Posted by Olek
on March 15, 2009
Another bunch of interesting photos from around the city. Will probably have a new (more wordy) post up soon too :)
This (bad phone photo - don’t have a flash) was taken after walking back towards the city from the Watchmen premiere screening at IMAX. This little guy was just chillin’ out on the garbage bin getting some food and didn’t seem to mind us taking a couple of pictures. The funny thing is that a lot of the trees in this park have metal sheets wrapped around them to stop possums from getting into them, however there’s a couple of much larger trees which don’t have the metal around them and the possums clearly just climb those and then jump into the other trees, haha :)
A lifesize R2D2 made from Lego in Myer, coolest thing ever.
ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!
I can’t remember where I saw this graffiti but I really like it.
This solar powered electric bike doesn’t look like it would be very practical but that doesn’t mean it isn’t awesome :D I wonder how much mileage it achieves.
This poster is similar to the other Obama poster in the previous around town post, but the purpose completely different. I guess it was only a matter of time before people started cashing in on the icon Obama has become.
This was taken up near uni. My mum used to own a 2CV when she lived in England. She used to call it the “sewing machine” because that’s apparently how it sounded. I just think they’re cute.
Cool samurai prints on the door to the bathroom of Section8 in the city :)
Another picture from a bathroom, this time of a bar/restaurant. It didn’t occur to me that they were all quite phallic until I saw the vegetable on the far right of the second picture. Very subtle :P
Apparently manufacturers of digital watches and calculators are now cool enough to be used as graffiti tags. This was taken near the bowls club where some friends and I go lawn bowling :)
I accidentally trod on this poor guy when he was pecking around under my coffee table one day, so I thought I would immortalise him on the interwebs to partly say sorry (obviously I apologised at the time too :P )
Posted by Olek
on January 20, 2009
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