christos art work near Salida

[Mad Mike]

Christo makes anyone from Kalif look or act normal.... :twisted:

[Gman]

Let him mess up something man-made.

[The1andOnlyKC]

What? Who? How? Where?

Seriously who is this guy and what are these curtains you speak of?

[Chaffee2]

This Christo guy wants to put curtains over the river for something like a mile or more. The project involves miles of fabric, hundreds of pilings, excavation of the river bank in some areas and on and on. Plus the river canyon going from Salida to Texas Creek is narrow and the traffic and headaches that is going cause is going to tremendous.

Just do a google search for christo and see some of the crap he's done. Apparently the art culture is all goo goo over this guy. They pay big bucks for his paintings and whatever else.

[Marlin]

Didn't the wind blow the last one down in less than 24 hrs? He spent like months getting ready, and then Poof it was gone.

[Asha'man]

This Christo guy wants to put curtains over the river for something like a mile or more. The project involves miles of fabric, hundreds of pilings, excavation of the river bank in some areas and on and on. Plus the river canyon going from Salida to Texas Creek is narrow and the traffic and headaches that is going cause is going to tremendous.

Just do a google search for christo and see some of the crap he's done. Apparently the art culture is all goo goo over this guy. They pay big bucks for his paintings and whatever else.

And they're actually going to let him do this?

For those who don't know, this is the same "artist" who draped New York City's Central Park in bright orange fabric last year.

Brian

[The1andOnlyKC]

So what this jack off runs around warpping everything in cloth and stacking up oil barrels and calls them art?

Well shit man come to my back yard. if you see a piece of "art" you like I will sell it to you.

[AlphaAuriga]

I think its interesting and is quite stunning visually. I saw those umbrellas he did back in California. Its really quite an interesting sight.

Now while I think its "interesting" artwork or whatever you want to call it, if he's leaving a mess in its wake, I'm not in favor of that. I just assumed he cleaned up after it was over.....

[GearHead]

There are pictures of his "work" and artist drawing of the Colorado River project at

http://christojeanneclaude.net/

[Recon]

IF (big IF) you are going to do something like this, then I can't think of a better mountain river than the Arkansas. It's the most rafted river in the world, and it's entirely lined by a U.S. Highway, countless flyfisherman, kayakers and people who drive too damn fast anyway.

It may be an inconvenience to people, but most people don't like most people anyway, so who cares? In other words, if man is going to crap in a nest, he should do it in his own nest.

It's better than the Selway River or some other mountain river that would suffer, envirnmentally, much, MUCH more from activities of man such as this proposal.