Truth in Advertising?

The intersection of Bourke Street and Swanston Walk in Melbourne,
Australia, has been dominated for the past few months by a gigantic
advertisement for Windows 95.

Many regard it as an eyesore but, amidst all the hype, it just could be
one of the more-accurate Microsoft ads.

Right in front of the advertisement is a sculpture of a flying pig!

The pig-with-wings is one of four sculptures in the "Weathervane" series
by Melbourne sculptor, Daniel Jenkins. It represents "hope for the
future" but Jenkins admits it might be a forlorn hope of the "I'll
believe it when I see it" variety.

So you can interpret the accidental juxtaposition however you wish - "if
Windows 95 is a real operating system then pigs might fly" or "a pig of
an operating system CAN fly as long as it has at least 16 MBytes of RAM
and a 100 MHz Pentium" and so on ...

The whimsical, "Weathervane" sculptures were commissioned by the
Cultural Development Branch of the City of Melbourne and have brought
much pleasure to the people of the City over the past three years.

Daniel Jenkins (daniel_jenkins@mac.unimelb.edu.au) works in 3D graphics
and animation at Melbourne University and you can see the original
flying pig on his home page at:

      http://edith.insted.unimelb.edu.au:80/VCA/SSCA/Staff/djs/dj.html

Oh, yes, Daniel Jenkins uses a Macintosh!

The photographs in this image are Copyright, 1995, by Ralphe Neill and
all rights are reserved. They may be reproduced for any purpose if the
appropriate credits and this image-comment are included.

Various formats and versions of this image are available at;

      http://www.sub.net.au/~ran/computer.html

All conversion and post-processing of the images was carried out using
xv 3.10a by John Bradley, xpaint 2.1.1 by David Koblas and tgif 2.16 by
William Chia-Wei Cheng.

Ralphe Neill (ran@sub.net.au)
Melbourne, Australia

December, 1995