A showcase of the worst examples of architecture, design, culture and humanity in Perth Western Australia. Posts may contain adult concepts and occasional coarse language.
From the magazine for crackpots, Nova, comes this ad. Meditate as deeply (in fact more deeply) than a Zen monk? Despite some careful breathing and chanting, Zen monks were mightily pissed off at this ad, seeing that some of them had wasted up to 70 years honing their meditation skills. It’s a wonder the monks didn’t go all Shaolin on Nova’s arse.
Mind you the monks could have seen it coming if they had called this creature. Her accuracy as well as her head are equally unnerving. Have you ever read Nova? I’d rather read the West’s prostitute ads than these. Ugh.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love London Court, despite, or perhaps because of how ridiculous the premise was and how out of place it is. For overseas worsters, London Court is a shopping centre built in Olde Englande style, in 1937. From the website, London Court is, “The only walk in the world outside Britain that has captured a setting and atmosphere so similar to that of Tudor England…”
That the chiming of the clock is one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions perhaps says more about Perth than London Court. Small crowds would gather when I was a kid to watch St George sluggishly poke a dragon, on one side, and knights joust on the hay Street side. And they still gather to watch it even today!
Brett at Freebeer reported an idiotic statement from ABC Chief Kim Dalton, calling for enforced Australian quotas on Australian broadband content! Has the man never used the internet? Just to keep Kim a little bit happier and increase Australian online content a little more, here is a video I made for TWOP television showing the frenzy that surrounds the chiming of the clock at London Court in Hay street. You won’t want to miss it.
Was quite a good worst week this week, possibly highlighted by Skink’s amusing stoush with Howard “Riddance” Sattler on the Fairfax blog, with the moderator deleting both Skink AND Sattler at one stage. The post on The Fairfax Online experience will soon be the most read and most commented on in TWOP history, even more than The Worst of The West Australian.
David “Teh Outrage” Cohen took the time to post a TWOP Perth reference on Wikipedia. Thanks Outrage. I hope it stays up. We also looked at how it is not possible to use a dolphin in graphic design without it looking terrible. I found this I hadn’t posted from when I photographed Rainblow Lodge.
The Bedford Crackpot gave me this in a seething rage. He seemed to think that this along with the TV ads casting public transport users as losers who should be driving a gas guzzling Ford as possibly criminal. Thanks Cracks.
This is more like it from another Ford seen in Cannington. Far more wholesome than the ad. Demonstrating that its panels are so strong that only a monster skeleton could break through.
An outside worst from my “real photos collection. An ad for a male prostitute on the 3rd Ring road in Beijing. A prostitute ad scatched into the city’s own filth/ Ring Road? it was all too much.
To say I opened a night club to allow people to do drugs, even in the bathroom – do people think I’m insane? Do they think I’m going to throw everything away – even my own children’s future, so people could get high in a nightclub? It’s ridiculous.
Johnny Depp
I wish I had taken a shot of the interior of the Red Parrot back in the days. I couldn’t tell whether it is being used for anything now. Circled is the tree I vomited on in the early 80’s after an “all you can drink night”. The sapling has flourished since that fertilising incident. I’m sure that sort of promotion wouldn’t be legal now.
Now this was a big mistake. It’s right out on the street. This sort of thing should be confined to a private garden. Somehow it reminds me of the work of the oversized norks sculptor. Douglas Avenue South Perth. I think it’s a new addition to the street. Dirty fingernails might have made it work.
I sometimes wonder whether it is EVER possible to do something good with a dolphin, graphic design wise. This looks like an aquatic version of a dog covering a fresh turd with dirt. What is it about the dolphin that makes them impervious to good design or sculpture?
A quite bizarre game of shooting birds I found in a shop in Highgate. The spring guns are so powerful that if you are not a huge distance away, they will knock the whole thing to the floor. You need to be so far away you can hardly see the birds. These stills are just for those who can’t see the montage masterpiece of video I have edited up for youse to demonstrate the remarkable shooting birds game in action. I don’t know why I included Kevin Rudd in the video. I think wine can be blamed, or perhaps the fact that it was made in China. And I am also too tired to do the translations from the Chinese. And of course it should be 猴看了not 候看了. In any case, be amazed by Shooting Birds, presented by Kevin Rudd. By the way, the sound it makes is like an approaching harvester. That is supposed to be the realistic chirping sound.
A long anticipated worst vanishing has finally happened. The Jumbo is extinct.
One of the lions had already been liberated last week, but the other was still attached to its pedestal. Must have been too heavy to carry off. I suppose it ended up in the rubble. Will be a lovely office block now. Goodbye Jumbo, or special treasure as the sign actually said.
The King of Bayswater reports that the Demo squad is now working on The Norwood Hotel, also previously featured. Goodbye Norwood.
While we’re on a demolition theme, here’s a picture I took in central Beijing in the famous Qianmen area. What you see is what’s left many poor people’s houses. They’ve been moved to the outskirts of the city. Goodbye Qianmen.
And one more demolition. here is the inside of Cinema City recently. Goodbye Cin City.
Because we mentioned posties the other day, and we also haven’t had any letterboxes up for a while, here are three offerings. For this first one, I hope the postie is a basketball player, or at least not a short arse. Perhaps trying to discourage junk mail?
And this one may require a postie familiar with the German army’s tactics in breaching the Maginot line.
And for this one it is less the letterbox and more the sign on it. Can a pencil pine really be a protected tree? A tree already defined as worst tree in a previous post? Would anyone really prune one?
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