Raymond's random walk, from Swedish designers to Mr. Monkey
My random walk began at
Svenska Dagbladet
and the article
Svensk designer upprör skottar,
about Swedish designer Johanna Larson whose T-shirt depicting
the traffic-cone-wearing Duke of Wellington has sparked a debate
in the city.
The article mentions that the tradition of placing a traffic cone
on the head of the Duke is twenty years old, and my search for
further information on this ongoing prank led me to
Richard Leyton's
musings on
whether the traffic cone should be glued in place permanently.
At the end of his entry, he links to
the wonderful web site of
Mr Monkey and in
particular
Mr Monkey's visit to the statue to see it for himself.
The Mr Monkey web site is one of the hidden treasures of the Internet.
Sure, it may not be entirely original,
but Mr Monkey himself is so goofy-looking,
the pictures are for the most part quite well-composed,
and the subtitles are the icing on the cake.
