millsy
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Post by millsy on Sept 28, 2011 22:42:16 GMT 10
Too easy! I thought it might be a tricky one. Here is a bit more info about the place, with a few quotes that I copied off that billboard;
After getting home and checking some of the billboard photos of Menzies I found that my 'middle of no-where’ feelings about the place were shared by a foreigner a few years earlier, a well respected sculptor. But he put it in a far more poetic manner!
The photo of the billboard is hard to read, so I have typed a few of its explanations out. I found them interesting, and maybe if I had paused to read them while I was ‘in town’ I may, or may not, have driven out to Lake Ballard to check it out.
Inside Australia
This inspiring artwork comprises 51 sculptural figures, and is located on a portion of Lake Ballard, some 50km north-west of Menzies. It was commissioned to mark the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Perth International Arts Festival 2003. It was created by acclaimed British artist Antony Gormley;
“Inside Australia was one of the most difficult, long distance, intense, exhilarating, fatiguing endeavours of my life – and the most rewarding.”
Celebrating place and community Apart from two passers-by, the 51 sculptures on Lake Ballard are based on the body scans of inhabitants of the small Goldfields town of Menzies. Gormley wanted to celebrate a community as well as a place. Each abstract figure reveals attitudes, emotions and personal history . . . the passage of that person’s life.
At the edge of endlessness Gomley recalls his first experience of Lake Ballard as;
“absolutely magic . . . of being on the edge of the lip of the world.” Out on the salt lake the figures are ‘markers’ in a vast space where they create a relationship with each other, the land and the horizon . . . the limit of our perception.
What can you throw at us OlFarts?
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millsy
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Post by millsy on Sept 28, 2011 23:52:26 GMT 10
Nup, don't know where that park is mate, but hope your missus doesn't know you are taking pics of good looking young gals like that. You might end up sleeping out in the Wayfarer by yourself! But not a bad sort of dog-house I guess!
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Post by millsy on Sept 28, 2011 23:53:17 GMT 10
On second thoughts, it has that Strathalbynish look about it?
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Post by cobber on Sept 29, 2011 15:00:04 GMT 10
IT'S NOT FAIR ............... I tried cheating and it didn't work Cobber.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 30, 2011 0:05:54 GMT 10
G'day Dave, Your photo is a bit of a test for us. I guess if you've been there you'd recognise it straight away, but there aren't too many reference points for you to plug into Google. I tried 'big green chair in a park', but Dave, do you know how many big green chairs in a park there are around the world? The answer is 'quite a few'! However, what really concerns me is that before you took the pic, some vandal has got to the chair with a big black texta and blacked out the signage that might tell us where it is. How unfair is that? I hope you reported the damage to the civic authorities... I tried removing the texta with metho but it didn't work - now I've just got a big blank spot on my computer screen. ;D ;D ;D Don Ricardo
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Post by sheppo on Sept 30, 2011 8:17:24 GMT 10
it's a while since iv'e been there but is it somewhere around the Adelaide Zoo? Sheppo
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Post by Don Ricardo on Oct 1, 2011 22:38:30 GMT 10
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Post by sheppo on Oct 2, 2011 22:09:05 GMT 10
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bigkel
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Post by bigkel on Oct 3, 2011 9:06:18 GMT 10
Hi All ,, looks like Exmouth to me ,, ( but once i thought i was wrong but i was mistaken ) Bigkel,
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Post by sheppo on Oct 3, 2011 9:54:25 GMT 10
I reckon your on the money Bigkel, Out on the way to Cape Range. Should have looked thru my photos instead of cheating! . Sheppo
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Post by Don Ricardo on Oct 4, 2011 21:11:54 GMT 10
Hi Dave, Is 'Tower Zero' the name you're after? That's the name of the tallest tower... (With thanks to Bigkel, and no thanks to my own general knowledge! ) Don Ricardo
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Post by Don Ricardo on Oct 5, 2011 22:39:30 GMT 10
Thanks Dave. Where's this? Apologies for the fact that it's not such a good photo - phone camera... Don Ricardo
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Post by seeshell on Oct 6, 2011 6:11:48 GMT 10
Hi Don
Is it beautiful Echuca?
Cheers Seeshell
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Post by seeshell on Oct 6, 2011 15:06:33 GMT 10
Hi All A lovely spot... Where is this? Cheers Seeshell
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Post by kaybee on Oct 6, 2011 15:47:08 GMT 10
Hi All A lovely spot... Where is this? Cheers Seeshell Katoomba?....
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Post by seeshell on Oct 6, 2011 16:12:36 GMT 10
Hi Kaybee
Good guess, but no...
Seeshell
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Post by sutcac on Oct 6, 2011 16:15:28 GMT 10
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Post by stephen&Julie on Oct 6, 2011 18:06:50 GMT 10
Trentham Falls central Vic??
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Post by seeshell on Oct 6, 2011 18:31:48 GMT 10
And the winner is ... Sutcac! I'm not surprised that such a well traveled pair (plus pup) guessed it. Cheers Seeshell
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Post by Don Ricardo on Oct 6, 2011 20:44:50 GMT 10
Hi Don Is it beautiful Echuca? Cheers Seeshell Hi Seeshell, Nup, try again... Just kidding! Yes, you got it. It is indeed the wharf at the Port of Echuca on the Murray River. For those who haven't seen it, it was originally built in 1865 by the Victorian Railways, and at its peak was 300 m long. (900 ft! ) During WWII there was a shortage of firewood in Melbourne apparently and the good old VR chopped up 3/4's of it to be sold as firewood. It is currently being rebuilt from the ground up. You can see some of the equipment that is being used on a barge at the far end. All new timber is being used, so I guess it's going to be a case of a "grandfather's axe"... ;D ;D ;D Don Ricardo
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Post by Roehm3108 on Oct 6, 2011 21:01:48 GMT 10
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Post by seeshell on Oct 6, 2011 21:23:05 GMT 10
Hi Don Ha ha Don! Ray's right, normally I wouldn't take old Dave at face value but I've had *very* frequent visits there in my youth. Without fail, every holiday we made back to Australia to visit relatives included a "Bataan Death March" fun day out in the port city. I think between times we came they forgot we'd already been (they were old) -- that, and Maldon. And Sovereign Hill.... It gave me quite a horror of the place. For ages I wasn't interested in anything about Echuca but a visit again about two years ago really got me over my prejudice. Yes very interesting about the dock isn't it? At the time we did the visit a few years back there was even LESS water in the river, and they actually couldn't go out for the river tours. I recall seeing a few pictures in the museum where the paddlesteamers were level with the TOP of the dock....what a difference! Thanks for the photo - Seeshell
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Post by sutcac on Oct 6, 2011 23:17:11 GMT 10
OK .....not a real good pic........but an oldie...............where's this??
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Post by bobandjacqui on Oct 7, 2011 5:21:26 GMT 10
G'day Clyde, Is it Moolooaba on the Sunny Coast Cheers Bob
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Post by sutcac on Oct 7, 2011 8:50:34 GMT 10
Yep ,yep........the old Mooloolaba's changed a bit in the last 50 years or so, hey?......Too easy for you ,Bob..................over to you again.............
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