Bush Monkey Picture Shown on Giant NY Billboard

gldstwmn · #1 12-21-2004, 08:42 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...h_monkeys_dc_1

U.S. National - Reuters

Bush Monkey Picture Shown on Giant NY Billboard

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of President Bush using monkeys to form his image that was banished from a New York art show last week amid charges of censorship was projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan on Tuesday.

"Bush Monkeys," a small acrylic on canvas by Chris Savido, created the stir last week at the Chelsea Market public space, leading the market's managers to close down the 60-piece show.

Animal Magazine, a quarterly arts publication that had organized the month-long show, said anonymous donors had paid for the picture to be posted on a giant digital billboard over the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, used by thousands of commuters traveling between Manhattan and New Jersey.

The original picture will be auctioned on eBay, with part of the proceeds donated to parents of U.S. soldiers wishing to supply their sons and daughters with body armor in Iraq.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came under fire from soldiers in Kuwait earlier this month who complained that they had to use scrap metal to armor their vehicles.

"Many of my friends are over in Iraq," Savido said in a statement.

The painting offers a likeness of Bush but the image is made up of monkeys swimming in a marsh. It was originally priced at $3,500 in the show's catalog.

Organizers expect more than 400,000 drivers to see the billboard each day for the next month.

strandinthewind · #2 12-21-2004, 08:43 PM

Fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ontheEdgeof17 · #3 12-21-2004, 08:52 PM

It may be trying to prove a point or what-not, but this is getting out of hand. I don't like Bush,either but he IS our President, whether we like it or not. It's time to grow up and fight like adults. We need to be the better man in the situation.

strandinthewind · #4 12-21-2004, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

It may be trying to prove a point or what-not, but this is getting out of hand. I don't like Bush,either but he IS our President, whether we like it or not. It's time to grow up and fight like an adult. We need to be the better man in the situation.

I agree - but the reason I thought it was great that they showed the pic. was due to the censorship - nothing else!!!

EDIT: I agree we should rally behind our country and he, unfortunately, is the leader. So, I think speaking out against him and his insane, bigoted, and murderous policies is not so much a disrespect for him as it is the horrible job he is doing, which deserves NO respect IMO. I mean if I met the guy, I would maintain proper decorum - but I would and will continue to speak out against his policies

Oooooo - another policital debate thread!!!!!!!

ryan8472 · #5 12-21-2004, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

It may be trying to prove a point or what-not, but this is getting out of hand. I don't like Bush,either but he IS our President, whether we like it or not. It's time to grow up and fight like an adult. We need to be the better man in the situation.

I totally agree, Curtis. But it sure is funny

GateandGarden · #6 12-21-2004, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I mean if I met the guy, I would maintain proper decorum - but I would and will continue to speak out against his policies

That's very good of you, 'cause I'm not sure I could do that. I often fantasize about all the choice words I would have if I ever encountered him.

Hillary

EnchantedSLN · #7 12-21-2004, 09:16 PM

Hey, it's art. If Clear Channel can erect nazi-esque "Our Leader." billboards all over the south, why not this? Good for them. Hell, I'd have gone a step further and made it the painting that recently appeared on the cover of the Village Voice.

strandinthewind · #8 12-21-2004, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

That's very good of you, 'cause I'm not sure I could do that. I often fantasize about all the choice words I would have if I ever encountered him.

Hillary

I have met MANY people I am not too fond of - usually in a social setting like a party. I think if I am in someone else's party, home, etc., it would be impolite of me to go into attack mode. So, usually the discourse is "May I present blah blah" and I say "Well Hello" and nothing more

Maybe it was the way I was reared but, although I probably would like to

- I would never unless provoked - and even then I doubt it

I mean if I know a certain person is going to be there and I know I cannot control myself - I will not go

GateandGarden · #9 12-21-2004, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I have met MANY people I am not too fond of - usually in a social setting like a party. I think if I am in someone else's party, home, etc., it would be impolite of me to go into attack mode. So, usually the discourse is "May I present blah blah" and I say "Well Hello" and nothing more

Maybe it was the way I was reared but, although I probably would like to

- I would never unless provoked - and even then I doubt it

I mean if I know a certain person is going to be there and I know I cannot control myself - I will not go

Well, I really am like you in that sense. I just make an exception for Dubya. But, because of that, I would probably just make myself scarce so I wouldn't have the opportunity to speak my mind, as you were saying.

Hillary

estranged4life · #10 12-21-2004, 10:14 PM

"George...
George...
George of the Jungle...
Watch out for that tree..."

Brian j.

strandinthewind · #11 12-21-2004, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Well, I really am like you in that sense. I just make an exception for Dubya. But, because of that, I would probably just make myself scarce so I wouldn't have the opportunity to speak my mind, as you were saying.

Hillary

Ahhhhhh - we Louisianians were reared correctly!!!

The Tower · #12 12-21-2004, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

It may be trying to prove a point or what-not, but this is getting out of hand. I don't like Bush,either but he IS our President, whether we like it or not. It's time to grow up and fight like adults. We need to be the better man in the situation.

Not a chance in hell!!!

He isn't my president. A paramecium is a better man than ****tard Dubya. There isn't anything I can do to lower myself to his level. His evil knows no bounds and anything that will point that out sounds good to me.

macfanken · #13 12-21-2004, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The Tower

Not a chance in hell!!!

He isn't my president. A paramecium is a better man than ****tard Dubya. There isn't anything I can do to lower myself to his level. His evil knows no bounds and anything that will point that out sounds good to me.

What he said!

strandinthewind · #14 12-21-2004, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by The Tower

Not a chance in hell!!!

He isn't my president. A paramecium is a better man than ****tard Dubya. There isn't anything I can do to lower myself to his level. His evil knows no bounds and anything that will point that out sounds good to me.

I was going to speculate your answer earlier - I would have been close

Sadly, he is the American President, which means technically and factually he is our Pres. - but I am not so sure he is in anything but in the titular sense because he sure as hell represents NOTHING I believe in

strandinthewind · #15 12-21-2004, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

"George...
George...
George of the Jungle...
Watch out for that tree..."

Brian j.

LMAO - I am envisioning a loin cloth and Laura with a bone as a bow in her hair - Poor Barney (the ONLY good thing about the White House) as Dino