The Boomer Legacy

December 2023

Added 1 Scene

Technology

• “The automotive chrysalis” (Wrapped SUV @ Darling Harbour)

October 2023

Added 1 Scene

Culture

• “Let the children play” (Skippy Girls mural @ Darlington)

September 2023

Added 8× Scenes

Commerce

• “Wow your clients” (Terraces for rent & sale @ Redfern)
• “Retail was your future” (Newsagent @ Redfern)

Culture

• “All the comforts” (Bed & books @ St James)
• “Window dressing” (Window washers @ Martin Place)
• “Luxury was a human right” (Luxury wristwatch dealership @ Sydney CBD)
• “Black hat/ white hat” (Hummer vs. Sports Car @ Newtown)
• “A modest proposal” (Voice Referendum posters @ Darlington)

Technology

• “Call the police” (Mounted police @ Katoomba)

Other

• Implemented a higher-quality technique to downsize images for web display

August 2023

Coding & Added 4× Scenes

Commerce

• “Bury the lede” (NSW ROC @ Alexandria)

Culture

• “Spatial Determinism” (Kitchens Upstairs/ Downstairs)
• “Without the Roaring Twenties” (Bradleys Head Lighthouse)

Environment

• “Angophora sunset” (Gumtrees @ Bradleys Head)

Other

• Because the project has over 500 images, implemented a search feature to improve site navigation

July 2023

Coding & Added 8× Scenes

Commerce

• “Faceless ramparts” (Castlereagh plaza @ Sydney)
• “Crisis? What crisis?” (Apartment flats @ Surry Hills)
• “Democratising currency” (Bitcoin ATM @ Katoomba)

Culture

• “Our plates in heaven” (Chefs' Warehouse @ Redfern)

Environment

• “Jobs not trees” (Tree stump @ Alexandria)

Technology

• “Start your holidays in hell” (Jet & palms @ Rockdale)
• “A fist full of medication” (6 days medication @ Kingswood)

Youth

• “Crossing over” (Nigel Love bridge @ Mascot)

Other

• Overhauled image display JS & PHP code
• Implemented SVG icons to improve site navigation

June 2023

Added 8× Scenes

Commerce

• “Happy Hour” (Devonshire Str pub @ Surry Hills)
• “Well-oiled plans” (Doughnut stall @ Katoomba)
• “A touch of Bucharest” (Rose Str terraces @ Chippendale)
• “Investment vehicle” (Bespoke caravan @ Enmore Park)

Culture

• “Subterranean homesick blues” (Optometrist display @ Newtown)
• “After 9/11” (HMAS Vampire hull pendant @ ANMM)
• “Paraphysical conundrum” (Pedestrian crossing @ Sydenham)

Environment

• “World without winter” (Demolition sunburst @ Darling Harbour)

Technology

• “The fuse was lit” (White paint dribble @ Newtown)
• “The fruits of ascendancy” (Scrap cars @ Enmore)

May 2023

Added 1 Scene

Environment

• “Channelling Sierra Leone” (Smash repairs @ Enmore)

April 2023

Added 4× Scenes

Commerce

• “Volunteer for service” (Red Cross volunteers @ ANZAC Memorial)

Culture

• “Defence renaissance” (Air force personnel @ ANZAC Memorial)
• “Sumptuary Laws revisited” (Fashion shoe store @ QVB)

Youth

• “GPS service” (ANZAC Day student drummers @ Hyde Park)

Other

• The large delay in adding new content was due to my heart-attack in January 2023

December 2022

Added 5× Scenes

Culture

• “The apotheosis of Gallerists & Curators” (Oil Tank darkness @ AGNSW)

Environment

• “Out in the open” (Construction truck graffiti @ Macdonaldtown)
• “For the rest of my life” (Tarpaulin covers @ Bondi Junction)

Landscape

• “Cruise to live” (Majestic Princess @ Overseas Passenger Terminal)
• “Go tell the Spartans” (Quay Quarter Tower courtyard @ Circular Quay)

Other

• Implemented 2-column CSS layout for larger screen sizes

November 2022

Added 3× Scenes

Culture

• “Never gonna not dance again” (Dancing skeleton @ Newtown)

Environment

• “Home! Sweat Home!” (Red-brick flats @ Newtown)

Technology

• “Why does the monkey have a red backside?” (Ferrari 488 Pista @ Sydney CBD)

October 2022

Added 3× Scenes

Technology

• “On the road to serfdom” (Locked down pedestrian button @ QVB)
• “Fighting a war for the future” (3801 locomotive @ Central)
• “We do apologise for any inconvenience caused” (Network meltdown @ Parramatta)

September 2022

Other

• PHP/ SQL code overhaul to display a new “best of” section along with individual scene remarks

July 2022

Added 4× Scenes

Commerce

• “Braving the abyss” (Watterrun cliff-side @ Royal National Park)

Culture

• “Living in a short here” (Volunteer gallery guide @ AGNSW)

Technology

• “From lab to stage” (Stage technician @ Campbells Cove)

Youth

• “Filial maze” (Northern concourse family @ Central)

June 2022

Added 3× Scenes

Commerce

• “Non-pharmaceutical interventions” (Taped chairs @ Centrepoint)

Culture

• “Stare decisis” (Vandalised St Stephens @ Penrith)

Technology

• “Gaming the system” (Befouled VW @ Summer Hill)

May 2022

Added 2× Scenes

Commerce

• “Million dollar slums” (Ex-seminary @ Newtown)

Environment

• “Force majeure” (Post-election garbage bins @ Macdonaldtown)

April 2022

Added a Scene

Landscape

• “Public Private Partnerships” (Anti-erosion sea-wall @ Collaroy)

March 2022

Quarter-million milestone

The Boomer Legacy reached an important milestone on 5 Mar 2022, nine years after being launched on 7 Jan 2013, when the page-view total exceeded 250 000

February 2022

Added a Scene

Technology

• “Honest mistakes” (Baragoola wreck @ Waverton)

January 2022

Added 2× Scenes

Commerce

• “Financial ouroboros” (Ex-bank @ Newtown)

Technology

• “Polarised encounters” (Sedan vs SUV @ Penrith)

November 2021

Added 4× Scenes

Commerce

• “Outside the property bubble” (Toorak Rd sale @ Melbourne)

Culture

• “Significant Form” (To the lighthouse @ Darling Harbour)

Technology

• “Core dump” (ICT 1301 mainframe @ Dunedin)
• “Hazard perception test” (2013 Ford G6E smash @ Blue Mountains)

October 2021

Added 5× Scenes

Commerce

• “North to Avoska” (Hornsby & Wynyard bags)

Environment

• “Apogee of despair” (Kent Street pyramid @ Millers Point)
• “Black poles” (Street crossing @ Lewisham)
• “Neptune's Navy” (Sea Shepherd cruiser @ Darling Harbour)

Technology

• “Well maintained infrastructure” (Infrastructure diptych @ Sydney)

September 2021

Added 4× Scenes

Commerce

• “Unyielding positivity” (Boutique shop-front @ Leura)

Culture

• “Everything was fine” (Restaurant @ Sydney CBD)

Technology

• “Rattle & roll” (XPT trains @ Central)
• “Tomorrow will be much better than today” (Dalek ornament @ Lawson)

Other

• Completed website image-quality upgrade using larger images + "webp" compression

August 2021

Added 4× Scenes

Landscape

• “Temporary respite” (Glenbrook Gorge @ Lapstone)
• “Into the steps” (Sassafras Gully Track @ Springwood)
• “Abrupt about face” (Glenbrook Creek boulders @ Lapstone)
• “Tracks through the past” (Tramway track @ Lapstone)

July 2021

Added 7× Scenes

Commerce

• “Socially responsible trading” (George Str boutique @ Sydney)
• “Practice social distancing” (Closed food court @ Town Hall)
• “Within Skinner's Box” (Antique wall advertisting, Pitt Street)
• “Canyons of gold” (Castlereagh Str plaza)

Environment

• “Manufacturing hikikomori” (Empty stairwell @ Kirribilli)

Technology

• “1918 revisited” (Masked commuters @ Granville)

Youth

• “Preparing for the hereafter” (Yandhai Nepean Crossing @ Emu Plains)

April 2021

Added 8× Scenes

Commerce

• “Stroking the hidden hand” (Homeless tents @ Wentworth Point)
• “Living in an asset society” (Renovations @ Darling Point)
• “Forget your past” (Demolition @ Darling Harbour)

Culture

• “Suburban borderland” (Renovation @ Darling Point)
• “Blue water navy” (Sydney Harbour yachts & ferries)

Environment

• “Untapped potential” (Florabella track @ Blaxland)
• “Under the waning gibbous moon” (Construction pit @ Parramatta)

Technology

• “Waves don't vote” (Oceanlinx Mk1 prototype @ Port Kembla)

March 2021

Added 8× Scenes

Commerce

• “Flygskam” (Runway lights @ Mascot)
• “Rust belt potential” (Back lane garage @ Lithgow)

Culture

• “Light's end” (Remembrance Shrine @ Melbourne)
• “Eat fresh” (Grilld staircase @ Centrepoint)
• “New World Order” (Fairy Bower cafe @ Manly)
• “The great convergence” (Surf-skis @ Manly)

Environment

• “Surfs up” (Fairy Bower bathers @ Manly)
• “Harbourside living” (Apartments @ McMahons Pt)

January 2021

Added 2× Scenes

Culture

• “Grey nomads” (Motorcycles @ Elizabeth Bay)

Technology

• “Ubiquitous presence” (Mobile phone users @ Sydney)

December 2020

Culled 70× Scenes

• Went through the entire project and removed @ 70 of the weaker images

Added 11× Scenes

Commerce

• “The user-pays model” (Barangaroo hoarding @ Sydney)
• “Ghosts of the CBD” (King Street pedestrians @ Sydney)

Culture

• “Join the dots” (COVID ferry seating)
• “Enjoying the benefits of adequacy” (Lewisham apartment redevelopment)
• “Growing pains” (St Kilda tram commuters @ Melbourne)
• “Cultural aftershocks” (9/11 Memorial @ NYC)

Environment

• “Weird scribbles of the bush” (Scribble gum @ Illawarra)

Technology

• “Accidental monuments” (Zigzag Railway upper viaduct @ Clarence)
• “Deferred consumption model” (Classic cars @ Milsons Point)

Youth

• “Weeks, maybe months” (Bradfield Park North @ Milsons Point)

Landscape

• “Zigzag environments” (Zigzag Railway viaducts @ Clarence)

November 2020

Added 19× Scenes

Commerce

• “The future of post-COVID retail” (Luxury goods @ Sydney)
• “Ironman's thumbprint” (QR Codes for retail @ Sydney)
• “The ugly shoe movement” (Orthopaedic sandals @ QVB)
• “Tyburn revisited” (Martin Place construction)
• “Covid Safe” (Celsius Cafe @ Kirribilli Wharf)
• “Extremely well serviced” (F5 ferry @ Kirribilli Wharf)
• “Play the Tradie's Game” (Home removal @ Warrimoo)
• “Borderline conundrum” (Self-service kiosks @ Sydney Airport)

Culture

• “The militaristic subtext” (Shrine of Remembrance @ Melbourne)
• “The remarkable accomplishment” (St Pauls Congregation @ Melbourne)
• “Staying apart kept us together” (Wylde Street @ Potts Point)

Environment

• “Multilevel regression with post-stratification” (ANZ plaza @ Sydney)
• “111 false dawns” (Melbourne CBD sunrise)
• “Volunteer sacrifice” (Bushfire memorial @ Waterfall)
• “Potential Harbour Views” (Kirribilli apartments @ Sydney)

Technology

• “Orphan success” (SOH Concert Hall exterior)
• “Who needs maths?” (One Circular Quay site @ Sydney)

Youth

• “Burnout gender reveal” (Sky writing @ Kirribilli)

Landscape

• “Raze the block” (Tay Street @ Invercargill NZ)

October 2020

Added 18× Scenes

Commerce

• “Dog-boxes in the sky” (Apartment boxes @ Broadway)
• “Driven by unceasing mobility” (Bundeena wharf)
• “Life in the Bunkercene” (Martin place hoarding @ Sydney)
• “Go for growth” (Back lane toilet @ Lithgow)
• “Fierce, Wonderful & Closed” (Closed cafe @ Katoomba)
• “Cafe kultur” (Street cafe seating @ Redfern)

Culture

• “Fungible ideology” (Fearless Girl statue @ NYC)
• “The Fine-Dining Industrial Complex” (Passenger Terminal chimneys @ Sydney)
• “Nowhere was safe from Footy” (MCG night footy @ Melbourne)
• “Murder on the dance-floor” (QVB Christmas lights @ Sydney)

Environment

• “Controlled flight into terrain” (Maddens Plain track @ Wombarra)
• “Tranquillity Bantustan” (Garie Beach North)
• “Wildfulness” (Illawarra Escarpment track)

Landscape

• “Features of heritage redevelopment” (GWH heritage Lawson shops)
• “How green was my valley” (Coke works overview @ Coalcliff)
• “Unlimited potential” (Wodi Wodi track @ Coalcliff)
• “Retro refurb” (Whiteley Gardens @ Lavender Bay)
• “Peak oil” (Hill Street motorcycles @ Nth Sydney)

Other

• Started site and image-quality upgrade, especially for older scenes (before 2018)

September 2020

Added 1 Scene

• “Precipitous descent” (Little Marley sea cliffs @ Royal National Park)

April 2020

Added 11× Scenes

Commerce

• “Living in a film-set” (Deserted food court @ Centrepoint)
• “Mobility as a service” (Food delivery rider @ Haymarket)
• “Knowledge-based service industries” (Lunchtime fountain @ Australia Square)

Culture

• “Closed voicing” (Winter Magic guitars @ Katoomba)
• “ISO excursions” (Darling Harbour Masked pedestrians)
• “Known unknowns” (Fitzroy Gardens @ Kings Cross)
• “Pivoting hope” (Beggar @ Broadway)
• “Cordon sanitaire” (Fenced bollards @ Warrimoo)
• “Zero-day vulnerability” (Tram Depot sculpture @ Newtown)

Environment

• “Infinity pool” (Figure 8 pools @ Royal National Park)

Technology

• “Retro-tech” (1920s Train Pantograph @ Central)

March 2020

Added 4× Scenes

Commerce

• “Practising our future” (Front yard yacht @ Kirribilli)

Culture

• “The Rug Life” (Rug sales @ Lidcome)
• “Watch and act” (The Edge @ Melbourne)
• “Aesthetic superiority” (Step into Paradise @ Sydney)

January 2020

Added 13× Scenes

Commerce

• “Uncomfortable at times” (Tourists @ Sydney Opera House)
• “Epistemic insouciance” (Crown casino cranes @ Barangaroo)

Culture

• “In the year of the pandemic” (Masked Passenger @ Glenbrook)
• “Dolchstoßlegende” (Observatory Hill @ Sydney)
• “For the Monarch” (Hotel remembrance shrine @ Sydney)
• “OK passenger” (Ocean liner @ Circular Quay)
• “Looking back” (Anzac Memorial @ Sydney)

Environment

• “Sunset industry” (Sunset cranes @ Barangaroo)
• “Nature always wins” (Dawes Point weeds @ Sydney Cove)
• “The big smoke” (Weeks of bushfire smoke @ Sydney Harbour Bridge)

Technology

• “Interconnected loose-ends” (Southern Cross Station @ Melbourne)
• “Out of China” (Airport Drive @ Sydney Airport)

Youth

• “Towards 10 per 1000” (Wiggles exhibition @ Powerhouse Museum)

Other

• Switched to using OpenStreetMap for project GPS maps

December 2019

Added 17× Scenes

Commerce

• “The customer was king” (Supermarket checkout @ Penrith)
• “Bargains unlimited” (QVB basement sale @ Sydney)
• “Stakeholder” (Supermarket freezer aisle @ Katoomba)
• “Filled with delight” (Breakfast Point apartments @ Sydney)
• “All was good and went according to plan” (Queen Street office building at night @ Melbourne)
• “Stake your claim” (Small business patch window display @ Port Kembla)

Culture

• “Tourist bonanza” (Tourists at the McMahon Point ferry wharf)
• “Character arc” (Sydney candid photograph triptych)
• “Organised Religion” (Greek Orthodox church @ Kogarah)
• “Race Day chic” (Melbourne cup spectators @ Rosehill Racecourse)
• “Operational Matters” (Behind the Scenic Hotel Southern Cross @ Dunedin NZ)
• “Driving home for Christmas” (Christmas display @ Sydney)

Environment

• “Made by We” (4 Seasons @ Blue Mountains)
• “The fatal shore” (Boulder-strewn shoreline @ Royal National Park)
• “Cars with grunt” (4WD Ute @ Penrith)

Technology

• “Force carrier” (Junction box @ Chippendale)

Youth

• “Purposeful activity” (Discount variety store @ Katoomba)

Added New Section with 12× Scenes

• New section added, featuring multi-shot panoramas in 2:1 format.
  See “Landscapes page”

Other

• Fixed irritating Fancybox image display background-shift bug
• Improved image display zooming behaviour
• Streamlined the Home and News pages
• Changed site colour scheme from yellow/orange to blue/grey

September 2019

Added 7× Scenes

Commerce

• “Everywhere the glint of gold” (Yarra River helipad @ Melbourne)

Culture

• “Days of small things” (St Kilda cake shop @ Melbourne)
• “Direct instruction'” (AGNSW tour guide @ Sydney)

Environment

• “Buckley's chance” (Costal track construction @ Royal National Park)
• “City of glass” (Adina Apartments @ Melbourne)
• “Gentrified slums” (Docklands @ Melbourne)

Youth

• “Reel time” (Bundeena ferry passenger)

August 2019

Added 35× Scenes

Commerce

• “Only a tap away” (AGNSW window to East Sydney)
• “Practical streetwise living” (Sleeping @ Pitt Str Mall)
• “Quality by design” (Nevada Apts @ Darling Point)
• “Have a go to get a go” (Toorak cottage @ Melbourne)
• “Spare capacity” (St Chapel Lane @ Melbourne)
• “Roses of Picardy” (Private marriage @ St Marys)

Culture

• “Racquet Kultur” (Melbourne Tennis Centre)
• “Face East” (St Collins Lane @ Melbourne)
• “Electric tribalism” (Australia Day lasers @ Circular Quay)
• “Manufacturing Eros” (The Pottery Estate @ Lithgow)
• “Vibrant formalism” (NGV waterfall entrance @ Melbourne)
• “Suburban psychodrama” (GWH front gate @ Blue Mountains)
• “Swag limited” (NGV fashion exhibit @ Melbourne)
• “Scenes from the new world” (Lonsdale Restaurant @ Melbourne)
• “Frontier of extraction” (2019 NSW election @ Town Hall)

Environment

• “Fringe season” (Firewood @ Blackheath)
• “More days at the beach” (Miniature snowman @ Blackheath)
• “Reach across the sand” (Garie North Head @ RNP)
• “85B sunrise” (Melbourne sunrise)
• “Build a better cliff” (16th floor lorikeets, Harbourside Apartments)
• “Seeing beyond” (The Balconies @ RNP)
• “Rising above” (Eureka sky-deck @ Melbourne )
• “Hidden externalities” (Centre Place @ Melbourne )
• “Ledge fund” (Rock ledge @ The Waterrun, RNP)
• “City lights” (Southbank lighting store @ Melbourne)
• “Ready-made solutions” (Sandbridge crossing @ Melbourne)
• “Day-tripping” (Tourists @ The Waterrun, RNP)
• “We were here” (Wattamolla track @ Royal National Park )
• “Scenes from Planet B” (North Era campsite @ Royal National Park)

Technology

• “Phamping” (Tents @ Sydney Apple store)
• “Built for comfort” (Indian Roadmaster motorbike)
• “Congestion busting” (Rusted bushfire ruins @ Zigzag railway)
• “Cut-through repair” (Ruined rail-car @ Zigzag railway)

Youth

• “Protect us from harm” (bubbler @ Erskinville Public School)

July 2019

Added 5× Scenes

Commerce

• “Ponzimonium” (Wedding Cake Rock @ Royal National Park)

Culture

• “Banking the peace dividend” (Shark sculpture @ ANMM)

Environment

• “Permissive Occupancy” (Royal National Park shack @ South Garie)

Technology

• “Heart shaped lump” (Anthracite @ Lithgow)
• “Pan Atomicus” (Heritage locomotive @ Central Station)

April 2019

Updated Scene

Culture

• “Inflection eighty-two” (Harbourside Apartments @ McMahon's Point)

Other

• Upgraded to the latest version (v3.5.7) of Fancybox for image display

January 2019

Added 13× Scenes

Commerce

• “Clip service”
• “Rise and fall”
• “Renaissance postponed”
• “Down from the mountain…”

Culture

• “F2F heroes”
• “Contraindications”
• “Electric evanescence”

Environment

• “The big blue”
• “Out with the old”
• “Grok the landscape”

Technology

• “Springtime for Eloi”
• “Aerotropolis dawn”
• “Exit strategy”

Other

• Upgraded to the latest version (v3.5.6) of Fancybox for image display
• Reprocessed all photographs using better algorithms to provide higher quality images at (generally) smaller file-sizes
• Moved “Rust-belt agriculture” from the Environment topic to the Technolgy topic — inspired by completing Massey, C. (2011) Breaking the Sheep's Back (UQP)
• Found an interesting website which lists cryptocurrency values & charts: Coin Market Cap
• Added this Site Updates page =)