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Old 01-23-2008, 02:18 PM   #1
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January 23, 2008: Italian ball pit!



It's not just art, it's fun! Italian artist Graziano Cecchini recently released more than a million plastic balls from the top of Rome's famous Spanish Steps monument in a political protest.

"This was an artistic gesture to demonstrate the problems we have in Italy and to do so, I used art," he said. "Both the Left and the Right are telling us so many lies, and I and the Italians have had enough. They have broken our balls and hence this live art display."

Thus we see that scrotal puns can, in fact, survive translation. This is not the first time he has clashed with the powers-that-be in Rome: just a few weeks ago he dumped several large containers of red dye into the Trevi Fountain to resemble blood. Cecchini is now facing prosecution for the ball-pit stunt, but should be able to afford a good lawyer as he has revealed he was paid £14,000 by a mystery sponsor to pull it off.
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Old 01-23-2008, 03:01 PM   #2
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"...recently released more than a million plastic balls..."

Did he just imagine them to be there and so they came to be?
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Old 01-23-2008, 03:14 PM   #3
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Apparently the significance of it all is in the Italian word for “balls” (”palle”) which can also mean “untruth”. The symbolism behind 500,000 “untruths” rolling through town is beautiful in it’s simplicity, noticeability, and ability to totally piss people off.

more here: http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/...alls/#comments
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Old 01-23-2008, 03:33 PM   #4
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Old 01-23-2008, 03:43 PM   #5
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Not what I was expecting (and hoping for) when I read the title. hahaha
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Old 01-23-2008, 05:51 PM   #6
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Not what I was expecting (and hoping for) when I read the title. hahaha
I seriously have to ask myself what you did think, and I call myself jaded.

back on topic, once you learn the significance of the word balls in italian, it makes more sense and isn't a totally missing the point, like most works of modern art.
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Old 01-23-2008, 10:19 PM   #7
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Oh boy, my son would absolutely love to play in that. He would have a ball. :p
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Old 01-23-2008, 10:33 PM   #8
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i heard that there were little venomous snakes nesting in that ball pit.
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Old 01-23-2008, 10:53 PM   #9
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Its all fun and games till those balls end up in the ocean and some stupid fish try to eat them and choke to death.
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Old 01-23-2008, 10:55 PM   #10
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Apparently the significance of it all is in the Italian word for “balls” (”palle”) which can also mean “untruth”. The symbolism behind 500,000 “untruths” rolling through town is beautiful in it’s simplicity, noticeability, and ability to totally piss people off.

more here: http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/...alls/#comments
balls (and all other euphemisms for testicles) in apporpriate context = bullshit in British English. No sublety required.
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Old 01-23-2008, 11:15 PM   #11
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i heard that there were little venomous snakes nesting in that ball pit.
I don't know about that but I did hear there are HIV infected needles and heroin filled syringes in there.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/archer.asp
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Old 01-24-2008, 02:12 AM   #12
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How does one get a million plastic balls to the top of the Spanish Steps without some cop saying, "WTF"?
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Old 01-24-2008, 02:58 AM   #13
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How does one get a million plastic balls to the top of the Spanish Steps without some cop saying, "WTF"?
Pretty easy in Italy: The carabinieri do not speak English.
Kind of weak comment, hm?
Here's a vid how they did it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYdUhhcJFQ

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Old 01-24-2008, 10:25 AM   #14
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calling it a political protest is understandable; calling it art is bullshit. like most modern art is.

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Old 01-24-2008, 02:23 PM   #15
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Man, it took a lot of balls to do something like that.
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