Someone's Been Climbing on the Iroquois - Page 2 - PhillyBlog

junebug · #11 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by steco

so if someone is climbing the iroquois call the fpa, and if no one is climbing the iroquois, call the cops?

BeckyJ · #12 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Old 4 sq

So some like to climb on the sculpture, wellllllllll, let me say this about that!

First, there is a soft malleable dense metallic element that is used in the shielding of the paint used.

This has in it a soluble percolating liquid, that has a porous leaching liquid, that can ooze onto and into your system, and clothing.

This discharge caused by friction of climbing, gives you an irritation like a warm soreness, which turns into some painful annoyance.

It has to do with the graffiti and the cosmopolite thistle graffiti butterfly taggers, that destroy our neighborhood.

Not one of them ever becomes a well-know artist,

Noooooooooooooo, they are nothing but some a$$ that paints on your property, by trickery and deceit, causing you to pay to remove the crap the taggers put up on the walls.

Old 4 sq, in the land between the two rivers,
PS, another tagger hit the dust, over at community college, and was tossed out of the school.

:eek4d ance:

He's baaaaack!

Where've you been? Everything ok?

SuzieQ · #13 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by KENfmt

No....there was whole vid, set to music, with different scenes of different people on it. Definitely not construction workers.

Here is the video - very short:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zCxfDji_mvM

KENfmt · #14 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by zur

It just looks like a bunch of I-beams.

It IS just a bunch of I-beams...painted a garrish color.

Chico · #15 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 11:45 AM

The frigging thing is an embarrassment. Somebody please take it out back and shoot it.

tenzo · #16 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SuzieQ

Here is the video - very short:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zCxfDji_mvM

I still say that looks like fun.

Unfortunatly they welded an ugly cable on so you can no longer do that.

netnerd · #17 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 08:06 PM

I actually like having the sculpture there. It may not be an incredibly brilliant realization of something or other....it's just someone's idea of art, and not everyone has to like it. But I do think it fits in that space very well. It's big, and it makes Philadelphia seem a little cooler, if you ask me, for having some interesting large outdoor art.

And I'm fairly certain that video was shot during last Fall's "College Day." I walked by and there were 40 or so people gathered around and lots of (mostly) guys grabbing it when it swung down, and riding up. Looked *very* unsafe, but also fun!

HughE 2030 · #18 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 12:43 AM

Damn I missed that, it does look like fun and insanity. I'm sure the artist would've thought it was fun too. God knows it doesn't swing any other time, I swear it was placed incorrectly.

http://hughe2030.blogspot.com/2007/0...landed-in.html

phillyrbh · #19 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 09:05 AM

Were it placed incorrectly, it was done with the full participation of the sculptor for he was there for the installation.

I love it. Its perfect for the place. And as all good art , it provokes controversy.

tenzo · #20 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by phillyrbh

, it provokes controversy.

So does dog poop