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Also, the Time Warner IUD seems to persist in some units to this day. #branding
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Unlike this situtation, at the end of it Meier kept the job, made his millions, and went on to make more still. #branding
11/17/09
@iplaudius: I've prowled that Getty central garden many times but it never occurred to me that the the waterworks resemble an urinal stream. I think you're right, though. You're always right. #branding
11/17/09
For your reading pleasure, I looked up the article (Dec. 1997; I was 20; why was I reading this; why do I remember it; what the fuck is wrong with me), and it turns out that the urinal-analysis was Irwin’s:
“This is where Meier was charged with delivering the water over to me. As you can see, it flows along this straight channel, cutting across his upper plaza, and then it has to descend about twenty feet to the start of my garden stream, and what he’s basically done—you can see it here—is that he’s constructed this twenty-foot-tall white urinal, the water continuously streaming—or should I say ‘flushing’—down its sides.”
As far as I know, Meier never went on record to say that was his intention, but in my opinion Irwin’s interpretation is spot on. (And whatever their creative differences, I love what both Meier and Irwin did there.)
11/17/09
Also, please marry me. I'm getting weary of unrequited love in the real world. I need that at least my virtual crushes be requited. No pressure, BTW. Just gently hinting that if you don't immediately reciprocate my incandescent love, I'm gonna STALK YOU FOREVER AND GO CUCKOO FOR COCOA PUFFS AND JUMP YOUR FENCE AND KIDNAP BOTH YOU AND YOUR SNUGGIE.
[Sobers up; flips Id off] Erm, yes. Richard Meier. Where were we? #branding
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@iplaudius: bless you for this. I fing HATE that contrived irwin blight on the getty (couldn't they have just inserted some variation of an esplinade, with views, shade, and SEATING, instead of a garden which doubles as a forced march to nowhere in the hot california sunshine?), think irwin is second rate or less as an artist and only got to where he is today because of his notorious YAP and ego (was just reading an article in which one of his peers, altoon maybe, said he knew he had hit on the right idea because it made irwin STFU for once), and am pleased to hear meier might feel the same way.
good lord, and to think people still wonder why turrell ditched him #branding
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@MincnglyWhrdL'mer: it was Billy Al Bengston - irwin asked him what he was going to paint next during a long overseas flight, bengston said "seargent's stripes" and irwin actually paused, for once - that's when bengston knew he had a good idea #branding
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It looked great close up, but when you were standing 20 feet away, it looked like it said Greed-Elsevier. We got away with it for about a year. #branding
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