The 'B' of the Bang - the new sculpture in Manches

01/12/2005 04:39:20 PM · #1

This sculpture was unvieled today in Manchester to commemorate the Commonwealth Games.

Each of thos lines you see is a huge steel spike, maybe 30-40 feet in length. Its very very impressive when its all lit up in the howling Manchester gale and rain storm.

I have to be first on DPC to bring you this new artwork ;-)

thatcloudthere

Canon EOS-1D

01/12/2005 04:40:58 PM · #2

Wow, looks neat...I can't figure it out...nice composition and colour, though!

You don't have a brighter or daylight shot to provide context, do you?

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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/12/2005 04:45:22 PM · #3

No I called on the way home, it was dark.

Basically this is looking up at an angle of maybe 30deg using a 16mm wide angle. I was maybe 40feet away at a guess- so you can imagine how big this thing is.

Message edited by author 2005-01-12 16:45:44.

brianlh

Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi

01/12/2005 04:57:04 PM · #4

and i thought (before reading) that it was just a really cool zooming shot.. crazy sculpture - thanks for sharing!

Imagineer

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

01/12/2005 05:19:26 PM · #5

I absolutely love that piece. I saw a news report today with some idiots interviewed saying they thought it was junk, etc., etc. They said that about Swiss Re (the 'gerkin') too but, thankfully, other people know better!

Get some more shots please - I'd really like to see some with a person to give it some scale.
: )

Artan

Canon Digital IXUS v3

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/12/2005 05:32:41 PM · #6

I have just seen it on the Goggle Box

looks to be about 9m across (30 feet)
very thin long spikes which were saying in the wind..

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01/12/2005 05:33:12 PM · #7

Heres another, still no scale though (It was really tipping it down, not a sole anywhere except me and a BBC reporter ;-)