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Stanley the Emu – Lightning Ridge.

The trip that grounded me against my wishes.
It has taken me a fair while to be ready to talk about this 2-day trip that became a week-long stay.
To start my trip I took off to the Warrumbungles in my car for the start of astro season and spent a week visiting observatories, using telescopes to spot stars, hiked Breadknife and visited a lot of places in between.

Then drove up to Lightning Ridge. Didn't mean to stay, but accidentally (don't ask 🙄) paid to stay 2 nights at a unique stay.

I decided to drive out to the QLD border to search for a huge cotton farm on a warm friday afternoon.
Somehow, the GPS had me going around in circles and got me onto an unsealed road, but it was in good condition, so I kept going.

A few minutes later, I had a massive heaviness in my chest – like I shouldn't be there. So I listened to it and turned around. I decided to abandon the mission and drive back to the Ridge.

I kid you not, just 10 mins on the highway and the check tyre pressure warning came on. Now, if you know Euro cars – they do not come with spares.
So I drove into the nearest town, Hebel.

They have a pub and a hotel only. 🫠 Met 2 young blokes who came out to see if they could help me. They couldn't, and I refused to hang around, so I made the executive decision to keep driving to Lightning Ridge. 😬

I drove 15 mins tops and only stopped when I saw pieces of rubber flying out the back.
And then I pulled over. 🥸 Only to find out I had no phone reception at all.

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Nikon D7500 | Sigma Art 20mm f/1.4 | f/1.4 | 15s | ISO 800 | 70 exposures
#StanleyTheEmu #LightningRidge #AstrophotographyAustralia #StarStacking #AustralianNightscape

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Commit No Nuisance fades across the bricks of a narrow two-storey house at 72 Young Street, Fitzroy. It reads as quaint now. It wasn’t. It meant: don’t urinate here.

The lettering is low, bigger than it needs to be, and it faces the gap rather than the street. Whoever painted it was aiming at someone who had already stopped walking.

So why this wall?

72 Young Street sits one door from Gertrude Street. On the corner was the United Service Club Hotel, 122-126 Gertrude Street. Thirteen rooms. Built in 1874, closed in 1910 when the Licensing Reduction Board took its licence away.

Which means that from about 1890, when the house first shows up in the record, until 1910, there was a blank brick wall sitting in a quiet gap a few steps behind a working pub, in one of the most crowded parts of Fitzroy.

The Sands & McDougall directories give an unusually long run of women at the address. Mrs R. Lewis in 1890. Miss Alma Cohen in 1900. Mrs Elizabeth Glover in 1905. Mrs Louisa Cambry in 1910. Mrs Florence Thomas from at least 1915.

That’s the room-letting trade. Melbourne women let spare rooms for money they needed. Fitzroy, Carlton, North Melbourne and West Melbourne were where the cheap rooms were.

In February 1903 there was a furnished front room, suitable for two respectable men, going for 3s 6d each. In December 1907, a double room for eight shillings. Close to city, every convenience, respectable.

Then in March 1916 the Collingwood Court heard a maintenance case that Truth ran under the headline SOLDIER’S SINFUL SPOUSE. Eunice Zelley said she’d been living at 72 Young Street when her husband Benjamin shipped out with the First Expeditionary Force. The paper made a meal of her earlier life in sex work and her return to it. The bench threw the case out.

Benjamin said the woman of the house had to turn Eunice out when she came home in a state. He said he went back to Young Street later and took a room on his own.

It’s a private residence now. Gertrude Street has changed past recognition.

But on the side wall, above the wheelie bins, one instruction from a much more crowded neighbourhood is still there:

COMMIT NO NUISANCE.

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So incredible that I got to visit Naarm, skate Fitzy and Brunswick bowls and play at @miscellania_ / @hopestradio / @pbsfm & @skylab_radio !!

Apart from eating good food (swear I got ripped in Oz with the food and walking) / meeting amazing people I also had the chance to check out some art shows, record shops, had some good coffee & wine and ate Tim Tams and chicken parm 😄 , went to a @chuleo.club gig 😍 & made friends like family 🥺

Also the gig went so well, ya'll stayed and danced till the lights came on and were all claps, damn that crowd threw down! Bootys in the air haha wild!!

Like all the hours and work is worth it in moments like that. I'm usually the one on the other side cheering for sets i enjoy a lot and to be on the recieving side of it was surreal..thanks to all dancers <3

Miss and love ur city ✨

Huge shouts to @kerfew_au @primarythug @vkm_street @infernalfaun @carlpires @mortmurray @nuzzletov @natpinto @mowglithedj @system_unknown_sound @mossfoundationskaters @blendcorp @moopiedaily @elsieneweh ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Wouldn't have been the same without yawl 🫶

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Final days to see VKM's 'Foot Traffic'!

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Foot Traffic by @vkm_street Viki Murray
Opening night at PG Gallery @printmakergallery

The @melbournestreetartcollective was there to support Viki’s wonderful exhibit as long as many of Viki’s friends and family. I always love chatting with all the artists and finding out more about what makes them tick.
@v_is_4_vasso @monomelbourne @haysomandrew @floral_muster

#melbournestreetart #streetarteverywhere

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Excellent work by @vkm_street which opened at @printmakergallery last night. Amazing #stencilart on mediums such metal and #kimono #zuan. All shots were taken in the streets of #fitzroy. Go and check it out 😎
#printmaker #printmakergallery #brunswickstreetfitzroy #melbourneart #fitzroyart #streetart #foottraffic

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OPENING TONIGHT

@vkm_street Foot Traffic

&

@may_bluebell Standing Stones

From 5.30pm

Digital catalogues for both shows can be viewed on our website (link in bio).

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NEXT EXHIBITION
@vkm_street

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John and Viki finally got to collaborate in Lightning Ridge - covering both sides of an agitator together. The cage also features birdlife from the area.
Night shots courtesy of @nathanccp
@mortmurray @vkm_street

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