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Posted by Kris Krieger on March 5, 2008, 4:54 pm
>> @news3.newsguy.com:
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>>> http://tinyurl.com/ypp578
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>> Why drugs? If these guys were on drugs, they prob would not have
>> built these things becasue they'd be sitting around either twitching,
>> or hanging over the chair arms saying "heeeeyyyy doooooood......"
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>> IMo, more power to them - whatever one might think aesthetically, I
>> think it's great that some people still not only dream, but ignore
>> the naysayers and negativists to pursue those dreams. Ther are all
>> sorts of dreams/inspirations, and IMO, hey, go for it.
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>> If nothing else, one cannot legitimately accuse them of being "mere
>> mindless sheep".
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> I couldn't see the link, but if it was Watts Towers, I remember going
> there for a school trip. Wasn't built by any architect, just a
> construction worker in his spare time, using whatever he could find.
> I think of it more as a large sculpture rather than architecture,
> though it is thought to be along vernacular architectural lines.
> Pretty amazing up close, though it was so long ago.
>
THe link had several examples o fpersonally-created "structural
sculptures"/"sculptural structures". THey seem to blur the line between
architecture and sculpture in the sense that some can be entered, tho' I'm
not so sure whetehr one could say that they actually function as buildings.
But it's still really cool IMO that peole do this sort of thing :)
((I've only seen pics, myself.))
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