Spoonbridge and Cherry
Tuesday, 18th July 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Inspired by the National Geographic Photo of the Day last week, I went looking for Minneapolis's Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture. Unfortunately something got lost in translation.
The story wasn't much better on Windows Live Local, or Yahoo! Maps Beta who both use exactly the same image (the traffic on the roads is identical), but interesting to see how differently the other services handle compression of the images. Google actually looks pretty poor in comparison to both of the others.
Anyway, I was disappointed not to be able to see it better, so here's the giant spoon and fruit courtesy of National Geographic.
Thanks to National Geographic and Norton Lam.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Hooray for Claes Oldenburg. Perhaps a megapost of his works would be in order – looks like I have a diversion for my lunch hour. 😉
Oh if only you were the Ron Vogel! (sfw) ;-P
I’ve been asked before. As a web designer, on interviews I’ve had to be very specific about pointing people to my portfolio web site. And still have had folks show the VPs the wrong one.
Looks pretty cool.
Cool. Pity you are in violation of copyright in having an image of this sculpture on your website.
Walker Art Center does not permit anyone to show images of the Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen for any use. This includes sales for editorial.
Russell, it’s irrelevant what the Walker Art Center allows — American copyright law is very clear that copying small parts of a work (like thumbnail images) for editorial and educational uses is Fair Use. Copyright maximalists like to make all sorts of absurd claims about what you cannot do, but they are rarely supported by fact.
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Actually, the Walker absolutely allows photography of works in the Sculpture Garden – after all, it’s a public space! – but it must be non-commercial in nature. We even have a Flickr pool devoted to snaps people have taken in the Garden. There’s a bit more information in a blog post announcing the pool, if you’re interested.
Thanks for clearing that up Nate!
We have however previously featured Atomium in Belgium, where a similar situation apparently exists. One which prevented us from including a picture of Atomium in our book.
the spoon cherry thing appears briefly in the movie “Aurora Borealis” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387037/locations)