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Cooling Down With David
Status: Fake
Maybe some city really did sponsor the urban art project depicted below. But I doubt it. It definitely looks photoshopped to me. There must be an original David-free version of this picture floating around somewhere.Update: The fountain is real. It's the Crown Fountain designed by artist Jaume Plensa in Chicago's Millennium Park. But the image of David is fake. The Millennium Park website explains:
The fountain consists of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers project video images from a broad social spectrum of Chicago citizens, a reference to the traditional use of gargoyles in fountains, where faces of mythological beings were sculpted with open mouths to allow water, a symbol of life, to flow out. Plensa adapted this practice by having faces of Chicago citizens projected on LED screens and having water flow through a water outlet in the screen to give the illusion of water spouting from their mouths. The collection of faces, Plensa's tribute to Chicagoans, was taken from a cross-section of 1,000 residents.
In other words, it would be possible to project an image of Michelangelo's David onto the tower, but it doesn't sound as if this has ever been done.
Update: This image comes from a Fark photoshop contest. It was created by a Farker named gigglechick.
Posted By: Alex | Date: Thu Dec 01, 2005 | Permalink |
Total Comments: 8
Category: Art, Photos/Videos, Places
Category: Art, Photos/Videos, Places
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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Insert Golden Shower jokes below:
Posted by Craig on Thu Dec 01, 2005 at 09:28 PM
This is in Millenium Park in Chicago. The video sculpture and the water spout are 100% real, I've been there several times. Whether the sculture ever displayed the statue of David, I couldn't say for sure.
Posted by Jason in Milwaukee, WI on Thu Dec 01, 2005 at 09:50 PM
I'm positive this was a photoshop contest on Fark.com. Can't remember exactly how long ago, but I believe it was this year.
Posted by jerry in Michigan on Fri Dec 02, 2005 at 02:48 AM
I was right and I was wrong. It was a Fark Photoshop. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1089576
(Second entry is your David. Photoshopped by "gigglechick")
It wasn't this year. It was August, 2004.
Posted by jerry on Fri Dec 02, 2005 at 03:03 AM
(Second entry is your David. Photoshopped by "gigglechick")
It wasn't this year. It was August, 2004.
"(Second entry is your David. Photoshopped by "gigglechick")"
It seems odd that the previous entry, NOT this one, was submitted by "modified_dangler."
Posted by Big Gary in Eddy, Texas in Dallas, Texas on Fri Dec 02, 2005 at 03:24 PM
It seems odd that the previous entry, NOT this one, was submitted by "modified_dangler."
Any one with the slightest knowledge of historical statuary would immediately see this as a blatently ignorant hoax, David's member points a little to his right and slightly down.
Posted by Sir Trev on Fri Dec 02, 2005 at 04:15 PM
thanks for the credit... you don't know how many sites have been posting that darned image (and i would've added my url signature to it, but fark frowns upon doing so in their contests)
anyway, thanks
erin
Posted by gigglechick in brick, nj on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 09:37 PM
anyway, thanks
erin
coooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllll
Posted by Brandy in camden on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 12:11 PM
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