Friday 5 September 2014

Circular Quay, Arena Calcetto

Arena Calcetto is an installation in First Fleet Park at Circular Quay. These are two of the six timber towers, standing at 10 metres high, which hide an individually handcrafted foosball table with custom-made players. They were created by a community collective known as Archrival, originally for the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2012 and will be here until 30 September 2014. I happened to catch a skywriter mid-message, writing something about "traffic" but it was hard to read the whole message since the wind had blown it away. The Sydney Opera House can just be seen in the distance.

36 comments:

  1. Lovely place.
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  2. Great photo and fun to read the sky writing. Haven't seen any in a very long time.

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  3. Terrific capture and a great post for the day, Jim!! Thanks for sharing the beautiful skies!!

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  4. What a great picture! I haven't seen skywriting in years.

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  5. Beautiful blue sky and an interesting installation.

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  6. good shot! But I wonder someone did the word traffic in the sky?

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  7. Traffic? Written in the sky... by God or plane?! LOL

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  8. Great shot - wonder what that message was?

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  9. Foosball seems to be popular in Aus. We found tables at many public parks when we were there. A nice idea!

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    1. I don't know if it's that popular but it may be becoming so.

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  10. A great capture Jim with a message in the beautiful blue sky and a hint of the white sail Opera-House in the background.

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  11. I would definitely love to walk around First Fleet Park at Circular Quay.

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  12. "Traffic" in the sky, that's a funny picture !

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  13. Hello Jim, somehow I "unfollowed" your blog, not personally, but it seemed to happen. Seeing your comments on my recent posts, I realized you were still blogging. So I re-followed your blog and here I am. What an AMAZING capture to photograph that skywriting for Skywatch! Have a great day. Jo

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  14. wonderful and a timely shot. I wonder what they were writing... what's traffic doing in sky :)

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  15. Very nice - it's been years since I've seen a skywriter (I suspect it's too windy here with the mountains).

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  16. Even if only a partial message from the skywriter...that is still one incredible image!!!

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  17. That is some fancy flying going on in the sky. I really like the artistic take on the fooseball tables. I was never any good at that game. Have a blessed week-end.

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  18. Creative Shot ~ Love the composition and sky writer ~ happy weekend to you!

    artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)

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  19. Now can one play foosball or play on the towers or are they strictly just to look at?
    Love the sky writer. MB

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    1. Visitors can definitely play a game of foosball but the towers are strictly for looking at.

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  20. nice message in the sky,i wonder how it's done?

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    1. A small aircraft able to expel special smoke, flies in certain patterns to create writing readable by someone on the ground.

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  21. What unique foosball tables, though I find that lovely blue sky and the skywriting more interesting. My Skies

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  22. It is not every day that you see writing in the sky!

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  23. Sure hope you weren't in heavy 'traffic' when you took this interesting shot.

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  24. Was that a warning against traffice? lol Great shot - lovely blue sky!

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