Yesterday, on an outing to Pike Place during the #win8officevisit blogger event with Office and Windows 8 at Microsoft, we took a quick detour to visit Seattle’s Market Theater Gum Wall, a brick alleyway wall covered in used chewing gum. Pretty darn gross and yet beautiful.
What do you think? Does its colorfulness make up for the ick factor?
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Great photos. I had never heard of the Gum wall. Fascinating…and just a little gross 🙂
Very interesting to see but definitely not something I’d want to touch!
Very gross….. but I would go take a look and take some pictures of this wall to show my readers if I do visit Seattle. 😛
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Definitely cool and gross at the same time.
Wow. I never knew there was a wall of chewed up gum in Seattle. Thinking of all that spit makes me grossed out, but it is very colorful and interesting to look at! What a quandry!
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It is an interesting idea, but the ICK factor is pretty high for me. YUCK!
Fascinating (from a distance). Otherwise *mom cleanliness issues shudders*
It reminds me of something not so ick. In neighborhood I know of there is a tree that children go to to give up their pacifiers hang theirs up.I haven’t seen it but, I heard it is adorable and the kids can go visit their “pacies” and kind of morn their loss. A collection but not a yucky one.
While I support art and I admit it is colorful, it’s still has a icky factor. LOL
Up close, that’s disgusting. But it is kinda pretty from afar.
Dude, that’s just gross. It makes for great photos and a travel story, but I have been to the one in San Luis Obispo in CA, and I thought it was gross. All those people’s spit, stuck on a wall? No thank you.
I’ve been to Seattle but not the gum wall. Hmmmm….colorful gross? 😉
I guess most of it would have dried out and not be so icky really. Kind of like cement. Better than having it on the sidewalk to be stepped on. I think it’s kind of cool, but I know I wouldn’t like it if it was my house 😉
I’m not even sure what to think…. My germaphobe self is grossed out. My artsy self is intrigued by all the colors and textures. Hmmmm…
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Totally gross… and yet, oddly cool. Way cooler than the underside of many a student desk, I’ll wager…. Happy WW! 🙂
Oh my gosh, that’s cool. And, yes, a bit gross. I hope my kids don’t see this! Happy WW!
Hi (◠‿◠)
Nice to see your chewing gums. *lol* I know that phänomen from Berlin. On Potsdamer Place we have a peace of wall (the wall between east and west berlin). The Tourist have covered this historical document with used chewing gum too. *rolleeyes*
xoxo, Wieczora (◔‿◔)
The colorfulness does make up for the ick factor, until you accidentally fall into the wall or something. lmao