Pink Geyser
Tourists visiting the Strokkur geyser in Iceland were startled to see that it had turned a bright shade of pink. The reason: the Chilean artist Marco Evaristti had surreptitiously dumped pink food coloring into it, explaining that he did this in the name of art. He called his creation "Pink State." Icelandic authorities responded by putting him in jail for 15 days. The geyser has now returned to its normal color. [grapevine.is]
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How about some hard labor to go along with that 15 years?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/13/15 at 09:11 AM
uh. Expat, sez 15 days
Posted by crc on 05/13/15 at 09:46 AM
Have you ever noticed that these "artistes" never have a real day job and think that societal rules do not apply to them? This is vandalism pure and simple. Kudos to the authorities and prosecution for throwing him in their slammer.
Posted by KDP on 05/13/15 at 10:04 AM
@crc: Hope springs eternal!
There usetawuz a pool in Yellowstone where if you dropped a hankie in one side it would get sucked down and pop up on the other side of the pool some minutes later. That quit working back when I was a kid because someone decided to throw a log into the pool. So, 15 years works a whole lot better for me that a short, new riddled 15 days.
There usetawuz a pool in Yellowstone where if you dropped a hankie in one side it would get sucked down and pop up on the other side of the pool some minutes later. That quit working back when I was a kid because someone decided to throw a log into the pool. So, 15 years works a whole lot better for me that a short, new riddled 15 days.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/13/15 at 10:40 AM
Why not throw him in the geyser. Then he can be one with his art. Years ago, 1983ish, French artist, Cristo wrapped a number of islands near Miami in pink plastic. The plastic ended up preserved in the Dade-County landfill, Mt. Trashmore, yes, its real name and our towns only mountain. Cristo earned his creds as a artist. And Miami continued its downward spin to become more weird. It was also the peak years of almost monthly performance art of the Cocaine Cowboys, featuring random, spontaneous public machine gun shoot outs in Miami malls, a favorite venue complete with real guns, bullets and bloody ventilated bodies across the mallscape.
Posted by Gator Guy on 05/13/15 at 01:35 PM
@expat, Gator Guy
LOL are you for real? You are all over reacting. This is not a pond, lake, or river. It's a boiling hot geyser. He didn't dump toxic radiation in there, or garbage - he dumped food coloring! I've encountered restaurants throw worse things into their deep fryers. Chicken off the floor is one example that comes to mind, in spite of knowing, NO bacteria can survive such intense temperatures. For the record, a deep fryer is the average temp of 175-190 degrees Celsius vs a geyser like Strokkur which is roughly 300 degrees Celsius. Your argument is invalid! So no, I'm not concerned about food coloring in a geyser lol. It's not going to harm it, nature, or the people who come to see it. If he shows up with plutonium next time, metal rubbish, or whatever will harm bystanders and nature - then we can talk harsher penalties.
I think the reactions to his stunt are weirder then the story is. I'm glad none of you can pass laws.
LOL are you for real? You are all over reacting. This is not a pond, lake, or river. It's a boiling hot geyser. He didn't dump toxic radiation in there, or garbage - he dumped food coloring! I've encountered restaurants throw worse things into their deep fryers. Chicken off the floor is one example that comes to mind, in spite of knowing, NO bacteria can survive such intense temperatures. For the record, a deep fryer is the average temp of 175-190 degrees Celsius vs a geyser like Strokkur which is roughly 300 degrees Celsius. Your argument is invalid! So no, I'm not concerned about food coloring in a geyser lol. It's not going to harm it, nature, or the people who come to see it. If he shows up with plutonium next time, metal rubbish, or whatever will harm bystanders and nature - then we can talk harsher penalties.
I think the reactions to his stunt are weirder then the story is. I'm glad none of you can pass laws.
Posted by A Normal Guy on 05/13/15 at 02:16 PM
Quote from the artist
In other words, vandalism.
It is fortunate that (apparently) nothing was permanently defaced by this (Geyserite takes coloration easily). The act of throwing anything into a thermal feature is a bad idea:
* Personal danger
* Foreign object introduction (was the container dumped in as well?)
* Altering nature (stated objective in the quote above)
* Others take it as a chalange to do the same
We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to all of us.
In other words, vandalism.
It is fortunate that (apparently) nothing was permanently defaced by this (Geyserite takes coloration easily). The act of throwing anything into a thermal feature is a bad idea:
* Personal danger
* Foreign object introduction (was the container dumped in as well?)
* Altering nature (stated objective in the quote above)
* Others take it as a chalange to do the same
Posted by crc on 05/13/15 at 04:41 PM
Who gets to choose what is decoration or desecration?
Posted by BMN on 05/13/15 at 06:03 PM
Normal Guy in BC,
My comments on punishment were mostly in jest sir. But I do believe in punishment fitting the crime.
It is a good thing that I can't pass laws. I would have poachers of rare and endangered wildlife tied naked in the swamp over a summer night to commune with the mosquitos and contemplate their crimes.
GG
My comments on punishment were mostly in jest sir. But I do believe in punishment fitting the crime.
It is a good thing that I can't pass laws. I would have poachers of rare and endangered wildlife tied naked in the swamp over a summer night to commune with the mosquitos and contemplate their crimes.
GG
Posted by Gator Guy on 05/13/15 at 06:26 PM
@Normal Guy in BC: 1st of all, if we can't over react here then where!?! One MUST be able to vent his/her built-up pressures or emotions will boil over and who knows what will spew forth.
Also, while we're at it... ever heard of 'black smokers' (hydrothermal vents) deep in the ocean where they've discovered all kinds of critters basking in the C370° waters that surround them.
@GG: Seriously, you'd actually let someone tied up in the swamp during a summer's night??? That's some SERIOUS evil, dude! We stopped on The Trail one afternoon for a pee break and ended up swatting skeeters all the way into Naples! I lost count at 4GZillion but a whole flock got into the car in just the few seconds we had the doors open to in/out. Evil little buggers.
Also, while we're at it... ever heard of 'black smokers' (hydrothermal vents) deep in the ocean where they've discovered all kinds of critters basking in the C370° waters that surround them.
@GG: Seriously, you'd actually let someone tied up in the swamp during a summer's night??? That's some SERIOUS evil, dude! We stopped on The Trail one afternoon for a pee break and ended up swatting skeeters all the way into Naples! I lost count at 4GZillion but a whole flock got into the car in just the few seconds we had the doors open to in/out. Evil little buggers.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/14/15 at 12:18 AM
@Gator Guy: I can't disagree with your idea of dealing with poachers. We'll just have to hope the idea becomes some kind of scary Urban Myth that keeps Poachers awake at night.
@Expat47: Fair point. Venting on the net is something I'm guilty of too.
Also, thanks for the info. Always enjoy learning new things about life. I really had no idea anything could live in that temperature. Now I trust restaurants even less with my food.
@Expat47: Fair point. Venting on the net is something I'm guilty of too.
Also, thanks for the info. Always enjoy learning new things about life. I really had no idea anything could live in that temperature. Now I trust restaurants even less with my food.
Posted by A Normal Guy on 05/14/15 at 04:06 AM
I became immune to the inching part of mosquito bites. What drove me crazy was all that damn buzzing...
Posted by Gator Guy on 05/14/15 at 11:26 AM
Wow, the things that pass as "art" these days...
Double wow, the people who troll weird news articles to chide people for having an opinion about the "art"
One stop shopping for funny crap here!
Double wow, the people who troll weird news articles to chide people for having an opinion about the "art"
One stop shopping for funny crap here!
Posted by csd on 05/15/15 at 01:54 PM
I just came across this video that is relevant to this thread:
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/15/watch-why-is-modern-art-so.html
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/15/watch-why-is-modern-art-so.html
Posted by BMN on 05/15/15 at 04:40 PM
Welcome, csd! We always need a voice of reason around here but we've never discovered the reason we need the voice.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/16/15 at 12:27 AM
Looks like a giant cotton candy. Yum.
Posted by Gary Foster on 05/18/15 at 03:57 PM
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