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 You're my hero Milk Crate Man At Cherry Rock HQ we're lucky enough to occupy a 360-square metre floor of 100 Flinders Street Melbourne. We joke that we're like a mullet hair-cut, where it's business up the front and party out the back. Our rear windows look out over AC/DC Lane, the infamous rock n roll bar Cherry and some of Melbourne's best street art. From our panoramic front windows we enjoy unobstructed views of some of Melbourne's key cultural icons including Federation Square, the NGV Australia, the Victorian Arts Centre, the NGV International, Parliament House, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Birrarung Marr and its colourful ferris wheel, Vodafone Arena, Rod Laver Arena and the MCG. But perhaps the most inspirational aspect of our enviable views is a piece of illegal street art that warms the cockles of our hearts daily. We speak of Milk Crate Man! This grey-booted, red-legged, green-shirted, yellow man is a legend to us. Like Sisyphus himself in Albert Camus' quentissential absurdist short story (‘The Myth of Sisyphus') he transcends the Gods' eternal punishment of pushing a stone boulder up the same hill over and over again by finding joy not pain in this perpetual daily grind. Milk Crate Man is the modern absurdist man.  This and other pieces of Milk Crate art are produced in Melbourne by the sneaky and ingenious street artists Sam, Jerome, Ed and Gab. Their brilliant public art is to be found near freeways and train lines, whimsically playing with the everyday experiences of passing commuters. A brilliant example of their work ‘lived' for only five days on the side of a neighbouring building in Flinders Street as one milk crate man seemed to be helping another up the side of a the building to the safety of the roof. What a sight it was. I wish I'd taken more pictures of it from our rear leafy stairwell, but at least for that one short week I had the pleasure of more Milk Crate Man in my working life. Cherry Rock applauds the artists' creativity and thanks them for their continued commitment to stamping out mediocrity and sameness via a new superhero for these troubled times, via Milk Crate Man! Watch this space for more Milk Crate Man news… Love and Cherry Rockets, James Young     |
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