Here’s a shot of one side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge along with some buildings from some city.
I like the geometry o this shot, as well as the flatness o the sky due to being overcast as, despite there clearly being clouds, I think it diverts attention to the architecture.
I also like the amount of space in the photo.
I hope you enjoy.
A sculpture dedicated to the floral emblem of Brisbane, made by Luke Roberts.
Interesting fact: This flower is not native to Brisbane, but it doesn’t matter.
I like that this sculpture seems to be taller than all that is around it, despite it clearly not being taller than the buildings.
It stands out well among the rigid geometry of the buildings, a beautiful flower tall in a growing metropolis.
I hope you enjoy.
It’s nice and cool right now, but it’s going to get much warmer today, not that I mind, mind you, as today I want it to be a little warmer so I can wear something shorter than pants, yet longer than shorts in order to embrace the coolness of the street-wear when it is a warm day as one needs to make sure they look as cool and uncaring about the heat as possible whilst they don an indifferent, cold and steely gaze, passing past everyone they see in order to make it look like they mean more business than they have any right to on a warm day just past the heart of winter, although I’m not too sure that an item that is shorter than pants and longer than shorts would help carry that across, but I’m sure that if I do enough research into this phenomena, I would find the answer that I was looking for, although of course I would hope that it would not take too long to research as it’s not something that one would think would have a great deal of depth and writing related to it, although I could be incredibly wrong in this statement as perhaps it is a subject that has been researched heavily and discussed for millennia due to its confounding, deep and complex nature that lies beyond the realms of human understanding for the longest period of time due to what we understood then vs. now as we understand a lot more due to the progress of progress in research, experimentation and debating that has allowed us to open our minds to greater possibilities and routes of thought, therefore allowing us to come that little bit closer to the answers that we so desperately seek in order to understand why wearing these types of garments allows one to seem cooler than they are, especially in a hot day whilst walking in the sun without a care in the world, thinking thoughts belonging only to themselves whilst they walk past the masses who do not realise that they’ve just walked past the coolest person to ever exist, simply because their leg cloth was the right length to pull off the amazing trick that is the illusion of being cool when you’re not because being cool is not something you’ve ever aspired to be as you’d rather just do your own thing and the reality of the matter is that you’re not trying to be cool but instead trying to be comfortable as you don’t want to be wearing something that isn’t shirt and tight yet long and not letting your legs breathe and you were thinking about something really intensely, such as how you’re going to connect all your instruments together in a song in order to make it work as well as it needs to, ensuring that there is a balance and that all the elements do not end up overwhelming each other, hence the look of indifference.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 08:24:81
Pretty happy with the time, but I do think I could have written this much faster.
Whilst I was writing this I was kind of hoping that it would end up going off to many different things instead of some sort of narrowing in on coolness.
Oh well.
Written at home.
Here’s a shot of Brisbane taken at Brisbane Lookout.
I like how much the C.B.D stands out from the rest of the city.
I also like the sprawling nature of the city.
I think that in this photo it feels both large and small.
I like the slight pattern that the clouds form over the city, as well as the colours being well-balanced.
I hope you enjoy.
What I really love is that customers seem to want to give me things tow rite about.
Normally I would not have an issue with this. I like to write and I like to write about things that happen.
I just wish that they’d give me something good to write about more often than they would give me something bad.
I gave my name to a customer in my introduction, as I always do. They asked for clarification. I gave it again. Their tone changed to suspicion. They asked where I was born. After telling them that I was born in Australia, they spoke to me in a manner that strongly indicated that they did not believe me at all. After all, how could someone who doesn’t have what they perceive to be an acceptable name be born in Australia?
I saw where this was going and I was fairly aware of what the outcome was most likely going to be, so, just like in my introduction, I asked them how I could help them, to which they responded with “A bit touchy” in a somewhat smug, condescending manner.
The rest of the call had them sounding as though they’d rather talk to someone else.
My name may not be the most common in the world, but that’s no anyone’s business except for mine and whomever I invite to that conversation.
It’s none of your business where I was born.
My nationality should not matter when I am trying to assist you with your question.
What should matter is whether I am capable or not. Where I was born does not make me any more or less capable of being able to do my job.
What does make me capable is my experience in putting up with stupid questioning from customers who don’t seem to understand that treating someone with suspicion just because they’re too ignorant to realise that someone may have a name that they haven’t heard before is an incredibly bad reflection on them and not the persons that they are speaking to.
To be honest, I don’t get it nearly as badly as some of the other people that I’ve worked with and I have to be thankful for that, but it still doesn’t leave me feeling any less frustrated with having to deal with something so incredibly asinine.
Sometimes I wonder if customers are looking for a reason to just not want to talk to people and will grasp at the smallest thing that they can if possible.
Probably the best thing that this customer could have done is apologise and drop the shitty attitude that they decided was the best thing to have after realising that I wasn’t going to put up with their crap.
It probably was the best thing.
Instead they didn’t because they didn’t think that apologising for being disrespectful was a good thing to do for some reason.
Oh well.
Some people probably don’t want customer service when calling customer service.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 11:33:21
Slower than I hoped, but at least I got to complain.
Written at work.
I’ve been trying to work out what plant this is, but I’ve not had luck.
I think it is a rather beautiful one, striking in its colour and form.
I like that in the background Brisbane is out of focus, yet still recognisable as a city.
I hope you enjoy.
Oxbow’s Thin Black Duke is an album that was released a few months ago by the band Oxbow.
After what some would consider a lengthy period between albums, it is nice to hear some new music from Oxbow. However, was it worth the wait?
There’s a strong interplay between angular guitar work and brass / orchestral instrumentation with a steady, tight rhythm section keeping everything anchored with a strong foundation. Despite having a somewhat lively sound, most of the songs exhibit a tender, almost quiet nature.
In addition to the strong interplay, the brass / orchestral instrumentation accentuates various moments by building on the existing atmosphere, such as the increasing cacophony toward the end “Letter of Note” accompanied by Eugene S. Robinson going from gentle vocal notes to a genuinely harsh, abrasive scream, and the orchestration following the melody of “Ecce Homo”, sometimes rising above and falling below it, with a brief use of brass to punctuate part of the rhythm.
Thankfully this, in combination with the rest of the instrumentation works well as there’s enough breathing space within each song to ensure that they do not feel flat.
The lyrics seem to express something akin to a story, making reference to a character, as well as a place multiple times throughout, as well as including references to literature. Eugene S. Robinson delivers them flawlessly. He elongates and shortens when required, moves between sounding wounded and something akin to confident, seemingly building on the established atmosphere and mood for any given part rather than trying to bring about change.
If there’s anything that Thin Black Duke does well, it shows that Oxbow take their craft seriously. It is a strong record, with all of its elements working very well with each other. Whilst it is a shame that it took as long as it did to get Thin Black Duke released, it was worth the wait.
Well, you probably wouldn’t want to go much further beyond these trees as that would stray off the path and you’d encounter a fair sharp decline.
There are other ways to get to the valleys that can be seen in this shot.
I get a feeling of “Satisfaction” whenever I’m out in the bush and away from the city.
Perhaps it is due to how much more the bush seems to offer.
I like how the trees frame the shot, as well as how they increase the sense of depth.
I also like how they make the area beyond them feel a little out of reach.
I think that the clear sky helps with making this view feel feel both calm and vast.
This is my submission into The Daily Post‘s photo challenge for this week.
I hope you enjoy.
I was walking from Wollstonecraft to Waverton via Berry Island Reserve and Balls Head Reserve a few weeks ago with my partner when we came across this engine.
Part of the tree was growing around it, almost as though it was working to include the engine as part of its shape and structure.
I think that there’s both a contrast and cohesion with this tree and engine.
I think that there’s also a little bit of mystery for the engine being at this spot as it’s in a small gully.
There’s probably an explanation that’s documented somewhere, but it’s not something I necessarily want to look into as I think I’d rather preserve the mystery in my mind.
This is my submission for Leanne Cole‘s Monochrome Madness this week.
I strongly recommend checking out Monochrome Madness and, if you partake in photography or have an interest in taking it up, then I also recommend submitting something. It’s a small,yet strong community-driven event that I honestly believe is worth the time.
I hope you enjoy.
This is the first Ferris Wheel in Motion of which I have taken a photo.
I think I’ve photographed another Ferris Wheel. I know that there has been one as a part of other photos that I’ve taken.
Anyway, I like how the motion of the wheel contrasts with everything else around it in this shot.
I also like how it looks like the wheel of a bike.
Not only is there a strong contrast between the motion of the wheel and the stillness of everything else, but there is also a strong contrast between the light of the wheel and the dark of the night.
All the wheel does is illuminate itself, its light being unable to spread far beyond itself, whilst the night cradles all, with little willing to resist.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy.
Stupidity Hole 