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This weeks theme is Metal
Mooses? I don’t think that there’s a plural for moose …
We took this photo of a metal moose while attending an Art fair here in Toronto. This moose is made out of a recycled oil tank!
This second moose was found in front of a Chicago building.
Do you have interesting animal artwork or statues in your city?
A sculpture in a Norfolk gallery caused a stir among some residents in November forcing the removal of the Buddha statue. Police told staff that the figure was offensive.
The piece was called A Trilogy: The Iconoclasts and it featured the religious figure with it’s genitals comprised of a banana and eggs!
In other strange statue news:
Yorkshire residents were bemused by the appearance of 19 carved stone heads. The heads were adorned with a symbol that seemed to spell Paradox. The heads showed up in Goathland, Kilburn, Rotherham and Arthrington and they had a note attached which read “Twinkle twinkle like a star, does love blaze less from afar?”
Were these stone heads a message for a loved one? Perhaps.
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This weeks theme is Original
This is a photo that my wife took a year or so ago. We were driving in downtown Toronto along Lakeshore BLVD and I believe this mural is painted on the side of the Redpath sugar refinery building.
It’s a gigantic mural. The building is at least 100 feet tall and 50 feet wide if not even bigger and the mural covers the extent of one whole side of the building. It’s beautiful!
If that’s not original I don’t know what is!
Chinese workers looking after pandas have found a way of turning all the animals’ excrement into a profitable product.
The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Centre has made products including photo frames, bookmarks and Olympics-themed souvenirs.
“They don’t smell too bad because 70 per cent of the dung is just remains of the bamboo that the pandas are unable to digest,” Jing Shimin, assistant to the centre’s director, told the Xinhua news agency.
“We used to spend at least 6,000 yuan ($770) a month to get rid of the droppings, but now they can prove lucrative.”
Somehow I don’t think my wife would want one of these photo frames.