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Bag’s Take-Away:
Judging from the interior photos of hot babes in bikinis, it must be a male brain.
(credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images caption: BRAIN CALL: A man used a public phone booth decorated as a brain in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday. One hundred phone booths are being replaced with art works by a local phone company.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Didn’t go as planned.
The Olympic logo bears down on the residents of London looking far more like pieces of a chain link fence than symbols of international cooperation and brotherhood.
(credit: Kevin Coombs/Reuters caption: People pass by an artwork painted on a wall in East London depicting the Olympic rings which was created by a street art organisation called “The Toasters” April 18, 2012. The Toasters are releasing a limited edition screen print of the design to mark the 100 day point before the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Although I find it extraordinarily clever (see caption, and especially the title of the statue), I’m sure many will see this as the once-proud Empire calling it a day.
via: Charlotte Observer
(photo: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP caption: The newly-unveiled sculpture by artist duo Michael Elmgreen, of Denmark, and Ingar Dragset, of Norway, is seen on the Fourth Plinth in central London’s Trafalgar Square, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The 4.1m high golden sculpture of a young boy riding a rocking horse is entitled: ‘Powerless Structures, Fig. 101’. The plinth was originally built to house a bronze equestrian statue of William IV that was never installed. The project is commissioned by the Mayor of London as part of the rolling programme of contemporary art commissions for the empty Fourth Plinth.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Is this what its come to, the world economic disaster and the problem of the have’s vs. have-nots so unsolvable our last chance is divine intervention?
(photo: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images caption: A man walks past graffiti displayed on a building on December 6, 2011 in Athens, Greece. Graffiti artists throughout the city are expressing the effects of austerity measures that have plagued the community as Greece continues to struggle in debt while lawmakers today are set to pass next year’s budget.)
Via Charlotte Observer.
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Bag’s Take-Away:
This is just too weird.
Twenty-six foot “Forever Marilyn” — the erotic asphyxiation edition?
”Forever Marilyn” is a sculpture by Seward Johnson that was unveiled on Friday July 15, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
The stainless steel and aluminum sculpture which stands 26 feet tall and weighs 34,000 pound will remain on display in Chicago through the spring of 2012.
