Wednesday, January 9. 2008The Edge of Eureka TowerTrackbacks
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oooh very nice… I see however, that you did not respect the "no photography policy" while in cube. Naughty naughty :) And the footwear is a great look on you Simon, definitely an idea for those wet cycling days! ... bit worried about the suspicious unattended brown paper bag left on the floor near the queue line. Why are you worried? Are you scared at how much someone spent in the gift shop? If so, then: yes, be scared; It’s a complete rip-off. As planned with my father, if they had complained about me taking photos, I would have ranted at them in (my limited) French and pretended to be an ignorant tourist. The top ten floors of this place are so fancy that they’re glazed with 24-carat gold plated windows, and yet are sold unfinished for more than AUD$7. Afraid I can’t make sense of that. The Skycube looks neat. I imagine the photo prohibition is enforced only when the cube is opaque, no? There was an ‘m’ missing (now fixed), but the price tag was still well above AUD$7 (by say around seven million), so I wasn’t really lying with that typo! The prohibition on photography is said to be because of people dropping things on the glass floor. I imagine PDLC "smart glass" that thick costs a bundle and since everything else in the building is built on the cheap they probably want to save their money (check out the cheap carpet job). They didn’t let someone carry on a paper bag! Given the fact that around ten people were in The Edge when we "rode" it, I imagine small items would run the risk of having people trip over and so forth. They’re becoming quite anal about regulating people’s stupidity in this country as they’ve done in the UK, and there’s probably some insurance reason behind it too. Ultimately though, if you think about it, they wouldn’t want people taking photos when there’s a photo they can sell to you "exclusively" for a ridiculous amount of money. As far as I’m concerned, the photo they were taking didn’t look anything like how I wanted my photos to look, since they look like they could have been taken at any window at the top of the building. I didn’t check the price of the photos, nor if they had the option to print it on t-shirts and mugs, but I wouldn’t be surprised; Their system of several monitors with little numbers on every photo reminded me of countless amusement parks… |
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