"Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got a Great Idea" - detail

            This is a detail of an artwork by Richard Wilson: a full-size replica of a bus hanging over the edge of the De La Warr Pavilion, a modernist Art Deco arts centre in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.  It is balanced such that it rocks gently up and down in the wind.   Here we see the rear end of the bus which hangs freely in space.  Behind are the houses facing the Pavilion on the Marina road.

It was inspired by the final scene in the 1969 bank heist film 'The Italian Job', where the gang's bus skids off a road in the Swiss mountains and is left dangling over the cliff edge as the film ends.  The gang leader Charlie Croker (played by Michael Caine) utters the closing words - "Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea!" - as he eyes the gold bars at the back end of the bus that is dangling perilously far over the precipice.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Bexhill-on-sea (show map)

Taken on: July 13, 2012

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Bexhill on Sea

Bexhill

East Sussex

De La Warr Pavilion

bus

Richard Wilson

Italian Job

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Sets appears in: • Sussex & Kent

Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ28, f/7.1, 1/400 sec, 13.3mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-FZ28
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	13.3mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	QuickTime 7.6.6
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