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Old 05-12-2013, 11:24 PM   #1
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May 12th, 2013: Skywhale

Back in 1901, the states of Australia decided to hook up and form a country. It was agreed that the capital mustn't be Sydney, but would be in a special territory carved out of New South Wales, somewhere between Sydney and Melbourne. In the meantime, Melbourne was the temporary capital, but after long searching, a site was chosen, and in 1913 the new capital city, Canberra, was founded.

Now it's 2013, and it's time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this event. So we made a big hot-air balloon in the shape of a giant whale with ten enormous boobies hanging off it, and floated it over the city, because nothing says "100 years* of our nation's capital!" like a giant ten-titted skywhale.

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*actually, it says 300,000 dollars of our nation's capital, but it only murmurs that quietly.
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Old 05-12-2013, 11:30 PM   #2
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Is there actually some significance to a ten tit whale?
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Old 05-12-2013, 11:39 PM   #3
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It has...

...ten tits.

Okay.
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Old 05-12-2013, 11:43 PM   #4
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Ummm....

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The artist says her inspiration came from the wonder of nature.

"My question is what if evolution went a different way and instead of going back into the sea, from which they came originally, they went into the air and we evolved a nature that could fly instead of swim," she said.

"In fact coming from a place like Canberra where it's a planned city that's really tried to integrate and blend in with the natural environment, it makes a lot of sense to make this sort of huge, gigantic, but artificial and natural looking creature."

Piccinini says she understands the artwork will challenge public opinion.

"I think that's confounding for people because they don't know what the creature is, but secondly they don't know if it's an artwork or what it's trying to do," she said.

Hanging from its giant whale-like body are ten huge pendulous breasts.

Ms Piccinini says they reflect how whales are mammals and breast-feed their young.
I think that means "no".

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-1...nberra/4683382


FTR, I like it as a piece of art, and it is by Patricia Piccinini, who has done a lot of other great freaky stuff. It just has only the most tenuous connection to the Canberra Centenary.
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Old 05-12-2013, 11:48 PM   #5
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Fixed (?)

"...confounding for [the artist] because they don't know what the creature is...if it's an artwork or what it's trying to do..."
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Old 05-13-2013, 05:58 AM   #6
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LOL truly lame..
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Old 05-13-2013, 07:26 AM   #7
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I bet they had to go to the trouble of putting weights in those boobs so they would hang down. The hot air in them would make them tend to be all perky and pointed up. I bet there is about 10 pounds of sandbags sewn into each nipple. (and if I ever saw this post of mine out of context, I would be really confused.)
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Old 05-13-2013, 10:24 AM   #8
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Looks more like a turtle then a whale to me. And yeah, I may not be an art critic but I know what I like, and that isn't it.
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Old 05-13-2013, 10:55 AM   #9
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First whale penis, and now whale breastfeeding. Dwellars have some serious issues, yo.
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First whale penis, and now whale breastfeeding. Dwellars have some serious issues, yo.
Well, yeah. Before there can be whale breastfeeding, there's got to have been some whale penis time in there somewhere. /mammals
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Old 05-13-2013, 07:46 PM   #12
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I'd like to see someone sneak that into the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade.
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Old 05-13-2013, 07:56 PM   #13
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I'd like to see it land on the Japanese embassy.
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Old 05-13-2013, 10:33 PM   #14
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I'd like to see someone put a pin in it.

What an embarrassment!
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"My question is what if evolution went a different way and instead of going back into the sea, from which they came originally, they went into the air and we evolved a nature that could fly instead of swim," she said.
"... then the Skywhale grew really, really big and flew beyond the atmosphere out into space as a Starwhale carrying the city of Canberra; or, maybe even the entire country on its back and we called it 'Starship Australia'."

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