Corn Porn in BoCoCa
You know those new corner sidewalk extensions that DOT’s been creating in recent months? Their utilitarian raison d’etre’s pretty clear but the vast expanses of concrete aren’t much to look at so a local artist has an idea to pretty them up. One word: corn. Yes, corn. According to the brand-spankin’-new Boerum Hill Blog, Christina…
You know those new corner sidewalk extensions that DOT’s been creating in recent months? Their utilitarian raison d’etre’s pretty clear but the vast expanses of concrete aren’t much to look at so a local artist has an idea to pretty them up. One word: corn. Yes, corn. According to the brand-spankin’-new Boerum Hill Blog, Christina Kelly has floated a plan to the city to plant native corn on five street corners throughout Boerum Hill. The first spot she wants to do it is at the northwest corner of Bergen and Smith Streets. Fun idea, but we’ll be a-maized if she can pull it off.
Native Corn May Grace Smith St. [Boerum Hill Blog]
excuuuuuuuse me for thinking midwestern, country life-ish, lame green things are hideous ugly aesthetics. we all have our opinions of what we like, and i like the concrete jungle to be that. CONCRETE!
*rob*
The pigeons, squirrels and rats should have a field-day!
Silliest idea.
Oh, and I think having random puny clumps of corn is a realllllly lame idea.
If it’s not in massive fields, you never get that amazing optical effect from the rows when you drive by at 75mph!
Why even leave Iowa?
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Rob — I’m not sure why I’m engaging you — but, why is it that NYC and urban life has to be equated with living a hard life? Or something that is somehow “uniquely” NYC? (That’s a position I find absurd on it’s face… the only thing unique about NYC is the COMBINATION of everything that comes to the city from other places in the country and around the world.)
While i don’t like the homogeneous world that is suburban America — it’s totally foolish to live a EQUALLY sheltered existence and not be open to POSITIVE aspects of life outside of New York City.
Football is a huge cultural thing in the Midwest and South… are the kids that play football at NYC high schools being very un-NYC? What if parents that have moved here decide to become more active in their kid’s schools and want football to become more prominent… would that destroy the fabric of NYC’s culture?!
Let’s do a quick analogy…
Gay Marriage is to Heterosexual Marriage as Folks that Move to NYC are to Real New Yorkers.
From an Iowa boy, living here nearly 20 years, FUCK YOU Butterfly.
I vote for Broccoli before corn – simply on the greener color
rob, I went to Iowa. I am filled whith a white-hot rage for you that…oh, forget it.
They already did this in PS, on 6th between Union and Carroll. Like those invisible dogs, maybe it’s not so corny.
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Rob… lay off with the Iowa comments. They’re just ridiculous. I’m not from the midwest, but I never got all the uproar about folks that weren’t born and raised in NYC. Why are folks from Iowa expected to “assimilate” but the immigrant populations from other countries are cherished?!
because they are a bunch of PHONIES who want to live an “urban” lifestyle but then bring the corn husks with them. BARF! i will not lay off.
*rob*