Today, Castlereagh street reminded cordoned off by police after the 20m section of scaffolding has partially collapsed threatening a major disaster. The structure is still very unstable as you can see from the photograph and is a major concern for both engineers and police. As it stands there is no easy and safe way to recover it nor is there a way to dismantle it without endangering workmen involved.
It will be interesting to see how the authorities and builders resolve this issue. I am certain a lot of questions will be asked to explain how it could have occurred in the first place. Luckily no one got hurt.
I came across this graffiti mural in a pedestrian tunnel near Central station. In addition to few animal forms such as iguana, turtle and a snake the center piece was this very impressive almost two meter high face of an aboriginal and a misspelled words “Sovereign being” followed by a slogan “Not British subject”. The turtle on the opposite wall was accompanied by “Invasion Day” caption referring to 26th of January – the Australia Day.
Instead of searching for divisive issues I think the aborigines should petition the government in an attempt of unification to abolish “Department of Aboriginal Affairs”. For as long as there is a special department for them it means they are not part of mainstream population. There should be no departments for any social or ethnic groups if we are all equal in the eye of the law.
Here is the gallery with the remaining photograph of the Aboriginal graffiti
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman arrive for the world premiere of movie “Australia” at the George Street Greater Union Cinemas on November 18, 2008 in Sydney, Australia.
This red carpet photograph is a first of a large series of photos I took at the event. I will publish all of them over next few days once I tag all of them properly.
“My name is Bryan not Barack Obama, she’s my customer – not Sara Palin”
It is not often that I would post the same image twice in my stories. However , this photo of the homeless man and a women has become part of dirty tricks in American presidential campaign.
Someone has doctored this image to portrait Barack Obama as the shoe shine man and Sara Palin as his customer. This altered image is being circulated via email in USA. The perpetrator of this plagiarism left my copyright notice, which contains the address of this website, thus implying it was my original work. This is quite a low act as it involuntarily involves me and my photographic work in American presidential campaign, which I honestly do not know much about nor do I follow it. I certainly do not have favourite views either for American Democrats or Republicans.
I would like to assure both senator Barack Obama and Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin that the altered image has not been created, authorised, endorsed or distributed by me.
It is quite shameful someone had to escape to plagiarism and imply my involvement. Yes, I do have a copy of the doctored image but I will not publish it.
