[W]ork crews from about 100 utility districts will have to take down traffic signs, overhead wires and other obstacles to let the rock pass and then reinstall them later.Of course, the rock is tweeting:
A signal expert will have to move and rebuild traffic signals that would otherwise be mowed down like blades of grass by the transporter — nearly as wide as three freeway traffic lanes....
During the day, the rock... will have to park in "the middle of the road, the only place big enough"...
The total cost of the project, including the rock, the transportation and construction of the sculpture site, will be up to $10 million, which was raised from private donors....
I don't understand how I was NOT asked to be a part of the new season of @DancingABC. I may not move fast, but I'm graceful!
— LACMA Rock (@LACMARock) February 28, 2012
Hey, that reminds me: There's a Green Bay Packer on the new "Dancing With the Stars" — Donald Driver, along with Urkel, Gladys Knight, and Martina Navratilova.
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Five hundred years ago, an artist took a hunk of stone and discovered Moses within it.
Today, an artist takes a hunk of stone and...
Who is paying to compensate for the enormous cabon footprints left by the centipede?
So after all the cost and inconvenience the rock will only be a "levitated rock" if those who walk under it suspend their disbelief (and their lying eyes) and agree to the con that a rock that is resting on a ramp is actually floating in mid-air.
Oy!
Where I used to work, there was a mayonnaise jar full of rocks clearly broken up from something bigger.
This was supposed to be art.
Sorry.
The Jar O' Rocks, as we called it, was an object of unceasing derision.
I was just thinking the other day that traffic was probably moving too smoothly in Los Angeles, and they ought to think about putting a giant rock on a large road.
And a rock feels no pain.
And an island never cries.
Urkel? I didn't think the President would have the time.
I drive the L.A. roads every day. I think they do this about twice a day.
The only way I would watch that dancing show would be if they got Elvis to do it.
I'm kinda being a wiseass but also genuinely interested:
Is Martina gonna dance with a guy or a girl? It seems more, I dunno, fitting, to me, to see her dance with another woman. I can't quite picture her in a sexy dress and high heels.
I remember when rocks were pets...
Donald Driver just joined twitter too. @Donald_Driver80
Isn't LACMA next door to Rancho LaBrea?
Where are the going to put it?
Isn't LACMA next door to Rancho LaBrea?
Where are the going to put it?
The route sure is the long way around - about twice as long straight through, but I guess they have their reasons. It looks like they are specifically going around da hood. Maybe they think it would get stolen - which I do think is possible, since as I said in an earlier post: they stole my broken poopy poop scoop. This rock is much nicer, although it too looks possibly broken, but being poop free, it's got to be more at risk.
Yea, it's right next to the La Brea Tar Pits, so they could come in one day and poof - it's gone.
I'm in favor of locally grown rocks.
Rock on.
Rock of Angeles.
When it goes through South Central, it will be a rock in a hard place.
Somehow, I feel tat my tax money is paying for this nonsense - as usual.
Private funds raised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have raised the money to do this. I think it is totally cool. The rock is traveling about 8 miles an hour. The LACMA has a map you can print to follow the "rock".
Philistines
Vicki from Pasadnea
I wonder what that fund-raising campaign looked like?
"Dear Donor, We want to move a huge rock through LA. Please help."
Donor: Cool. I'm in.
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