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Mystery straw appears in Goodale Park pond
Monday, June 30, 2008
BY ENCARNACION PYLE
If you thought you saw a large straw in the middle of the Goodale Park pond in the past few days, don’t be alarmed. You aren’t suffering from heat-induced hallucinations. And your head isn’t clouded from marijuana fumes from someone enjoying ComFest a little too much.
There really is a large straw sticking about 3 1/2 feet out of the pond. It’s not just any straw. It’s a red-and-white bendy straw. The kind that kids drool over and can’t resist using to blow bubbles in their drinks.
Greg Maynard, a board member of Friends of Goodale Park, had the answer. “It is a conceptual art piece by local artist Vinchen,” he said.
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I’m all for conceptual guerilla art, but that just seems lame as hell. A straw in a pond just isn’t enough to merrit it worthy. Now if the straw was large enough to make the pond liike like the top of a cup then yes, but that small ass straw is just silly. I got more of a kick out of the guys walking around in the pond on sunday with umbrella’s.
After hearing about it, and then seeing it’s small size, I too was disappointed.
I was blown away by this old fashioned “freak out” which really made me examine my cultural mores.
*Not really.
Yeah, it does just seem to be a cutesy commissioned piece for the park/Comfest. I agree that it would have been better to be bigger. Like 20 feet tall.
I can think of NO body of water more undeserving of a straw… (ok, … the Scioto)
Is this a part of the Art installations for Around short north? I kinda wanted to turn a barstool and embed it in one of the arches for that….
I think the straw is less lame than Comfest.
I could swear I heard this same line from J to the 2nd a few years back. :oops:
If that straw would submerge and then reappear at different locations. Then it would be cool. Like a Loch Ness Strawmonster! It should also spray water and terrify pedestrians.
wow I never would have thought to hear hate from AB on one of the largest festivals in Columbus let alone the realest form of Indie expression we have. Then again comfest is fun and we all know about you and FUN things! lol
Anything that makes that sesspool less of an eyesore gets my vote.
I could swear I heard this same line from J to the 2nd a few years back. :oops:
:lol:
My &$^’s so big, we’re already having sex next week.
LOL
I don’t get the Comfest haters?
I think these are the same type of people that tell little kids that Santa isn’t real or protest Halloween.
I think these are the same type of people that tell little kids that Santa isn’t real or protest Halloween.
How’d you know I was Jehovah’s Witness?
On a side not, got the word from Stan Sells of FGP, that the engineering has been done on the Tete’-a-Tete’ Sculpture and pond renovation – price tag went up to $450k because of foundation work for the pond/sculpture, its stuck in fund raising mode.
The water bill costs THOUSANDS of dollars a month keep the pond filled as well… I forget the exact amount, but, it was staggering/unexpected.
Whoa, who rained on your Comfest?
wow I never would have thought to hear hate from AB on one of the largest festivals in Columbus let alone the realest form of Indie expression we have. Then again comfest is fun and we all know about you and FUN things! lol
Yeah….. Indie drunks. Just what I love.
Whoa, who rained on your Comfest?
Stolen bikes. Roommate hit in the face with a baseball bat. People puking in the park. Overpriced food. Focus on beer.
I’m not normally one to speak out. But the festival has become an excuse for suburbanites and college kids to get drunk. I don’t feel like there is much community going on there. Just like the 60s… which were supposed to be about brotherly love and peace and togetherness…. I think the thing has gotten wildly out of hand and become more about getting wasted and dropping out.
I’d love to see… (and even help) the organizers of this event return the focus to people getting to know what goes on with the people around town and get people to know about what Columbus is about.
I actually think the Do Dah Parade does a better job of showing what Columbus is really about. People having fun… supporting the things they love.
I know my opinion isn’t popular. But I’m posting it here anyway…. as that is what this place is for….
8)
I guess I don’t really see that side of it, since I’m usually there earlier in the day, and not there to drink. Thanks for sharing your reasons though. Your full explanation is better than just “it’s lame”. :)
Whoa, who rained on your Comfest?
Stolen bikes. Roommate hit in the face with a baseball bat. People puking in the park. Overpriced food. Focus on beer.
I’m not normally one to speak out. But the festival has become an excuse for suburbanites and college kids to get drunk. I don’t feel like there is much community going on there. Just like the 60s… which were supposed to be about brotherly love and peace and togetherness…. I think the thing has gotten wildly out of hand and become more about getting wasted and dropping out.
I’d love to see… (and even help) the organizers of this event return the focus to people getting to know what goes on with the people around town and get people to know about what Columbus is about.
I actually think the Do Dah Parade does a better job of showing what Columbus is really about. People having fun… supporting the things they love.
I know my opinion isn’t popular. But I’m posting it here anyway…. as that is what this place is for….
8)
But doesn’t three days of park drunkess make up for the 362 days where you can’t do anything like that in the park?