back to botany bay
i love this place, it never sleeps. there are people always driving and walking about at all hours.
may even print this pic up large and stick it on my wall
Edited: July 31st, 2010
atm reciepts at the crix
seems the discerning folk at the cricketers arms pub in surry hills don’t have that much cash at hand, or instead they are hedging their funds in stocks, options or international currency markets.
funny how people leave their atm statements lying around. i didn’t even set up the shot.
Edited: July 30th, 2010
sydney central station
late night, not many about. it a scene waiting for ‘our russ’ to pop up in romper stomper. it was a school night obviously. see the clip below to get the russel crowe/ romper stopmer reference, if you didnt’ get it already:
Edited: July 29th, 2010
in the jungle, the urban jungle….
some people certainly have interesting ideas on adornments for house and garden.
i particularly love how the tiger stands guard over the fallen wilderbeast, snarling at the lion circling the prey. i can almost hear them roaring now…
the coloured woodchips and central stand of vegetation faithfully recreate the flora, fauna and colours of the african deserts and savannahs.
you can’t buy this stuff for sure. it had to have been created. art i tell you, backyard art.
it has got to be said that, unless you are a wog, and an old wog, you have no chance ever of creating a masterpiece such as this.
Edited: July 28th, 2010
taking the road less traveled
you know when you are taking the road less traveled when you see lichen growing all over the road.
i love the big sky you get when you are out of the claustrophobic big city. love those rain clouds thundering in from left of frame. hope these guys got some rain, looks like they could do with some.
Edited: July 26th, 2010
abandoned sheep shearing shed
from a bygone day. there are still half-full cans of ointment and australian blowfly repellent bottles lying around. according to the chalkboard, the last sheep shorn here was in april 1996. the shed has certainly been standing for over 100 years by the looks of the timber and there were still a few piles of wool lying about.
i looked into one rusty can and saw where some small bird had once made a nest in there. the place certainly had a ghostly ambiance to it. it sort of has that whole wood, rust and animals feel to it as the centennial park stables, just a whole lot more abandoned. i’m sure there have been a few hundred itinerant shearers pass through here, as well as many thousands of sheep.
it’s a good thing the owners of the property didn’t tear it down, it’s a little piece of archaeology.
Edited: July 25th, 2010
just a little bit of fog and frost
a bit chilly this morning.
if you live around the sydney area and feel that you need to take a little time out from the hustle, bustle and craziness of the city, i’d well suggest this could be your remedy.
only about 20 minutes drive out of bathurst is this lovely property stacked with friendly farm animals and a bit of fishing in the adjoning macquarie river too. the owners, sue and chris are absolute gems.
forget about 3g connectivity here. my group was with telstra, optus and vodafone and none of us got a signal. a bloody awesome thing if you ask me. perfect getaway. see pics and more info at this link – watton cottage bathurst farmstay.
Edited: July 24th, 2010
bathurst netball mania
the lovely people of bathurst sure must love their netball. with a population of some 38,000 people (?), that makes one netball court for about every 100 people. i bet they’re pretty good at it too.
Edited: July 23rd, 2010
sun punches through the clouds for a last hurrah
this light lasted for all of about one minute and i enjoyed while possible.
man, i am over winter. i was over winter when it started. it’s cold and the days are short. hey winter, i don’t like you very much unless you bring me snow that i can ski on – and that’s just not going to happen here in sydney – it’s about as likely as a dust storm.
although i am in a bit of a complaining mood, i have to say that the crappiest winter i ever had was in london. absolutely and utterly miserably crap i have to say. i bet suicide rates soar over there in winter. so it’s not all bad (well it is for the londoners).
speaking about london and complaining (i’m starting to sound like a whinging pom), the picture features a london plane tree. i’ve thoughtfully provided you with a link.
it is one of the most widely planted trees in sydney because it grows fast, can deal with neglect and pollution and it is deciduous – which is great, because it provides shade in summer and allows sunlight through in winter. what’s not so great is that they are starting to drop these little balls in which the seeds reside. each seed is covered in thousands of tiny bum-fluff-like hairs which come off the seed and fill my house and clog my drains and gutters. at least i don’t have hay-fever.
council, could you please stop planting these things, could you instead plant some flowering natives? that way we could attract more wildlife into the city and give us something more interesting to run over in our cars than just cats, pigeons and indian mynas.
ok. rant over.
Edited: July 22nd, 2010
refinery at night
think i will start doing something on surveillance cameras soon, it’s not as if there is any lack of them about these days.
i’d love to know how this tank got that huge dent in it. perhaps the lamp post fell on it once?
Edited: July 21st, 2010
ummm, wouldn’t even think about it
do you really need a sign to tell you that you shouldn’t cycle where fuel tankers are doing 90 km/ph?
i don’t know how cyclists do it in sydney – drivers are impatient, aggressive and intolerant. although there’s no culture of bicycles or motorbikes in sydney, give me a motorcycle anyday, at least i’m heard and can pull out of a situation quickly.
obviously not one of the city of sydney’s awesome new cycleway network.
Edited: July 19th, 2010
one lamp post, a windsock and some sticks (on a grassy hill)
it is half-brothers uncle of two lamp posts and a rubbish bin (on a grassy hill)
Edited: July 18th, 2010
fun with racial sterotypes
this could be a fun theme…down with political correctness i say, it seems to divide more than unite. people should stop being so serious.
i wonder where i can pick up some of that astonishingly lovely decor from?
Edited: July 17th, 2010
what could this be a picture of?
well, a thumb, a finger and an armpit of course!
Edited: July 16th, 2010
unloading containers at port botany
see this ship and all it’s containers?
it’s being unloaded of its cargo of imported cheap chinese crap that you buy cheap, use once and then throw away.
the ship has traveled far.
Edited: July 15th, 2010
first exciting view of he golden mile (for some) – welcome to the jungle
Whoaaahhh! how exciting, we’ve driven from Merrylands to the Cross!
got your modified wrx, nissan skyline, (add any rotary or bolt-on turbo) or maybe even your harley-davidson?
try a hummer, or are they not noisy enough?
LET’S MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!
got your crew together to punch random people in the head for fun?
hit the big time by being gangsta!
girls with your fake tans, fake titties and fake nails, you might just meet that big shot dealer with a big house in vaucluse – and the life you’ve always dreamed of – getting slapped about and treated like shit, but hey, you get a shopping and french nails allowance, right.
i enjoy living in the middle of the city and i have dones so for a long time. what i don’t enjoy though, is hearing the crap that you all put out.
Sometimes, only sometimes, i wish i could pick up the cross and dump it out in campbelltown. kings cross really is a lovely place during the week, it just turns ugly on the weekends when the packs of dogs from out of the area come in to party and try to get a root.
Edited: July 13th, 2010
the brutal poodles chariot
wtf? seems to be something around lately with vehicles with pink highlights.
the pink is a bit crazy, but the little cherub bolted (well i hope it is) onto the bonnet takes the cake for me.
the brutal poodles are a sydney band, well duo, who are pretty keen to get noticed. nothing like a bloke pulling out some falsetto. prince did it so well, but took himself too seriously. i’d give you a link, but he pulled the prince official website off in 2006, when he became a born again christian.
we can thank flight of the conchords to make the man falsetto thing fun again, i think.
you can check out the brutal poodles music on their myspace page. below i’ve posted one of their clips – a song called ‘star’. check it out, i think they could be good fun to see live.
good luck boys, oh and maybe wash your car, the birdshit eats the duco.
TAGS: art, brutal poodles, cars, music, Sydney
Edited: July 12th, 2010
when the buses go to sleep
the waverley bus depot at night.
i have a lot of respect for bus drivers, i really do.
think about it for a moment. they need to navigate the horrendous sydney traffic all shift, as well as deal with some pretty crappy, demeaning and abusive characters day in, day out. they are also responsible for, literally, a busload of people.
i have had my own fair share of grumpy, rude, even psycho bus drivers, but i tell you, almost every time, i will get off the bus at the front door so i can say to them ‘thank you’.
you should do it too.
Edited: July 11th, 2010
mr whippy in 2010. time to retire?
no greensleeves playing here. this was one depressing-looking mr whippy van. great old original bedford van though, with a respray that hurts the eyes. love it.
i took a sneak-peek inside and i can tell you that i wouldn’t feel confident buying anything here. give me a chai tea, brewed in unboiled ganges river water anyday over a hotdog from this guy. Even the sealed bags of chips were available in flavours discontinued since 1992.
poor bastard. in two hours, i didn’t see him make one sale. got to feel for him, but how do you break it to him? a pink respray doesn’t mean shit over a wipe-down of his surfaces.
and vitari – wasn’t vitari some wonder product back in the 80′s? some kind of fat free frozen yoghurt substitute for ice-cream (frogurt) that ceased production in 1989? i actually googled it and all i found was an undated burke’s backyard ‘fact sheet ‘on it. when did that go off air? did people even really use the world wide interweb then?
more questions than answers, and that’s never a good thing.
why does he have a scary horror-mask on the passenger-side window. buddy, you are supposed to attract the kiddies, not scare them away!
if, when i took this picture, i didn’t know that i would be so cruel, i would have asked to have taken a shot of the man himself as well. if anyone saw that canadian tv show ‘you can’t do that on television’, mr whippy was mr barth burger in the clip below (as a bonus, you can see what alanis morissette looked like when she was 12 years old):
my advice to barth burger, sell your van and everything in it on ebay – you’d clean up if you find a cashed-up retro-fiend buyer…
Edited: July 10th, 2010
lesbians – slippery when wet
alright then, who let the rampant lesbians out on the loose?
lesbian humour, you can’t make this shit up.
there are two things i have always wondered about homosexuals and both of those are in this one photo…
1) why do so many gays need to advertise like this, or rainbow stickers on their cars, or rainbow flags hanging out of their homes? i just don’t get it..
2) what’s with the constant use of childish double entendre?
oh and i wonder if they are also fans of the bon jovi album, – slippery when wet?
Edited: July 7th, 2010
stuck in traffic – emergency signs
stuck in traffic near the eastern distributor (again…), so i just popped this lazy shot through the window.
seems i’ve started to collect assembly point signs.
Edited: July 6th, 2010
when the factory workers have gone home
the carpark seems so lonely with just a few vehicles left.
i will have to come back here when i have a tripod with me, it sort of reminds me of this deserted playground and the warehouse after the workers all went home.
Edited: July 5th, 2010
amazing, photo of the toilets in abu ghraib prison
well, it might as well be.
it is a little bit more stark, and filthy than this colourful toilet.
i just want to know how can you take a crap so that skid marks appear under the toilet seat, why someone did that, and what kind of animal would do that?
how, why, and who?
seems like a lot of effort went into this….
here’s another photo from a previous visit to abu gharib
this is another photo from the amazing series of photos
Edited: July 4th, 2010
suburban clutter and blue skies
so much going on here – signs, poles, wires.
all this on a quiet side street – as opposed to clutter on a main road.
Edited: July 2nd, 2010
happy birthday photo a day!
wow! one year on and still pumping!
though not quite 365 photos here yet, am still trying!
thanks to all you guys who are interested – especially to all who post comments and come back to check how things are going here.
here’s to another year…yaay!
Edited: July 1st, 2010