Has the boom reached such an extent that some Perthons would actually be in the market for this neo Third Reich side table? I’d go for a giant plasma or V8 ute myself. The only way it could look good is in the ruins of a bombed building. There are a pair of them in Hay Street Subi if you have Napoleon’s bed – or a cache of weapons.
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You have to be careful what you wish for. So often we seem to be demanding some, even just a little bit of imagination from our Perth architects. Perhaps this shows why we are lucky they don’t exercise it more often. Has to be the ugliest small office in the city, in an already ugly part of Burswood, despite the fact that it seems like a lot of thought and effort has gone into it. What is that branch and plank thingy on the roof for? If it had an architect hanging from a noose with crows feasting on the corpse… And who thought it would be a good idea to have half a log as an “entry statement”? I particularly love how the colour of the stone perfectly highlights the mouldly drains set near the front to lure in customers. Perhaps it would have been nice to have the staff bog set up out the front too.
Don’t really know what category to put this one in. Perhaps Worst Architecture, because I am sure that when Jackson’s Hotel in Lord Street East Perth, (Formerly The Norwood, ) is demolished, what replaces it will not be an improvement. How about a light brick office complex with some lattice, or perhaps some nice eaveless apartments? The interior design courtesy of street kids is interesting though. I was able to hold the camera up to a smashed window. If they did restore the old place, it might be worth keeping. I think “Worst preservation of old hotel” could be a new category.
Zombie/vampire Vietnam vets? Well it sounds like it could be interesting right? No. Unlike the other 80’s Perth film I worked on, Day of The Panther which was hilariously bad, and not without a certain campy charm, Zombie brigade has everything you don’t want in a film, apart from my name in the crew credits. A Vietnam war memorial is demolished for a Japanese resort of some kind. Zombie vets emerge from the grave to do absolutely nothing. The real star of the show was a purple Holden Statesman with an 8 track player still installed. This vehicle was owned by the evil Mayor – human cane toad Geoff Gibbs (of WAPA fame) . All the action takes place off screen creating unrelieved tedium. Produced by local small time film maker, Charlie Musca. I remember working my guts out for the film as a Best Boy, but even more clearly I remember Charlie Musca coming round after a killer day’s work to make sure we didn’t get more than one can of Vic Bitter each. A couple of the locations were a patch of bamboo (Vietnam) near where the world’s biggest Bingo Centre is now, and waste ground near the Red Hill Tip. Also, Phen375 reviews are in.
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The Worst of Perth is to be saved for posterity. The State Library of WA has asked to be allowed to save it in their electronic archives, ( Pandora). So, many years from now if you can’t recall where that statue of the arse scratcher was, it will be there for you.
Note to the year 5008: Dear future Perth person. Do we have Sunday trading yet? Do we still remember Mainy?
I really loved these deco sailing boat mirrors. Maylands. This is the second topless woman this week who seems to have trouble removing the apparel.
Africa as usual has its problems with droughts, floods and elections, but at least one Perth household is helping by bringing this clock out of the dark continent and setting it up here, where it can no longer contribute to Sub-Saharan suffering. You can sponsor bad clocks out of Africa for under a dollar a day. Think of the children who would have otherwise have seen this. Think of the children. This is worse than the cock fighting Philipines clock, which now graces the walls of TWOP headquarters, aka “The Wolf’s Lair”.
We’ve seen some bad churches in the last few months, but wow, what a stinker! As we have seen before, The Uniting Church is obviously a little light on for architects amongst its flock, and this church in Carlisle is totally flocked. Teh Jesus lives here? The hell he does. Jesus wouldn’t be seen dead on that crucifix either. Happy new year by the way.
Kahuna recently castigated the Town of Cambridge for its building code, amongst other things, but I don’t think the council can be blamed for this huge norked monstrosity can it? Pull off Grantham Street Wembley into the Accent Gallery & Framers carpark for the full eyeful. Couldn’t get the artist details. A companion piece with her opening a tightly closed jar of gherkins would be nice too.
A nice one for the last day of the year I think. Thank you everyone from Perth and around the world for your support, humorous comments and submissions over the last 3 months. Truly amazing. If anyone got phone cameras for Christmas, you know what to do. Don’t worry, there is plenty more worst to come in 2008. The Lazy Aussie.
For some reason, every ad agency and designer around the world will at one time or other come to the conclusion that it would be a brilliant idea to use giant versions of the product in place of someone’s head. And every time they see the result they wish they hadn’t. But still they come…
Hay Street Mall. Carrying giant beers and sanwiches would have looked so much better. Unfortunately I used the giving head joke last week.
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