There is a myth that crime in Kansas City is only confined to one part of town or one group of people.
But we know better than that . . .
KANSAS CITY CRIME DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE AS MUCH AS LOCAL PEOPLE DO!!!
That's why I was glad to see local artist, entrepreneur and TIF commissioner STRETCH take a stand against local crooks who stole some of his scrap metal/art.
Without a doubt . . . STRETCH is one of this town's most popular and involved local residents . . .
AND STRETCH NEEDS YOU TO HELP FIGHT INCREASING CRIME IN THE CROSSROADS!!!
Developing . . .
nice pic.
ReplyDeleteCould be the art sucked and a true art critic didn't want it junking up the city? Maybe he should have just left in his backyard! If that's the artist, I'd suggest he doesn't look like he can find art with both fingers.
ReplyDeleteThere's a couple up by the airport that also need to be stolen, especially the one near the exit of long term parking with white light so bright at night on it that people can't leave the parking lot safely because of temporary blindness.
I suppose THAT one is designed to convey what happens to us the moment we die?
And then the neon one, looks like a billboard under construction. Hardly displays any symbolism for the city where people have just landed.
Is this because Kansas City just doesn't HAVE an identity, or was the artist just given big bucks to do whatever he wanted?
Ya know those 4 Bartle Hall Art Deco Pylons?
ReplyDeleteI think it woulda been a lot cooler to have busts of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Is that guy wearing an arm length gorilla suit?
ReplyDeleteyou said.."there is a myth" Tony, you help create that myth. way to go jackass.
ReplyDeleteI would be checking the local scrap yards - cause at 700 lbs apeice, someone's getting PAID!
ReplyDeleteProbably an honest mistake...wasn't recognized as being "art."
ReplyDeleteMeth heads aren't really educated art critics. Agree.
ReplyDeleteThe Planet of the Apes called. They needed their props back.
ReplyDeletemen are supposed to have hair. Pansies.
ReplyDeletesCRAP metal art...yep. That's what it is.
ReplyDeleteyo,yo,yo.... dis nigga need sum smoke an need de $$$$$ for it so's i git this "art" and sells it fo sum smoke...thanks stench it loks better in de scrap yard anyways.
ReplyDeleteWhoever stole that junk, I would like to shake his hand.
ReplyDeleteyeah chuck, the Beatles would have been good, or the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse is always popular, Or the four suits in a deck of cards and we could rename it to 'Harrah Hall', or maybe busts of 4 honest KC elected officials, if they can be found.
ReplyDeleteFound scrap is turned into Art, then later is stolen probably to be sold as scrap. Poetic!
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean he's not a douche anymore?
I love the ignorance of these "art" critics, esp: this radioman douche.
ReplyDeleteWhen standing in front of one of the best examples of "art deco" architecture, the music hall with it's tremendous lighting fixtures and sconces, look up at the pylons and the toppers make sense and the modern Bartle hall "fits" with the "art" of the music hall and municipal auditorium. That is how city arts works.
Stretch, while a different kind of douche than radioman, has done a bang up job of creating business where there was none. At least he has been "on the air" more recently than radioman.
We weren't talking about the Music Hall which I presume was designed when art deco was in style.
ReplyDeleteNow, it seems most anything slightly thematic is described as 'art deco'. Reminds me of Walmart's genuine simulated woodgrain pressed sawdust. But whatever.
Picasso went out of the box as did some others, but that doens't mean everything out of the box is art. Some of it's is remeniscent of kindergarten art on loving mom's refrigerator. That came from way too much false praise designed to make children feel good about everything they do.
Like a classful of kids getting A's. Eventually the grading system becomes meaningless. And it has. Professors in science universities will tell you that, in spades about high school grades in the sciences. When they tell their freshmen and their parents that there'll be no more A's in chemistry like in small town high schools. Start getting used to B's and C's because the competition for excellence is much higher.
Specially when the overseas students compete.
Careful who you call a douche. If you call everyone a douche, like Tee does, it too loses its impact as an insult.
Sharp as a marble, that boy.
ReplyDeleteYou guys lay off of T. It ain't easy being a little Italian kid who lives in his Mom's basement, and has to pretend to Latino, to score fat white chicks.
I swear, no one will believe me, but I am 60 and went to school in 1957 (2nd Grade) with a guy named Art Deccho. He couldn't draw a straight line.
ReplyDeleteHe was Italian, good enough kid, saw him after I got out of the service in 1973.
I heard he had a good straight right hand and was good in collections.
Saw him at "Mothers" on main.
It was a good year for him.
Art Deccho.
Awesome story Chuck, seriously. Lol'd when you saw him at "Mothers!"
ReplyDeleteSmall town.
Check the scrap yd. at sculp. dept.
ReplyDeleteat KCAI........
We were always looking for material.
M.Dillon
class of '77