Caption This Weird-Ass Public Art
From the University of New Mexico where I just attended the Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, there's some art apparently intended to frighten drunken students walking around after dark:

Caption This Weird-Ass Public Art
From the University of New Mexico where I just attended the Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, there's some art apparently intended to frighten drunken students walking around after dark:
Really the last picture/statue explains it all. What the fuck is this art about?
John Paulson at June 17, 2012 11:29 PM
The hot New Mexico burned some people into carbon statues just as they stood.
The Former Banker at June 17, 2012 11:56 PM
The Neighborhood Ladies Just Don't Get George and Martha
NicoleK at June 18, 2012 2:28 AM
First Photo:
She: Where have you been? I been waitin' for hours! You been at that saloon again?
He: It's not like that, honey! I was driving back from the revival meeting, when all of the sudden, I saw this bright red light up in the sky! Next thing I knew, it was midnight!
Second Photo: Lazy bum! He ain't even tryin' to come up with good lies anymore!
Old RPM Daddy at June 18, 2012 4:29 AM
Amy, is that hideous Frankenstein-in-blue statue still at the main entrance on Central? Just awful. I wanted to throw a chain around my axle and pull that thing down. Have you seen "Chevy on a Stick"?
Haakon Dahl at June 18, 2012 7:26 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/caption-this-we.html#comment-3236080">comment from Haakon DahlIt is, Haakon - hated on that one right away:
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/14/new_mexico_is_m.html
What's "Chevy on a Stick"?
Amy Alkon
at June 18, 2012 7:35 AM
Chevy On A Stick:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alixking/445212372/
Steve Daniels at June 18, 2012 8:21 AM
#1 And god said I should go forth and have sex with the teenagers. Interested?
#2 WTF!?!
lujlp at June 18, 2012 8:23 AM
"To the moon, Alice! To the moon!"
Cousin Dave at June 18, 2012 9:10 AM
Ah. You are clearly what Julia Cameron calls a "blocked creative." Sure, you write and all, but I suspect what you really want to do is paint or sculpt or sing or dance. And you can't.
Again, for all your talk about bullying, for all your talk about etiquette, you seem to enjoy making fun of people and things a bit too much.
deathbysnoosnoo at June 18, 2012 10:03 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/caption-this-we.html#comment-3236202">comment from deathbysnoosnooAh. You are clearly what Julia Cameron calls a "blocked creative." Sure, you write and all, but I suspect what you really want to do is paint or sculpt or sing or dance.
I have painted, sculpted, and sung and I used to dance on skates, and enjoyed all a good bit, but I'm a writer. But, thanks for your diagnosis.
Again, it is not "bullying" to criticize or even make fun of art unless you're making fun of the work of a fourth grader. It's part of the game of being a professional artist.
Amy Alkon
at June 18, 2012 10:40 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/caption-this-we.html#comment-3236204">comment from Amy AlkonPS The notion of being "blocked" as a writer or anything else is just asinine -- but apparently the stuff that sells books like Julia Cameron's to the artistic diletantes. The answer for anyone who does creative work professionally is BIC: Butt In Chair. You write or do whatever and keep writing, and some days will suck, but then you have a breakthrough. It takes the sucko days to break through to the ones where the writing or whatever starts to work. (For me, when I'm writing my combo of science and humor in my books or columns, if the writing isn't coming, it's often because I need to read more research or think things out more fully.)
I think it was Sue Shapiro quoting her cousin Howard Fast, who says about the silliness of writer's block, "Plumbers don't have plumber's block" and "A page a day is a book a year."
Amy Alkon
at June 18, 2012 10:44 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/caption-this-we.html#comment-3236225">comment from deathbysnoosnooPS I'm not interested in etiquette and never talk about it or use the word. I explain why in my next book -- when I'm not too busy licking my plate clean.
What's interesting (and I'm sure Cathy Seipp, Cathy Seipp, Cathy Seipp would think so if she were alive) is why you're so angry at me all of a sudden, snoosnoo. Maybe a month ago, you started posting nasty comments about once a week. If you don't like me and are so upset by what I write, why come here?
PPS Speaking of ceramics, if anyone lives in suburban Detroit, my mother would be really grateful if you cleared all of my old work out of their garage. ("Amy, why don't you take your art work with you to California?" "Um, okay, Mom.")
Amy Alkon
at June 18, 2012 11:18 AM
Is a "Blocked creative" a constipated artist? An artist full of shit?
I HATE pseudo psycho-babble...
Savant Idiot at June 18, 2012 12:17 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/caption-this-we.html#comment-3236275">comment from Savant IdiotAdditionally, Julia Cameron makes me hurl.
Amy Alkon
at June 18, 2012 12:25 PM
"Additionally, Julia Cameron makes me hurl."
So, she gets you unblocked!
Cousin Dave at June 18, 2012 1:07 PM
I'm terrible at witty captions, but the following imagery entered my mind.
Man/Student: John Donne's "The Flea"
Woman: Freshman girls these days! Everybody knows there are just two rules in college.
1. Get 'em while they're skinny.
2. No means yes; yes means anal.*
*Borrowed from another commenter here, but I can't remember who it was!
Meloni at June 18, 2012 1:18 PM
Teen with ponytail "Daddy! I hate you! You've ruined my entire life. YOU HEAR ME!?! MY.ENTIRE.LIFE!".
Father "Now, Dearest, all I did was pick you up from the mall......".
Teen with ponytail "In the MINIVAN! Why me? You could have used the Mustang, but NooOOOooo!".
Father to Mother, standing a short ways away "Helen? A little help here please?".
Mother "Sorry John, This one is all yours. *snicker*".
Kat at June 18, 2012 1:25 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/caption-this-we.html#comment-3236322">comment from Cousin Dave"Additionally, Julia Cameron makes me hurl." So, she gets you unblocked!
So do you, Cousin Dave. That made me laugh.
Amy Alkon
at June 18, 2012 1:39 PM
"I WILL be a behavioral and Ev Psyche Major, Daddy." "I Will."
"Let her follow her own path, Roger."
smurfy at June 18, 2012 1:55 PM
I can't decide if Kat or Smurfy win this one, but I'll bet one or both of you has teenage daughters!
Old RPM Daddy at June 18, 2012 2:28 PM
I think someone doesn't understand what bullying means.
If I put something out there and call it art then I can't whine if people have opinions of it that are less than flattering. That's how it goes.
I want a pirate car.
Dragonhawk at June 18, 2012 2:38 PM
Heh, it shows, does it? Yeah, I earned each and every one of these (hidden by Miss Clairol) grey hairs :P
Kat at June 18, 2012 3:55 PM
"Yeah, I earned each and every one of these (hidden by Miss Clairol) grey hairs :P"
Me too, except for the Miss Clairol part. My gray hair problem is self-solving; it simply falls out!
Old RPM Daddy at June 19, 2012 3:57 AM
Smurfy, I see what you did there.....LOL
Juliana at June 19, 2012 5:48 AM
I can just imagine what would happen when a student, nicely toasted late one Saturday night, runs into one of those statues. I predict screaming, pants-wetting terror (in the dark I bet they look like ghosts or zombies or something).
Or the student might just blow chow all over the fine works of art.
alittlesense at June 19, 2012 9:43 AM
1st photo:
John, you bastard, when I ask how my butt looks in these shorts, how dare you motion to point out the vastness of creation?
2nd photo:
I think her butt looks pretty good, but why do we always ask this?
Jeff at June 19, 2012 10:33 AM
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