Holy Cows!
Friday, April 28, 2006 Publié par Eric
Do you know the Cow Parade? If you live in New York, Edinburgh, Sydney, Barcelona... you probably do because this event already took place there. But in Paris, it's a first. The idea is simply to ask several artists to turn fiberglass cows into modern art sculptures and to display them throughout the city. The result is stunning. In Paris there are about 100 cows (I photographed 8 more here). They will be sold at the end of June to the benefit of charitable causes. More here.
Update. These cows are also shown on Buenos Aeres Daily Photo and on Manila Daily Photo.
April 28, 2006 12:15:00 AM GMT+02:00
How cool is that! I love it!!! Thanks Eric for posting additional pictures!
In SF, we have done the same thing with hearts, although there are not many hearts left anymore but there are a few around if you look carefully.
http://www.heartsinsf.com/project.html
Cows are more fun, though, and I'm sure they'd be very successful here. We'll be waiting :)
April 28, 2006 2:00:00 AM GMT+02:00
In New Orleans, they had fish, and in Lake Charles, Louisiana, they had gators. With funny titles-- for example, a litigator outside a law firm (with legal wig, robe and portfolio), and the airport had an avigator complete with silk scarf, goggles and biplane. You can see them here:
http://www.gatorsonthegeaux.com/gatorvision.htm
April 28, 2006 2:24:00 AM GMT+02:00
holy cowsss!! I like this one best!! moooo....!
April 28, 2006 2:26:00 AM GMT+02:00
I love it! So sorry I missed this!
April 28, 2006 2:29:00 AM GMT+02:00
In Iowa (where there are more pigs than people) they had pigs!
April 28, 2006 2:42:00 AM GMT+02:00
Yes, we've had the cows and lately we have turtles. The creativity in the wide variety of styles and colors is beautiful.
April 28, 2006 2:49:00 AM GMT+02:00
In Seattle, we celebrate with pigs, too.
I wonder why it isn't salmon or orcas?
Une bonne vache! (Did I get that right? My French is awful.)
April 28, 2006 2:54:00 AM GMT+02:00
about five years ago i saw the cows in brussels, though i had no idea what they were for.
i kept wandering around the city, bumping into cows and wondering what the connection was!
April 28, 2006 3:25:00 AM GMT+02:00
Wow!! Nice shot! Did you get down low for this one?
April 28, 2006 3:26:00 AM GMT+02:00
Chicago had cows the summer of 1999. It was great fun for both tourists and residents. There were so many cows that the city printed a map to help people find all of them. My favorite was in front of a poster shop on Michigan Avenue. It was covered with tiny replicas of posters. So clever. They were sold in the fall, and the money went to various charities.
Here's a link:
http://www.chicagotraveler.com/cows_on_parade.htm
April 28, 2006 4:18:00 AM GMT+02:00
The cows are adorable! We don't have a cow parade in Toronto. I'm officially jealous :(
April 28, 2006 4:24:00 AM GMT+02:00
seems like every city now-a-days does this: Cincinnasty did pigs, Nashville got corn-fused and did catfish and then guitars...
However, I find this cow cute and out of the ordinary!!!
En plus je suis un peu etonnee que les francais trouve ca amusant...c'est plutot un truc american...
April 28, 2006 4:24:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oooh, I love the black and gold one and the all white one! Those are great.
April 28, 2006 6:36:00 AM GMT+02:00
This happened in Washington DC as well except that we had donkeys and elephants in tribute to the two political parties that rule this city: democrats and republicans.
We also had a bunch of pandas on our college campus that they brought in from another city....
Interesting concept and I like that they are sold for charitable causes.
"Oh, la vache!" :-)
April 28, 2006 6:37:00 AM GMT+02:00
Love the cows, I hope they are still around when we get there in October!
April 28, 2006 6:39:00 AM GMT+02:00
here is one website that shows some of the donkeys and elephants that were in Washington DC......
http://jophan.org/safari/
April 28, 2006 6:40:00 AM GMT+02:00
Gee Eric, you're "milking" this one for all it's worth. Good for you, but I wouldn't "udder" a word to anyone about your propensity to be at the right place at the right time "beef-or" all the comments are in. It could be too e-moo-tional!
April 28, 2006 6:41:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh yeah, and as usual, the photos are awesome!
April 28, 2006 6:44:00 AM GMT+02:00
This is obviously an opera moo, singing for its milk!!
April 28, 2006 6:51:00 AM GMT+02:00
Ok, ok, I can't resist Eric...you mention that "In Paris there are about 100 cows". How did you count them?
With a Cowculator I suppose?
April 28, 2006 7:25:00 AM GMT+02:00
groan michael! I've never actually seen Edinburgh's cow parade...must look out for it!
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April 28, 2006 8:02:00 AM GMT+02:00
This one is my favorite too. I saw cows in Zurich a few years ago. I wonder if it was the same kind of thing.
April 28, 2006 8:22:00 AM GMT+02:00
:) very funny!
April 28, 2006 8:47:00 AM GMT+02:00
Michael is now our official PDP punster, don't you think? Well, he had inspiration; afterall, this IS a mooving piece of art. ;^)
-Kim
April 28, 2006 10:07:00 AM GMT+02:00
Michael, I cow to you superior knowledge.
All the cows around here are mooving targets, and you have to watch where you put your feet if you are after trying to get photograph.
Great image Eric.
April 28, 2006 10:13:00 AM GMT+02:00
Hier Gg avait dit... "Moi qui m'attendait à voir une grosse vache aujourd'hui… "
> Eric. Non, je n'avais pas prévu de me prendre en photo aujourd'hui...
I didn't you changed your motorbike for a tricycle…
;o)
April 28, 2006 10:17:00 AM GMT+02:00
Sydney with a y thank you!
April 28, 2006 10:22:00 AM GMT+02:00
How fun! Most cities have these kinds of parade, eh? Not yet in my city. Such a cute picture there, Eric :)
April 28, 2006 10:30:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oups I didn't intended to be anonymous !
Mais Eric, tu m'auras certainement reconnu plus haut !!!
April 28, 2006 10:40:00 AM GMT+02:00
Last summer was a Cow Parade here in Bucharest, very nice!!!
April 28, 2006 11:18:00 AM GMT+02:00
haha, Eric, this cow selling milk and the white one in the page are surely very funny...
April 28, 2006 11:54:00 AM GMT+02:00
Quite a popular theme--Racine Wisconsin has done dogs and cats, and my former home town of Grand Forks, North Dakota did--what else?--Forks!
Great way to showcase artists, and get people walking around town (and patronizing local shops, instead of the mall.)
Maybe frogs will be next? ;O)
April 28, 2006 12:17:00 PM GMT+02:00
Michael, of course it's an awesome photo...Eric wouldn't give us a bum "steer." Your puns are "moo-sic" to my ears. I've got no "beef" with them at all!
April 28, 2006 1:15:00 PM GMT+02:00
Single, you didn't have cows, but you had MOOSE, remember? http://www.toronto.ca/moose/home.htm with the "Moose in the City" project. I don't remember any such project here, though we sure have a lot of delivery triporteurs like the one the Parisian cow is driving. Think they deliver more beer than milk though...
Il n'y a pas de vaches folles, j'espère?
April 28, 2006 1:24:00 PM GMT+02:00
What a cool picture! I love it.
April 28, 2006 2:35:00 PM GMT+02:00
Merci, ça me donne une idée sortie ce weekend :-)
April 28, 2006 2:49:00 PM GMT+02:00
miami beach also did this project, with flamingos of course!
http://www.miamibeachfl.gov/newcity/depts/arce/flamingos_pages/flamingo_list.asp
April 28, 2006 2:50:00 PM GMT+02:00
oops- try this link:
http://tinyurl.com/penkw
April 28, 2006 2:51:00 PM GMT+02:00
Well, you know things are bad as an actor when a photo of a cow gets just as many comments as your picture. Sorry Tom!
April 28, 2006 3:13:00 PM GMT+02:00
I LOVE these cows! In San Jose a couple of years ago we had sharks (for our hockey team) and they were auctioned off as a fundraiser. I like cows more though. :)
Many thanks, Eric. PDP is a lovely treat each day.
April 28, 2006 5:03:00 PM GMT+02:00
Well, Michael you lait it on thick, were you trying to see how many jokes you could creme into one sentence? You'll have to vache your step, veau I think Eric doesn't mind, although it's a little cuir that he hasn't complained.
April 28, 2006 5:18:00 PM GMT+02:00
Now I'm impressed Ham. I could never have done cow puns, in french, within an English sentence. You take the prize!
April 28, 2006 6:15:00 PM GMT+02:00
When I'm walking in Union Square here in NYC, I sometimes pass by one of the cows that somebody bought after NYC's Cow Parade. It always brings a smile to my face. It's in front of their apartment building.
Thanks for posting the news about the Cow Parade in Paris. It is one more thing for me to see when I'm there in several weeks. Merci beaucoup, Eric!
April 28, 2006 6:26:00 PM GMT+02:00
Michael / Ham: I'm impressed too! Vachement impressionant!
Here you go, guys, a few ASCII cows right here:
http://tinyurl.com/re8l
April 28, 2006 6:27:00 PM GMT+02:00
(And besides, I , too, think it's kind of cool that a cow should get more comments than Tom Cruise! ;-)
April 28, 2006 6:43:00 PM GMT+02:00
Eric, we had dinosaurs in Pittsburgh last summer. I think they had them for a charity auction, too.
Michael, the cowculator joke was awful! But I loved it.
April 28, 2006 7:05:00 PM GMT+02:00
Great :-)...i know the first thing i am going to see in two weeks !
Thanks Eric.
April 28, 2006 7:22:00 PM GMT+02:00
i still do not know if the cow is funnie - tom cruis is funnie - or the comments are funnie. i think i will chose d. all of the above.
April 28, 2006 7:48:00 PM GMT+02:00
I just read in our papers today about the cow parade in Paris.I am from South Africa and it cought my eye because we also had such a parade in 2004/2005.The cows were on display in Johannesburg and Cape Town and then sold for charity.
April 28, 2006 7:56:00 PM GMT+02:00
yes, in Washington first we had the Party Animals (the donkeys & elephants) and then pandas. someone in my neighborhood bought a panda and put it in their front yard. I see it when I walk to the park.
April 28, 2006 8:19:00 PM GMT+02:00
Oh my! this is really cool!!! xD
April 28, 2006 9:29:00 PM GMT+02:00
Michael, Ham and Buzzgirl, great job!! What an entertaining little interlude this was! And, of course, thanks for the great photographic inspiration, Eric.
April 28, 2006 10:19:00 PM GMT+02:00
Hi Buzzgirl, I hope you don't mind, but I haven't been able to leave comments on your blog. Your trip to Paris sounds fantastic and the story about Eric is great! Glad someone finally got a picture of him!
April 28, 2006 10:21:00 PM GMT+02:00
P.S. Buzzgirl, I just went back to your blog and saw that you noticed that the commenting is quiet as well. I think you've turned on the monitoring option so you have to "approve" them before they show up...or deselect the option in Blogger. Hope that helps.
April 28, 2006 10:32:00 PM GMT+02:00
Je les ai même vu à Buenos Aires !
J'aime beaucoup cette initiative.
April 28, 2006 10:38:00 PM GMT+02:00
I love it!
You will be able to see my cows on
www.aphotographerinparis.com
(dayinparisblog)
April 28, 2006 10:40:00 PM GMT+02:00
Great photo! I saw the ones in New York, but this is the most original I've seen. Genius!
April 28, 2006 11:03:00 PM GMT+02:00
Buzzgirl: I agree with Michael. Comment moderation is a nice, handy feature to have, just in case, but it also discourages people to comment because it kills the spontaneity.
April 28, 2006 11:34:00 PM GMT+02:00
May I please add to the cow jokes??
What do you call a masturbating cow?
Beef-strokin-off
Love the Photo!!
April 28, 2006 11:38:00 PM GMT+02:00
Michael, you were right. I'm a dork. Thank you!
April 28, 2006 11:50:00 PM GMT+02:00
You're not a dork...just a little problem with your cowments. They were almost as fun to read as your adventures.
April 28, 2006 11:51:00 PM GMT+02:00
very funny megan!!
April 28, 2006 11:57:00 PM GMT+02:00
Megan: ROFL in San Francisco!!!
April 29, 2006 12:09:00 AM GMT+02:00
Hello everyone, with 63 comments on this photo so far(not that I cownt...) I regret not to be able to answer everybody personnally.
Thanks for all your comments, I love you all!
April 29, 2006 4:26:00 AM GMT+02:00
At last I have something to contribute, albeit a day late. I believe this whole craze started in the 1990s when New Mexico started an art competition to benefit local schools. Local artists created life-sized ponies and artists and children decorated them - from there a full-scale booming business was born. View these beautiful works of art or purchase figurines at
http://www.trailofpaintedponies.com/originals_main.html
April 29, 2006 4:42:00 AM GMT+02:00
Holy cow! I haven't laughed this hard in ages! Thanks guys.
April 29, 2006 5:40:00 AM GMT+02:00
In Buffalo, NY, we had the same thing with buffalos, of course :)
April 29, 2006 9:58:00 PM GMT+02:00
And we had the same thing here in Stockholm last year! But they were all in the same shape, not original ones like this cow!
Nice photo!
April 29, 2006 10:50:00 PM GMT+02:00
here in moscow it's the same! in the biggest shop in the city they have installed those cows, which i actually find quite ugly... i don't know why but i find it bad tasted... may be the french cows look better :)
April 29, 2006 11:29:00 PM GMT+02:00
Okay, okay Megan...that one was bad. Here's one for the ladies:
Q: Why can't men get mad cow disease?
A: Because we're pigs.
April 30, 2006 3:35:00 AM GMT+02:00
I guess I'm not much of a lady, then, because I' thought Megan's joke was hilarious.
Oink.
April 30, 2006 3:35:00 AM GMT+02:00
;-)
April 30, 2006 5:12:00 AM GMT+02:00
Ah, the cows are in Paris! They get around! Did anyone happen to see them in the opening ceremonies of the Torino olympics?
Cow Parade does ultimately sell these beautified bovines to benefit selected charities, but sadly the CP corporation itself did not pay the Swiss sculptor who created the original model for the most widely used Cow Parade cow (the standing one). Pfff.
April 30, 2006 7:46:00 AM GMT+02:00
Tomate, I didn't say I did not like Megan's joke, just that it was a bad one! ;-)
May 1, 2006 2:06:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh my I'm glad I could be both humerous and controvertial. Thanks Michael & Tomate! Lots O'Laughs.
Eric I think your photos are fabulous wish I could check them out more often!! Love the variety of photos.
May 1, 2006 6:03:00 PM GMT+02:00
Kansas City had one, too. Vancouver has a few killer whales and grizzly bears.
May 1, 2006 8:21:00 PM GMT+02:00
Michael, you mean when "bad" means "good?" ;)
May 1, 2006 8:40:00 PM GMT+02:00
TF - Yes, that's why I'm ALWAYS "good"! LOL
May 2, 2006 1:34:00 AM GMT+02:00
That's real phat, Michael.
;)
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