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ciroccojAck! Damn Philistines are taking over the world!!
Fri Oct 8, 3:21 PM ET U.S. National - AP
By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The artist who misspelled the names of famous people in world history on a large ceramic mosaic outside Livermore's new library can spell one word with ease: N-O. That's Maria Alquilar's new position on fixing the typos.
She had planned to fly to California and put the missing "n" back in Einstein and remove the extra "a" in Michelangelo, among other fixes. But after receiving a barrage of what she called "vile hate mail," Alquilar said Livermore is off her travel itinerary and there'll be no changes by her artistic hand.
"No, I will not return to Livermore for any reason," Alquilar, of Miami, told The Associated Press in an e-mail. "There seems to be so much hatred within certain people. They continuously look for a scapegoat. I guess I am the sacrificial goat."
She previously told officials in Livermore, about 40 miles east of San Francisco, that she would fix the 11 misspellings. She asked for $6,000 plus travel expenses to correct the work they paid her $40,000 to create. The city council, faced with the embarrassing prospect of leaving the typo-strewn work in front of its spanking new library, voted 3-2 to approve the expenditure.
Now it appears the fix is a no go.
Livermore Mayor Marshall Kamena and Councilwoman Lorraine Dietrich did not return calls seeking comment on what their next move would be.
Alquilar explained that it took her a lot of time and money to create the work, a brightly colored 16-foot-wide circle made up of individual tiles depicting the names and images of famous people in world history.
She noted that plenty of people from the city were on hand during the installation who could and should have seen the errant spellings, she said.
"Even though I was on my hands and knees laying the installation out, I didn't see it," she said.
The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said before deciding to leave the work as is.
"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she told The AP.
When asked whether she chose the words and names for the work or whether the city provided her with a list, Alquilar took an artistic stance in response.
"The art chose the words," she said.
To soothe my soul, I've just traipsed through![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
danglypartsiple and I must say I feel much better. 'Cause hey, if the morons are gonna take over the planet anyway, at least you know you can always point and laugh at them.
My faves:
Fri Oct 8, 3:21 PM ET U.S. National - AP
By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The artist who misspelled the names of famous people in world history on a large ceramic mosaic outside Livermore's new library can spell one word with ease: N-O. That's Maria Alquilar's new position on fixing the typos.
She had planned to fly to California and put the missing "n" back in Einstein and remove the extra "a" in Michelangelo, among other fixes. But after receiving a barrage of what she called "vile hate mail," Alquilar said Livermore is off her travel itinerary and there'll be no changes by her artistic hand.
"No, I will not return to Livermore for any reason," Alquilar, of Miami, told The Associated Press in an e-mail. "There seems to be so much hatred within certain people. They continuously look for a scapegoat. I guess I am the sacrificial goat."
She previously told officials in Livermore, about 40 miles east of San Francisco, that she would fix the 11 misspellings. She asked for $6,000 plus travel expenses to correct the work they paid her $40,000 to create. The city council, faced with the embarrassing prospect of leaving the typo-strewn work in front of its spanking new library, voted 3-2 to approve the expenditure.
Now it appears the fix is a no go.
Livermore Mayor Marshall Kamena and Councilwoman Lorraine Dietrich did not return calls seeking comment on what their next move would be.
Alquilar explained that it took her a lot of time and money to create the work, a brightly colored 16-foot-wide circle made up of individual tiles depicting the names and images of famous people in world history.
She noted that plenty of people from the city were on hand during the installation who could and should have seen the errant spellings, she said.
"Even though I was on my hands and knees laying the installation out, I didn't see it," she said.
The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said before deciding to leave the work as is.
"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she told The AP.
When asked whether she chose the words and names for the work or whether the city provided her with a list, Alquilar took an artistic stance in response.
"The art chose the words," she said.
To soothe my soul, I've just traipsed through
danglypartsiple and I must say I feel much better. 'Cause hey, if the morons are gonna take over the planet anyway, at least you know you can always point and laugh at them.My faves:
- And instantly his look tilts upwards as yet another phrase is recalled: "The curves of your lips rewrite history" and Pieter sets his eyes on the one aspect of Ian's body that increases his wanting by just looking at it. In a slight pout they are shining back into the sun, outlined purple now as the fire is touching the sea.
- Tom's eyes were darker than usual, his mouth open, breath leaving him raggedly through his arousal.
- Katsuya was laughing, his good arm laced around his boyfriends waste, and his head buried in his shoulder.
- "No Sam. I don't think I could mange without you, my love," he said, teasingly.
- The tub was in the middle of the black granite floor, round shaped, and built sank. It was already full of bubbles and devouring a sweet scent onto the air.
- His finger was pointed toward me, as if he truly believed I would flea from him to return to my cold and empty house again.
- This first kiss is a kiss of passion. It's as if I'm trying to pore ten years of wanting in to it.
- "I know," said Elijah. "I do know," and he went off to clean his teeth with a happy heart.
- ... and of course, the one that brought me to danglypartsiple to begin with, courtesy of
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bear: And one more thing, Johnny Depp is the greatest actor on this earth! (and Orlando Bloom too!)
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Date: 2004-10-08 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-08 09:35 pm (UTC)"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words"
::blink:: ::stare::
Okay, first off, BITCH, a true artisan has a little pride in his or her work. Second, as a scholar who is into the humanities, I must say that I AM looking at the words. My whole JOB is to look at words. ::mentally bitchslaps the woman::
I sure am getting a lotta use out of my anne rice wank icon lately.
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Date: 2004-10-09 03:42 pm (UTC)One would think - but then one perhaps one would be naive. Ugh.
I sure am getting a lotta use out of my anne rice wank icon lately.
Your icon rocks my world - have I told you that lately?
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Date: 2004-10-09 04:21 pm (UTC)All credit and praise, of course, goes to
Oh. My. God.
Date: 2004-10-09 03:36 pm (UTC)Do I catch a whiff of diesel smoke as she drives through an escape hatch? Riiiight, honey. Truely artistic people won't think you're a flid*. Just the vast majority of humans, dogs, and apes. (Possibly also pot-bellied swine as I hear they are quite intelligent.)
*flid - noun acronym for Fucking Loser Idiot Dork. (Made up by my old punk crowd)
Sarah
PS, can I steal this for my own blog?
Re: Oh. My. God.
Date: 2004-10-09 03:42 pm (UTC)Bien sur - it's priceless, isn't it?
Flid. Hm. It rolls trippingly off the tongue. Must adopt :)
Re: Oh. My. God.
Date: 2004-10-09 03:52 pm (UTC)Next time someone bothers you, try snarking, "Flid!" under your breath. It almost has magical healing properties. ;-)
Sarah
Re: Oh. My. God.
Date: 2004-10-09 04:22 pm (UTC)(Denigrating insults. As if there are no other kind. pfft.)