The Worst of Perth really is becoming the last resort of the desperate and the crackpot. Goodkid is hilariously starting a facebook petition to have the Cockburn faces removed from the station. The faces were an early big post on TWOP but are well worth a revisit. It was a good example of an interesting idea that looked stupid when implemented. The faces they ended up with were terrible. Goodkid says (or perhaps mumbles,)
The “Faces of the Community” are created by numb skull designers- placing 2000 women and children to create two horrid faces. Simple amateur photoshop skills used!!
I have started to take steps in regards to removal of this. I have contacted a member of the Cockburn council. They claim to have nothing to do about it and have handed me to two companies- Australand and Landcorp. I am currently in investigation mode to find who can help change this.
Within a weeks time, I will be holding a photoshop competition on Facebook for people to redesign this piss poor excuse of art. There will be two categories- Fun and Serious. The serious ones will be submitted to the company/persons responsible as realistic options to replace this eyesore. I am currently looking for sponsors to encourage people to come up with ideas.
Sounds like Goodkid should also be helping with the South perth flag problem.
Speaking of Councils, Bento suggests everyone has a look at the City of Swan’s employment site.
The Worst of Perth 
Fuck me dead. Couldn’t the Swan City Council have come up with a better theme than The Brady Bunch?
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i wasn’t sure whether bento was referring to the brady bunch, or that the page is about swan jobs.
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I have heard of blowjobs and handjobs but swanjobs?
Maybe someone has a link, not you monkeypants!
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http://love.ivillage.com/lnssex/sextechnique/0,,rfkd,00.html
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noice link onnie…
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too tired to play today richie rich, so the blog world is a safer better place for 24 hours at least.
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Another ideal going away present for Lannie “Trainee” McTrannie.
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I thought the Alsation Rampant was slated for that spot? If not, surely TWOP should have it’s own comp.
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Best of luck Goodkid. Keep us posted on how things go.
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uh oh, a petition to remove art. That’s a worst
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Well TWOP did cause the removal of the arse boozie sculpture from city so here is the right place.
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true, but that was a lump of shit
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And this is quite simply fucking stupid. TLA asserts it to be “a good example of an interesting idea that looked stupid when implemented.” I submit that it is, in fact, a good example of a imbecilic idea that looked stupid when implemented, still looks stupid four years later, and will continue to look stupid for however long it stays there, which of course will likely be for a very long time indeed.
This would have been installed in accordance with the “1% to art” policy. As such, it effectively stands as a large-scale tribute to fraud.
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I think it was an interesting concept to combine all the faces, but the result was so bad that they should have faked it. I was trying to find software that would combine Winton and John Butler.
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you combine Winton and Butler you get Bill Bailey:
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the results just aren’t fat enough.
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and the hair is a little thin.
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The concept of getting an average face is bizarre. You don’t however get an average face by averaging pixel values. That method ignores the geometry of faces.
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what about the yellow wiggly poles on the Roe hwy exit?
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nothing wrong with the poles
now that Mandurah has been circumvented, we all need something to hate on the road south.
It’s a featureless road, so it’s good to have some pointless landmarks:
“I’m just passing the yellow wiggly sticks. watch out for the speed camera near the silver butt plugs with the blue poles.”
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love your image tag of ‘uglymum’ TLA
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That was goodkid’s
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onya goodkid
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They should simply convert it to a giant ‘missing persons’ board, which is pretty much what it looks like anyway, and do the community some good.
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Every time I drive by with someone who hasn’t seen it before they ask if it is a missing person.
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I like it. At least it is original. And (1) provides a clever, contemporary critique on the increasing use of photoshop in advertising posters; and (2) reminds us of the appearance of the average person, distinct from the fake beauty in other posters.
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first WAtching’s excellent ‘Cock’ sign was painted over,
now they want to remove this
if they both go then the area will have absolutely nothing of note except a faintly humorous name.
the piece was created by Rodney Glick, who has a dry sense of humour and may have been taking the piss.
if the billboards do go, I think they should be replaced with this sculpture, 50 feet high straddling the freeway
http://www.glickinternational.com/image/352/
that would put Cockburn on the map
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Glick looks to have done some pretty interesting stuff.
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Certainly his little Balinese friends have. When is it going to be trendy again for sculptors to actually make their own stuff again. I get it – but it does seem a little cynical somewhere.
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I was thinking that Glicks Hindu work remined me of some of Dhruva Mistry’s early stuff.
I googled it and discovered the perfect artwork for Perth.
the petition should inists that a copy of this is built in Perth as a monument to Tiny Pinder:
http://www.dhruvamistry.com/Library/work21/07.htm
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Very Nice Skink.
Where in the world do I need to live to see public art like that.
All it needs is some veinwork and it would be perfect for Cockburn.
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Etymology of Cockburn:
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Funny. Thanks paracleet.
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Canadians respond to ice-hockey loss to US:
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2010/02/canadians-respond-to-hockey-loss.html
Plus fuck pancakes.
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Is it just me or has using something some dickhead did on Facebook, for news, become a bit of a worst over the past few weeks.
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rest assured pete, you are not alone on that one!
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The Brady Bunch. If City of Swan was any more backward they’d all be out on the verandah with their banjos.
Come and work in the City of Swan
da-da-dung-dung-da-dung-dung-da-dung
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The only things stupider than petitions are Facebook petitions.
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It cant believe people can be so naive… i think i do bring up a valid point despite its a “social networking site” facebook petition or not.. I thought this was the right place to voice my opinion on what I thought was wrong in the everlasting growing city.
The “Face of community” artwork can be turned into something that could be better used for the local community (that has to see ths everyday)- time, date, local community events etc… this so called artwork is often misinterpreted by many people that are unfamiliar to what it may be representing- missing persons? wanted person?. I honestly love the concept but hate the outcome.
It’s like as if the clients have given the designers short deadline.. and the designers have said.. sorry, this is the best we could do with one day of layering and photoshop”.
Although this may sound like a personal cause… it’s a cause that more than a small majority people agree, is just cause. (just check out the small amount of fans that I have on the facebook group)
I just want this visually disgusting thing to be replaced with something more elegant.. not only for myself and my community..
I believe that myself and other people of this community have the right to the freedom of speech… but I decided that was the person to actually to do something about it..
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Good for you goodkid. This was the right place to come.
Don’t be put off by a cynical few. (Personally I think FB is as good a place as any for a petition). Keep us posted.
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I agree, FB *is* as good a place as any for a petition.
I don’t hate the concept, or the result.
Would you seriously rather this be used as a clock and calendar, and for promoting Carols by Candlelight and the City of Cockburn ‘Las Vegas Legends’ free concert?
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I don’t really care about the pics at all. I don’t go that way often enough. What I like is that someone who is clearly offended by them is getting off his arse and doing something. People don’t have to agree with the aim, or the method, but at least support the action. As opposed to cynical apathy.
I suppose what I’m saying is you’ve got to have your ‘doers’ whether you agree with them or not. And now I’m too old and lazy to be a doer, I can at least encourage others.
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as the unofficial icon of cynical apathy might I just say:
Meh
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Whatever.
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Can’t we just texta Hitler moustaches on them and be done with it? Don’t worry about the petition.
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Well-veined appendages?
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Quite so WAtching. I’m a bit disppointed that these things have been up for four years and have yet to be modified.
What’s wrong with vandals in Cockburn? Where’s the initiative?
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too fat to climb
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…”And now I’m too old and lazy to be a doer, I can at least encourage others.”
Great Big “Cop Out”, shazza.
Maybe, when you’ve improved with a little more aging, you might realize that advancing years and lethargy are not mutually inclusive.
It’s mostly a personal life-style choice.
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Not lethargy, laziness. They are different. I still have the energy just not the inclination. And yes it’s a cop out.
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Hi Goodkid. Are you are assuming that the majority hate it because no one has started a Facebook petition in favour of not removing the artwork? Thousands of Perth residents drive past this piece everyday (as they do the wiggly lightpoles) and I doubt that all of them think of it as “visually disgusting”. This is a personal judgement on your part. Your Facebook petition page has simply attracted a majority who agree with you. This does not equal a majority of Perth.
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A facebook petition is not about doing anything, it is about whingeing, (not that I’m against that). There is no chance of anything actually happening.
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http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/web/newwebparl.nsf/iframewebpages/Legislative+Assembly+-+Petitions
A “Rob ‘Inspecteur Clouseau’ Johnson is a terminal nuff-nuff” petition would not meet the guidelines. Hence Facebook.
Keep the aspirations low. Hence TWOP.
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Even if all those people driving past did think of it as visually disgusting, most people would do nothing more than complain to friends about it .
The original TWoP thread on this topic seems to indicate many people feel the same way as Goodkid though better at articulating why.
Personally, I don’t mind it.
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Ha! I just re-read ALL of Atomised thread (it’s me day off) and makes for interesting and slightly abstract reading toward the end because ol’ greg is not there.
I agree Shaz that the consensus seemed to be a ‘worst’ but it is hard to find a forum for ‘liking’ things.
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Pro nice things. I believe that’s Matt Buckel’s gig Mez. And somewhat ironically, he’s career high to date must have been his spectacular couple of days featured on TWoP.
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typo alert (his not he’s)
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The comments also a little difficult because that was pre threading days.
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i like the lightpoles they serve a purpose, and they are a little bit different and are not a terrible eye sore.
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Goodkid is not “getting off his arse and doing something”,
he is sitting back in front of his computer and criticising a
public work of art. Something all of us do. He created a
petition on Facebook ?, wow !, what an effort !
Goodkid says “I just want this visually disgusting thing to
be replaced with something more elegant.. not only for
myself and my community..”
Why is this visually disgusting ? and why should we have
something more elegant ?
The fact that a work of art elicits criticisms such as
Goodkid’s is a point in its favour, IMO. If his campaign to have this stuff removed on the grounds that is is visually offensive succeeds, they’ll put some bland commercial
crap in its place, that won’t offend anyone. Is that what you
want, can’t you live with art that isn’t elegant ?
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I don’t give a shit about the art as I have already said. Commencing a petition is doing something.
Geez the heat must be getting to some of you.
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It’s more than I’ve ever done on Facebook.
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Does anyone else get the feeling that Big Nanna is watching you?
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Definitely:
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Haha nice. Great minds, etc etc.
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Anyone who thinks that these images constitutes actual art is an idiot. I could do the same thing with my computer in about half an hour, does that make what I made art?
Even if they at least filled in the horrible white space behind the images, it looks like they’re in an infinite void. Though, mind you, if I knew a kid who looked like that, I would want him in an infinite void, just so I could never see his bland, generic, ugly face ever again.
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I think that they are art
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Definitely art. Planned, produced, displayed and causing public comment – how much more arty could it get?
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Yep me too. It’s art.
It’s no Alsation Rampant though.
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You sir, are an idiot who knows nothing about art, you’re probably one of those pretentious, upthemselves who think that they are artists just so they can be hip and cool.
This is the furthest you could possibly get from something even closely resembling art. I could shit better ‘art’ than this crap.
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Ooh how Maplethorpe.
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Ifknlovmaplethorpe.
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Piero Manzoni beat you to it.
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Not you Greg. CHEERS.
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It COULD be me! I’ve got the five-day old beard growth, anyhow.
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Cheers Snuff.
I’ve never watched them before.
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Hi Silent Nick. I am an artist.
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yeh, but are you hip n cool, and pretentious and up yourself?
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No but if I shat in a can I could call it art, officially
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What does that even mean? You went to an art school, got a bit of paper saying you’re an artist, and that makes you an actual artist?
You can’t just call something art because you think it is.
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yes you can.
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you can if you are an artist
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Hey Mez do you have any more of those “shat in a can” pieces, I have already sold the first fifteen.
They can’t get enough of them down Claremont way.
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You actually can.
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There you go Silent Nick, I think we can all agree that some art is just shit.
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Like Monet. I hate his poxy Lilly pads.
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yeah, more like maxi pads amirite
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This link should help to clear up any misunderstanding about what is art.
I think point 4.2 provides the simplest explanation.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/
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Hey Mezmeister, I found the perfect comp. for your shit art.
MuSeuM oF PaRTiCuLaRLy Bad aRT
HomE oF thE iTChiBaLl pRIzE
Calling All Crap Artists – Entries Now Open!
This year all entries and the MOPBA collection will be exhibited at Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran from Monday 21 September to Sunday 27 September 2009
The MOPBA Launch Evening will be Tuesday 22 September 2009 6pm – 8.30pm
Once again we are calling for entries for the coveted Itchiball Prize.
For your chance to WIN a $1,500 Chapel St Precinct Shopping Spree ENTER NOW
About MOPBA
A story about MOBA (Museum of Bad Art, Boston), appeared on ABC TV’s Foreign Correspondent in the early 90’s. This show had a profound effect on Helen Round at the time she was establishing Fat Helen’s Bric a Brac shop, specializing in the kitsch, inane and tasteless.
Whilst hitting the op shop, garage sale and market trails, she came across Australian examples of Bad Art, and this inspired a lifetime dedication to the pursuit and preservation of excellence in mediocrity.
This collection started as an idea in 1993 and became a reality in 1996, when a portrait of Scott Baio was rescued from the Redland’s Op Shop in High St, Windsor. The shop is now gone but Scott lives on along with about 200 other original pieces of Art! Since Scott was liberated, Helen has set out to uncover and amass these hysterical historical artefacts.
The collection has been exhibited on several occasions, and with the support of The Chapel St Precinct, the collection can be seen again along with the many new additions, all worthy of winning the “Itchiball Prize” (sic)!
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that’s shit a can Pfort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_shit
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_shit
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cant make that link work? try this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Manzoni
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n s f w
poetry.rotten.com/potatoes-n-jelly/
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Pforts – you win. i am retiring as of tonite after those photos which i of course had to view in their entirety.
i think my brain has exploded. well done!
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if that blew your mind MP – imagine what it did to my sensitive artistic temperament…
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Mez= Fail
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you have my heartfelt empathy mez –
http://bit.ly/2xCRyb
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Now that I like MP.
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Mez. your name is mez. you call shit in a can art. officially. therfore you opinion is irrelevent.
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Much like correct grammar, apparently.
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oh, ok, thanks Patty, I’ll shut up then
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Yeh Mez, don’t fuck with Patty. That’s one bad ass link she’s got going on.
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Who are these people- wayne?
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Patty, I think you’ll find very few people use their real name on this site. Except The Lazy Aussie and Monkeypants, that is, who had way-out parents. David Cohen, for example, is really named Tim Wintob.
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“Patty, I think you’ll find very few people use their real name on this site. ”
WTF are you talking about?
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yes patty is also not my name. it was given to me as a nickname.. but atleast im not calling shit in a can art
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Patty is your nickname? So it’s really Patti?
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no its matt
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but this is art
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matty passmore is the totally hot dude from playschool so i’m hoping that’s him using a pseudonym.
this picture is nursing me back to full heath after pforts link: http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8930/mattvooropdesitevf6.jpg
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Why so cranky Patty/Matty? What’s your prob?
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I would argue that “shit in a can” really could be art. In fact, I don’t beleive a rational counter-argument exists.
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And here are the masters, in and out of the can, the wonderful Gilbert & George. See also their bumholes series.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23385774-arts-rude-boys.do
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HMMMmmmmmmmmm…
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“If art is not extreme, it is invisible.” – Gilbert
i like those two dudes. keepin’ it real homies.
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I went to hear Gilbert and George speak at The NGV this month. It was incredibly inspiring. Their basic philosophy states ‘if you wear a suit you can get away with anything’
and after telling a story about being licked by dozens of spanish teenage boys after a recent ‘opening’ in Madrid I think they have proved that beyond doubt.
LA you were a big fan of “cunt scum” I recall and some of their early bumholes?
Glick, I think MJ did it better in the B&W clip. This is no bumholes.
Definite worst and dull concept but art none the less.
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“Crackpot of Last Resort”
Genius!
I’m going to buy the TShirt
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at risk of cracking the pot wider, I just received the following message from “Goodkid” via facebook:
Johnny Ma sent a message to the members of PETITION: remove the scary “face of the community” photos.
Johnny MaJuly 29, 2010 at 10:39am
Subject: Petition on hold.. Now to other things
Hey guys..
The petition has been put on hold for now.. but dont worry.. action will be taken soon…
I just wanted to alert you to another project of mine… I have just made an ad for the Doritos competion… would love it if you can have a look…
http://www.facebook.com/l/05805qUXq-biEROq-WQduEeu5dQ;www.doritos.com.au/#/gallery/week-8/id/1962
If i can ask you to vote for it, it would be great… You can vote 5 times a day if you like it… Also if you can repost this link… I will love you…
Thanks Guys
-Johnny
The kid’s a Genius!!
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A real go-getter.
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