I put this one from Meccano from Melbourne as an example of why Perth architecture is bad, a topic I will be expanding on in a lecture to the Curtin architecture department next Friday. This set of apartments by Nonda Katsalidis has been recognised as one of Australia’s best buildings. To me the angel and the bloke with the donger polished black by residents are risible. Why is an angel with a head which is a cross between Mark Webber and Lindy Chamberlain holding up one tit? But the point is that it could be built there and it couldn’t be built here. Horrible though it is, it couldn’t even be proposed here. Colin Barnett would be objecting to the Webber/Chamberlain flange being a threat to our kiddies. Residents wouldn’t even enter the back door of the wille polisher, let alone buy an apartment there. And a skull? Whoa could be an endorsement of euthanasia. With all the money, and all the wealth, here it would have to be bland glass or nothing. Even Melbourne’s bad is better than our good. Which we don’t have anyway. 
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“Perth architecture is bad, a topic I will be expanding on in a lecture to the Curtin architecture ” bringing coals to Newcastle , or chins to the chinless , or crimes to the criminals, or pearlers before swine ,………….or……………….
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or XXXXXXXXXX to XXXXXXXXX ?
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Next stop in the lecture circuit ……..Sword boys : how to arrange a boxing match.
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her crossed legs and intense frown suggest she has a full bladder
the man was also suffering for an urgent need to go, but was pinned down by the building and had to piss down his own leg
that’s a very small skull she is holding, possibly a marmoset.
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Just out of curiosity, what sort of reaction do you get when you pull the camera out to take some snap shots of the local nudes?
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I was called a faggot for taking a pic of a neon palm, so I can only wonder what they’d say to someone taking a pic of a statue with an abnormally large cock.
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Abnormally large?
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I was going to say the same myself Meccano. Looked a little light on to me. Great abs, sure, but wille seems to have been cast on a cold day.
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Oh.
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I would put it to you that the strapping nude is an archaic design which can only look appropraite in a city which has no sense of it’s place in the world. Like the London rebuilding in classic Greek and French, after their shanty town burnt down in the great fire, or the yanks building their big Roman Columns everywhere. It’s not only comparing yourself to the great civilisations in history, it’s doing so without realising the irony that to copy a great artist goes against the very purpose of the art itself.
It takes a certain level of wankiness, that you can only find in Melbourne, to think that putting classical Greek nudes in front of an apartment building is anything more than something they would get up to in a Kath & Kim sketch. It’s gold spray paint on a grander scale.
Now, I would further put it to you, that to find the modern day equivalent of the style of sculpture that they are replicating here, you have to go no further than Fremantle and a certain statue of Bon Scott. The tight trousers are very confronting when viewed from ground level and subject matter, a punk from Perth who started a daggy Rock n Roll band, that rose to international stardom, and died in the gutter with a lung full of spew, goes against every popular idea the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries have created for public sculpture.
Perhaps in a thousand years, somewhere in wanky Space Melbourne, some over priced inner city astro apartment block will be trying to copy the tight jeans and drunken swagger of that particular statue.
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Not sure that the “angel of death” statue is particularly Greek in inspiration; more like the kind of unmitigated crap one finds here.
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The Decline of the West…I suppose you’ll be blaming people who finished their BAs soon. Do you have a small moustache?
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Nice try, greggo.
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Nazi Tourette’s
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Yes, BAs are precisely the problem. Cunts.
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I suppose you where out there screaming for revenge when the cottesloe intellectuals demolished the acropolis at leighton. “Great civilisations”, “1000 years”, “bon scott, “roman columns” indeed… Totally crypto.
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She looks like a young Bart Cummings for me.
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thank you outrage, the likeness was puzzling.
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DFOC:
any truth to the rumour that Curtin journalism students are producing a lingerie calendar to celebrate Colin Barnett’s birthday?
“You put out the fires, Colin, but I’m still burning.”
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Col’s never awake long enough to perform his martial duties.
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I, too, always try for a penis in my self-portraits.
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I’m off to Bleak City tomorrow, not just to gain my sustenance of kulcha that Perth even cannot supply, but on patrol for Worsts Of Melbourne.
No doubt they have their own quotient of Worsts, particularly in the interminable outer South Eastern sprawl, home to the “rool” Kaths and Kims that give Melbourne something of a reputation of being a bogan mecca, despite it simultaneously being Australia’s hive for hipster arty wankers like Yours Truly (NOT “trooly”!). Nah, there’s probably too a veritable shitload of Worsts in tossrag enclaves I like to frequent like Brunswick, Lygon, Acland, Chapel and Carlisle Streets and Commercial Road.
To paraphrase that city’s other favourite sons (most likely sons, anyway), TISM, yet again referencing somebody else (to whom, escapes my mind at present), we are all of us are in the gutter here in Melbourne, but some of us are looking at the sewage.
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That would be Oscar, BO’T.
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Hipster eh?
You go, girlfren’.
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Not strictly, but that’s where they lump me when there’s no “other” or “miscellaneous” pigeonholes in their small minds those who label me such.
Ignorant cunts. Better than being a bogan, I s’pose.
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Hipster is a “miscellaneous” scene, one that makes a virtue of its miscellaneousness. Expensive jeans and op-shop shirt – yeah! A bit of punk, a bit of disco – yeah! Oh so cool yet nerdy horn-rim glasses – yeah! (Books are cool – yeah! – have you read the Popular Penguin edition of On The Road.) Almost total vapidity – FUCK YEAH!
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Not you Turnips – this is just general invective.
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ah, Hipsters aren’t they <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dqimp/hipster_kitty_weighs_in_on_the_chilean_miners/" tops.
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True, that.
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This Nonda Katsalidis may know architecture but over here in WA we know dongers – Pinder Surprise anyone – https://theworstofperth.com/2008/03/23/pinder-surprise/ ?
The Pinder would suggest that we Sandgropers are at the cutting edge of the use of a “dude” in the built environment.
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As is typical of architects, the adonis-type dude should be shown rampant so you would have somewhere practical to hang your shopping bags while looking for your keys to enter the building.
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Barnett Rubble would ban that. Or at least hose it down with chilled desal water on the one allocated watering day per week.
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Hahaha loved that ive sexually assaulted the male statue… ^^^
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http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/2/l_2e08c36156fd16b64b537975d5377a97.jpg *
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You didn’t continue your asault to the Mark Webber/Lindy Chamberlain?
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Bit girly looking for a “Charles”, surely?
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It’s metro Melbs, NF#1.
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It’s so crazy fucked up over there in Metrosexual Melbs, that people even buy coffees for $2:50! True story.
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but sadly there’s no Barra in the Yarra
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The first time I found myself staggering around Shibuya in the wee small hours I chanced upon an exquisite cafe that looked like it sold really good coffee, TLA, which in a tiny gold plated cup it certainly did, for the equivalent, I discovered, of about 12 AUD. Sad, but true story.
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