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Sunday, November 11, 2007
  Roman fountains run red

In Teheran during the Iran-Iraq war the fountains ran red to symbolize the blood of the martyrs. Neither the Italian Baroque nor the post-modern tourist are into self-sacrifice kitsch, but blood in the water always makes for spectacle. Reminds me somehow of the Goofy Sufi's essay on overcoming tourism. As perhaps the most popular public monument in the world, does the Trevi gain or lose baraka from all these tourists? does it do so when the blood of the martyrs red paint of the futurists runs through it?

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More photos of 'il tintore' at work here
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Monday, June 11, 2007
  When in Rome, look above

Wooster Collective: ABOVE's SIGN LANGUAGE TOUR: ROME, ITALY

Missed this while I was in Rome, but since I've never blogged Above's work before I thought it might be nice to include this particular piece.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007
  moving monuments
I used to think that Singapore's moving monuments around was some sort of indication of a lack, a lack of a sense of place and history. And then when I got into Tzay Chuen's MIKE project for the Venice Biennale, I realised that their mobility is nearly a defining characteristic of monuments. Venice's "airlion", symbol of the Biennale, was booty from Constantinople, but -- as I learned -- originated somewhere further east, some 1000 years before the famous sack.

And now I've just come back from Rome, where the mobility and reuse of marble bits, obelisks and columns can't help but strike you, round nearly every corner. Nothing is permanent in the Eternal City. (But the graffiti is ancient/)Then "Pruned" puts up these images that explain how the Vatican obelisk was moved... A very cool posting.

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