Snowdogs By The Sea

Eeyore · Sep 24, 2016

The Martlets Hospice will benefit from this public art trail in the Brighton & Hove area. Folk are starting to post pictures of these amazing sculptures.

The trail has 45 giant Snowdog sculptures and is here for a couple of months.

The Snowdogs, are decorated by artists and sponsored by local businesses across Brighton & Hove. Eventually they will be sold in aid of The Martletts.

There's also 20 Snowdog puppy sculptures designed by local school children, which are on show at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Booth Museum of Natural History, Hove Library, Hove Museum and Jubilee Library.

The sculptures are fantastic. It's better than hunting out Pokemon anyway....

I wonder if NSC can get pictures of all 45 ?

whitelion · Sep 24, 2016

It's a good cause.

clippedgull · Sep 24, 2016

All the Snow Dogs

http://www.snowdogsbythesea.co.uk/the-trail/

Here is Rose!

Eeyore · Sep 24, 2016

clippedgull said:
All the Snow Dogs

http://www.snowdogsbythesea.co.uk/the-trail/

Here is Rose!

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Excellent. I was going to take a long exercise and see all 45 in an afternoon. Rosie is a bit far out but I can tick her off today !

tigertim68 · Sep 24, 2016

They have a similar thing in Newtownmore in Scotland , they have over 150 wildcats all differently decorated , just like the snow dogs , good fun trying to find them

clippedgull · Sep 24, 2016

Rose in real life.

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Thunder Bolt · Sep 24, 2016

Rose with her friends

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Bozza · Sep 24, 2016

There was a trail of 80 Gromits - Gromit Unleashed - in Bristol which raised a huge sum for Bristol Hospital Children's Charity firstly by sale of the paper maps and electronic map (app for smartphones), then auctioning off the 80 full-sized Gromits and finally making smaller versions of the Gromits which are still sold and collected to this day.

I recall reading that the trail was covered by well over 1m people, providing a boost of over £100m to the local economy.

This was followed by two 'Shaun in the City' trails - one in Bristol and the other in London, again raising a significant sum for the Hospital charity via the same methods.

Aardman Animations are based in Bristol, which was the tie to the city.

Thunder Bolt · Sep 24, 2016

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Eeyore · Sep 24, 2016

Thunder Bolt said:
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That'll fetch a fair sum at the auction.

BN9 BHA · Sep 24, 2016

Bozza said:
There was a trail of 80 Gromits - Gromit Unleashed - in Bristol which raised a huge sum for Bristol Hospital Children's Charity firstly by sale of the paper maps and electronic map (app for smartphones), then auctioning off the 80 full-sized Gromits and finally making smaller versions of the Gromits which are still sold and collected to this day.

I recall reading that the trail was covered by well over 1m people, providing a boost of over £100m to the local economy.

This was followed by two 'Shaun in the City' trails - one in Bristol and the other in London, again raising a significant sum for the Hospital charity via the same methods.

Aardman Animations are based in Bristol, which was the tie to the city.

Really enjoyed doing this, we were in Bristol in 2013 and saw many of the Grommits
We saw all the Shun the sheep sculptures in London and Bristol last year, great fun for kids and big kids like myself and my mrs.

Also went to Bath when they were doing Lions.
The good thing about these art trails is they take you to different parts of the citys that you maybe wouldn't visit.

BN9 BHA · Sep 26, 2016

FFS they have only been on show for 3 days and this one at St Peter's Church has been vandalised with graffiti tags already. :annoyed:

The Spanish · Sep 26, 2016

bn9 bha said:
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FFS they have only been on show for 3 days and this one at St Peter's Church has been vandalised with graffiti tags already.

That wasn't on the cards much, putting one round there.

BN9 BHA · Sep 26, 2016

The Spanish said:
That wasn't on the cards much, putting one round there.

I fear for the one in the Level then.
I've seen the map of where the Snowdogs are sited and most are in busy locations, I know some are indoors but I hope the other outdoor dogs don't get vandalised.

The Spanish · Sep 26, 2016

bn9 bha said:
I fear for the one in the Level then.
I've seen the map of where the Snowdogs are sited and most are in busy locations, I know some are indoors but I hope the other outdoor dogs don't get vandalised.

I agree mate and the martlets is a charity very close to my heart for personal reasons, but let's be honest if you put these around central Brighton people are gonna do stuff like that.

its a fantastic project and it's really captured the imagination of the town, I hope the martlets do very well indeed out of this.

dejavuatbtn · Oct 9, 2016

Some jerk(s) have apparantly cut off the head of the one at Preston Park, so it's out of commission. Hard to believe the scum that frequent this city.

Theatre of Trees · Oct 9, 2016

dejavuatbtn said:
Some jerk(s) have apparantly cut off the head of the one at Preston Park, so it's out of commission. Hard to believe the scum that frequent this city.

Don't know where you got that from, Argus says it's been chipped by a collision with something, see
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14789137.Damaged_Snowdog_removed_from_charity_trail_for_repairs/

dejavuatbtn · Oct 9, 2016

Theatre of Trees said:
Don't know where you got that from, Argus says it's been chipped by a collision with something, see
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14789137.Damaged_Snowdog_removed_from_charity_trail_for_repairs/

I was told this by one of the Snow dog volunteers in Sydney Street. If it's untrue then we don't have any scum frequentling the city!

BN9 BHA · Oct 9, 2016

dejavuatbtn said:
I was told this by one of the Snow dog volunteers in Sydney Street. If it's untrue then we don't have any scum frequentling the city!

Not sure if that Argus link has a photo of the damaged Snowdog from Preston Park ( I hate those links, take forever to load )
But the Snowdogs Twitter page has a photo of the damage, no mention of how it happened though.

Also this one in East St has been patched up due to vandalism or a collision, no mention of how it happened on the Twitter page.

Eeyore · Oct 9, 2016

bn9 bha said:
Not sure if that Argus link has a photo of the damaged Snowdog from Preston Park ( I hate those links, take forever to load )
But the Snowdogs Twitter page has a photo of the damage, no mention of how it happened though.

Also this one in East St has been patched up due to vandalism or a collision, no mention of how it happened on the Twitter page.

The first one has clearly taken a kick.

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