Emptying the (astor Place) Cube

kc: 14th Apr 2006 - 15:25 GMT

that looks like chalk, which seems remarkably considerate. they got arrested for that? Are chalk drawings on the sidewalk illegal?

little ukraine: 14th Apr 2006 - 20:42 GMT

kc- some of it looked like chalk, and other parts looked like paint, or some material more difficult to remove - a friend and i theorized that the 4 who were arrested for disorderly conduct may have been the chalkers, while the 3 arrested for vandalism might have used paint-like stuff.

joey: 15th Apr 2006 - 02:43 GMT

is this the same cube that was memorialized in the national lampoon magazine?
probably sometime during the early 1970's there was a chris miller story about aliens living in the cube and they ate nickels to stay alive. or am i tripping?

maybe so. i'll have to do some research and get back to you.

joey: 15th Apr 2006 - 02:49 GMT

i think i found it. i loved this story. and it was about this cube. or wait- is there another cube like this in nyc?
if you're interested;
Pipe Dream, By Chris Miller; Illustration by Fred Marcellino
National Lampoon Magazine
June 1972, Vol. 1, No. 27
Science Fiction

Chris Erb: 1st Jun 2006 - 01:01 GMT

I watched a video about this art collective in NY who made what they call LED stickies which were just coloured LED lights attached together to make a little ball with something sticky on them. They went to this cube and started spinning it and throwing the stickies all over it. It looked beautiful in the night.