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Found Kodachrome slide dated March 1974 showing people watching a marching band. The slide is unlabelled, but I recognise the Tower in the background as the seaside resort of Scheveningen in the Netherlands.
From the Tate Website:
"For Carsten Höller, the experience of sliding is best summed up in a phrase by the French writer Roger Caillois as a ‘voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind’. The slides are impressive sculptures in their own right, and you don’t have to hurtle down them to appreciate this artwork. What interests Höller, however, is both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend.
To date Höller has installed six smaller slides in other galleries and museums, but the cavernous space of the Turbine Hall offers a unique setting in which to extend his vision. Yet, as the title implies, he sees it as a prototype for an even larger enterprise, in which slides could be introduced across London, or indeed, in any city. How might a daily dose of sliding affect the way we perceive the world? Can slides become part of our experiential and architectural life?
Höller has undertaken many projects that invite visitor interaction, such as Flying Machine (1996) that hoists the user through the air, Upside-Down Goggles (1994/2001) that modify vision, and Frisbee House (2000) - a room full of Frisbees. The slides, like these earlier works, question human behaviour, perception and logic, offering the possibility for self-exploration in the process."
Taken at a water park near Victor Harbour. Gotta go there cause it is awesome!!! Oh, and make sure you stay on the slide. It's quick and you can go off the edge. YOU WONT, but it feels like you're going to. Great adrenaline rush, too.
Probably the best way to spend a 36°C (97°F) day. In the water at the Beachouse, Glenelg, South Australia.
Found unbranded and undated slide showing the Market Place in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, UK.
Found unbranded slide, undated, manually labelled "Shugborough". Presumably part of the Shugborough Hall Estate - a National Trust property in Staffordshire.
I visited Little Big's to see what the buzz was about. My favorite out of the sliders ordered was the beef burger. The burger had a nice peppery crust and topped with deliciously sweet caramelized onions. The Carolina style pulled pork had a nice slightly spicy kick to it. The chicken one was the least interesting one but still good.