Miami To Get Massive Orange Rubber Spiky Thing, Maybe

[CalMeacham]

Saw this on Roadside America:

Miami wants to develop a downtown arts district, but it has a problem: there’s an ugly sewage pumping station in the middle of it, and it’s too expensive to move. So the city announced a design contest to make the sewage station artistic. 143 proposals were submitted, most of them attempts to gussy up the sewage pumping process.

The winner took a different approach, and was a “bold and unanimous choice of a prominent jury,” according to the Miami Herald. Named “Pulse” — which also happens to be the name of the local art fair — its goal is simply to cover the station with a huge orange rubber spiky wavy thing, lit with diodes at the tips. “Like some bio-luminescent sea creature that washed ashore during a hurricane and decided to settle and join in some fun,” according to its proposal. You could just pick it up if you were a 200-ft tall giant. And then die from the poison in its stingers.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/miami-orange-rubber-spiky/

[Mindfield]

Oh jeez, that’s a bad, baaaaaad idea. Do you have any idea how quickly those things reproduce?

[Ethilrist]

I, for one, welcome our Massive Orange Rubber Spiky Thing overlords.

[Sunspace]

It’s better than a skyscraper with an infection…

[Ichini_Sanshigo]

@Sunspace

It’s better than a skyscraper with an infection…

“Il supositori” indeed!

[The_Scrivener]

Would it help if they appended a big ribbon-like sign saying “The City Of Miami Welcomes You To The Massive Orange Rubber Spiky Thing”?

Nope, it just isn’t as pithy as the old Orange Bowl inscription.

[sigh] I miss the Orange Bowl…

[Marley23]

The Anemone that Ate Miami? The Shoggoth of South Beach? I think I like it!

Pausing here to note my 30,000th post. Eep.

[Harmonious_Discord]

When you can’t do classy, do trashy.