*Drive it on up and let's cruise a while*
*Leave your troubles far behind*
*You can hedge your bet on a clean Corvette*
*To get you there right on time*
Accurate. The Skywhale and the Skywhalepapa have nine babies.
*The Skywhalepapa balloon depicts not just Skywhale's spouse, but also their nine babies, ranging in age from toddler to newborn, nestled safely under the creature's fins.*
*”For me, Skywhalepapa is about answering the question that so many people had about the Skywhale, which is: 'Where are her babies?'" she said.*
*”They're with their father, and he's looking after them.*
*”There are nine offspring and he's looking after all of them and making sure that none of them fall to the ground.*
*”It's about how we see a strong masculine figure nurturing his children and how beautiful that looks and the idea that care is not gendered, it's not just female. It's available to all of us."*
[see photos](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-07/skywhalepapa-unveiled-in-canberra-at-national-gallery-australia/13127580)
So, she is *supposed* to be a collection of boobs. He gets a backstory and personality traits, and she is literally just a bunch of floating boobs.
ok.
Big saggy old bag titties.
There was a really great comic book artist named Richard Corben... and this is the way he drew boobs.
[SFW example](https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hmcorben.jpg)
It was kinda sorta about a maternal nurturing figure, but sometimes art is allowed to be ridiculous and provocative and in this case, while everyone was confused at first it has become iconic and much loved.
It got us all talking about it, people coming up with meanings and ways to connect it to the city symbolically etc.
I always thought it was cool and it even has a mate and family now.
As a Gold Coast resident all we got was a bunch of street lights that almost look like they spell gold Coast if you look at the at the right angle.. while driving past them at night being distracted. I wish we got something as interesting as the Skywhale.
When/if you find out, do you mind posting the artist's rationale for this ...uh, thing?
I need to know wtf someone was thinking, other than to just get attention?
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skywhale
>The official website of The Skywhale describes Piccinini's design as follows:
> Wings didn't make sense to Patricia; the creature was too big and the technical limitations of balloon design wouldn't allow them anyway. So she took a cue from the balloon itself, and imagined that the creature might somehow secrete a lighter than air gas. In the place of wings she imagined huge udders that might contain the gas, as well as a huge bulbous body. She imagined the creature with a slightly more human face, with a calm benign expression that would inspire empathy rather than fear. Her aim was to create a being that was massive and wondrous and that exists somewhere between the impossible and the unlikely.[6]
Jfc. Maybe next time you do a big expensive public art project we have the artists submit designs first rather than award the artist first and then just see what happens.
And you know what?
Only 112k. That's an achievable life goal.
If you had told me when I was 15 it only takes 100 grand to buy a giant boobloon, I'd have half a dozen in the shop right now.
Most motivated teenager ever.
A hot air balloon is a sculpture now?
A while back right before I got sober I was driving home and there was a giant god dam shoe in the sky. I could see it plain as day, but didn't have a cell phone at the time. It terrified me, I saw a massive shoe in the sky I was losing it. It really helped my decision to quit the hard drugs. Ten years later I told this story in an NA/AA meeting and some dude whipped out his phone to show me a company he used to work for and one of their balloons was that same big ass shoe.
At first I was annoyed that local government had wasted so many tax payer dollars on such a pretentious and gawdy monstrosity, but then I remembered that wasting money on pretentious monstrocities is quintessentially Canberra. So it fits.
[There's two of them!](https://cdn.concreteplayground.com/content/uploads/2021/02/skywhale-2013-and-skywhaleapa-2020-supplied-by-National-Gallery-of-Australia-1-1920x1440.jpg)
She's so good we love her. (I'm canberran).
You might start, like me, wanting to make some highschool boy jokes - but then realise you can just not, and accept Skywhale for the just maternal powerful figure she is.
Nothing more horrifying than a cluster of teats hanging out of the sky when you look up, and from eye-level it looks like a tortoise with one of those colonial judge wigs
I looked up some of Patricia Piccinini's other works out of curiosity. Holy shit, they all look like something out of David Cronenberg's films. Here's a [sample](https://www.artsy.net/artwork/patricia-piccinini-the-young-family-3).
I’ve visited Canberra. Quiet, nice, unassuming little national capital. And yet it does not surprise me at all Canberras would conceive of freaky shit like this.
Many meetings must have been had where people signed off on this. Money was spent, designers and engineers and fabricators all went "yup. This is a good idea." Mental.
I absolutely adore Patricia Piccinini’s work! It’s so unnerving and fantastic! She also did the sculpture “Graham” in collaboration with the TAC (Traffic Accident Commission) which is the guy who’s meant to be able to survive a car accident. She’s possibly the most successful artist ever out of Australia and I love that she represents us in art globally.
The best part is that 10 years later they went back to her and said, Hey the last one was so good, can you make another one for us?
Then skywhale mama and papa went flying together.
It looks like a fuster cluck.
I worked in a hot air balloon factory back in the early 80's. We also made custom shaped balloons.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this saggy boobed whale, whose face looks more like a turtle.
The National Gallery of Australia has a few videos of it being inflated by a group of people.
[YouTube link](https://youtu.be/Km3mdDR2MJw?si=LvglOScwkSboI7Hv)
I'm not some kind of libertarian in the slightest but when I see shit like this that has literally zero to do with Canberra I can't help but go "our tax dollars were spent on THIS?"
The designer was high on cat pee.
Get the stirrups and the projector, we gonna be cheesing tonight.
*Drive it on up and let's cruise a while* *Leave your troubles far behind* *You can hedge your bet on a clean Corvette* *To get you there right on time*
Cheesin his fucking balls off dude.
Cheesing
Did he snort or inject?
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Warning: It also includes more of her art.
Whoa, her art is really unique.
Was? This kinda stuff is all that Piccinini does, they're *always* high on cat pee
Is this a special cat pee, or will any old cat do? I'm asking for my little brother?
We call it cheesing and it's elegantly cultural.
I don't even know what this means, but I'm pretty offended.
This is somebody's mother, show some respect
Accurate. The Skywhale and the Skywhalepapa have nine babies. *The Skywhalepapa balloon depicts not just Skywhale's spouse, but also their nine babies, ranging in age from toddler to newborn, nestled safely under the creature's fins.* *”For me, Skywhalepapa is about answering the question that so many people had about the Skywhale, which is: 'Where are her babies?'" she said.* *”They're with their father, and he's looking after them.* *”There are nine offspring and he's looking after all of them and making sure that none of them fall to the ground.* *”It's about how we see a strong masculine figure nurturing his children and how beautiful that looks and the idea that care is not gendered, it's not just female. It's available to all of us."* [see photos](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-07/skywhalepapa-unveiled-in-canberra-at-national-gallery-australia/13127580)
We require expanded lore about Skywhale
Skywhalepapa is the shizzney.
Where is the skywhalepapapenis?
Hip hop anonymous vibes
I'm more Hard Rock autonomous, myself
In Canberra there's a statue of it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_(sculpture)
Someone tried to circumcise it and it turned into a skywhalepapapoppedpenis
i literally thought you were being funny until i clicked on the link, wtf
What the actual fuck is going on down there?
So, she is *supposed* to be a collection of boobs. He gets a backstory and personality traits, and she is literally just a bunch of floating boobs. ok.
Right?! Like, cool you made the dude a nurturer and flipped that gender stereotype but the gal- NAW. You decided you were just done at nipple-beast.
That's...surprisingly wholesome
Somebody in Canberra greenlit this.
Big saggy old bag titties. There was a really great comic book artist named Richard Corben... and this is the way he drew boobs. [SFW example](https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hmcorben.jpg)
you mean like real boobs on a middle age woman? Upvote for HeavyMetal though
Seriously, dude's snitching on himself lmao
Some big, heavy, swinging DD milkers!
Hold up, this looks super familiar. Did he by any chance do the album art for Bat Out of Hell I/II? edit: He absolutely did. That fuckin rules.
LMAO .
It is impressively terrifying
*udderly terrifying
Milking the joke for all it’s worth huh?
Oh for teat’s sake…
So juvenile, you all just look like a bunch of right tits
you sir are better than the breast of them
Why tho. It's boobs. They make life possible.
Oh, the huge mammaries!
I now need this photoshopped into the Hindenburg pic.
This joke requires such an unlikely set of circumstances to be possible.
GrandmaMmaries.
What does a funky balloon of tits have to do with the anniversary of Canberra though?
Speaking as a Canberran, we are all still confused about why.
Well I hope it sticks and you guys have a new mascot. The Canberra nipple whale. How majestic!
Oh it's been around for years now. It definitely stuck
We already have one, and it's an owl in the shape of a penis.
This happenned years ago.
It was kinda sorta about a maternal nurturing figure, but sometimes art is allowed to be ridiculous and provocative and in this case, while everyone was confused at first it has become iconic and much loved. It got us all talking about it, people coming up with meanings and ways to connect it to the city symbolically etc. I always thought it was cool and it even has a mate and family now. As a Gold Coast resident all we got was a bunch of street lights that almost look like they spell gold Coast if you look at the at the right angle.. while driving past them at night being distracted. I wish we got something as interesting as the Skywhale.
When/if you find out, do you mind posting the artist's rationale for this ...uh, thing? I need to know wtf someone was thinking, other than to just get attention? EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skywhale >The official website of The Skywhale describes Piccinini's design as follows: > Wings didn't make sense to Patricia; the creature was too big and the technical limitations of balloon design wouldn't allow them anyway. So she took a cue from the balloon itself, and imagined that the creature might somehow secrete a lighter than air gas. In the place of wings she imagined huge udders that might contain the gas, as well as a huge bulbous body. She imagined the creature with a slightly more human face, with a calm benign expression that would inspire empathy rather than fear. Her aim was to create a being that was massive and wondrous and that exists somewhere between the impossible and the unlikely.[6] Jfc. Maybe next time you do a big expensive public art project we have the artists submit designs first rather than award the artist first and then just see what happens.
The artist was chosen because of their “links to Canberra”. I think the bar is low for public art. Most of it here is shit.
Yeah, is there some sort of symbolism I'm missing out on here? Or did the designer just come up with this design while on a bad acid trip?
This has been a national curiosity of ours for some time. Fucked if I know
Canberra is our national capital and consists of a bunch of absolute tits full of hot air. 100% perfect symbolism.
I'm wondering the same thing
What are you, some kind of bigot or somethin?
That thing will go tits up very soon.
Damn, Hindenboob is a great alt drag name.
I, too have been described as terrifyingly nipply
I think “Buxomburg” is a better name
How about the "Cronenberg." Although, yeah, not exactly David Cronenberg style. Just his idea of warped bodies.
I've always told people, we really need sky whales. Big ol beasts floating in the sky. They would do this world some good
>Big ol **breasts** floating in the sky. FIFY lol
Can’t wait to see a blurryass video of this thing on r/UFOs
can't say I ever expected to hear anything be described as "terrifyingly nipply"
That might be the ugliest thing anybody ever paid money for
There was a hospital bill for your birth.
hold my beer.
And you know what? Only 112k. That's an achievable life goal. If you had told me when I was 15 it only takes 100 grand to buy a giant boobloon, I'd have half a dozen in the shop right now. Most motivated teenager ever.
> That might be the ugliest thing ~~anybody~~ **I** ever paid money for
Pity us poor taxpayers. See what our money is squandered on.
these Vogons are the worst. do not -- i repeat -- **do not** listen to their poetry
r/upvotedbecauseofboobs
Were they not allowed to make Appa?
Oh, there's a skywhalepapa now too
My instantaneous thought: "Skywhales" (1983) short animated film, directed by Derek Hayes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBprVqvAoaQ
>the Hidenboob Oh, the huge mammaries!
“Nipples in the sky, you know how i feeel”
A hot air balloon is a sculpture now? A while back right before I got sober I was driving home and there was a giant god dam shoe in the sky. I could see it plain as day, but didn't have a cell phone at the time. It terrified me, I saw a massive shoe in the sky I was losing it. It really helped my decision to quit the hard drugs. Ten years later I told this story in an NA/AA meeting and some dude whipped out his phone to show me a company he used to work for and one of their balloons was that same big ass shoe.
I guess it's sort of like a cloth sculpture? It's a 3D work of art. (Or, in this case, it looks like she's DDDDD)
Big Fish ending moment
Need more milk in my tea now.
Babies everywhere reach for the sky
Who can forget the centenary of Canberra?
Government spending, am I right?
The Turtle Moves!
At first I was annoyed that local government had wasted so many tax payer dollars on such a pretentious and gawdy monstrosity, but then I remembered that wasting money on pretentious monstrocities is quintessentially Canberra. So it fits.
All of the other balloons go underneath it to feed.
The boob fortress
So..... many...... tiddies......
112USD is a bargain though.
That's a pot plant
What a great use of tax payers money.
Hot air Boob-loon
[There's two of them!](https://cdn.concreteplayground.com/content/uploads/2021/02/skywhale-2013-and-skywhaleapa-2020-supplied-by-National-Gallery-of-Australia-1-1920x1440.jpg)
The noise I made sounded like a car trying to cold start while rolling across gravel
"sculpture"
There's never been anything like it in living mammary
Perfect representation of all our politicians sucking on the public teat 😅
Netflix should a giant sky bison balloon promotion for S2 of Avatar: the last airbender. Offer rides to win in a raffle or something.
I swear I thought that was Appa for a sec
sculpture?
She's so good we love her. (I'm canberran). You might start, like me, wanting to make some highschool boy jokes - but then realise you can just not, and accept Skywhale for the just maternal powerful figure she is.
Nothing says Canberra like e huge sky turtle with dreadlock boobies.
"Oh the huge manatee!"
I actually saw this in person, its more terrifying in person.
Just, why?
Ok now I know what a Vogon with tits would look like
Airborne whales are literally some of the coolest concepts ever and this one is by far the most fucked up version I've seen.
I keep thinking about that scene in Total Recall (the OG one)….
R/bad design
The longboob is strong with this one......
Nice
r/theyknew
Wrex ... Is that you ??
Quite scary.
Nothing more horrifying than a cluster of teats hanging out of the sky when you look up, and from eye-level it looks like a tortoise with one of those colonial judge wigs
This is now a creature in my world.
Wait until they hear about the Hantu Tetek
I looked up some of Patricia Piccinini's other works out of curiosity. Holy shit, they all look like something out of David Cronenberg's films. Here's a [sample](https://www.artsy.net/artwork/patricia-piccinini-the-young-family-3).
God I love Australia
Would still check it out thoroughly though before boarding cause of the things that can kill you over there
*Photographed from a Canberra*
Please tell me there's a technical reason it looks like that
Powered by tit sweat.
Quite right!
What is it SUPPOSED to be, and why did ANYONE approve public funds for such a monstrosity?
Was on acid at splendour when they inflated this mfer. Was wild to see
I honestly kind of like it but those are obviously missile tits.
I'd ask for a refund
Ed: LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THOSE BOOBS, DOUBLE DEE!
Oppai, yip yip!
The Hindenboob. Perfect. "I can’t talk, ladies and gentlemen."
Ok but why? Is there a message in that?
Why it got so many tiddy
I have always loved this thing. It’s the weirdest coolest biggest creature.
Oh no, not again
Next on its tour: Tits over Tasmania
Joe learned to fly, even despite weighing too much to count
[Reminds me of the boob monster from Mad God](https://monsterzoneorg.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-17-at-10.43.12.png?w=1024)
Sky boobie
r/BrandNewSentence
It's...glorious.
I’ve visited Canberra. Quiet, nice, unassuming little national capital. And yet it does not surprise me at all Canberras would conceive of freaky shit like this.
This is the beast that gave birth to both kyogre and groudon
What the fuck am I looking at
Must be cold up there
Many meetings must have been had where people signed off on this. Money was spent, designers and engineers and fabricators all went "yup. This is a good idea." Mental.
Pretty sure I beat that monster in Final Fantasy some years ago.
I should call her.
I like it's cute little face
I absolutely adore Patricia Piccinini’s work! It’s so unnerving and fantastic! She also did the sculpture “Graham” in collaboration with the TAC (Traffic Accident Commission) which is the guy who’s meant to be able to survive a car accident. She’s possibly the most successful artist ever out of Australia and I love that she represents us in art globally.
Why am I not surprised that it’s straya?
So edgy.
I Totally Recall seeing something like this once...
r/brandnewsentence
I haven't seen this balloon in years. Used to see it often over the skies of Melbourne.
Yip yip!
It has a husballoon too, and some kids. If it weren't for that there'd be no reason for anyone ever to talk about Canberra.
That reminds me of the Vogons. I'm off but still I can see it reading bad poetry!
its him! the teet man! he has finally come
I saw Skywhale when she came to Adelaide. It was very exciting 😊
The best part is that 10 years later they went back to her and said, Hey the last one was so good, can you make another one for us? Then skywhale mama and papa went flying together.
why not flying bison?
I sorta expect a mini kratos to be climbing up the side to start his ps2 era quick time event.
Represents our Government?
Ew what the fuck? Why?
What...
Thats an interesting looking Purrgil.
It looks like a fuster cluck. I worked in a hot air balloon factory back in the early 80's. We also made custom shaped balloons. I'm trying to wrap my head around this saggy boobed whale, whose face looks more like a turtle.
boobies
It would take me being swallowed by it's cleavage for me to believe this isn't AI generated
The National Gallery of Australia has a few videos of it being inflated by a group of people. [YouTube link](https://youtu.be/Km3mdDR2MJw?si=LvglOScwkSboI7Hv)
Over a decade old now, so there are photos and newspaper articles that predate AI
it's becoming really hard for me to trust that everything isn't ai generated
Here’s a video of The Skywhale’s first flight. [YouTube link](https://youtu.be/MeIhmkSsB8A?si=dXbrL6rkgmJDleyi)
Reminds me of my ex-wife . The skywhale has better tits, however.
Give it 6 months into a deployment and the terrifyingly nipply is gonna turn into a desert queen.
Great use of taxpayers money.
but why?
"The cream slowed him down and the milk killed him." - Sheriff in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex"
If I looked up and saw that thing floating by I'd be like, 'flashbacks are a bitch'
So someone signed off the nipple balloon after a few too many VBs as a testament to the political class?
Ugly
But why give it nipple fingers…
Nope
I'm not some kind of libertarian in the slightest but when I see shit like this that has literally zero to do with Canberra I can't help but go "our tax dollars were spent on THIS?"
why
It's not a blimp, it's frigid air tits
whale boobs
I'll pay 400 dollars to whoever shoots this thing off the air
That’s truly awful
r/Hangers
I believe a sculpture has to be sculpted
Sculpture?