Friday Gorilla!

Well, I think this is the last gorilla. I couldn't find anymore. This one is covered of flowers, and is displayed in the window of an electronic shop. Well, I don't see the link either...

Friday Gorilla!



 

Meet Super-G, downhill racer. He's standing in the entrance of Nicholas Market, ready to start!

Friday Gorilla!

The safari goes on!

This week, I found one in a shop of maps, in the city center. Its name is Maporilla!

But this is a special one, because it was made after the exhibition. And as you can see, a drawing lots is organized, in which Maporilla is the first prize.

And, little bonus, here are some small replicas of famous gorillas.

 

On the left, Elvis was the most famous and the most loved of them.

The blue one doesn't refer to Klein, but to Bristol Blue Glass: when Porto came in barrels to Bristol, first English port on the route, il was put into blue glass bottles, and then sent in the whole country.

And on the right, the balloons are a reference to a specificity of Bristol.

Friday Gorilla!

All around Bristol, last summer, were dozens of gorillas...

You surely now the cows in Praha, the lions in Lyon, or the bears in Montréal. Well, last year, to celebrate its 175th anniversary, and to raise funds to help a local charity, the zoo of Bristol launched "Wow! Gorillas". They asked many artists to paint some full-scale plastic gorillas, and arranged them around the city center.

[for more infos, click on the logo]

But it was last summer... at the end, the gorillas were auctioned, and spread out in Bristol and away. Only remain booklets and little sculptures, for sale in some shops.

But it appears that a few of them are still visible. It's not only a myth, I saw some of them. And now, for you, I am going to track down and hunt the remaining gorillas of Bristol!