sje writes: I found yesterday afternoon that the corner of Vanderbilt and Bergen (in front of Daffodil Hardware) has been Rock & Stopped! This is done by an artistic duo who go by the moniker “Thundercut” (http://www.thundercut.com), and who are also ProHo residents, albiet secretive ones. They leave public artworks in many places, there’s a few beautiful cutout wooden seahorses and bubbles a bit further up on Bergen.”
“Rock & Stop” is cool, but wouldn’t “Stop & Rock” be even cooler? I guess you can interpret it any way you want.
I’m not sure this is just another innocuous expression of public art. It’s
looks conspicuously like “the shocker”. For the geezers out there (from
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact2),
“Another familiar trope of contemporary college humor is a hand gesture
known as the shocker, in which the ring finger of the hand is held down by
the thumb while the remaining three fingers stay rigid. “No one over the age
of twenty-five knows what it means, but I guarantee you that ninety per cent
of college students know what it is,” Josh said. (The gesture indicates a
method of pleasuring a female partner, though not one that looks to be
easily undertaken without incurring hand cramps.)”
Also, see
http://www.gawker.com/news/culture/sex/the-shocker-takes-manhattan-033565ph
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Among the many things I have learned from the New Yorker – ass humor is ok
as long as you say something all smart like “familiar trope”. Do they teach
that at journalism school?
Please let me assure your amazingly up-to-date & over-informed self, Mr. Muk, that this *is* indeed another innocuous, yet funloving expression of public art. The artists are not college age or in school, but mature artists serious and prolific re: their work. You Horny Toad!
The two middle fingers are now missing {covered}, not just one. It is most definitely the “Rock On, Dude” sign known to every metal-head, etc. in the universe.
You say, “Fun loving expression of public art”
I say, “The Shocker”
You say, “Fun loving expression of public art”
I say, “The Shocker”
Fun loving expression of public art
The Shocker
Fun loving expression of public art
The Shocker
Shall we call the whole thing off?
Sure, babe. How did that hand thing work again?