{"id":4499,"date":"2011-05-24T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T20:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2011-05-24T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T20:52:25","slug":"art-damn-it-art-watch-22-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4499","title":{"rendered":"Art, damn it, art! watch. (#22 in a series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ziehersmith.com\/a_owens.html\">Rachel Owens<\/a> is looking for money to purchase wrecked Hummers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1473346427\/crashed-hummers-for-my-public-sculpture-at-the-un?ref=spotlight\">Placed in Manhattan\u2019s Dag Hammarskjold Park &#8212; Gateway to the UN and designated site for international protests &#8212; the piece will be composed of the crashed hummers piled atop one another in a junk-yard heap. Welded together in a monumental pyramid-shaped stack and sprayed with opalescent icy-white auto body paint, the piece will also evoke the form of an iceberg.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more! She also plans to install a stereo system!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1473346427\/crashed-hummers-for-my-public-sculpture-at-the-un?ref=spotlight\">&#8230;instead of the hip-hop as heard in the city or the heavy metal soundtrack many soldiers use as a way to \u201cpsych\u201d themselves up, the moody songs of whales and crashes of calving glaciers will emanate from the speakers \u2013 the haunting sounds acting as a cry for everyone. In accordance with this soundtrack, the headlights of the cars will be set to dim and brighten.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to help Ms. Owens out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1473346427\/crashed-hummers-for-my-public-sculpture-at-the-un?ref=spotlight\">her Kickstarter project<\/a> has five days to go. However, she&#8217;s raised (as of this writing) $17,111, and only needed $15,000 for the project, so don&#8217;t feel obligated.<\/p>\n<p>How can you resist this offer at the $5,000 level, though? Pledge that much money and you&#8217;ll get<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1473346427\/crashed-hummers-for-my-public-sculpture-at-the-un?ref=spotlight\">a large original piece from my series, &#8220;Skulls&#8221; (retail value $6,000) that are represented in many major collections world-round. The piece is made of a real cow skull encrusted in broken glass.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Owens is looking for money to purchase wrecked Hummers. Placed in Manhattan\u2019s Dag Hammarskjold Park &#8212; Gateway to the UN and designated site for international protests &#8212; the piece will be composed of the crashed hummers piled atop one another in a junk-yard heap. Welded together in a monumental pyramid-shaped stack and sprayed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}