{"id":4092,"date":"2007-10-29T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2017-11-24T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:39:46","slug":"explaining-the-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/explaining-the-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/10\/29\/DDOLT29FC.DTL\" target=\"_new\">Enormous steel sculpture lifted 12 stories<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A massive steel sculpture installed Sunday on the side of a South of Market building tells a story of humanity&#8217;s past and its uncertain future, says the Seattle artist who spent two years on the project.<\/p>\n<p>The five pieces of stainless steel, obliquely titled &#8220;Artifacts from a Coal Mine&#8221; and weighing well over 10,000 pounds, were affixed as public art to the outside of a contemporary brick and concrete condominium building at 177 Townsend at Third Street.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;They evoke a lost world and the uncertainty of climate change,&#8221;<\/b> said artist Mark Stevens, pacing Townsend Street as one giant sculpture after another was hoisted 12 stories up by a 200-foot-high crane. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have to say what your tangle of metal is supposed to represent, it&#8217;s not actually <i>evoking<\/i> anything, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enormous steel sculpture lifted 12 stories: A massive steel sculpture installed Sunday on the side of a South of Market building tells a story of humanity&#8217;s past and its uncertain future, says the Seattle artist who spent two years on the project. The five pieces of stainless steel, obliquely titled &#8220;Artifacts from a Coal Mine&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17768,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/17768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}