Christo is creating for Abu Dhabi a colossal structure that he claims will be the world's biggest permanent sculpture. Estimated construction costs of $340m (£212m) would also make it the world's most expensive.
A 150-metre-high, flat-topped pyramid would be taller than St Paul's Cathedral or St Peter's Basilica and would overshadow the Great Pyramid of Giza – creating Abu Dhabi's answer to Egypt's pyramids or Mecca's Kaaba.
— guardian.co.uk
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Total waste of time & effort. Surely there's something more useful to be done with half a million oil barrels.
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$340 million lo(i)l
JDAM + or cruise missle bait
damn, the guy really digs jeanne claude's hair.
RIP jeanne claude.
a needlessly enormous sculpture to match the country's needlessly enormous skyscrapers.
The pyramids were needlessly enormous, too
Yeah but the pyramids were built with slave labor. If you've got like, twenty thousand slaves sitting around then you do need to give them something to do.
With this modern oil barrel monstrosity, it's just a waste of resources. All those metal barrels could be recycled into something more useful like maybe lost cost housing. And all the labor could be deployed in a more fruitful effort, maybe growing food. And let's not forget the design efforts of the artists & engineers involved. There must be a better contribution to humanity than figuring out a safe way to weld oil barrels together to reach 150 m tall.
On the other hand, if it were gigantic sculpture of empty beer cans then I could totally support it as a monument. Wasted, yo!
Cash Money - the pyramids were not built with slave labor, yo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques
Got anything positive to say, yo? Like, ever?
And right on cue, I lace up my orthopedic shoes. But in my defense, the discovery of pyramid union labor is a rather recent development.
Ha ha ha, fuck no! Why would I waste my time with that shit? If you want glitter, you ain't getting it from me.
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