The buttplug lights up

and the cost of this was?

EvanJames said :

cbjcurtin said :

What is all this public art costing us? I found out that the owl outside the Belconnen Markets cost $400k, dont we have better things to spend public money on?

I vote for some more cubes that light up when you shout at them. I used to enjoy that Cube. That is useful and worthwhile Art.

And those rusty pears that used to be at the ANU (and then I think the Gallery nicked them), they weren’t bad, and were also very useful. “To get to the ANU union, head to ANU, when you get to the Pears, keep going about 100m and turn right…” (of if you were directing people to the Law Courts, if they got to the pears they’d gone a bit too far).

They were a good landmark.

the pears are now outside the entrance to the national gallery of australia – a bit of a waddle from the uni bar, i’m afraid…

EvanJames said :

cbjcurtin said :

What is all this public art costing us? I found out that the owl outside the Belconnen Markets cost $400k, dont we have better things to spend public money on?

I vote for some more cubes that light up when you shout at them. I used to enjoy that Cube. That is useful and worthwhile Art.

Yes, the cube was the best.

As soon as they took the cube away, Civic filled up with angry drunks punching each other because they no longer had the cube to yell at.

Henry82 said :

i think it looks kind of cool. But is it drunk-proof?

The thing is massive – I think it’s pretty safe. Unless some knob plows into it with a 4WD…

Mothy said :

Zeital said :

i drove past this the other day and it is the ugliest ‘art’ i have seen in canberra yet

Flemington Road, Northbound, on the Franklin side of the road just past Wells Station Drive.

Creepy.

Thanks ThisIsAName for getting a photo of the one I’m talking about.

i think it looks kind of cool. But is it drunk-proof?

rosscoact said :

Just as the government spends money on bogan inanities, they should also spend money on art. There are more denominators than the lowest common.

+1 for that. The argument that the money would be better spent on hospitals/schools/roads etc. is moot when you start to appreciate the much bigger amounts of govt money pissed up against various walls in the name of questionable projects/political priorities.