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The deal with this pink thing on the BU Bridge

By adamg on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 7:30am

Turlach MacDonagh wonders about this pink thing:

Found this object epoxied to the BU bridge. Assume it is a public art kind of thing. Wondering if anyone know what the deal is?

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By Ron Newman on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 7:49am.

 

By supgup on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 7:53am.

Latest guerrilla marketing campaign from the Cartoon Network?

By jmeltzer on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:08am.

Call the bomb squad! Call the army! Call Fox News!!

By anon on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:20am.

Some would say that the Earth is our moon.

But that would belittle the name of our moon, which is: The Moon.

Ah, good times.

By Kaz on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:12am.

Looks like it is just some dickhead's idea of a new take on graffiti.

By johnmcboston on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:51am.

How much did we just pay to rehab the bridge???

By BostonDog on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 9:03am.

Sadly people where stenciling and stickering one side while they were still working on the other.

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.

By SwirlyGrrl on 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 ...

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

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

By bannedinboston on 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.

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

Put it out on their hood first.

By Refugee on 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?

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

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

I remember the Mooninite scare!

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

As for what it means, no idea.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

By Stevil on 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.)

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

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

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

Japanese.

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

By SwirlyGrrl on 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 on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 8:55am.

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

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

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

By Covertequation on 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

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

Street Art that's not art?

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

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

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

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

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

IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/sisko-symbols.jpg)

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

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

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

They're all bald now.

By Ron on 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.

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

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

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

:)

By anon on 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.

By anon on 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.

By BostonDog on 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.