculpture is art. The Group of Seven is art.
    See where I’m going with this?

23. give me all you monet!

24. It is unfortunate that “art” is weighed by dollars. That is saying that a masterpiece painting is only valuable if it sells, or a great song is only good if it is recorded and sold.
    …but if the 1.6 million “has” to be spent I suggest maybe a statue depicting the Gimp and Marsellus from Pulp Fiction. Something that puts the whole raping of the taxpayer by government into perspective.

25. looks more like 1/2″ washers welded together than a bearing.

26. Occam at 10:20:
    Which Firesign is that from?