The Best of Ugly New Zealand – North Island
10:32 pm, 20 February 2012
Tags:
Architecture,
Auckland,
Bay of Plenty,
Corrugated Steel,
Fence,
Fountains,
Fruit,
Kiwi,
Landscape,
Monstrosities,
North Island,
Parks,
Rain,
Sheep,
Signs,
Vintage,
Weather,
Wellington,
WhakatanePeople, I’m slowly running a bit low on new material. That means…
1. Time for our gazillions millions thousands quite a few dunno, maybe a couple dozen? three friends to send new material, puh-leese!
2. Time for cheap reruns of lukewarm oldies: let’s start with a lovingly complied collection of the “Best of Ugly New Zealand Edition North Island (BOUNZENI)”. Sounds a bit like a hungarian car brand, if you ask me.
Keep calm, Dunners, I’ll follow up with the “Best of the South” these days.
The Beauty of Post Boxes in Auckland
Reminds me of that news article about that elderly gentleman who mistook a rubbish bin for a post box over years, and wondered why nobody ever answered his letters. Like here, more a case of an unfortunate interface design than one of a particularly silly senior.
Photo © 2011 Dom Yates. Thanks!
The Beauty of Hotels For Mules
Lovely! Auckland’s first leaning hotel, solely for first mules! Whatever that might be.
Please note how our (well, or at least Grant Smithies’) reader Peter Gow added his own statement by craftily composing the surrounding traffic signs.
Photos © 2011 Peter Gow
The Beauty of Trees… well… one… half… something.
Cowabunga, dudes and dudettes!
We are back with a bag full of new shots! On top this silent masterpiece by the unstoppable Till Seidenspinner!
Supposedly somewhere in Auckland, perhaps in the Bayview area? … – Robotic stalker brigade! Go and bring me that exact location! … (Please? With sugar on top and stuff? Pretty please?)
Our reader Neo solved the location mystery: it is in Pt Chevalier in Auckland.
Updated, thanks to Neo: Google Maps Location
Photo © 2011 Till Seidenspinner. Original here.
The Beauty of Ponsonby Road
Ah, Auckland’s elegant Ponsonby Road, located in the prestigious… who am I fooling! The density of overpriced restaurants with incompetent staff is pretty top notch, admittedly.
Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2010 Sids1. Original here.
The Beauty of Birkenhead Ferry Terminal
OK, ladies and gentlemen, time to get busy again. Greetings from Birkenhead Ferry Terminal, the place where Bogie and Bergman didn’t kiss goodbye, presumably, but, according to new information provided by reader Mark Fitz, an overwhelming array of sexual activity of all sorts has been conducted. Who would have thought!
Google Maps Location.
Photo © 2011 Javelin395. Original here.
The Beauty of Dead Squids
Yikes! Seen at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, reviewed by “Google user” as “The most depressing place on Earth“. Intriguing!
Google Maps Location.
Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2010 Michael Zimmer. Original here.
The Beauty of Christmas
A lovely Christmas and a prosperous New Year! We celebrate with this… outstanding composition by Rosino, who is at least 1) a superb photographer, check her/his Flickr stream, and 2) a true philanthropist: s/he publishes her/his photos under a creative commons “Attribution-ShareAlike” licence. Which means that I can rip off her/his works without even asking. Very practical!
A big thanks to Rosino, and also a huge thanks for a vibrant year to our avid Ugly New Zealand fanclub fanbase readers reader!
Google Maps Location.
Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2010 Rosino. Original here.
The Ugly Art Thing!
And from the streets of Auckland came… THE UGLY ART MONSTROSITY THING!!! And while everybody else ran, screaming, Brianne Karabetsos kept calm and got the camera ready…
Photo © 2010 Brianne Karabetsos. Original here.
