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Undertoad 10-25-2006 12:49 PM
October 25, 2006: House on museum
 
http://cellar.org/2006/houseonmuseum.jpg

Neatorama notices this item I'd previously picked up on Ananova.
Quote:
A house has been 'dropped upside down' on the roof of the Viennese Museum of Modern Art.

The art project, entitled House-Attack by top local sculptor Erwin Wurm, is supposed to look as if the house has fallen out of the sky and landed on the famous museum in the centre of the Austrian capital.

It actually took two cranes to put the huge sculpture into place, which is complete with a red roof, window boxes and a TV antenna.
So far, so good. Now the part he doesn't get away with:
Quote:
The artist said his work was a statement against over-development.

Wurm said: "There are hundreds of thousands of houses and they are spreading like a plague, like a cancer across our land."
"How horrible it is that the people have their own housing."

Shawnee123 10-25-2006 12:51 PM
Are there ruby slippers underneath?

Flint 10-25-2006 12:54 PM
Weren't there killer houses, on Monty Python, that hopped around eating people, or something?

Trilby 10-25-2006 03:45 PM
How do people come up with these ideas? And, more importantly, how do they get other people to pay them for it?

Sundae 10-25-2006 04:02 PM
If you must know, someone dropped a house on my sister.
Show some respect, people.

Griff 10-25-2006 04:37 PM
:rotflol:

Elspode 10-25-2006 04:39 PM
I think it makes the museum look as though it has grown a head, ala Transformers, and is now preparing to squash the city flat in its righteous indignation.

barefoot serpent 10-25-2006 04:49 PM
If I click on it will it bring up my Home Page... only upside down?

polar 10-25-2006 05:15 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
If you must know, someone dropped a house on my sister.
Show some respect, people.
Was she wearing ruby slippers?

maninthebox 10-25-2006 10:49 PM
That's where my dam house went!

Nao 10-26-2006 01:53 AM
What's with ruby slippers ?

polar 10-26-2006 03:16 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nao
What's with ruby slippers ?
http://www.uiaa.org/urbana/illinoisa...sculpting1.jpg

dar512 10-26-2006 10:57 AM
Whoa! WWoE must have been a biiig woman.

xoxoxoBruce 10-26-2006 01:00 PM
It's actually an improvement to that museum building. :rolleyes:

tw 10-26-2006 08:10 PM
Newspapers explain these pictures.
Quote:
A Record Drop In Home Prices
The price of existing homes last month fell 2.2 percent, the largest monthly decline in the almost four decades the number has been tracked, according to an industry report released yesterday.


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