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God yeah, I hate that thing, it's creepy.

I like the big clock on legs at the bus station though, and the big nappy pin where Rottenrow Maternity Hospital used to be. Can't find decent pictures though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

(both done by the same guy, btw)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, here we are:

http://www.art-public.com/member/img/wyllg001.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/6/7051816_72ad12eca9.jpg?v=0

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, I've not seen the nappy pin in the flesh yet. It's sweet.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3764/2040/320/MVC-004S.7.jpg

If you look closely at the notebook in the hands of this woman outside the Barnes & Noble in Naperville, Ill., it reads "Naperville has grown big and fat." WTF.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

nappy pin in the flesh

hardcore

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't see yours Jay

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

My earliest memory is of my auntie accidentally jabbing me with a nappy pin while changing me.

My mum says I'm talking shite, I always wore disposables.

Maybe I've stolen someone elses memory. Or maybe my auntie just stabbed me for the hell of it.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice use of the word "shite" there, in context :-D

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The Public Purse - daft statue in the Bourke st Mall in Melb:

http://www.airninja.com/pictures/melbourne/gigantic-purse.jpg

I suppose it is meant to be some commentary on consumerism, but people just sit on it and laugh at it.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and of course the infamous scultpure The Vault, better known by all as "the yellow peril": so hated by Melbournians that it has been moved at least 3 or 4 times in its lifetime, usually to really out of the way places by the docks and such.

http://elsewhere.polydistortion.net/lib/cache/pics/melbourne/2002/01/15-the-yellow-peril.small.jpg

(heres a pic of where it used to live hidden in a crappy riverside park no one went to).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Because no one in Europe likes sports. No sir.

just like america has no welfare or art, and europe also has no money and jesus. sounds like you got it.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

that running clock is great

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the yellow peril!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the giant safety pin a Claes Oldenburg or just a knockoff?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

shameful knockoff.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I'm not so much a hata of the yellow peril mself Jed :) I more thought of it because it seems so hated by everyone here.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

it looks great but i can imagine it might be a bit of a dangerous hidey-hole for unsavoury types. especially in a park.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://p.vtourist.com/2856691-Super_Lamb_Banana_Catch_It_If_You_Can-Liverpool.jpg

The Super Lamb Banana! Some sort of comment on genetic engineering. I think it's kinda cute.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the big nappy pin where Rottenrow Maternity Hospital used to be

Rottenrow is gone? I need to pay attention more.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Rottenrow is the coolest name ever. For today at least.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

You should turn right instead of left at the bottom of the hill some time on the way home from the football (xpost to Onimo)

Wow, I'd forgotten about the Lamb Banana.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I will. I want to see that nappy pin.

The hill up to Rottenrow is like the tramellator, pregnant women be wheezing.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

travelator, even.

? The thing from Gladiators.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Travelator. They'll be wheezing for nothing when they wheeze up there and find nothing but a great big nappy pin where the hospital used to be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Tribute to 9/11 firefighters. It used to scare the hell out of me at night - I have a fear of gasmasks.

I believe it's a memorial to Glasgow firemen that died attending a fire in Glasgow and has absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

It was erected before 9/11!

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Was it? Woops, my apologies! I thought it sprung up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. I've never read the plaque, don't like to get too close in case it grabs me.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The Ccitizen Firefighter: http://www.strathclydefire.org/about/citizen.asp

People left flowers and tributes on it following 9/11.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

This was the first time I saw the statue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1615116.stm

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.urban75.org/photos/newyork/images/ny551.jpg

I know it's ugly but it was also the first "landmark" I ever saw on my first wander around NYC, so I miss it.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

That clock on legs is one of the ugliest statues I've ever seen. Ugh.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Rottenrow is the coolest name ever. For today at least.

-- Kv_nol (kn0l4n8...), November 16th, 2006 5:35 AM. (Kv_nol) (later) (link

It sounds like something Scooby-Doo would say if he was declaring his ignorance about a topic.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottenrow

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the bartholomew might be grotesque, but im not sure we can call it ugly...

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

If someone decided to make a bad statue of you after you die, what would you like it to show you doing?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Carrying my flogged skin, no doubt.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, defecating probably.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It sounds like something Scooby-Doo would say if he was declaring his ignorance about a topic.

OTM!

"Is this your puppy scoob?"
"Rottenrow!"

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/roadside/Metaphor-The-Tree-of-Utah.jpg

I'm pretty sure this is where one of the hardest boss fights takes place in FFVII.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

They erected statues of the Little Rock Nine, the group of black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol. Last month, someone thought that perhaps the statues were lacking something:

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1383/lr9christmaswa1.jpg

Despite the benefit of the doubt being given to the sentiment behind this act, the decorations were removed by the Secretary of State's office shortly after being discovered.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

This is Nashville's Athena in the Parthenon (supposedly an exact replica). This picture does not do it any justice. It's terrible. The first time I saw it, I screamed, "holy shit!" right in front of the docent.

http://www.nashville.org/Parthenon/Images/AthenaGilded.jpg

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

We also have this:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/06/220px-Dixon_Musica.jpg

It's called "Musica". Scandalous!

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

This pic is rather large so I'll just put a link:

http://www.agmc.org.au/22-stkilda-town-hall.jpg

This is a baffling statue out the front of St Kilda Town Hall, about 5 mins walk down the road from my place.

Maybe there is some legend story behind it, but I'm not feelin it. WTF is the PLANE there for? If I didn't know any better I'd say the snakes were a metaphor for local council getting into everyone's business and choking it up, ahaha.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link

what a funny bunch of fotos

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the Nashville Parthenon though. I played a show at Springwater once, and going down that street was one of the greatest "WTF?" moments of my life

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The Parthenon (the building) is great. Art museum inside, not so much. But the Athena statue! It defines garish! And you're totally right - it's great to stumble out of the Springwater, and see the Parthenon. It's kind of freakish and wonderful at the same time.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh I have been hearing about the Springwater for years and years and I so want to go...and I have seen Teh Real Parthenon, surely I can make it to the one in TN?@@!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel, OF COURSE you can come see the fake Parthenon and the real Springwater anytime you like! There's an air mattress here with your name on it! (Enticing, eh?)

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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