Posted on 05/06/2017 9:52:23 PM PDT by bryan999
A parade of giant gold pigs could be flying by Trump Tower in Chicago some time this summer, obscuring the 20-foot-high "TRUMP" letters on the side of the building facing the Chicago River.
Chicago-based architecture design group New World Projects came up with the idea for "Flying Pigs on Parade" as a response to Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election. The floating art installation would send four giant gold pig ballons attached to a barge down the Chicago River for a day this summer, on a Saturday or Sunday in August, CBS Chicago reports.
New World Projects still has to raise between $100,000-$150,000 to cover the costs of the project and the City of Chicago has not yet signed off, according to CBS Chicago.
The idea was inspired by George Orwell, and according to the project's website, it would be "a visual response to the loud, illogical and frequently hateful expressions that polluted the presidential elections and that now define the actions of our U.S. leadership."
Visually, the project was inspired by Pink Floyd's "Animals" album cover, which also features a flying pig. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters has given the group his approval, and New World Projects plans to replicate its project in other cities after the Chicago debut of the pigs. According to CBS Chicago, the pigs have been named, too -- Old Major, Napoleon, Squealer and Minimus -- in an homage to Orwell's "Animal Farm."
CBS Chicago also points out that Trump Tower dates to 2008, but it was in 2014 that Mr. Trump decided to mark his building with the giant TRUMP letters, which span two floors of the building, "covering 2,800 square feet and...illuminated at night with LED lights."
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Free bacon at breakfast.
I like fast paced rock.
So I guess they were never gonna be my type of band.
I went for my brother’s Deep Purple and Zep albums.
Then glam rock like the Scorpions.
Then GnR when they came onto the scene.
“Radicals and racists, don’t point your finger at me
I’m a small town white boy, just trying to make ends meet..”
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How many people voted for this Chicago-based group...... New World Projects?
Not only that, but these idiots describe President Trump and his supporters as fascists. The pigs in Animal Farm, as you say, represent communists, specifically Soviet communists. Also, they didn't fly; they walked on two legs, just like the hated humans at the end of the novella. In fact, they were indistinguishable from humans at the end. These morons have never read Orwell because he's a dead white guy. Animal Farm is a powerful allegory that they cannot understand.
If I were President Trump, I would come up with a way to make fun of their idea. Perhaps create his own pink pigs (with hitlary faces) that mock her as a “pending” president.
“Hitlary, when pink pigs fly” might be a good logo or place to start. Drive them nuts Donald!
WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!
Hillary fly?She can barely make it up the stairs.
It's too windy for big balloons here in Chicago. Someone is going to get hurt.
Leftists are trying to redefine because it’s the only act they have to sway the shallow minds who refuse to think but are wiling to obey.
There are certain ideologies that require you have a skewed view of the world and of history. And this skewed view is only to justify the groups and classes of people that they hate. The Nazis were socialists and supremacists who hated basically everyone else. They had to change history to show their supremacy. Communists hate anyone who owns property or employs others, so their view of history demonizes anyone not dependent on government as being greedy and evil. That sounds a lot like the view of today’s liberals.
It covers the liberals 100% their game is up the world sees them for what they are very dangerous.
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