September 18, 2007

• Oh, like moving idols! Look out, Zeus.
• Incredibly beautiful. I want my house to be wrapped in kinetic plates.
• Oooooh, purty! I like the water ones - especially that pier blowhole thingy.
• Pier blowhole thingy is my favourite too! And the fire vortex piece looks like it would have been pretty spectacular. Sand sculputures remind me of a piece by Bruce Shapiro that I saw at a robotic art exhibition in Dublin a few years ago.
• I thought the cops closed down that pier blowhole thingy.
• Some of these I like, some are a waste of space. There are two reasons I don't like these-- First, who gets to do the maintenance on something like the pier blowhole? This could be anything from an eyesore to a big hazard if not kept up. Seems like the artist gets paid for the work, and the city gets a huge maintenance liability. If there were lots of money for schools and infrastructure, great, but I don't know a city that doesn't need more for its people. Promise me this gets placed in a city that doesn't have hungry kids with little or no medical care, and I'm all for it. (it does sound neat, and would be fun to sit near in the evening) My other gripe is the environmental cost involved in putting together this stuff. The smoke rings thing is cool, but what about the energy to keep running it, possible pollution, etc. Then we're back to the cost of maintaining it. I hate to be such a philistine, but it's hard to think that this stuff is entirely necessary when we have other problems.