15 October 2013

Ask RiotACT: A letter about a dead pigeon

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We just received a letter that is equal parts polite and intriguing (I’ve never noticed this either), so what’s the answer Rioters?

Good afternoon RiotACT,

I was having coffee with two of my beautifully wonderful and lovely female colleagues (sorry – they read this and I need the brownie points) when we noticed a dead concrete pigeon in the corner of the buildings front gardens on London Circuit.

We have been having coffee around this corner for about 5 years and have never noticed it so we found this reasonably unsettling: are we so unobservant that we have just not noticed this for so long? Or is it new? Are there others?

It seemed like the sort of thing that would have appeared elsewhere like other guerrilla art installations, but our combined googling was not able uncover any further information.

It was safely assumed that you, or other Rioters would have no problem in illuminating (or otherwise) this mystery.

I look forward to you advice (again, or otherwise),

Kind regards,

Mr. (potentially Un)Observant

Pigeon

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Queen_of_the_Bun12:56 pm 16 Oct 13

Someone shot a clay pigeon?

Is Susie Balogh still living in Queanbeyan?

Holden Caulfield11:34 am 16 Oct 13

Kdowgg said :

Holden Caulfield said :

“…but our combined googling was not able uncover any further information.”

Took me around 5 minutes.

I stand suitably humbled in the glory of your Google prowess. However, had I expended more effort than googling ‘concrete pigeon’ once, this artistic expression may have continued to go unnoticed by many more around here. I for one enjoy the community element of such sharing and to use an oft utilised phrase in this forum, the engagment of the ‘hive mind.’
In future it would do us all well to will ensure that any little quirks that one happens to happen upon, be quietly and individually solved and kept to oneself.
On behalf of those less brilliant, please accept my sincere apologies that you had to squander your precious gift – sincere but gratitude that you did.
A matter of true importance has now been laid to rest.

See, if you put as much effort into refining your Google search term to “nothingness pigeon” as you did writing that embarrassingly lame and contradictory reply you could be as brilliant* as me too.

*Your assertion, certainly not mine.

HiddenDragon11:47 pm 15 Oct 13

It was coming home to roost, and found itself overwhelmed by the choices when it pecked “nothingness” into Google maps while circling Civic.

wildturkeycanoe9:21 pm 15 Oct 13

Like a concrete dead bird with “nothingness” is any more inspiring than an empty brown glass bottle with “VB” emblazoned across it’s colorful tapestry. Which one is art? I am saddened by the latter.

Thanks for bringing the work of Will Coles to RA’s attention. I’ve been a fan for years since I saw his work in a Sydney gallery. You’ll find some of his work here http://www.brendamaygallery.com.au/artworks.php?artistID=85-Will-Coles

It shows signs of mortar boarding.

They are its mortared remains.

Holden Caulfield said :

“…but our combined googling was not able uncover any further information.”

Took me around 5 minutes.

I stand suitably humbled in the glory of your Google prowess. However, had I expended more effort than googling ‘concrete pigeon’ once, this artistic expression may have continued to go unnoticed by many more around here. I for one enjoy the community element of such sharing and to use an oft utilised phrase in this forum, the engagment of the ‘hive mind.’
In future it would do us all well to will ensure that any little quirks that one happens to happen upon, be quietly and individually solved and kept to oneself.
On behalf of those less brilliant, please accept my sincere apologies that you had to squander your precious gift – sincere but gratitude that you did.
A matter of true importance has now been laid to rest.

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

It’s pining for a block in Forde.

Well played. Well played indeed. [Golf-clap]

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

It’s pining for a block in Forde.

That pigeon couldn’t pine for a block on Forde if you put 4000 volts through it…..

thebrownstreak69 said :

Good to see our local smokers feel free to litter near it.

maybe it died of asphyxiation from the smokers blowing crap over it…

Holden Caulfield2:55 pm 15 Oct 13

“…but our combined googling was not able uncover any further information.”

Took me around 5 minutes.

it used to be a live concrete pigeon….?

thebrownstreak692:49 pm 15 Oct 13

Good to see our local smokers feel free to litter near it.

Holden Caulfield2:44 pm 15 Oct 13

Buy your own, but you’d better be quick, there’s only three being sold…

http://www.retrospectgalleries.com/products/pigeon/7569/1

But is the answer a matter of a pinion?

Geoff_from_Lushpup_Images2:33 pm 15 Oct 13

There’s a little concrete hamburger replete with skull & crossbones down in New Acton near the Time Thief. There’s also a 1:1 scale cement mobile phone near the High Court …

Here’s another sighting of one in Sydney.

http://instagram.com/p/d0kCZ3CY-J/

Woody Mann-Caruso1:31 pm 15 Oct 13

It’s pining for a block in Forde.

There is another pigeon on the stone wall of the boat hire near Acton Beach, it has been there for a least a year. Also in NewActon there is a concrete half deflated looking soccer ball in the garden bed near the new Nishi traffic lights.

Holden Caulfield12:36 pm 15 Oct 13

London Circuit has a number of buildings on it, any chance of refining the location?

Is the item glued to the ground, or can it be picked up and moved?

Beaking and nothingness.

can a concrete pigeon be said to be alive?

is this a sartrian reference? deep, man – your correspondent surely freely willed not to previously notice this installation.

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