Carry-Out Number THREE- GOMA's coned Wellington is Great Public Art

The mounted statue of Wellington outside Glasgow's Museum of Modern Art I think is a great piece of public art. For me , it's the  equivalent of any Banksy approbation of an old master's work,  even better as Glasgow's public  created, and now sustain, GOMA's coned Wellington, continually re-inventing the piece. It's a great, iconic public art up there with Copenhagen's The Little Mermaid, Rio's Christ the Redeemer. justifying its place centre stage at the Commonwealth Games opening

Should you wish to know more about the work and what I think of it go here.

Carry-Out Number TWO- Volunteer Clyde Siders and Paid Clyde Siders Dressed Exactly The Same

If there was one gripe or niggle with Glasgow 2014, and I had the same one at London 2012 –there was no visual distinction between the paid workforce Clyde Siders and unpaid volunteer Clyde Siders, both wore exactly the same uniform.

Cooking, Cleaning and Security staff were clearly identifiable as each had there own specific uniform. Technical officials at each sport had a blue version of the red Clyde Sider uniform, so they too could be differentiated, while all the Clyde Siders whether paid or unpaid were seen as one, wearing the bright Red, White & Grey uniform

I know the paid workforce Clyde Siders did a great job, evidenced by the fact that the unpaid Clyde Siders were there trained, organized and ready to go. Nevertheless many of the volunteer Clyde Siders had paid a lot of money, given a lot of time over many months to be there, many gave up there holidays and for those sacrifices to be attributed to every Clyde Sider regardless –paid or unpaid- niggled/niggles me.