January 17, 2012 The Obliteration Room
 

Start off with a completely white room - a canvas of sorts.

http://cellar.org/2012/obliteration-2-600x400.jpg

Give children lots of dot stickers.

http://cellar.org/2012/obliteration kids.png

http://cellar.org/2012/obliteration piano.png

Discovered on This Is Colossal

Installation conceived by Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever
and shown in Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.

Photo credits:
First two images courtesy of Queensland Art Gallery and photographer Mark Sherwood.
The third image courtesy of Stuart Addelsee.

More images at:
flickr Stuart Addelsee
flickr HeyBubbles

I like it.

Imagine if they gave each visitor gum to use instead?

Did someone say gum??

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cindyfunk/921788898/

This is the Maid Rite drive thru in the greater Greenville Ohio area. The Maid Rite's are good if you don't get too grossed out driving past the gum art. I am a frequent contributor.

then you get the Seattle Gum Wall.

See, this is why they say careful what you ask for.

Hiya bbuilder!

Nice find. Welcome to the cellar.

Thanks, BigV. I've been a lurker for awhile. Your Seattle Gum Wall is much more colorful.

I really want to paint my basement white now and hand out stickers. I'll put it on my to-do list.

Thanks for posting that, bbuilder. I've been to Maid Rite's a few times, though not for a few years now. As soon as I read that glatt mentioned using gum, I thought of "the loose meat sandwich place in Greenville...what's it called?"

How long has Maid Rite been there? It is pretty famous locally.

Welcome, fellow Ohioan! :)

You make sandwiches out of hookers in Ohio?

Only Hobo Hookers.

That sounds like a fishing club who use old boots for bait.

When I was a kid, there was a ride at Six Flags theme park that had a tree you could reach from on the ride. Everybody stuck their gum there.

There are hookers in Ohio? gasp.

Maid Rite has been in Greenville since 1934 from what I can tell. Apparently things don't change there much which adds to the charm.

On a more serious note, what the heck is a loose meat sandwich? How does it differ from a...sandwich.

Crumbled beef. I don't know what all they use in them, but they're delish!

Like a sloppy joe without the sauce holding it together?

Yeah, like that. It sounds like nothing special but they are quite good.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/allipick/2661214844/ (Crud - can't post the pic. Day of all days. google Maid Rite images if you wanna have a looksee.)

Nothing holding it together, it kinda falls apart.

Ok. I looked. Someone started out browning hamburger to make spaghetti but decided to make a sandwich instead.

On Roseanne they started a loose meat sandwich diner.

They must think we're too refined for Maid-Rite here in Chicago. They started in Iowa. They're in Ohio. They seem to have missed us here.

Here is Maid Rite.

And the sandwich:

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What the heck, let's throw in the menu, too, while we're at it:

http://cellar.org/2012/fullservicemenu-cover2.jpg

You know, it has such a local 'greasy spoon' type ambiance I never knew it was a franchise. Looking at the site, I don't see a listing of all the restaurants to find the one in Greenville OH, but I would assume it's part of the franchise.

I looked up the one in G-ville, and found a recipe...

Faux Maid-Rite
1 lb Ground Beef
1 tsp ground pepper
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp prepared mustard
6 oz beer (optional)
salt (to taste)

Not much to it, but tasty. Of course, there might still be a secret ingredient. ;)

I think imma make some this weekend.

Imma try this one sometime soon:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1826...226196,00.html

Those recipes are so different. Imma try a combination of both.

Thanks Pete. :)

I perfer to sneak up on mustard, and take it by surprise.

:lol:

I had to look it up. I've heard of it a million times but had never considered it. It's opposed to 'dry' mustard.