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January 25, 2011

Here's What Happens When A Conceptual Artist Takes An Interest In Boating
— Ace

Actually, he's not as dumb as you think, and his concept here is pretty neat. Because that boat isn't sinking. It's just built to look that way.

Thanks to Kathy.

Posted by: Ace at 07:26 AM | Comments (84)
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1 Um, Ace, I sent that to you yesterday.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2011 07:27 AM (UOM48)

2 It's not a boat when designed like that is a buoy. Still neat though.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 25, 2011 07:29 AM (tf9Ne)

3 Will he be billed for each time some one sends the Coast Guard to save him?

Posted by: harrison at January 25, 2011 07:29 AM (LnEx0)

4 That's nothing. I once had a car that looked like a breakdown but it ran.

Posted by: kidney at January 25, 2011 07:31 AM (ENRGu)

5 Hmm. Looks like the hipsters I saw in the images I googled per Ben.
Spiffy.

Posted by: Derak at January 25, 2011 07:31 AM (CjpKH)

6 Clearly, the designer is a moron.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2011 07:31 AM (UOM48)

7 Jane, yeah, it's going around.

Posted by: ace at January 25, 2011 07:31 AM (nj1bB)

8 What's more, I once ran over a possum so he was actually dead and not playing.

Posted by: kidney at January 25, 2011 07:32 AM (ENRGu)

Leonardo DiCaprio should be jumping off the stern.

Posted by: Cicero at January 25, 2011 07:33 AM (Ys0KI)

what does it use for propulsion? I didn't see a motor.

Did they just put it in the water to prove it could float, at it doesn't look like it could stay afloat in turbulent waters.

Posted by: Ben at January 25, 2011 07:34 AM (wuv1c)

11 Three words: "Menace. To. Navigation."

Posted by: Nighthawk at January 25, 2011 07:35 AM (02uN6)

12 He's doing it wrong.

Posted by: robtr at January 25, 2011 07:35 AM (hVDig)

13 It is truly, truly a great country.

Posted by: Mazzuchelli at January 25, 2011 07:36 AM (zAZNI)

report, Obama to call for Budget Freeze and earmark ban tonight.

Awesome, just awesome. Get ready for the next two weeks of articles about how he has pivoted to the right. Triangulation, etc etc.

I'm sure the media will point out how well his PAY-GO program worked.

Posted by: Ben at January 25, 2011 07:37 AM (wuv1c)

15 Maybe he's the one who put the grand piano on the sandbar.

Posted by: joncelli at January 25, 2011 07:38 AM (RD7QR)

16 Caption: Great idea. Now what?

Posted by: Cicero at January 25, 2011 07:39 AM (Ys0KI)

17 Looks like a full sized replica of a toy sailboat I had as a kid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2011 07:40 AM (XBM1t)

18 11

what does it use for propulsion? I didn't see a motor.

If you look at the picture in the linked story, it looks like the motor is in the back of the "bottom", right near the water-line, as you'd expect.

I want to see this guy design a functional car that appears as if it survived a crash, yet can still go from 0 to 60 in 6 seconds.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 25, 2011 07:40 AM (9hSKh)

19 My next piece will be a portable jacuzzi shaped like a tank that shoots white flags and daisies.

Posted by: French Conceptualist at January 25, 2011 07:40 AM (GwPRU)

20
Leonardo DiCaprio should be jumping off the stern.

Looks too sunny and warm.

Best scene in Titanic: Leo dies a horrible slow death from hypothermia.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2011 07:42 AM (TAjuH)

21 Actually, the BEST conceptual boating art are the ones the Cubans make when they convert cars into motor boats to escape.

Posted by: moi at January 25, 2011 07:42 AM (Ez4Ql)

22 Best scene in Titanic: Leo dies a horrible slow death from hypothermia.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2011 11:42 AM (TAjuH)

+100

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at January 25, 2011 07:44 AM (LH6ir)

23 This economy isn't sinking; the Republicans are just trying to make it look that way.

Posted by: King Barry's SOTU Speech at January 25, 2011 07:46 AM (BP6Z1)

24 Hey, Ace! The Marines towed Jane Hamsher's car. It was hilarious!

Posted by: moi at January 25, 2011 07:46 AM (Ez4Ql)

25 Actually, the BEST conceptual boating art are the ones the Cubans make when they convert cars into motor boats to escape.

Here's one that is pretty impressive.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 25, 2011 07:47 AM (tf9Ne)

26
It is truly, truly a great country.

Errr, this is in France. Besides the utter uselessness of the boat, another sure sign of Frogginess is the enormous concrete breakwater. The most likely Nazi-built breakwater that was intended to protect their U-boats when France was occupied.

On the other hand, this weird little thing is probably more sea-worthy than that Charles DeGaulle nukeular carrier that the French Navy is having such problems with.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2011 07:48 AM (TAjuH)

27 O/T: Is that a flame war going on in the headlines thread? Or is it just trading insults back and forth. I know you've had them and I've never participated but it looks like a small one that developed on its own without being specified.

Posted by: curious at January 25, 2011 07:48 AM (p302b)

28 what does any of this have to do with Obummer trying to take my guns away?

Posted by: homos are sinners at January 25, 2011 07:48 AM (ikQVp)

29 How does he get it from place to place?

Posted by: Vic at January 25, 2011 07:49 AM (M9Ie6)

30 the man in the boat is obviously a homosexual. He deserves to be jailed, like all other disgusting abominations.

God has always hated gays, always will. I'm getting really tired of all the acceptance and tolerance of homosexuality on this site.

Posted by: homos are sinners at January 25, 2011 07:50 AM (ikQVp)

31 Wow, an expensive buoy good for not a damn thing. Where can I get one?

Posted by: maddogg at January 25, 2011 07:52 AM (OlN4e)

32 Off Topic: Check Out Mrs. Totalfrakkingdoomabee's wife trying to rank out an Arkansas State Trooper for writing her a ticket after she caused an accident.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 25, 2011 07:52 AM (PLvLS)

33
Oh looky, a piÃ±ata.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2011 07:52 AM (TAjuH)

34 Sigh. The trolls are getting even more ridiculous than usual. I wasn't sure that was possible.

Posted by: joncelli at January 25, 2011 07:52 AM (RD7QR)

curious -

This entire site is basically an ongoing, low grade (and low class) flame war.

moron

Posted by: gebrauchshund at January 25, 2011 07:53 AM (iYwUw)

36 re: not dumb Just because you *can* do something, it doesn't mean you *should* do something.

Posted by: ol ye Soothsayer at January 25, 2011 07:53 AM (uFokq)

Reminds me of the SOTU address.

Rush has a banner up that says: Who wants to watch somebody lie for an hour?

Posted by: RushBabe at January 25, 2011 07:54 AM (urYpw)

38 Should have read: Check Out Mrs. Totalfrakkingdoomabee trying to rank out an Arkansas State Trooper...

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 25, 2011 07:55 AM (PLvLS)

39 joncelli, they're in mourning over Keefums.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2011 07:55 AM (UOM48)

40 That must be Brian, IQ seems to be equivalent to the temperature of a lizard's asshole.

Posted by: maddogg at January 25, 2011 07:55 AM (OlN4e)

41 Clever and he actually did something. Now, if he bases his career around making boats like this, I'll change my vote to: stupid. Go out and do something.

Posted by: t-bird at January 25, 2011 07:55 AM (FcR7P)

42 It's not a troll but a regular spoofing a troll.

Posted by: moi at January 25, 2011 07:56 AM (Ez4Ql)

43 Kratos, just started reading an '05 book by Brad Thor (and his mighty hammer) titled Blowback. Didn't know if you'd read it. It deals with biowarfare.

Posted by: RushBabe at January 25, 2011 07:57 AM (urYpw)

44 You know what would make that pic awesome? A great white shark coming out of the water going for the boater's head.

Oops. I denounce myself for violent rhetoric.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2011 08:00 AM (UOM48)

45 Obama can stand up there and do armpit farts for an hour and the pundits will tell us his speech 'transcended poltics.' Obama can stand their and demagogue and the pundits will tell us...

Posted by: ol ye Soothsayer at January 25, 2011 08:03 AM (uFokq)

46 I guess that is would be to much to ask for this boat being named the SS Obama Administration.

Posted by: CrookedRecords at January 25, 2011 08:03 AM (xxNK7)

47 I wonder if any of my tax dollars went into this great art.......

Posted by: maddogg at January 25, 2011 08:05 AM (OlN4e)

48 CDR M, lol. You're right. I denounce myself again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2011 08:06 AM (UOM48)

49 I just sneezed twice. Should I tweet it?

Posted by: ol ye Soothsayer at January 25, 2011 08:09 AM (uFokq)

50 is this the kind of stuff obama wants use to make? stuff that looks like crap...isn't actually crap....but costs 10x what it would cost to make it regular?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 25, 2011 08:10 AM (Cm66w)

51 47 Kratos, just started reading an '05 book by Brad Thor (and his mighty hammer) titled Blowback. Didn't know if you'd read it. It deals with biowarfare.

No, I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation, maybe I can get an e-copy through my Kindle.

Have you ever read Richard Preston's The Hot Zone? Very, very interesting non-fiction book.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 25, 2011 08:11 AM (9hSKh)

52 Yes, I believe the name of the boat is Teddy's Tumble in honor of Teddy Kennedy.

His next project is to make a salad bowl that looks like a toilet bowl. It will "flush" dressing.

Posted by: Rocks at January 25, 2011 08:12 AM (Q1lie)

53 In Obama's mind, the boat not only doesn't have sails, it would have a big-assed solar panel that would out-weigh the boat and make it inoperable.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2011 08:13 AM (UOM48)

54 I just sneezed twice. Should I tweet it?

Posted by: ol ye Soothsayer at January 25, 2011 12:09 PM (uFokq)

That depends. Did you blow a snot that looks like the Virgin Mary, Elvis or Obama?

Posted by: Rocks at January 25, 2011 08:14 AM (Q1lie)

55 God has always hated gays, always will. I'm getting really tired of all the acceptance and tolerance of homosexuality on this site.

^{Posted by: homos are sinners at January 25, 2011 11:50 AM (ikQVp)}

Easy there, Infidel.

I am only against being Gay-Gay.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2011 08:14 AM (Zmceb)

56 99% of art pisses me off.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at January 25, 2011 08:14 AM (HaYO4)

57 OT - American Spectator's Jeffrey Lord has makes an effective attack against ObamaCare in his essay Animal Farm Comes To Arizona LINK

Posted by: mrp at January 25, 2011 08:15 AM (HjPtV)

58
The name of the boat should be the Hope and Change.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2011 08:15 AM (UOM48)

59 i wonder how he got it insured....."honest! it's not sinking" "i can plainly see the boat is sinking, no insurance for you"

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 25, 2011 08:15 AM (Cm66w)

I guess that is would be to much to ask for this boat being named the SS Obama Administration.

Thread winner.

Honorable mentions: USS Economy, Michelle, Rahm's Mayoral Campaign, and The Minnow.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 25, 2011 08:15 AM (b6qrg)

61 oooh, Mohammud puppeht fail!

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2011 08:15 AM (Zmceb)

62 Obama can stand up there and do armpit farts for an hour Posted by: ol ye Soothsayer

Hey, that's my trick!

Posted by: Joe 'white shadow' Biden at January 25, 2011 08:16 AM (h2t8r)

63 preview of tinight's speech: "It's about Juanita in Colorado, a single mom with two jobs who doesn't want to choose between paying for health insurance and paying rent."

Posted by: ol ye Soothsayer at January 25, 2011 08:17 AM (uFokq)

64 "It's about 10-year old Su Ling Dong in Kansas City who wants to grow up in a world with clean air and clean water."

Posted by: ol ye Soothsayer at January 25, 2011 08:18 AM (uFokq)

65 Actually if this guy was a REAL artist he would have said he was making a boat that looks like it's sinking....and then actually sunk it. Surreal.

Posted by: Rocks at January 25, 2011 08:18 AM (Q1lie)

Why didn't he just cover a real sailboat with orange fabric?

That qualifies as art, doesn't it?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 25, 2011 08:20 AM (b6qrg)

67 Rush is about to lose it.

Posted by: jewells45 at January 25, 2011 08:22 AM (l/N7H)

Why didn't he just cover a real sailboat with orange fabric?

That qualifies as art, doesn't it?

I resemble that remark!

Posted by: Christo at January 25, 2011 08:31 AM (urYpw)

69 Have you ever read Richard Preston's The Hot Zone? Very, very interesting non-fiction book.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 25, 2011 12:11 PM (9hSKh)

Nope, but I'll put it on my list.

Posted by: RushBabe at January 25, 2011 08:32 AM (urYpw)

70 Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at 58 - Check out a nonfiction book titled "The Demon in the Freezer". Published around 2003 or 2004. Scary as heck on the potential for biowarfare.

Posted by: Have Blue at January 25, 2011 08:34 AM (mV+es)

71 In some ways, this picture is emblematic of the Democrats, they spent lots of money to destroy something simply to make it less efficient than it was before.

Posted by: Penfold at January 25, 2011 08:34 AM (1PeEC)

That's Ben Gardner's boat.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 25, 2011 08:47 AM (QMtmy)

73 Now if he had put that into a bottle, I would be impressed.

Posted by: Brian at January 25, 2011 09:29 AM (sYrWB)

74 Mucking foron, and I say that from my professional viewpoint as a mariner.

How about this dipshit splatter ketchup on himself and lay in traffic in front of an upended bike. Then when the cops and EMTs arrive, he hops up and say "Frak off, phistines, this is art, man!"

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at January 25, 2011 02:14 PM (7YekA)

75 A sculpture that looks like a car wrapped around a tree with casualties splattered about? Posted by: iknowtheleft at January 25, 2011 11:40 AM (G/MYk) I did that in college. Except it was body parts made of foam, latex and fake blood.

Posted by: CAC at January 25, 2011 03:13 PM (Gr1V1)

76 I sure hope thats ether GREENPEACE or the SEA SHEPARDS their both big time troublemakers

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Posted by: dnfjz at January 25, 2011 10:54 PM (bOuhK)

Ahhhh, the French navy's newest "stealth" warship: "The Acquiescence"

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