Damn, that's creepy.

Utterly pathetic.

I daresay if the lawn display included gnomes, then complaints would centre around satanic rituals

Now I know who took my girlfriend.

It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.

The Ewells approve.

So, if I read that article correctly, this woman states that she knows that she's an offensive asshat, and will hide behind the First Amendment like other offensive asshats? What a lovely person.

It does not look like art to me...looks like someone trying, but failing at art.

If that woman thinks she is an edgy artist, because she threw a couple of mannequin heads around with the odd piece of bathroom fixture on her front lawn. I have some bad news. It does not make you an edgy artist, it makes you look lame.

goobergal: It does not look like art to me...looks like someone trying, but failing at art.

fify. less is more. ;)

FatherDale: So, if I read that article correctly, this woman states that she knows that she's an offensive asshat, and will hide behind the First Amendment like other offensive asshats? What a lovely person.

Everything is offensive to some very-easy-to-offend asshats, that's why we need the first amendment.

I have a neighbor who has stuff animals all over her yard, other people actually drop off their unwanted stuffed animals on the property.
/she has three dogs that chew them up and come over to my yard and shiat, I know because you can see the stringy stuffing in their crap
//brings down the home value, but I can't do anything because they are in tight with the township
///and a good Sunday morning to you too

goobergal: It does not look like art to me...looks like someone trying, but failing at art.

I don't like it either, but the idea that law enforcement is spending time & money trying to charge this woman with some crime is utterly ridiculous.

Three words.
Coolest. Neighbour. Ever.
/my knifemaking shop, may I show it to you?

ahh who cares if it is art or not. I mean if it was a shrine to Jesus nobody would be biatching. For fark sake they are doll heads and a painted toilette. The real story is why should some one take down something because it might just offend someone. Further more the fact the city is trying to take legal actions before the are even sure she is breaking a law is pretty farking lame.

This looks like a lot of weed has been smoked there. A LOT.

I thought it was a yard sale.

don't the neighborhood kids usually take care of this sort of crap? sounds like they are slacking off.

Creepy. I bet she's a freak in the sac too.

/OMG That is SO HOTlinked.

Uh huh.

I've been paying my rent drawing/manipulating images for most of my adult life. If someone asks what I do, I say "graphic designer", even though my title has "Art" in it.

I don't wanna say "artist". That word has been completely neutered by.... well, the kind of people who think putting a corncob in a mannequin's mouth and sticking it in your yard is art. She's so far from alone... even some successful douchebags, like that cock that drew in elephant dung.

Meh. I have two favorite definitions for art, one serious, one not so much.

"Art is the creation of beauty from nothing."

-or-

"If my ex-wife can do it, it's not art."

/You work out which is which.

He said one neighbor believes the corncob in the mannequins's mouth is meant to portray a vibrator (sexual toy).




ooooOOOOOOO! How positively ribaldress!

It's her yard, let the nutcase do what she wants with it.

It obvious that none of you lives in Wyoming where "art" and "decoration" are often confused, but none the less used. knomes, shomes, try a bevy of used toilets with flowers growing out of them or my personal all time favories used tires cut up in to round flower beds!

Casper sucks!

She needs to go to Walmart and buy large fake plastic garden animals like the rest of us. With a couple large fake deers thrown in for good measure.

/bonus points for plastic animals that have motion detection noises or movements

liverleef: don't the neighborhood kids usually take care of this sort of crap? sounds like they are slacking off.

Their parents never leave them alone long enough to get up to any fun.

He said one neighbor believes the corncob in the mannequins's mouth is meant to portray a vibrator (sexual toy).

The neighbors have obviously spent some time amongst themselves discussing this grave and delicate matter in detail.

Ah yes, the old "public nuisance" charge.

FARKING cops.

He said one neighbor believes the corncob in the mannequin's mouth is meant to portray a vibrator (sexual toy).

If you see sex in non-sexual situations, it says more about you than it says about others.

Bad art is still art, even this kind of crap.

Some people try too hard.

This is the very definition of ATTENTION WHORE

Great.
If this lady is such a unique and hip bohemian artist --

why the hell is she living in a duplex in middle class suburbia?

Pure pretentious garbage.

Catran If that woman thinks she is an edgy artist, because she threw a couple of mannequin heads around with the odd piece of bathroom fixture on her front lawn. I have some bad news. It does not make you an edgy artist, it makes you look lame. ....NAIL HIT ON HEAD!!!


I remember here in Dallas (capital of boring artistically challenged cities) back in the 80s a bunch of precocious teens from the arts-magnet high school doing lameass "edgy" crap with mannequin heads.

Pure lame fail.

jmr61: Ah yes, the old "public nuisance" charge.

FARKING cops.

It wasn't the cops, it was the city inspectors and a councilman who are the front of this, along with the city's attorney office. Did you ever read the article? The only thing the cops got involved in was the fact that a few of the barricades on her property appeared to have been stolen from a barricade company.

Loves me some blind police officer hate.

craigdamage: Some people try too hard.

This is the very definition of ATTENTION WHORE

Great.
If this lady is such a unique and hip bohemian artist --

why the hell is she living in a duplex in middle class suburbia?

Pure pretentious garbage.

Catran If that woman thinks she is an edgy artist, because she threw a couple of mannequin heads around with the odd piece of bathroom fixture on her front lawn. I have some bad news. It does not make you an edgy artist, it makes you look lame. ....NAIL HIT ON HEAD!!!


I remember here in Dallas (capital of boring artistically challenged cities) back in the 80s a bunch of precocious teens from the arts-magnet high school doing lameass "edgy" crap with mannequin heads.

Pure lame fail.


Oh, but it is middle class suburbia that is often placing tacky displays on their lawns. How is this any more tasteful than lawn gnome, pink flamingo, nativity scene, or gaudy-god-bless-america? She's soooooo deep and hardcore for doing this.

Child's play compared to the Heidelberg Project in Detroit:









Neighbors quit complaining 20 years ago.

3StratMan: Child's play compared to the Heidelberg Project in Detroit:

Neighbors quit complaining 20 years ago.

My high school Humanities class took a chartered bus on a tour of Detroit for our "Study of an American" city assignment.

Imagine 35 kids from Midland, MI rolling through some of the worst areas of Detroit in a chartered tour bus. This was one of our stops and we all got out to look at and talk to the artists who live there.

I have a lot of interesting stories from that day. :/

I'm sorry, but the random placement of objects is NEVER art - it's just not.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, people like this have a mental condition, it's that simple.

While this sort of thing my go on quite a bit up in North Chatt, people in East Brainerd apparently aren't used to yard art this..... edgy?

North Chatt is where the hippies roam, we're all very used to seeing crap strewn across yards. Though I do like the rusty bicycle fence to some degree.

Love that she says it's no different than a nativity scene which I find very offensive. Getting a kick out of the corn cob represents a dildo statement too! Folks here in Texas like to put entire toilets in their yards with fake flowers in them. The putting toilets in the front yard threat is handy when trying to convince hubby to buy a new tiller for the garden. Works very well!

3StratMan: Child's play compared to the Heidelberg Project in Detroit:


Holy shiat, I will now look at my neighbors in a different light.

Everyone seems to be missing the most important thing in the article: Ms. Chaya Anavi

That's uh furin' name! Sounds terrrrist! And she commented against The Nativity and Jeezus! Right here in Chatt-noooooga!

Chattanooga?

That reminds me of a joke.

Roy Rogers had just gotten a new pair of extra fancy boots, but when he was out in the stall taking care of Trigger, his beloved horse, he got horse poop on his boots.

Before Dale would let Roy come into the house, she made him remove his dirty boots and leave them outside by the front door on the porch.

That night, a cougar (mountain lion) got on the porch and chewed Roy's boots and completely ruined them. The next morning when Roy went to put on his new boots, he discovered the damage and saw the cougar foot prints leading up to and away from the porch. Roy was as angry as he had ever been. So he saddled up Trigger and took off to hunt and kill the cougar.

Later that evening, Roy came riding back to the house with the dead cougar laid across Triggers back. Dale came outside and asked,

(now, in the tune of Chattanooga Choo-Choo, sing in your head....)

♪ ♫ "Pardon me Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?" ♪ ♫

PedanticSimpleton Oh, but it is middle class suburbia that is often placing tacky displays on their lawns. How is this any more tasteful than lawn gnome, pink flamingo, nativity scene, or gaudy-god-bless-america? She's soooooo deep and hardcore for doing this.


Trust me.
As much contempt as I have for pretentious edgy "artists" I also reserve plenty of lethal scorn for the tacky,tasteless mediocrity of middle class suburbia as well.

Here in Dallas there are these dreadfully over dramatic lawn crucifix-signs adorned with "HE IS RISEN!" all over the place.
They are everywhere. Thousands.

PedanticSimpleton: Oh, but it is middle class suburbia that is often placing tacky displays on their lawns. How is this any more tasteful than lawn gnome, pink flamingo, nativity scene, or gaudy-god-bless-america?

Alternatively, how is it any less tasteful? Is there now an approved list of lawn ornaments? How many chrome gazing balls are too many? Are peeing cherubs tasteful, or not? Will Tyler make an honest woman out of Madison? And what about Naomi?

elvisaintdead: goobergal: It does not look like art to me...looks like someone trying, but failing at art.

fify. less is more. ;)

but you didn't go far enough

Far out man.

AlwaysRightBoy: I have a neighbor who has stuff animals all over her yard, other people actually drop off their unwanted stuffed animals on the property.
/she has three dogs that chew them up and come over to my yard and shiat, I know because you can see the stringy stuffing in their crap
//brings down the home value, but I can't do anything because they are in tight with the township
///and a good Sunday morning to you too



"That dog shiats on my yard one more time, I'm gonna staple its a$$ shut!"

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: I'm sorry, but the random placement of objects is NEVER art - it's just not.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, people like this have a mental condition, it's that simple.

This

Bad Taste is not illegal.

/be thankful, southerners

AlwaysRightBoy: I have a neighbor who has stuff animals all over her yard, other people actually drop off their unwanted stuffed animals on the property.
/she has three dogs that chew them up and come over to my yard and shiat, I know because you can see the stringy stuffing in their crap
//brings down the home value, but I can't do anything because they are in tight with the township
///and a good Sunday morning to you too


Yes, you can do something. You could thank her for lowering your property tax bill.

I like this one: