Ghosts in the Hyperdome?

I expect JB HI FI to have a legion of lean security guards outside all the time (It is the Hyperdome). If i were them, id grant entry the basis of hair style and smell.
It seems the Hyperdome is giving the bogans of Tuggers a gift.

omg the HYPER HOLE is getting a JBhifi, Big W and a HS
now you really know your in BoggenVille.

Until you read the text you are struck by the good-looking, fashion-conscious and friendly people in that picture. More like TV world than the real world.

In the real world – as seen by myself today around the Canberra Centre – you’d have someone just outside the doorway sitting on the floor begging while speaking into their mobile phone, a couple of unwashed disgruntled youth looking surly and the rest looking tired and annoyed with the slow-walkers who inevitably get in your way as you try to get around a mall.

Mr Intercourse said :

Where are all the single mothers pushing oversized prams?

It must be the day before the Centrelink pays go out. So they would be over at the club looking for a man stupid enough to open his wallet up.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!….Stereotpyes…

The people near what I assume to be the escalator appear to be hailing a taxi and there are some tiny people up on the left hand side who are standing on a window ledge.

This is what happens when you give the work experience person a project and don’t supervise properly.

Mr Intercourse said :

Where are all the single mothers pushing oversized prams?

Shelbyville

Those are the Ghosts of Retail Past.

It has a certain Escher quality to it; as if escape is impossible. Mirrors reflecting mirrors, with the normal rules of perspective bent to suit the artist’s intention of creating a self-contained world. At the same time, it’s a bit like the works of Edward Hopper, with that painstaking and slightly spooky American realism.

So let’s call it Hyper-realism…Or you could see it as caught inside a Hopperdome.

And yes, I am ashamed.

Where are all the single mothers pushing oversized prams?

Sammy said :

I think the more striking feature of this image is how out of touch Hyperdome management are with their own customer demographic. There’s not a single example of a flannelette shirt, ugg-boot, mullet hair cut or article of high-vis clothing. Oh, and I challenge you to find that many people wandering around the Hyperdome at any one time who clearly fall well below the average on the body-mass index.

This image is more like wishful thinking by Hyperdome management as to the demographic they’d like to attract. As for the absence of ” flannelette shirt, ugg-boot, mullet hair cut or article of high-vis clothing”, my last visit to the place suggests that they – and everybody else – have long since abandoned the place and have taken their custom elsewhere (most notably online).