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.

rosscoact 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?

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

What was that about the gubmint proposing to spend money on yet another sportbusiness venue?

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?

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

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.

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?

Katietonia said :

I call it the “Pear of Anguish”.

It’d certainly be the Buttplug of Anguish…

Mothy said :

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

Creepy.

qbninthecity said :

i would think the penis in belco is uglier…

i live down in tuggers so i don’t see much of belco, i also don’t plan on wasting my fuel to find all the wonderous ‘art’ around canberra either

I call it the “Pear of Anguish”.

p1 said :

I don’t know much about art, but I know what I hate. And I don’t hate this.

Zeital said :

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

i would think the penis in belco is uglier…

It’s pretty, but who is there at night to appreciate it with the lights on?

I don’t know much about art, but I know what I hate. And I don’t hate this.

It’s got to be better than the stupid windmill thing on Yarra Glen. and the bent girders.

poetix said :

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.

It’s called ‘Houses of Gungahlin’.

No it’s not. It’s the Flemington troll and it’s there to keep out the inner north riff raff. Inner northians can’t get past it because they see themselves in it and are inexplicably attracted to it!