Let’s say you’re an artist. A hack artist, perhaps. Your work really isn’t very good and under normal circumstances you’d either starve to death or have to go get a real job. What to do? What to do?
This is the post-television age. The iPod age. The iPad age. All an artist need do is figure out a good scam and hornswaggle the media into promoting your “art.”
News24 offers a case in point:
A ten tonne polar bear camping out at Sydney’s majestic Circular Quay isn’t likely to survive for more than a day or two. The bear, made of solid ice, will slowly melt into a great puddle of water under Sydney’s 20°C winter sun, and sculptor Mark Coreth is just fine with that.
In fact, he hopes this slow and painful “death” will remind people of the plight of the real thing.
Here comes the part we love. The part where he tells us he was inspired by the noble native:
“When I was [in the Arctic], the Inuit guides were saying look, you can sculpt a polar bear, that’s fine, but how on earth are you going to sculpt the real issue we got, and that’s the warming arctic?” Coreth said in front of Sydney’s Customs House.
Turns out the Brit has been traveling the world with these frozen polar bear sideshows since 2009. He’s got the spiel down cold, you might say:
“Sitting in the sun, it’s going to melt that bear, that’s the natural warming of the planet, as is happening,” he said.“But when people touch it, when they touch that bear, they melt it, you can feel it melt under your hand, that’s a human impact. Big hard touch, big hard melt.”
But don’t get the impression Coreth is some kind of starving artist. He may love the hell out of the polar bears, but as AFP notes, he’s figured out how to turn a profit by melting hearts with his melting art.
Bypassers can pay Aus$2 to touch the creature, feeling “the ice melting under your hand,” said Coreth, who hopes to raise awareness about global warming and its effect on polar bears, an endangered species.
Touch the creature. Sounds like an online conversation with Anthony Weiner.
H/T: Mike Power
Source: News24, AFP
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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That's nothing - put a beer in front of me and it'll be gone before the polar bear breaks a sweat.
"Bartender! - the world's coming to an end ... my beer is empty"
Environmentalists bore me to death... oh oh they are winning. That is exactly what they want to bore us all to death so the planet will be rid of us.
"Turns out the Brit has been traveling the world with these frozen polar bear sideshows since 2009."
I wonder what this guys carbon footprint looks like. He must have frozen a lot of water in the last 2 years and has probably flown on many airplanes and driven many cars going to these different places.
"“Sitting in the sun, it’s going to melt that bear, that’s the natural warming of the planet, as is happening,” he said.
“But when people touch it, when they touch that bear, they melt it, you can feel it melt under your hand, that’s a human impact. Big hard touch, big hard melt.”"
I'll tell you what, if I was high right now I would totally dig what this guy is saying. I just need a joint, some body filth, maybe a tie-dye Obama t-shirt and bam... I would feel like a real intellectual touching this guys bear.
That sounds like it came straight out of the windowless van: "[you'll] feel like a real intellectual touching [my] bear."
yecch.
Oh ye of little faith, his scheme MUST be working because polar bear populations have GROWN over the past 50 years. In fact, Canada's Inuit are saying that THEY are the ones who need protection from the polar bears.
What a terrible quandry for the Left .... support the aboriginals or support the animals. One pet cause vs. another pet cause. What to do, what to do??
/snork
Oh, come on. You know that the humans are always the first under the bus in LeftyLand.
Ice suffers a "slow and painful" 'death' when it melts? I had no idea; I must be more insensitive than I thought.
Yeah, well, we've been meaning to talk to you about that ....
:)
Why is it I just keep picturing this boob standing there with a sign that says "No actual Polar bears were harmed during the melting of this ice"?
Maybe you could send Homer over to lift his leg on the polar bear art and REALLY see it melt!!
Don't eat that yellow snow!
Oh, no. Germaine Greer will go nuts over that:
"See?!?! Dogs cause global warming! Kill all humans!"
Well it could get interesting. First Homer would want to sniff the Polar bear’s butt. If that all went well (no reason to think it wouldn’t), I’m afraid Homer’s next thought wouldn’t be to lift his leg…it would be to “get a piece of ice” (say that with a little bit of southern drawl) so to speak. Yep…that’s my boy...
There are more polar bears now than there have been in decades and these carnival barkers want to shake us down because of agenda driven junk science? This man should be sculpting ice angels for some little girl's birthday party, don't you think!
"This man should be sculpting ice angels for some little girl’s birthday party, don’t you think!"
No, I don't think so. He's a lib, and therefore hardwired to do something disgusting like sticking penises all over it.
Or, carving life-sized sculptures of Anthony Weiner.
D'oh! Pardon me... same thing.
LMAO! :-)
Apparently, Coreth got an A in art and Fs in natural science and logic.
...but he got an "A+" in the AlGore College of Scam Arts and Scam Sciences.
I wonder... is that school accredited. If so, with whom? The Cuban, North Korean and Chinese governments?
I dunno, but these schmucks could teach ol' P. T. Barnum a thing or two.
Imagine that, ice melting in the sun.
:) Whew! Here I was thinking all that damn snow that fell last winter disappeared due to that Crap n' Charade bill failing.