Comments on: The Mystery is Solved http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/ Exploring urban life through word and photography. Fri, 16 May 2008 20:46:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: Karen http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-79490 Karen Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:22:48 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-79490 This will sound like a vague unsubstantiated rumour, but I trust the source. A friend's friend was behind the pizza oven construction (but my friend is not living overseas, and the builder moved to BC in July). In any event, the builder phoned around the city for a very long time trying to get permission for the pizza oven. No one had any idea what to do with the request (there is no such office at city hall). As he got transferred back and forth between offices more and more bureaucrats kept unofficially adding "just go ahead and do it" to their official responses. Until it was done, and he was no longer around to defend the decision. Now, suddenly, someone found a policy against the project. This will sound like a vague unsubstantiated rumour, but I trust the source. A friend’s friend was behind the pizza oven construction (but my friend is not living overseas, and the builder moved to BC in July). In any event, the builder phoned around the city for a very long time trying to get permission for the pizza oven. No one had any idea what to do with the request (there is no such office at city hall). As he got transferred back and forth between offices more and more bureaucrats kept unofficially adding “just go ahead and do it” to their official responses. Until it was done, and he was no longer around to defend the decision.
Now, suddenly, someone found a policy against the project.

]]> By: Karen http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-79491 Karen Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:23:48 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-79491 oops, I meant my friend is "now leaving overseas" I should reread stuff, sorry. oops, I meant my friend is “now leaving overseas” I should reread stuff, sorry.

]]> By: zvi http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-79501 zvi Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:38:39 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-79501 Ah - mystere resolu! I was just talking about this the other day with another street artist on St. Viateur. I don't really know anything about the city's support (or lack thereof) of "street-art" but I had a discussion some time back with some local artists about the "poor quality" of Montreal graffiti. The stoner guy was complaining about how we are all being repressed by authority, but the artist (who was painting a mural on a wall) agreed with me that 'tagging' is not really an art form. Of course there are some taggers whose work might be considered artistic, but most of the stuff which goes up on Montreal walls is just visual pollution (in my opinion of course). Ah - mystere resolu! I was just talking about this the other day with another street artist on St. Viateur. I don’t really know anything about the city’s support (or lack thereof) of “street-art” but I had a discussion some time back with some local artists about the “poor quality” of Montreal graffiti. The stoner guy was complaining about how we are all being repressed by authority, but the artist (who was painting a mural on a wall) agreed with me that ‘tagging’ is not really an art form. Of course there are some taggers whose work might be considered artistic, but most of the stuff which goes up on Montreal walls is just visual pollution (in my opinion of course).

]]> By: dreamlistener http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-88917 dreamlistener Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:42:10 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/08/15/the-mystery-is-solved/#comment-88917 just to set the record straight...the city does not sanction the posting of cardboard dreams on city or on private property, and neither does the funding from c.a.l.q. sanction this per se... however, the cardboard dream is a >soft> kind of graffiti in the sense that it is easily removed and does not deface the surface of a building...however...in doing this project it has certainly come to my attention that there is no space no space that is not privatized,either by the city or by land owners. for people who do not own land and do not have money, there is literally no space for public expression. public space is a myth. it is only public in so far as you fit into a certain acceptable framework of acceptable and ordained behavior. and posting dreams on cardboard is not one of them. just to set the record straight…the city does not sanction the posting of cardboard dreams on city or on private property, and neither does the funding from c.a.l.q. sanction this per se…

however, the cardboard dream is a >soft> kind of graffiti in the sense that it is easily removed and does not deface the surface of a building…however…in doing this project it has certainly come to my attention that there is no space
no space
that is not privatized,either by the city or by land owners. for people who do not own land and do not have money, there is literally no space for public expression. public space is a myth. it is only public in so far as you fit into a certain acceptable framework of acceptable and ordained behavior. and posting dreams on cardboard is not one of them.

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