Concrete Failure as Art 1

[Robertmet]

I hardly know how to comment on this. A few people have already fallen into the crack and are suing !

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2545844.html?menu

 

[Ussuri]

If £300,000 is the going rate for cracked concrete I would have thought all engineers would be multi millionaires

 

[JAE]

Heh:

"Her work aims to highlight divisions in society."

and yet:

"You would struggle to get a hand or foot inside because of the way it is constructed."

In other words, you can step across it...some division.

Artists....jeesh

 

[samdamon]

Hmmm. One of my slabs on metal deck cracked recently, although not as bad as in the pic. Maybe the Owner wouldn't of been so unhappy if I told him the cracks gave the building deeper inner meaning. Perhaps I also could have also charged additional fee for the cracks as they added value and were not in my original Scope. Who knew.

 

[PMR06]

You must be smoking crack if you think I'm going to pay to see that crack.

 

[shin25]

Better even, paid to design such a cracked slab!! I guess this may be dream of every engineer.

 

[msquared48]

I got a crack out of this post.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

 

[GalileoG]

lol at all the puns in this thread. You guys are hilarious, I love you!

 

[msquared48]

Was this artist the low bidder for the project? So much for 1% for art.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

 

[shin25]

I believe they also had to consider the artist's technical score as a winning bidder.

 

[msquared48]

Unless this project was in Minneapolis, I detect a crack in your logic.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

 

[NewImhotep]

What the hell is that, people earning money from our concrete cracks , from tomorrow I'll convert to be an artist


found in flickr

There was no end to the interesting rust, cracked paint and stuff to try and make abstract detail pictures from.

This Abstract is a detail of worn cracked concrete with rust stains. And the white streak on the left, is calcium that has built up from water seeping through cracks in the concrete.

 

[hokie66]

We like your pictures, but no money to made here. Send them to the Tate.

 

[msquared48]

Looks more like you've been to Mars.

Did you go thru a crack in the space-time continuum?

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

 

[Robertmet]

Thanks for your replies. I'm glad to see that at least AhmedR has some artistic 'sensibilities'. As a metallurgist I have to make cracks with metals .

 

[JLNJ]

I saw the title "Concrete Failure as Art" and I thought for sure the thread would be about the Architecture building at Ohio State.

 

[apsix]

"It is an incredibly powerful installation."

Yeah, right.
Incredible, yes, I wouldn't credit it.
Powerful????

 

[0707]

A concrete crack

luis

 

[jdonville]

Were the people who fell in (and suing) paying attention to their satellite navigation computer instead?! By the photo, the crack seems fairly obvious. I can just imagine the courtroom cross-interrogation:

Defense lawyer to plaintiff: "Could you please tell the court exactly how DID you fail to notice the foot-wide crack in the floor that runs the full length of the gallery? Or did you willfully approach the crack with intent to do something that you knew was probably foolish?!"

Jeff

 

[shin25]

Good example of using concrete's natural tendency in a artistic way!!??