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Eric Riddler
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Art and photography tragic from Wallumedegal Country (Western Sydney)
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A quiet moment during my last ever ride on the V sets in the Blue Mountains, Gundungurra and Dharug Country, a few weeks ago
Alt text: The sunlight through a train window lights up a corner of the mauve vinyl seat opposite the photographer. The view outside the slightly scratched window is limited to shadowy plants on the rocky face of a cutting in the sandstone
February 1, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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Triple J Hottest 200 2025: 128: R Fields, 92 Purebred

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Ruby Fields - 92 Purebred
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January 30, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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Triple J Hottest 200 2025 158: Drifting Clouds, Bawuypawuy

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Bawuypawuy - Drifting Clouds (Single)
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January 28, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Triple J Hottest 100 2025: 2 Keli Holiday, ‘Dancing2’

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A screenshot of the artwork for Keli Holiday’s ‘Dancing2’ above its second place in the Triple J Hottest One Hundred Twenty-Twenty-Five
January 24, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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Triple J Hottest 100 2025: 10: Ball Park Music, ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’

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A screen cap showing the artwork for Ball Park Music’s ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ above its place at number ten on the Triple J Hottest One Hundred Twenty-Twenty-Five
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Found slide: Hand operated paddle boats on the Nerang River, near Jubilee Bridge, Main Beach, Kombumerri Country, Gold Coast, 1955. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families
Looking across a river estuary on a clear day. There are two small paddle boats on the water, under a narrow concrete bridge, carrying cars; both about twenty years old at the time; and pedestrians between the town centre of Southport; out of frame to the left; and its Main Beach; also out of frame, to the right. The bushland and sand dunes of South Stradbroke Island are just visible along the horizon
January 20, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Happy 51st anniversary @triple_j ! Found slide: Looking towards the intersection of outside the Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Country, circa September 1976. At lower right the radio 2 Double Jay (later Triple J) van is turning from George Street into Druitt Street [photographer unknown]
A view from the window of a sandstone building (the window ledge is just visible at lower left), towards a busy city intersection. The traffic is dominated by buses and taxis, including a rather oddly shaped experimental bus, known as “Mr Whippy” because it reminded Sydneysiders of that company’s ice cream trucks of the time, waiting at the lights. At lower right, a brightly coloured van, decorated with musical notes and the slogan “2 Double Jay: 1540”, promotes the then Australian Broadcasting Commission’s recently launched youth radio station
January 18, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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Found slide: 79 years ago: Two views of Martin Place, Warrane Sydney, 10 January 1947, looking westward towards the Cenotaph and Elizabeth Street respectively. Photos by a visiting American tourist
A 1947 view towards the Sydney Cenotaph, outside the General Post Office in Martin Place, showing a streetscape of Edwardian and Art Deco office blocks and hotels. The traffic is light for a Friday morning: in the right distance a barrier is just visible at the George Street end, preparing for the City’s official farewell to the outgoing Australian Governor-General, the Duke of Gloucester, held at the Cenotaph later that day. The blue sky in the background is partially obscured by coal soot from the nearby Pyrmont Power Station A 1947 view of the corner of Martin Place and Elizabeth Street, featuring a pair double decker buses, in Sydney’s pre war red and cream livery, one, in the centre, leaving on a 300 service to Erskineville, via Macdonaldtown Station, the other, at the left, being inspected by the conductor at the terminus beside the vacant block left by the then relatively recent demolition of St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church for the eastern extension of Martin Place (later the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Sydney office)
January 9, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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The last morning of 2025 as the clouds drift in, Wallumedegal Country
Looking up towards a guman casuarina tree, silhouetted as clouds begin to drift past the rising sun behind it
December 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Boondah Angophora by the shores of Lake Parramatta, Burramattagal Country
On a sunny morning the orange-red trunk of a Boondah Angophora tree, framed by two smaller trees, stands out against the reflections of the sky and trees upon the surface of an old reservoir
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Burnt out tree trunk, Kaarta Gar-up Kings Park, Boorloo Perth
A black and white film photograph of a fire-damaged tree trunk standing out from the bush land around it. The profile of the damaged part of the trunk looks like a face looking downward towards the bare trees to the left, while the top of a kwel casuarina tree on the right echoes the trunk’s profile
December 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The Crawley Boatshed, Boorloo Perth, seen from the nearby bus stop as I finished reloading my camera before taking the obligatory “Wes Anderson symmetry meme” photo… sometimes the test shot turns out to be The One…
Looking past the shrubbery towards a boatshed at the end of a pier on a sunny morning. The sunlight is shimmering across the surface of a broad river, while the skyline of an inner city suburb is silhouetted along the horizon
December 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Randomly reposting this for absolutely no reason…
poulchapman.bsky.social Paul Chapman @poulchapman.bsky.social · Dec 27
The Seattle Central Library continues to suffer from usability problems that were first noted more than two decades ago. Aka: put up some damn signs.

(See this for an early review of the problems in Koolhaas’s design placesjournal.org/article/seat...)
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Found slide: Pōhutukawa in bloom, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, December 1946 (photographer unknown)
On a sunny early summer’s day with white clouds in the sky, we are looking up at a row of red blossoms on a pōhutukawa tree
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I once ran into an old crush and mentioned that I was reworking some songs I’d written years ago… then the questions started… at first I was flattered by the interest but, suddenly, it struck me: “Carly Simon had this exact conversation in 1971, didn’t she?” Changed how I hear that song forever…
inkradio.bsky.social Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · Dec 19
Funny how songs wait on you.
Heard ‘em my whole life—never really heard ‘em.
Now a line slides past and I’m like… “DAMN!”

Guess the music didn’t change.
I did.

Nighttime’s when the mix speaks truth.
Everything loud steps back.
What’s real stays.
December 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Fremantle Ports from Fremantle railway station, Walyalup Fremantle
Looking from a railway station platform towards a working harbour on a sunny morning. The dark railway signals standout among the red and white cranes in the background
December 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Albino peacock at Reid Library, University of Western Australia, Boorloo Perth
An albino peacock stands at the top of a mid-century modernist spiral staircase, looking downwards towards an outdoor café on a university campus
December 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Dead tree, Whiteman Park, Boorloo Perth
A black and white film photograph looking up the trunk of a dead tree towards a patchy summer sky
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Telegraph pole, Walyalup North Fremantle
A black and white photograph looking towards a telegraph pole against a wildly patterned partly cloudy sky. At top left a branch of a Norfolk Island pine tree is silhouetted
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Found slide: A Midland bound ADX two car rail motor stopped at Maylands Railway Station, Boorloo Perth, slide developed September 1974 [photographer unknown]
Looking towards a pair of diesel rail motors stopped at a suburban railway station, in the white, red and green Western Australian Government Railway livery. A pedestrian crossing leads from the left to a fenced pathway to the station access, which is out of shot to the right. A turn of the century corner shopfront is partially visible above the nearest carriage.
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Dedicating the posts from my recent visit to Boorloo Perth to the memory of Nick Pando (1951-2005). Memorial rose to Nicolas Pando, Serenity Gardens, Karrakatta Cemetery, Boorloo Perth
A close up view of an orange coloured rose flower amongst the other roses and plaques of a memorial garden. Nick Pando was a partner in the 1980s Sydney-via-Perth fashion house Di Marzio Line
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Last weeks for the “V-sets” to Gulumada Blue Mountains, passing through Summer Hill, Inner Western Sydney, Eora Country
Two double decker V set carriages are passing through a suburban shopping centre in Sydney’s inner west. The sunshine is reflected in their stainless steel bodies, while their yellow safety highlights contrast with the blue sky (with streaks of white clouds framing the carriage on the left
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Stairwell in the Queen Victoria Building, Warrane Sydney
Looking down a curving stairwell towards a landing, the ground floor and another curving stairwell. The Tuscan red and cream floor tiles, in a variety of late-Victorian patterns, contrast with the blue tones of the partially visible walls. Architectural historians might notice, from details like the brass handrail, that this vignette shows a nineteen-eighties restoration of an eighteen-nineties interior
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Making bergamot custard from a homegrown bergamot orange…
A bergamot orange sitting in a brown glazed ramekin on a nineteen-fifties stainless steel sink. Some of the utensils to be used for the preparation can be seen in the background The finished custards on the same sink. The run-off from the water used to temper the two ramekins during the baking process can be seen along the stainless steel ridges between them
October 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM