The Spire at the Presidio.

[sotc]

i also think its a waste of money but it will be something historical and i think would have been a cool project to be on.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Well, at least spray it with some sort of insecticide/preservative/whatever.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Weeeeeel I almost said sumtim ... but ya beat me Brian.. LOL. Rob was over here lookin at this thread said "FOR WHAT????? " with his snear included... LOL

 

[lumberjack]

Well, at least spray it with some sort of insecticide/preservative/whatever.

That's what they were doing in the first picture.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Not just the base, the entire thing.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

And to think people will need heat this winter

 

[Poleframer]

Hey! I'm with ya Deva... I'm still getting good gvt. money to look for snails. There ARE much worse wastes of our collective funds.

 

[Old Monkey]

Making the piece of art impermanent appeals to the Bay Area's Buddhist sensibilities, they'd of made it out of Yak butter if they could stack it that high.

 

[GASoline71]

I don't give a rip... I bet it was cool to work on that project.

You get to do some cool shit in your job Deva.

Gary

 

[Banned by Squirrels]

Naw, I'm cool.

I'm a tax and spend liberal.

What's clearly at work here are the spend and spend republicans.

 

[sotc]

in sanfrancisco?

 

[stehansen]

Yeah, the town is a liberal haven. My daughter has become a liberal living there. I may need to do an intervention.

 

[gf beranek]

Standing by itself a dead Monterey Cypress has fair rot resistance, but bunched up in a bundle like that the logs will hold a lot of moisture within. The sapwood will get punky and begin sloughing off... 15 years lifetime? The liability would be the end of it.

It'll be interesting to see how it goes.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Is there a sign that describes the object? Hopefully they left a little space where they can write in, "The Rotting Spire", at some point. No connection to the activities of the large fag population there, of course.

 

[Banned by Squirrels]

That was hilarious Steve. Lol.


I stand corrected Willie, must be some sappy tree hugging liberal thunk that one up.

 

[OTGBOSTON]

That ain't cool WWB....

I like the art project Deva.

The question is who is gonna get the contract to remove it

 

[woodworkingboy]

Too bad, OTG....

 

[MasterBlaster]

The question is who is gonna get the contract to remove it

 

[woodworkingboy]

The great thing about art is that it inspires grand ideas.

 

[Banned by Squirrels]

And imitates life.

 

[stig]

It is obvious that you guys don't have any appreciation of art.
I on the other hand am a renowned artist.

Some 10 years ago I had to remove a dead elm by an art gallery.
The gallery owner decided to have a chainsaw carver make something artistic out of it, so I was asked to just cut all the thin branches of and cut all the thick ones back to 5-6 feet.
They never got around to carving the sculpture, the tree is still there, quite rotten by now.

However, 5 years ago they had a "land art" festival in the little town, arranged by the gallery. The picture that made it into the national papers as an example of "land art" was a picture of the poor mutilated elm, that I left standing.

So there you go: Stig Bredsgard, Land artist!

 

[treetx]

I stacked wood like that back in the day in 94,95

And light it up!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wow, where's that?

 

[Dave Shepard]

Says "aggie bonfire", would that be Texas A&M?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Is that the one that killed some people?