In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. Alberto Giacometti
Ham&Eggs saw this near the Pemberton Resource Centre, sent it to Lovely Lentilla who sent it here. Bento saw a the piper in South Australia and without middleman sent it here. Notice that neither took an upskirt shot. The Pemberton one almost has a simple elegance out there in the bush. I don’t entirely dislike it. The bagpiper, not so, although there is some palm frond and glass brick action.
The Worst of Perth 
which tartan?
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TLA: I think we need…
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It’s the rarely seen McSeventiesbathroomtile clan tartan, I believe.
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I like the quirky Pemberton one.
But Bento? No up the kilt shot? Regardless it’s a fucking abomination.
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Upskirt shots are difficult at 60km/h and 30 metres away. And it was Adelaide, so I wasn’t getting out of my armoured car lest I be brutally murdered.
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Just look at his cold, pitiless eyes. Pure piping evil.
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Simply Beautiful Bento.
Would love to see a series of shots of this, Piping on unflinchingly in the rain, staring straight ahead as a pelican shits on his head, emerging stoically from the fog…
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Yes Bento. I think there’s a bong in those bagpipes.
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Hey that reminds me of a fave movie from our uni days.
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Always been on of my personal favourites.
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me too paracleet.
‘ There’s a piper down. There’s a piper down’
Back in the day Bento and I could quote line for line chunks of this movie. And references often made their way into daily conversation.
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Same.
The only thing we could do worse to be TWOP uncool would posting python clips.
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How about the Goodies, Para ?
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I posted python about 2 weeks ago. Loved the Goodies clip too.
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I get a punch in the arm from my wife every time I quote Python.
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Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more …
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Fair enough, Bento. They’d be most inappropriate, although one of shaz with her head stuck in a bus stop would be fine.
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Straighten yourself up soldier.
I know I would be more excited than that to sit next to Liz.
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As would’ve Bon, no doubt. I like the hint of a smile, though.
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Since the Pemberton Giacometti already seems popular, I pass on commenting lest charges of elitism arise. Besides, its clear cultural references render frivolous and perhaps even serious critique problematic.
The piper brings back fond memories of all the “bigs” I observed on an cross-Australia road trip I undertook many years ago.
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Is that sarcasm or self pity NF#1?
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I generally reserve self-pity for the privacy of my own mind Shaz, so it must be the other one. However, the point about cultural references was meant to be taken at face value.
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“However, the point about cultural references was meant to be taken at face value.”
On TWoP ?
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Don’t hold back NF #1.
Each and every one of us will have something we have a soft spot for worsted from time to time.
Sure, it hurts, but we should not play this game if we cannot take the odd blow…
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On the other hand, when you write something that gets not a single response, you have to wonder whether the mob thinks you’re a pedantic old fart (my case), deeply profound, or simply doesn’t get the point. (There’s a lot of that.)
“Nil Illegitimi Carborundum”.
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This is true WAtching. I was once soundly rebuked for daring to suggest that tit flashing required more skill and comic timing than a fart in a bag gag.
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Just collecting evidence, Sarge.
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What a great snap.
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On both counts, shaz. And speaking of upskirt shots, I love the Pemberton artwork too, although it does remind me of something.
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I wasn’t exactly holding back WA, thus the sarcasm. In any case, I expect I was just smarting from being unjustly compared to an NME letter writer yesterday. I’ll get over it.
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What wanker reads NME letters anyway?
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What is NME/R?
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thought it was new music(al?) express.
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As in the free Express mag?
I always read the letters in that.
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The proximity of R and E on the keyboard suggests TLA was referring to this publication.
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Oh. Now it’s been edited, so my comment makes even less sense than usual. Meh.
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Yes it was iPhone finger. Sorry for correcting.
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No problem, TLA. Actually, (us) not being able to edit comments is one of the best things about TWoP. We’re all fairly fluent in typo, and imagine the carnage if revisionists were given free reign.
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You should be sorry.
We don’t get to correct.
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Agree that only wankers read NME, the letters at least, and overjoyed that the misunderstandings have now been sorted out.
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Yes I was a teenage wanker.
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me too but of the Green Left Weekly variety (shakes head as a slow tear wells)
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Green Left. Is that still around? I can’t raise enough social consciousness these days to buy the Big Issue.
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I was such a wanker I paid $12 for the ‘current’ issue from 78s, disdaining the cheaper sea-mail option available from my local newsagent.
For the discerning elitist wanker (such as I), the rapidly shifting acceptable paradigm meant being caught in a Mudhoney t-shirt that was shamefully outdated could occur in mere hours.
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I really really like the Pemberton one, it has a sort of meek, apologetic look, like it wants to serve me tea-and-toast up the Faraway Tree. Top marks.
Aye laddie. All I can say is that’s a fucking magnificent sporran.
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That hotel used to be known as (thoughtfully) Scotty’s Motel. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-34.893482,138.603687&spn=0,359.972126&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-34.893407,138.603529&panoid=xforK1b_HWCuuvOaTzSavw&cbp=12,161.37,,0,3.48
I’ve been driving past it all my life. As god awful as it is, if they pulled it down, I think there’d be outrage.
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the pemberton one has a touch of whimsy i quite like, whilst the piper is just gorgeously, awfully kitsch.
can’t complain about the lack of up skirt shots in the light of the gosnelss spoon statue.
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Comic Sans walks into a bar, and the barman says “we don’t serve your type here.”
I know. I should kill myself.
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ugh
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Once everybody has stopped arguing about books, and in penance for my Worsting above, might I just draw your attention to the Doggie GaGa project:
http://jessefreidin.com/uncategorized/the-doggie-gaga-projectfine-art-dog-photographer-jesse-freidin
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Saw lots of dogs like that in Hyde Pk on the weekend!
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was matty b attached to one of them?
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I’ll just go and soak my head in a bucket of rotting groin rabbits.
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Pembey resource centre muffler art up a tree. I am troubled that the conscensus seems Not Worst. Twisted metal bar, a baked bean tin, two washers and some pig wire… all done in blackface. A problematic worst from me.
did I mention that it was up a tree?
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d’ya think it should be in thornlie?
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Brilliant, vegan. Looks like he did get struck.
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Been waiting all day for someone to say that – thank you!
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Blackface? Wow, that hadn’t crossed my mind. I saw it as some black metal that had been opportunistically converted to an object of interest.
Food for thought indeed Mez.
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The pattern and colours on the neckband suggested a certain flag to me to me straight away. The blackface only added to my suspicions.
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The colours and pattern on the neckband suggested a certain flag to me immediately on seeing the photo. The blackface only added to my suspicions.
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It’s all black. It’s no more “blackface” than a Henry Moore. If it’s supposed to be a representation of an indigenous Australian, then well and good.
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But Mez, it’s all black, not blackface.
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I wouldn’t presume to know what’s under the tunic
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Fair enough, but I’d put a slab on it not being white.
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you’ve hit the nail on the head Mez. A beautiful tree, ruined.
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the sculpture could be naive to it Shaz but I can’t get the underlying racism of the notorious Red Faces skit out of my head
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*sculptor*
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