NYFalls.com Talk

Who's been?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-Zqn-e4jA

I'm going. Believe it or not - what I'm looking forward to seeing most of all is this. The gum wall! Cannot wait.








And apparently fish throwing is a thing. Should be interesting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJDu88mJ6u0

To me that is just wrong, the gum wall that is. Hershey Park use to have one too.

Des219 wrote:To me that is just wrong, the gum wall that is.

Good to know. Is it wrong from a legal standpoint? Health standpoint? Environmental standpoint? Something else?
When I post my images of this beautifully gooey and colorful place, I'll be sure to label them NSFD.

Kelly wrote: Is it wrong from a legal standpoint? Health standpoint? Environmental standpoint?

Pretty much all of the reasons you listed above. It basically is graffiti. Both this wall and some graffiti might make for good photos, but it still does not make it right. Though I originally was referencing why stick gum on a wall?

Des219 wrote:why stick gum on a wall?

Here is the literal answer to your question.

The Gum Wall runs for about 50 feet along Post Alley, where paying customers to the Market Theater in Pike Place Market would wait in line for the next show to begin. Evidently the wait was too long for some theater-goers – long enough, at least, that their chewing gum lost its flavor. Lacking a handy bedpost (as in the classic tune by Lonnie Donegan popularized on the Doctor Demento radio show) to stick it on, antsy chewers chose the next best thing… well, the NEXT thing, which happened to be the brick wall bordering Post Alley.

For anyone whose mind is open enough to learn more, a link to tidbits about the wall, its history, and photos here:
Stuck On You: Seattle’s Gum Wall Is Pretty, Gross

The art we chews to embrace says a lot about us. I see it as beautiful crowd sourced (legal, BTW) public art. I can easily look beyond the literal blobs of gum on a wall. I also see beauty in a dress made completely of condoms, just so it's clear where I'm coming from.

That's my position and I plan to stick to it, though I have to remember I'm posting in a community of wide angle landscape shooters who may be uncomfortable with anything outside that norm. Thanks for the insight. At least now I know one way to push your buttons. (And you know one way to push mine.)

Why is it any different from people blowing their noses on the wall? I guess gum comes in more colors than snot, and thus makes it more artsy.

oh come on. you can do better than that.

everyone knows that snot, no matter its color, would be washed away with the next Seattle rain - which incidentally would arrive just about 2 minutes after the last snot was snewed.

"...snot was snewed."