The Empire (of Dust)

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The flooded library by the street artist Rone part of his Empire exhibit/installation

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It didn't take me long to break my own #TURNOFFSOCIALMEDIA campaign. I had the fortune to get tickets to Rone's Lastest Exhibition/Installation at Burnham Beeches. Its amazing, so I just had to upload a photo of the flooded Library via WiFi from my Olympus camera to my phone and then onto Instagram. All so easy and I've fallen off the wagon already

The Patch :: Street Art

This weeks The Patch theme is about Graffiti/Street Art/Architecture, this really only leaves me one place to take a picture, the areas around Hosier Lane, which has become famous for its street art. It seems it is the go to place to have your wedding photos taken and on most tourist guides. But all is not well there, much of the decent art is over painted, often with tags and pointless profanities. Ok its a colourful enough scene but perhaps the art is suffering. So a loose coalition of street artist, with council backing, are painting the walls black again to let a new generation of street art develop. Not everyone is happy, you can see a paste up in support has been ripped off and tagged over already (image on the left). I think the image on the right is the better ambassador for street art in Melbourne.
 
quote from the torn paste-up above left

“it's not about respecting nor disrespecting anyone
its about equality everybody having a turn
all art means something to some one”

Joinery in Hosier Lane

Some simple Hockney style joiner collages of the Hosier Lane street art.

More Street Art

Richmond is probably most famous for its hard edge street art (aka graffiti covered in tags), but I found this sculpture wall and reflective space on the very busy corner of Bridge & Punt Rd.

Yet another example of a Smartphone photo taken and synced via dropbox before I even got home (no Instagram involved)

Buoys will be buoys

 
Some interesting street art on the 10,000 step walk at Mackay.

Some Simple Street Art

 
Somethimes just the simple things make the best street art. I particularly like the sea gulls fighting over a cup of chips.

Street Music

Its Saturday and the sun is out so everyone is out on the streets, in the parks and markets. So are the musical music machines, The middle photo shows one that was even playing “pop” turns. Sorry no sound. The most interesting is the singing bike rider. He is the guy disappearing into the distance in the right hand photos. He has flashed past on several days previously always singing at the top of his voice. This is the only photo I has manage o get of him, albeit him disappearing in the distance.

Life of Frogs, as street art

The quay side along Hoge der A, which is the traditional mooring for “bruine vloot” (sailing ships) has some interesting sculpture on the footpath. It show tadpoles developing into frogs and the frog metamorphose into a very long nosed something or other.

Crumpled Reflections

Napier's Art Deco is not limited to its Architecture

The Pigs of Rundle Mall

 

The Case of the Shinny Balls & the Headless Ghost

 

This image is yet another multi-image photomosaic, stitched together with autostitch. I like the technique as a way to get a superwide angle view in a tight space (compare it with the normal "wide" angle/zoomed out view) below. The poor man on the right has become a ghost and lost his head because he moved between frames, but it does add a little of the surreal to the center of Adelaide.