Pasadena and the US Forrest Service consider Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s proposal as a means to bypass nature. Astroturf in front running as the perfect cover. Considered inspired answer to fire ravished hillsides. Benefits addressed; a) super green b) requires little maintenance c) deer hate it.
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I like appalled, it’s more dignified than pissed off, I would expect no less of citizenry. If they turn into rabble-rousers then all the better, any news is better than gang rapes that go on for two hours while people watch or the flap over FOX news. What I really want is Christo to come to Pensacola. Tell him this is fertile ground. We have hurricanes for crying out loud.
Oh Sister.
I mean, oh Jesus Christo!!
He can do some test runs on my front lawn. I could use the green. Will dogs still pee on it?
PV does have a more eco-friendly solution, or at least a bit easier to take – they’ve covered bits of the 2nd fire hillside off of Crenshaw with burlapy type stuff.
I love the umbrellas photo.
I drove by this cover up, then walked by it to see whether it’s as ugly up close as it is when you’re driving by. The answer is yes. I’m mad enough to have the artist arrested.”
Destroy all art schools!
Comes from Pliny the Elder, not that any of you ignoramusus know anything about history. After the second Punic War and the defeat of Hannibal, he ended every speech with “Cartago delenda est.”
Carthage must be destroyed. and it was this time totally, not just made to submit, in the third Punic war.
Even you art school types can take it from there, I hope.
Christo delenda est
I have an entire hillside waiting for an earthwork. Really.
BUT, test any umbrellas in the wind please.
Why stop at astroturf? Why not cover entire hillsides with Persian rugs and harvest gold shag carpeting, maybe linoleum? I’ve always advocated cementing over everything in sight. Good luck.
I think that’s ignoramuses, emphasis on the muses.
It’s smart not to make this too literal in its civic symbolism. That error occurred in 1955, when a ludicrous uproar arose over a bronze sculpture commissioned the year before for the then-new police administration building now called Parker Center.
Neither does Bratton’s crack demonstrate that he knows zilch about contemporary carpet, as one might suspect;
Christopher Knight
LA Times Art Critic
Very sorry we are all so un-avante garde. I think it sounds cool. (Although I do remember that problem with umbrellas so I can see Shanna’s point.)
Donald
Pliny the Elder died trying to observe the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. You would know these things if you attended the yearly San Pedro Roman reenactment gathering.
RIP – Jeanne-Claude, 74, who shared a birthday w/ husband and partner, Christo. May she wrap heaven in shimmering fabrics.
http://urdead2me.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/rip-jeanne-claude/