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Forget your past
Architectural awards counted for little when it came to prime development sites

Darling Harbour Conference Centre demolition, Sydney [Apr-2014 216KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Rebalance the value exchange
With rates at five–thousand–year lows (until 2022), cheap debt could not be blamed

Used–car yard at Parramatta Road Granville [Apr-2017 247KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Epistemic insouciance
Full speed ahead for transient high–rollers from the sky (ABC News, 2020)

Crown casino construction, Barangaroo [Jan-2020 193KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Precipitous descent
Decades of wandering through a hostile terrain, only to flounder in the sea

Ocean cliffs south of Little Marley, Royal National Park NSW [Aug-2020 458KB]
(Original image is located in the Landscape topic)
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Defenestrate your livelihood
We mortgaged the future and bet it all on there not being one

Waverton Coal Loader wharf [Feb-2022 587KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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No map and a broken compass
Cheap goods and MTV proved more effective than détente and ICBMs

Bric–a–brac stall on Tverskaya St, Moscow, beneath a memorial plaque to the soviet artist Pyotr Vasilyev [Dec-1991 400KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Delivery apps were so convenient
HungryPanda, Foodora, Uber Eats, DoorDash, EASI, Menulog, Deliveroo, Hey You, GrubHub, goPuff, EatNow, Yelp… We imported an underclass of self–employed contractors to zip around and deliver perfect Laksa, authentic Pad Thai, pork–filled Mooncakes, Tiger Milk bubble–tea, gluten–free Dumplings and vegan Banh Mi

Food delivery rider at Broadway, Sydney [Apr-2020 178KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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In the sky with diamonds
The airwaves were clogged with hits from forty years ago

580 George office building entrance, Sydney [Jul-2024 158KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Beginning & end
Different points along the same journey

Winter swimmers at Bondi Icebergs ocean pools [Jul-2025 398KB]
(Original image is located in the Youth topic)
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The carnival is over
The market faithfully rewarded those who took a long–term view

Luna Park Hair Raiser ride, in the rain [Jan-2019 171KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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In the days of the citizen journalist
Broadcast–quality equipment was no longer required to craft good stories

Media–workers at the Sydney Opera House [Jul-2014 259KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Known unknowns
When the smoke finally cleared, it was almost as if there wasn’t any anthropogenic climate change

Hornby Lighthouse gun emplacement, South Head Sydney [Dec-2014 216KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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North to Avoska
Before mobile phones, perhaps–bags accompanied us everywhere

Totes diptych at Hornsby and Town Hall, Sydney [Apr-2005 247KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Preserving social harmony
Our commitment to specific kinds of D.E.I. was unwavering

The waterfall entrance to the NGV, Melbourne [Apr-2019 525KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Defence renaissance
After decades of cutbacks, drawdowns and ceaseless criticism from keyboard–warriors, governments had to renew defence spending when a new series of proxy–wars erupted

Anzac Day Air Force personnel, Hyde Park Sydney [Apr-2023 233KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Ponzimonium
Jeffrey Keith Skilling (Enron Corp); Walter Forbes (Cendant Corp); Richard Fuld (Lehman Brothers); Bernard Lawrence Madoff (Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC); Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin); Ruja Ignatova (OneCoin); Markus Braun (Wirecard); Sam Bankman–Fried (FTX); 권도형 (Terraform Labs); 赵长鹏 (Binance); Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi (MMM Global); Elizabeth Anne Holmes (Theranos Inc.); Trevor Milton (Nikola Motor Company); Alan Bond (Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd); David Walsh (Bre-X Minerals Ltd.); 錢培琛 (M. Knoedler & Co.); 许家印 (Evergrande Group); Thomas Joseph Petters (Petters Group Worldwide); Trương Mỹ Lan (Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank); Marc Stuart Dreier (Dreier, LLP); Michael I. “Mickey” Monus (Phar Mor); Ramón Báez Figueroa (Banco Intercontinental); Scott W. Rothstein (Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler)

Wedding Cake Rock, RNP [Jul-2019 211KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Stack trace
International trade agreements facilitated enormous economic benefits

The concrete base of the demolished Port Kembla copper stack [Sep-2014 371KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Back in the CCCP
The centralised command economy disintegrated almost immediately

Street vendors at Tverskaya St in Moscow, on the day Russia ratified Belavezha Accords to formally withdraw from the USSR [Dec-1991 344KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Some vague semblance of community
Democracy continued to best serve the interests of those who were most invested

NSW election voting centre at Town Hall [Mar-2019 552KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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It just works
Release now, patch later

Jensen Avenue at Dover Heights [Nov-2016 291KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Think small
The legacy of an ailing premier; A charismatic and perfectionist architect; Engineers hamstrung by 1960s tech; A meddling public broadcaster; Timorous Bureaucrats; Spiteful rustic politicians… The Sydney Opera House looked magnificent from afar, but up close it was riddled with defects caused by years of bickering, indecision and compromise

Front yard fountain at Church Street, Croydon [Sep-2016 447KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Race Day chic
Ladies in the public enclosure did enjoy themselves during the Cup aftermath

Rosehill Racecourse, Melbourne Cup hairdresser’s picnic [Nov-2005 308KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Late for the sky
The air was eaten, promise crammed

The final blast–furnace at BlueScope Steel, in Port Kembla [Sep-2014 123KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Braving the abyss
Despite challenging market conditions, and a negative return for your superannuation this year, we continue to deliver strong long–term returns. […] Significant market falls can be worrying, but staying invested remains vitally important. […] When we invest your super, our approach is focussed on the long term, to help maximise your retirement savings. But it also manages short–term risks in times like these. I want to reassure you, our members, that we remain committed to investing to help you achieve your best retirement outcomes.
Bulk email from the CEO of Aware Super, 2022-07-08

Waterrun cliff-side, RNP [Aug-2020 578KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Cargo Culte
We lounged about in ill–fitting uniforms, languidly pressing buttons on small screens… waiting for the day He would return, bearing magnificent gifts

Palm tree outside the abandoned St Mary & St Mina’s Coptic Orthodox Church at Sydenham. In May 2017 it was damaged by a suspicious fire and subsequently demolished [Sep-2012 347KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Meaningful social interactions
Facebook™, Twitter “X”, LinkedIn™, Instagram™, WhatsApp™, TikTok™, WeChat™, Snapchat™, reddit™, 4/8Chan… Elaborate frameworks were created to ensure you could never possibly be alone

Stargazer lawn at Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney [Aug-2016 497KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Subterranean homesick blues
You didn’t need a Snellen chart to see what was coming

Optometrist window display, Wilson Street Newtown [Jun-2023 287KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Nothing’s gonna change my world
Imagine no Holden Morrisey Caulfield

Strawberry Fields “Imagine” mosaic, Central Park NYC [Oct-2017 515KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Fête Moderne
There was a tremendous disconnect between the amount of sеx in our culture and the amount that people actually got

W–H portfolio session, Hurstville [Jun-1991 337KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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One–way journey
♪ On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place ♪
(Yes, 1971)

Ovation of the Seas cruise-ship at the Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal [Dec-2017 158KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Segregation now, tomorrow & forever
Only the most privileged could afford to live in their own city (SMH, 2024)

Distillery Drive cutting at Jacksons Landing, in Pyrmont [Jan-2013 343KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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See that big triangular thing at the end of the road? Care to explain how privacy law applies to a cable–stayed concrete bridge?…At least he had the grace to smile before driving off
Malpractice with impunity
The very first document, among more than a hundred in this folder, is a signed declaration by our client that he mixed up his patients and accidentally performed a full hysterectomy on the 36–year–old plaintiff. Correction — our client is [redacted], not the surgeon, who is merely a policy holder of our client.
Thanks. The surgeon admits, in writing, that he sterilised the plaintiff by doing an unauthorised procedure. This is undisputed — so why is this matter being dragged out for years with boilerplate requests for interrogatories, updated medical reports and dozens of discovery hearings? Well, it is our firm’s policy to thoroughly test the merits of all claims to discourage frivolous ones.
The plaintiff was grievously harmed, the surgeon admitted negligence, so it cannot be “frivolous” and, frankly, our deliberate stalling borders upon unconscionable. I’ll say it again: it is our firm’s policy to test all claims to discourage frivolous ones…

The ghosts of lawyering among the tombstones at Camperdown cemetery, Newtown [Jun-2015 414KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Industrial scale harassment
Me and the boys were loading news trucks at the Fairfax dock early on Sunday when we noticed a bloke and hot chick crossing the road. Man, the chick was really stacked! We yelled & cheered & whistled & laughed! The guy got pretty angry, like he wanted to punch us out. Then she whispered something to him and it made him even angrier. But y’know what? I reckon she loved it!

The Brewery Yard at Central Park, Chippendale [Oct-2024 119KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Teachable moments
At a time when issues of decolonisation and anti–racism were paramount, gallerists & curators taught us the moral imperative of correcting historical wrongs by celebrating reclamation, multiplicity and all things blak

Adrián Villar Rojas’ “The End of Imagination”, AGNSW [Dec-2022 80KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Keep us from harm
Every potential hazard was fastidiously identified and neutralised

Drink bubbler at Erskineville Public School, Sydney [Aug-2019 314KB]
(Original image is located in the Youth topic)
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Memories of what’s to come
The last thing we wanted to do was extirpate all the large vertebrates (WWF, 2018)

Deceased sulfur-crested cockatoo, Warrimoo [Dec-2017 180KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Tourism added value
Macro–economic growth models prove that tourism contributes towards complete growth and development of a country: one, by bringing numerous economic value & benefits; and, second, helping in build country’s brand value, image & identity
(Market Width Blog, 2018)

Christmas Day tourists at the Sydney Opera House [Dec-2001 366KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Laps around the sun
We left The Cure concert ages ago but her decrepit Ford Fiesta Mk1 wouldn’t start;
Eventually a bloke gave us a jump–start, although he glanced so often at her sleeveless lycra turtleneck that she had to fold her arms (and stage whisper to me: Good thing I shaved my bikini line. Next time remind me to wear a burqa…
);
Finally we’re speeding through a late winter night, although she insists on driving with all the windows down;
We pull in to a 24hr service station to defrost, refuel and decant a bottle of oil into the smoking engine;
Arrive at her student–share terrace to climb the narrow interior stairs;
Our quiet voices in her 3×3¾m room;
Overladen clothes rack, milk–crate furniture, Valhalla & Chelsea Girls posters, cassettes, cigarettes, overstuffed ashtray, oil column heater, photocopied course–materials, fluorescent markers and a hot water bottle on her unmade bed;
Shove aside a week of clothes to sit on a red & white Mexican rug;
She lights another cigarette and blows more smoke at the swirling cone of light from the ceiling;
I clean the fingerprints off her spectacles and she beams with delight;
On a nightstand her mechanical alarm–clock ticks;
She confides why I was there: Because my current boyfriend prefers to spend his time swinging on a tyre rope…
My fingers through her clean snaggly hair;
Playful kisses on her nose while we embrace;
She tries to tell me about her neglected childhood, but I keep teasing about her 2ct diamond ear–studs;
Her round face with large brown eyes;
The faintest wisp of a moustache;
She sucks my finger into her mouth and bites down hard (!), then shows me the purple incisor dents… You’re mine now
;
Peel off her clothes and trace the seam–marks on her skin;
The thankful absence of tattoos;
The matching crimson of her G–string and toenail varnish;
The axillary hair stubble, fine black abdomen hairs and confirmation she had shaved her bikini line;
The perfume in unexpected places;
Her laugh;
Her voice;
Her curves;
Her smell, and mouth, and teeth, and fingernails, and warmth;
Her icy cold feet;
Her light brown areolae;
Her surprisingly small cot

Turning circle (since repainted) outside Central Station, Sydney [Mar-2019 763KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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What this little black rock can do
We have to make sure this economy works. We have to export dollars. We have to realise we have a moral responsibility to other people in other nations to keep their lights on
(Joyce, 2017)

The Steelworks and Coal Loader at Port Kembla harbour [Sep-2014 77KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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The one sure bet
The most prudent investment turned out to be canned goods and ammunition

Financial reporter at the Sydney ASX [Oct-2018 192KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Eloi wonderland
We gathered by the harbourside to sip infused agave nectar and nibble on sweet fuyu persimmons, and gaze in astonishment at the vast contraptions built by our god–like antecedents

Sydney Harbour sunrise kayaks [Jan-2019 245KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Taming animal spirits
There is something more systematic about the way people behave irrationally, especially during periods of economic stress
(Greenspan, 2013)

Lunchtime in a George Street amusement arcade, demolished a few years later [Sep-2003 209KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Magic sponge
During mass at our spiritual home in St. Bernardino, the archreferee would hold aloft the Sacred Sphere and bestow upon us a homily of his most holy blessing: Kind friends, VVIPs, Ultras and Hottest–WAGs, we are gathered here on St. Totteringham’s Day to drink beers and throw flares, onto this, our most honoured turf. To soar heavenward upon Mexican Waves while singing “Sweet Caroline”. To give 110% when sports–washing the unsaved. To throw sardines into the sea from the back of a trawler. To find the back of the net, a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God. For winners win forever big, and losers must fall hard. So please take a knee, wrap your Keffiyeh tight and raise your Vuvuzelas for the national benediction: Our Footy, who art in heaven, hallowed by Thy game. Thy Kingdom score, thy bets be more, on phones as it is in Qatar. In nomine Blatter, et FIFA, et Spiritus Alea… You may now invade the pitch

Sports promotion at Olympic Park [Aug-2017 244KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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- St. Bernardino
- Patron saint of
behavioural modification social conditioningadvertising, communications &compulsive gamblingwagering - Sacred Sphere
- A hollow spherical object made of suitable material, with an external circumference between 680—700mm, mass of 0.41—0.45kg, and inflated to an interior pressure of 60.795—101.325 kPa at sea level
- VVIPs
- Very — very — important people
- Ultras
- Highly accomplished association football fans noted for their black hoodies, superior impulse–control, face tattoos and civilised behaviour during pitch invasions
- Hottest–WAGs
- The most attractive and highly accomplished Wives & Girlfriends of players
- St Totteringham’s Day
- The day celebrated by Arsenal fans when Tottenham can no longer outrank them in the League table
- Mexican Waves
- A mechanical transverse wave comprised of vertically oscillating sports–fans
- Sweet Caroline
- The singalong talisman of the hive mind, penned by one of music’s greatest gifts to humanity
- 110%
- Aside from theoretical aspects of Quantum Mechanics, spectator sport is the only known exemption to the 1st Law of Thermodynamics
- Sports–washing
- The role of talented, hard–working and well–sourced writers when reporting physical recreation events
- Throw sardines […] trawler
- King Eric’s 1995 epigram
- Hand of God […]
- The 1986 FIFA World Cup miraculous goal
- Take a knee
- A highly efficient way to signal virtue
- Keffiyeh
- The most sacred of moral emblems
- Vuvuzelas
- The national wind instrument of South Africa
- Qatar
- A Gulf petro–state which has denied any wrongdoing, ever
- Blatter
- Highly accomplished 8th President of FIFA from 1998 to 2015
- FIFA
- Federation Internationale de Football Association
- Alea
- Latin: “
compulsive gamblinggame of chance”
Whither Einstein?
It transpired that God did play dice with the universe

Living room table at the Einsteinhaus Museum, Bern CH [Feb-2024 326KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Accidental monuments
Civil Engineering 101: slap something together as cheap as you can and then completely rebuild it later for 5× the cost — to solve problems you should have addressed the first time

Zigzag Railway upper viaduct, Clarence [Jul-2019 561KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Smokers last soiree
We couldn’t imagine there would come a time when smoking in public almost disappeared

UNSW Revue director and producer A–H, at an after–show party at Darlinghurst [May-1985 206KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Stakeholder
One could either use General Relativity field–equations to derive the Schwarzschild metric in n–dimensions, or else go shopping

Freezer aisle in the now defunct Franklins Supermarket, Katoomba [Dec-2003 262KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Bo–ho chic
Normcore/ Preppy/ Indie/ Grunge/ Bucolic Jazz Scocialism… we celebrated quirky dressers who spent a little more time than most on carefully curating their own look and personal brand

Nightcluber on the Cronulla–Bundeena ferry, in Sydney’s south [Jan-2005 196KB]
(Original image is located in the Youth topic)
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Ghosts of the CBD
The C–Suite resorted to upbeat–slogans, pleading, mandates and calling in political favours to get WFH employees to return to their city offices

Commuters at the new Central station northern concourse [Jul-2023 280KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Memories we created
We knew exactly how the future would remember us

Tree growing in the old Fosters brewery wall (since demolished), at Chippendale in Sydney [Apr-2014 525KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Brett’s armchair
The same music in completely different hands

Room 82 on the sixteenth floor, Harbourside Apartments [Jan-2019 295KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Whiteley on Trial(2017), about the forgery of a handful of Whiteley’s paintings and how the Victorian legal system couldn’t find any problem with it
Another time, another world
We talked, joked, drank red wine and were so inebriated that, due to a broken fingernail, we insisted on giving each other full manicures & pedicures. Our limbs became intertwined, hands clasping fingers or toes, vision blurred, our faces only a few centimetres apart. At one stage she grabbed my hand and pulled it towards her face with such determination that I thought she was going to bite it. A little later I showed her how Chinese foot–binding worked, by curling her four smaller (but surprisingly long) toes under her big toe

W–H portrait at Hurstville [Aug-1984 204KB]
(Original image is located in the Youth topic)
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Satiric Dancer (Magda Förstner)is obvious
Consumer karoshi
A culture had to be created in which self–sacrifice was inevitable

Market Street escalators at Centrepoint, Sydney [Jan-2016 278KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Lambos to the moon
It was an era of unending optimism when vast fortunes were made without effort. When cashed–up families prospered, inflation was beaten (until 2022) and credit was easy at near–zero rates (until 2022). When average mums & dads became CEOs, collected NFTs (until 2023), leased out short–term rentals and bet hard on cryptocurrencies. When stock markets kept rising to record heights, and house values ballooned to what looked like a permanently high plateau…

Living statue performer at Circular Quay [Jul-2017 348KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Look back in covfefe
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive
(Trump, 1987)

Trump impersonator on Broadway, NYC [Oct-2017 307KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Community standards
Our suburbs were strewn with eye–popping enticements from agile entrepreneurs

Dulwich Hill skate park [Sep-2015 88KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Some people do it just to be annoying. Some people do it as a memorial to a dead friend. Some people do it to advertise a drug dealer territory. Some people do it because they’ve seen it done and just think it’s funny(Daily Mail UK, 2020)
Life under the occupation
The Fragmented became harmonised when staff were made to compile their own dossiers

Revolving doors at the ANZ bank building, in Castlereagh Street [Aug-2014 182KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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How green was my valley
The greatest accomplishment of my generation was the systematic destruction everyone’s childhood

Winter valley below Mürren CH [Feb-2024 525KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Gone a million
The rich were always with us

Abandoned Rolls–Royce at Hiles Street in Alexandria [Jun-2015 320KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Peak oil
Rapid obsolescence was just around the corner

Motorcycle parking at the top of Hill Street, North Sydney [Oct-2020 378KB]
(Original image is located in the Landscape topic)
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Here we were
♪ Passing paths that climb halfway into the void ♪
(Yes, 1972)

Royal Coastal Track, near Wattamolla [Aug-2020 732KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Golden sunlit uplands
Import alien species to remind you of home, then watch helplessly as they overrun the countryside

Invasive plant species Common Gorse spreads along the Taieri Gorge, NZ [Dec-2017 689KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Through an augmented sky
A superabundance of atmospheric particulates ensured a golden hour for everyone

Sunrise over Bourke Street, Melbourne [Apr-2019 71KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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In the thrall of Schedule 8
A considerable number of people spent their lives up the Cross

Fitzroy Gardens in Kings Cross [May-2003 438KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Crucify your mind
I really thought that love would save us all
(Lennon, 1980)

The exterior of the Greek Orthodox church of Saint Peter & Paul (since repainted), at Petersham [Sep-2012 404KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Day–tripping
The greater our impact on nature, the more we wanted to see what little remained

Waterrun, Royal National Park NSW [Aug-2019 411KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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PETM reloaded
Nine–month summers, super El Niños, category–six hurricanes, continental bushfires, methane fumaroles, acidified oceans, cubic–kilometres of eutrophication and rivers awash with millions of dead fish. Years of drought followed by months of flooding rain. Millennium events every five years. Every month since May 2023 among the hottest on record. The sixth mass extinction… Aim low for +1.5°C and congratulate ourselves for only overshooting by 80%

Truck exhaust pipes at Woolloomooloo, in Sydney’s east [Oct-2012 137KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Staging server
What was once esoteric technology confined to a research lab, was now routinely used for amusement

Stage technician, Campbells Cove Sydney [Jan-2019 234KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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A two–speed world
We had a choice in the 1980’s of the direction we wanted to follow

The remains of Lawrence Hargrave Drive beneath the Sea Cliff bridge, near Coalcliff [Dec-2016 616KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Lifelong entanglement
We would have followed you anywhere

Bethesda Terrace, Central Park NYC [Oct-2017 559KB]
(Original image is located in the Youth topic)
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Tallest tombstones in the world
Arithmétique Macabre: 9/11 = 2977 + 18 462

Church spire beneath a flight path, at Rockdale in Sydney [Dec-2013 111KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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Shadow workforce
Chronic mass unemployment was eventually solved by changing survey methodology and definitions

Red flags at the Circular Quay promenade [Jul-1992 546KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Follow your geodesic
Take another selfie and move on, criss–cross the planet to only find yourself

Posing tourists at Sydney Cove [Aug-2014 257KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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What mean these stones?
We were at the beginning of a mass extinction, and all we could talk about was money and fairytales of eternal economic growth
(Thundberg, 2019)

Iron slag at the Blast Furnace Park in Lithgow [Aug-2012 389KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Driven by unceasing mobility
Remember the physical–distancing rule and only travel when essential

Waiting for the Cronulla Ferry at Bundeena Wharf [Aug-2020 300KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Forging a new deal
The transition from manufacturing to a financialised economy was completely seamless

Derelict Ford truck at The Grounds of Alexandria. Revisited in July 2023 and by then the Ford was mostly overgrown [Apr-2018 553KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Temporary respite
Spend all morning crawling over room–sized boulders, before having a break and doing it all over again on the way back

Glenbrook Gorge, Lapstone [Aug-2021 611KB]
(Original image is located in the Landscape topic)
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Efficiency dividend playbook
Exceptional merit deserved exceptional rewards

Darling Point ferry wharf, Sydney [Jan-2017 250KB]
(Original image is located in the Culture topic)
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A crown of ashes
Every Christmas we would gaze up at the pyrocumulus sky, exchange Bushfire Survival Plans and kiss anxiously beneath the epicormic shoots

Woodford bushfire aftermath, Blue Mountains [Dec-2019 705KB]
(Original image is located in the Landscape topic)
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Bubble watch
Rising property prices were carefully manipulated to create more economic winners than losers

Spectators on the steps of the former CBC Bank, Martin Place [Apr-2006 243KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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Potemkin Prosperity
The central irony of the financial crisis was that while it was caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing & lending and too much spending — it could only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing & lending, and more spending
(Summers, 2011)

Green shoots at the Westpac plaza in Sydney [Jan-2014 529KB]
(Original image is located in the Commerce topic)
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green shoots, it took a lot of searching to find a corporate environment which actually had them
On track for Soylent Green
2019–20 → months of raging bushfires
2020–21 → pandemic lockdowns
2020–23 → torrential rain & flooding from three consecutive La Niñas
2023–24 → stagflation, interest rate hikes and global heatwaves from a super El Niño

SOH Tour group during the 2019–20 summer bushfires [Jan-2020 321KB]
(Original image is located in the Environment topic)
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Monsters from the Id
The term “Boomer Legacy” often refers to the lasting impact of the Baby Boomer generation, those born between 1949 and 1964, on various aspects of society. This generation experienced significant cultural shifts and economic growth, which have influenced areas such as culture, commerce, and technology. The legacy includes both positive contributions, like technological advancements and cultural enrichment, as well as challenges, particularly in environmental and economic sustainability. Understanding this legacy is crucial as it shapes the world future generations will inherit.
(AI text generated in May 2024 by Microsoft Edge Copilot, in response to the prompt Boomer Legacy
)

Thai Pothong restaurant sculpture, Newtown [Jun-2024 338KB]
(Original image is located in the Technology topic)
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Situation normal
Everything was fine, until it wasn’t

Lawsons Auctions car–park, Moore Street Annandale [Sep-2015 312KB]
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A fit country for heroes to live in
With a place for everyone and everyone in their place

Unhoused on Pitt Street Mall, Sydney [May-2016 478KB]
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Outwardness within
Solitude was an anathema

Sightseeing at The Balconies, Royal National Park NSW [Aug-2019 572KB]
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Channelling Sierra Leone
Dodge the PolAir through Chippendale, run the lights on Enmore road, swerve left at the servo and pull–up across the road from the burned–out BMW

Enmore smash repairs [May-2023 377KB]
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Cut–through messaging
Make your mark, repeat, move on

Vandalised rail–car at the Zigzag railway, subsequently destroyed by the 2019 summer bushfires, Clarence [Jul-2019 372KB]
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The customer was king
Everything you could possibly ever want, at your fingertips

Supermarket checkout, Nepean Village Penrith [Apr-2003 259KB]
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