# Object Orange

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'''Object Orange''' (formerly '''Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland.'''<ref name=detroiter>[http://www.thedetroiter.com/nov05/disneydemolition.php ''The Detroiter'' article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208024544/http://www.thedetroiter.com/nov05/disneydemolition.php |date=2006-12-08 }}, based on an anonymous [e-mail](/source/e-mail) from the artists</ref>) is an [art](/source/art)istic project in [Detroit](/source/Detroit), [Michigan](/source/Michigan) which seeks to draw attention to [dilapidated](/source/wiktionary%3Adilapidation) [building](/source/building)s by painting them [orange](/source/Orange_(colour)).<ref name=good>[http://www.goodmagazine.com/issue001/Bright_Orange Good Magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203053823/http://www.goodmagazine.com/issue001/Bright_Orange |date=2006-12-03 }}, Issue 001</ref>

The project is composed of local artists, who go by their [first name](/source/first_name)s only (Christian, Jacques, Greg, Mike<ref>[http://www.glrc.org/transcript.php3?story_id=2911 Urban Blight Gets a Paint Job] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821200041/http://www.glrc.org/transcript.php3?story_id=2911 |date=2006-08-21 }}, Transcript from segment by the [Great Lakes Radio Consortium](/source/Great_Lakes_Radio_Consortium) on January 23, 2006</ref> and Andy<ref>[http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/detroits-object-orange-goes-national/ Object Orange Goes National] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704192948/http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/detroits-object-orange-goes-national/ |date=2008-07-04 }}, Article in [Absolute Michigan](/source/Absolute_Michigan) on December 12, 2006</ref>) for fear of [prosecution](/source/prosecution). James Canning, communications coordinator for the Mayor's office of Detroit, views the artists' actions as [unlawful](/source/Crime) and [vandalism](/source/vandalism), stating that any [demolition](/source/demolition)s which took place following the project's painting expeditions have been coincidental.<ref name=npr>Interview on [NPR](/source/National_Public_Radio)'s ''[Day to Day](/source/Day_to_Day)'' program, December 7, 2006</ref>

The artists chose the color "Tiggerific Orange<ref>[http://disney.go.com/disneyhome/disneypaints.html Disney paint catalog]</ref>" from the Disney paint catalog by [Behr](/source/Behr_(paint))<ref name=detroiter /> for its similarity to [traffic cone](/source/traffic_cone)s and the [safety orange](/source/safety_orange) worn by [hunters](/source/hunting).<ref name=npr />

==See also==
* [urban decay](/source/urban_decay)
* [protest art](/source/protest_art)

==References==
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==External links==
* http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20060515/orange-alert

Category:Public art in the United States
Category:Culture of Detroit
Category:Political art in the United States

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