I Attempt to Find a Sculpture Buried Under Canberra
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While you're in Commonwealth park, have a look for the gardener's rake from the 1970s that got forgotten against a tree and got consumed by it!
“Malls balls” had me in stitches.
Burying art is certainly an odd phenomenon - working on a piece that no one will ever see.
My husband asked me to replay what it was I was laughing so much at 🤣
That no one will see... yet. *taps temple*
Im from Adelaide. We all meet at the Malls Balls. That guy was a legend for that jump!
I love how you keep finding these wonderfull and unique video topics. Makes me wonder how many cool, one-of-a-kind things there are where I live that I just don't know about.
Glad you like them!
australian tom scott
@@zukacs Sorely needed as a service to the country. And we have one
Hi Julian, the artwork Tetrahedra in Adelaide is a different artwork from Earthwork. Tetrahedra still exists and is owned by the Adelaide Festival Centre, it is currently in storage during a redevelopment but was visible in the public realm up until a few years ago. It was also constructed out of Stainless Steel.
Earthwork other than being made of Aluminium had dome/spherical forms protruding from the surface.
Regardless of these finer details, it’s great to see a video on this important Australian artwork.
Yes correct - this was just illustrative. Thanks for clarifying.
we need more canberra videos!
Look up The Canberra Series if you want more Canberra vids :)
@@TheAdventuresofRussell How have I never found your channel? RUclips is my scapegoat
@@betula2137 I am a very small channel with very niche topics and I don't post regularly lol
Another 'infamous buried artwork' was the Colliwobbles. For those unfamiliar, the Collingwood Football Club plays in the Australian Football League in Melbourne, Australia. They have a very large following of supporters and the team went for a long period of time qualifying for our Grand Final but not winning, Hence, the term "Colliwobbles" was born.
Finally, in 1990, the team earned the ultimate prize. They decided to hold a mock funeral and bury the Colliwobbles at their home ground in Victoria Park, Collingwood.
I know this because I was a drummer in the Hawthorn City Pipe Band which led the funeral procession from the Collingwood Town Hall to Victoria Park. A very strange day indeed - only in Melbourne!
Here's a brief clip on the "event":
ruclips.net/video/OhnSTfn45Lg/видео.html
The team eventually relocated from Victoria Park but I don'y know is the casket was exhumed or left in place for posterity. Parhaps that's a project of discovery for Julian.
Pfft, I reckon a more interesting footy related story is the rumoured St. Kilda Jewish curse.
It was dug up a few years later. It may be mentioned in McAlister's book.
I hope you’ve got more videos planned in Canberra Julian, there’s a lot of fascinating stuff here. One little known one is the history and the size of the air conditioning at the National Gallery of Australia, which was used for several years to also cool the High Court. The units are absolutely massive - the NGA is quite literally an air conditioner with a building built around it.
Sure there will be more to come. Oversized airconditioners sounds interesting…
@@JulianOShea the controversy around the NGA's new entrance could be a good one. The architect was dead set against this change to his design.
Well Done Julian to talk about Canberra to the world via RUclips Really like your work keep it up :) I am from Canberra
Cheers Henry!
We've got a (mostly) buried statue in Cambridge UK! It's called Earthbound:Plant by Anthony Gormley and it's installed on one of the university sites upside down so all you can see is the soles of the feet.
I can imagine a time when you get a few workmen putting in drainage or such and digging up the thing ‘what’s this mate” “don’t know just throw it in the skip” then it’s buried somewhere else in a landfill site!
thank you for featuring Canberra =)
Should check out The Canberra Series
You remind me of an Australian Tom Scott
Yes, Australian Tom Scott was the forerunner, may he be missed
It made me so happy to see a video about Canberra. I know it's an ongoing joke that CBR's a nothing-nowhere-boring place, but that's really not true. CBR's a great city, and I'm glad the world has got the chance to see just a little bit of what makes Canberra special.
Wowowowowow
I was like -- wait, that isn't Melbourne, that's a familiar bridge
Using the Carillon for the intro was genius!
Definitely one of the only videos of Canberra in this format to actually show a bit of that magic, just in one corner.
Canberra's changing, so each time you come back, it'll be different.
By the way, the head of renewal was a part of Melbourne's 30-year change, so, that should be interesting. _There are 2 Snows in the coldest capital now!_
But we can't forget the best design, by the Griffins, that would still be world-class today and in the future :)
A local blog about urban design 'Canberra . Bike' is struggling at the moment, but, at least some stuff is happening.
Also it's amazing to think that all this parkland is in the middle of Australia's Capital City.
Aww Canberra, my love
It's one of my favourite topics!
Aye welcome to Canberra, cheers for shining a light on us
Have you seen The Canberra Series?
So strange, just moved to canberra and now you're here too!
Thanks for the video
If you want to learn more about Canberra I recommend looking up The Canberra series.
Why would you move to Canberra💀💀💀
@@TheAdventuresofRussell cheers will do
@@Bongue_ "Why do we live, just to suffer"
Hi julian.
went down wikipedia rabbit holes and was shocked when i found out melbourne had more skyscrapers above 250m than the rest of Australia combined
Could be interesting to delve into how this has happened
Melbourne was also the 3rd city to develop skyscrapers (after Chicago and NY), while it was the wealthiest city in the world for about 3 years!
Cool idea.
@@betula2137 That sounds feasible. Asia and Europe certainly took their time to build skywards..
Cos our stupid Melbourne City Council allow developers to tear down old buildings, just keeping the facade.
As a Canberran I have always wondered if it is possible to to drive around every one of our many roundabouts in one day?
No idea but I do love our rainbow round about
@@TheAdventuresofRussell Braddon?
@@betula2137 yup
@@TheAdventuresofRussell Yeah, Braddon's great, I'd love to expand that rainbow roundabout too! :P
Ohhhh excellent
Love these intriguing topics Jules
Love your work Julian! Thanks for all the videos :)
Cool story.
Tho artwork buried without a government grant is simply called landfill.
Obviously we pay artists far too much if this is what they do with their work.
I really enjoyed this! It's inspired me to stop and look around a bit more! Thanks!
This was awesome. Very informative and entertaining video. Keep up the good work.
Another interesting topic.
Speaking of buried things, the Repat Hospital in SA has a whole wing of the hospital buried under ground (a bit like a time capsule with everything in it) built during WW2 that has largely become forgotten to the point that the entrance was lost. Although I think a team from one of the uni’s here did locate it all again but the location is not publicised.
From your video about this artwork and the video about the yellow peril, I got the feeling that there is a lot of exiting art in Australia.
Haven’t visited this channel in to long but it’s great to see Julian getting the subs and views his content deserves
Welcome back - glad to have an early adopter. :)
This channel never disappoints. Keep doing your thing Mr O'Shea!
Love your videos !
(You spelt Sydney wrong btw😏)
What a shame.
Took some pretty big balls to make that jump.
Here is a fun Canberra fact. A lot of the inner Canberra red brick houses that were built in the 1940s had these little red lights in the kitchen and when the lights went on that meant your house had electricity. Back then the Kingston power station wasn't able to power all the homes at ounce so each street/suburb had an allocated time of the day that their power would be turned on and the red lights would indicate that.
Damn, lived here my whole life and never knew that! I feel like Tom Scott could spend a fortnight making videos about the weird stuff here.
@@Axman6 Way longer than just that
Things were pretty weird in Canberra in 1975 with the Whitlam government, Rex Connor, Jim Cairns, Junie Morosi and Khemlani loans affair amongst other odd events.
this is the best channel to randomly come across! Im hooked
Welcome!
I really do enjoy your videos. You create so much interest around some seemingly mundane things. 😊
Thanks, mate!
So it's buried near the roundabout with the pond that always needs repairs lol. My Ute used to leave oil all up that road and it made the entrance to Duntroon a crash zone in the rain until I fixed my oil leak lol. The fuel pump is a mechanical diaphragm pump and it used to pump on the back side about a liter every 3 days. Over 6 months the road had rainbows on it when it rained hahaha. Belconnen to Fyshwick.
Love your Aussie vids mate
Well, I've been here forever and didn't know that! Good on you Julian!
thank you tom
Welcome to Canberra!
Amazing art 🎨
Indeed!
I find your videos very interesting, please keep it up!
Honestly, I love 4'33 - if you ever need a musician to shut up, just request it :P
Life hack
Great video once again. May I suggest a topic of Melbourne's freeway designs and freeway art. I'm from Langwarrin and we have some installations down here that some might find interesting/odd....
Would be good to understand where the gnome near Karingal went to and why there is a dandelion sculpture there now
@@antheawilliams3515 I actually have an answer for you! He’s near the Frankston hospital. I hadn’t been down there in about 10 years, so I was surprised at his new home.
Including the Eastlink Hotel and the Chrome Gnome that was near Peninsula Link…
Good idea! I think the Eastlink hotel (as Josh mentioned below) would be a good one.
Thanks for sharing! Good story.
I live in the next suburb, been here since '83, visit Cth Park a few times a year, and I DID NOT know this. 😅😅
So when you say "in this park" and you are standing in the National Gallery sculpture garden what you mean is "in the park on the opposite side of the lake". Just setting the record straight for visitors to Canberra.
This is true. 👍
I did notice that he was in the wrong park when he said. I think he assumed most people wouldn't notice lol
Hi Julian. I noticed a couple of footy-related comments below, and actually, the history of VFL Park Waverley is right up your alley. It's a tale of a proposed 157,000 capacity super-stadium in what was supposed to be the new demographic centre of Melbourne (when the VFL acquired the land in Mulgrave in 1962). The stadium kind of worked for a while -- it had the first ever electronic scoreboard (woo-hoo!), one of those sepia numbers, similar to the City Square video screen, but it ended up failing for various reasons. I'll hold the camera and get coffee for you and anything else you want if you would make that video, 'cos I know you would do it justice. Love your work!
That’s a neat idea - I’ll look into it.
Maybe the real art is the friends we made along the way.
Welcome to Canberra, Julian! A great place, especially if you can resist the inexplicable urge people have to come here in the dead of Winter! :-)
This sounds like a great jumping off point for a thriller novel or movie where someone determines that there was gold or diamonds inside the tetrahedrons and endeavors to heist is despite the challenges of trying to rob a huge artwork located 25 feet underground.
1:41 that image is also the Adelaide festival theater plaza, before an upgrade a decade or 2 later. Not sure if you knew or could not find an image of it in Melbourne, so used that one. Still that artwork was in Adelaide at least 40 years ago, as I walked past it sometimes when I was a teen.
The 2 images are the same spot from opposite angles. One 'walking' towards the Festival theater, the other 'walking' towards the bus stops on King William Rd, with part of Parliament House, Adelaide, seen on the right side of the image.
Thanks for another interesting video Julian. May be a medal detector will show wear the artwork is.
1:09 - Ben Folds - 'Adelaide' = "Rundle Mall, Watching as the locals pass, Silver balls"
I'm reminded of the infamous Plymouth Belvedere car that was buried underground in a concrete tomb in Oklahoma in 1957 as a sort of time capsule. Unfortunately over time groundwater seeped in and the car was completely wrecked.
Hope your staying for floriard :)
Great video! Are you by any chance using Trove when you research historical newspapers/maps etc?
Sometimes! - prob should open it up more than I do.
Wow I’ve been fishing around there so many times and never knew anything about it 😂
I just stumbled upon Cones recently, I didn’t know any of those pieces were there! It’s beautiful, but I don’t think I could describe how to get there to anyone 😂
The point of 4:33 is not the ambience, Cage disproved this idea when he wrote One³, which is in fact about the ambience. The point of 4:33 is to make you think about what music really is. Sideways did an excellent video on this.
I did the security at the tower shown on the lake, the kurilian
Fact: cementaries aren't that, they are underground portrait galleries where the deceased are modelling 🧐
Nice video.
Welcome to my turf.
Come make Melbourne vids!
Hm, competition. This can only end one way...
...Well!
@@JulianOShea I wouldn't want to step on your toes lol
Mind you, my style of video is different to yours :-)
As someone with a machinists and toolmaking background who’s also had a lot of experience with fabricating huge pieces made out of metal… Those would be super expensive to make. I’m sure once he got well known he had some sources for the material. But especially back then aluminum in that shape and form would have been crazy expensive. And if you don’t know where to buy large roof material like that… You end up paying 1000% markup.
I get most of my huge 4 x 8 foot sheets of 0.250 and 0.5 inch thick sheets of high carbon steel and hard-ox steel from the “New Jersey steel Baron.” From there it shipped over to “New Jersey water jet” and then they cut it to the specs that I’ve sent them or the drawings that they’ve done.
Then packed and shipped down here to me here in Chatham Tennessee.
Believe it or not It’s still 10 times cheaper doing it that way then it would be trying to source it anywhere near me here in the south.
Sorry for the long random comment but really interest me thinking about how he would’ve source that material back then.
I could loan you some ground penetrating radar for a week or two 😂😂😂
Sounds about like the big construction companies here. Dig a big hole and fill it full of a bunch of brand new material or equipment and then claim it was stolen on there taxes for a rebate!😂😡 so it happened to a tractor trailer truck full of brand new welding equipment a decade or so ago😡
I know that’s not what happened but sadly it happens a lot around here especially with the government contracted Guys
The Bean in Chicago - how much would that have cost? And the work would be insane.
There’s an idea. :)
G'day Julian.
G’day!
Aussie Roman Mars. Cheers Mate.
The Tetrahedra sculpture is still at the Adelaide Festival Centre. So was it just a similar sculpture buried?
Yes. That was just illustrative.
Dobell Memorial - Sidney???
I cant believe I missed this vid
Well, even Parliament House has a lawn on top of it.
I'm from Canberra and I never knew this
Have you seen the Canberra series?
@@TheAdventuresofRussell Nope. By Julian?
@@skyer0blue By me
@@TheAdventuresofRussell I'll check it out
There's a few grubs up on capital hill, you can see daily.
Thats incredible julian.
So basically I'm a world famous singer songwriter because I have 25 songs on my hard drive nl ones ever heard. Ahead of the curve completely!!
Great video as always. Your artwork doesn’t turn out, Bury it and get two art works for the price of one
To quote some long forgotten movie line, "Art or arse'?
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ngl the malls balls is a great place to locate someone, it is really the 0,0 of Adelaide
0:49 Autocorrect "Sidney"? Hmm Julian, not expected from a Melburnian to get that wrong.
What the hell ? I watched this 14 hours ago over dinner, by just going to videos, wondering :"Wonder if there is anything by Julian O'Shea that I haven't seen yet?", finding this video, and clicking it on the channel page. And now youtube tells me this went live 5 hours ago?! WITCHCRAFT!
It no doubt would be fairly easy to find if someone really wanted to with ground penetrating radar. but not something of big enough importance for anyone to do it. Maybe if there was a social movement to find it
Sidney or Sydney?
At first I wasn't on board, but I kind like the fact that you don't know if it's even there. You have to trust rather than using your senses
Love your channel Julian but please tell me you didn’t just Miss-spell “Sydney” in your video captions…!
Can you imagine how incredibly funny it would be if the plinth actually DID mark where it was buried? xD
Psych!
Shoutout our beloved balls
It's no longer there
I like how the decayed sculpture will leave the negative spaces underground. Hopefully reoccupied by nature which has taken so much abuse from our hands.
Sidney ?
Mate, how could you misspell Sydney as Sidney in one of your captions? 😄
Auto captions! Real ones on their way.
that photo of the tetrahedron outside of the museum looks more recent than the 70s... 🤔 (i'm probably just a dummy & not paying attention to something.)
No - you’re correct - this is different art in the location. It’s illustrative.
@@JulianOShea `sorry, `thanks! & `thanks, too: `happy to learn of this work! `def. want one of these in my little town... (above ground. i know, i know.) 😅
0:50 Whoops.
Who did that…
All of our trash that is berried may become valuable artefacts for the people who live in 10,000 years from now.
I live overseas now and I'm disappointed that this sculpture was taken from the Adelaide Festival Theatre.
The area was dead. Almost no one even walked through it. At least the new office tower and restaurants they are building now will hopefully bring people in.
@@nicegan8902 New office tower? That area is supposed to be green zone, Colonel Light is rolling in his grave
Sydney spelled Sidney
Oops.
Is it weird I feel bad for the artwork? Like it was a “living” artwork that had been around for awhile just being a regular sculpture until it was buried. It was made to be displayed and looked at, not hidden under the ground. I can’t help but personify the sculpture and Imagine how sad it would feel.
G'day mate would you like to see our castle in Tasmania?
Sounds cool. No immediate Tassie plans though.
There's still hope -- just like a music tour, it'll fly around a bit but then eventually find its way to the best place
@@JulianOShea Angus Thornell doing the job at the moment ❤
I was like "Wtf? A youtube notification now? What kind of youtuber posts videos at midnight???"
Than I remembered this guy is Australian.
Damn I thought it was buried treasure worth 10k
if your looking for a 2 m tringle an lode of them just wipe out a mettle detector show up like dog balls
Can you imagine the response if a woman had proposed this 'piece'?
Just need a good metal detector