Fire hydrants are typically painted different colors to show their flow rate and pressure. Not sure if that system is used in this city. Maybe they got upgraded?
Clever! And I'd thought that the gold stains on your carpet were from the spray paint used in your secret fake-Rolex-watch manufacturing operation. (Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about it.)
This raises an interesting question. Are acts e.g. attaching a ball and chain to the Hammering Man, or putting Santa hats on the figures in "Waiting for the Interurban," or erecting an obelisk in Green Lake to commemorate 2001, actually "vandalism"?
I tend to think of "guerrilla art" as being something entirely different from "vandalism." One is an integral part of Seattle's culture, the other is not.
Putting paint where paint does not belong, on public property, is vandalism. Although pink and gold fire hydrants sound nice, it could present a problem.
But just so long as the "vandals" paint it back to it's original color in due time, I'm okay with it.
i suppose you're right, and i definitely agree. this sort of "guerrilla art" (good term) is technically vandalism (in the law's eyes), but i never said i didn't enjoy it, and love seeing it around the city.
The color of the hydrant communicates essential information to firefighters, usually. I'm not certain as to the specifics of the communication in this locale, but the color tends to convey things like water pressure, water capacity, whether or not the water is potable, etc. So obscuring this information by painting the hydrants pink or gold can possibly endanger lives, which makes it even worse than simple vandalism if you ask me.
How would you like it if the firefighters sent to put out the fire where you live couldn't tell that the hydrant had too little water to put out the fire and your residence ended up burning to the ground because some idiot painted the fire hydrant pink?
The ball and chain on the hammering man and the santa hat on the figures waiting for the interurban doesn't possibly endanger lives, but crap like this does. You can go on thinking it's guerilla art and continue be as ignorant as the "artists" who did it.
done by some friends of a friend of mine. I think they need to be a little more artistic with it. Maybe paint a little martian on it or something. The gold is boring and no one realizes that it was done by non government approved people. Silly..
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D'oh!
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i think the idea's pretty great though.
December 15 2005, 21:11:00 UTC 6 years ago
I tend to think of "guerrilla art" as being something entirely different from "vandalism." One is an integral part of Seattle's culture, the other is not.
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Well said Miles.
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But just so long as the "vandals" paint it back to it's original color in due time, I'm okay with it.
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How would you like it if the firefighters sent to put out the fire where you live couldn't tell that the hydrant had too little water to put out the fire and your residence ended up burning to the ground because some idiot painted the fire hydrant pink?
The ball and chain on the hammering man and the santa hat on the figures waiting for the interurban doesn't possibly endanger lives, but crap like this does. You can go on thinking it's guerilla art and continue be as ignorant as the "artists" who did it.
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no but i love it
i was in a terrible mood the other night and seeing a gold one had an oddly cheering effect
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