Lionel Richie Attacked!

Welsh Megaman · 25-09-2012 10:16AM #1

The art installation in a phonebox featuring Lionel, that is!

From artist Mick Minogue's blog:-

Pretty sad day In the durty ol town that Is Dublin. I went down to my Engage Phonebox installation today to add some finishing touches to discover that It had been destroyed over night. Some unbelievable excuse for a human or humans walked Into the installation and pulled it apart and stole the body of the piece leaving the head which I had the task of taking down this eve. In some sense I wish It had been unscrewed and at least taken In one piece by someone who loved it so much they needed to steal it but to mindlessly destroy the piece as a drunken trophy has just ended my relationship with Dublin.
I have lived In Dublin almost 10 years now and I am embarrassed by the lack of culture and the identity it has created for itself. Its been handed over to the drunk and scum of the city who wipe their asses with it daily and throw it back in the faces of those who want to make the city a better more friendly place. The sad thing Is this is a growing problem thats seems to have no solution. Seeing the remains of my work today was crushing but at the same time a wake up call to get outta dodge. When I made this piece I instantly wanted to make more, large interactive pieces for the public. 3D graffiti that people than interact with and relate too but now I realise that that can never happen here with the mentality thats sewn deep into this culture. A large moronic, cowardly majority thats afraid of anything different, interesting, educated or just plain nice. Its sickening and as an artist living and working its really disappointing.
The Engage project was created for the public to brightening things up, cheer the whole place up and I just hope the other great installations dont get the same treatment mine did. What kills me most was It was unfinished. Tomorrow Eircom were going to have the song 'Hello' playing down the phone to whoever walked in and chilled with Lionel. We had also reached out to Lionel Richie who was playing here tomorrow night before he has to cancel due to illness. Imagine if he had seen it? What a great picture of Dublin that would have been to him.
So If anyone out there knows anything about this or knows the idiots who did this please let me know, I'd love to ask them why whats up? There's always CCTV n all that but still doesn't change the fact that this Is something that everyone said was inevitable and will happen again and again. How sad Is that. Thanks for taking the time to have a read and get in touch at 3buttons@gmail.com if you might have been about last night to see Lionel's Braveheart moment.

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Art & Crafter,

Mick

Pics here... http://mickbuttonminogue.blogspot.co.uk/

As a fellow artist I'd be pretty miffed too if a piece I had spent a long time working on was vandalised within 24 hours. Opinions?

EDIT: In before 'he worked on that All Night Long (All night)'

Mr Benevolent · 25-09-2012 10:17AM

Da fuk? Who cares?

MidlandsM · 25-09-2012 10:20AM

Hello?

antodeco · 25-09-2012 10:20AM

It looks like that painting of Jesus that was "restored" up!

versus

Feeona · 25-09-2012 10:22AM

I'm surprised it lasted so long! There are a huge amount of people out there who do not want to see anyone else being productive with their lives.

cruiser178 · 25-09-2012 10:22AM

I'll never forgive myself

for reading that pile of shíte

MJ23 · 25-09-2012 10:23AM

Is it me you're looking for ?

Where To · 25-09-2012 10:26AM

Some of the puns are terrible folks. I've been working All Night Long but can do better

kneemos · 25-09-2012 10:26AM

It's a shame but that mentality is rampant sadly.

Jason Todd · 25-09-2012 10:26AM

Disappointing to see stuff like this, doesn't matter whether it's an art installation, shop window or a wing mirror off a car, stuff should be left the way it was found after a Saturday nights' drinking. Once again, the idiots who can't behave like grown ups with a bit of drink in them ruin it for everyone else.

cloptrop · 25-09-2012 10:27AM

Oh how ground breaking a lionel ritchie joke about the hello song . Real earth moving art dude . Your really pushing the boundaries .
How about doing one of James on a park bench singing oh sit down . Its a sad day for art . The real crime here is this **** got commisioned and paid for .
How dare he slag off my city because some sap broke his ****ty played out joke art . Go wan back to your perfect city you had to leave because nobody would buy your lionel joke.

cruiser178 · 25-09-2012 10:29AM

Where To wrote: »

Some of the puns are terrible folks. I've been working All Night Long but can do better

all night, all night

gobnaitolunacy · 25-09-2012 10:29AM

You leave something in a Dublin street and expect it to be intact/still there when you get back?

I'm sorry, but I wouln't leave my bike unattended (even when locked!) for 5 mins there.

humanji · 25-09-2012 10:32AM

He's upset that a sh*te installation, which for some reason, some people call "art" got vandalised. And now he's generalising that the majority of people in Dublin were behind it. Vandalism happens in every city and he doesn't point out that the other installations weren't touched.

cloptrop · 25-09-2012 10:32AM

Jason Todd wrote: »

cloptrop wrote: »

Oh how ground b reaking a lionel ritchie joke about the hello song . Real earth moving art dude . Your really pushing the boundaries .
How about doing one of James on a park bench singing oh sit down . Its a sad day for art . The real crime here is this **** got commisioned and paid for .
How dare he slag off my city because some sap broke his ****ty played out joke art . Go wan back to your perfect city you had to leave because nobody would buy your lionel joke.

Wow... pleasant, and not at all proving the stereotypes of Dubs as dickheads correct.

Did you read what he said.

Dyr · 25-09-2012 10:32AM

Maybe it was destroyed as an artistic statement? You leave something lying around the city centre people are gonna f**k with it (or interact with it if you're an artist i guess)

Guy sounds like a fkin whinger tbh

Jason Todd · 25-09-2012 10:33AM

cloptrop wrote: »

Did you read what he said.

Fair enough.

mike65 · 25-09-2012 10:39AM

That's a dreadful blog, why can't people format and use image compression?

Dyr · 25-09-2012 10:42AM

mike65 wrote: »

That's a dreadful blog, why can't people format and use image compression?

You sound like one of the large, cowardly, majority hating on blogs. Shame on you :mad:

Oink · 25-09-2012 10:48AM

OP, you can't leave something on the street in Dublin and not expect people to piss on/puke on/steal it/break it at some point. That's how we roll. As you said yourself, get out of dodge if you think you can't take it anymore.

Sorry about your stuff though.

kneemos · 25-09-2012 10:49AM

Try Scandinavia op everything seems to be better up there.

Yamanoto · 25-09-2012 10:52AM

Where To wrote: »

Some of the puns are terrible folks. I've been working All Night Long but can do better

On the Nightshift?

Was that even Lionels song?

working fool · 25-09-2012 10:54AM

I loved him on give us a clue

charlemont · 25-09-2012 10:55AM

Lionel Richie is super cool.

25-09-2012 11:00AM

You think this only happens in Dublin.
Eh, hello, it's happening all around the world.

OctavarIan · 25-09-2012 11:05AM

humanji wrote: »

He's upset that a sh*te installation, which for some reason, some people call "art" got vandalised.

What disqualifies it from being an art installation?

kneemos · 25-09-2012 11:08AM

OctavarIan wrote: »

What disqualifies it from being an art installation?

Ignorance

conorhal · 25-09-2012 11:09AM

humanji wrote: »

He's upset that a sh*te installation, which for some reason, some people call "art" got vandalised. And now he's generalising that the majority of people in Dublin were behind it. Vandalism happens in every city and he doesn't point out that the other installations weren't touched.

Why don't you save you ire for the scummers that vandalised the installation instead?

I find your attitude depressing, with it's nihilistic expectation that such an action was inevitable. It's the poxy twin of the nihilistic attitude of gobsheens that feel entitled to destroy things 'for the craic'.

I'm reminded of the 'art cows' that were installed on the streets of Dublin a few years ago, they travelled the world, but guess which was the only city where they were vandalised, beheaded, and eventually had to be moved into shopping centres and security hired to protect them?
So no, it doesn't happen everywhere.

This, as they say, is why we can't have nice things.

humanji · 25-09-2012 11:13AM

OctavarIan wrote: »

What disqualifies it from being an art installation?

Opinion.

kneemos wrote: »

Ignorance

:rolleyes:

conorhal wrote: »

Why don't you save you ire for the scummers that vandalised the installation instead?

I find your attitude depressing, with it's nihilistic expectation that such an action was inevitable. It's the poxy twin of the nihilistic attitude of gobsheens that feel entitled to destroy things 'for the craic'.

I'm reminded of the 'art cows' that were installed on the streets of Dublin a few years ago, they travelled the world, but guess which was the only city where they were vandalised, beheaded, and eventually had to be moved into shopping centres and security hired to protect them?
So no, it doesn't happen everywhere.

This, as they say, is why we can't have nice things.

The people behind it are scum. This doesn't detract from the fact that this guy has insult an entire city because of a hissy fit.

Dyr · 25-09-2012 11:14AM

OctavarIan wrote: »

What disqualifies it from being an art installation?

What disqualifies beheading lionel richie from being an art installation?

They should have used a stevie wonder cut out, cos even he'd have seen this coming :pac:

Dyr · 25-09-2012 11:18AM

conorhal wrote: »

I'm reminded of the 'art cows' that were installed on the streets of Dublin a few years ago, they travelled the world, but guess which was the only city where they were vandalised, beheaded, and eventually had to be moved into shopping centres and security hired to protect them? [/COLOR]
So no, it doesn't happen everywhere.

cry me a river, it does happen everywhere

http://www.thisfrenchlife.com/thisfrenchlife/2006/06/paris_cow_parad.html

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/5986-plastic-cow-feared-drowned

http://allianceparty.org/article/2012/006603/blair-criticises-attack-on-newtownabbey-cow-parade

Also stop changing your text colour like some moody emo

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