1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jones. 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 2: Plans for the City of Sydney Council to spend one 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 2: point seven million dollars on a series of sculptures to 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 2: remind people of the sun have been slammed as a 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: waste of money by critics. 6 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 3: You know why, of course they have, because no one, 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 3: and this is a sad thing, likes to see money 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 3: spent on art. People will always complain about public money 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 3: being spent on beautification unless it's a nice garden, But 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 3: sculptures and things no one likes, and that's a shame. 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 2: The proposal is to build four sculptures standing up to 12 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: twelve menuts tall, featuring yellow globes attached to brightly colored 13 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: light poles along Zeppelin Avenue in Green Square. I like 14 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 2: the idea of it, and the artworks will be programmed 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: to periodically rise and set to reflect the sun at Antarctica, Panama, 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: the Lakes District in England and Xingjiang in China. 17 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 4: See I'm all for that. 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: I like public, I like public card. I love you. 19 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 3: Remember when Clover Moore's team suggested they were going to 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 3: have a big milk crate. 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, the near Prince Outford Park. You slagged it the 22 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 5: milk craws. No, you slagged it off, your big waste 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 5: of money. You said it had looked like garbage. 24 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: I remember very I like stuff that's not meant to 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: be big. That's big. 26 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 4: I like that stuff that's your artist science. It's not 27 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 4: meant to be big, but it's big. What about a 28 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 4: big bond side? Look out at those trees. Who's playing 29 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 4: for that? 30 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: I love that stuff. 31 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 2: Remember Land of the Giants, the TV show, And they'd 32 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: always the little people. 33 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 3: They only had a few props, so they always had 34 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 3: to hang onto a pencil or a telephone and crawl 35 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 3: up the coil of the telephone. 36 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: And ring the phone, which take a whole episode now 37 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: because it's the old school rotary dial. 38 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 4: And notice how the big do we ever see the 39 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 4: big people? 40 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: No? 41 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 3: No, but they never undressed the little people, and they 42 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 3: never cooked them into a jar and shook them up 43 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 3: to make salad dressing, which I would have done as well. 44 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: Can I move away from that? 45 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 2: And I want to change my opinion of public art. 46 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: I love public I think I want more. 47 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 3: Public Other cities around the world have beautiful public displays 48 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: of art and we love it. 49 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 4: And you always poop pover. We think my money is 50 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 4: not paying for that. 51 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: When you go to Melbourne, you just look around everywhere. 52 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: Everywhere's public art. 53 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: You got those big yellow block things when you're coming 54 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 2: in on the teller, weren't there. 55 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 4: They were called Jeff Kennet's French Fries. 56 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: French Fries stick out I always got. 57 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 4: People hated them at the time. 58 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that stuff. 59 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 2: You know, Sydney, we've got nothing we do. 60 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 4: What about the Bruce Lee statue in Cogra. 61 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: Everyone was happy when that was erected back in two 62 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 2: thousand and six. 63 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 4: He's never been to Cogra and he's not going to 64 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 4: he's dead. She didn't like it. If only he was 65 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 4: holding a milk crate.