Alien Melbourne

Anarchist Alien - A6 Sticker Design.

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...Of Death

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Ducket Street

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My Brunswick Adventure 2

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My Brunswick Adventure 2
Originally uploaded by orroral

Punch Lane - off Bourke St

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From Flickr

Skateboard Deck Designs

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Alien Melbourne

2009-07-19T16:02:00.001+10:00

Hoffman Brickworks

2009-06-25T18:39:00.001+10:00

Rust Me Up Scotty

2007-06-14T21:52:00.001+10:00

Abstract Melbourne

2006-10-15T18:19:00.000+10:00

Arden St Oval

2006-08-11T22:33:00.000+10:00

Arden St Oval is a lovely old field that would benefit from some TLC. Unfortunately it has been the subject of two arson attacks this year.

Melbourne Central Reflected

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City Snapshots

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Dark Yarra

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Fed Square Black and White

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Inner City Graffiti

2005-12-17T11:40:00.000+11:00

Melbourne is plunging towards the Commonwealth Games. As a result the big clean up has started. It appears that I live in a city where it is OK to pollute vertical surfaces with unwanted advertising, but if you happen to be a visual artist, look out...

Melbourne has also recently been called the stencil art capital of the world see the link to the book here.

The following photos are mine, but I have had nothing to do with the production of the artwork.

Some of these photos and a journal relating to them are also posted on DeviantART

Cemetery

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Phillip Island Trip

2005-11-11T18:04:00.000+11:00

Well..... Not quite Melbs, but enjoyed taking the photos and had to pop them up.

St Kilda Rd Pilgrimage

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Rode across to St Kilda Rd to take some photos the other night. Failed to race the storm home on my single speed. Camera gear stayed moderately dry thanks to one of Stu Crumpler's camera bags. Nice to see an industrial designer who has done good. Thanks to the dudes at the shrine for being good sports.

Monday Night Docklands

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The Colour of Television

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The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.

William Gibson, Neuromancer

Melbourne Darkness

2005-10-04T19:59:00.000+10:00

Another nocturnal trip around Melbourne. Still some more images to go.

Miami West Melbourne

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Also posted on Deviant Art where it has been universally ignored.

The alien goes suburban

2005-09-27T16:51:00.000+10:00

I have included a couple of tourist snaps to balance my less attractive images under instructions from my ACT hosts.

Erindale is bigger than when I lived in Canberra, but also somewhat bleaker. There seems to be more cement and less happening outside. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Railway Parade

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Bridge-O-Rama

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The filth in the Yarra is easy to see in daylight. I was amazed by the drifts of PET bottles along the banks of the river under the Westgate Bridge. I wonder how much of that winds up out in the Bay.
Gotta hate pre-packaged bottled water.

Eternal Night

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Well it always seems to be dark in Alien Melbourne.

Smallest Room

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This shot was taken in pitch darkness (well as dark as it gets in the city).

Still dark in Alien Melbourne

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West Melbourne Evening

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Stencils and trad tags North melbourne

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Smashed

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Every time I hop on my single speed to hurl myself around Alien Melbourne, I feel that I am taking my life in the hands of those who pilot 1000kg plus metal boxes around the streets. A few days ago two of these thing met at speed around the corner. These broken sweeping of glass and plastic are what was left after the wrecks were taken away.
I saw a T-shirt in the "local bike shop" with the prophetic slogan CARS R COFFINS.
Think about cycling or walking before you choose to drive. Think about other road users when you do.

Tribute

2005-09-01T20:44:00.000+10:00

I'm having a Tenacious D moment. Paul Night took a photo of the same building in 2004 which I saw (after I took this shot with my trusty 1.3Megapixel fixed focus camera) in Photofile No 75. Paul's shot captures the moment of post modern angst the slipped through my fingers. This is not the greatest pic in the world, its a tribute.

PS

Paul took his photo at 90 degrees to this one from the terrace that appears on the right of the frame.

Some more old pics

2005-08-29T17:48:00.000+10:00

Some more of the black and white images from elsewhere that I had a tinker with. Quite a lot less bleak than with no colour.

Reworking of old images

2005-08-23T20:40:00.000+10:00

Here are some older alien melbourne images that have been previously published elsewhere, manipulated differently and under another alias. I'm going through a bit of a colour thing at the moment, so I've over-saturated the images. In their previous incarnations they had very little (if any) colour saturation. It makes my images more kitsch (if that is possible?).

Inner City August

2005-08-20T13:21:00.000+10:00