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#1 lobster

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Posted 19 February 2005 - 06:06 PM

the ultimate in product placement...
eight radioshack brand 9 volt batteries arranged in a circle...
likely to be repeatedly vandalized -- I wonder if RS is savvy enough to have 'em emit voltage to any would-be taggers.. although, you know, if my car ever gets stuck on the taylor river access parking ramp, first thing i'mma think to do is get out the jumper cables and connect 'em to the positive n' negative diodes..

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#2 Sam Stone

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Posted 19 February 2005 - 08:15 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

That is the dumbest, tackiest piece of corporate art I have seen in a long time. Wow. I cannot believe that is real. They've got this brand spanking new campus, the town lake will be coming, why would they put up that awful piece? Something else: those are going to fade in the sun and need regular touch-ups.

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Posted 19 February 2005 - 11:15 PM

so what you're saying, sam, is every so often they're going to have to ..... change the batteries ?

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Posted 19 February 2005 - 11:22 PM

We're going to have to come up with a forum award for this one!

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Posted 20 February 2005 - 09:25 AM

They're also going to have to change the batteries whenever they change the design on their real batteries.

I'm suddenly reminded that I need to get a new 9V for my smoke detector. Thank you, Radio Shack.

I wonder why they chose to go with 9v as opposed to the more common AA. Any thoughts on this?

I'm sending this one in to Jim Kunstler. He has an "architectural blunder of the month."

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Posted 20 February 2005 - 11:08 AM

Now, a 9-volt Stonehenge might've been something...

*chuckle* Change the batteries *chuckle*

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Posted 20 February 2005 - 11:49 AM

It's the latest trend in public art.......nothing to offend anyone, except with how silly it is.

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Posted 20 February 2005 - 01:51 PM

If Fort Worth can have its own Upper West Side and its own Uptown, why not its own version of Battery Park?

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Posted 20 February 2005 - 04:48 PM

For some reason, I think it would look better if it was actually set up like the real Stonehenge.

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Posted 21 February 2005 - 08:28 AM

If Fort Worth can have its own Upper West Side and its own Uptown, why not its own version of Battery Park?

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hahahhahhaaha .. clever!

like brooklyn, i suppose if the tc subway were to have stayed open, we'd essentially have a battery tunnel as well...

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 11:17 AM

While the design is not "terminal", there isn't much of a "spark" there. It isn't really in keeping with the "Direct Current" of contemporary art...Claes Oldenburg, were he dead, would doubtless spin in his oversized casket at these. The neat thing is, though, that they're like, the RadioShack of art. Derivative, unoriginal, functional, somewhat behind the times, yet on some deep level, cool, and definitively ours. I wonder if Len had another set, like maybe a rechargable one, made for that new house of his?

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 11:35 AM

While the design is not "terminal", there isn't much of a "spark" there.  It isn't really in keeping with the "Direct Current" of contemporary art.

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:eek: You're going after my heart with humor like that.

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 02:23 PM

That is funny. Thanks for the photos.

Now go out and buy:

Jumper cables - 1 mile long
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Posted 24 February 2005 - 03:43 PM

you know, this makes me wonder if Pier1 will try to top them with ...

PAPAZAN-CHAIR-HENGE!

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 03:58 PM

Maybe they just need to build one big chair, you know, big enough for Kirstie Alley to sit in? It'd be monumental art. I also hear that they're going to replace the Tandy Center with a two-hundred foot tall La Corona Belvedere.

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 04:12 PM

Maybe they just need to build one big chair, you know, big enough for Kirstie Alley to sit in?  It'd be monumental art.  I also hear that they're going to replace the Tandy Center with a two-hundred foot tall La Corona Belvedere.

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Waitaminute :eek: ... who or what would oppose?

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 04:22 PM

Nix absolutably Tandyness. And who or what would nix absolutably Tandyness oppose...Congratulations on tying the knot with 'ol girl, btw.

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 04:34 PM

Nix absolutably Tandyness.  And who or what would nix absolutably Tandyness oppose...Congratulations on tying the knot with 'ol girl, btw.

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..That (Remote-Controleld-Plastic-Triple-A-Battery-Requiring) Rocket Read!

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 09:13 PM

Haha... I like them..

Excellent JBB... Our own battery park!
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Posted 06 March 2005 - 08:43 AM

The actual title of the piece is "Radiating Energy".

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Posted 06 March 2005 - 09:57 AM

Lol - that is hysterical. Not outrageously clever, but pretty funny - I presume it was intended to by whymsical......right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't installations of this type (of ubiquitous consumer products) usually used to criticize the ubiquitous, mass-culture consumer society, rather than to celebrate the product? Wouldn't that be like Campbell's Soup placing one of Warhol's painting of their Tomato Soup in their company lobby?

If RadioShack intended this irony, I applaud them for their dry humor. I believe the FWST or the FWBP mentioned the impressive art collection that RadioShack had accumulated for their new campus.

The company appears to have taken a turn in a slightly hipper direction.

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Posted 06 March 2005 - 10:09 PM

I LIKE IT!!!!
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Posted 19 March 2005 - 05:04 PM

This came up during the most recent Downtown Design and Review Board Meeting. Is is art or a sign? DDRB is now being carried live and has a few repeats on Channel 7, Charter Cable.

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Posted 19 March 2005 - 10:50 PM

This came up during the most recent Downtown Design and Review Board Meeting.  Is is art or a sign?  DDRB is now being carried live and has a few repeats on Channel 7, Charter Cable.

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IT IS ART!!!
I can't believe they would even ask such a question!
Andy Warhol is grinning from his grave.
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Posted 19 March 2005 - 11:17 PM

I noticed the DDRB is now on Channel 7. However, I didn't catch the portion dealing with the RadioShack art.

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 05:51 AM

the ultimate in product placement...
eight radioshack brand 9 volt batteries arranged in a circle...
likely to be repeatedly vandalized -- I wonder if RS is savvy enough to have 'em emit voltage to any would-be taggers..  although, you know, if my car ever gets stuck on the taylor river access parking ramp, first thing i'mma think to do is get out the jumper cables and connect 'em to the positive n' negative diodes..

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