G'day Pete On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:02 +1100, "Peter McIntosh" <peter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Top shots! > > We went too - enjoyed it alot. I found the boy sculpture a bit > disconcerting - but for entirely different reasons. Standing next to > something as lifelike, but totally out of scale, seemed a little > freaky; its eyes seemed to be at the same level as mine... > > Looks like your timing was good - we had a fair few people to contend > with (the last Saturday). Still, as Wallace would say, a "grand day > out". I'll be back next time, but a little earlier in the day. Thanks - glad you liked them. One of the advantages of being more or less retired is being able to go on a weekday when there are less people around, although the numerous parties of school kids out on art excursions did test my patience (it should be justifiable to chuck a few of them over the cliffs....) I will admit to a little cloning to remove the odd head and limb protuding into the shots. :-)> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > 2009/11/20 Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm>: > > G'day all > > > > Went along to Sculpture by the Sea again this year. Great walk - > > interesting sculptures with the usual eclectic mix of the Wonderful, the > > Woeful and the Weird. > > > > Here's a shot taken just for the hell of it.... > > > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/182749/The_Birds_and_I.html > > > > > > If anyone's interested, here's a GESO of some of the sculptures on > > display this year: > > > > http://supera.jalbum.net/Sculpture_by_the_Sea_2009/index.html > > > > > > The main controversy this year was the sculpture of a naked boy. The > > local council demanded that his modesty be restored with a pair of > > swimming shorts, however the artist rebelled and removed the shorts > > early on the opening day of the exhibition. Details here: > > > > http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/little-boy-loses-his-swimmers-as-artist-rebels/2009/10/31/1256835190849.html > > http://tinyurl.com/yeyev8v > > > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
