Australian city spends $170,000 on... this

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Caiphus

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Oh yeah. Does this thing have larger boobs than the Sorceress from Dragon's Crown? It looks pretty close.
 

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TheYellowCellPhone said:
Don't the fins (wings?) kind of look like a bundle of giant, hanging boobies?

Well. Worse things have been bought. I just cannot name any other ones.
Well, I once heard somebody complain about this thing.
Somebody I know from that place said that you can barely see the bloody thing from either of the streets that it sits beside.
Pricetag? $600,000. I'd personally much rather have the giant whale balloon with inflatable tits hanging off of it.

But still, these "artists"...horrible, if you ask me. These are the things that they should do themselves rather than have tax dollars put towards. Unless the people of those towns actually specifically ask them to make such wastes of money monstrosities.
 

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HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

Oh man I'm laughing my ass off here!!!

You made my day mate, seriously that's art right there that makes me laugh out!
 

Esotera

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I can only imagine that this somehow doubles up as part of Australia's air force and those 8 glands can spew fire & death from the skies.

I get that artists need support & funding, but this isn't the way.
 

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Ahh Canberra, the place where fun and interesting died of boredom.

But that giant boobie-fish is kind of interesting. But surely they could have used that money to fire all of the current politicians and advertise for new ones. Not any specific party. Just all of them.
 

xeyra

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Oh dear, I don't even have words to describe how scary that thing looks. The huge hanging "boobs" are just... I'm not sure I want to know what inspiration was going through the artist's mind. And they city paid 170k for this?
 

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Should have called it "A statement on the condition of modern art and government spending".

I cannot believe my own country would pay for this. In a place where no real people live.

It has breasts for fuck's sakes.
 

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TheYellowCellPhone said:
Don't the fins (wings?) kind of look like a bundle of giant, hanging boobies?
I can't unsee that...just...huge, drooping tits with erect...eww...This variation of The Wind Fish is terrible.

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Well at least you guys have something to show for your tax dollars. There has been road work going on in my area for over a month and you really...really can't tell at this point. You could for about a day but then it was as though nothing had happened...well, except for the lines. Whoever painted the lines on the roads doesn't know what straight-lines are.

...the captcha isn't loading right for me...I didn't get the answer even after re-loading the thing several times...the Hell?! Finally got a working one...sleep tight...Yay! Maybe Jeff will visit me before bed this morning!!
 

ItsNotRudy

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The company next to my old job spent 50k euros (65k dollars) on this badboy:

http://www.gooieneemlander.nl/regionaal/hilversumplassen/article9630551.ece/ALTERNATES/w470/bolus.jpg


Yeah...
 

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First off all, thanks for giving me a good laugh in the morning.

Second, Was anyone else immediately reminded of a team rocket like balloon.

On a different note, what happened to good old fashioned round(-ish) balloons with decorations on them.
 

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Part one of Australia's plan to create the floating city of Canberra?
FargoDog said:
When they write it in their history books and sing it in hushed songs to their children, they will say... it was this day that the invasion of New Zealand begun!
"Hahaha look, the Aussies spent $170,000 on that! Whales don't have tits you dumbasses! Wait, oh god, what's coming out of it? SHIT!"

Meanwhile on the Australian front...

"When they promised a glorious front-line fight they never mentioned this."
"Shut up Steve, we are in the glorious front-line! We'll be first to sack Auckland and take their...Lord of the Rings merchandise?"
"I know, I know but they never mentioned...this! How am I going to explain it to my kids? Yes Sally, Daddy parachuted out from a trojan-whale's boobs."
 

xeyra

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ItsNotRudy said:
The company next to my old job spent 50k euros (65k dollars) on this badboy:

http://www.gooieneemlander.nl/regionaal/hilversumplassen/article9630551.ece/ALTERNATES/w470/bolus.jpg


Yeah...
That's... a giant turd... what? What possessed anyone to pay for that? Or even make it? Then again, we do live in a world where a toilet is a piece of art.
 

ItsNotRudy

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xeyra said:
ItsNotRudy said:
The company next to my old job spent 50k euros (65k dollars) on this badboy:

http://www.gooieneemlander.nl/regionaal/hilversumplassen/article9630551.ece/ALTERNATES/w470/bolus.jpg


Yeah...
That's... a giant turd... what? What possessed anyone to pay for that? Or even make it? Then again, we do live in a world where a toilet is a piece of art.
Yes, yes it is. Everyone knows and that's how it was sold. No artistic pretense it was anything else. I believe it was some sort of statement about the funding for public TV networks. They had 50k in the budget which would be taken away and cut off next years budget (hey, you guys don't need that 50k you had left! derr) if not spent asap or something of the sort. I guess this is what they spent it on to show how dumb that logic is.

There was even a small marching band for it's inauguration and a bunch of press.