New sculpture installed at PdA
A new sculpture, Orb, has been installed on the esplanade of Place des Arts and will be there for five years. As Olivier Du Ruisseau says in this piece, it has a sort of 1960s vibe that works with the era of the surrounding buildings. It’s almost an Expo 67 flair.
Blork 14:14 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
Cue the outrage from the idiot corner about spending tax money on artistic installations.
Kate 14:26 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
The item says it was the idea of the guy who runs the Mural festival, and “Mural a réuni environ un demi-million de dollars pour l’occasion, avec l’aide de Tourisme Montréal et du Fonds signature métropole du gouvernement du Québec.” Presumably at least some of that is tax money, but it would be funds set aside for spiffing things up to attract tourists, which would be frittered on folderol in any case.
Joey 15:25 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
We finally got our version of Chicago’s Bean! It looks like it’s been placed in a wading pool. I think it would be more of a hit if visitors could get up close… Anyway, I like it. Mural is great. Good use of taxpayer money IMO. Let’s hope the majority of the funds went to the artist.
Blork 17:09 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
Kate, it doesn’t matter to the idiots. Even if it were 100% privately funded and had large signs around it indicating so, the socials would still be full of idiots complaining about tax dollar funding. Look at the “Ring.” Hardly any public money done for that but you can’t see a picture of it on FB or Insta without every fourth comment being a screed about wasting tax dollars.
CE 17:17 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
Honestly, who cares about the idiots frittering away their time yelling at clouds on social media?
Blork 17:35 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
CE, I know! But I can’t help feeling a profound disappointment with humanity and the cultural loss of the potential of social media when I see that stuff. It would be one thing if it was rare but if social media has done anything it has exposed the extent to which so many of our fellow humans are dumb as fence posts. And I don’t mean naively and harmlessly dumb like your silly uncle, I mean actively and deliberately stupid.
It’s one of the reason I’m barely on social media anymore.
Kevin 20:11 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
Honestly, we’re at the point where everyone should be aware that unmoderated social media is an absolute garbage fire because it’s overrun by paid bad faith actors.
Block the blockheads and move on — they’re not real people!
Kate 20:48 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
Has anyone yet trained an AI to moderate?
CE 20:20 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
It’s not just paid trolls and bots, it’s an entire ecosystem that’s designed to elevate, promote, and encourage rage and anger because bad emotions increase engagement and keep people on the sites/apps longer. Social media may have started out with good intentions but it’s rotten from the inside out. A lot of damage has been done but the quicker we all as a society get away from it, the better we’ll be.
DeWolf 20:48 on 2024-10-03 Permalink
I was downtown this evening so I wandered by to see it. Not bad. It’s a bauble but a fun one to have around.
JaneyB 08:28 on 2024-10-04 Permalink
Love it! It does have a 60s vibe! 🙂
Tee Owe 15:08 on 2024-10-04 Permalink
With DeWolf on this one – looks like a fun addition to the city