Artists are not supposed to care about what people might think.

Huh? And I suppose all sex is masturbation?

Ironic, huh.

NYC is it Art flowchart: [see funny thing] -> [evacuate immediate vicinity and imprison responsible looking person on grounds of terrorism]

It’s quite obvious that the best way to perform terrorism is install art and hang around, can’t have that, there could be enjoyment and fun to be had, nobody enjoy himself now!

Next up at 11, Pantomimes imprisoned as enemy combatant, detained by way of telling him he’s now surrounded by a glass cube.

“Home of the brave” my ass.

The only argument that made any sense on the “get a permit” side was that having a permit means you’re approved by the council and hence less liable if a member of public is injured by something related to your filming (like tripping over cables or falling lighting). Other than that it’s just another way of the government taxing us which is why I’d tell my tutors they’re hacks for playing ball without question.

I’ll formulate a proper response, as soon as I’m done ensuring that all the hubcaps leaning on street signs around here do not contain IEDs.

Personally, I wonder how the hell anyone can NOT cut someone from NYC a little slack for being slightly paranoid in this day and age. Guess you don’t read the papers much, this century.

I believe it’s called “getting a permit”.

It’s expensive. They say no unless you’re a mega-corporation. And why should people have to get permits to use their own city?

2) Artists are not supposed to care about what people might think. If artists were to concern themselves with that then their art would likely suffer.

3) Please find me one example of a terrorist attack where the bomb(s) have been taped in amazingly noticeable places with wires poking out everywhere. Even the dumb fuck who filled a van with fireworks had the sense to hide them in a van.

I say more of this, let’s retrain people to remember that terrorists aren’t everywhere, and you’re extremely unlikely to be blown up.

It was a shitshow.  Most people were pretty convinced it was bad art since that gets put on the streets a lot here, but you never know — especially when it’s really bad art.

This was incredibly bad art.

They might have looked neat at night lit up, but during the day — when the bomb squad came — it was a plastic bag in a tree with wires coming out of it that were taped up to the lightposts or trees ( you can search for images of it online ).

When you think of the mooninite campaign, it’s easy to fault the police — where the F** would a bomb be hidden in those ?  they’re flat and most of the space looks to be used by LEDs that are lit.  When you look at this guy’s “art” during the day, it’s a bag in a tree with wires coming out of it… that looks a whole lot like a bomb.

His other stuff is interesting and well made, but I fail to see how he or his friends never questioned themselves with a “What the fuck am i doing?” moment here.