Great new panopticon idea!

lindsay ormerod · 18-03-2005, 16:35

If you have this week's Observer to hand check out the letters page;where a Mr Rob Rigby has had a storming idea for our panopticon!Mt Rushmore in Accy! Well done Rob!
No doubt someone with more technical nouse can put the letter on here!

Tealeaf · 18-03-2005, 16:52

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

If you have this week's Observer to hand check out the letters page;where a Mr Rob Rigby has had a storming idea for our panopticon!Mt Rushmore in Accy! Well done Rob!
No doubt someone with more technical nouse can put the letter on here!

I think the cost of Mt Rushmore is in the tens of millions. Where would we get the dosh from and whose face's would you want to put on there? Britcliffe's?

Less · 18-03-2005, 16:53

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I think the cost of Mt Rushmore is in the tens of millions. Where would we get the dosh from and whose face's would you want to put on there? Britcliffe's?

Wouldn't that require TWO faces?

PurpleLass · 18-03-2005, 16:54

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

a storming idea for our panopticon!

Not sure about the Mount Rushmore thing - aren't we going back to the Hollywood sign silliness with that idea. I like the idea in the other letter of having some reference to the town's name in it though with the ring of oak theme. Not so sure about the illumination suggestion - wasn't that one of the objections when the UFO was mooted?

Tealeaf · 18-03-2005, 17:07

This panoticon thing won't go away, will it? Very well...if those petty Stalinist bureacrats of the MPAA, the NWRDA and HBC insist on us having one, then what about a large Doner Kebab slowly rotating on it's spindle? It would serve several purposes...Firstly, it would remind people of Accy's new local delicacy; secondly, it would symbolise just how tacky Accy has now become; and finally, it could probably be done for a hell of a sight less than £50,000....just sweep up all the dogsh*t from Accy's streets, slap it round an old telegraph pole and bung it on top of the coppice.

Bazf · 18-03-2005, 17:07

Seeing its the top of the coppice and the council will have to look after it and mend the paths etc why dont we go for a secret garden type theme, by the time a council worker got up there what ever it was would be overgrown.

Neil · 18-03-2005, 17:11

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whose face's would you want to put on there? Britcliffe's?

Not a bad idea - can anyone lend me 500 dog's when it is finished please, so I can take them for a walk up the coppice.

lindsay ormerod · 18-03-2005, 17:21

Rob has his tongue firmly in cheek about the Mt Rushmore and suggests PB,Jack Grime,Tim O'kane,Ken Hargreaves and my dear old Uncle Ian!He asks if one of the design team could do an artists impression!

Acrylic-bob · 18-03-2005, 17:48

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Seeing its the top of the coppice and the council will have to look after it and mend the paths etc why dont we go for a secret garden type theme, by the time a council worker got up there what ever it was would be overgrown.

That is probably the most sensible suggestion I have heard during this whole sorry farago; create a zero-maintainance wilderness - Inspired!

Uncle Mick · 18-03-2005, 17:52

zero maintanence wilderness=moorland= The Coppice. Simply brilliant or brilliantly simple

Cjay · 18-03-2005, 22:28

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tacky Accy

Why dont we have this instead of the hollywood sign - I'll get my coat................

g78 · 18-03-2005, 22:35

I think they should just do smaller pieces or artwork and put them in various places about town. They can still have one on the coppice, just smaller and it could tie in to the rest of the artwork. In fact it could be like the 'acorn trail' thingy, just instead a trail of artwork. That way people in all areas of the town can see some of it, not just the ones near to the coppice.

WillowTheWhisp · 18-03-2005, 23:24

In order to have a Mount Rushmore wouldn't we need to have a rocky outcrop?

I hope I get to see the designs on display. We're going away on Monday for a week.

chav1 · 19-03-2005, 00:03

why dont they build a kiosk up ther so that people can buy cups of coffee when they get to the top and a snack to eat while looking at the view

i would hate to be the poor sod who has to climb the coppice every day to get to work though lol

Busman747 · 19-03-2005, 01:22

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Originally Posted by Less

Wouldn't that require TWO faces?

On form as usual Less,.....