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It has already been covered over with tarp and the letting removed[1]. It's a wonderful piece of work with excellent sentiment behind it. Unfortunately it does
by borgia 12y ago
It has already been covered over with tarp and the letting removed[1].
It's a wonderful piece of work with excellent sentiment behind it. Unfortunately it doesn't suit the government and mainstream media narrative, so I'm sure the act of its erection will be decried as liberal terrorism and vandalism, the piece taken down and Snowden-related news once again brushed over.
[1]http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/illegal-edward-snowden-bust-erected-atop-brooklyn-war-monume-article-1.2175004 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/illegal-edward-...
- hspak 12y agoI wonder how long the sculpture stood up. The two articles were only published 2 hours apart.
- borgia 12y agoIt looks like they put it up around 6am and it was covered over around noon. I hope, for the sake of the work that went into the piece, that it isn't destroyed.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoThat's amazing. Now if only the public works department could respond to potholes that quickly.
- jessaustin 12y agoMaybe we could just start spraypainting Snowden's face in and around potholes? If it worked, the general public would know Snowden only as the pothole-fixing guy. No jury would ever convict! b^)
- CalRobert 12y agoActually, an approaching not entirely unlike that has been tried successfully in Russia. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/embarrassing-pothole-caricatures-of-politicians-spur-action-to-fix-the-streets/ http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/embarrassing-pothole-c...
- CalRobert 12y agoUgg. "approach". Nothing like seeing your typos the following day.
- Someone1234 12y agoThat is an interesting point. People here are saying (paraphrasing) "they'd take down any busk that wasn't authorised" and while I believe that to be true, it ignores the fact of just how QUICKLY this one got taken down. Less than six hours? How long does other graffiti take to be removed, days, weeks, months?
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoYeah, I made my point in a snarky way, but there is definitely a political component to the swiftness of the action. It'd have been great if the job had to be submitted to a months long queue.
- genericuser 12y agoI think the speed graffiti, bust, or other such expression is removed is going to be more or less relative to the amount of attention something draws / is expected to draw. Or at least I heard that is how wheels go about getting oil.
- moyix 12y agoI showed up around 3:45pm and it was gone by then. NYPD were looking around though: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/585181778438180864 https://twitter.com/moyix/status/585181778438180864
- ics 12y agoUnless destroying it was the only way to remove it, it would likely go to the nearest impound lot (where I believe it can actually be claimed by the owners for a fee, though that might invite other problems).
- genericuser 12y agoI like part of Ruth Goldstein's, one of the park conservancy founders, response in that article. While I am fairly confident that asking and trying to go through legitimate channels to get the bust put up would not of worked, what she said makes me think there are at least people who would consider it, although probably not high enough in power structures to actually get it done. “The park is such a symbol of American liberty; that’s what it’s all about, the founding principals of it,” she said. “It (the bust) is almost appropriate but inappropriate to do it (put up illegally).”
- ta0967 12y agonot have worked, "founding principles".
- genericuser 12y agoI am not certain that offering grammar corrections is very constructive. Also if you read the article in the parent post you would notice that your second correction should be directed at it not me, as I accurately copy pasted that quotation.
- ta0967 11y ago* my comment was meant for other people reading your comment as much as it was for you. people soak up english in informal ways (such as reading stuff on the web) and someone might be led to use the wrong words. * some mistakes (and actual meanings) are obvious, others are more subtle. what else in the text conveys meaning that is different from the author's intent? * what purpose does it serve to say or write A when you meant B, outside of humor?
- Dylan16807 12y agoCorrecting the quote is silly, yes, but I think it's constructive to point out uses of the wrong word entirely. That's a far leap away from being ultra-picky about grammar. Though it might make more sense to use "'ve" when correcting to emphasize that it's not a spoken vs. written speech difference, it's a transcription error.
- Lerc 12y agoTheir point about the image of the bust remains. The fact that they covered the bust with a tarp itself creates an image with a message. Consider the mentality of obscuring the bust with something that is even uglier. It is not a statement on the aesthetics of the work. It is literally saying "You may not look upon this unsanctioned idea"
- happyscrappy 12y agoSo your theory is that they covered it up so no one will talk about Snowden? That doesn't make sense.
- GhotiFish 12y agono. His theory is that the artists wanted to create this very scene.
- tajen 12y agoCorrect! For me a better political statement would have been to wait for the People to remove the statue. I want to know whether enough people who care about the memory of the Prison Ship Martyrs to organize the removal compared to the memory of Snowden. If someone removes it, it's a strong political statement that the People want this. If no one removes it, then the People has chosen new heroes.
- makeitsuckless 12y agoIt's interesting that they choose to (almost literally) deface it. They're fully in their right to remove it, but simply making it unrecognizable feels like a political act.