paraguay vs japan world cup 2010
check out this freaky looking dude in the crowd. he didn’t want to take a vuvuzela along to the match because the colours would clash with his outfit.
very dapper indeed.
Edited: June 30th, 2010
lights at sydney football stadium
i’m trying to find a time i can get this shot at night, when there’s a game on.
it’s a bit on an industrial version of these lights in the park.
Edited: June 29th, 2010
amazing photo taken milliseconds before major airline disaster
another photo from the amazing series.
Edited: June 26th, 2010
redfern suicide flats revisited
ah the redfern public housing estate, lovingly known locally as the ‘redfern suicide towers’. i feel drawn to this place – you can see it for miles around. you could even say that they stick out like dogs balls.
they sort of remind me of those post-war apartment blocks with paper-thin walls that popped up all over the eastern bloc.
here is the pic from my last visit to the redfern suicide apartments
Edited: June 25th, 2010
skanky stuffed toys on a gate
why would you do that? these stuffed toys were water-logged and stank. maybe they think it makes their house look lovely, when in fact it makes their house look like a skanky dump.
this is in marrickville. there seem to be quite a few houses like this in the area. take a look at this dump i saw a while back.
Edited: June 24th, 2010
when the warehouse workers have gone to sleep
similar to the deserted playgound.
**UPDATE JULY 5, 2010**
…and the deserted carpark.
Edited: June 22nd, 2010
motorbike krash
why tempt fate with your licence plate?
maybe dude wants to be in the video below:
Edited: June 21st, 2010
amazing, just released pic of fidel castro in hospital on his deathbed.
well, kind of….
this is an awesome work by artist Shen Shaomin showing on cockatoo island as part of the 2010 sydney bienalle.
fidel is prone in hospital here, mechanics providing a rising and sinking chest as he is making his death rattles. he is positioned as a point of a pentagram, the other points are life-sized and equally freakish models of lenin, great leader chaiman mao, uncle ho, and great leader kim il-sung.
he’s in great company. very tongue in cheek, the work is called ‘summit’(2010). i like.
another photo from the amazing series.
Edited: June 20th, 2010
oh dear, someone so should have said no to that last creamy cocktail
another tragic end to a big night out. i can just imagine what went down in this little fire-escape alcove with all that sugar water, dead cigarettes and various other crap lying around. well the results are there for all to see. i can also see that the victim didn’t really eat that much….
sometimes it can be nice living in the city, but when you live in the playground of the city, the aftermath is never generally pretty.
perhaps i can sell this pic to ‘sprite’ for their next big campaign?
Edited: June 19th, 2010
got cankles? amazing new cure to help lighten the load (of too much money in your bank account).
i found this poster in the window of a pharmacy and it caught by eye.
no i don’t have cankles, but i love the word, so that stopped me. the other thing that stopped me was how fake the photo looked – seems like the legs have been dropped in over the grass in photoshop. it also seems that the photo is of a baby or a toddler.
do you not think that the body parts/lengths/sizes are a little bit disproportionate for an adult – especially the feet?
it looks to me like someone has held up a baby, taken a photo, cut it out and layered it over another photo of grass, then added a little shadow.
smells like snake-oil to me….
congratulations www.circulationbooster.com.au and www.HighTechHealth.com.au, you have shamelessly equaled the insidious marketing ploys of preying on the desperate – a la longer lasting sex.
Edited: June 18th, 2010
federal park in annandale – a top spot
perfect place to relax, by rozelle bay. in this shot is the light rail line – something i would love to see extended.
sydney used to have one of the biggest tram services in all the world, second only to london. thanks to the nsw labor party (seems 50 years doesn’t change much as far as public transport strategy for sydney goes) and the nrma, which had a vested interest in forcing more people to drive, the system was wound down during the 1950′s and eventually closed in 1961.
i’m sure more than a few individuals lined their pockets with gold in making this shady deal – to the detriment of a burgeoning population of sydneysiders with a sub-standard provision of public transport infrastructure.
Edited: June 17th, 2010
skanky piss trough
pretty disgusting, eh? not quite like this shiny piss trough.
this was also taken at abu gharaib.
Edited: June 2nd, 2010
very bad marketing and PR example care of bodum
what’s going on here?
see the white thing in front of the bus? it’s a buggy/people carrier/chariot/ pedal-powered tuk-tuk type thing, put on the road by bodum and pedalling UP the hill on oxford street, darlinghurst on the tail end of peak hour.
it could be a great idea, (perhaps in a city which is flat and doesn’t have massive congestion issues like sydney) but…… whoever came up with this idea deserves a good slap at least, or lose their job at worst.
whoever at bodum signed off on this and paid for it definitively needs a reality check and a good kick in the ass.
so the brief is that there is some funky looking pedal-powered people-mover trawling up oxford st, offering free rides to all the girls. yaay! that sounds great. it looks different and that means it will attract the attention of cashed up professionals and gay guys walking the strip. how wrong.
apart from the fact that sydney-siders are pretty unaccustomed to this thing (making the bike guys come across as being a bit creepy), i managed to walk up the hill at the same speed as this guy pedaled.
now granted that i take a longer stride than most, i don’t slow down a bus which carries more than 20 people home.
see the guy on the bike wearing a high-vis vest? he is OVERTAKING the bus and will soon overtake the bodum-badly-thought-out-dickhead-mobile.
a hummer driver in sydney thinks that when people are trying to get a look at him through his tinted windows, they all want to know who he is and wants to roll with him. wrong. the majority wants to see what kind of a fuckwit with a tiny cheesedick drives that car.
same thing for the bodum chariot crew – the main reason that people stare, is that they want to know who is holding the 30 people on a bus from getting home in time. PR FAIL! big time.
my personal message to the people involved at bodum australia is this…. if you have cankles, i have the cure.
Edited: June 1st, 2010