"The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 by the artist Jeffrey Shaw with help of design team Hipgnosis, in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals album. Plans were made to fly the forty-foot, helium-filled balloon over Battersea Power Station on the first day's photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared to shoot the pig down if it broke free. However, the pig was not launched.
"On the second day, the marksman wasn't present because no one had told him to return. The pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind on the third day, gaining a lot of press coverage. It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at thirty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain and out over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night."
I remember watching the commercial on TV that featured that stupid fucking pig. They clearly wanted to be in bad taste, and they succeeded. They were criticizing the decline of culture (or whatever the fuck they were talking about), not realizing they were contributing to it.
"On the second day, the marksman wasn't present because no one had told him to return. The pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind on the third day, gaining a lot of press coverage
[ + ] HughBriss
[ - ] HughBriss 2 points 2.3 yearsJan 7, 2022 09:26:28 ago (+2/-0)*
"The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 by the artist Jeffrey Shaw with help of design team Hipgnosis, in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals album. Plans were made to fly the forty-foot, helium-filled balloon over Battersea Power Station on the first day's photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared to shoot the pig down if it broke free. However, the pig was not launched.
"On the second day, the marksman wasn't present because no one had told him to return. The pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind on the third day, gaining a lot of press coverage. It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at thirty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain and out over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night."
I remember watching the commercial on TV that featured that stupid fucking pig. They clearly wanted to be in bad taste, and they succeeded. They were criticizing the decline of culture (or whatever the fuck they were talking about), not realizing they were contributing to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU8GdKpnDIs
Not surprising that image is a screenshot from reddit. Fucking idiots there.
[ + ] TheViciousMrPim
[ - ] TheViciousMrPim 2 points 2.3 yearsJan 7, 2022 10:19:52 ago (+2/-0)
Pure happenstance
[ + ] HughBriss
[ - ] HughBriss 1 point 2.3 yearsJan 7, 2022 10:22:39 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] i_scream_trucks
[ - ] i_scream_trucks [op] 1 point 2.3 yearsJan 7, 2022 08:58:56 ago (+1/-0)
One of his many buddies was a staple at their gigs up until the 90s.