"Giant inflatable dog poo wreaks havoc"
There's 2 things that struck me about this story in The Australian, such that I had to share it with you all.
1) The sheer "WTF!!??" nature of the story.
2) The way the story is written, the imagery. This could only be written by an Aussie. I don't think an American journo could have written this story.
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A GIANT inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a window before it landed again.
The art work, titled Complex Shit, is the size of a house.
The wind carried it 200m from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said.
The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Mr Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if Complex Shit would be put back on display.
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1) The sheer "WTF!!??" nature of the story.
2) The way the story is written, the imagery. This could only be written by an Aussie. I don't think an American journo could have written this story.
---[Begin Story]---
A GIANT inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a window before it landed again.
The art work, titled Complex Shit, is the size of a house.
The wind carried it 200m from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said.
The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Mr Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if Complex Shit would be put back on display.
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posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 09:01
1 Comments:
Oh, this Paul McCarthy character is a real piece of work. Some of his other "art" pieces include "Santa Claus with a buttplug" and this masterpiece:
"...his 1976 piece Class Fool, where McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup spattered classroom at the University of California, San Diego until dazed and injured. He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his rectum."
We used to put people like this in a straitjacket and lock them in a padded room. Now they're considered artists?
Too bad that giant dog turd didn't land on McCarthy's empty skull and break his worthless neck.
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