Friday, February 14, 2014

"Dangerous' Ice Sculpture taken down by city

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 Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee city officials came out and destroyed a man's ice sculpture because it was 'dangerous'. Hmm. There's film on there and the 'artist' talks about it. It cracked me up because he looks like a stoner and he says he made it by running his garden hose up to his bathroom and attaching a string to it. He shoved the whole deal out the john window and let the water drip. Over the next few days he got a real kick out of seeing how big the ice tower would get. Well, it got big. People started driving and walking around to see it. People liked it. Most people anyway.

But someone was worried that it would fall and hurt people. One fire department spokesman said, "If it had fallen, it could take out the house'. Ummm, I doubt that. It could break windows and fuck up your siding, but, it looks like it would have melted straight down. But, what do I know..I'm not a city official. I just thought the whole thing was hilarious. And next time, the dude might think about building his art on his own property. The property past the fence where the ice landed (from the hose) doesn't belong to him. (The house looks like public housing to me.) The 'artiste' says he was just bored and looking for something to do. (Umm, get a job, maybe?) He says, "I'm always doing different, strange things, and I thought it'd be cool. And it was cool. The neighbors all thought it was awesome." He holds no grudge and says the city was just doing it's job and he's cool with that.

The whole thing made me laugh because it sounds like something I would have done, plus, I love Milwaukee. It's one of my favorite places because people there are...like this guy. I had to search all over for a photo of his 'sculpture'. Next time, maybe the city can get some good film of local 'art' before they send in the boom trucks. In the last stage, it was really quite beautiful. But, they're right, it could have fallen and killed some local hoodlums.

1 comment:

Miss Tia said...

take out the house?!?! dafuq?! idiots....