Building designers sometimes enlist incredibly talented artists to help create the mood and feel of a building. While travelling though Hamad Airport I particularly noticed that very special attention to detail was everywhere. There were no dead spaces. There were no visual eyesores. The entire and vast space was a visual delight. I’m not sure […]
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I’m not sure what they mean by ‘concept restaurant’ here in Hamad Airport. On closer inspection almost every square in this mosaic carries an American theme. There are a few international tokens but mostly there are repeated themes of big cars, American airlines, gas stations and route 66. I simply see red.
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For a couple of years now I have been commuting along a route that takes me past the Barker Inlet Wetlands and the Wingfield Waste and Recycling Centre. I’d noticed the windmills, the prolific bird life and the sights and smells of a civic rubbish dump but in my head I was already at my […]
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It’s interesting that a man behind a movie camera is a ‘camera man’ while a man behind a still camera is a ‘photographer’. As photographers or camera men (the non gender version of the word) we don’t get photographed very often. Still I find myself drawn to capturing their images like some mirror of myself. […]
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It’s hot. The run off from the swampy on the roof fills a bucket under the the eave of the house. Every drop captured. Every drop precious. It’s nearly full. Time to water but not every plant can handle this almost brackish Adelaide water. Under the verandah with a glass of cold water in hand […]
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