{"id":26261,"date":"2014-11-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=26261"},"modified":"2019-06-25T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:45:18","slug":"spotted-on-the-roadside-the-scripps-turd-in-la-jolla-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/spotted-on-the-roadside-the-scripps-turd-in-la-jolla-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted on the Roadside: The Scripps Turd in La Jolla, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-scripps-turd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26291\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-scripps-turd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-scripps-turd.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-scripps-turd-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-scripps-turd-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-scripps-turd-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-scripps-turd-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/scripps-turd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26281\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/scripps-turd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/scripps-turd.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/scripps-turd-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/scripps-turd-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/scripps-turd-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/scripps-turd-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okeanos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26271\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okeanos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okeanos.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okeanos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okeanos-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okeanos-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okeanos-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Public Art Hated by the Public&#8221;, we have Okeanos by William Tucker, better known as The Scripps Turd. Erected in 1988 by a $200,000 commission, Tucker named it after the Greek god of rivers and oceans because he felt the form suggested a wave. And critics agreed! Michael Brenson of the New York Times wrote that Okeanos &#8221; is a rippling curve that seems to spew out of the earth and curl up like a wave. It suggests not only water, but also clouds and vegetation and human limbs.&#8221; Also peanuts, corn, and an appropriate amount of fiber. Parked in front of the hospital as it was, it really resembled nothing so much as a robust stool sample. Okeanos was generally hated, art critics nonwithstanding, not just by the public, but also by the philanthropist whose name adorns the hospital: Edythe H. Scripps. In 2001, Scripps flushed another $40,000 down the toilet\u00a0 to have the sculpture scraped off the sidewalk and (bowel) moved to a less prominent place on the campus. It seems a great shame that they couldn&#8217;t find a business specializing in colonics to take it off their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@32.89399,-117.2393162,3a,75y,8.89h,86.49t\/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sE_rc1_VyUS6W9aO9PX98cQ!2e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Jay Hopkins Drive &amp; Atomic Court in La Jolla, CA<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Public Art Hated by the Public&#8221;, we have Okeanos by William Tucker, better known as The Scripps Turd. Erected in 1988 by a $200,000 commission, Tucker named it after the Greek god of rivers and oceans because he felt the form suggested a wave. And critics agreed! Michael Brenson of&#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/spotted-on-the-roadside-the-scripps-turd-in-la-jolla-ca\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,243,533,129,102,223,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions","category-california","category-pacific","category-spotted-on-the-roadside","category-travel","category-usa","category-west"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spotted on the Roadside: The Scripps Turd in La Jolla, CA &#8226; Mellzah<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/spotted-on-the-roadside-the-scripps-turd-in-la-jolla-ca\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spotted on the Roadside: The Scripps Turd in La Jolla, CA &#8226; Mellzah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this week&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Public Art Hated by the Public&#8221;, we have Okeanos by William Tucker, better known as The Scripps Turd. 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