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Do you want a Panoptican?:D

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Nice to see a positive approach, let’s hope it’s catching……..:)

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Well rindy, some would say it's a tourist attraction in it's own right, and yes I think it is, but is it the right thing to stick on top of a hill. Does it suit the area where it's going, I don't think so. I think they could find something thats a lot better and more fitting. Net they'll want to stick the old clock on top of a hill in a glass case.

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How about a few councilers up there in stocks or a pillory? People would pay just to see them suffer this indignity.

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Are they going to have a cycle path upto this thing?

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Off thread I know, but I LOVE the Anthony Gormley figures on Crosby beach near Liverpool. He's the artist who sculpted did the Angel of the North.

They are life sized figures stood in in the sand. They get covered with the sea when the tides in, and then are fully revealed when it's out. Public art at it's very best.

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He did indeed rindy, I have been able to get to see them yet. hopefully I'll get before they go, as they aren't going to be permanent. I like some of the sculptures at blackpool, have you seen those? There is a web site about them

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I haven't seen the statues in Blackpool. I'll go and do a search and have a shufty. Thanks.:)

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Why dont they just technically redistribute Blackpool Tower to Accy that will bring in the tourists.:eek:

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New brightons tower was bigger than blackpools, thats off thread too, but if a new one was built on top of that hill.

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HBC proberly wish they had a tenth of the visitors.

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I went to see the Anthony Gormley figures late last year with some colleagues from work and then went back three days later to take my family because I loved them so much. What I especially love is how people interact with them, the kids for instance thought they were great and dressed one up with scarves, hats etc.

When I went on the work trip we met up with one of the regeneration officers from Merseyside and she said that they loved it when people interacted with them in that way - quite often they have nappies put on them or football scarves and that's the great thing about them. I agree, public art at its very best because it inspires whilst still being something to relate to and look at.

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Ps.... did you notice the guy's feet? All the figures were moulded from Anthony Gormley himself - not sure quite how they cast them but they are supposedly him in all his anatomical glory. Anyway, I looked down (past the obvious) and thought 'mmmm, strange feet'.

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The clever thing is how the feet are always on top of the sand, as if they are stood there.

They're constructed on massive spreading suckers so when the sand shifts so do they, and they don't get buried.

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Alot of the ones at blackpool you can interact with, which i think is great, and inspired me to think up ways of making my christmas light display interactive. The projector that changes pictures automatically, shone not at the wall but at the floor, worked just as planned, teens thought it was wicked, even lying on it to have photo's took at 1 in the morning. all ages found it fascinating, walked on the pictures and tried to see where it was coming from. three flats up, on the corner of the roof, it wasn't immediately obvious where it was coming from.
The point being that it doesn't need to be someonr famous or highly skilled to create something of interest, or need a fancy group to achieve it.