Tag: photography
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Radelaide
To paraphrase from Transmetropolitan, to understand a city, you have to get it beneath your feet. Adelaide has a distinct air of being the forgotten city. Truth be told, I know very little about it, past or present. So I went for a walk from my hotel into the inner city. I suppose after about…
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Hobart Visit – MONA
Over the last week, I visited some friends in Hobart and among the first and last things that I saw was the art collection housed in the Museum of Old and New Art. Because its a thing you have to see twice to get a real feeling for what is happening behind the battlements of…
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Birthday Street Art
Another year, another round of birthday graffiti and street art. Below is a small sampler, while I find the time to sit down and stitch together some panographs.
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Today’s Food Porn
Time for some food porn from this morning, care of the people of A Bite to Eat in the southern part of the capital. Mine was the pancake. It was the strangest and most unique breakfast I had in a while. It was a pancake cooked in a ceramic dish, and it tasted and possessed…
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Museum of Death
A buddy of mine mentioned I should see this place while I was in LA. It sits on Hollywood Boulevard, outside of the celebrity culture, and except for the giant skull, it would be a rather unassuming building. Inside, The Museum of Death is a wunderkammer of the macabre. Serial killer art, execution methods, autopsy…
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L.A. Update
Here’s a few shots from LA, these were done around the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA for short. LACMA is a really decent campus of art, and in my short time there, I checked out the modern art, the Japanese art pavilion and American (United States/North American) art gallery, along with some contemporary…
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Venice Beach
The sun is punishing to me. But not to the natives of Venice, California. Almost everyone is bronzed and coppered, walking up and down the boardwalk past market stalls and tattoo parlours and head-shops. Two such lotus-eaters in ganja-green medical smocks offer us to sign up for medical cards today. Its a weird idyll. Look…
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Street Art Workshop
Down at the Belco Art Centre, the May’s Street Art Exhibition is on display and as part of the event, there was a couple of workshops on today. I was most interested in the Street Art workshop and a chance to meet two people in particular, Byrd and Abyss. It was cool to see them…
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Yet Another Abyss Post
Here is some more work by Abyss that I’ve managed to snap in the city.
The Screaming Wall 