Artist Anish Kapoor has won a commission to design a 115m high public artwork at Olympic Park in London, to be built as part of London’s Olympic Games in 2012.
The sculpture, called ArcelorMittal Orbit, has been designed in collaboration with structural engineer Cecil Balmond of Arup. Top image courtesy of Arup.
Here’s the press release:
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ANISH KAPOOR TO DESIGN ICONIC LANDMARK FOR OLYMPIC PARK
The ArcelorMittal Orbit set to become UK’s largest sculpture. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, today unveiled the artist and design chosen to create a spectacular new visitor attraction in the Olympic Park.
Award winning London-based artist Anish Kapoor has been given the commission of a lifetime to design the spectacular new public attraction in the Olympic Park. The stunning artwork, to be entitled ‘The ArcelorMittal Orbit’, will ensure the Park remains an unrivalled visitor destination following the 2012 Games, providing the key Olympic legacy Mayor of London Boris Johnson envisaged for the East End.
The breathtaking sculpture – thought to be the tallest in the UK – will consist of a continuous looping lattice of tubular steel. Standing at a gigantic 115m, it will be 22m taller than the Statue of Liberty in New York and offer unparalleled views of the entire 250 acres of the Olympic Park and London’s skyline from a special viewing platform. Visitors will be able to take a trip up the statuesque structure in a huge lift and will have the option of walking down the spiralling staircase.
One of the world’s most distinguished contemporary artists, Turner Prize winning Anish Kapoor studied in London, where he is now based. He is well known for his use of rich pigment and imposing, yet popular works, such as the vast, fleshy and trumpet-like Marsyas, which filled the Tate’s Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series, the giant reflecting, pod like sculpture Cloud Gate in Chicago’s Millennium Park and his recent record breaking show at the Royal Academy, the most successful exhibition ever presented by a contemporary artist in London.
Anish Kapoor’s proposal has been developed in collaboration with one of the world’s leading structural designers, Cecil Balmond of Arup. Balmond, who trained and lives in London, is known for his innovative work on some of the greatest contemporary buildings in the world, such as the CCTV building in Beijing, as well as numerous Serpentine Gallery pavilion commissions. The two began working together on the Marsyas project in 2002 and have become renowned for their ambitious, large-scale public art projects.
ArcelorMittal will fund up to £16million of the £19.1million project with the outstanding £3.1 million provided by the London Development Agency. The unveiling also marks ArcelorMittal’s announcement to become a tier two sponsor of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, to support he infrastructure and success of 2012.)
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson and the Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell agreed the commission in partnership with Mr Mittal after bringing together a panel from the art and design world to advise on a long list of proposals. Anish Kapoor’s team made an outstanding proposal that would be accessible and leave a fitting 2012 legacy.
Anish Kapoor said: ‘I am deeply honoured to be invited to undertake this challenging commission. I am particularly attracted to it because of the opportunity to involve members of the public in a particularly close and personal way. It is the commission of a lifetime.’
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: ”Long after the Games are over our aim is to have a stunning spectacle in east London that will be recognised around the world. I’m thrilled that when visitors from every corner of the globe plan trips to our must see attractions they will now eagerly include the ArcelorMittal Orbit! It will be an internationally acclaimed family attraction and I would like to thank Mr Mittal for his generous support. Anish Kapoor’s inspired art work will truly encapsulate the energy and spirit of London during the Games and as such will become the perfect iconic cultural legacy.”
Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal, commented: “The Olympic Games are one of the few truly iconic global events. I was immediately excited by the prospect of ArcelorMittal becoming involved because ArcelorMittal is a global company with operations in more than 60 countries. And as someone who lives in this great city, I remember the great excitement felt when it was announced that London had been selected to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We set out to create a transformational piece of art that will be an iconic symbol for the Olympics and also a new landmark that will endure long after the Games themselves. Everyone at ArcelorMittal is delighted with the outcome of the ArcelorMittal Orbit. London will have a bold, beautiful and magnificent sculpture that also showcases the great versatility of steel.”
The attraction will stand in the southern part of the Olympic Park between the Stadium and Aquatics Centre and will open in time for the 2012 Games. After completion, the Olympic Park Legacy Company will take ownership and run the visitor attraction.
Minister for the Olympics and London Tessa Jowell said: “This stunning structure will become a new iconic London landmark towering 115 metres into the London skyline. Alongside the Olympic Stadium and Aquatics Centre, Anish Kapoor’s brilliant design will be like to honey to
bees for the millions of tourists that visit London each year. Having been involved in this project from the outset, I’m now looking forward to seeing it go from a great idea into a brilliant reality.”
Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), Seb Coe said: “Our ambitions for the Games are very clear and very simple. We want to leave leaving a lasting legacy: of more young people playing sport, of changing public
attitudes towards disabilities through the Paralympic Games, of an extraordinarily transformed landscape in East London, in which this impressive sculpture will play a central role. The new sculpture will be an indelible memory, a declaration of legacy and a definable landmark that Londoners and people from around the world will enjoy visiting during the Games and long afterwards.
Margaret Ford, Chairman of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, said: “When you are able to combine an industry leader with a world renowned artist, supported by significant investment, we clearly see the significance of the Olympic Park. This visitor attraction will sit alongside our other iconic venues and, in animating the site, will encourage the public to use the park. This is a magnificent legacy asset.”
Advisory panel members Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Serpentine Gallery, said: “The success of Anish Kapoor’s Marsyas commission Tate Modern in 2003 and his exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2009 demonstrates that his work already strikes a chord with
many people. His close partnership with the distinguished engineer Cecil Balmond has created the exciting prospect of a sculpture to be climbed, an unexpected view of the city and a new place to visit and enjoy in London.”
Tate Director Sir Nicholas Serota, who sat on the advisory panel, said: “We are delighted that Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond will give London a new structure which is one of the most exciting new commissions of our time. The collaboration between Anish Kapoor, Cecil Balmond and Lakshmi Mittal bridges art, architecture, engineering and business to produce a new landmark for London.”
March 31st, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Looks like a screwed up rollercoaster…I’m a fan of Kapoors work but this looks a bit like a mess :-(
March 31st, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I am not one who thinks all good architecture has to be beautiful – but seriously, the Olympic commitee and London think this beacon is an appropriate icon for the games. What an ugly eyesore! Let’s hope they run out of funding before they build it.
March 31st, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Rather Alien invasion like, isn’t it? I enjoy Kapoors work but this is…well I’m not sure what it is. It does have Hoover like qualities to though. Maybe it can be used for clean up after the Olympics. Lets see how it does with all these little people here. Regular hoovers only bat around dirt. With the Kapoor Cyclone…
March 31st, 2010 at 3:19 pm
i love anish kapoor’s work…always clean, simple, but strong experientially…. but i am not really understanding this one…or maybe its too early in the morning for me =_=
March 31st, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Huge annoying piece of metal, IMHO
March 31st, 2010 at 3:37 pm
A bit painful to have this monster on the same page as the incredible structure realized by Thomas Heatherwick, what a concept and what form! If the only selling point is: how big the thing is…, and than still a third of the size of the Eifel Tower, it becomes quite a sad story. Not slightly as good as what one could expect from Anish Kapoor.
March 31st, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Good grief!
March 31st, 2010 at 3:48 pm
is that a hamburger on top?
March 31st, 2010 at 3:56 pm
ha ha… this seems like india’s revenge on the british empire… ugly as hell!
March 31st, 2010 at 3:56 pm
It looks like Mr. Balmond put together a fantastic structural system for a skin by Kapoor but then they forgot to render that layer.
Where is the shiny cover?
March 31st, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Works well with the 2012 Olympics logo, if you know what I mean…
March 31st, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I’m so disappointed, especially after having such a wonderful show at the Royal Academy last year. Just not feeling this at all…..
March 31st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2012
March 31st, 2010 at 4:45 pm
What’s really worrying me is that the information released about this… ummm, landmark(?) is all about what a monument it will be, who will fund it, where it will be, who was involved etc.
If you want people to love this tower, they want to know what this thing is, what it does, what it says, what it signifies.
Putting it on a par with the Eiffel Tower is ridiculous – it doesn’t have the same simplicity. So why is it so complex? If there’s a good reason, fine, but surely someone should explain that to us?
March 31st, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Amazing that such serious artist can do this kind of disappointing things.
March 31st, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Kapoor…normally fannytastic but I don’t get this at all
March 31st, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Kapoor’s work is usually both intellectually and visually engaging. What the hell happened here?
March 31st, 2010 at 5:41 pm
looks like Spider-Man was getting silly with his web-shooters.
March 31st, 2010 at 5:45 pm
…it’s not him.
March 31st, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Why is it ‘thought’ to be the tallest sculpture in the UK?
Surely that’s a fairly simple fact to check?
Compared to the other public works on Mr Kapoor’s website this makes me want to hide in a corner and pretend it doesn’t exist.
March 31st, 2010 at 5:54 pm
so grotesque. fail.
March 31st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
it’s a joke… it must be. please let it be an april fools joke published a day too soon.
March 31st, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Elma – “Works well with the 2012 Olympics logo, if you know what I mean…”
Whole heartedly agree!!
This is a hideous proposition. The fact that I am a massive fan of Anish only serves to reinforce my disbelief that he could propose such upsettingly poor design.
deeply disappointed.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Excellent. It reminds me of a sprinter lunging out of the blocks, really muscular and athletic. I think it’s very individual and looks fantastic. Looking forward to visiting the viewing platform.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I don’t like this..AT ALL!
March 31st, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I could see it it was for an amusement park ride.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:34 pm
I’m surprised at the hate for this. It’s an interesting piece of work. The lattice-like metal work reflects the metal work of the stadium behind it, linking it somewhat to it’s location. It’s an unconventional design, something which has been a trait in much of London’s olympics campaign (branding, etc) Anish Kapoor has lived and worked in London for several decades, so as a candidate for modern multi-cultural Britain he is an excellent choice.
Besides, shouldn’t we be welcoming challenging design, rather than disparaging it? Let’s not forget that the Eiffel Tower was disliked in it’s day, and was actively petitioned against by many high-ranking citizens of Paris. This could very well be our own Eiffel Tower given time.
I’d much rather a challenging pieces of work than some populist “iconic” cliche that appeals to the sensibilities of Prince Charles & Co.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:43 pm
maybe its meant to depict an athelete’s muscle anatomy
March 31st, 2010 at 6:55 pm
This could also be one of Ken Shuttleworth’s bullshit sculptures, designed by one of his interns in 3dsmax with the twist and lattice modifier in 5 minutes…
March 31st, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Why does publicly funded art always seem to violate ordinary sensibilities (that naturally recognise and applaud beauty)?
Is there any source of information that might explain what is obviously going on here. The public promotion of alienating ugliness.
The following article (at foot of this post) taken from a Catholic magazine seems to fit the bill. It discusses the plans of social engineering psychologists of ‘The Frankfurt School’ who laid down various templates for converting society away from Christian godliness towards the kind of marriage between monopolistic capitalism and global communism we now see creating itself (under the direction of international finance) on a day-by-day basis before our very eyes.
Quote:
“Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.’”
Sharks in urine, piss-Christ, Gilbert & George’s ‘religious’ art made out of their own excrement. Enough already.
Perhaps we are too late but should ordinary decent people not resolve to destroy these monstrosities at the first available opportunity.
http://catholicinsight.com/online/features/article_882.shtml
March 31st, 2010 at 7:09 pm
this thing is amazing…sounds like people on here need to expand their aesthetic range
March 31st, 2010 at 7:13 pm
no, no – look, this is a stroke of brilliance. he’s taken the overwrought (and highly misunderstood) scaffolding/torch stand from the 1996 altanta olympic games, recycled it, and…. voila! repurposed art!
http://bit.ly/aNSW0G
March 31st, 2010 at 7:53 pm
This sculpture is HUGE!
March 31st, 2010 at 8:00 pm
What a giant piece of shite. More wasted money. This saddens me…
March 31st, 2010 at 8:09 pm
I agree with most of you. It doesn’t fit my imagination. Anyway, I love this guy!
March 31st, 2010 at 8:18 pm
OMG – just when we all thought the guy is brilliant…..this really breaks my heart.
March 31st, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Unbelieveably awful!!! Shockingly bad, just shocking, what on earth was Kapoor thinking when he thought this monstrocity up?!!! This thing is flawed at so many levels its difficult to know where to start, someone needs to start a petition to stop this eyesore from ever getting off the page, the general state of design at the Olympic park is bad enough as it is, this just adds insult to injury.
March 31st, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Am I taking crazy pills. Point in case proving how unknowledgable Boris Johnson is!
March 31st, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Wow…I am the only person who likes it? I think it looks wicked, and have never heard of the artist before….shows what I know. That or the rest of you! :)
March 31st, 2010 at 8:55 pm
WTF – this looks terrible, What a monster. I am scared of it already, hope it doesn’t eat the athletes – run away as fast as you can
March 31st, 2010 at 9:15 pm
doesn´t he have anything better to do? somebody must have gone nuts to commission this piece of bad taste
March 31st, 2010 at 9:17 pm
My god, ive seen far nicer structural failures……the combination of the criss crossing steel beams and the red looks more like a disintergrating rollercoaster than an iconic structure.
How ugly, and as for the width of that staircase, millions of people will want to come and see the games and a thin spirl staircase is not the best way to convey people to that observation thingy….whatever it is.
Disapointing…to say the least
March 31st, 2010 at 9:47 pm
It’s outrageous! I like it.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
I think whats really ruining it for me is the observation pod, it’s plonked on there and seems incongruous with the rest of the structure.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:27 pm
definitly not an icon
March 31st, 2010 at 10:35 pm
This seems MASSIVELY contradictory of the fact that the whole scheme of the olympic village is set to be “the first sustainable games”
As a student of architecture i was lucky enough to go to a RIBA Climate Change Conference recently in which Alison Nimmo (currently on the Olympic Development Committee) excellently presented the range of ideas and ethos behind the olympic scheme in reducing materials and the impact of the games.
Whereby the structure of the olypic stadium and also the roof design of the velodrome used design and engineering at its best to produce the most sustainable architecture reducing the materials used.
This monstrosity massively wastefull on materials seems more in key with the wasteful use of steel in the birds nest of the last olypics.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:44 pm
To Things of Random Coolness:
this tower might be an unconventional design for London, but it has been done, by russian constructivist, Vladimir Tatlin, in 1920. It is also known as The Monument to the Third International- quite an iconic piece- you might wanna check it out.
Anish Kapor’s rip off just might be something that appeals to the sensibilities of Prince Charles & Co.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:58 pm
This has to be an April Fools joke?! Come on, PLEASE say it is!
This would single handedly ruin the whole Olympic park – Its utter S***e!
March 31st, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Much harder to dust than his other ones no?
March 31st, 2010 at 11:34 pm
This is april fools day joke by Dezeen, it has got to be. And its a good one!
March 31st, 2010 at 11:58 pm
What a waste. Appauling excuse for sculpture / architecture. Anish Kapoor should stay in the gallery fantasizing about launching paint at walls for the blithely pretentious art community.
He will be lucky if anyone likes this eyesore, nevermind speculating on whether this giant blood clot becomes an ‘icon.’ Same old story with the Olympic commissions – the London design community is laughing at it. First the nonsense branding by Wolf Ollins and now this. What mash up of bad design.
April 1st, 2010 at 12:25 am
Looks like London 2012 is quickly becoming the go-to place for bad design at a significant public event.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:53 am
It’s called INTESTINAL DESIGN!
Hope no S**T comes out of it.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:08 am
Personally I don’t hate it.
everyone seems to be evaluating it based on aesthetics.
I think comparing it to Tatlin’s monument is a bit misguided.
It’s quite interesting that people are even assessing its use of materials in terms of sutainability.
As a piece of art it has certainly polarised people!
Good stuff!
April 1st, 2010 at 3:46 am
I really wanted to side with the folks who were arguing for some kind of historical long view and broadness of taste, but then I scrolled back up and looked at it again. It makes the skin crawl, and I’m willing to bet the Eiffel Tower never nauseated anyone, even as hated as it was in tis day. And, as so many have pointed out, his other works have been so stimulating without also being terribly painful to look at.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:52 am
Also, s***w you with the size comparison to the Statue of Liberty. That statue sits on a plinth at least half as tall as the statue itself. So if you’re talking height of landmarks, you lose. And, as someone else mentioned, if you design a landmark and all you’ve got to say for it is it’s big, and it’s not even that big, then– as the kids say– FAIL.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:09 am
Anyone have an accurate statistics on the number of homeless people in London? To build this, instead of housing them, is a socio-economic travesty.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:20 am
@Architect Student:
It’s because ArcelorMittal, the largest steelmaker in the world, is funding this by providing all the steel for it. I’m guessing it’s also why the much better MIT design lost to this utter garbage. They didn’t fill their design with steel. And, of course the name of ArcelorMittal’s CEO, the man who decided to fund the design, is Lakshmi Mittal. So, there you have the two main reasons why Kapoor’s ugly steel mess won the competition.
April 1st, 2010 at 5:01 am
it looks cool!! definitely a work of art !
Just like a huge wireframed saxofone that melted up to find new sounds.
Is it meant to sound like a saxofone too?
greetings people..
April 1st, 2010 at 7:20 am
it’s 1st april joke
April 1st, 2010 at 7:54 am
If this abhorrent jumble of twisted steel is ever built, it will stand as a monument to human stupidity.
There’s no better use for such a huge amount of money than this afirmation of waste and profound lack of imagination and bad taste?
Where will there be the excellent public sport facilities that could be projected with this budget and that Londoners and visitors alike deserve to enjoy? Just in their minds.
Take your children to the feet of this crap and try to explain them what is this thing doing in the middle of nowhere. Pay your visit. Go to the top. Gaze at the City ahead of you and if you are lucky enough to see something, pretend you don’t understand and smile.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:24 am
Architect student, what do you mean this is not sustainable, I believe Flamingo Land want to reuse it straight after the Olympics.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:31 am
Looked at the photo, thought “what’s that pile of scrap with ants around the base”, then woke up and realised what it is supposed to be: a rather pathetic “Keeping up the Jones” one-in-the-face for Paris, more than a century down the road. A wee bit late.
All that and costing a cool £19.5M, for which most of us could have found far better uses that would have made strong iconic statements and also done some good for society. I’m a little tired of this sort of purposeless masturbation passing for “design”.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:01 am
This ego on two legs certainly does not suffer a vacuum in his bank balance, I would have him committed for crimes against humanity and sentenced to thirty years breaking rocks so he can reflect on the shape of his blisters.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:02 am
beyond hideous
April 1st, 2010 at 9:04 am
Happy to be an indian. With an indian born Anish Kapoor design and an indian born Lakshmi Mittal funding,I am fascinated how indians could play such a vital role in the biggest sporting event in the world.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:38 am
This doesn’t deserve any funding at all. It is as if he just recycle all the ideas he had before. I mean that’s just lazy!
April 1st, 2010 at 9:53 am
Interesting reference meow-mix.
….so this monstrosity looks like a commemoration, tribute or, perhaps, rebirth of the “Monument to the Third International (or Comintern)”.
The Comintern held as their stated aim to fight “by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State.”
A project such as this tower is an initiative coming down from the highest level of embedded state power. This is not a New Labour whim. This has emanated from a source placed within some corporate/banking funded think-tank.
Thus do oligarchs spit in our face.
‘Globalism’ is coming. Nation states, like our own, will disappear. The whole earth will be administered by a central authority controlled, inevitably, by those who have succeeded in usurping power by extracting from our elected governments the power to create our money out of nothing. The usurers, whose activities were banned from our islands for more than 1000 years, are on the point of taking the whole earth.
If it was Christianity that forbade money-lending with interest, then it had good reason. What we are moving towards is global satanism. We will all be subject to the tender mercies of the international bankers.
Already our elected politicians are merely managing agents for these people. Have you not not noticed that ours is already a one-party state with no significant differences between the policies of the three media-promoted parties? Have you not noticed that the staggering losses recently incurred by the banks have been transferred to us, while the money we have ‘borrowed’ from them (at interest) to give back to them (how corrupted and owned are we to allow such a thing?) has been used as a source of private profiteering.
Returning to the tower. This project triumphantly violates our inner God-given sense of beauty and balance. It states loudly and openly its victory over Logos, the Christ, the spirit of truth, love, justice and reason, that our hearts naturally hold dear (even though our minds have been conditioned not to recognise them).
The aesthetic and spiritual violation that this project represents needs to be recognised as an open statement, revelation and precursor of much more horrible violations to come.
Be warned.
April 1st, 2010 at 10:10 am
Yikes…Kapoor + Rhino = Eye Sore
April 1st, 2010 at 10:13 am
…at least people will forget how ugly is the stadium next to it…
April 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am
I just don’t understand why this has to remind me of the edifice we saw in Beijin four years ago. An Olympian trend? Or whatever… But on the other hand that de ja vu feeling could become an important factor to gain popularity.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:07 am
Well… Eifel tower was also completely hated, when it was build. Now it is the most remarkable landmark of Paris. Let’s wait and see how this piece of art finds its way to the art and architecture history.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:13 am
Some more points :
1. OK – the design is pants – but the bigger issue – who are the ‘informed’ people making the decisions – why wasnt this put to a public vote? This ‘object’ represents the nation… and we are paying for it via GLA? Hmph.
2. The temporary architecture of London – white tubular steel (wheel, stadium, wembly, dome etc) – is an expression of a time – economic, engineered etc – fine – but why try and cover it up – locals and visitors like them – have their picture in front of them etc – so what is the point of it? Waste of time…
3. As a nation we are still recovering from the handing over ceremony of beefeaters and old double deckers – and naming it – Stampede of Stratford or whatever – doesnt wash. Put simply – its a wireframe ’scatological’ work…
4. The decision is made and there is NOTHING that can be done about it… Stratford is just going to have to live with it… yeah.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:15 am
I agree with the comment that a public petition should be instigated against the building of ArcelorMittal Orbit. An architect could produce a worthwhile and exciting building for the funding available, whereas Mr Kapoor continues to produce objects only fit for the fairground.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:19 am
Hardly elegant. It has a harsh randomness that is very hard to look at. Barcelona did better.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:29 am
Kevin Boyle, please drop the bible-bashing. This has nothing to do with God – or fairies, Easter bunnies, unicorns, vampires etc. This is about design and the fact that a poor quality design will now be forced onto London simply because the funder wants a big steel structure as a massive advert for his wares.
By the way, someone on Skyscrapercity came up with the best name for this going:
THE COLON.
It works on so many levels…
April 1st, 2010 at 12:49 pm
ok one question: who will pay if this goes over budget like almost any other project in this context? Apart from being outraged that LDA is blatantly funding the advertising campaign of britains richest industrialist with tax payers money, I would bet that they will also carry the bill if this ‘thing’ goes over budget.
Normally I admire the work of Kapoor, but this is plainly very wrong, and the selection process is a complete joke. I think there should be a petition against it too. Would sign it for sure.
April 1st, 2010 at 12:53 pm
to be honest and to join the consensus, it strikes me as ugly, but that is what was said about the Eiffel Tower, time will be its only test…
April 1st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
@AngerOfTheNorth
The Gut and Trumpet has a nice East End ring to it
April 1st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
at last, i’ve been saving up my favourite derogatory comment and finally here we have a piece that merits whipping it out……..
PURE SILAGE!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Its a quirky one!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Absolutely disgusting. I saw this and vomited.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Tatlin shagging Eiffel
April 1st, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Mr. Kapoor…, this intend to make a remarkable object has absolutely no meaning. It does not rule as your previous work. Let others play with steel piping. Your field is fabric.
This artifact will not help you at all, looks like you’re trying to remain within the public talk, but I’m not too sure whether you will stay afloat with it though…
Please get a life jacket soon.
Best wishes from Spain.
JJMor
April 1st, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Oh dear James,
at this moment in history we are not shifting to a new aesthetic paradigm that begins with this “sculpture”.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:59 pm
arguably the worst post I have ever seen on Dezeen .
a monster . well done .
April 1st, 2010 at 3:04 pm
i hope its not an april fool’s joke.. or maybe i hope it is…
April 1st, 2010 at 3:08 pm
I am surprised that a sculptor can fail so drastically in composition. Must be the work of the structural engineer
April 1st, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Paris have the Eiffel tower!
and now
London has the Awful tower!
I live 1km from this and will have to see it every time I look out of my bedroom window. Maybe I can strategically place a vase on my window cill?
April 1st, 2010 at 3:21 pm
yeh but………………., look who the engineer is. I have a feeling the finished piece could amount to much more than the worth of what’s shown above.
(having said this im not sure what i feel or think about the look of the piece (as is) above),
April 1st, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Absolute disgrace.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:01 pm
I disagree with all the negative comments – for me it’s the perfect expression of what the Olympic Games has come to represent. A trite, overblown,ill-conceived mish-mash of material thrown together with little evidence of care, thought or sensitivity.
Well done, Kapoor – you’ve come up with something as superficial in value as the Games themselves & that’s really an achievement.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Sorry I’m a huge fan of Kapoor, but i just don’t get this.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Hmm, just thought of this after my last comment… so…
I’m wondering if this is the fault of everyone saying the Beijing ‘Birds Nest’ stadium was amazing… I never liked it myself, but maybe this is the British authorities listening to all those folks. Maybe we (collectively) get whats we asks for?
April 1st, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Please Please Please can someone start a petition to ban this repugnent structure before its tool late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 1st, 2010 at 5:50 pm
There are plenty of free online petition sites, I’m thinking of starting one called The Olympic Tower, Enough is Enough.
Just thinking of more words for this skeletal monstrosity, offensive, dire, grim, bereft of merit, utterly depressing…
It should go the same way as The B of the Bang but without passing go.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Is this an April Fools joke?
April 1st, 2010 at 7:59 pm
it is ok. it is smaller than bird’s nest.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Un Nuevo Icono para Londres, sustituira la noria.
April 1st, 2010 at 9:43 pm
I am a fan of Kapoor’s work, but not this piece. It competes too much with Paris’ Eiffel Tower, not to mention its asethetics are less than complimentary to the 2012 London Olympic Village.
We here in Chicago clearly got the better deal with Kapoor’s Cloud Gate (aka “the bean). It’s a huge local and tourist favorite.
London, and Mittal, in particular, better be prepared for hefty financial overruns. $29 million is surely on the conservative side.
The cost for Cloud Gate was first estimated at $6 million; this had escalated to $11.5 million by the time the park opened in 2004, with the final figure standing at $23 million in 2006.
I gotta hand it to Kappor for reaping huge profits on his art. A great gig, if you can get it, as they say.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Monument to the Third Way
April 1st, 2010 at 11:21 pm
looks like a roller coaster on crack. why do “famous” artists/sculptors/whatever get to do whatever they want for the simple fact that their famous? i sick of it. do something worth while. yea, lets got out and waste an ungodly amount of materials, especially in this day and age. just because your a “famous” artist does not mean you can totally neglect the current society we live in. way to go. maybe you should look at andy warhole, at least his art responded to society. what does this respond to? amusement parks and their roller coasters? way to go you twisted the most basic structural form around and made a tower. in no way can this be compared to the eiffel tower. that was a complete expression of the times. the industrial revolution for god sakes. if this guy can be famous, anyone can
April 1st, 2010 at 11:53 pm
shagging is indeed the word!
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:27 am
I hate it too, but maybe its the next eiffel tower – everyone hated that when it was built.
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:21 am
really? this is just disgusting looking. and the scale is outrageous.
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:29 am
very good
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:02 am
A frustrating tangle mess of steel just to hold up a platform for F&B. Fortunately, someone wealthy is footing most of the bill, otherwise the taxpayers will have a field day.
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:01 am
the archelormittal orbit sincerely sucks big time.
i mean , rather than being an inspiration(anish kapoor has hosted an exhibition at the royal arts gallery), it disgusts the architectural aspirant in me.
when a monument seeks to represent a nation, that too in a highly coveted event like the Olympics, it should stand for what the heart of the country, the people, believe in. it should put to symbolic meaning the life of London, the thing that makes it so different and have its own cadence, apart from others.
aesthetically it is a big put off and in no way does it appear mighty or clean and neat, ….the grandeur of Eiffel tower cannot be replicated.
to twist and oil rig and bring it to gigantically ugly life is certainly not my idea to welcome international athletes at the London Olympics 2012.
its the monstrosity of the structure that i cannot gulp in.
instead of beautifying a potential games village, it rather is a hagrid hindrance to the main spot.
more than anything else, this project should have generated mass interest in the english. having failed to do so , how can it be assured that a structure that cannot stand on the love and the approval of the natives , will not scare the others away? hee hee. ya . its like a joke. this orbit.
much like in the hitchhiker’s galaxy.
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:10 am
‘Landmark’ is a useful word but it seems inadequate when faced with Kapoor’s offering. Perhaps its time to add a new word – ‘Landscar’ – when referring to it & other lamentable contributions to the world in which we live.
Perhaps Dezeen could organise an annual competition for “The Landscar of the Year”, although I cannot believe there could be a serious contender to rival Kapoor’s aberration.
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:19 am
Surely shome mistake?
Morris Bonbon “Visitors will be able to take a trip up the statuesque structure in a huge lift and will have the option of walking down the spiralling staircase” a bit like Marks & Spencer’s.
Steptoe “The new sculpture will be an indelible memory” like seeing diced carrots in your sick when you didn’t eat any carrots.
Ester Jawol “Anish Kapoor’s brilliant design will be like to honey to bees” that is, if they don’t choose to fly into the Olympic flame on seeing the tower.
Hamish Lahore “I am particularly attracted to it because of the opportunity to involve members of the public in a particularly close and personal way” (and off mike) let them eat cake.
Me-up-for Commital “a bold, beautiful and magnificent sculpture that also showcases the great versatility of steel” except in Redcar.
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:55 am
Absolutely vile! I am immensely disappointed in Kapoor who I had regarded as a sensitive and thoughtful artist who appears now to have fallen into the same iconographic trap populated by the Hadids and Nouvels of this world.
With the Olympics heralded as a sign of what this country can do, is this the best we can come up with? Maybe it is. After all we have become obsessed with trash and tat in this country – this clearly illustrates that. Perhaps clad it in pink velour and leopard print?
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Sorry, but from my untrained perspective, it’s rubbish.
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Does London need such structure to exist? This city is getting ridiculous…
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:58 pm
@ m: Barcelona did better, but not much better. Calatrava’s communications tower is an utter disgrace, a 120m high pen holder – but most infuriating is the platform it stands on, covered with Gaudí like trencadís missing the fact that trencadís was meant to be an experimental collage and not just a shiny surface.
At least this is so bad it looks less infuriatingly pretentious.
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:24 pm
to be titled THE HEIGHT OF UGLINESS
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Don’t blame Kapoor… Blame the Jury who have to vision for art that will last a lifetime.
What a waste of space!
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:34 pm
What´s the concept??? Waste of money and resources?
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Have you noticed that most collaborations are a bit rubbish?
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
A fascinating design, but perhaps it’s potential is grounded by the colour – it would be interesting to see the same design rendered in white. The images above imply a colour similar to a base coat primer, perhaps overwhelming, and detracting from the beauty of the form. The sculpture can still imply the muscular geometries of the athlete, if this is the case, without being crudely blood-like.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:59 am
I think the concept is Towering ego and BOY have we got on in Kapoor, I bet he’s got “I like me” written above his mirror.
There is no way this should go ahead as the laughter will travel round the world forever and we’ll be the but of the joke.
People like Wren, Brunel and Stephenson must be spinning in their graves.
I say bring back show trials for all concerned with this horror.
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:21 am
A thousand monkeys hitting typewriters with hammers could still not create a shape so bad.
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:36 am
Ok… Amazing… how many comments on this!!!
but seriously. I can’t wait to see his engineers face!!!
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Did not like at all! Very ugly! It makes no sense!
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Isnt London facing the hugest recession? financing this (bad) piece of Anish Kapoor seems ill advised and pointless. Repulsive.
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Looks like roadkill. Horrible. It might look better in another colour than blood red
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I had to read every single comment in search for a positive explanation…
It still doesn’t make sense… ArcelorMittal Orbit??
Certainly doesn’t qualify as anything actually!
Very disappointing…
April 4th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
This design (sic) simply does not have a redeeming feature, it’s viewing platform looks like an ashtray and it’s base the horn of a trumpet connected by loops that a child of one might draw.
The image of Kapoor’s tower has already bruised my conscience, I think I will put an injury claim in now.
Please, please, please don’t let it be built.
April 4th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Art is identifying itself with capatalism, it will go all downhill from her on. How honest can this tower be if is called the arcelormittal orbit?
I agree with the fact that the press release only talks about who built is and who is financing it, the real essence of the object is neglected.
April 4th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
That’’s it, this tower us not art in any way shape or form or concept, it is enstead just about ego and money.
April 5th, 2010 at 5:34 am
How the hell the Olympic commity allowed such an A:ugly, B: so heigh, C: out of context piece of art proclaiming to be celebrating London Olympics 2012. I remember working on the London olympic village 150, Startford street and the London authority didnt allow use to raise the tower by more than 42 storeys, just become nothing should be hindering the Stratford Skyline… now I know why!… amazing what bories can do.. to lift the face of East London…..BROVOOOOO …….wastage of tax payers money…and you Anish I loved you for your talent… now sorry another cross in my list of bad designer…Cheers…
April 6th, 2010 at 5:50 am
reminds me of Vladimir Tatlin tower in Russia.
Maybe someone already said this idk.
April 6th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Simply ghastly. As gimmicky as his latest works. It looks like a rollercoaster monster devouring a hambuger….or perhaps that was the intended design (smirk).
This work is best left where its name suggests…in orbit.
April 6th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Tatlin would be better. What a waste of whoever money. Kapoor…beginning of fall?
April 6th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Didn’t “Helter Skelter” encourage Charles Manson to kill?
Anish…think again.
April 6th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
What an incoherent mess.
Kapoors best works take one simple idea to a logical extreme:
This contains at least 5 clashing ideas:
1. Twisting steelwork
2. Observation platform
3. Funnel
4. Spiral Stair
5. Elevator shaft
Great design would be greater than the sum of its parts (the Eiffel Tower)
Adequate design would combine its parts logically (Paul Fryer’s ‘pylon’)
This thing manages to make its parts look worse than they would do separately.
Boris, it’s not too late to pick up the phone…
April 6th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Wow.
There are 135 comments above this one.
I tried to scan all of them and with the exception of a few that simply said it looks like something else, every single comment was negative.
Except for:
Aaron Says:
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:29 am
very good
Well done Aaron!
Which bit do you like?
April 7th, 2010 at 2:23 am
i agree with the comments made about sustainability. i mean, that’s what london’s whole shpeal was about – the “greenest olympic games ever”. wtf is this? a hot red mess it is.
April 7th, 2010 at 3:40 am
so the guy who singlehandedly finished off the British steel industry now gets to spunk £16million on an ego sculpture celebrating the London Olympics. Nice one Boris!
April 7th, 2010 at 8:58 am
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115915775089848
Here’s a petition to do something about it, please join your voices.
Cheers
C
April 7th, 2010 at 10:07 am
I agree wholeheartedly with the previous comment, it is just an horrific miss mash of things which together clash horribly with each other.
There was a bloke made wacky things in the sixties, like Heath Robinson illustrations made real, nonsense machines with spinning mirrors and feathers, what was his name?
At least they raised a laugh, there is nothing funny about Kapoor’s lash up which is also morally corrupt.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:16 am
I agree wholeheartedly with the previous comment, it is just an horrific miss mash of things which together clash horribly with each other.
There was a bloke made wacky things in the sixties, like Heath Robinson illustrations made real, nonsense machines with spinning mirrors and feathers, what was his name?
At least they raised a laugh, there is nothing funny about Kapoor’s lash up.
This tower is like how many things can you get wrong at once and Kapoor & Co have ticked every box.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:00 am
I think you mean Rowland Emett
April 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Art profanity. Nothing more. That’s all about large budgets…
April 7th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I’m curious – this piece has raised hell in blog populated by common or garden design folk…
Does anyone know of a similar art blog where we could check out the reaction from the common or garden art world?
Hey! Dezeen – how about ‘Arzeen’ ?
Ooh, that sounds a bit rude.
April 8th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
The outrage is down to Kapoor’s tower being so truly bad and equally by the enormous conceit or delusion of Kapoor to either pretend or believe that this pile of junk has one gram of aesthetic value and then expect the public to swallow this lie.
In short, this tower represents a betrayal of both art and design.
April 8th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Vancouver gets to be the first sustainable games with a near 0 carbon footprint and London hopes to frighten young children… A carnival ride that tragically succumbed to high wind speeds, perhaps? While typically an enthusiast of the less than ordinary use of bricks and mortar, there may be a common uniting experience, regardless of one’s design sophistication or base garden variety middling, that this is somewhat disappointing.
Buckminister Fuller desperately wrestling with architectural theory to not to bore you with more geodesic domes, again only, perhaps?
Despite its affronting ugliness, it is strangely banal and derivative. I still find myself visually lingering on the American Pavilion at Montreal Expo in a way I would not permit myself with the Orbit. That “only time will tell” suggests that there is no essential artifice to which humans will attach to emotionally, and perhaps, there in lies this works truth, regardless of the steelman’s ego and the architects indulgence.
April 9th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Kapoor’s tower marks the end of civilization as we know it, a tear in the universe of all taste.
Like a three dimensional killing jokes, once seen, it is already too late, unless Dyson adopts it as a new design for his equally atrocious range of vacs.
April 9th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Re: the last post.
I can’t see the similarity myself.
http://www.imagehousing.com/image/439717
April 9th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
sooooooooooooooooo bad…. god its ugly….
April 12th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
It’s tacky, poor, grim, ugly, colonic, overblown, unsightly and unwanted.
Mittal would save himself a lot of money by sticking a decommissioned blast furnace on this site, as they do have a certain aesthetic quality, and he must have a few of them about!
Failing this. Sticking HMS Belfast on end in concrete, a bit like the famous Cadillac Ranch, would have far more impact than Kapoor’s pitiful effort.
April 12th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
@Jo public
that is hilarious. nice.
April 12th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
What worries me about this commission is that it sends out the following message to all students of art and design, which is:
To forget everything that has gone before and concentrate only on developing your ability to pull the wool over other people eyes and align yourself to the nearest source of money, whatever it’s origin, from which you must extract the maximum amount by means of scaling-up your work to an obscene size. Further, that your work and ideas should be protected against harsh reality by an all encompassing firewall of theory, thereby relieving you of any need to quantify it, and for you to eventually drift on an unapproachable cloud over the world and it’s people.
Now someone please tell me if this isn’t so.
April 12th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
dont worry…it will grow on you..(whaaaaa!!!!)
April 12th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Now i am not sure whether i still want to go to London.
April 12th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Looks like a roller coaster gone horribly wrong. What a terrible and unnecessary mess! Can’t this be stopped before it even starts?!
April 12th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
As long as the London tax payer does not have to contribute………
April 12th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Thats just what I was thinking – surely there must be a ’stop the ugly thing’ petition?!
April 12th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
I can imagine this thing looking impressive in reality if only for the amount of steel in the contorted space frames… looking up at it will undoubtedly be pretty shocking.
But an elegant, beautiful, and responsible monument for the 21st century it is NOT.
April 12th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
¡NOOOOOOOO!
April 12th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
I do like Kapoor’s work generally however this is an unexpected and huge disapointment.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
First impressions, what a massive let down…. and it gives me the creeps, like another invasion from War of The Worlds.
April 13th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
See the previously posted link for the origin of this tower
http://www.imagehousing.com/image/439717
April 14th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
what is his obsession with that colour red?
April 15th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
What is needed is someone to make an animation of the foot from Monty Python repeatedly squashing this monstrosity to put on Youtube thereby discrediting Kapoor hopefully forever!
April 15th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
i love the reaction of the people in the video about this “piece”.
but for me: i’m speechless. what a waste of money and energy. common people will think this thing is amazing and start to like it… more bad taste in our lives. it’s not elegant, it’s not really functional, it’s not fitting, it’s … just wrong.
i think a child made a sketch for an olympic tower in primary school or kindergarden and the mittals fell in love with the “presence” – and for all those other people to be quiet they needed a patron like colani in the 80s and 90s for a few “failures”.
london, london, london…
April 16th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Man… if you’d have told me last year I was gonna get the biggest UK tower designed by Anish Kapoor built just 1 mile from my home, I’d have clapped my hands with joy. What a major disappointment this is, and such a wasted opportunity.
April 16th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I’ve just found a solution to the problem faced by London
http://www.imagehousing.com/image/448811
April 18th, 2010 at 6:41 am
giant shisha (also know as water pipe or hubbly bubbly)! so ugly.
April 18th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
The tower of insult more like, its our money going to somebodys “taste” in “art?”
If they like it tell them to buy it with their own money and put it where its not an eyesore to people with class.
Its not art its LUNACY! Why not make a memorial garden for the olympics like Sydney where the public get some benefit years later.
The RED colour represents Politics or POLI meaning many and Tics meaning blood sucking parasites. Its the Emperors new clothes syndrome ,INSANITY.
Waste of resources and money put elsewhere needed. They need to listen to reason and taste and the taxpayers,democracy is it? then listen to the taxpayers.
April 19th, 2010 at 11:21 am
” The stunning artwork, to be entitled ‘The ArcelorMittal Orbit’, will ensure the Park remains an unrivalled visitor destination ” to point and laugh at.
It’s unfortunate that the mass of steel interferes with the structure, making it look like a child playing with pipe cleaners. Actually that would possibly be preferable.
I have found a positive – at least Kapoor chose not to mimic the 2012 logo colours. Mr Blobby’s colon may have caused mass migration.
April 21st, 2010 at 6:31 am
I enjoy this. What a good joke. He pissed off so many people with this. This makes me really happy. The reactions to this are hilarious. Who knew bad taste could be so effective these days? PURE DADA [dunno if thats what was meant, but why not reconstruct after the fact?]. Effing Right.
April 21st, 2010 at 6:33 am
also did you know that anish kapoor has a sense of humor? i didnt. : )
April 21st, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I disagree with the last post completely.
There is nothing “funny ha ha” about Kapoor’s HORROR at all, as it offends completely on every level.
Probably the only way to make it look worse is to hang Antony Gormley’s figures from it with ropes round their necks.
It is the meaning of David Cameron’s “Broken Britain” made real.
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Let’s face it this is basically the ArcelorMittal logo on its side once a brand consultant (Anish Kappoor) has been told to redesign their logo. Take a look at the ArcelorMittal website. Once again Londoners will stick their hand in their pocket to tune of 3.1M thanks to the London Development Agency. Although I suspect the French will be less than amused that they are also funding such ‘English eccentricity’
May 20th, 2010 at 11:48 am
You guys are all dumb. It’s beautiful, much better than that joke of a logo at least.
May 24th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
April, Please keep up, as the Olympic logo has now been shaded by the mascots (gag), yet Kapoor’s tribute to mammon still takes top spot for everything that’s wrong in the world of quackery known as public art.
July 8th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Is there someway an official complaint can be brought against this horrendous tower? I wonder if this the winning entry to find the ugliest most visible use of material competition?
I don’t want this built in our city!
July 10th, 2010 at 5:16 am
‘China’ Olympics, the 3rd world dragon wakes up and lashes back at 500 years of subjection; a show of power through an excess of steel and led: CCTV, Birdsnest, Water Cube…
The 1st world follow up (unable to compete with labour and material costs) presents a self assured humility; economic restraint and awareness of our impact on our planet and resources.
….touché
so what the fuck is this?
(aside for being probably the worst work either of this to remarkable men have producd)
ArcelorMittal, a steel company with 3rd world labour and enviromental regulations and a 1st world based CEO pulls a marketing stunt ’slipped through’ under the brand of Kapoor and Balmond.
Show the power of freedom of the press, freedom of speech and the right to peaceful demonstration and expose this for what it is.
July 10th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
perhaps Anish should have collaborated with Amanda lavette on this one.
July 12th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
I think this design is a little too busy and much heavier/unbalanced on one side of the sculpture than the other, but I am willing to accept the artist’s vision.
July 26th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
I'll be living just around the corner from where this is being buiilt, and not only is this an eyesore on the skyline, but it is also destroying a lot of green space. This really is not what london needs!
August 11th, 2010 at 3:25 am
at this moment in history we are not shifting to a new aesthetic paradigm that begins with this “sculpture”.
so nice artwork
August 11th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I am usually a fan of Anish Kapoor's work, but this just loses the connectivity and fluidity that he usually brings to his sculptures. Maybe he should stick to smaller scaled projects?
August 18th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Please stop this from being built…
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Tapewormey!