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[2006-03-20 08:12:27 +0000 UTC]
"06.06.06 MY BİRTHDAY"
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# Statistics
Favourites: 703; Deviations: 82; Watchers: 148
Watching: 159; Pageviews: 59682; Comments Made: 12784; Friends: 159
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Man RayFavorite writers: Sabriye Çelik www.sabriyecelik.com
Favorite games: Corian Tezgah-WC Kabini 0216 472 23 44-47fax
Favorite gaming platform: murder ballad
Tools of the Trade: Tuvalet Kabinleri İmalatı 0216 472 23 44-47fax www.ardicmimarlik.com
# About me
Favourite photographer: Man Ray,Luis BunuélFavourite style of art: Man Ray
Operating System: PC Linux Gimp 2.2
MP3 player of choice: NİCK CAVE &THE BAD SEEDS-TOM WAITS
Shell of choice: Gündüz Güzeli
Wallpaper of choice: Berlin s Wall
Skin of choice: Corian Tezgah-WC Kabini 0216 472 23 44-47fax
Favourite cartoon character: Corian Tezgah-WC Kabini 0216 472 23 44-47fax
Personal Quote: Kompakt Dış Cephe 0212 472 23 44-47fax www.ardicmimarlik.com/
My company web site www.ardicmimarlik.com/
# Comments
Comments: 1930
Thank-you for faving my work. Your support is very much appreciated.
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thank you!
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many, many thanks for you nice comment on my page
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Excellent gallery! Love ur style!!
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have to hand this to Mayor Daley: He understands the tastes of upper-middle-class city dwellers and tourists far better than I do. I never would have guessed that things like faux-antique outdoor accoutrements � from newspaper dispensers to bicycle stands � would have helped make Chicago such a �success.� On a recent snowy Saturday, Millennium Park, no antique but largely an aesthetic calamity, was alive with visitors. Can something that brings people downtown be all bad? Well, no. Frank Gehry�s Jay Pritzker Pavilion is visually engaging from a variety of angles, and Anish Kapoor�s Cloud Gate is really good. Elegant in itself, it�s at once imposing in its unusual shape and modest in the way it reflects its surroundings. So what�s the problem?
Well, does anyone argue that these two art works, along with the park�s third major monument, Jaume Plensa�s Crown Fountain, actually interact with each other, or with the park�s banal, concrete-laden landscaping, in interesting ways? Do they make a harmonious � or meaningfully disjunctive � whole? One might have hoped that the city of Jens Jensen would have learned a few things about park planning, rather than simply rejecting nature contemplation in favor of its utter opposite, the park as a magnifier of postmodern disconnectedness. Does the Loop not already offer a plenitude of clashing architecture and art styles? Millennium Park serves up a consumerist collection of objects and scenes that speak to each other about as articulately as the TV shows encountered in channel-flipping.
The worst is Crown Fountain itself. Aesthetically vapid, it also constitutes a profound insult to everything I love about cities. Offering video faces of 1,000 Chicagoans enlarged to Brobdingnagian dimensions, it recalls the oversized dictator portraits of totalitarian nations. Its bright images dominate eyesight, even in daylight, diverting the visitor from the key urban pleasure of looking at actual faces. I dislike the way outdoor advertising screens have crept their way into the urban fabric from Zagreb to Hong Kong, substituting their synthetic imagery for the cityscape, but at least these are a product of free market capitalism. Plensa�s intrusion, part of a government-created project, is more commanding and more insidious, accomplishing the opposite of its apparent goal of celebrating Chicago�s citizenry. These empty Warhol imitations draw attention away from the faces behind his videos, showing how the synthetic has come to dominate the real. By contrast, the passive-aggressive under-the-microscope views of Warhol�s portrait films actually express something. Further, the patterned skin of Plensa�s building-sized video towers imitates brick, referencing historic edifices. No need, then, to look across the street to a particularly great block of Michigan Avenue that includes Louis Sullivan�s Gage Building: video has it all. Throughout history artists have obliterated the quotidian in order to construct their own worlds, but their art enriches vision. Using TV as vision�s substitute rather than enhancement, Plensa insults the city. At least the kids don't seem to care � when the fountain is active, they play in the water and ignore the �art.�
Here�s an idea for when Millennium Park falls to ruin, if our failure to take account of the world around us hasn�t destroyed our whole civilization by then: Forget the arrogance of builders. Plant prairie grass. Provide some walkways and benches. Restore a little nature to Chicago�s center.
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