00:00Okay, check this out. It has got to be my favorite build for the bin chicken trail so far. Look at that, how cool.
00:08Two night bin chickens holding swords.
00:11It's up now on top of Round Table Coffee in Bracken Ridge.
00:15Yeah, it kind of started with just the idea of
00:19making one and putting it up somewhere just a
00:22little bit of a sneaky install so that someone would wake up and drive along and
00:27see a bin chicken out of the corner of their eye and do a bit of a double take because it's holding a beer.
00:32So I did that. The 4X Brewery were up and people started asking, oh, can you make one for us, make one for us.
00:37So yeah, fast forward almost two years later and there's
00:42almost 200 out there and they're about 40 on public display. So on the actual bin chicken trail itself
00:49and yeah, the rest just hidden away in homes and pool rooms and yeah, everywhere else.
00:55Look at this distinguished gentleman.
00:58Look at the way he is sitting. Yes, very distinguished. I see, I see.
01:04It takes a fair bit of time to make each one. I have got a template for the actual bin chicken itself,
01:11which is it's laser cut and I fold it up and then spot weld it and all the accessories. So like the legs,
01:18what pose they're in, what they're holding might have to make all those generally from scratch and that can take quite a bit of time.
01:26But all up each bin chicken probably takes about two days. So yeah, it's a bit of a long process.
01:32It's the unfortunate reality. You put something out there and it's possible that it's going to get stolen.
01:40And there's a, I want the art to be accessible and that's where there's a bit of a fine line.
01:45You want it to be able to be seen and enjoyed by the public. But if you make it too accessible,
01:51then you run the risk of someone wanting it and being able to take it.
01:56And that's what happened with the Dandy cinema one. They wanted it in a garden bed at ground level
02:03so people could have photos with it. But it also meant obviously that someone could take it and that's
02:08what happened. And there are a few other ones. There's a toothbrush binny that's gone missing from
02:14Waterworks Road and that was installed up on top of the building. So someone went to great lengths to take
02:21that, which I guess in some ways it is an honor that people like it so much that they want to take it.
02:28But it's selfish to be honest. It's taking away all the fun and joy from everyone else. So
02:35yeah, I'd really like people to think about that and maybe possibly return things and have a bit of
02:41a conscience. But yeah, I live in hope. Ever since I've made the first one, it's been in my head to
02:48make the Big Binny an actual proper tourist attraction, something that really cements the whole
02:55journey of this, you know, the Binchikin Trail. And it's like, this is it. This is what it all
03:00culminates in. So I've been waiting for the right time to start campaigning for it. I have spoken to
03:07a couple of councillors about the possibility of using council land. One was pretty open to it at one
03:15point. So if I have another conversation with them and, you know, we can secure some land, then
03:20and I'd love for it to be big enough to actually be a proper big thing. So, you know, I'm thinking
03:2610 meters or so. There's a lot of big things out there in Australia that aren't quite big enough to
03:31be the real, really impressive. Like the big banana is massive. It's great. But like even this morning,
03:38I drove past the big shoe and it's not that big. Come on, you gotta go big.
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