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Posted on 7/23/15 at 5:09 pm
Posted on 7/23/15 at 5:09 pm
I had plans to bump the post on tRant (can't find it in my posting history) and just add to it but the rock lost TONS of weight. Matter of fact three tons! I mean holy frickshit what was below was definitely older looking but damn.
I am simply in awe of that. I mean I know it's repainted over (often by UT these days) and so new messages are left a lot more but it's not just newer ones that went judging from the pic and now weigh-in. The messages underneath were def. before the spray paint era and looked to come when multiple messages and magic markers ruled and spray paint was far less common.
But again even though I judged many inches by the photo - I'm in utter shock.
Link that mentions it: LINK /
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UT Facilities said the paint was several inches thick and heavy machinery was needed to remove it. "It was too much to make it budge. It turned out to be somewhere between 2-3 tons of paint," Caudill said.
I am simply in awe of that. I mean I know it's repainted over (often by UT these days) and so new messages are left a lot more but it's not just newer ones that went judging from the pic and now weigh-in. The messages underneath were def. before the spray paint era and looked to come when multiple messages and magic markers ruled and spray paint was far less common.
But again even though I judged many inches by the photo - I'm in utter shock.
Link that mentions it: LINK /
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 5:35 pm to Prof
Found it by scrolling through the rant. So why the frick does it show some tRant posts I make but not all?? It's def. not an upvote/downvote thing (I checked that) although it might be based on popularity of thread. At any rate, here's most of what I posted there and comment in either place.
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And there may be some hope about preserving this beyond the fact that UT called in heavy machinery to move it instead of breaking it up:
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UT has not yet decided on what they will do with all of the paint that has fallen off the Rock. Many have mentioned they would like to see it saved, since it is a piece of UT's history.
The article seems to think this is the first time it's happened and given a combo of things: 1. we moved it because of construction a few years ago 2. the university at one part started repainted over messages are done lot more often than folks realize - it's never been a 'sports based rock' although the media likes to act like it because few care what students have to say on anything else 3. repaints have never been even (some - students and UT alike may have used latex house paint which is prone to sloughing off) and those uneven repaints gave water the ability to act like chisel given the amount and constancy we've had lately. 3. the apparent weight - WOW.
Hoping for preservation more than ever.
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And there may be some hope about preserving this beyond the fact that UT called in heavy machinery to move it instead of breaking it up:
quote:
UT has not yet decided on what they will do with all of the paint that has fallen off the Rock. Many have mentioned they would like to see it saved, since it is a piece of UT's history.
The article seems to think this is the first time it's happened and given a combo of things: 1. we moved it because of construction a few years ago 2. the university at one part started repainted over messages are done lot more often than folks realize - it's never been a 'sports based rock' although the media likes to act like it because few care what students have to say on anything else 3. repaints have never been even (some - students and UT alike may have used latex house paint which is prone to sloughing off) and those uneven repaints gave water the ability to act like chisel given the amount and constancy we've had lately. 3. the apparent weight - WOW.
Hoping for preservation more than ever.
Posted on 7/23/15 at 8:15 pm to Prof
2-3 Tons of fricking paint? Holy shite.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 11:57 am to Prof
Im not very artistically inclined, but surely someone could do some kick arse art with all this stuff.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 1:58 pm to Prof
Holy frick that's crazy
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