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5 comments:
Me likey. Or is it more likely that they'll be plastered with advertising?
I likey too. Very fun. Do we get to have some?
Those would get real old real quick.
The flowers are nice. So's paisley. And I'm thinking of maybe a re-creation of a classic Grateful Dead poster from the Filmore. But I'll bet MTC's right: It'd be covered up with ads before you could say "Cherry Garcia," anyway.
Yes... I think that might be the biggest issue here -- how to prevent the slide toward advertising, although the city's murals code actually seems to be doing a good job of separating public art from advertising. Another big concern is that one person's paisley is another person's repulsion: it's highly unlikely that all commissioned artworks would be as aesthetically pleasing as I find the flowers to be. For example, look at this mixed bag of train-painting projects from Japan:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/decorated-trains-in-japan/
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