Jul 16 2007Giant Rubber Duckie
Artist Florentijn Hofman put together this massive rubber duckie for "Loire Estuary 2007," which is an outdoor, contemporary-art exhibition now taking place in France that features the works of 30 artists from around the world. All of the works are being installed along a 40-mile stretch at the mouth of the Loire River, and this one happens to be of a giant rubber duckie. Unfortunately my entry was disqualified. Apparently running around naked on a boat while screaming "Penis!" doesn't count as art.
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Reader Comments
1. GuySmiley - July 16, 2007 1:19 PM
You are all wishing you are GuySmiley.
2. GuySmiley - July 16, 2007 1:20 PM
GuySmiley has had nightmares that begin this way...
3. Knaves - July 16, 2007 1:31 PM
Sweet, ducks rule.
4. Sasquatch - July 16, 2007 1:40 PM
Funny, having a naked guy scream penis sounds like the most awesome piece of art ever. Could express the sexual frustration of the Geekologie writers perhaps?
But that duck is freaking awesome. I almost want to build a 500 foot bathtub just to house it.
5. TQ - July 16, 2007 1:40 PM
Honestly when I saw the headline I thought it would be the work of Ze Frank
6. Lauren.w - July 16, 2007 1:46 PM
Its playing dumb..
the world domintaion shall occur soon..
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
7. Manuel Gonzales - July 16, 2007 2:22 PM
Quack.
8. RandomNigel - July 16, 2007 2:59 PM
Bullshit!
He didn't build it!
He climbed up that damn beanstalk and stole it from me!
9. Joe Mamma - July 16, 2007 3:05 PM
How is this art?
10. duhduhdan - July 16, 2007 3:16 PM
How ISN'T this art is the question, it's a bajillion foot tall rubber ducky, where else do you see that?
11. Dicks - July 16, 2007 3:27 PM
Joe Mamma, how is ANYTHING art? Shut up.
12. Hannaaaa - July 16, 2007 4:11 PM
Did nobody think that perhaps it isn't a very large ducky, but just a very small harbour?
HA. Makes you think doesn't it.....
13. whoneedsenemies - July 16, 2007 4:28 PM
Is it for sale?
Would my neighbors be pissed when I
put it in the backyard and
jumped off of it into their pool?
14. Dilligaf - July 16, 2007 5:09 PM
I want to hear it's squeak.
15. Joe Mamma - July 16, 2007 5:33 PM
Dicks, suck my dick you cock sucking knob gobbler!
16. Tenchi059 - July 16, 2007 6:19 PM
#12: completely agree.
17. Bnew - July 16, 2007 6:21 PM
That's really cool.
For all those asking "how is this art," you should look more into the theory behind how contemporary art has come about. Art is reactionary. In many moments after the early 1900s, art started moving away from the canvas and typical sculpture more into sensory experiences. I can't speak for the artist and I don't want to try and make it sound more serious/important a piece than it actually is, but I'm guessing this is just supposed to be visually impressive, bizarre, and funny at once. It's an intentionally absurd image.
Oh and who else wants to see this thing throw down with Godzilla? I'm guessing it's got laserbeam eyes or poison gas or something hidden inside.
18. kimmpossible - July 16, 2007 7:40 PM
how cute :]
19. OperationGericht - July 16, 2007 9:24 PM
My question is why it's docked at the U-Boat pen from Das Boot...
20. proteon - July 16, 2007 9:44 PM
I saw this and thought "oh that's cool - but I'm sure we can fix that". We did. Bnew did actually. Thanks for the pretentious explanation about a f***ing giant rubber duck.
21. Pastor Al - July 16, 2007 9:52 PM
Ok... now we just need 10,000 gallons of Mr. Bubble over the edge of Niagara Falls and this duck, and we'd have the best bath ever! (Of course... we release the heated water from the hydro dams, right)
22. Praetorian_TMOTC - July 17, 2007 12:01 AM
Or perhaps it's a Trojan Duckie!
23. Ramy - July 17, 2007 6:17 AM
what if its a robot in disguise? a very bad disguise >_<
24. Scatze - July 17, 2007 12:39 PM
No Pastor Al - The heated water would come from the Pickering Nuclear Generating Plant. Piped directly to the Falls with canvas wrapped insulation, pipe markers showing directional flow, pressure guages, thermometers, expansion joints (lots of them), and a really really big spigot.
Man, you don't know anything.
25. Joe Mamma - July 17, 2007 1:06 PM
Still doesn't look like art. It is just a giant f***ing duck. It is not even an original design, they just made a giant one of something. Stop huffing your own farts and go finger paint something.
26. SuperStoned420 - July 17, 2007 4:46 PM
I now know how women feel when they see a huge duck.
That thing is awesomely huge. AWESOME!
27. bnew - July 17, 2007 9:33 PM
proteon:
bite me
:)
28. Tap - July 18, 2007 8:25 AM
Yeah, this is cool and all, but not as cool as seeing 19,000 rubber duckies float down the Naugatuck River:
http://www.duckday.com/
29. Nicki - July 18, 2007 1:27 PM
"Apparently running around naked on a boat while screaming "Penis!" doesn't count as art."
I so gotta stop reading these at work ... I now have 4 of my coworkers and my boss in my cube because I was laughing so loud. ;)
30. lol - July 18, 2007 5:55 PM
lol
31. Cat - July 19, 2007 1:46 PM
Great, instead of having a duckie in my tub, I can have a tub in a duckie.
32. US - July 24, 2007 11:28 AM
I want to live inside it- like at houseboat
33. michael - July 25, 2007 4:36 AM
i think that friendly duck has a hidden agenda to take over the world...
34. Tessa - July 30, 2007 10:47 PM
Psshh, of course it isn't art. You forgot to stop periodically and pretend to birth a loaf of bread and then crumble it into your hair while crying hysterically.
35. guate6 - July 31, 2007 12:04 AM
pwn4g3!
36. guate6 - July 31, 2007 12:04 AM
"...blue rubber dicks..." I mean... "...yellow rubber ducks for everyone!!!"
37. Jay Sanders - August 1, 2007 11:48 PM
hahaha..this is I think world's largest rubber duckie..so it needs world's largest bathtub..anyone up for a challenge of building the world's largest bathtub
38. name - August 3, 2007 4:47 PM
stupid comment
39. Brian - August 4, 2007 4:51 PM
Can it pull some wakeboarders? Maybe an innertube? That would be funny as hell, seeing this giant duckie screaming down a river at 45 knots pulling a giant innertube.
40. betch - August 6, 2007 3:37 PM
when i take over the world this will be my vessel.
41. The Odd Man - August 7, 2007 12:37 AM
Ditto! Except it would have freakin' Laser Beams on it's freakin' head!
http://www.blackbeatpress.com
42. Gotta See Her! - August 24, 2007 5:43 PM
It's probably an alien spaceship in disguise.
I want to cut it open and see the aliens!
43. Ernesto McField - October 29, 2007 5:16 PM
You've seen one rubber duck you've seen a dozen.........
You people are so tedious....................................................
Like some bubble bath with that?
44. ann - March 10, 2009 11:29 AM
Ducks kill people, people! Whats this duck up to??????
45. McBowler - September 1, 2009 10:05 AM
Must steal it!!! :O