Relief mixed with sadness as New Zealand bids farewell to ‘hated’ giant hand sculpture (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

As someone that has never seen it before, I am also sad it's going.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago

A different perspective: https://i.imgur.com/KUK7Qb9.jpeg

From the 20th or so level of an office building a couple of streets over. Every photo of this seems to be the one from ground level looking up where it looms over you, I feel it is important we have one turning the tables and looking down on it.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

This feels like an over complication of the joke "This view, on the other hand.."

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