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Melting Mr. Whippy Van Creation of Ad Agency

November 25th 2006 00:05
Sculpture by the Sea is a yearly event that showcases artists work along Sydney’s Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk, this year it ran from 2-19th November.
It is a spectacular sight with a large variety of sculptures and installations provoking much debate and food for thought, this year however I was surprised to see that one of the most popular installations is indeed the brainchild of the Advertising Agency ‘The Glue Society’, the ‘artists’ Johnathon Kneebone and James Dives’ popular creation is the Melting Mr. Whippy Ice-cream Van, entitled “Hot with the chance of a late storm”, it is a statement on the perils of Global Warming.
The installation draped appropriately over the footpath at the end of the walk in Tamarama won the Sculpture by the Sea’s ‘Peoples Choice Award’, and the ‘Kid’s Choice Award’, the agency describes themselves as a ‘creative collective’ based in Surry Hills, but they are in fact a full service advertising agency set up by Gary Freedman and Johnathon Kneebone in 1998, they have won a whole heap of awards both in Australia and overseas, they have an impressive list of clients, and produce radio, print, and television advertising.
They are behind the very clever Canon ‘Digic’ TV commercial with the Lego rodeo riders, the awarded Virgin Mobile TV ads “Warren” “5 Cent” and “Jason Donovan”, and other high paying clients include Mercedes, Levi’s, BT Financial Group, Elle McPherson, News Limited, Fairfax, etc.
Most of the public wouldn’t know that an Ad Agency has entered in Sculptures by the Sea, and I think it is misleading, should full-time artists who make their bread and butter through their art be the only ones allowed to display it? Or should it be a free for all? Will the person who buys the installation be happy when they find out that it was created in an Ad Agency, by Agency employees and not a legitimate artist? Should an Advertising Agency that commands $150,000 a day to shoot a TV commercial also benefit from a free public art exhibition?
The foam and urethane construction has no buyer at present, the price tag - $22,000.
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Sheik Rattle and Roll

November 4th 2006 01:24
There is one section of Australian society, that we haven't heard too much from in this hideous saga of religious fanaticism and sexist male dominance, and that is the young Australian women that the Sheiks comments were launched at. I do not wish to give this man any more air(media) time, but c'mon sisters we need to tell this man and his followers that his comments have offended ALL women around the world.

Sheik Timeline

1) The Sheik makes comments likening woman to "uncovered meat", and blaming woman in cases of adultery.

I like many other women couldnt believe my ears, that in 2006 someone could say these words and still be within the law.

2) Public outrage at the Sheiks comments demand he step down as leader of the Muslim community.

This should of been done a long time ago to show all of us that these comments are abhorrent and will not be tolerated, if they had been made by John Howard, the Muslim community would be baying for his blood and demand he not only step down but be stoned to death.

3) Sheik becomes 'sick' and claims that his comments were "misinterpreted".

Sick..in the head maybe. The problem here is that the Sheiks comments were not 'one off', he has made offensive derogatory comments all of his public life, nothing about what he said was taken out of context, or ambiguous, it was OFFENSIVE DEROGATORY LANGUAGE IN PLAIN ENGLISH.

4) Muslim community including his daughter stands by him.

Of course the Muslim Community is going to stand by him, he is one of their own, and their spiritual 'leader', if they turn their back on him they turn their back on their religion which continues to oppress and demean their female members. His daughter has to stick up for him, she has to obey him..lets face it, even Hitler's daughter would stick up for him(if he ever had one).

5) Sheik makes apology.

An obviously insincere apology involuntarily offered after getting pressure from all sides, if he was so sorry, why make the comments in a public place, his speech was premeditated and planned.

6) Sheik calls for a body of judges to decide if his comments were offensive.

Yeah right, it would a three ring circus, what judges? What about only woman judges? Just ask people in the street, there is your judgement.

7) Sheik calls for a prayer vigil at the Lakemba Mosque with the Muslim women staging a silent protest.

This is just a step back in this terrible situation! Women in hijabs supporting the Sheik..silently..Please! What has happened here has just put womens basic human rights back a couple of hundred years.

8) Sheik vows to retire from his position, publicly gag his own mouth in public for six months and do 600 hours of community service with a women's group.

No thanks! This would bring more publicity, and give the Sheik infamy, he shouldn't have to be muzzled like a dog, he should be able to hold his tongue, he is a grown man, no womens group would want this man any where near them, they have already been at the hands of abusive, brutal, misoygynist men.

We as young Australian women, and men for that matter, live in a free democratic society - Australia - we go about our daily lives in a civil manner (most of us anyway) and if we want to wear revealing clothes that is our own choice, and we have every right to not be harrassed, attacked or shamed for doing so!
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Should the rabbit mutilator go free?

October 31st 2006 01:59
We are quick to rush to the defence of our young drug smugglers, caught in the seemingly barbaric legal system of the Asian countries where they have been caught and tried, some of them facing death, in the western view the crime hardly fits the punishment, but when we hear about the crimes committed by people using drugs it puts things in perspective.
Brendan Mcmahon is one of these people - addicted to methamphetamine (Ice) he was charged and convicted of aggravated cruelty against eighteen animals(17 rabbits, 1 guinea pig), and one act of bestiality against a rabbit in July and August 2005. In magistrate Ian Barnett's view this is one of the 'worst-case scenarios of aggravated cruelty to animals', a sentiment echoed by the RSPCA.
What is disturbing about this case is not only McMahon's lack of remorse but the blatant manner in which it occurred, he committed these atrocious acts not in the privacy of his home, or an isolated place away from prying eyes, he murdered these animals in his York Street office in downtown Sydney, only his carelessness in disposing of the bodies led to his arrest, he dumped one of the bodies in a bin in the men's toilets where he worked, only to be found by a worker in the building who alerted the police, was McMahon so high on 'ice' that he didn't care about where he left his victims, or did he, like so many of his murdering ilk, want to get caught?
History tells us that murderers and serial killers have started their killing rampage abusing animals in their childhood, one of the reasons they haven't been caught is because these crimes against animals are easily hidden and rarely discovered.
Surely our justice system can see the warning signs with McMahon, it is not a big leap to see him progressing from helpless animals to helpless humans to satiate his homicidal cravings.
On October 26th at McMahon’s appeal against his conviction, his lawyer Douglas Marr argued that the defendant had an underlying mental illness, irrespective of the psychosis bought on by the drug 'ice' at the time of the offences.
On November 3rd when his appeal for judgement is heard, can we afford to let this man back into our society? Surely his own testament to his mental illness should see him put in a secure mental health facility indefinitely.
Can we say that this man is unlikely to reoffend? The highly addictive, insidious nature of the drug 'ice', his premeditation, prolonged torture, length of offending, and the number of animals mutilated and killed suggests otherwise, Mcmahon even managed to outrage the most unforgiving element of our society - his fellow inmates, this in itself speaks volumes.
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on Should Saddam have been Executed?

January 4th 2007 00:34
Saddam was prosecuted and charged in HIS country with their laws, he was on the same heinous level as Adolf Hitler, committing genocide on a whole continent.
The sick thing is this happened in this day and age, 60 years after the end of world war two when we all thought this could never happen again.
There is no doubt as to his guilt, he was responsible for countless deaths, and gave the orders for horrific torture to be carried out.
There was no avenue but death for Saddam, he would not of festered alone in a claustrophobic cell, he would of received visits from supporters, gifts, and we would of heard how it would be an abuse of his basic human rights not to have a television or some shit like that, there is no redemption for monsters, he thrived off his notoriety.
People are quick to shun Capital Punishment, but if it was one of their loved ones horifically abused and murdered would they still have the same opinion? 25 years in prison is nothing, its like Australia, and the full term is hardly ever served lots of people are released after serving only half that..for taking someone elses life? and free to do it all over again.


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on Should the rabbit mutilator go free?

October 31st 2006 02:50
Thanks for dropping by Bryn...Yeah it would make a great horror movie, totally original, it's a true story,
and Christian Bale could play the lead!!!