Portrait - Ultimo (Sat 28 May 2016)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #4 / Chippendale (Fri 28 Aug 2015)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #4 / Chippendale (Fri 28 Aug 2015)

Ever changing. The latest.

An Insight to Insight - Sarah Perry / ribbonfarm (Thu 03 Sep 2015)

Street Art - Macdonaldtown (Mon 24 Aug 2015)

Sarah Perry on Insight:

A special type of intelligence is the organization of complexity into a simpler, less resource-intensive form. The experience of such a compression is what is called “insight,”

via Cartographic Compression by Sarah Perry at ribbonfarm.

Street Art - Chippen Lane #3 / Chippendale (Tue 14 Jul 2015)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #3 / Chippendale (Tue 14 Jul 2015)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #1 / Chippendale (Tue 02 Jun 2015)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #1 / Chippendale (Tue 02 Jun 2015)

Street Art - Union Street / Newtown (Mon 27 Jul 2015)

Street Art - Union Street / Newtown (Mon 27 Jul 2915) Street Art - Detail #1 (Bird) - Union Street / Newtown (Mon 27 Jul 2915)

Street Art - Detail #2 (Leaf) - Union Street / Newtown (Mon 27 Jul 2915)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #2 / Chippendale (Wed 01 Jul 2015)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #2 / Chippendale (Wed 01 Jul 2015)

More on Art - The Art of the Street ..

It's everywhere if you take the time to look. Some more glaringly obvious than others. And some of amazing skill, talent, aesthetics and colour coordination, while others less so, just like the Art of the Gallary Wall. And some more engaging and meaningful than others. I see something new everyday on my walk to and from work through The Gallery of Street. Price of admission is a pair of shoes, an open mind, and good senses of observation and curiosity.

It is a global phenomena and the Art of the Street is everywhere I have travelled. It is no doubt a human instinct deeply embedded in us from the dawn of mankind, starting with the primitive scratchings on the cave wall. What makes it so engaging is its immediacy and the ability to address the issues of our lives in the here and now.

On Art - Street Art - Ransom Riggs (Sun 30 May 2010)

Street Art - Chippen Lane #1 / Chippendale (Tue 02 Jun 2015)

Ransom Riggs on Art and Street Art:

[Art can be] what’s painted on the outside of the museum wall that reflects what [we] - at least the ones wielding cans of spray-paint - are thinking now.

via Photos: Venice Graffiti (Thu 17 Sep 2009) by eljeiffel.

Hanging in there - Bologna / Italy (Fri 29 Aug 2014)

Democracy - We Deliver - Newtown (Tue 27 Jan 2004)

On Self Belief - Amy Lombard / Freddy Martinez (Wed 14 Jul 2014)

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Wed 03 Jun 2015)

Amy Lombard on Self Belief:

I don’t believe in giving up. [..] Believe in yourself and what you’re doing, and success will follow.

via Amy Lombard Interview: Flashy Portraits of Unordinary People by Freddy Martinez.

The Archive: A Legacy for the Future - Shooting Wide Open (Tue 21 Oct 2014)

Street Art (*) - Chippendale (Tue 15 Apr 2014)
Jin (*) writes on the Archive (*):

It comforts me a bit that even if nobody pays attention to my work [..] during my lifetime, there might be a place for it in an archive. It is a humble end, but I find the prospect of being stored for future sifting by researchers or scholars immensely appealing.

via On archives (*) by Shooting Wide Open (*).

I suppose this blog (*) will be my archive, my legacy, if there was to be a legacy, along with a beautiful old house (*), just maybe. And of course there is archive.org (*) - elj-daily (*) and GUERL (*). Amazing looking back at all of this just now. I've forgotten so much. What I do remember is how exciting it was to be connecting to people from all over the world. These were the early days of the World Wide Web and somehow I was part of it.

Follow Your Curiosity - Eric Kim (Tue 05 Aug 2014)

follow - Madrid (Sun 11 Aug 2013)
Eric Kim writes:

[..] follow your curiosity. Passion and interest cannot be faked. Your subconscious is wiser and smarter than you think. Follow what your subconscious tells you.

via Advice for Young Street Photographers by Eric Kim.

A Winning Strategy - Make it Irrelevant to Others - Nick Willis (Sun 20 Jul 2014)

RUN RUN - Erskineville (Fri 11 Jul 2014)
Nick Willis (*) recounts:

And in the weight of it the life long goal just hit me, and I broke down in tears (*) just before uncontrollably.

You can’t control (*) what other people do. Medals and Championships are about how you compete (*) against others. But in this big wide world all the stuff that goes on both good and bad, you can’t control (*) what other people do.

But the last few races and then especially this one its been about what can I do irrelevant (*) to what others (do).

via Chasing Wow Through Hope and Wonder! (*) by Patrick McHugh (*).

On the Photographer and Life - StreetShooter (Thu 19 Jun 2014)

Angel (*) Heart (*) in Flight (*) - Lisbon (Wed 14 Aug 2013)
StreetShooter (*) writes On the Photographer (*) and Life (*):

The photographer (*) validates his time on the earth by the photos he makes. Photographers record what the planet looked like during their visit (*). We are all tourist thru life, no one gets a permanent Visa.

via June 19th, 2014 … Fuji X100s is a Streetshooter’s Dream (*) by StreetShooter (*).

On Seeing - The Story of Telling (Fri 13 May 2014)

Eyes - Barcelona (Tue 06 Aug 2013)
The Story of Telling (*) writes On Seeing (*):

What if we stopped trying to be seen and learned (*) how to see (*) instead?

via Shifting The Focus From Results To Relationships (*) by The Story of Telling (*).

Love finding a random piece hiding away from the passing traffic.

Photography and us - Mike Davis / A Photo Editor (Wed 08 Jan 2014)

Untitled - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)
Mike Davis (*) writes (*):

We are the photographs we make, they are us.

via The Difference Between Photographers And Photo Editors (*) by aPhotoEditor (*).

Why Why? - Chantel Tattoli

Untilted - Barcelona / Spain (Tue 06 Aug 2013)
Expanding on an earlier post (*), Chantel Tattoli (*) writes on the importantance of understanding (*) Why:

Why? Why would someone do that?

Why is the slippery question cultural anthropologists are always trying to get at.

As a rule of thumb, if we do not get why, we probably don’t understand (*) the perspective (*).

The thing to do is try to see yourself in the other peoples’ shoes, because from the perspective of the Other’s shoes, their behavior should make more sense.

This is the golden rule. Even when it’s hard.

I paraphrase the late anthropologist Clifford Geertz To understand, isn’t to forgive (*).

via The Anthropology of the Little Mermaid (*) by Chantel Tattoli (*).

Thanks Chantel, some great thoughts in your words.

If you look, really look, you will always find something you weren't expecting. Even if you can't figure why, you might just be a bit more understanding.
Untilted (Detail) - Barcelona / Spain (Tue 06 Aug 2013)

On Adaptability - Edmund Capon - Spectrum / Andrew Taylor (Sat 07 Aug 2013)

Portrait Wall - Barcelona (Tue 06 Aug 2013)
Edmund Capon (*) writes On Adaptability (*):

I think the human animal is amazingly adaptable (*).

via Still serving the people (*) by Andrew Taylor (*).

On Song Writing - Sting - Daniel Rachel / Daily Mail (Sat 24 Aug 2013)

untitled - Barcelona (Tue 06 Aug 2013)
Sting (*) writes On Song Writing (*):

I think songwriters are conduits to songs from the ether. There’s a danger of grandiosity, but we don’t really write songs. They pre-exist. We find them like archaeologists. Even though I’ve put the work in, they seem like they’re already there.

via Lily Allen's no 1 was haunted by a ghost and a TV show inspired Oasis's Champagne Supernova: The secrets of the hitmakers (*) by Daniel Rachel (*).

Black Eyes - Casp / Barcelona (Mon 05 Aug 2013)

Black Eyes - Casp / Barcelona (Mon 05 Aug 2013)
A little bit similar to this (*).

Stencil - CAMO - Allen Lane / Alexandria (Mon 01 Oct 2012)

Stencil - CAMO - Allen Lane / Alexandria (Mon 01 Oct 2012)