COWS ON PARADE

From: Hare Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA) Hare.Krsna.dasi@bbt.se 
Sent: 24 August 1999 23:44
Subject: Cows on Parade!

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My mother showed me this Website while we were visiting her in Ohio. The city of Chicago has a summer art event called "Cows on Parade." There are at least 100 full-sized cows, painted with different motifs, or even decorated with mosaics or mirrors. They are located all around the city and sponsored by different corporate sponsors, and decorated by different artists.

Some are foolish, but many are beautiful. Some are sobering messages about cow slaughter.

I was interested in this image, because the cow is depicted as Mother Earth (just like Bhumi-devi). There was at least one other cow which was also a map of the world. Very interesting.

http://www.cowsonparade.net/pages/053.html 


your servant,

Hare Krsna dasi

From: Madhava Gosh (das) ACBSP (New Vrindavan - USA) Madhava.Gosh.ACBSP@bbt.se 
Sent: 25 August 1999 12:38
Subject: Re: Cows on Parade!

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"COM: Hare Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA)" wrote:

My mother showed me this Website while we were visiting her in Ohio. The city of Chicago has a summer art event called "Cows on Parade." There are at least 100 full-sized cows, painted with different motifs, or even decorated with mosaics or mirrors.

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They are located all around the city and sponsored by different corporate sponsors, and decorated by
different artists.

Some are foolish, but many are beautiful. Some are sobering messages about cow slaughter.

I was interested in this image, because the cow is depicted as Mother Earth (just like Bhumi-devi). There was at least one other cow which was also a map of the world. Very interesting.

http://www.cowsonparade.net/pages/053.html 

your servant,

Hare Krsna dasi

Krsna is going to the US. With or without ISKCON. We can surf the wave, or not. Varnaashram is the surfboard.

From: Madhusudani Radha (dd) JPS (Mill Valley - USA) Madhusudani.Radha.JPS@bbt.se 
Sent: 25 August 1999 02:46
Subject: Re: Cows on Parade!

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The city of Chicago has a summer art event called "Cows on Parade."

I saw a similar (or maybe the same) exhibit when I was in Zurich, Switzerland last summer. There were lifesize models of cows with all kinds of motifs painted on them all over the city - must have been hundreds. Some of the stores that were sponsoring them handed out maps of the city with the locations marked. If it's the same ones, they sure get around!

Ys,
Madhusudanid asi

From: Vijay Pai (Houston TX - USA) vijaypai@rice.edu 
Sent: 25 August 1999 04:11
Subject: Re: Cows on Parade!

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On 24 Aug 1999, Madhusudani Radha wrote:

I saw a similar (or maybe the same) exhibit when I was in Zurich, Switzerland last summer. 

I just visited Chicago at the beginning of the month. The exhibit is based on the Swiss one (same mastermind), but the individual cows are the works of local artists. Many of the cows will be auctioned after the exhibit is over, though some are already paid for -- could make quite the lawn ornament. There are cows all over Michigan Avenue, though, sadly, there are none in the Mahatma Gandhi Marg (Devon St.)  area near the temple.

-- Vijay

From: Akhilesvara (das) ACBSP (Montreal - CAN) Akhilesvara.ACBSP@bbt.se 
Sent: 25 August 1999 02:27
Subject: Re: Cows on Parade!

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That explains why when I was in Chicago, one month ago, I saw a beautiful advertisement on the buses with a cow on it. I was surprised. It was written: CHI COW GO. And on her body, there were all kinds of drawings in the Indian style, like different parts of her body representing something symbolically. It could have been the map of the subway or the town. I don't know.

From: Madhava Gosh (das) ACBSP (New Vrindavan - USA) Madhava.Gosh.ACBSP@bbt.se 
Sent: 25 August 1999 12:57
Subject: Re: Cows on Parade!

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I believe it was based on a similar project in Toronto

"COM: Akhilesvara (das) ACBSP (Montreal - CAN)" wrote:

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That explains why when I was in Chicago, one month ago, I saw a beautiful advertisement on the buses with a cow on it. I was surprised. It was written: CHI COW GO. And on her body, there were all kinds of drawings in the Indian style, like different parts of her body representing something symbolically. It could have been the map of the subway or the town. I don't know.