Over the years, I have seen 7 or 8 of these events, where people got an animal and decorated it artistically as part of a community or charity event. By far the most clever were the Bears in Bern -- the variety and the humor were outstanding.
Dan On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris, > I'm sure Knarf could arrange some nice Canada Geese to go along with > your Canadian cows. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Mitchell > <chris.mitch...@which.net> wrote: >> >> Bob Sullivan wrote: >>> Like Wikipedia says, Zurich had lions in '96, >>> then did cows in '98 and Chicago took it international in '99. >>> It was a fun and a very public art celebration. >>> (Now if we could just clew the Brits in to using fiberglass, not cement...) >>> Regards, Bob S. >>> >> >> I regret to have to report that I have just discovered that the "concrete" >> cows that Bob and I saw over the weekend are, in fact, replicas made mainly >> of fibre glass. The original concrete ones were rotting and have been >> repaired and put inside in the shopping centre for safe keeping. >> >> Incidentally, the original concrete ones were a gift from an artist in >> residence. The artist was Liz Leyh and she is - wait for it - Canadian. >> >> Chris >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
