Comments on: Yet More Guerrilla Art in Mid-City http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/ Life in the Flood Zone Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:52:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Courtney http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-111298 Courtney Fri, 04 May 2007 19:13:57 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-111298 I like the variety of comments here. thanks for posting about it, Bart. I do agree that I think it's a great idea for someone to expand upon. I think the official ( permitted) memorial in the lower 9th on Claiborne is inadequate. I chose my permit-less, low impact presentation due to the fact that, upon some admittedly limited research, city government is not currently ready to deal with such requests from artists, and I am not going to wait around till the point is moot. if anyone would like one of the small, blue, low-impact, anodized alumininum "plaques" with "Hurricane Katrina, 2005" stamped into it, to place in a spot meaningful to you, please let me know. I would like to see them up all around town as reminders. You can find my email at the website http://www.chaoshag.com I like the variety of comments here. thanks for posting about it, Bart.

I do agree that I think it’s a great idea for someone to expand upon. I think the official ( permitted) memorial in the lower 9th on Claiborne is inadequate. I chose my permit-less, low impact presentation due to the fact that, upon some admittedly limited research, city government is not currently ready to deal with such requests from artists, and I am not going to wait around till the point is moot.

if anyone would like one of the small, blue, low-impact, anodized alumininum “plaques” with “Hurricane Katrina, 2005″ stamped into it, to place in a spot meaningful to you, please let me know. I would like to see them up all around town as reminders. You can find my email at the website
http://www.chaoshag.com

]]> By: Karen http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110257 Karen Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:40:02 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110257 Ray, Laureen and I have been thinking about vacant lot art, bamboo and pandas...make mini enviroments,,you in? Ray, Laureen and I have been thinking about vacant lot art, bamboo and pandas…make mini enviroments,,you in?

]]> By: Ray http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110249 Ray Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:13:04 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110249 Mid City has all the fun. I wish somebody would do some art over here. BTW, the shoes in wires marking drug areas is an urban legend. Mid City has all the fun. I wish somebody would do some art over here.

BTW, the shoes in wires marking drug areas is an urban legend.

]]> By: Karen http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110006 Karen Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:56:45 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110006 I wish there was more Art. We need it badly. "Art Saves Lives" I wish there was more Art. We need it badly.

“Art Saves Lives”

]]> By: mominem http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110003 mominem Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:47:57 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-110003 I've been thinking of a modest Katrina memorial in my house. 41" aff I think I'll install a relief joint at the highwater mark. Sort of like the mourning line at Rosedown. I’ve been thinking of a modest Katrina memorial in my house. 41″ aff I think I’ll install a relief joint at the highwater mark. Sort of like the mourning line at Rosedown.

]]> By: Editor B http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-109941 Editor B Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:21:05 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-109941 Susan, I respectfully but passionately disagree. For one thing, I don't see any public property being destroyed by any of these installations. For another, the "tennis shoes in electric wires" is not related to drugs. I'm speaking as a person who threw shoes on a wire once myself. The drug-thing is a myth, please read http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_274.html Courtney's piece with colored bands on a telephone pole is VERY low impact. To compare it to vandalism is really over the top. Susan, I respectfully but passionately disagree. For one thing, I don’t see any public property being destroyed by any of these installations. For another, the “tennis shoes in electric wires” is not related to drugs. I’m speaking as a person who threw shoes on a wire once myself. The drug-thing is a myth, please read http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_274.html

Courtney’s piece with colored bands on a telephone pole is VERY low impact. To compare it to vandalism is really over the top.

]]> By: Susan in Mid City http://b.rox.com/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-109920 Susan in Mid City Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:30:48 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/04/28/yet-more-guerrilla-art-in-mid-city/#comment-109920 WHAT'S NEXT? BIG BLOCK LETTERS IN SPRAY PAINT? Sure Jean Paul Basquat got his start like that, but let's get real. Get a gallery to show your stuff, better yet, get a PERMIT to do this stuff. Emery Clark did some wonderful outdoor landmark art, but she got PERMITS. All I can see is destruction of public property. It's not cute. It is in bad taste. Why not put up tennis shoes in electric wires? Now that we don't have the folks in town doing that (marking a drug area where drugs could have been purchased) we have glass pitchers? PUUULLLLLEEEASSSSSE STOP! Susan WHAT’S NEXT? BIG BLOCK LETTERS IN SPRAY PAINT? Sure Jean Paul Basquat got his start like that, but let’s get real.

Get a gallery to show your stuff, better yet, get a PERMIT to do this stuff. Emery Clark did some wonderful outdoor landmark art, but she got PERMITS.

All I can see is destruction of public property. It’s not cute. It is in bad taste.

Why not put up tennis shoes in electric wires? Now that we don’t have the folks in town doing that (marking a drug area where drugs could have been purchased) we have glass pitchers? PUUULLLLLEEEASSSSSE STOP!

Susan

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