Giant Coca Cola man springs up in Newtown
Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry in 2010
Like the marshmallow man in Ghostbusters
Made with 2500 standard Coke bottle crates – this huge ‘fan man’ is pretty damn impressive. It’s located in Newtown Joburg at the fan park over there. Hopefully Cape Town cracks the nod to get one as well.
The ‘man’ weighs 25 tonnes and stands 16.5 meter tall.
Credits:
Crafetefan – designed for Coca-Cola by Porky Hefer of Animal Farm
And made possible by Lesley Perkes and Mark Sinoff of Art At Work Art management
Cratefan is a recycling initiative, created using a skeleton of scaffolding clad with around 2500 1.25l Coca-Cola crates.
All the materials will be reused/recycled once he has finished celebrating.
Newtown, Johannesburg
Ce-le-brate good times
Finger of God
Update: Check out the Cape Town version of the Cratefan here
11 Responses to “Giant Coca Cola man springs up in Newtown”
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davide
07. Jun, 2010
yes, and perhaps make him hold our giant vuvuzela!
Jonathan Cherry
07. Jun, 2010
Nice idea – yeah. Bottle Klippies in the other hand.
Paddy
11. Jun, 2010
Put a ball in his hand and he looks the image of Thierry Henry
SA Accommodation
22. Jun, 2010
Lol!!! Very cool!
Adam Mitchell
27. Jun, 2010
Hi guys, to my amazement I discovered that Cape Town has \"cracked the nod\" and we are getting a Coca Cola man too. My coverage so far http://www.adsmitchell.com/2010/06/huge-coca-cola-man-in-cape-town.html
Thanks
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grim
08. Jul, 2010
This is not new. the idea belongs to an australian street artist who has been making crate men for many years. Again advertising mimicing art and the ad man porky gets all the credit. Stinks really. like the smell on a farm.
real time pcr
12. Feb, 2011
this installation should be included in Christo’s portfolio
It resembles his works a lot
structural plastics
09. Mar, 2011
Wow, this is so cool looking! 2500 Coca Cola crates? That’s a lot of Coke to drink. If it’s Coke-themed, there should be something built with green Mellow Yellow crates to give it a little accent. Where is Newtown? I would love to see this in person!
-Amanda Coleman
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15. May, 2011
This coke man is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen, reminds me of the android logo kind of.
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renae johnson
29. Jun, 2011
I bet the people who put that together were great <a href=\"http://www.deadspin.com\">sports</a>. That would take such a long time!
Em
30. Jul, 2011
So cool/ It looks like a cartoon character!