Arthurs quay park containers?

DaveNoCheese

Whats going on in arthurs quay park? Saw they have two or three cranes and are lowering a few shipping crates into the centre of the park.

And we just got an email un work to say our fire assembly point has changed until mid august (tis usually the park).

Anyone have any clue?

Berty

Saw the shipping containers alright. The reason it surprised me was they had three of them stacked on top of each other. Doesn't seem at all safe really.

Interested to know myself what they are up to.

DaveNoCheese

Beer Baron wrote: »

Saw the shipping containers alright. The reason it surprised me was they had three of them stacked on top of each other. Doesn't seem at all safe really.

Interested to know myself what they are up to.

When I passed there was only two stacked on each other... Weird...

Poxyshamrock

There's an EVA exhibition being held in AQP.

Sar_Bear

This is what they're doing...


That's art?!

The Snipe

As an artist, I can only say...

Kess73

The Snipe wrote: »

As an artist, I can only say...

I hope you were laughing when you typed that bit.

The Snipe

I was actually! :P

xsiborg

Sar_Bear wrote: »

This is what they're doing...


That's art?!

Sar you're joking right? :eek:

i hope the dublin docks arent infringing on 'copyright' then every time a couple of containers fall over, it happens rarely enough, but when it does- its 'art'? :rolleyes:

and here was me hoping they'd REMOVE the empty tin cans from the park, not bring in bloody oversized ones!

DaveNoCheese

xsiborg wrote: »

Sar you're joking right? :eek:

Think she's right, just left work and they have four stacked on eachother and there is even a small group of people forming there... sad...

xsiborg

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

xsiborg wrote: »

Sar you're joking right? :eek:

Think she's right, just left work and they have four stacked on each other and there is even a small group of people forming there... sad...

probably hoping to dive in underneath it and then shout 'compohh! compohh!'... :rolleyes:

langdang

Sar_Bear wrote: »

This is what they're doing...
That's art?!

oh dear, they've got this "hired in novelty art" thing all wrong haven't they?
Limerick needs the "cow in a tree" or something lighthearted, not depressing and industrial.

thats not gone well

As above,
anyone have any idea what they're doing with the shipping containers down there?

lots of photographers there too

bazz26

Might be connected to this:- http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056642401

phog

Eva Exhibition?

http://eva.ie

lockman

phog wrote: »

Eva Exhibition?

http://eva.ie

See also:
http://www.eva.ie/exhibition

thats not gone well

cheers lads,

looked like a geometric display alright,

big mans lego :cool::P

Insect Overlord

Merged a few posts in from the Waffle thread. Carry on.

Amazotheamazing

Actually remember the first installation of that, that was a great year of EV+A.

DaveNoCheese

So here ya are folks, completed (i think) project

xsiborg

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

So here ya are, completed (i think) project

dave your tweets *shudders to have to even say the word*, are protected, better off throwing it up on wthax.org and using the (IMG) (/IMG} tags to embed the pic in your post, square brackets though instead of roundey ones...

*creep creep*...

DaveNoCheese

xsiborg wrote: »

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

So here ya are, completed (i think) project

dave your tweets *shudders to have to even say the word*, are protected, better off throwing it up on wthax.org and using the (IMG) (/IMG} tags to embed the pic in your post, square brackets though instead of roundey ones...

*creep creep*...

Brendan, am on the mobile and that sounds like a lot of work... I shall try though

langdang

Life size, nice...

Kess73

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

So here ya are folks, completed (i think) project

A tribute to a Spock's Beard album.






Drove by it this morning and I kinda like it tbh.

xsiborg

Kess73 wrote: »

A tribute to a Spock's Beard album.

now you mention it Kess, i can picture the young ones already queueing up in the park thinking the 'X Factor' auditions have come to limerick! :pac:

roast

That's art?
UL tried a similar thing during RAG week a few years back.... :pac:

Kess73

xsiborg wrote: »

now you mention it Kess, i can picture the young ones already queueing up in the park thinking the 'X Factor' auditions have come to limerick! :pac:

Hehe long lines of Jacintas and Antnees in their finest tracksuits waiting for Simon Cowell :D

DaveNoCheese

Walking home from work and I spot people using the containers as goal posts :P

Raiser

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Whats going on in arthurs quay park? Saw they have two or three cranes and are lowering a few shipping crates into the centre of the park.

And we just got an email un work to say our fire assembly point has changed until mid august (tis usually the park).

Anyone have any clue?

Dave, do you work for the Revenue Commissioners?

- Please PM me any scams, opportunities and loopholes I should know about!

Everyone, please continue to be friendly and civil to Dave, he is still a person after all.

On topic I reckon that yoke looks xcellent......

DaveNoCheese

Raiser wrote: »

Dave, do you work for the Revenue Commissioners?

- Please PM me any scams, opportunities and loopholes I should know about!

Everyone, please continue to be friendly and civil to Dave, he is still a person after all.

On topic I reckon that yoke looks xcellent......

I do indeed, although any scams, opportunities and loopholes are kept for us public sector fat cats so apologies for that :rolleyes:

Raiser

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Hmmmm - I think sar bear might be one too :eek:

Sar_Bear

Raiser wrote: »

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Hmmmm - I think sar bear might be one too :eek:

So what if I was?!

Great job if ya can get it!!

DaveNoCheese

Raiser wrote: »

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Hmmmm - I think sar bear might be one too :eek:

And I think you're a pink fairy/unicorn hybrid*, see, we can all make unfounded claims!

*Sorry Mods

The Snipe

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Raiser wrote: »

Dave, do you work for the Revenue Commissioners?

- Please PM me any scams, opportunities and loopholes I should know about!

Everyone, please continue to be friendly and civil to Dave, he is still a person after all.

On topic I reckon that yoke looks xcellent......

I do indeed, although any scams, opportunities and loopholes are kept for us public sector fat cats so apologies for that :rolleyes:

We'll beet em outta you while we are beating you for wanting to go to the icon

DaveNoCheese

The Snipe wrote: »

We'll beet em outta you while we are beating you for wanting to go to the icon

Icon?? Ohhh you mean d'icon :P

I don't know you Snipe, but I will get you in there some night, oh yes, it will happen :pac:

Sar_Bear

What's wrong with d'icon?!

Downstairs d'icon for the win

A_Sober_Paddy

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

So here ya are folks, completed (i think) project

Ugly...

Hope to feck the counsel aren't handing over money for "art"

DaveNoCheese

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Ugly...

Hope to feck the counsel aren't handing over money for "art"

They should have tilted it to the right, made it a cross and charge the die hard christians to visit :rolleyes:

zuroph

Ah lighten up would ye? Its a modern art exhibition, one of the few thing Limerick has going for it on the international map, and we haven't had big bold entries in it for years, we used to get crazy stuff about 10 years ago.
"its ugly" ; who said art needs to be pretty?

Sar_Bear

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

They should have tilted it to the right, made it a cross and charge the die hard christians to visit :rolleyes:

Now now Dave!!

xsiborg

zuroph wrote: »

Ah lighten up would ye? Its a modern art exhibition, one of the few thing Limerick has going for it on the international map, and we haven't had big bold entries in it for years, we used to get crazy stuff about 10 years ago.
"its ugly" ; who said art needs to be pretty?

my problem with it Zuroph is that its hard to interpret beyond 'somebody dumped a couple of scrap containers into arthurs quay park, and look at the way they fell, it looks like an X'.

i get that it's abstract art, but its too 'simplistic' and industrial for anyone to interpret it as anything other than a few containers that dropped from a cargo plane and accidentally landed in arthurs quay park.

there's not even any attempt to make it look like there was any creative thought or process went into it whatsoever. it exemplifies a negative impression of limerick as cheap, tacky, thoughtless, lazy, lack of imagination or innovation... i could go on.

art doesnt need to be pretty, but it helps if its at least if the artists idea is accessible to the masses, to further their understanding of the concept. this monstrosity was just randomly dropped in a public place with no clue as to why it was there.

i dont see this putting limerick on the international map at all, i see it as the LCC pandering to cultural elitists while at the same time then refusing to allow the peoples park to be used for a community event that would have put much more money into the economy and put us in a positive light on the international map with a 4th of july festival

Raiser

I like it.





- Thread needs a poll, where Taxman Dave gone?

DaveNoCheese

:rolleyes:

CiaranMT

Raiser wrote: »

I like it.

Me too.

Poxyshamrock

CiaranMT wrote: »

Me too.

And I must agree! It brought me and SarahBeep! To AQP! And I never go to AQP!

langdang

Ye're playing second fiddle to to Corks cow-in-a-tree and the levitating-german.:p like...

adaminho

langdang wrote: »

Ye're playing second fiddle to to Corks cow-in-a-tree and the levitating-german.:p like...

I'll think you'll find that it was originally done in 1994.

On a side note anyone remember the Wounded King statue in the People's Park that kept on getting its knob cut off back in the early 90's.

smcgiff

adaminho wrote: »

I'll think you'll find that it was originally done in 1994.

I remember it well, it was the stand out feature of limerick when I temporarily* came here first - thought ye were all very weird.... Wasn't wrong.

* still here:D

kenoconnell

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Ugly...

Hope to feck the counsel aren't handing over money for "art"

AM!!!!!! hello, do u know how much those cranes are per hour!!!!!!

Kess73

kenoconnell wrote: »

AM!!!!!! hello, do u know how much those cranes are per hour!!!!!!

A fiver???

The Snipe

3 fiddy and a pint of Guinness!