|
|
|||||||
| Image of the Day Images that will blow your mind - every day. [Blog] [RSS] [XML] |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
05-04-2008, 10:45 AM
|
#1 |
|
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
May 4, 2008: Banana exhibit
 IotD is late to this one which went off two months ago. Artist Stefan Sagmeister is responsible for this one, part of an exhibit at NYC's Deitch gallery entitled "Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far". In this exhibit Sagmeister reveals thoughtful mottos in interesting ways.  The interesting thing about this installation, which consists of 10,000 bananas and some glue, is that it changes over time.  And the message disappears...  ...and the whole thing just gradually decays over the 24 days of the show. The entire exhibit can be seen at Deitch's site - his the "view installation" button where you can look at the other messages and their interesting reveals. The bananas is the most interesting of them, I think. The reveal makes the message into a sort of slow-burn poetry.  One does hope banana bread was made. |
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 10:59 AM
|
#2 |
|
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
|
God, just imagining the smell is making me gag...
|
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 11:08 AM
|
#3 |
|
~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 6,828
|
Sometimes somethings just make a person wonder. Like if I had that much time on my hands would I be compelled to buy a truck load of bananas and create art..or whatever with it
 .......nah  that's just bananas!
|
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 11:11 AM
|
#4 | |
|
King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 6,669
|
Quote:
It's not too late to save the exhibit. Once they start getting brown, they could peel all the glued bananas and make banana daiquiris for a few hundred people. Reminds me of the Harry Chapin "10,000 lbs of bananas" song.
__________________
Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
|
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 11:42 AM
|
#5 |
|
LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 7,661
|
30 Thousand pounds of Squashed bananas !!!
__________________
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner |
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 11:47 AM
|
#6 |
|
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
When they are ripe, put them in the refrigerator. The skins will turn black, which is admittedly disconcerting, but the banana will stop ripening and keep for some time.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 12:49 PM
|
#7 |
|
lives inside a Mobius strip
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,120
|
I think there is something poignant ~and pungent~ about a positive message of self-confidence that decays to garbage in just a few weeks.
__________________
I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque! - Bugs Bunny |
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 01:58 PM
|
#8 | |
|
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
|
Quote:
It would be better to have an image developing over time, maybe an installation where the salient message was refrigerated, and the rest of the display wasn't. Wouldn't work with the nanas, but another food item that changed colour as it decayed. Except that any waste of food is horribly degenerate in a world where people starve to death and we have globally limited resources. Of course. Ah well. If I believed in teh debbil then I'd believe bananas were his creation, so you don't want to listen to me.
__________________
Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac |
|
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 03:43 PM
|
#9 | |
|
King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 6,669
|
Quote:
__________________
Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
|
|
|
|
|
05-04-2008, 05:18 PM
|
#10 |
|
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
|
/gwen/ This shit is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
This shit is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S
__________________
In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
|
|
|
|
05-05-2008, 05:23 AM
|
#11 |
|
Professor
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,911
|
I think this is just rotten.
|
|
|
|
|
05-05-2008, 10:08 AM
|
#12 |
|
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
|
Where's the Banana phone?
__________________
In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
|
|
|
|
05-05-2008, 06:02 PM
|
#13 | |
|
The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | Rate This Thread |
|
|
Linear Mode
