Emperor Palpatine's Shuttle Has Arrived...

Vanguard

Bruce Beasley

Stainless Steel

1982

Stanford Campus

Needs Some Moth Balls...

Luna Moth Walk I

Charles Ginnever

Cort-Ten Steel

1982

Stanford Campus

The best part about this rusted piece of crap is that it's not the worst thing in the picture... you can see Mozart I in the background...

Ram Tough

Big Ram Skull and Horn

Jack Zajac

Bronze

1976 

Stanford Campus

And everyday when the sprinklers come on, it becomes a bird bath...

It looks like the mold broke and this is the result. Not so much awful as it is dull and uninteresting.

Who Knew Katrina Hit Stanford...?

Mozart I

Kenneth Snelson

Stanford Campus

1982

Here's an up close and personal look at it... ah... I see what Mr. Snelson was doing.

I keep thinking that this was something more spectacular and that a pin broke during a big storm and the whole thing got so tangled up they said, "Just leave it... someone's bound to read into it and think it's art, right?"

"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down That Wall!"

Behold, The "Stanford Wall" (Josef Albers, 1980). This used to be by Engineering, but even they found it "the least interesting piece of sculpture ever created."*

So bad is this wall of "art", that Stanford found a place for it... in a field... with no real access... or where anyone might have to look at it. It's as if someone said, "Put it where no one can see it, but don't look like you're putting it where no one can see it."

Shiny side... I used to draw boxes like that when I was 8.
Why? Seriously, what's the point here?

Non-Shiny Side: makes you want to check out the shiny side again, doesn't it?

Alone... and far, far away
sadly not far enough away that I don't have to see it

*Actually, that's my review, but you know it's true.

Bank Art

Banks have a sacred place in the world of bad art. Boring. Uninteresting on a level that is almost unsurpassable... Worse, they often think they are being daring or innovative--and they usually aren't.

A classic example, is this attempt in Castro Valley. I've passed it dozens of times and never noticed it. And then I did.


Not sure if this is part of the sculpture, or if this is someone's attempt at a repair... Maybe it was a fountain at one point--if it was, they lost something interesting, I think the water would have been interesting against the texture. But now, it just looks like shit...

Mall Terror II

couldn't quite get this whole thing into frame... it shoots WAY up to the top of the second level. You're not missing much...

This is newer art at the Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton, CA. Will they never learn...?