SUNBURN

Nov. 21st, 2010 07:44 am
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Half an hour in direct sunshine (the rest of the day under portable shade in the form of a parasol) and my arms are bright red.

The Aussie sun is not kind.




Went along the Eastlink freeway yesterday, for the second time since it opened. Wasn't driving, so I had the chance to look at the weird, weird scenery.

Like this:




For some reason, the designers seem to have approached this construction less as a freeway and more as a piece of very long modern art. They have random things strewn all over the sides of the road, fluorescent green bridges over the top, and a... fake hotel?



(Seriously - why?)



Nothing yet to rival the world's biggest phallic symbol, out on the Tullamarine:



...but there's always time. And so much more empty freeway to experiment with.

Date: 2010-11-20 09:13 pm (UTC)
velvetwhip: (Cow Rainbow)
From: [personal profile] velvetwhip
I think the Washington Monument is actually a bigger phallic symbol, myself, but the yellow does add a certain je ne sais quoi. I also really dig the fake hotel.


Gabrielle

Date: 2010-11-20 09:45 pm (UTC)
next_to_normal: (Wide-eyed Buffy)
From: [personal profile] next_to_normal
Ah, but does any of this modern art blast a perpetually looped track of ABBA's "Dancing Queen"? (Liverpool is SO weird.)

I think the fake hotel is my favorite, for the sheer illogic of it. :)

Date: 2010-11-20 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] a2zmom
I wish we had that kind of thing along boring interstate 95. Modern art certainly livens up the trip!

Date: 2010-11-20 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hey Thar! It's Empresspatti -

Just dropped in to tell you the pictures were So Funny and Strange! Thanks for the laugh.

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