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Pic Of The Bunch

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on May 21, 2008
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I thought it would be cool to highlight some of my fave photos I have taken over the course of the past week. So every Thursday, or thereabouts, I’ll share some of my faves right here on this blog. If you wanna see more of my stuff, I’m pretty prolific on Flickr so see you there…


That Old Familiar Sting
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Melbourne
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Two Fictional Characters For The Price Of One
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A Stroll Through Caledonian Lane
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Crucified Dayelsford
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Pic Of The Bunch

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on April 25, 2008
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I thought it would be cool to highlight some of my fave photos I have taken over the course of the past week. So every Thursday, or thereabouts, I’ll share some of my faves right here on this blog. If you wanna see more of my stuff, I’m pretty prolific on Flickr so see you there…

Ruby Soho
Ruby Soho
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Men In Black
Men In Black - Collins Street, Melbourne
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Jack Of All Trades
Jack Of All Trades - Caledonian Lane, Melbourne
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Pic Of The Bunch

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on April 17, 2008
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I thought it would be cool to highlight some of my fave photos I have taken over the course of the past week. So every Thursday, or thereabouts, I’ll share some of my faves right here on this blog. If you wanna see more of my stuff, I’m pretty prolific on Flickr so see you there…

Centre Place, Melbourne
Centre Place, Melbourne
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Cathedral Arcade, Melbourne
Cathedral Arcade, Melbourne
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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
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Higson Lane, Melbourne
Higson Lane, Melbourne
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A Possum eats
A Possum eats
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Desktop of the Month: April

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on April 4, 2008
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Desktop of the Month: April

I always loved this shot I took of a DJ at Revolver several months ago. You can view the original shot here.

Bleed for me

Underground Wallpaper

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on April 4, 2008
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Underground Wallpaper

I thought we would take this installment of Wallpapers underground. I found a really cool subway underpass in Richmond, (Melbourne, Australia) and spent some time experimenting with different angles and light settings. Here’s one I thought would make an interesting desktop. Enjoy!

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Where The Wild Things Are Wallpaper

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on February 27, 2008
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Where The Wild Things Are ~ Wallpaper

Seeing as we’re currently in the midst of a bit of a Where The Wild Things Are bent of late… I thought this installment of our Wallpaper’s section could feature said Wild Things! Well, one of ‘em at least. This is a photo I took of my McFarlane Toys Wild Things posed in front of a page from the book.

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Frame Lines

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on February 6, 2008
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I was recently interviewed about my photography by Frame Lines magazine. (No, that’s not me on the cover!)

Frame Lines aims to be ‘Melbourne’s largest ‘free’ independent arts, lifestyle and culture magazine’. You can read more about them over at their official website.

The article on yours truly and my photographs appear under the Melbourne’s Characters section. It was great fun contributing and being part of something young and vibrant. It made me feel all tingly inside it did!

You can download a copy of the magazine in PDF format right here.

Back In The Groove… (Somewhat!)

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on January 25, 2008
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Well we’re back… although I dunno how long for. I’ve tried to implement some bandwidth saving features… (wp-cache & htaccess to protect my images directory) - I guess these should have already been in place but I just didn’t ever get round to it.

My blog ‘categories’ have been shot to hell but all my posts are still alive and well. Some fine-tuning will fix all that so if you see some inconstancies here and there… you know why.

Hammering!

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on January 24, 2008
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Dogmatic has been documenting Heath Ledger’s forthcoming appearance in the new Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight’. Overnight the hits went from about 2,000 per day to over 60,000! It renedered the site useless and began to draw the attention of my hosting company ‘Dreamhost’.

This morning, they pulled the plug on me.

In an email to me this morning:

"I’m really sorry about this - and I wish that I didn’t have to do it - but I needed to throw an .htaccess rule in place because your blog (at dogmaticblog.com) was getting hammered pretty badly and was driving the load of the server up near 200. Since putting the rule in, the load on your server has consistently dropped and continues to do so. Less than a minute later, and the load is already down below 20 and continuing to drop."

I do understand their situation and it totally sucks that a vast number of other blogs were serving my images direct from their blogs. Couple that with the news interest in Ledger and his untimely death - then the end result will always be server overload.

I’m not sure when the blog will be back… but hopefully sooner rather than later.

Bummer!

Cocker Alley Wallpaper

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on January 23, 2008
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Cocker Alley, Melbourne Australia

Introducing a new feature to Dogmatic… wallpapers! Every so often, I’ll make one of my photos available as a wallpaper. Feel free to download these and do with them what you will! Also, send me through any screen caps of any of these on your desktop! I’d love to see how they look on people’s systems.

First up is a shot of Cocker Alley, Melbourne Australia. Melbourne is famous for some of the most creepy and downright urban alleyways. Cocker Alley in the heart of the CBD also features graffiti by the world famous Banksy and rats that could probably devour cats whole!

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Sydney Holiday

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on January 2, 2008
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Day 1 - The Eagle Has Landed
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It’s proven to be a long day but after all the planning and all the chaos of finding a decent place to stay at over New Year’s Eve - we finally arrived in Sydney.

It’s close to 2am in the morning and I am too wound up to go to sleep yet. Even if, as stated, it has been a long day.

First of all, we had to make our way to Kilmore for Boxing Day lunch with Sam’s family. Took us a while to get there and we could only stay for a short while, as we had a flight to catch at 6.15.

After our stop over in Kilmore, it was back on the road as we headed to Melbourne Airport.

I wanted to be there nice and early as in June when we went to Tasmania, we barely caught our flight and I made a promise to myself, not to go through such a stressful time like that again.

I detest flying with a passion. It terrifies me. But thankfully, our flight today was just perfect.

Once we landed in Sydney, we caught the train into the City and then checked into our hotel. We are in the absolute heart of the City and close to everything we want to do and see. Really, couldn’t ask for a better room or hotel and I’m really pleased with what we got. Five Star all the way and I really have to thank Sam for her diligence in hunting us out a really cool hotel over the next week of our stay.

After settling in, we realized it was close to 10pm and we hadn’t had a thing to eat since lunch. We went to a Spanish restaurant, just outside our hotel and after dinner we decided to hit the pavement and see what Sydney nightlife has to offer. (sorry, but when it comes to nightlife, cafes, bars and restaurants - ole Sydneytown just cannot even begin to compete with Melbourne!)

One thing that struck me, the streets here are filthy and there is not a sign of street art or cool graffiti anywhere. I mean, it’s so friggn dull! But, I am sure we will stumble on some over the next few days… just too spoilt by the color and brilliant work that can be seen in Melbourne’s alleyways and the like.

So, we’re in Sydney for the next week. Looking forward to a ton of fun and action.

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Underground Anniversary

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on July 30, 2007
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Happy Anniversary!

Today marked the 7 month anniversary for Sam and I. Proof positive that we are not like other couples in love is the fact that on this special day - rather than spend it with wine & roses - we found ourselves trawling through underground stormwater drains.

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts at finding the whereabouts of the Hawthorn drains, I shot an email off to one of Melbourne’s premiere street-artists and he kindly gave us directions.

I loaded the directions onto our iPod and off we went in search of the elusive drains.

Last week, we struggled to find them but this week with directions in tow - we got to them easily enough.

Here we were, a couple of 30-somethings (ahem!) trawling through hidden holes in fences and climbing down precarious metal rungs to an underground drain network that seemed to run for quite a distance in both directions.

Gawd it was fun! We explored some of the art and graffiti on the walls and took photos of some of the better ones.

Highlight of the day would definitely have been when we climbed out of them onto a suburban quiet Hawthorn street. Sam squeezed through a hole in the fence, yours truly feeling less adventurous - climbed over the fence and barely missed a protruding rusty nailed which nearly impaled my ass!

We then trekked back to the car after walking into a local Milk Bar where I bought a lemonade and Sam some candy! That scene alone made me laugh out loud and I said to Sam "Look at us! We really should know better than this…"

I felt like a kid again. She has this effect on me time and time again.

Bottom line, we had a great time. And the past seven months have been nothing short of some of the best times of my life… here’s to you babe! Thanks for coming into my life!

p.s. cheers to Happy for the directions!

Captured The Moment

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on July 15, 2007
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John & Sam
Yours truly and my girlfriend Sam at a bookstore in the city

Had an absolutely kick ass day today. The weather was nice and sunny and Sam and I decided to not waste the day in bed (!) but to head out and enjoy as much of this beautiful Sunday as we could.

We stopped off at the Everfresh Gallery thinking there was an exhibition on today but we soon discovered there was nothing on.

Next stop was the Abbotsford Convent which had a market on today. I’ve never had the chance to visit the convent properly - but I have always wanted to. It is such a historic and somewhat sinister looking structure.

I was hoping to open a door to a nun sponsored Satanic orgy featuring nuns masturbating with crucifix’ over a blood drawn pentagram scribbled on the floor beneath them.

Methinks I really should stop watching so many horror movies.

Still, I tried desperately to find any sorta doorway that would lead to any catacombs or underground passages - but I wasn’t able to! heh!

We met this really cool character called Steve who ran a cafe there. He certainly was full of tall tales and posed for a great photo!

Told him all about flickr and the pics we took of him would be posted here - so Steve, if you’re reading this hiya!

Spent some time wandering through the Collingwood Children’s Farm as well - which is always cute and warms the cockles of one’s heart by being so in tune with nature and all she has to offer in the heart of this great city of ours!

After our fling with Mother Nature, it was time to get it urbanized again so we trekked to the Tic Tac Ho exhibition currently happening at the wonderful Per Square Metre gallery.

I bought a wonderful piece of urban art by female artist Poise and I cannot wait to hang this on the wall. Poise has an amazing style which translates wonderfully well on canvas or on the walls and alleyways of the Melbourne Street Art scene.

The day was capped off by some really cool indian cuisine. Actually, it was anything but cool and my butter-chicken tasted suspiciously too much like rogan-josh!