UPDATE: I am getting word that they will be working with Walter Portz over the next year to develop a mural, or something like that. Walter just recently finished the mural at Levitt. I guess the VAC expressed they were NOT happy about the process or the secrecy, can’t wait to see how the administration will spin this. I guess they are also keeping the donor’s name a secret as of right now, though we have some pretty good guesses who it is.
I am hearing a rumor that Planning Staff decided to drop a turd on the Visual Arts Commission at their meeting this morning, I would assume it is under new business, public art update.
I was NOT in attendance but I am hearing there was a work around for the Bunker Ramp mural and they are going to announce tomorrow (10:30 AM at the city’s Wednesday presser) that they are bringing it back (different design). I guess they did the planning and selection for this behind closed doors (I know, SHOCKER!) with ZERO input from the VAC and public and using a familiar donor.
It seems someone’s ego must have gotten the best of them.
As of right now, I can’t find much about it except on the agenda which spells nothing out so I guess we will have to see the big announcement, which I am sure will be announced HERE in advance.
Any dolt with just a little bit of experience in public art could tell you this is NOT how you approve public art.
Just how easy would it be to depict a black hole on it? Or, would it just suck us all in like the initial development? They say that black holes make a sound, but so far no word about the mural. They also say that black holes reject some matter and spew it out with displeasure. Too bad the public could never do that with the Bunker Ramp.
Oh, and I like the new look SouthDacola. Although, the Rain Man in me finds it hard to accept such change, but at least tomorrow is Wednesday, which means green lime jello, orange soda, and eight fish sticks….. 🙂 …….:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3NGaA6leig
Four fish sticks being turned into eight is a lot like the east bank development still having trains, or a hotel that’s merely a ramp. AND, after all of that, I think we could all use some new underwear, and definitely from K-Mart, the one in Cincinnati on 400 Oak Street.
Still working on the site, almost there.
i don’t like the redesign. It’s much harder to read on my phone.
scott, thanks for the input. It is a work in progress and we are messing around with some different things, I will give an update once I get it locked in.