Deere John

2 sweet! I liked it. very unexpected. P.S. I love dance…so i prejudice.

I don’t know anything about art, but this is certainly innovative and interesting in a way that much of what is called art is not.Imagine celebrating the simple pleasure of unspoiled nature without heavy-handed preaching. It is, in that sense,about the soul’s longing and in the spirit of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Thanks.

Your tax dollars hard at work.

I have no problem with things like this that people do on their own volition, but the history of this piece is a tangled web of funding. Pew, the Kennedy Center, government grants, etc.

Sorry, you want to make a video about some guy making love to an earth mover, please don’t drop any of my dimes into it.

I wager that, if the American taxpayer were called upon to vote whether they’d pay for dance routines with earthmoving equipment or monster trucks, the American taxpayer would vote YES.

And honestly, it’s difficult to see how you’d keep from getting sued or arrested, making a video like this — unless you brought in some entity with lawyers, guns, and money. If all government grants and foundations were just engaged in clearing away Obstacles to Coolness, we’d be fans of them.

And for what it’s worth, I think the idea was that the earthmover insisted on its right to be happy doing what it was made for, and not simply dancing through life. I certainly didn’t see it as an environmental message.

Very weird and certainly different. !! I loved it !

Dear Anchoress,

This piece reminds me of having written to our good bishop many moons ago telling him in so many words that people no longer cared about correcting or admitting of their sins so they gave them all to machinery of our future.

Of course, I realize now that without knowing, I was streading a lot of spiritual manure.

I hear ya! Machinery is finally cultivating some of sinner vic fruitless brain cells.

Go Figure!

Piano Girl88, it’s The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals, by Saint-Saens.

Yes, Obi’s Sister & Tea Pot ~ how embarrassing to have missed that one ~ The Swan and Swan Lake are intermingled in my mixed up brain ~ too much music going through there!

This must be a weird version of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel…The Son and I read that every day for about two years. Those were the good old days!

I was hoping the shovel would come down on the guy and then it would show just a pile of his clothes on the ground. that would have been a funny ending!