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August 10, 2004

Blinged Victory.

I hate this.

I walk by it all the time, it's in the lobby of a new office building downtown. And I hate it more every time. It is an absolute mess.

"Oh hey, are you the sculptor? Great. I'd like something that would appear in the background of an obnoxious rap video, being frottered by bikini vixens? Really, just give me the tackiest thing you can manage. I want something Don Magic Juan would try to wrestle off the pedestal and solder to a chain. Will you accept cringes of shame and embarassment from astonished passersby, or will we be paying for this in lowriders and fuzzy purple leisure suits?"

I guess a mere reproduction of Winged Victory of Samothrace just wasn't good enough for Anonymous Glass Box #138361. Not without fifty yards of yellow foil, anyway.

Graffiti is illegal, but if I turned a sandblaster on this obscenity, I'd go to jail.

There is no justice.

Posted by Spike at August 10, 2004 01:06 AM

Comments

Um... Is it supposed to be decapitated?

Posted by Gen at August 10, 2004 01:55 AM
68.202.168.153

gen: kind of. it's what remains of a hellenistic sculpture (like spike said "winged nike (victory) from samothrace") currently held at the louvre. i guess someone thought they could improve of the greek form by adding a layer of gold. i can only image the their reasoning: "at least she'll have a couple grand worth of leafing to make up for not having a head."

Posted by Jenn at August 10, 2004 02:20 AM
69.4.150.23

The technical term for this sort of thing is a "catastrophic taste failure".

Posted by Wagner at August 10, 2004 03:24 AM
24.28.87.101

It looks like somebody deep-fried an angel.

Posted by The Bloated Camel at August 10, 2004 03:44 AM
68.239.215.222

That's the art world. The same people who made/bought this prolly look at those plazas you took pictures of a few days ago and say "Man, what a waste of money..."

Posted by Psychomelody at August 10, 2004 08:55 AM
141.151.21.50

I can see the fat pant-suited bank teller women cooing over it in thick southern accents (despite living in Chicago) now...
"oh, my laaaand. Innid jus the prettiest?"

Posted by Zack at August 10, 2004 10:10 AM
24.131.183.235

Jeezus, I'm surprised they didn't just turn it into a fucking lava lamp, or swath it in black velvet embossed with Elvis heads.

Posted by Lisa Jonte at August 10, 2004 11:40 AM
69.42.3.13

Except that that would've made it cool.

Posted by Zack at August 10, 2004 12:16 PM
24.131.183.235

Yeah, a bit much, there. I'm having fantasies of peeling back the foil and finding the sculpture inside to be made of cheap milk chocolate, filled with Cadbury Creme.

Posted by Dylan at August 10, 2004 04:23 PM
67.40.202.225

Ms. Dylan, I think you hit it SPOT ON. That there is a milk chocolate Nike of Samothrace.

DIBS ON THE THIGH!

Posted by Spookable at August 10, 2004 06:48 PM
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