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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

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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.

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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