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== In popular culture == [[File:Wfm duke of wellington.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Duke of Wellington]] statue, with cone (and reserve cones on standby)]] In 2007, artist [[Dennis Oppenheim]] commemorated the traffic cone with a monumental sculpture of five 20' (six metre) tall cones. They were installed temporarily in [[Miami]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Scope Miami-2007 |date=10 December 2007 |url=http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2007/12/fair-factor-art-miami.html |access-date=2009-02-12}}</ref> Seattle's [[Olympic Sculpture Park]],<ref>''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', [http://www.seattlepi.com/visualart/365089_cones30.html "Oppenheim's big cones are a caution"], May 29, 2008</ref> and [[Seoul]], [[Korea]]. An orange-and-white cone is the [[logo]] used by [[VideoLAN]] (best known for its [[VLC media player]] software). [[German music|German]] group [[Kraftwerk]] featured traffic cones on their [[Kraftwerk (album)|first two albums]], as well as in their concerts at the time. Traditionally, but unofficially, the [[Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow|Wellington Statue]] in Glasgow is decorated with a traffic cone. The presence of the cone is given as the reason the statue is in the [[Lonely Planet]] 1000 Ultimate Sights guide (at number 229) as a "most bizarre monument".<ref name="planet">{{cite book|last=Bain|first=Andrew|title=Lonely Planet's 1000 Ultimate Sights|year=2011|publisher=Lonely Planet|location=Footscray, Vic.|isbn=978-1742202938|edition=1st}}</ref> === Television === ''The Traffic Cones'' is a Belgian TV series on [[Nickelodeon]] created by [[Pascal Adant]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mon-programme-tv.be/actu/19600/Un-dessin-anime-belge-sur-Nickelodeon.html|title=Un dessin-animé belge sur Nickelodeon|date=June 6, 2010|website=mon-programme-tv.be|language=fr|trans-title=A Belgian cartoon on Nickelodeon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608031527/http://www.mon-programme-tv.be/actu/19600/Un-dessin-anime-belge-sur-Nickelodeon.html|archive-date=June 8, 2010|access-date=2016-06-17}}</ref>
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