I’ve been meaning to make a post containing some photos for a while and now I’m finally getting around to it! These are just photos taken with my phone, spontaneous things that have caught my attention.
This was taken down the road from where I live. It’s the only time I’ve seen internet slang (ur) used offline.
I was walking home after a lively New Year’s party and came across this street where there were about five houses in a row that all looked a bit worse for wear and derelict but all had brand new cards parked outside. I thought it a stark contrast.
This was taken at about 11pm on night on Swanston Street, Melbourne. Why on earth do the Australian police need a Hummer? How did they justify it? What can it possibly offer over a standard police Ford Territory SUVs? I felt revolted at the time, it’s so irresponsible.
This is a very blurry photo of the robotic man without his helmet who can often be seen down Swanston Street at night making his crazy light/sound show.
A black presidential candidate (this was before he had won the election) portrayed as Jesus in a poster in a jewish neighbourhood, who’d have thunk it?
Back when Kevin Rudd had only been PM for a little while, there was this article posted in The Age broadsheet. I was dismayed at the newspaper supporting the idea that the PM should ‘dumb down’ his speeches and dialogue. It doesn’t bode well for Australia when even the newspapers condone the kind of slang/uncouth language that supports the stereotypical image of Australians being uncultured and uncouth. Disappointing :(
An advertisement for a playstation game at a train station. The most ugly advertisement I’ve ever seen. How is that supposed to make people want to buy this game?
A night of really heavy rain. I was walking home from the train station and was completely saturated. I really wish I’d had a decent camera with me, it looked amazing, this photo doesn’t really capture it. It was so dramatic.
That’s all for now. I will probably make more photo posts once I have some more interesting photos :P
I completely agree with what you said about Rudd “dumbing down” his speech. People complain when people speak other languages, and insist when they speak English, but when people do speak English and they still don’t understand, maybe the problem isn’t with the person speaking, but with the person listening. Sigh.