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Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 03:28:44 pm
I meant to post this about a week ago but completely forgot. On the approach to Millstone from the top of the Surprise View carpark, just before you reach the fence that runs along the edge, one of the small boulders in the bracken has been painted blue. I'll try and post a photo if I can work out how to get it off my phone onto my computer.
Looks a right mess, hopefully there is a way to get it off before any one else thinks it's a good idea and takes their tins of paint up to Trackside or the Pebble, etc

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#1 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 03:39:02 pm
I wonder if it is related to this. Done by a belgian artist in Morocco.

http://www.parsonsrocks.com/famous-rock-attraction-painted-rocks-in-morocco/


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#2 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 03:41:23 pm
Was just going to post the same thing! I reckon it's an art student inspired by Jean Verame's "Blue Desert"...




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#3 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 04:01:57 pm
The hippies have been trying to paint boulders at millstone for years.

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#4 Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 04:54:19 pm
Can't remember who manages that bit of land, but it wants reporting.

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#5 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 05:02:02 pm

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#6 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 05:08:39 pm
FFS that's grim :(

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#7 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 05:21:28 pm
Its not only grim. If it's meant to be art then its also utter shit.

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#8 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 05:47:36 pm
To be honest, the size of the boulder and the fact it is a sheep suggest to me that this is a one off. Made me laugh.

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#9 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 06:08:35 pm
I thought he said it was blue? A cold sheep?

No need, regardless.

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#10 Re: Millstone - painted boulder
October 31, 2013, 11:45:05 pm
Looks like someone's tried to create an effigy of Cupboard to hero worship.

Bet he did it.

 

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