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Sleeping giants can't be bothered with sitcoms
By adamg on Sat, 08/04/2012 - 12:03am
Jeff Cutler photographed the scene in Dewey Square on Friday when the Soup Nazi truck drove up to provide the teeming masses with free soup and muffin tops.
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Overheard: two teenaged girls laughing and pointing at the mural
"Is that from the Simpsons? I mean, it's yellow."
I know not everyone keeps up with the ICA but really? I fear for our future.
It does bear a striking
It does bear a striking resemblance to a Simpsons character. The mural is cartoonish... it'd be more appropriate near the Children's Museum. Something more urban and sophisticated would have been nice. Just my 2 cents.
It is out of context
It's a shame that the ICA didn't brand the mural better so people would actually go see the exibit.
It's a 15 minutes walk/two Silver Line stops away and admission to the ICA is free on Thursday nights (and worth every penny). I guess it's a bit of a promotion fail.
Children's museum
You realize the mural is almost directly across the channel from the Children's Museum, don't you?
I don't have kids but I do work in the financial district
It's in Dewey Square which is kind of sort of near the Children's Museum but it's also right down the street from the ICA. I'm a fan of the ICA so my thoughts would naturally go there.
I do agree that the ICA could have introduced Brazillian artists who are completely obscure in the US better. The ICA seems to always miss the mark somehow.
Not done yet
There are still cherry pickers stationed there. They may yet put their "brand" on it or an arrow and some info.
Oh, they have to do this:
Point an arrow at some angle that doesn't actually lead to anything in particular.
Or put up a sign that makes no sense, "Eat at Joe's" (bonus if in Portuguese).
Children's Museum
It's not close by, sorry. No one associates Dewey Sq. with children.
I'm far
removed from teen years but I thought the same thing when I first saw it. Definitely looks like a Simpsons character.
Nothing to indicate a connection to ICA.
I thought
it looked more Muppet esque.
Where is this place??
Nice Picture...Where is this place??? Is that a cloth work at the back???
It's near South Station
Just past the plaza-ish thing on the Greenway. It's by a pair of Brazilian artists who have a show at the ICA. I think it's just paint.
I'm really liking how the artists managed to use the structure's odd shape as part of the art - they didn't have to do anything to the structure for his round head, for example, because that part of the building was already that shape.
I'm waiting for
some shock jock in Florida to pick it up and claim those socialist people from MA painted a terrorist on a building to worship.
It's already been posted on
It's already been posted on the Fox News Facebook page, with expected results. :( http://bostinno.com/2012/08/04/giant-painting-in-b...
Terrorist Pajama Ninja
I have a couple of those - They emerge from their cells around noon of a Sunday and terrorize the pantry and plunder the refrigerator. Funny how I often either lose one or acquire extras on weekends and school holidays.
No soup for you
Way too hot a day for that! But the truck did have big black-and-white pastries, Junior Mints, and a few other candies.
Did you say "too hot for soup"?
I finished the gazpacho, so I'm sipping this now: http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2011/06/jeanne_...
But no babka with a hair on
But no babka with a hair on it. Or Pez.