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
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
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
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
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
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
after about a week of torrential downpours, i awoke this morning to a black sky.
over time, the morning darkness gave way to some light! sunlight!
yaaay!
on the drive to a job, i snapped this shot through the windscreeen (i was driving west along burton st, darlinghurst) – the first strong rainbow i’ve seen since shooting a rainbow in the inner-west.
was the pot of gold coming from the sydney cbd, or was it coming from the now hot property market in sydney’s inner west, or even from the hot property developers in strathfield? i don’t know.
nice to see some sunshine and a rainbow too after all this time. good feeling all around.
Edited: May 27th, 2010
sorry to all you hard core porn searchers, “up the back alley” is just a simple shot of that – in darlinghurst.
Edited: May 26th, 2010
jakarta, cairo, shanghai? no, it’s sydney.
the cooks ‘river’ is a 23 km long waterway that once was a freshwater river with abundant life.it flows into botany bay.
since the 1930′s, most of the banks were re-enforced with concrete and it served as a channel for industrial waste. it is one of the most toxic waterways in australia.
today, it serves as an outlet for some 100 sq km of sydney stormwater within its watershed. some 400,000 people live in this area and i have to say that many of them appear to be pigs.
this is one photo of a 20m section on one bank. imagine what gets caught up up and down stream and what sinks to the bottom – the rest just washes out to sea. out of sight, out of mind, right?
many thanks to all the pigs who throw crap out the car window, to those who couldn’t be bothered to throw their rubbish in a bin, or take it with them, as well as those who are addicted to soft drinks, fast food and bottled water. thanks heaps. you know your children will only see plant and animal diversity in books and will die young from cancer because of you.
oh and btw, on the right of the image, no, it’s not mud that you can walk on. it’s a thick layer of oil and other crud floating on the surface of the water.
i actually saw people trying to fish here – man, how much do you hate your family to feed them your catch?
Edited: May 22nd, 2010
another cloudless, crisp sydney autumn day. people enjoying lunchtime pies from harry’s cafe de wheels down at woolloomooloo.
though they do great pies, i’d have to say they’re not the best i’ve sampled. but they are an institution and should be supported.
it just makes me think of the easy ’80′s, when things were uncomplicated and we lived a simple yet full life. Here is a clip that takes that in, complete with kurnell sand dunes, wanda beach, the ‘blessed’ sutherland shire and men at work singing about coming from the land down under (before they got slammed with a ridiculous IP suit for ‘kookaburra sits in the old gum tree’.
enjoy the clip while i’m allowed to show it, think back to the early 80′s and, pie in hand, throw some cheap snags on the bbq to celebrate:
Edited: May 7th, 2010
glebe park – it’s a top spot. the area used to be a bit of an industrial wasteland, and there are a few pockets here and there which still are. parked across the bay are berthed mega multi million dollar floating toys for the rich.
a popular place to take your dog for a swim.
Edited: April 13th, 2010
another smashingly brilliant day here today in sydney. can any aviation nut tell me what kind of aircraft this is?
botany bay was still as a lake, great water skiing day today for sure. perfect light, great visibility. you can even see the ports of botany there in the background.
Edited: April 11th, 2010
if you ever go to a store and you see a carpark full of trolleys like you see her, i think it;s a pretty good warning sign that you should avoid this place on weekends AT ALL COSTS!
Edited: March 23rd, 2010
went cycling today in western sydney and came across this – i think it was the largest public works at the time and gave sydney its water back in the early 1800′s. It’s a great bike path which goes for over 40km, with hardly any roads to ride on at all. you can see a map and read for about it here, if cycling is your thing.
Edited: March 12th, 2010
whoever got rid of the 5 on this sign did a pretty clean job. in all reality, you CAN actually take this corner at about 30. good lord, if the tourists and elderly sunday drivers going through the park take heed of this sign, i will never get where i am going. I suppose it just balances out the local maianbar and bundeena hoons a bit.
Edited: February 21st, 2010
do you think anyone actually pays attention to this? insofar as what i have seen the answer seems to be a resounding NO.
without fear of being politically incorrect, i’d like to put a lot of pressure on those of asian and pacific islander backgrounds. i’ve seen first-hand what these guys haul into their cars at the end of a days harvesting with their rather large families, and have also first-hand seen the devastation it plays on the ecosystem of intertidal reefs. it’s a travesty for marine fauna.
put simply, there is not enough sustainable marine life to satisfy the wonton culinary desires of a few select groups of people who are happy to eat EVERYTHING.
once you eat all the cunjevoi, sea slugs, sea urchins and sea snail, the marine eco-system starts to fall apart and before you know it, there is NO life on these inter-tiadal reefs – thank you asians and islanders. well done guys, you have killed everything off indefinately.
thanks too to all you white guy aussies down on port hacking who think it’s fine to pull out whiting that are 15cm or less in length. great catch fellas, maybe 20 of those little bad-boys might make a meal.
shame on you all. pull your heads in.
Edited: October 16th, 2009
i woke up this morning just before 6. the first thing i noticed when i opened my eyes, was this strange coloured light coming from a gap between my blinds.
this is what i saw and it totally blew me away.
for those of you in sydney, you will know this pic has not had any photoshopping at all – and no, my camera was not set to sepia mode.
it was absolutely phenomenal. apparently it has happened because we had strong winds blowing in from the south-west. it hasn’t rained out there in months and all the ground-cover has died off – leaving behind this dust that blew into sydney.
with all that is going on infront of our very eyes, i find it incredibly hard to imagine how the minds of climate change skeptics work. wake up people – we are all in a lot of trouble!
Edited: September 23rd, 2009
mmmm, malaysian curry laksa.
I was on facebook this morning and my friend in brisbane, Ron, shouted out that he was loving his laksa. a few people stuck over in the UK lamented on how they just can’t find a good laksa in london.
it got me in the mood for a laksa, so i sauntered on down to the sussex centre foodhall in chinatown this afternoon to get my fix. (combination means they throw in pork, beef, chicken, scallops, squid, fish and tofu).
if there are any laksa aficionados out there in london, can you help guide these poor souls in the right direction by posting a short review here in the comments?
many thanks, on their behalf.
Edited: August 29th, 2009
i have probably walked by this building a million times in the past before and have never noticed it.
that’s something i like about having to produce a photo a day. it makes me re-discover things, because i have to.
any architects out there who can help me on this one? is it a 60′s thing? how much of it is influenced by the international style? do you see any basic Ken Shuttleworth in this? feedback appreciated…
Edited: August 26th, 2009
yep, back at the airport again.
After waving hello/goodbye to the passengers in this plane preparing for take-off, I took this shot. I might come back here wearing fluoro leotards, headband and bedazzled tank-top a-la-nu-skool Richard Simmons and do this for them next time:
Just an idea.
I can’t believe how close you can get to the aircraft here. So much for tight security – it’s almost laughable.
Edited: August 3rd, 2009
this was taken somewhere in Liverpool/Moorebank.
looks peaceful enough, but according to some of the locals this place turns into something out of the Thriller video at night. packs of kids roam the streets at night, tagging up, smashing up and setting fire to things all over the place. When dusk falls, the neighbours start to worry.
check out the urban equivalent of bad town planning and social meltdown here.
i know this may be an exaggeration, but i imagine that rather than Thriller, it is more likely to be like Come to daddy, see below:
glad i don’t live around here.
TAGS: liverpool, moorebank, music, social, social disaster, suburbia, Sydney
Edited: July 29th, 2009
I read somewhere once that wherever you see shoes that have been thrown over power lines, then that means that there is a drug-dealer doing business nearby.
Sounds like the biggest load of crap to me.
What do you think?
Edited: July 25th, 2009
I have noticed over the past few weeks these things appearing on Oxford Street.
Someone has made these pre-fabs (out of concrete?). There are TV and video remote controls, as well as one Nokia phone. Seems that they have poured the concrete into the mould, buttons and all and have scratched messages into them. The detail is amazing. They have been stuck onto brick walls with liquid nails or something.
One of them, a TV remote, is enscribed with the word “Isolation”. I like it. Here is another.
i also found a concrete computer.
I would love to know if anyone else here has seen these things and if anyone knows who is doing it?
My message to the perp is this – “Thank You!” – I hope the Saturday shoppers get your message.
Edited: July 22nd, 2009
I love the airport – especially when i am going somewhere (which I’m not).
I also love a bit of lens flare sometimes.
another from the desolate series of photographs.
Edited: July 21st, 2009
I was out at the suicide flats today and took quite a few shots. I think the best would be to publish a photo story on what I found out there. There is no one picture that can sum out what a mess things are out there – as well as there is no one shot that can convey the sense of community there.
there were old people out catching some rays, a real mixed bag multiculturally. The were lots of people (mostly old) hanging out in the lobby, chatting away and there were a few junkies ambling about – having more difficulty walking than the old people.
the suburban version of societal decay can be found here.
they have just demolished quite a few of the low-rise public housing and there are cranes and excavators working on putting up some more medium to high density accommodations. It looks alright from the plans, but I just wonder how long they can keep it looking good for?
i imagine there’s loads of “come to daddy” going on here.
Here’s the link:
http://www.redwatch.org.au/issues/public-housing/redevelopment/elizabeth-street/070430dohd/image_view_fullscreen
Edited: July 20th, 2009
Unfortunately, this is about the closest I got to enjoying that magnificent sunset today – mostly thanks to being trapped in traffic in the Harbour Tunnel.
Am utterly devastated, I was hoping to get to the beach or at least the Harbour foreshore to enjoy it.
Good luck to everyone who got a chance to really take it in – it really was something special.
Edited: July 16th, 2009
