* What the...!!!???!!!
At last Monday's Council COW, resident George Johnson raised the issue of local blood drives -- asking that people in Park Ridge make the effort to donate.
Also at last Monday's COW, the Council also discussed the issue of a temporary public art policy but chose to defer the item until more information could be reviewed.
The PRU Crew first discussed the issue of public art back on June 16, 2008. What we profoundly concluded is, art appreciation is subjective and personal. Our opinion on that hasn't changed.
So, what could be better -- and just in time for a creepy Halloween holiday -- than when art meets blood!
'Self' by: Marc Quinn at .factum-arte.com
What you are looking at --"Quinn's signature piece is often considered to be Self , a frozen sculpture of the artist's head made from 4.5 litres of the artist's own frozen blood taken from his body over a period of five months. This work is repeated every five years and will result in a unique record of the artist aging."
Besides concluding art appreciation is subjective and personal, here is what else we've concluded -- some "artists" are total wankers and deserve to starve!
Have a spooktacular weekend!
October 30, 2009
Have A Happy All Hallows Eve!
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Speaking of Holloween with Mayor Schidt extending the trick or treating hours, did you read in the Herald-Advocate of either 1 or 2 people expressing displeasure over it?
What do you think?
Also is tomorrow morning's Flood Task Force Control Tour open to the public?
That's what they said about Picasso, too.
MIKE --
We think some people will complain about anything.
Yes, the Flood Control Task Force tour is open to the public.
Is Mike's spelling of our Mayor's last name also a commentary on the job done so far? Or just a typo?
Father McKenzie,
Picasso works were never as creepy as that what Pru posted. Pru, where do you find this stuff? It is just gross.
Anon@10:03 --
The world wide web -- thanks, we do our best.
I'm all for "public" art so long as it's donated by individuals rather than over-charged to the taxpayers.
How much did we end up paying for that trumpet-playing fairy at the Library?
PRU:
You are 100% correct. If the blogs prove nothing else it is that people will complain about anything.
May I suggest that next year we form a "Trick or Treat hours" task force?? I think we really need input from the community on this.
We should form a task force to get input from the community on what task forces should be formed. You can never have too many task forces.
why are there huge piles of leaves in the middle of the traffic lanes on Prospect?
Anon 12:46
My guess is the cars going down the street push the leaves to the middle of the road and they pile up.
I haven't driven down Prospect and I haven't seen what you are talking about. I'm only guessing.
I'll take piles of leaves over piles of snow since the city does such a great job of plowing and salting.
City pushes leaves from streets/gutters into piles and then picks them up. Sometimes the piles sit a while.
PRU, please tell me the NEA didn't give a grant for that frozen blood garbage art.
Anon@2:43 --
We have no idea, but we also hope no public monies were used in the creation of the unique record of the artist aging.
133--they are about 5 feet high, in t he middle of the street, heading north on Prospect, south of Belle Plaine. All afternoon.
Found this on the Journal website.
http://www.thejournal-topics.com/pr/09/pr091028.8.html
Had trouble with that link...
Maybe this?:
http://www.journal-topics.com/pr/09/pr091028.8.html
Anon at 12:46
It’s Street Art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art
LOL! Good one, 9:05.
I have to ask how long have you lived here? I have only lived in PR about 5 years and even I know this is a fall ritual. Ya see, I do not know if you have noticed but the leaves build up on the sides of the streets. Public works comes along with their trucks with the mesh plow attachments to push the leaves into piles. They then come along with their big end loaders and dump trucks and remove the piles. Now the process of plowing the leaves is faster than the process of scooping the leaves so somethies you have piles that sit at corners for a time while they catch up.
I've been her 35 years and this is new to me.
Seems like services are going down.
Mike:
As I have said on other posts on this board, I guess I am not as tuned in to some of these things as others. Things that seem to bother other people are, at times, completely lost on me. Than can be good or bad depending on the situation.
As a 35 year resident of PR, can you please tell me exactly what services are "going down". Apparently a pile of leaves is one example. I am all for us getting what we pay for from our tax dollars but if I put a pen to paper and make a list of the areas (PW, fire, police, park district, Library) where I see a dramatic drop in services over my time living here there is nothing on the list. I am hoping you can help me to come up with some examples.
Related to the leaves, I guess if one has a job that takes them to the city on the train early and are gone all day, they might never have seen PW cleaning up the gutters but it happens several times every fall.
My statement is based what you and others stated and by reading this and the PW site.
However In years past I don't seem to recall so many problems like now and this thing with leaves piling on the streets with nobody picking them up is just 1 more thing.
Gee Mike, I guess you have a point. Thanks for all the examples!
the point about the leaves, I believe, is that a very large pile was sitting in the middle of Prospect, blocking a lane of traffic, for more than a few hours one afternoon. one of my neighbors said they called the city and then a truck came out to clean it up.
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