Tangerine says:
Thought this one might be relevant now.
It is colorful and lively.
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photo, 2003
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October 25, 2008
G8 – Relevant? No – The Picture Though Is
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Not sure about the written message (is the lst word “pour” — for?) but the graphics seem to show a flowering planet, with, if I’m not over-interpreting, Bush and Sharon underneath as fertilizer.
Posted by: seneca | Oct 25 2008 20:18 utc | 1
I wish I could read the coloful and lively parts. Nice, Tangerine. It reminds me of the walls of the Obama h.q. here. They’re covered with kid’s art.
A bright future, I hope.
Posted by: beq | Oct 26 2008 3:20 utc | 2
it is a feast for the soul, the colors.
I wish I could read the colorful and lively parts.
i want to know what that line says at the top. beq, you spoke the words i thought earlier but didn’t write. where is this mural?
is this our future, communicating on our enclosed neighborhoods? is this the freedom, the ‘enduring freedom’
2. Long-suffering; patient.
i didn’t know til today the war on afghanistam was called operation enduring freedom. they should call it enduring suffering. pardon my OT, these are just the sort of thoughts that go thru my mind when i see walls. i am terribly claustrophobic. i can’t be in places like casinos or those huge shopping stores like walmarts w/no windows. rows of shelves like mazes w/no windows. i wonder if this is on the side of a building or part of a wall that goes up to the sky for no other reason that keeping people in or out.
art really makes a difference. people landscape.
‘our planete lorsque il est decide a hult?’
Posted by: annie | Oct 26 2008 5:27 utc | 4
a little OT, but the Denver airport murals (some now removed) are also colorful, and depict many children. 2 big, 15 small.
in #5, those 15 small are mostly non-blowupable details of a single mural. This site at least lets you click and see larger, has 16 details. What I would like would be a site with all the murals and less commentary, haven’t found yet.
BTW, driving from SF to Boston late February ’07 (van load of books from exhibiting at ABAA bookfair, 2’x 3′ climate cartoons magnetically on driver’s side of van), I cut south to look at Denver International Airport, is indeed bizarre. Spent 2 hours there, (took digital photos I’ll try to find, if so will put up with links in OT) then driving was listening to Rush Limbaugh. He had several callers complaining about the Jet Blue tie-ups in NYC a few days before, then one who sounded non-confrontational but who mentioned he’d just been in D.I.A.. Limbaugh immediately cut him off, saying he had a very good point, and that El Rushbo was so brilliant that he already knew what it was, which was that government regulation was bad, bad, bad.
[My favorite moment of talk radio in the No-Brainer Nation after Bill O’Reilly being adamant last December that since he paid about 35% taxes on earned income and 15% capital gains on any increase of the leftover he invested, he was paying 50% taxes, an infuriating injustice, and thus Warren Buffet was just lying when he claimed his secretary was taxed at a higher level than Buffet. A math teacher called up, was yelled at and cut off, because 35% + 15% = 50%, and no lying math teacher explaining percents could change that.]
M of A – G8 – Relevant? No – The Picture Though Is
‘our planete lorsque il est decide a hult?’
If the “our” is indeed “pour” and my old rusty french is reliable (big if there) then it is something like “for the planet when it is decided by eight?”
Anyway, great picture.
Posted by: a swedish kind of death | Oct 27 2008 4:07 utc | 7
It is a semi-hopeful picture. The line at the top says:
Pour la planète quand il est décidé à huit?
= For the planet (!?) when decisions are taken (only) by 8 (leaders, potentates, countries) ??
(only by 8, not the rest of us)
Yet from below there are grassroots flowers growing…
When the G8 met near Geneva 2003 the whole inner city was boarded up with these yellow boards.
Posted by: Tangerine | Oct 27 2008 19:54 utc | 8