Eric Riddler

… and you can just make out the site of yesterday’s post as the camera draws back in the final shot…

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AC/DC are passing this spot from about 3:05… “that’s how it goes, playin’ in a band…”

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A vertically oriented streetscape of early to mid twentieth century office buildings on a sunny day. A white-helmeted traffic police officer moves aside as traffic passes by, while a W2 class tram, heading for East Brighton, waits in the background. A sign on a yellow-painted traffic light pole indicates that we are looking at Swanston Street

On 23 February 1976, AC/DC, the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band and an Australian Broadcasting Commission film crew set off down Swanston Street… we salute you… Found slide: Swanston Street, Naarm Melbourne, looking north from Collins Street, circa March 1976 (photographer unknown)

On a sunny summer’s day, looking down a wide road with two avenues of trees dividing the main central section from the side access lanes. The traffic is light, mainly contemporary cars and trucks, with a much older car coming into the frame from the side road at left. In the left background, between the old car and a Brunswick green lamppost, a woman dressed in black is walking in the direction of the Shrine of Remembrance, hidden behind the trees and statue immediately in front of the photographer

Found slide: St Kilda Road, Naarm Melbourne, looking south from from the Linlithgow Avenue intersection, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

Looking down at an ornamental pool in a city park, with the reflections of trees and a cloudy sky distorted by the ripples on the surface and the low light slowing the camera’s speed

Early morning reflections on a cloudy day, Cook + Phillip Park, Warrane Sydney

[citation needed: The Masters Apprentices on the same bill as The Templars? Has to be one of the Masters’ first gigs outside Tarndanya Adelaide, in 1966]

Looking up at an Edwardian arcade roof, where a group of torn posters; advertising gigs by mid nineteen-sixties Australian rock and pop acts, including The Masters Apprentices, The Templars, Normie Rowe and the Playboys and Tony Worsley, the latter two playing at the Balwyn Youth Centre; have recently been uncovered by the removal of a billboard

Looking back at my February 1996 visit to Naarm Melbourne and I just realised that these 1966-era posters I saw, outside Glenferrie Station on Valentine’s Day, were about the same age as my photo is now…

An outdoors table tennis table standing on a concrete-tiled quadrangle. The table is painted black with the outlines of flowers with yellow seed heads and white petals, signed ‘M’. There are racquets at each end, the nearest racquet is accompanied by a ball and a cardboard sign saying where to get a new ball if required

Table tennis table by Popp at UNSW Art & Design

Pigeon in the City Extra restaurant at Circular Quay

(Advice offered by someone who found himself in a vaguely similar situation a decade ago and deeply regrets deciding to be “mister minds his own business” about it)

Ease the topic gently into the conversation… “say, have you listened to Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl’ album yet? I think you’ll get a lot out of it…”

February 2 is World wetlands Day.
So, I'm posting this photo I took of a black swan at a local wetland area.
(One of my all time favourite photos, btw.)
#worldwetlandsday

… and here we are. The moment that the Bee Gees’ lyric “and we can try to understand the New York Times’ effect on man” went from being a space-filling rhyme which made it into the final cut to being a poignant comment on global politics

Looking through the downward angled safety fence of a ramp leading to a footbridge, brightly lit on a dark pre-dawn morning, towards a level safety fence along a railway platform, with an orange sign in the background indicating that this is West Ryde station

On another dark, pre-dawn morning, the glare from a pair of red railway signal lights flares into the camera. In the lower left background, several more red lights indicate a nearby set of railway points

Early morning West Ryde vibes, Wallumedegal Country, Western Sydney, January 2026

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

A quiet moment during my last ever ride on the V sets in the Blue Mountains, Gundungurra and Dharug Country, a few weeks ago

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Triple J Hottest 200 2025: 128: R Fields, 92 Purebred

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Triple J Hottest 200 2025 158: Drifting Clouds, Bawuypawuy

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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

Triple J Hottest 100 2025: 2 Keli Holiday, ‘Dancing2’

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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

Triple J Hottest 100 2025: 10: Ball Park Music, ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’

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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

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

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

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 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)

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

Looking up towards a guman casuarina tree, silhouetted as clouds begin to drift past the rising sun behind it

The last morning of 2025 as the clouds drift in, Wallumedegal 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

Boondah Angophora by the shores of Lake Parramatta, Burramattagal Country

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

Burnt out tree trunk, Kaarta Gar-up Kings Park, Boorloo Perth

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.

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.

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

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…

… although I really think there needs to be a major rethink of public cultural institutions’ strict adherence to the 60 year old advice of some think tank committee of underemployed sociology academics who put down the communal bong just long enough to declare signage as “real squaresville, man…”

Randomly reposting this for absolutely no reason…

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

Found slide: Pōhutukawa in bloom, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, December 1946 (photographer unknown)