An artist, William Hessian, has hidden 35 miniature artworks portraying the octopus in public parks around Minneapolis. Your job: find them! It's getting cold, too, so you might want to do it before the first snowfall.
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Start hunting for octopus, Minneapolis
Category: Art • Cephalopods • Local
Posted on: October 16, 2008 10:47 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Mdfitty | October 16, 2008 11:03 AM
Hebbo! The mighty Oobu will be pleased!
Posted by: Thomas | October 16, 2008 11:04 AM
I sure hope he didn't incorporate any LEDs into the artworks...
Posted by: Greg | October 16, 2008 11:08 AM
Did he go to public parks to hide Art of Octopuses, or did he he hide Art of Octopuses in Public Parks?
The difference could be important!
Posted by: Capital Dan | October 16, 2008 11:13 AM
They're in the mall... They're always in the mall. It's what they do right before they turn.
Posted by: craig | October 16, 2008 12:22 PM
Love this kind of stuff. Public art installations, not necessarily endorsed by the gvmt. (Dunno if this was or not)
"Illegal" public art installations, like a more artistic and less damaging form of graffiti, engaging the public etc. I've had some ideas like this in the works for a while now but they aren't progressing too far.
These kinds of things are starting up everywhere, sort of like an urban folk art.
Posted by: Greg | October 16, 2008 12:51 PM
@ craig (#5)
Sorry, I have to pop in and correct you here.
Graffiti is a painting style/technique which is generally done on a rough medium using aerosol paints. It is not actually related to vandalism.
People regularly equate vandalism and graffiti, but they are *not* the same. Much the same way that pointless tagging and the like is also not graffiti, and treating them as though they are alike just further demonizes a very interesting form of art. (Some graffiti is vandalism, some vandalism is graffiti, but they only overlap, they are not the same.)
Sorry! This is a pet peeve of mine, and I thought I'd vent. :D
Posted by: Qwerty | October 16, 2008 2:08 PM
I wonder if there is one in tiny Jackson Park which is two blocks from where I grew up in NE Minneapolis? Or perhaps Loring Park where us gays have our Gay Pride Festival every year? Hmmmm. So many parks; so little time or desire to look. If only there was a prize involved...
For all you out of towners who want some free art, here is a link to the Minneapolis Park Board's map of my home town's parks. The green bits are the parks.
http://www.minneapolisparks.org/forms/parks/parkMap.pdf
Happy hunting to one and all.
Posted by: Noadi | October 16, 2008 2:15 PM
Cthulhu must be proud.
Art, octopus, and public participation, just overall a very very cool idea. I applaud the person who came up with it.
Posted by: Monado | October 16, 2008 3:59 PM
The article says,
I imagine that they meant to write 2009.
Posted by: Monado | October 16, 2008 4:02 PM
Never mind, that's just me reading "Friday" as "February"!
They're cute! Way better than the cow-like "moose" statues Toronto put up a few years ago.
Posted by: Ann | October 16, 2008 5:01 PM
I don't know whether anyone else has pointed this out; if so, please disregard:
Animal Review shines the spotlight on the mimic octopus:
http://animalreview.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/mimic-octopus/
Posted by: G Felis | October 16, 2008 9:52 PM
Golly, it's already mid-October. Are you telling me the first snow hasn't fallen in Minnesota yet?
Global warming!
;-)
Posted by: Dahan | October 18, 2008 10:09 AM
Maybe Banksy will switch from rats to squid...