The deal with this pink thing on the BU Bridge

I'm screwed up -- I don't think the marathon bomber should be killed but I wouldn't mind if they severed the hands of people who deface public property.

We'll remember that

By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:01am

The next time we see you chucking litter from your car or person.

Slippery slope and all of that ...

Some people don't litter.

By anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 12:47pm

Some people don't litter. BostonDog very well could be one of those people.

I once tossed an empty coffee

By bannedinboston
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:06pm

I once tossed an empty coffee cup back into a girl's car window about two seconds after she chucked it out (skank was stopped at a light) and shouted: "Hey! You dropped something!" I got the response I was asking for.

Not too long ago, I really wanted to do the same when some d-bag tossed out a lit cigarette butt; however, something told me that could be one of those morally right/legally wrong/really bad judgement scenarios.

Easy

By Kaz
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 9:13pm

Put it out on their hood first.

For people serious about

By Refugee
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:54am

For people serious about pranks, hacks, and guerrilla art, the key criteria to a prank is "is it reversible". Mounting things with clips, 3M Command strips, or hooks is good. Drilling holes, permanent glue is bad. The Mooninites were mounted with magnets, which was good. Many street artists use non-water soluble paint, which is bad.

How are these objects attached to the bridge?

Never Forget!

By I remember
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:16am

Never forget the last time someone put up outsider art on a bridge!

I remember the Mooninite scare!

Looks Like Chinese Character

By Suldog
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:35am

As for what it means, no idea.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

Nope

By Stevil
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 9:40am

Unless this is some odd script and I'm not recognizing it, does not appear to be a Chinese character either (I had the same thought and was spinning my laptop around to see if I could change the perspective - to no avail - looks like nonsense - but probably means something to somebody, but that somebody is not Chinese (or Japanese) people.)

You are correct

By perruptor
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:23am

My resident Chinese person says "no, it's not a word."

Kanji Script for "power"

By anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 9:54am

Japanese.

http://www.tiptopsigns.com/images/D/kanji_power.jpg

Interesting idea

By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:03am

How about we point that out to all the pan-Asian protesters a short hop from the bridge? Maybe they will quickly descend and remove it as "orientalism" and save the DCR some money.

I wondered if it was some sort of strange thing that happened to discarded bubble gum as the result of the snowpocalypse.

$$$

By Lecil
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:55am

More to the point, who do we extort a couple of million from just because it's there?

Careful, it's pink

By peter
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 9:54am

The Komen foundation will sue you before they let you make any money off it.

I saw some of these on the Mass Ave Bridge

By Covertequation
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:06am

Opposite some of the "smoot" measurements I saw a few ones in red and green. Different characters/symbols/designs but obviously same material

Wannabe Banksy?

By Stevil
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:14am

Street Art that's not art?

Brookline Ave at Yawkey Way

By Allstonian
Sun, 07/12/2015 - 7:27pm

I saw a couple on a building at the corner of Brookline Ave and Yawkey Way yesterday.

I think ...

By kernelPanic
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:46am

some summer student or intern just got access to a 3D printer

I Think It's Ancient Bajoran

By Elmer
Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:12pm

[img]https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/sisko-symbols.jpg[/img]

haircuts in the 70s

By Tom FSF
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 11:45am

shouldn't we really be talking about haircuts in the 70s?

It's too late

By perruptor
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 7:12am

They're all bald now.

Newsteadian petroglyphs

By Ron
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 12:04pm

That's a petroglyph dating back to the original peoples of Newstead Montegrade. Finding one of their symbols all the way by the Charles River may completely change our understanding of their culture.

You win all the UHub points

By Kaz
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 2:17pm

Everyone else go home today. There will be more UHub points to earn tomorrow.

I'm humbled

By rblum
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 6:39pm

Art offends me. I'm going to

By anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 1:20pm

Art offends me. I'm going to protest. This is bridge appropriation. I speak for all bridges even though I'm not a bridge.

Given that

By anon
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 2:50pm

the BU bridge is a 3 minute walk to BU's College of Fine Arts, I would guess it's somehow related to that.

Students there do have to do a class project on public art installations (http://www.bu.edu/today/2009/facing-warren-towers/), but I really doubt that BU would approve a thesis that involved defacing public property without getting proper permission.

Highly Unlikely

By BostonDog
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 5:41pm

Students enrolled at art conservatories with good reputations (BU's is supposedly pretty good) are not included to deface property like this. They have plenty of approved ways of showing their work-as is. It also is pretty cheesy for someone who is talented enough to get into a real art school.

It's possible it's a BU student in another program or more likely some kid who thinks he's being edgy and cool by gluing his logo around Boston. Maybe the "Not Art" guy's even less creative brother.