No Wellywood sign
March 31st, 2010 at 10:44 am by David FarrarYay. Wellington Airport has backed down on their plan to erect a huge Wellywood sign on nearby hills.
Good on them for listening to the community. They want alternate ideas. I still like the idea of a giant weta – unique to NZ, and is a way we can promote the creative industry that has built up around Weta.
Two anti-wellywood sign Facebook groups got over 15,000 and 4,000 members.
In a sign of Facebook’s power, the Airport is calling for ideas to be posted to their Facebook page.
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March 31st, 2010 at 10:46 am
sorry they did.
Vote:would have loved a big Weta too.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:57 am
Ok. So the contract on Wellywood will drop to the time value of money ’till expiration (guys still shorting: you know that this likely won’t close ’till the end of the year, right? I shorted at 5 and bought back at 2 :>)
But what of the Mayor.Pendergast stock? It ought rise a bit, I’d reckon.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 11:08 am
Seems to me this was probably airport’s goal all along – align support for a huge Weta because it’s an alternative to something worse. Would they have got support for the Weta from the start?
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 11:13 am
Kitsch, the obvious and talentless display of lack of tasteful imagination, is kitsch – in whatever form it’s manifested
I don’t think Wellington Airport so much listened to, or began to take heed of, the strident noises of opposition, as became itself aware from deeper reflection that its knee-jerk idea of “Wellywood,” from every conceivable viewpoint for both Wellington and the airport, held the potential for irrevocable disaster.
No one deliberately shoots themselves in the foot just to prove they can do it.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 11:14 am
I see in the Times that Basildon in Essex recently put a hollywood style sign on the hill by the road entering town. If you wanted proof that these kind of things are tacky then here it is.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 11:27 am
Thank god they came to their senses.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 11:31 am
Bugger!
Would have suited Wellington perfectly.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 11:40 am
And now Basildon plans to have one http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/8591492.stm
There aint no pill for stupid.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 11:58 am
Excellent. A triumph for all of us who have such low self-esteem and are too banal and unsophisticated to appreciate the creative genius of copying an iconic sign from another city.
Now can everyone in Wellington direct their annoyance at the real scandal; you need resource consent to put a window in your shitty old villa, but someone in the council can OK the erection of an enormous and tacky sign without any public notification or consultation. RMA my arse.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 12:12 pm
What say we put a JAFALAND sign on North Head for the crusie ships.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Well done everyone who managed to defeat this monstrosity. If only we could have got behind the Supreme Court Building in the same way (sigh). Every time I have to go past it a little bit of me dies inside.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 12:57 pm
These nothing wrong with a little post construction building conset refusal camrun.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Bugger- I was hoping to burn it down and then plead not guilty on the basis that I didn’t know what I was doing.
Vote:March 31st, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Grant
Vote:Here was me thinking you were going to say you were doing it to protect others from visual abuse!