Pathway to Argyle Square

The first night in Melbourne.

My partner and I were walking to a gelato place in Carlton due to a desire to have gelato.
On a side note, Casa del Gelato does amazing gelato.

Anyway, we walked past this park and I took a photo, hence the photo of this part of the park.

I like the way the light was captured on the tiles. It reveals enough to show their pattern, but not enough to reveal their details.

Outside of that I like the positioning of the lights and the way that in this photo shape is more important than fine detail.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 470: Scaling Wall

Good morning and a scaling wall for a lizard of climbing ability to climb!

It is a day of fine times, or so it is said, but that is to be something that shall only be told through the grapevine, or so it is said and so on and so forth.

Climbing all the way to another tomorrow, but yesterday beckons with open arms and twists the things that do not immediately fave the race of the climbing that can be witnessed so long as you know which eye to open half of the way that is the usual distance, and verily so.

If there was another way to know what lies on the other side of the wall, then it is a falsity of the life that is lead with the lead in the ears and the concrete in one’s soul.

If only there were other ways to know what is there but not there.

A painter traces all that can be said and done, but the lizard climbing does not approve, oh no!

Who thinks that there will be something that will stand in the way?

It is a hard thing to tell on the morning of glorious times leading the clouds away to paint a sky as blue as the hearts of those that would be around to not witness the dawning of the morning and the passing of the night.

Perhaps there will be some sort of special twist in the festivities that will celebrate the temperature shifting by a few degrees more than usual.

Perhaps there will be no true way to see what lies ahead, but the only way to know for sure is to make sure that looking ahead is mandatory, for looking back will only lead to not seeing what is in front of us all and therefore you may hit the wall that the lizard is climbing and the painter is painting and the children are laughing at whilst the painter paints the painting with the paint that the children provided so that they can laugh at the wall that the painter is painting that the lizard is climbing that the people will hit if they do not look forward.

Perhaps it would help if they also put their fists away, as even if they were looking where they were going they’d hit the wall with their fists outstretched if they kept them raised

Then what would the lizard do?

It would probably do very little, for it is a lizard and more than likely… no… it would continue to climb the wall but it would probably climb faster as it would need to avoid the people that were about to hit the wall.

This may affect the painter, but at the moment there is little way to tell as the sun is rising and people are embracing the warmth that it is providing, but not for as long as they would like as soon the rains will carry it home.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:43:60

Most of the time when I write, I don’t know what will be the result.

This happens often when I start with an idea in mind.

I did not know how this was going to start or end.

Written at work.

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Rooftop Carparking

A roof with a view.

This was taken on the third day of my recent trip to Melbourne.

My partner and I had walked through Fitzroy, checked out some stuff and were making our way back to where we were staying when we stopped so I could take advantage of a photography opportunity that presented itself to me.

There’s a few different architectural styles in this shot. I don’t think they work well with either each other, or the car park, yet at the same time they somehow come together and help form an image that is not quite dreary, but does have a kind of sense of urban stagnation through routine, I think.

This is my entry into Leanne Cole‘s Monochrome Madness for this week.

I recommend checking out Monochrome Madness and consider participating in the event. It has a dedicated community that is worth being a part of and the event does help to make you think about your composition, among other things.

I also suggest seeing Leanne’s work outside of Monochrome Madness.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 469: With This Large Rock

Sat here for a number of hours. Maybe it has been years since I last stepped outside. I know that there is a crushing weight that was carried around on my back and due to my choice of sitting down some time long ago, I have had difficulty in getting up. Perhaps I need to rid myself of the rock that I am carrying, but instead of doing so I sit here in a space of my own creating, refusing to stand for standing would mean facing the overt symbolism of the rock and everything that it represents and that is something that I do not want to do.

Guilt, shame, regret… all things that I carry around and treat as a burden that I myself must carry. Of course, in this instance it is of my own doing that I carry these things around, and yet I must speak outwardly and blame all the others, for it is easier to cope with all that I have done and far easier to pretend that it is all okay.

So here I sit, in this room, in front of a keyboard with a rock of my own creation, pointing the finger at all the others and looking away form what I can easily rid myself of instead of facing it and letting go in order to get up, open the door and walk onward to something else away from my self and my being.

What would be out there, waiting for me? Would there be anything waiting out there at all? Would it matter?

These questions remain my further reasoning and justification for staying here, for it is easier to not step forward and not face the truths in which I chose to run from.

But is it really? It sure doesn’t always seem that way.

Sometimes I can see out a window and I can see a world different form the one that I have crafted. It seems to be a world that is less dim than in here. There are things that I do not agree with, but there is plenty out there that I sure would like to experience. Perhaps there will be a time in which I realise that facing that which I run from is not actually the hard part, but the actual making of the decision, much like cooking.

Some see cooking as a task they don’t want to face, but once they make the decision to get up and start doing things and get to it, they realise that a bit of time has passed and what they did wasn’t a long, hard and arduous task at all. In fact, it was much harder to sit there and not cook than it was to get up and cook.

However, I shall continue to point the finger and run, but for how much longer I cannot say. I will continue this, but just like sitting here with this large rock, staying here is becoming tiring.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:56:18

This was influenced by my sitting here for the past few hours doing very little, a growing desire to eat and the music in which I am currently listening to whilst I write. I think that the song is amazing but it has a pretty heavy theme.

Written at UNSW.

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Spire

I’ve been past this quite a lot and have never known what it was.

The spire sits on the roof of the arts centre near the National Gallery of Victoria, which makes sense.

I’ve always thought that the spire looks like a hat and that hasn’t changed, but I can see as to why it is referred to as a spire.

A wonderfully interwoven pattern as the spire stands tall on the roof of the centre. Structurally strong and great angularity.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 468: Working on Music

Last night I started working on music once more. It had been a few months since I last picked up an instrument and to be honest, I’m not sure as to why I put one down.

However, last night was all about drum programming.

I never understand why I put down an instrument. Music is not something I seem to tire of, so I don’t know why it happens. At the moment this is something that is slightly baffling to me.

I know that every time I pick one back up, I get back into the swing of things pretty quickly and everything, as always, flows out as I find myself very present and in the moment, free and not constrained by anything that would normally constrain my being.

Wait.

It’s been a few weeks since I last picked up an instrument, but the last time I did it was to tab out a song to send to a friend of mine.

Does that count? I do not know.

I do know that right now I am happy to be working on music again, even if it is in a slightly diminished way.

My current living arrangements do not allow for me to easily work on things, so I need to pick up a pair of headphones if I want to keep working on the sounds that keep coming into my mind that I cannot easily translate.

I also know that the sooner I do this, the sooner I will be able to get things done.

There is so much music that I want to create and work on and not enough time. Hopefully some day the constraints that are… constraining me will be released, therefore allowing me more musical freedom, therefore allowing me to keep on going and working on more music.

Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later. As much as I am working on completing university, this is something that I’ve lost a lot of interest in and I find the whole thing to be slow and tedious. I know that in order to do be involved in the sciences I need to sit through a lot of things that I do not want to do, but I also know that most of what I do I have little interest in and that where my interests in the sciences lie are not going to be effectively taught at UNSW. This is due to UNSW not having much focus in the particular areas of marine science in which I’m interested.

Soon that will be over and once more I will be able to get back to having a greater focus on music and other artistic pursuits which will see me clumsily staggering my way through my own miasmatic hubris in order to produce a product that will probably not live up to expectations, but sometimes that is the way of things.

So long as I can keep working on what I want to do, then something something.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:27:70

I thought that this was going to be completely about music, but I guess the impending semester (which started this week) has affected my writing this bit of text.

Written at work.

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Organism Bike

Shortly after dropping our stuff off at the hostel in which we were staying, my partner and I went for a walk along The Yarra.

We saw this bike at the end of our walk.

I had no idea as to how long this bike had been underwater, but (from what my partner pointed out), there was a number of aquatic organisms that were living (or at least at one point lived) on the bike.

There’s an interesting meeting of urban and natural on this bike due to the bike becoming a habitat facilitator for aquatic organisms.

I think that the bike works well with the background and the reflection as it doesn’t clash with the scenery and the reflection is not brighter, or as full in detail as the bike.

I hope you enjoy.

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Glassy Buildings

More buildings from the morning walk in Melbourne.

This was taken toward the end of the walk.

So much glass!
I imagine that there’s buildings with more glass on the outside than these ones, but it appears that these three buildings still have a lot of glass.

I think that these buildings work well with the colour of the clouds. I also think that the buildings both blend and stick out.

I hope you enjoy.

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Skyscraper Review

“The Rock” Johnson plays an amputee that breaks into a skyscraper that’s on fire by running along the jib of a tower crane and then jumping into the skyscraper so he can save his family.

Along the way there is a plot. The plot is about the rescuing of the family. There’s also things about getting a thing in the skyscraper, some treachery, villains, heroes and some confused cops that do little for most of the film. “The Rock” Johnson is framed for a crime he didn’t commit because of course he is, but he’s a family man who just wants to save his family, criminal conviction be damned!

Why continue to talk in a foreign language if the person near you that you’re talking about has clearly displayed that they can understand everything that you’re saying?

Wait.

Why go back to English? There’s no point if they can understand you either way.
I think.

It’s been more than a week since I’ve seen it and I still can’t work out as to whether it is better or worse than Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom™, although it’s not saying much either way. I can say that Skyscraper is wonderfully stupid.

As Ewe put it, in Skyscraper “The Rock” Johnson stops acting and is being. I have to agree. He does do a really good job, all things considered, but his going beyond folds in on itself and his performance becomes less and less believable as the film goes on. He may have gone a little too far.

Otherwise most people do well in their roles. Some tip their hat a little too soon, although that may also be due to the type of film giving away things more than the actors themselves.

Fights are sparse throughout but the action is generally decent. The first fight scene in particular is really good due to its feeling quite real and being done dry. There’s no music so you’re left to have more focus on what is happening.

The film is ridiculous. It’s a hoot. Seeing people take the amazingly ridiculous scenario as seriously as they are is wonderful. Seeing “The Rock” Johnson hold up part of a bridge and treat such a scenario as calmly as he does in this film is somewhat believable (if you take into consideration what the prologue shows his past as, although even with a collapsing bridge staying calm is a bit of a stretch), but it’s all just a little too over the top.

Yes, “The Rock” Johnson uses the prosthetic leg for things that don’t involve walking or standing.

Things that will play some part later in the film are rendered blatantly obvious when their foreshadowing appears and they play out in some of the most over-the-top ways.

After seeing the film I felt like I had seen a glorified ad for duct tape. I won’t explain why.

If you have a strong fear of heights, then you will find Skyscraper to be an engaging and at times gripping film. If you do not have a strong (or any) fear of heights, then you may find Skyscraper to be enjoyable. Either way, Skyscraper is an entertaining, gloriously ridiculous romp.

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Webb Bridge

Well, one end of Webb Bridge.

Taken during my morning walk in Melbourne, this bridge represents something.

I’m not sure as to what it represents, but I do know that it does represent something.

I think that the design of this bridge is really interesting. At this end it’s rather simple, but at the other it’s quite ornate.

I like how the illumination of the base of the arches works in conjunction with the overcast morning sky. It kind of makes the image feel like it’s not morning yet, even though it clearly is morning.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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