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Danish artist Creates Giant Slurpee: 7-Eleven bids on naming rights
Edited for Humor - hopefully
A controversial Danish artist has sprayed an iceberg off the coast of western Greenland in blood red. "We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to us," Chilean-born Marco Evaristti told the Associated Press news agency. "This is my rifle iceberg; it belongs to me," Mr Evaristti added. He used 3,000 litres of paint diluted with sea water, three fire hoses, two icebreakers and a 20-man crew to complete the task in about two hours.
"The Hose" would have recommended a 2 1/2 inch cotton jacked marine firehose with a brass all-purpose nozzle for this application (had I been consulted.)
The crew was working on Wednesday in temperatures as cold as -23C, to spray the tip of the iceberg, which was about 900 square metres in size.
Hosing an iceberg red in -23C weather, a new cliche on the way every day.
The sea water was coloured with the same dye used to highlight meat, the artist said.
I thought that was juice. Here I’ve been sniffing my high lighter all night trying to get a buzz and I could have just gone down the fridge and found a T-bone.
Mr Evaristti said he and his crew sailed from the small town of Illullissat and only managed to find the perfect iceberg after zigzagging among slow-moving ice floes for about 30 minutes. There was no immediate reaction from the local Greenland authorities.
My guess is that they had better things to do, like go to lunch...
Mr Evaristti is well-known for his controversial art shows. In 2000, his art display in a Danish gallery invited the public to put live goldfish through food blenders. Visitors were told they could press the "on" button if they wanted. At least one visitor did, killing two goldfish.
Must have been a middle-schooler from the US. He would have had to bring a school of six-hundred fish to show that particular work for two hours at my son’s Junior High. The janitor would have been mad if he backed up one of the commodes with all the tiny fish skeletons, fins and scales.
The gallery director was fined was fined for cruelty to animals after complaints from campaign group Friends of Animals. But a Danish court ruled that the fish had not been treated cruelly, as they died instantly.
Do you get the impression that the primary purpose of this guy's "art" is to get his name in the papers?

Posted by: Super Hose 2004-03-26
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