Friday 1 October 2010

Graffiti - October Theme Day


Apparently Prince Charles talks to his plants to help them grow.
Here's me in 1977 (check the flares!) at Sydney University engaged in conversation with a wall of the old Wentworth Building. Nothing grew from this conversation, and the wall no longer exists.

What other graffiti is rocking the blogosphere today? Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

The photo was taken on a Kodak Instamatic.

The following year I bought one of these in Hong Kong - one of the nicest cameras for the enthusiatic amateur ever made. It travelled the world with me several times, including 2003 when I borrowed a digital camera as well, and often accompanied by a Pentax ME - one for slides and one for film, or different ASA films. I didn't go fully digital until 2006. I still have that lovely K1000, and spare lenses and instruction manual - wish I had a case for it - it wore out.

21 comments:

  1. what a lovely photo of you Sally!

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  2. I love graffiti, it's always a bit disappointing seeing huge, freshly painted, starkly blank walls around town. "Sometimes walls speak", I like that! :D

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  3. Oh, it didn't take me long to get the words mixed up, either...

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  4. Love it, love it! Obviously a lovely old photo so I had to look closer and there you are! What a great idea to use this for today's theme and to tell us about your camera.

    Love the flares!

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  5. love it, it's like a classic!!! :) great post, I really like it! :)

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  6. PS: My hair is again about the same style as it was then!!!

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  7. Haha, great take for today!

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  8. What a fun post from your youth! Love the flares and your beautiful old Instamatic. The name alone makes me smile — some of my aunts and uncles still use the word to refer to all non-SLR cameras, film or digital.

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  9. great shot !! nice to be back in the seventieth :)

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  10. Yes, and apparently he eavesdrops on tourists too. Yikes! But I love that shot of you :)

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  11. this is a great image of you and a great wall of interesting graffiti

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  12. Now that's SOME vintage shot!

    Although spray paint wasn't as popular as it is today, graffiti were already out in those days...

    What a great shot and story, Sally !

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  13. A trip down memory lane. The graffiti reminds me of the lyric from Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, tenement halls, . . . "

    You probably listened to that song around the time this photo was taken.

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  14. I certainly would have, Dave!

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  15. brilliant! i love it.
    happy theme day!

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  16. Both street art and fashion has moved on. Flares huh.

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  17. What a beautiful Pentax camera

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  18. Happy Theme Day - great post for "graffiti"

    Have a wonderful weekend :)

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  19. Very fashionable you were. Nice retro graffiti.

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