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...in some European news media, mirth-provoking photos have been popping up in the past few days of an object - a big object - that has quickly become the signature attraction of "Loire Estuary 2007," an outdoor, contemporary-art exhibition in France featuring works by 30 artists from around the world. Their creations have been installed along a 40-mile corridor at the mouth of the Loire River, stretching from Saint-Nazaire, on France's Atlantic coast, to Nantes, which lies inland.
The smile-provoking concoction that's responsible for this little shot of joy in a global-warming-heated summer, against a backdrop of war chaos and political cant, is a giant rubber duckie created by the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. After wrestling with some air-inflating problems, his 105-foot-tall, 85-foot-wide "Rubber Duck" finally took to the sea (that is, to the estuary) last weekend....
The smile-provoking concoction that's responsible for this little shot of joy in a global-warming-heated summer, against a backdrop of war chaos and political cant, is a giant rubber duckie created by the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. After wrestling with some air-inflating problems, his 105-foot-tall, 85-foot-wide "Rubber Duck" finally took to the sea (that is, to the estuary) last weekend....
That's a big rubber ducky.