Comments on: Tourists Come See The Rusty Iron Trees https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/ A different slant on the news. Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:26:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Forced Air https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109133 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:26:28 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109133 I’m waiting for Mayor McClean to offer $1000 monthly income for “artists” just like San Francisco to do….cuz CULTURE!

https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/san-francisco-to-give-artists-1000-a-month/

]]> By: Frank https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109096 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:18:49 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109096 Shoogi do you think “their family members” have fled states west of us because of a lack of ART?

]]> By: Shoogi https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109039 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:37:30 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109039 We need more statues in our parks to give BLM something to throw paint and feces at. Nobody comes here to see the art, they come to see their family members who have fled all of the states West of us!

]]> By: western guy https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109038 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:20:58 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109038 Re: Compass on the floor of Boise Airport. Don’t forget the City and its contractor(s) spend hundreds of thousand$ on the original installation, AND the redo because the first install didn’t work out.

The previous comment about ‘larger sums being spent… on what went wrong’ applies here.

]]> By: Easterner https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109036 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:07:38 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109036 Nice catch, Courtly.
I’ll be sure to update my auto-spell. Thanks for reading (& proof reading).
🙂

]]> By: Courtly https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109035 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:43:58 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109035 Easterner, you obviously don’t know art from law. A STATUE is sometimes art, but a STATUTE is law!

]]> By: Easterner https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109034 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 05:12:16 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109034 Vet above,
Yes your point is agreeable. It seems City Council is relaying the same message to Parks Dept to be considered. Obviously not a done deal.

The same could be said of BPD Officer Stall.
Should a whole police station be named for 1 person?
While the NP 512 Fund is supporting the cost of the bronze statute for him- it ‘represents’ many more than just 1 fallen leo, right? None the less, how much BPD official time/money is spent to memorialize 1 person in art, plaques, time, etc?
Any complaints?

We now have a statute of Gov Borah downtown. Who paid for that ridiculous thing?
Boise airport has a statute of an airman. Should we have to have a city-wide vote for such an appropriate thing? Is the floor compass inside the airport art? A vote on something like that in the future?
An “!” On the library. Art???

If ya dont approve how the council spends our money- vote them out—- dont burden us all with this junk legislation.
Trash the bill.

]]> By: Eye of the beholder https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109033 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:11:29 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109033 Art is subjective. From the city, it is taxpayer funded. Not such a big sum. Larger sums are wasted in indecision and repeating what went wrong, not just in cities, but all bureaucracies.

I think old rusty cars are just fine as art. Leave ’em anywhere you want to. Cars aren’t mean to run, be licensed or insured, to contribute to the gainful endeavor of the owner. Old engines and trailers, too. Even just the insides of old trailers – the “furniture” is art.

HMMMMM.

]]> By: Vietnam Vet https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109032 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:57:32 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109032 Easterner–
As always you prompt a response. Boise councilors voted to spend $75K for a monument to three guardsmen who died in a copter crash.

We all mourn their passing, but is it a good move to spend $75K for a memorial to JUST them? There was no memorial for the two pilots who perished a couple years ago when they crashed.

Would the City spend $75K if they were enlisted men who flipped a jeep? I say if that money is to be spent (and it would be “art”) it should be for ALL military as an “Honor Roll.” My fellow soldiers at the IDNG tell me the Guard was blindsided by the City. They had only a couple days notice of the city action.

It would sure be a magnificent gesture if the families would suggest the monument scope be expanded to include more than the three who made the ultimate sacrifice in the chopper.

]]> By: western guy https://boiseguardian.com/2021/03/11/come-see-the-rusty-iron-trees/#comment-109031 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 01:38:45 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=16813#comment-109031 Public art (however funded) is an amenity (look it up in your old paper dictionary), just like zoos, parks, trees, flowers.

These amenities break up the drearyness of asphalt, concrete and MUD-colored stucco.

Or, we can have Soviet-style ‘projects’.

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