Archive for September, 2009

Shrine

Eek, when I created this blog, I had the intention of blogging at least once weekly. I was successful up until I just realised it’s been eight days without a post. Haha, oh well.

As my previous post seemed to go down rather well, here’s another set of photos I took on the same day as the graffiti photos in the previous post. They are of the Shrine of Remembrance and surrounding areas.

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Graffiti in Melbourne

There is a lot of graffiti in Melbourne. “Tagging” is something that I really hate; it looks terrible and basically defiles the surface on which it is written, as well as costing hundreds of thousand of dollars to remove. Commissioned graffiti “art” in dedicated laneways is something I don’t feel so angry about, and even sometimes admire. The difference between “art” and “crap on a wall” is very subjective, though.

In January 2008, I took my friend Lucy, a Sydneysider whom I met on LiveJournal, to various Melbourne tourist attractions. One of these included Hosier Lane. Here are some of the resulting photos.

Graffiti painting of abstract characters

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