Rather

Flickr

2005-10-11T14:07:00.000+10:00

Using Flickr for my photos now, instead of this blog.

Lane Lane

2005-10-06T19:03:00.000+10:00

Lane Lane is in Broken Hill.

Chinatown lamps

2005-08-30T13:34:00.000+10:00

I took this photo ages ago, but didn't like it when I got it developed. I think it's okay now.

Sunset near Broken Hill

2005-08-07T18:55:00.000+10:00

Dusk, near Broken Hill (another one)

2005-08-01T13:50:00.000+10:00

I took this photo, and the one I posted on Friday, when some of us went for a walk, starting from the road that goes to Packsaddle. Took some photos of the sunset as well, which I might post later.

Dusk, near Broken Hill

2005-07-29T18:49:00.000+10:00

Between Wentworth and Broken Hill

2005-07-27T13:38:00.000+10:00

I took this photo at a service station we stopped at, somewhere between Wentworth and Broken Hill. Can't remember what the place was called, and it's not on Google Earth.

Old shops

2005-06-06T15:32:00.000+10:00

These old, boarded-up shops are on the corner of Peel Street and Seinfeld Street.

More walls

2005-06-06T13:30:00.000+10:00

Bricks

2005-06-06T13:03:00.000+10:00

Hardie building products

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Fence

2005-06-06T12:33:00.000+10:00

This is out the back of Rebel Sport as well.

Peel Street/Humffray Street bridge

2005-06-06T12:05:00.000+10:00

Took these under the bridge where Peel Street and Humffray Street go over Canadian Creek. I reckon it'd be a good bridge to have a party under, because it's pretty wide, ahving an intersection on top of it. If I have a 22nd, maybe I'll have it under this bridge.

Rebel Sport

2005-06-04T18:09:00.000+10:00

Took this out the back of Rebel Sport in Ballarat.

Pipes

2005-06-04T18:04:00.000+10:00

No smoking.

Chimney

2005-06-04T17:59:00.000+10:00

Kontact

2005-06-04T17:45:00.000+10:00

Another alley

2005-05-19T17:45:00.000+10:00

Can't remeber where this one is. Somewhere in town, in Ballarat.

Field Street carpark

2005-05-13T16:02:00.000+10:00

Alley cat

2005-05-11T15:44:00.000+10:00

Detail of my Fantasy & Speculative Fiction assignment.

Get the feeling you're being watched?

2005-05-11T15:22:00.000+10:00

Detail of my Fantasy & Speculative Fiction assignment.

A door

2005-05-11T12:53:00.000+10:00

This door is in a loading bay off Mair Street.

Grainery Lane

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Deliveries

2005-05-10T17:33:00.000+10:00

Took these in McKenzie Street.

Surveillance

2005-05-10T11:42:00.000+10:00

Big Brother is watching Mair Street.

Bridge Mall

2005-05-10T11:14:00.000+10:00

Took these in an alley off Bridge Mall.

That's better

2005-05-06T09:21:00.000+10:00

Needs work

2005-05-05T11:02:00.000+10:00

This needs work, but I still wanted to post it.
Most of the stuff I'll be posting for a while will be for my Fantasy & Speculative Fiction assignment, on the shadow archetype in the urban environment.

Email

2005-05-04T14:49:00.000+10:00

Took this in an alley off Lydiard Street South, in Ballarat

New camera

2005-04-19T16:02:00.000+10:00

Got this this morning from Cash Converters. I thought it was $50, but it had another label on the back that said $30.
However, they wouldn't give me a refund on the camera Tab got me because there was technically nothing wrong with it - it's just hard and expensive to get film for.

2005-04-12T11:14:00.000+10:00

There might not be any new photos for a while, because I had my camera stolen during the holidays.

Rooftops

2005-03-30T03:47:00.001+10:00

All of these are from the block between, Camp Street, Sturt Street, Grenville Street and Field Street, in Ballarat

Rearview

2005-03-27T02:29:00.000+10:00

Caught in the cogs

2005-03-25T03:35:00.000+11:00

This is at the south-west corner of Lydiard and Dana Streets, Ballarat.

Karova stencils

2005-03-23T13:38:00.000+11:00

This is some street art that was out the back of Karova Lounge for a while. It's recently been painted over.

Hard rubbish

2005-03-21T18:23:00.000+11:00

This is a series I did with Adam and Yedsa, in January, when they were having a hard rubbish collection in their area.

I took these as well, but they weren't the sort of stuff I wanted:

Poor thing...

2005-02-04T03:27:00.000+11:00

This was beside the bridge near Ferntree Gully Library in ... December, I think.

Creswick Road silos

2005-01-30T19:08:00.000+11:00

These are the silos on Creswick Road in Ballarat, which I photographed from the railway line.

Chimney

2005-01-28T11:33:00.000+11:00

This chimney is outside the Brewery Building at University of Ballarat's SMB campus. In the first photo, you can also see the gate to the old gaol in the background. In the last photo, you can see the silhouette of the Brewery Building.

Melbourne CBD

2005-01-25T11:20:00.000+11:00

Took this photo about two weeks ago, from the top floor of DeeDee's building.

And I know now why my late-at-night city photos have been coming out weird, like this ^ one.

Watch more TV

2005-01-22T01:34:00.000+11:00

In the areas where my parents live, they're currently having a hard rubbish collection at the moment, so I've managed to pick up some old TV sets, which I'm going to be using for my 21-years-and-17-days-old party tonight.

St John's

2005-01-21T04:33:00.000+11:00

These photos are of the building where St John's Presbyterian Church, in Warrnambool, meet. I also posted them in a longer post at Emergent Layer, which is a new blog about spirituality and culture.

Lydiard Street, Ballarat

2005-01-19T02:26:00.000+11:00

More shoes

2005-01-17T02:06:00.000+11:00

Late last year, after the original Gillies Street shoes had been removed, I discovered that other people had been throwing shoes up onto the powerlines in Ballarat.
This pair was in Pleasant Street, Redan:

And this pair was opposite the Big W carpark, in town:

Spencer Street Station

2005-01-16T02:56:00.000+11:00

Knox City carpark

2005-01-14T02:22:00.000+11:00

This is some sort of bus shelter at Knox City carpark. For some reason it's always upside-down. (As far as I know Adam didn't push it over.) And I don't know what a bus stop thing is doing in a shopping centre carpark.

This carpark is really demented, because everyone has to go in and out through the same gate whether they're walking or driving.

Warrnambool happy snaps

2005-01-14T01:10:00.000+11:00

These were taken (by Bevan, I think) just before we all drove back to our respective cities.

The Ignite team

The extended Brooks family (minus Frenchy and DeeDee)

In the background of the second photo, you can see that Max has snuck into the photo, as though he is trying to sneak into the family. Or perhaps he is a long-lost member of the Brooks family, and is trying to let the rest of us know?

This is an assortment of leaders from the Ignite team and the kids program team. The photo was taken from a roof.

And this is Crazy Dave, Glenn and me wearing out 'Have you hugged my t-shirt today?' t-shirts.

I think Glenn got his from a market or something. Tab made Dave's and mine, and was working on one for Jane and one for her as well.

Lastly, this is Croto, showing us how a real man poses:

Ignite Warrnambool

2005-01-12T01:43:00.000+11:00

As I mentioned on the 5th, I've been in Warrnambool. The last three summers I've been down there with other Christians, helping run a kids holiday program called Scripture Union Family Mission, or SUFM. (Don't worry, the name is changing as of next summer.)

Well, this summer we decided to branch out and start a new project, a café called Ignite. Our reasoning is that most people in Warrnambool aren't likely to ever go to a church building , which cuts down the likelihood of them ever experiencing Christian community. However, some of these people would be quite comfortable in a café/lounge kind of setting. So what we tried to do was create a café where people who aren't Christians can observe and experience Christian community.

Here are some photos relating to Ignite and Warrnambool (along with explanations):

We covered the walls of the rooms we were using for the café in spray-painted hessian, to make them bit more interesting. In the process of painting, I managed to get a huge splash of blue spray paint (it had built up on a stencil I'd been using) across my face. I got Yedsa to take this ^ photo when I'd half scrubbed it off.

Here's a tour of the café, starting at the rear entrance, and ending in the kitchen:

The two offices we were using are normally a council-run youth centre called Mercury 86, in the Warrnambool Business Centre. (The watertower I took photos of last year is on the same block.)

This is the Mercury 86 fridge:

Most nights we had a band playing (Rhinosaur, Not Ashamed and Rufus played on different nights) and each night we had pool, table tennis and foosball tables set up.

On January 6th we also held the first Ignite Allnite.We set up floodlights at the skatepark so that people could ride their skateboards and bikes until midnight and held a competition, sponsored by local skate, bike and music stores. Over 200 participants and spectators turned up.

The team who run the kids holiday program have siesta every afternoon. During siesta, everyone has to have their head on their pillow and be quiet.

Powerlines

2005-01-11T01:36:00.001+11:00

As I've mentioned before, I love powerlines. (As well as concrete pipes and television antennae.)

I took these photos behind Boronia Mall.

Googlewhacked

2005-01-11T01:11:00.000+11:00

Just got this:

alright mate
after hours of searching i found your site in my pursuit of a GOOGLEWHACK. you must be proud, don't know if you new you were one or not? , but just thought i'ld tell you, because there arn't that many.

Warrnambool

2005-01-05T15:26:00.000+11:00

Sorry I haven't posted in ages; I've been in Warrnambool since Monday last week. I'm currently on McInternet, which is actually working today. Today I am 21 years old. More about what I'm doing in Warrnambool when I get back to either Melbourne or Ballarat.

First dates

2004-12-27T02:15:00.000+11:00

This is my rather late entry for week two of Blogger Idol, on the topic of 'first dates'.
This looks like it could be a nice, picturesque place for a first date - a picnic maybe? It's the golf course a new housing estate which is being built in Scoresby. (I took some photos there earlier in the year - 1, 2.) I took these photos at about 5:30, after all the workers had gone home.
The good things about having a date here are that it looks nice, and since it's not finished yet, it's very peaceful (after working hours). Possible downsides are that the owners might not be to happy to find out people have been picnicking on their golf course before the estate has even been finished and that you have to get across Ferny Creek. However, for more adventurous couples, this could be seen as a plus.

Otherwise you will be unable to exit

2004-12-27T01:28:00.000+11:00

This is a thing. It is in the middle of the rooftop car park at Boronia Mall.

Century Building

2004-12-27T01:14:00.000+11:00

This is the Century Building, in Swanston Street, just up from Manchester Unity. Maybe it's Bob's winter palace?

Chapel Road

2004-12-22T02:02:00.000+11:00

I took this photo two-and-a-bit weeks ago, at the last meeting of my old church, Chapel Road Uniting Fellowship, in Keysborough, a suburb of Dandenong.

Basically, the church was started for people from the Uniting Church who had problems with the Uniting Church saying that homosexuality was okay, and wanted more Biblically-based teaching, including teaching about the Holy Spirit. The building in the photo was where we eventually ended up meeting on Sundays (previously we'd met in people's houses).

So far, this is where I had my most positive experience of church. Although there were only about twenty-five regulars most fo the time I was a part of this church, it was a genuine community. 'Fellowship' was more than a cup of tea or coffee - it was like being in a functional family. The sermons were interactive, rather than it just being the pastor transferring his knowledge to us 'lay people'.

Now a significant number of churches have agreed to leave the denomination and start a new one, unless the Synod (church council) returns to more biblical teaching. Because of this, there isn't really a need for this kind of church anymore, and the building has now been taken over by some church-planters who have come from Samoa to start a multicultural Christian community in Keysborough.

Argh

2004-12-20T17:14:00.000+11:00

As the free ISP I had been using up until now appears to have been put out of business, I won't be updating with new photos for a while.

The view from Spencer

2004-12-16T01:46:00.000+11:00

I took these while waiting for the train to Ballarat to arrive at Spencer Street Station, the Sunday before last.

Footstool temple

2004-12-13T01:21:00.000+11:00

'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you ever build me a temple as good as that? Could you build a dwelling place for me? My hands have made both heaven and earth, and they are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken!'
Isaiah 66:1-2

My Top 5 - week 1

2004-12-12T02:26:00.000+11:00

1. Ian's Messy Desk
2. Buzzcrash
3. A Dervish's Du'a
4. Livingroom
5. Writer's Edge

1:13am Wednesday December 13:
I want to give the entry from Blondzila an honorable mention as well, now that I've read it.

Bob's place

2004-12-12T01:55:00.000+11:00

Here is another photo of Bob's art deco castle. As was mentioned by Taqwa in this post, Bob is the twin brother of Saruman the White. Evidently, he is also the CEO of Manchester Unity.

Heavenly sign

2004-12-11T04:39:00.000+11:00

Found this piece of street art in Degraves Street, Melbourne CBD, coming up out of Campbell Arcade after visiting Sticky.

Baptist Place

2004-12-10T02:13:00.000+11:00

These are some more photos I took at Baptist Place last week. In the first photo, you can see (through the mirror) Garry and Mary working on their mural.
The launch of the murals was on Wednesday, but Garry and Mary still have a bit of work to finish off.
I took the photo below after the launch. Garry is on the left and Mary is on the right, holding up one of the skyscrapers. The lady in the middle is one of their friends who came to the launch.

Naïeveté scene

2004-12-10T01:12:00.000+11:00

One thing I'd appreciate for Christmas is a realistic nativity scene. I've never seen one where Jesus and his family look Palestinian. I've never seen one where Mary and Joseph look like they've just finished a huge journey just so some beurocrats can do a head-count. And, of course, I've never seen one where Mary looks anything like she's just given birth.
The Christmas story's always so sanitised and pacified. It's been castrated (but without any pain or mess, of course).

It also seems pretty bizarre.
In the Christmas episode of Mr Bean, Mr Bean plays with the miniature nativity scene in a department store. Jesus is visited by the shepherds and wise men, but also by a robot and a Tyranosaurus. All the visitors are shhhed by Mary and Joseph for making to much noise.
Eventually, Jesus must be air-lifted by an angel to a doll's house, which the Mary and Joseph figures indicate is a much more suitable place for a newborn baby.
That scene (as in the scene in the episode, not the nativity scene) says a lot to me. The nativity scene version of Jesus and his parents is as alien to 1st century Palestine as the robot and dinosaur. They'd feel much more at home in a suburban, middle-class home in a wealthy country during the 21st Century than some dirty stable where anyone can walk in off the street.

I think it's a bit late for me to put together a more sensible nativity scene for this year, but I can start thinking of ideas for next year. I can almost smell the manure. If you have any ideas, tell me via the comments.

Bank of New Zealand?

2004-12-05T03:16:00.000+11:00

I think this is the Bank of New Zealand. I will check when I'm in the city tomorrow or on Monday, and if it isn't, then I'll correct this. If it turns out that it is, then I will point out that it looks like it's out of Lord of the Rings. Either way, it is a big, gothic revival building on the corner of Collins Street and Swanston Street in Melbourne CBD.

1:30am December 8: Sorry, turns out it is actually Manchester Unity. And it is actually art deco rather than gothic revival.

Urban Seed

2004-12-02T01:18:00.000+11:00

The last two weeks I've spent a few afternoons in Baptist Place, an alley off Little Collins Street, in Melbourne CBD. I took these photos there today (Wednesday). Note that the bottom photo is bent. That happened while shoving it into my backpack.

Baptist Place is used by drug users as a place to inject heroin.
Urban Seed provide free lunches to the people who use Baptist Place, through their Credo Café. They also run art classes for the street people every Wednesday afternoon. The article below is from Monday's (mostly garbageous) edition of MX:

Partnering with VIVAIDS, Urban Seed have commissioned some artists to paint murals in Baptist Place 'depciting issues of Koori, Vietnamese and Anglo injecting drug users in Baptist Place.' The launch of the Laneway Mural Project is at 3:30pm on Wednesday December 8. Below is a photo of one of the murals, from a flyer Garry (one of the muralists) gaves me.

Uluru

2004-11-26T03:56:00.000+11:00

Took these photos at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in 2000.

Kings Canyon

2004-11-24T01:46:00.000+11:00

Here's another photo from the 2000 Central Australia trip. I took it near Kings Canyon, in Watarrka National Park in the Northern Territory, looking up toward the top of a rock face.

Our friends, the trees

2004-11-23T04:24:00.000+11:00

I took these photos back in first semester last year, for an assignment, but never actually used them. So yesterday I did.

The trees in the blue and red photos are eucalypts (gum trees) in Dandenong Ranges National Park. The tree in the yellow one is an oak, in my parents' backyard.

Desert

2004-11-18T01:25:00.000+11:00

Took both of these photos in September 2000, somewhere between Adelaide and Coober Pedy, in South Australia. The first one was taken through the bus window, while we were moving. Both came out absolutely awful, but I think now I've been able to make something out of them.

Keith underpass

2004-11-16T15:23:00.000+11:00

As I have no money to get photos developed at the moemnt (partly because I'm moving back to Melbourne tomorrow night) here is an old photo I've just never posted.

This is the railway underpass in Keith, where I took my first silo pictures. It has to be the longest railway underpass I've ever seen. It was extremely dark inside and the length of the tunnel made the echoes sound pretty weird.

Stenciling

2004-11-07T05:42:00.000+11:00

I've been in Melbourne this weekend at my parents' place.
While I've been here I've introduced my brother Yedsa to blogging (check out his new graffiti blog, MelBurners and he introduced me to stenciling. The piece below is based on this photo.

Hurrah!

2004-10-27T01:36:00.000+10:00

For all my images are back online! A big thanks to IMGSpot, the best free image host I know of!

Trav's glovebox

2004-10-25T13:53:00.000+10:00

This is Trav's glovebox. It is broken. Therefore, it has to be held shut with electrical tape. The electrical tape normally holds for about half an hour.

Image hosting problems

2004-10-25T13:44:00.000+10:00

I'm having problems with my image host at the moment, so the posts effected have been temporarily removed. Hopefully they'll be back soon.

Disoriented

2004-10-22T04:24:00.000+10:00

The reason for the title of this post is that I don't remember where or exactly when I took the photo. It looks like it's probably in the outer-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. But who knows, maybe it's somewhere in Ballarat?

Decadent dunny

2004-10-19T11:18:00.000+10:00

This restroom is somewhere in Ballarat. I won't say where, for fear of getting sued. The toilet-paper-holder-thingy and liquid-soap-squirty-thing have both been busted and, yes, that is a disposable nappy (daiper) that's been left on the table.

Melbourne from Camberwell

2004-10-13T09:11:00.000+10:00

I took this from the bridge that goes over the railway station

Streetlamp forest

2004-10-11T11:29:00.000+10:00

I took this at the intersection of Gillies Street and Howitt Street, in Wendouree. You can just see the roof of Harvey Norman in the bottom, lefthand corner.

Politically incorrect

2004-10-06T10:14:00.000+10:00

It seems University of Ballarat is still a little behind the times...

Ballarat Station

2004-10-05T14:00:00.000+10:00

Last night, as Russ and I drove back from a Universe campus workers meeting (my first), Russ started talking about how sad he finds it that the railways are so disused now. He reckons that at one stage the train station would've been such a busy place, full of life, lots of stuff happening, and really important to the different towns and cities across the country. But if you go to one of these stations now, it just seems empty, the people just seem tired, they want to get home.

Terraffic

2004-10-04T10:40:00.000+10:00

>>Melbourne CBD>> RMIT>> passing tram>>

Prahran Station

2004-09-29T03:44:00.000+10:00

While I was waiting for the train at Prahran Station on Friday (me and my brother Justin had been at Obese - a record store/label that specialises in Australian hiphop) I was struck by the contrast between the station and the apartments across the road. That's what I've tried to bring out in this picture.

The antennas of Wendouree

2004-09-29T02:57:00.000+10:00

For some reason, it seems that the television antennas in Ballarat are extremely tall. Maybe they're from a time when antennas needed to be taller? Maybe they're so tall so they can pick up the Melbourne/Geelong stations from over the mountains? (Ballarat has mountains all around it.) I don't know. The antennas in Ballarat just look really tall to me.
And in Wendouree I reckon it's more noticeable than the rest of the city. This may be because there aren't many tall buildings, streetlamps or big trees, so the antennas are the tallest things around? I don't know.

The end of Scoresby

2004-09-27T04:51:00.000+10:00

... being the last of the photos I took in Scoresby, outer-eastern Melbourne.

I wish now that I'd had a look around inside the factory (top right). It was a Saturday, so it's unlikley anyone would be around, and I don't know why it'd been left open. It's in a pretty bad state of disrepair, so I maybe it's been abandonned.
In fact, I might go there again tomorrow and see if anyone's around, seeing as I'm in Melbourne. And while I'm there I might as well see what's going on at the construction site with all the pipes as well.

Wombat

2004-09-24T01:30:00.000+10:00

This is a big, wooden wombat, in Melbourne CBD. But it's not just any big, wooden wombat. It's a street big, wooden wombat. I reckon it would beat Bunjil in a fight, any day.

An apology on the behalf of UoB techies

2004-09-16T11:01:00.000+10:00

Due to the University of Ballarat techies wiping my hard drive, there will be no new photos until next week.

Construction

2004-09-02T17:57:00.000+10:00

These are some more photos I took at the Scoresby construction site with all the pipes.

Concrete

2004-09-01T14:57:00.000+10:00

There is a town in Washington called Concrete. Perhaps the production of concrete is its main industry. Or perhaps it is made almost entirely of concrete. Tobias Wolf wrote a bit about it in his memoir, This Boy's Life, which my class had to read in year 11. I'm sure it's rather nice.

These photos were taken from the back of a concrete ... factory? It's in Scoresby, close to where I took the tree photos.

Things that are trees and things that are not

2004-08-26T21:24:00.000+10:00

I took these photos in an industrial estate in Scoresby, not far from the construction site.

Streetlamps

2004-08-16T12:54:00.000+10:00

The first streetlamp is on Ferntree Gully Road, in Scoresby. The second is in the carpark of the factory in Wendouree West which might make car parts.

Chimneys

2004-08-12T17:08:00.000+10:00

This is a factory in Wendouree West. I think it makes car parts.

But I'm not very interested in cars.

The Dandenongs

2004-08-12T00:23:00.000+10:00

I took these photos of the Dandenongs - the mountains that run around the eastern edge of Melbourne - from the construction site in Scoresby where I took the pipe photos.

Wendouree West watertower

2004-08-11T22:55:00.000+10:00

Loaded

2004-08-09T15:46:00.000+10:00

Found in my parents' street, in Ferntree Gully.

Pipes

2004-08-09T15:06:00.000+10:00

I took these photos at a construction site in Scoresby, in the outer-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Melbourne City

2004-07-30T13:52:00.000+10:00

Just deserts

2004-07-30T13:39:00.000+10:00

One night at Gillies Street, a few of us were eating a carton of ice cream. When there was about a quater to go, Dylan decided to stick his spoon right in and pull out the whole block of what was left. As punishment for his greed we decided that he should eat it all, with sweet chilli sauce.

St Paul's

2004-07-30T13:36:00.000+10:00

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.

Adam

2004-07-30T13:34:00.000+10:00

This is my brother Adam. See the family likeness?

Took this photo through a cardboard tube.

Melbourne is so cool

2004-07-30T13:12:00.000+10:00

This is the new roof thingy that they are building at Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, so that when people go there for the Commonwealth Games in 2006 they will all say, 'Melbourne is really cool.'