You’re a ghost on Bumpkin Highway
you’re like River Rooster and meaningless
I hate you, but I love you
I’ll carry that to the end
If I ever lie with you again, I pray I do not sleep
If I ever closed my eyes again, I’d realize what you are to me.
you are simply a bumpkin,
a Busselton who bluffs and steals
until you become
a bigger regional City’s meal,
You’re a ghost on Bunbury highway
your trash and meaningless
I hate you, but I love you
I’ll carry that to the end The Gun Club
Someone (G’Day) FINALLY got a shot of the highway sculpture on the new Bumpkin Highway. It looks familar. Isn’t there something similar somewhere in the city? I suppose it’s not sooooo bad. The moat is a nice touch. And what excellent photographs from G’day. A shame to crush them down. Clarity, ooshta, composition, fluffly clouds as icecream, resolution. It’s all there. Very tasty. Very Ansel Adams, except he would have had to dodge the clouds out.
And the wonderful Gun Club to play you down that tarmac into the very maw of River Rooster.
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We’ve got something very similar in Cathedral Square, Christchurch. Was it the same guy (Neil Dawson)? Or a rip off?
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Yes I have seen the Christchurch one.
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i saw them a few weeks ago and i couldn’t figure out what they are meant to be. Or, are they just meant to be with no specific purpose? sometimes things confuse me.
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Just(!) public art. I don’t think they’re supposed to BE anything in particular. I think it’s nice, just in the middle of freaking nowhere.
Much like Perth.
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Don’t they qualify as “Shiny, pretty things”? :)
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cool clip onnie!
there is already plenty of ugly in this world so i vote for shiny pretty things be it people, behaviour or otherwise :)
much better way to pass my time…. with eye candy.
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and yes they qualify.
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absolutely vile new avatar – well done!
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When we zipped down to Margs a few weeks ago we gaped at these as we looked for the hastily-erected portaloos.
We found the portaloos and had a wee, an instant coffee and packaged biscuits.
Having to drive 30 minutes without seeing three service stations is clearly an outrage.
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it’s the dead tree that gives it all a certain ‘je m’en fiche’
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What troubles me is the blue poles.
What could be more repulsive than blue poles?
Blue Poles? Art?
My arse
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Saw the real Blue Poles in Canberra. Looked pretty good. Be thankful it wasn’t brown poles.
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did they ever build ‘Lannie’s Poles”?
it was supposed to be an artwork next to the new rail tunnel on the foreshore, made from piles leftover from the construction (not that sort)
maybe they moved them here
I am curious why the poles are only partially painted blue. Clearly a complex artistic decision, possibly based on Lacanian Structuralism, or a whim.
did anyone else see this sculpture and think: ‘butt plugs?’
no?
just me then
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i thought it was wonderful.
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Thanks, that means a lot, coming from you.
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re: the avatar in your comment above.
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you no rike me?
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We rove you rong time, culious.
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I lived Canberra for a few years. Spent about 20 minutes sat in front of Blue Poles. Just didn’t get it.
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Thinks:
Got a big head?
Need something more substantial than an alfoil beanie to keep out mind manipulating thought waves from extraterrestrials?
Busselton – Bunbury highway has it all!
If the cap fits, wear it.
The blue is left-over food colour on giant alien icy-pole sticks.
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Can we come up with anything catchier than Bumpkin Highway?
What about Bumpkobahn? Backwoods Boulevard?
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nothing sounds so sweet as ‘Mandurah Bypass’
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Yer right skink.
It really does have a bit of heart in it.
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That would be Mandurah Bypass Bypass
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Perhaps they could call it “thank fuck I never have to drive through Mandurah ever again”
now that we have no need to use their bridges, Mandurah now serves not useful purpose, except as the home of Ross River virus, teenage herpes, and Rolly Tasker’s crack.
it should now therefore be bulldozed into the sea
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I bow before you King Skink!
magnificent speech indeed. appropriate it should sink in to the sea just as it’s inspiration Venice is doing.
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bring on sea level rise, burn more coal
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…anything to sink Mandjar as quickly as possible, oh and Rolly Tasker
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Mandurah Bypass Bypass:
so shite they bypassed it twice
more bypasses than Ronald Reagan’s colon
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I believe that masterpiece is called “desk pens and shuttlecocks a la moat”
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What is it with the moat? Were they concerned the position wasn’t sufficiently defensible? They’re never going to keep bypassing punters with an urgent need from relieving themselves on said artwork without the addition of a mott and bailey at the least.
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The moat is my favourite bit. I didn’teven notice it until I got up close.
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are they solar panels in the background? Does that mean they can be powered up? Maybe they are Mandurah’s very own version of the square kilometer array
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perhaps on public holidays they rotate to the sound of ice-cream van music
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I’m yet to see the sculpture lit up, but those are definitely solar panels.
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you’d consider going there at night?
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I may have an opportunity to drive past it at 100kms (or is it 110) an hour, at night. I wouldn’t stop unless it’s spinning around and playing greensleaves.
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Yes Cimbali, that is a ground mounted solar array. I pondered the purpose also.
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Party cones surrounded by bong water with segments of the neighbour’s hose cunningly painted blue. A masterpiece.
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I’m geting a real hankering for River Rooster
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I can’t find a video of Drunk Highway by the Bamboos anywhere, TLA, so I’ll have to go with this, or maybe this.
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Some of the streets in the city arnt to wonderful.
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