Lucky Star captured this poorly conceived and poorly implemented homage to dead trees at The Raffles Hotel. Seriously, why bother? I hope this was done for free. 
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The Worst of Perth 
Looks like a speed camera with a tree on the stand, why didnt they just leave the tree alone.
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Traditional City of Melville v City of South Perth rivalry. Melvile saw these and had to get their own monument to dead trees mounted on excessive concrete base.
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Those are vile Bento. Definite worst as well. If they didn’t have wiggly bits for branches on top and crappy artwork on the sides they’d look like grave stones. The fish in the first look like pregnant guppies, and I think the uni students might have been having a joke with design on the bottom part of the other two – looks like a vag has been incorporated into the river or whatever it’s supposed to be. Or perhaps that’s just my dirty mind…
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There’s always flange somewhere in an artwork.” – Grandmaster Flange
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Perhaps the CHD artist could take some tips from Grandmaster Flange for any future creations.
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It’s even more horrible in person. I couldn’t stop staring at it. Even alcohol didn’t make it look better. It looks like someone stuck a bit of dead branch in a block of concrete, then stuck up on metal poles inspired by a Tim Burton film. A massive fail. A definite worst.
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I assume the alcohol didn’t help because the punters can’t afford more than one round of beers at Raffles prices?
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There was that Grilla! But the passing entertainment of pretentious douchebags in designer plaid shorts with matching thongs and the skanks in leather short-shorts all trying to be hip and out do each other was more than enough to made up for the exorbitant prices.
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In that context, perhaps this piece of artwork isn’t the worst item in the vicinity….
Actually, has ‘bikini girls’, which is just down the road appeared on this site yet?
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No, and despite the many photos sent in, I don’t think it will.
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What???? We cant repeat something that was in the papers?
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These suckers should know it aint anything unless it’s made out of stainless steel.
Inspired by the shopping trolleys on poles out the front of the casino.
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I’ll get you some photos like that next time I make it back to my home town Bill. Imagine the trolley “art”, but made out of old rusty farm machinery instead and displayed along the main drag through town.
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Yeah well that’s just about any rustbelt town there PLS…
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Public Art
Our urban environment
So much more vibrant
With addition of palms so smart
Once sated on those
There’s the emperor’s new clothes
In the guise of public art
A nice bronze here
Some limestone there
Sure to enhance our clime
“But the weather’s enough;
No need for that guff!”
I hear the naysayers opine
“But we need some more whacky!
A push toward synarchy!”
Reply winners of government grants
Though they may be right
Their efforts too blight
And are sure to put sand in your pants
So take all your twigs
And your Spiegeltent gigs
And painted milk-crates too
Crash them together
In search of an answer
Or sit back and let culture accrue
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*applaudes*
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Superb.
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Are you sure it’s a homage to dead trees and not to dead high jumpers? The tree atop the 3 high jump bars represents the dead jumpers’ inability to clear the bar ever again.*
*unless they put sunglasses on their corpses and hook up some sort of hydraulics, hilarity then ensuing.
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How dare you heathens slag off this art piece, oh sure it’s all good and dandy when it’s part of the Beach art show and you’re all admiring it with a Chardonnay in hand, but did any of you ever pay a thought to what happens after the shows over, well did you?
They need homes too you know
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I heard mining companies buy them in bulf (I meant to type bulk, but bulf seems to sound better) and decorate Port Hedland.
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only South Hedland (oh that comments funny if you have the context – trust me)
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Ah that’s where Ive seen it. I actually took a pic of it at Cottesloe. Didn’t seem quite so bad back then.
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I thought it looked familiar. So, it doesn’t even have any local context or thought put into it, then, beyond the haze of what seemed like a good idea at the time, at the beach…
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It’s not a Juniper is it?
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Kevin Draper – which by name alone makes it better than a Juniper
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I agree. It looks very out of place there.
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I must say it looks much less offensive there. I mean, it’s still a Tim Burton rip-off (for the record, I consider him a major artist in his own right) but it’s actually rather striking in contrast to the colors of the beach and the sea.
I do think that there is such a thing as a site-specific work of art.
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Like this?
or this?
Some can shine in any location.
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You win.
I was trying to be polite.
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The Raffles Hotel – another Multiplex turd dumped on the Perth landscape. Hopefully they will complete the Westfieldisation of Claremont and f**k off back to the Eastern States never to be seen again. At least they were denied the opportunity to bend over the Cottesloe beachfront on the Cott Hotel site.
OT – it’s official. Ben Elton is an un-funny cunt. Not that it was really ever in doubt.
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thats what happens when you leave Thatchers britain and move to Fremantle.
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He’s a giant being torn apart by midgets an fed to the sharks.
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That should be wired gaint.
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Another great call by Packer’s mate and Nine CEO, David Gyngell who is actually paid a few million bucks a year (God knows why) to run Channel 9.
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The thing I like most about this is that it appears to be somehow wearing a blood-soaked diaper.
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I remember seeing this object displayed at “Sculptures by the Sea” three or four years ago
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purchased by the Mayor of Melville btw
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