THAT ONE TIME IN HONG KONG

Scanning old actual photos, from film stock, you know the stuff, before it all went digital, to ironically preserve them digitally and I found these shots I took in Hong Kong back in 1989.

I like em

CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS

I give you Christine and The Queens. Awesome song and equally awesome clip. Via my most awesome love Finding Femme

OLD PERTH # 24

So it seems that sometime circa 1905 there was a proposal to build an 18 hole golf course in Kings Park... imagine that.

STAHL HOUSE AKA CASE STUDY HOUSE # 22

One of my fav pieces of architecture is the Stahl House (aka Case Study House # 22) in Los Angeles California. It was built in 1960 by architect Pierre Koenig for his client Buck Stahl. It was made famous by a Julius Shulman photograph, showing two women leisurely sitting in a corner of the house with an eventide panoramic view of the city through floor-to-ceiling glass walls...

It's been used in a pile of  movies, TV shows and even a video game

Films include Smog (1962); The First Power (1990); The Marrying Man (1991); Corrina, Corrina (1994); Playing by Heart (1998), where it was used as the home of Jon Stewart’s character; Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998); Galaxy Quest (1999), as the home of Tim Allen's character; The Thirteenth Floor (1999); Nurse Betty (2000); and Where the Truth Lies (2005). Television shows include Adam-12; Emergency!; and Columbo. A look-alike was also included in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as one of the houses players can buy. (via Wikipedia)

Some more contemporary shots

RANDOM IMAGES # 85

Show some consideration please

GAME ON

The Empire Commonwealth Games are back. A good time to reflect on when we hosted it back in 1962. Little old Perth got a bit of a makeover as a result. Wide streets (Underwood Ave) new housing for an athletes village that was then sold off as a suburb (Floreat - I'm exaggerating here but you get my drift) and brand new sporting venues - Perry Lakes, Beatty Park and all the rest...

The beginnings of Perry Lakes Stadium

Perry Lakes Stadium

Opening ceremony

1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games Competitors Team Photograph

Beatty Park Aquatic Centre

Games Village gate with added Ford Falcon

Murray Street decorated for Empire Games, 1962

TVW 7 technicians broadcast the 1962 Commonwealth and Empire Games from Perry Lakes Stadium

1962 Perth Commonwealth Games Aerogramme

THE HOOD # 280

Some cool JXD action in Little Parry St, Northbridge

Fat rabbit aka Walny

Three lives and zero credits

Space Invaders food mash up aka Food Invaders

Artist 

OLD PERTH # 23

I've just discovered the most awesome thing. Landgate have released a Perth Metro Aerial Survey from March 1965. You can view it in Google Maps and see what your address and street looked like back in 65. I just did some spying around the street I grew up in in Wilson and wow... my childhood home was just a few years old back then and the street only had a few houses in it...

This is a wide shot of Wilson, Shelley bridge and Leach Hwy are not even begun, farm land to the south east for as far as you can see (now Ferndale)

zooming in on my street Highview Tce

Zooming in on my childhood home

My sister out the front of our Highview Tce house (circa 68 ish)

My childhood home and street now

and same shot back then

Click the link at the top of the page and have some fun. Look for things like the Kwinana Freeway ending at Canning Bridge

and drive in movie theatres like the Bentley one, cnr Leach 

and Albany Hwy if it was still there today

Herdsman Lake, completely drained and used for market gardens

THE ALL ORIGINAL STREET ART PT1

The art of Transit Van spray painting. Pretty much lost from our streets now. Some would say that was a good thing, others would say it is an art form now lost to the ages. You tell me.

I mean look at the magnificence of this mural

"You need refrigeration? We got refrigeration"

Chopper ride into the cosmos 

Outrageous baby

Ride your wild stallions

Love man yeah... wait... is that a Hitler smiley face?

 More to come real soon

ON THE STREETS OF PARIS

A long overdue post of some cool pieces on the streets of Paris, sent to me earlier this year by a couple of travelling amigos, Greg and Kingsley

This cat is very similar to one I snapped along the High Line in New York back in 2012 (see below)

Clearly the lads had drunk one too many Beaujolais when the snapped this one

ICONIC

Grabbed some shots of the awesome entrance gates to Perth Oval the other day. 

if you were a bit posh you could enter the Reserve area

everyone else made do with the flat

but all collected their change/tickets here