9 May 2013

All hail the centenary floppy boob baloon!

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I just noticed this on the Canberra Times.

Well, I love fish, I love balloons and I love boobs but… i’m not so sure about combining all 3.

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It’s strange, slightly disturbing, and not related to Canberra in any particular way. That’s why it’s good. Go, Skywhale!

Perhaps it’s a celebration of Summernats.

What it needs is a lot of smaller balloons depicting Japanese people running after it with cleavers and chopsticks.

When are we going to say; “Enough’s enough! Stop wasting public money on these charlatans and their crap.”

Buckaroo_Banzai11:31 pm 09 May 13

I bet those summernats lads are regretting their lack of specificity when yelling “tits out for the boys” now.

Stupid stupid stupid.

And we wonder why the rest of Australia thinks we are idiots.

Baldy said :

Worst Ballon in living Mammary.

She was definitely off her tits when she dreamt that one up..

Baldy said :

Worst Ballon in living Mammary.

Genius. 🙂

10/10, would bang.

c_c™ said :

bundah said :

Ms Piccinini calls her abomination a beautiful sky whale? Udderly redonkulous,wail over!

Safe to say she’s not the full quid. Check out some of her other pieces: http://www.tolarnogalleries.com/patricia-piccinini/

Hmm she’s really out there and i can’t say i’m a fan of human-animal hybrids.If nothing else she’s certainly got our attention,although not in a nice way..

Give her a break guys, she’s went to the ANU.

bundah said :

Ms Piccinini calls her abomination a beautiful sky whale? Udderly redonkulous,wail over!

Safe to say she’s not the full quid. Check out some of her other pieces: http://www.tolarnogalleries.com/patricia-piccinini/

Ms Piccinini calls her abomination a beautiful sky whale? Udderly redonkulous,wail over!

Gungahlin Al5:06 pm 09 May 13

beardedclam said :

Postalgeek said :

mossrocket said :

This tittytortoise has nothing to do with Canberra, and has to be the most embarrassing balloon i’ve ever seen – if it was a balloon shaped like Robyn Archer’s head with a condom over it being blown up by her nose it would have more to do with Canberra than this monstrosity….

You don’t picture well-heeled Canberran public servants supping from the nipple of the Real Australian tax-paying skywhale?

Dont public servants pay tax? Any chance to have a crack hey?? Dont take yourself so serious, there is already a bit of talk about it, I am sure the silly public servants wouldn’t mind the chatter about Canberra.

I think that was irony?

Follows in the spirit of the phallic owl.

Postalgeek said :

mossrocket said :

This tittytortoise has nothing to do with Canberra, and has to be the most embarrassing balloon i’ve ever seen – if it was a balloon shaped like Robyn Archer’s head with a condom over it being blown up by her nose it would have more to do with Canberra than this monstrosity….

You don’t picture well-heeled Canberran public servants supping from the nipple of the Real Australian tax-paying skywhale?

Dont public servants pay tax? Any chance to have a crack hey?? Dont take yourself so serious, there is already a bit of talk about it, I am sure the silly public servants wouldn’t mind the chatter about Canberra.

Where’s a Japanese whaling ship when you need one?

mossrocket said :

This tittytortoise has nothing to do with Canberra, and has to be the most embarrassing balloon i’ve ever seen – if it was a balloon shaped like Robyn Archer’s head with a condom over it being blown up by her nose it would have more to do with Canberra than this monstrosity….

You don’t picture well-heeled Canberran public servants supping from the nipple of the Real Australian tax-paying skywhale?

$170,000 for that? Talk about wasting money.

Worst Ballon in living Mammary.

Holden Caulfield1:04 pm 09 May 13

That is very odd.

Looks like something you’d haul out of the Pripyat River.

Man that’s ugly! “Celebrated sculptor”?

Wow! That’s…different.

If it is, in fact, Canberra’s balloon, I predict it’ll generate more discussion that our street art.

This tittytortoise has nothing to do with Canberra, and has to be the most embarrassing balloon i’ve ever seen – if it was a balloon shaped like Robyn Archer’s head with a condom over it being blown up by her nose it would have more to do with Canberra than this monstrosity….

So for Canberra’s centenary, we weren’t allowed a lasting piece of public art that was to be related to Canberra and its history (remember that? http://info.cmcd.act.gov.au/archived-media-releases/media10ba.html?v=7213&s=185), but we get a balloon that by all appearances isn’t?

Damn, missed an L.

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