Comments on: Adams Morgan Sculpture Selected – Bike Musician! UPDATED – Or Has It?

By: Bill C.

Bill C. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:41:47 +0000

Ok, not done yet .

What Adams Morgan does need is better quality public space. Giving the turn lanes at 18th/Columbia and Calvert/Lanier to pedestrians was great, love it. Having a summer concert series in the space in question, great idea. Stand in that area and squint a bit and you can see a quality urban landscape taking shape. Some well-designed and well-placed street furniture and amenities (like some kind of screening from traffic) to flesh it out would seal the deal.

An oversized, kitschy, amateurish, plain ugly sculpture ruining this promising start? Just tragic and boneheaded, really. Start over and do better, please. Please?

By: Bill C.

Bill C. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:32:03 +0000

My god. It’s horrible. They are all horrible. Please don’t do this! It’s an affront to art, civic design, and all good things DC is trying to become. ‘World class’ it ain’t.

By: lordzork

lordzork — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:10:32 +0000

Anonymous @ 4:43: I was only half kidding when I accused you of being the perpetrator of this planned abortion of the visual arts, but it looks like I’m right after all. In which case, I urge you to take note that you can still make a positive contribution to the arts by ceasing to practice them in favor of obtaining gainful employment more in fitting with your productive capacities. For instance, I’m sure that there are a number of places on 18th St that might need a line cook. Do look into it.

By: Ignatius

Ignatius — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:47:41 +0000

Anonymous @ 4:43, How very zen. We really are =all= just the same person. So I hope you won’t mind if I borrow your car.

By: Ignatius

Ignatius — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:45:51 +0000

Anonymous @ 4:36, I didn’t know this was an audition, fancy pants. Otherwise I would have brought out my “A” observational material on the link between fetal alcohol syndrome and future inability to capitalize properly.

Oh, and sorry about you losing the commission.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:43:40 +0000

I think its pretty obvious that Ignatius and lordzork are the same person. that person being the artist behind the adamor circle sculpture!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:36:35 +0000

ignatius. the mark of a true comic is knowing when to call it quits. someting you should have done 17 comments ago.

By: lordzork

lordzork — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:34:20 +0000

@Ignatius: the beauty of being a self-appointed Artistic Genius is that the massive amount of self-delusion required to hide your own ineptitude from yourself also functions as a means to protect you from contrary or negative opinions, which you can then blame on haters and complainers. I imagine that the PCP also has a salutary effect in this regard.

By: Ignatius

Ignatius — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:23:30 +0000

Binkles,

I think a person being confronted by this mass of putrid anti-art should get reparations.

I only wish I could un-see the picture above and go back to that happy place where I was before my eyes started searing with pain.

If you were to release one million monkeys into a sculpture studio with one million hammers and one million amyl nitrate poppers the results would look like the Sistine Chapel compared to this heinous carbuncle.

Dennys is nothing compared with the pure asinine evil of this kindergarten rendering of hell on a bike.

To answer your question, yes.

By: Ignatius

Ignatius — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:15:03 +0000

Zorky, I certainly hope it’s not the artist. How embarrassing would it be to have your giant installation of glopy pointallistic dung derailed by some offhand remarks by bored bureaucrats on their lunch break? And then be reduced to feebly tumbling out an incoherent defense through the throbbing PCP haze only to ultimately reveal you are certifiably retarded as well as being an untalented and undeserving hack? I’m guessing that would be sad.