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Hot Karl Marx posted:As a professional pipe layer... If I were you, I'd start literally every conversation with that intro.
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As a professional pipe liar, I concur.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:38
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Cat Hatter posted:Well in that case, for $470,000 I should be able to walk through it and arrive on the other side of the galaxy. but but but but art
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Sep 10, 2015 21:43
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SlipUp posted:This was pretty bad too. They didn't kill the art portion here despite it being well-known the mayor was just using it to give money to his friends, so don't worry your boondoggles are safe.
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Sep 10, 2015 22:08
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It's the public projects being built to appease developers that are the boondoogles, the 1% art contribution puts it into perspective. No need to shoot the messenger.
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Sep 10, 2015 22:24
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SlipUp posted:This was pretty bad too. edmonton is supposed to be building a red one too. Now they're thinking with portals. crossposting from AI, get your  and your  ready    Bonus game, try to identify what came from where
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Sep 10, 2015 22:36
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Here's a safe excavation ~8' deep that doesn't require shoring because of the sloping. We were moving some gas mains back (by moving I mean installing new mains and killing the old ones) because the city is deciding to put 13 roundabouts in on that street 
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Sep 10, 2015 22:36
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But don't you see? If the government doesn't spend money on C-class artists, who's gonna pay their rent?
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Sep 10, 2015 22:37
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Carbon dioxide posted:But don't you see? The government. 
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Sep 10, 2015 22:46
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Here's a safe excavation ~8' deep that doesn't require shoring because of the sloping. We were moving some gas mains back (by moving I mean installing new mains and killing the old ones) because the city is deciding to put 13 roundabouts in on that street Looking at the grassy area with a fence that looks closer to 8" deep.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:16
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falz posted:Looking at the grassy area with a fence that looks closer to 8" deep. Those pipes are 12" in diameter
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Sep 10, 2015 23:41
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The real problem with those big public art pieces that cost $400k is that they take a huge amount of money away from art spends that could instead support actual (especially local) artists, and pool it to instead spend on some trendy big name gently caress whose cache' is soulless giant inoffensive corporate-friendly sculpture. Art shouldn't have to pass a test of "does everyone like it" and in fact no art can pass that test. But what we are getting instead is art designed and selected from the outset to not be upsetting to anyone, and simultaneously, to make the gatekeepers approving the artwork feel like they're immune to serious criticism because they selected a well-known artist who has already done lots of other public sculpture.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:48
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Leperflesh posted:The real problem with those big public art pieces that cost $400k is that they take a huge amount of money away from art spends that could instead support actual (especially local) artists, and pool it to instead spend on some trendy big name gently caress whose cache' is soulless giant inoffensive corporate-friendly sculpture. 
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Sep 11, 2015 00:06
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in vancouver we have this lovely publicly funded art installation of a poodle on a 20 foot pole that cost $100k that everyone hates: but when someone erected (lol) this bad boy in a tiny, unused public park they spared no expense to tear it down the next day even though the public loved it:  (clicky)osha.gif goodnight sweet prince
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Sep 11, 2015 00:24
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Leperflesh posted:The real problem with those big public art pieces that cost $400k is that they take a huge amount of money away from art spends that could instead support actual (especially local) artists, and pool it to instead spend on some trendy big name gently caress whose cache' is soulless giant inoffensive corporate-friendly sculpture. Hmm, in that case maybe we should have public artwork created by people with no experience doing public artwork. Know any recent college graduates who want to build a sculpture for the new town hall?
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Hot Karl Marx posted:As a professional pipe layer, the only real problem with this is the actual excavation. Spill pile should be a meter away from the edge and there isn't a trench box or any sloping. Also he should be back filling normal to the trench and not parallel. Plus you usually wanna put sand on top of the pipe but that might just be gas pipelines, I don't work with water or sewers much (looks like a water main). There's also no ladders, no sloping side, he is not wearing a harness with a safety line, also looks like it's over ten feet deep with no support.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:59
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Worse.
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Sep 11, 2015 01:14
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Yeah no that's fine. He has redundant systems there in case one stick fails.
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Sep 11, 2015 01:18
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I like how he goes for the obvious hand hold, then is all, "oops, not gonna touch a dong!"
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Uthor posted:I like how he goes for the obvious hand hold, then is all, "oops, not gonna touch a dong!" Might not be a load bearing dong. Saftey first, yo.
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Sep 11, 2015 01:46
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Lard Goat posted:obviously you've never been a pipe layer, beta bitch thats not what ur mom was saying to me last night
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Those pipes are 12" in diameter I don't doubt you, but my brain just refuses to believe that's an 8' pit without anything to latch onto.
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Sep 11, 2015 01:55
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what the hell was she trying to even do? hug it? edit: or even better question, why was she even back there when the machine was on, or even energized?
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Robo Reagan posted:thats not what ur mom was saying to me last night Hoped you shored that thing properly. Roll-overs are very dangerous.
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Sep 11, 2015 02:00
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OSHA related: That horse fell apart on top of its sculptor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_(sculptor)
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motoh posted:OSHA related: That horse fell apart on top of its sculptor. I live in Colorado were that thing resides. My favorite names I have heard for it are Azul Diablo and Blucifer.
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Sep 11, 2015 04:46
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At least she came out..... Clean
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Sep 11, 2015 08:41
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A crane fell in Mecca. http://www.rt.com/news/315082-crane-collapses-mecca-mosque/
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Speaking of Mecca, has anyone seen what it looks like right now? It makes Trump Tower look like a Motel 6.
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Mike the TV posted:Hmm, in that case maybe we should have public artwork created by people with no experience doing public artwork. Know any recent college graduates who want to build a sculpture for the new town hall? I dunno if you're serious, but in case you are: what you do is you put out a call for proposals, and you hire a juror or two (there are a lot of experienced artists who do work as jurors for shows, exhibitions, etc.) and you go through the several hundred different entries you'll be sent, by artists ranging from no-namers, high school kids, and college art students, through experienced small-town artists, grad students, someone-better-known artists, right up to the top elite: and the jurors select the entry they feel best suits the site, theme, budget, etc. What you then don't do at this point is have the town council, mayor, corporate overlords, or most importantly a bunch of community activists, each have approval/rejection power over the top 10 entries selected by the jurors. What you also don't do is accept the proposed work and then demand the artist make a bunch of changes and compromises, based on your overinflated personal sense of expertise as an art consumer. There are a lot of bad artists and there are a lot of good artists, and in both groups, there are a lot of artists that would be happy to do a large-scale sculpture for $10k. The vast majority of artists cannot make a full-time living creating & selling artworks. Especially sculptors. There are well-established processes that artists are familiar with to find and commission artworks; what's gone wrong is that political and corporate entities have worked very hard to subvert that process, mostly out of a terribly misguided attempt to avoid or deflect the potential for criticism of them, for selecting and funding work that someone finds offensive. I'm sure a lot of people dislike that poodle on a stick, but I'm also betting nobody involved in putting it there lost their job, or got sued.
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Some say he's still spinning.
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:Some say he's still spinning. I was waiting for the strap to snap. Left disappointed.
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JB50 posted:I was waiting for the strap to snap. Seriously, voted 1. Twice.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Speaking of Mecca, has anyone seen what it looks like right now? It makes Trump Tower look like a Motel 6. religion pretty good way to make money, also helps that its in saudi arabia where they probably light money on fire for heat.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Speaking of Mecca, has anyone seen what it looks like right now? It makes Trump Tower look like a Motel 6. They just had a major crane collapse killing about 80 people in the Grand Mosque.
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corpuscollossus posted:They just had a major crane collapse killing about 80 people in the Grand Mosque. Literally the post above the one you quoted. Uthor posted:A crane fell in Mecca.
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Uthor posted:A crane fell in Mecca. I'm actually seriously wondering if the company I work for has any connection to that crane. We've done a ton of jobs training operators and trainers from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, India, etc.
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm actually seriously wondering if the company I work for has any connection to that crane. We've done a ton of jobs training operators and trainers from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, India, etc. Bet your website loses any mention of that quicker than if you trained Hulk Hogan.
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