THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING IRON MAN - THE BESPOKE SUIT
"PUTTING YOUR TONY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS...."
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"You know how to whistle, don't you, Stark? You just put your lips together and... blow.”
Commissioned by the President of Nauru as a gift to the people of Melbourne to celebrate its 150th Anniversary, Alison Weaver and Paul Quinn's life sized bronze figure sculpture, the ‘Three Businessmen Who Brought Their Own Lunch: Batman, Swanston and Hoddle’ (three of Melbourne's early colonial pioneers), has stood on the corner of Swanston and Bourke Streets since 1994.
Tiny Tony doesn't travel all that well, as he's easy to lose and has had a couple of close calls already. But I couldn't resist this shot last year when I was taking the master plate for the "Irony Three" picture elsewhere in my photostream. This particular Iron Man figure was encapsulated in a clear bouncy ball toy, before I dug it out and painted it.
Screenpunk's comment (below) reminded me this picture could also be interpeted in several different ways....
Most innocently, that the statue is secretly one of Tony's spare suits and he's just about to crank it up....
Or that it's actually one of Stark International's employees...taking advantage of the boss visiting Melbourne to kiss arse! (Also giving reality to the phrase, "brown nose". Ahem.)
Mind you, with the way the notional media follows Tony's sexploits the tabloid headline could just as easily read: "Iron Man caught Starkers in Gay Metal Lovenest !!!!"
All silly fun, really.
Of course, the most amazing thing is the REAL rainwater beading the statue. Crikey!
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING IRON MAN - THE BESPOKE SUIT
"PUTTING YOUR TONY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS...."
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"You know how to whistle, don't you, Stark? You just put your lips together and... blow.”
Commissioned by the President of Nauru as a gift to the people of Melbourne to celebrate its 150th Anniversary, Alison Weaver and Paul Quinn's life sized bronze figure sculpture, the ‘Three Businessmen Who Brought Their Own Lunch: Batman, Swanston and Hoddle’ (three of Melbourne's early colonial pioneers), has stood on the corner of Swanston and Bourke Streets since 1994.
Tiny Tony doesn't travel all that well, as he's easy to lose and has had a couple of close calls already. But I couldn't resist this shot last year when I was taking the master plate for the "Irony Three" picture elsewhere in my photostream. This particular Iron Man figure was encapsulated in a clear bouncy ball toy, before I dug it out and painted it.
Screenpunk's comment (below) reminded me this picture could also be interpeted in several different ways....
Most innocently, that the statue is secretly one of Tony's spare suits and he's just about to crank it up....
Or that it's actually one of Stark International's employees...taking advantage of the boss visiting Melbourne to kiss arse! (Also giving reality to the phrase, "brown nose". Ahem.)
Mind you, with the way the notional media follows Tony's sexploits the tabloid headline could just as easily read: "Iron Man caught Starkers in Gay Metal Lovenest !!!!"
All silly fun, really.
Of course, the most amazing thing is the REAL rainwater beading the statue. Crikey!