Diversionary Daily

The view’s not bad

The view from our climb in Blackheath... not altogether bad. Judging by the shapes of the dams, I’m guessing we were somewhere around about here on a map.

It’s strange seeing farmland out there — most of the mountains are national park and look more like the view near the famous tourist lookout at the Three Sisters, just a few minutes drive away from where we were climbing.

It’s worth the trek out to the mountains for the space and clear air. It feels like a world away from inner-city Sydney where I spend most of my time, and it’s good to be reminded that under all the concrete, bitumen and brick we’re actually standing on a giant bit of rock.

Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | 0 Comments

Excuses

Speaking of climbing, that’s Matti, the guy who first dragged a few of us from work climbing. The current climbing addiction is mostly his fault.

I should also mention that aside from the fact updates have been sketchy at best lately, they’ve been even worse than usual while we’ve been living without net access at home for the last month or so.

We made do by jumping on a neighbour’s open wireless connection, but it’s unbelievably slow (by my reckoning, borrowing someone else’s wireless is just balancing the karma for the free open wireless that we’ve got running from our place).

The good news is that our connection’s back, so at least I have the opportunity to post more. Whether I actually do update or not we’ll see (I’ve also got to try to take more photos so I’ve got something to post).

Posted on Monday, May 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

Mostly working

I finally got around to taking care of some long overdue nerd-chores tonight, most importantly getting this blog up and running on a newer version of Movable Type. If something's broken, let me know.

In the meantime, here's a photo of a giant, earth-conquering iron atom in Belgium.

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 | 0 Comments

Also distressed

Another sad looking wall of paint, this time in Darlinghurst.

Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | 1 Comments

Distressed

A closer view of the slightly traumatised looking wall of that run-down building in Kings Cross.

I'm not entirely sure how you get a wall looking like that.

Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 | 1 Comments

Leaves

Leaves on the windscreen of a car in Potts Point.

Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 | 4 Comments

Yes, I'm still alive

Things have been a little quiet as far as posts go so far in 2008.

I've been entertaining myself here in Sydney, but I've been lazy and haven't taken many photos... That said, I'm really proud of the ones I took at the Boys Night Out the other week in honour of Lachlan (that's his quiff in the photo above).

Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 | 1 Comments

Back

The break was a little longer than I planned, but the good news is that my two most recent projects at work have launched and I've got a little more free time on my hands now. Still not a lot of free time but things will hopefully be slowing down from here in to the Christmas break.

When I'm not working I've been spending my time taking in the new surroundings in the Inner-East of Sydney — a bizarre mix of multi-million dollar apartments and the seedy underbelly, mixed in with plenty of great food and drinking holes.

In the mean time, check out Money and Technology, my two pet projects of late in the office.

Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

Homage (Part Two)

A second shot of the street art in Newtown.

Posted on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | 2 Comments

Homage

Street art in Newtown reflected and distorted in the side of a car parked opposite.

I call it my own little homage to the video clip for U2’s Mysterious Ways by Stephane Sednaoui.

Posted on Monday, October 1, 2007 | 0 Comments

More drops

Another shot from the close-up series of waves crashing onto rocks at Bondi.

Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 | 0 Comments

Modern

Retro-modern apartments near The Rocks.

I don't claim to be an expert on architectural trends but I think they're more modernist than brutalist. They look cool from the outside but I can't imagine they're the most comfortable place to live.

Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007 | 4 Comments

Shuttered

The merry-go-round at Luna park was all covered up when I was there last weekend, I'm not sure if it was for the weekend or for winter.

I'll check back in another time and let you know.

Posted on Friday, June 29, 2007 | 0 Comments

Ferris Wheel

Looking up in Luna Park.

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 | 0 Comments

Lights

A little closer to the Luna Park gates.

Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | 0 Comments

Helpful hint

Potentially-creepy-but-still-handy hint: Sydney’s Luna Park's face has eyelashes. Melbourne’s does not.

Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | 0 Comments

Behind

If you turn 180° from the vantage point that brought us the tourist cliché of the other day sits (surprise!) another cliché: the smiling face of Luna Park.

Sydney’s Luna Park has a fairly eventful history which continues to this day. Even in the cold wind after dusk on Saturday there were still a few people milling around, so hopefully it’ll live on for a while yet.

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 | 0 Comments

Hovercar Parking

I got slightly distracted wandering through the city the other week, and ended up hunting down old brick walls and searching for traces of history in them.

Which is how I stumbled across this car parking space which, courtesy of an excavation, was a good two stories up in the air.

Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 | 1 Comments

Step One

I've been stuck in a bit of a rut lately, and I haven't been taking many photos (which, combined with a distinct lack of interesting things to say, has cramped my style here).

The good news is that I'm undertaking a two step program to remedy this.

The first step involves the purchasing of new camera lenses: a 28-200mm zoom lens and a 50mm f1.8 lens, both shiny new Nikons. I'm looking forward to getting some nice depth-of-field shots with the f.18 lens, though I think it'll still fall short of the crazy macro on my old Coolpix camera (which was an amazing digicam for its time).

I've also just acquired a bright happy new Crumpler bag to keep my camera and new lenses in, along with the MacBook Pro I never got around to posting about. My trusty old red Crumpler, which has been my almost constant companion for about five years now, has been retired. The Crumpler is dead. Long live the Crumpler!

More details on Step Two tomorrow.

Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2006 | 2 Comments

Diversionary by Post

As part of the great Bam-Cube company merge, we're both moving to a new office, and this means that my wall of photos has also been taken down.

I've been trying to decide what to do with the resulting stack of photos, and rather than hang on to a giant pile of photos or go through the hassle of trying to sell them, I've decided it'd be fun to send them out as postcards.

If you've like a postcard, just drop me an email to sendmeapostcard@diversionary.net with your postal address and I'll send one out to you. If there's a particular photo (or just a colour or style of photo) you'd like, let me know, and I'll see what I can do.

Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 | 1 Comments