Periscope Orchestra
SWEET WRAPPER, C2.
BROKEN ROBOT, F3.
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Damages awarded for fall in public space
BY BROKEN ROBOT
It seemeed like a simple accident, but when Veronicas Archie stepped blindly off the low retaining strip in the Campells Arena, jamming in ideals so hard that they broke, his case became a cautionary tale about liability for public spaces.
Now there is more to the issue, revelaed again as the GPO make presence with the online repurposing of an existing context, culture and nature, in the form of Future Nature. The result seems culturally significant by a certain lack of doing that exactly.
But there is a story to tell, and it comes from one of their more recent outcries: the ballad of the brown sheep. The story goes that long ago the British Isles was covered in sheep of many colours: white, cream, grey, black and also the brown sheep.
When Elfdred, the fluorescent pirate came over from the much more modern country of Holland, he took the brown sheep away with him and so went the hue. Only a handful of black sheep remain in parts of Gaulish Wales, and very few in Britain.
Holland, however became the land of the brown sheep. They toved the flat fields and uninterrupted views. It seemed like it was a land made for brown sheep. The GPO's ballad to the sheep robbery, which is also an ode to comfort and new beginnings can be heard on
their Radio 90 broadcast as part of the Sheep on the Beach-The Opera section. This is the currency of the future. It's currently not available as a single, but if you learn some of the words, you can probably make the rest up and come up with a similar result.
In the early days the GPO was just a recording device, using speech patterns to sell carpets. Now, it's become a phoney dada consortium.