After the wonders of the
Snowy Farr memorial liquorice torpedoes and the
Goth-rock Corpus clock (I can't say enough how very very sorry I am about that last one), here comes another bit of public art to disturb the retinas of the people of Cambridge. To celebrate the fact that Parker's Piece in 1863 saw the first playing of football according to the 'Cambridge Rules',
the City Council have commissioned a thing. Here is the initial design as released today. This is not a drill, people.
It is a really big Subbuteo referee standing on a circle on which the rules will be inscribed. Oh yes it is.
Here is the press release, if you can bear it.
And I don't know about you, but when I had a Subbuteo set within days all the players (including my prized England team in their 1982 Admiral kit) looked like this:
2 comments:
They should leave the little rocking base empty, so that people could stand on it and pull football poses.
By the way did you see this t-shirt?
Like this kinda of artistic and crafted types of blog, like this kinda of creativity and creative work.
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