Telstrayama Everywhere!

facet said :

Nostalgic graffiti from ANU men’s toilet (circa 1973) Everytime Telstra has an erection it rapes a mountain. They built it anyway.

surely the graffito would have read ‘… telecom…’? 😉

as for alternate sponsors, who does make syringes..?

I meant ‘cheers for the liNk’, not like …

@Vision2010, cheers for the like mate 🙂
This Telstra montage is merely a funny Photoshop fiddle-thingy, nothing serious.
I would like to exhibit in the ACT somewhere in the near future.

If there’s anyone reading this involved in an ACT art-gallery or exhibition place, or organizes art-events, etc lemme know.
In July I have a solo-exhibition in Brussels, but I would love to display my stuff a bit closer to my ACT home…

You can find more pics and recent updates on my blog http://blog.woutervandevoorde.com/

Wouter’s work picks out the beauty of urban ugliness. Well done! I’ve enjoyed his other works at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woutervandevoorde/

Say what you like about the tower but when you’re off your face in Civic and you need to stumble home to an ANU college, that tower is a Godsend.

I love taking interstate and international visitors to the tower.

“Can we go to the top?”
“Sure! There’s an observation deck up there. See the metal rail above the double row of windows?”
“Fantastic!”
“Yep! All you have to do is climb those stairs on the outside of the tower.”
“Erm…what?”
“The stairs. Outside the double row of windows. It’s easy. The view is great, but it’s a bit breezy.”

I too have fallen prey to its guiding light at night, thinking I was somewhere in Reid then all of sudden trying to reconcile the buildings I was seeing with where I thought I was. For about a minute I was wondering how the hell I came to be driving along Commonwealth Ave before I realised I had actually just turned left onto Barry Drive and was heading into Turner….go figure.

Next question……where did the colloquialism ‘Telstrayama’ come from

Nostalgic graffiti from ANU men’s toilet (circa 1973) Everytime Telstra has an erection it rapes a mountain. They built it anyway.

lol..classic.

I had a similar problem when I moved to Canberra. Was in Giralang and thought I would go visit this tower that can be seen from everywhere. I figured I’d just driver towards the thing. Ended up in Watson !!! So took a diff route and ended up in Deakin. Gave up and went back home.

Mars attacks, ack ack ack.