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Beijing nostalgia

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April 25 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

Beginning of Spring

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Market and street stalls.

April 14 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

Forbidden City

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Entrance, exit and cafeteria

April 13 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

Two sides of the same street

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April 12 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

Stairs

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April 11 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

My Beijing folly…

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….trying to take photos with no people in them.

April 11 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

Convenience Store #2

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April 10 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   1 Comment

Beijing follies – CBD

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April 10 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

In the suburbs

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April 10 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment

Votive traces

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April 9 2011   Beijing, botanist of the sidewalk   Leave a comment
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  • City traces

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  • Backblog

    • ► 2012
      • ► January (4)
        • All lined up #2
        • All lined up
        • Found
        • Will it always be like this
    • ► 2011
      • ► November (1)
        • Not so easy to answer
      • ► August (1)
        • Moving around
      • ► June (2)
        • Last days in Shanghai
        • Cao Cang Di
      • ► April (26)
        • Old Beijing
        • Beijing kitsch
        • Beijing nostalgia
        • Beginning of Spring
        • Forbidden City
        • Two sides of the same street
        • Stairs
        • My Beijing folly...
        • Convenience Store #2
        • Beijing follies - CBD
        • In the suburbs
        • Votive traces
        • Day 2
        • Convenience Store #1
        • On the way home
        • China Telco
        • The end of the roll
        • Kowloon hydrant
        • Walls
        • Trolleys
        • Clean streets
        • More fire plugs
        • Ladders
        • Fields of plenty
        • Hong Kong hydrants
        • More fields
      • ► March (1)
        • More Dead Servos
      • ► February (2)
        • Eat in or take away
    • ► 2010
      • ► November (3)
        • Rage, rage
        • All that remains
        • Just passing through
      • ► October (3)
        • Hold everything dear
        • Captive to memory
        • Where hope and hopelessness collides
      • ► September (5)
        • Will you catch me when I fall?
        • Quoting Dylan Thomas
      • ► August (1)
      • ► July (2)
        • A matter of opinion
        • Another outing
      • ► May (1)
        • Cusp - unconscious narratives of the surgical intervention
      • ► April (2)
        • By way of explanation
        • Quoting William Yeats
      • ► March (2)
        • Misquoting Willliam Yeats
        • Smith Street
      • ► February (1)
    • ► 2009
      • ► December (1)
        • Epitaph
      • ► November (2)
        • Finally
      • ► October (2)
        • Avoca main street
        • All that remains
      • ► September (1)
        • Unsettled
      • ► August (2)
        • Rubbish Theory
        • Local knowledge
      • ► July (3)
        • Dead Servos
      • ► June (2)
        • House in the sky
        • Flock in Ararat
      • ► May (1)
        • Hotham Street, St Kilda
      • ► April (3)
      • ► March (3)
        • Sleeper
      • ► February (1)
        • The trees of Rome
      • ► January (2)
        • I must be in Naples because....
        • Nightlife
    • ► 2008
      • ► December (5)
        • Campo de' Fiori
        • Shoo fly
        • Washing in public spaces
        • Leaving Rome
        • Music in public spaces
      • ► November (6)
        • Madonnas in public spaces
        • Scissor Sharpener
        • More dogs of Rome
        • The dogs of Rome #1
        • Looking for an exhibition by Ernesto Neto
        • A difference of opinion
      • ► October (1)
        • Smith Street
      • ► September (1)
        • Recliner #3
      • ► August (2)
        • Return to the streets #2
        • Return to the streets
      • ► July (1)
        • They flock together
      • ► June (4)
        • Flock
        • From the stencil archive
        • Laneway smoko #10
        • more suitcases
      • ► May (3)
        • Yours or mine
        • More from the stencil archive
        • Better than a texta
      • ► April (3)
        • The city and its strangers #18
        • Looking down #1
      • ► March (5)
        • Looking up #5
        • The city and its strangers
        • Looking up #4
      • ► February (2)
    • ► 2007
      • ► December (2)
        • The city and its strangers #18
        • The city and its strangers #17
      • ► November (2)
        • The day after
        • The city and its strangers #16
      • ► October (4)
        • the city and its strangers #15
        • A change of venue
        • The city and its strangers #14
        • The city and its strangers #13
      • ► September (6)
        • The city and its strangers #11
        • The city and its strangers #10
        • The city and its strangers #9
        • The city and its strangers #8
        • The city and its strangers #7
        • Another voice
      • ► August (13)
        • The city and its strangers #6
        • The city and its strangers #5
        • The city and its strangers #4
        • Mobile art
        • The city and its strangers #3
        • Laneway smoko#13
        • The city and its strangers #2
        • Acting suspiciously #2
        • Site and surface #1
        • The city and its strangers #1
        • View into a carpark #5
        • View from a carpark #4
        • View from a carpark #3
      • ► July (13)
        • Acting suspiciously
        • Public amenity
        • Hard rubbish collection point #2
        • Looking up #5
        • The Palace and the Palais
        • Bright eyed and bushy tailed
        • Circling the ruin
        • Gleaner and the cleaner #4
        • View from a carpark
      • ► June (13)
        • Laneway smoko#13
        • Student life for sale
        • In between space #2
        • In between space
        • Looking up #4
        • Looking up #3
        • Looking up #2
        • Looking up #1
        • Laneway smoko#12
        • The gleaner and the smoker
        • Laneway smoko #10
        • Laneway smoko#9
        • Gleaner and the cleaner #3
      • ► May (13)
        • Jason recliner #2
        • The gleaner and the fishermen
        • The gleaner and the fishermen #2
        • Looking down #3
        • Looking down #2
        • Looking down #1
        • The gleaner and the cleaner #2
        • Gleaner and the cleaner #1
        • The botanist of the pavement
        • View from a bridge #3
        • View from a bridge #2
        • Beside the river next to the bridge
        • Depends on your point of view
      • ► April (5)
        • View from the bridge
        • On the bridge
        • Under the bridge
        • Fields of gold
        • Torquay rocks
      • ► March (7)
        • Walking around Carlton
        • Walking around Paddington
        • A long walk home
        • Waiting for rain #2
        • Quoting Damien Hirst
        • Apartment for sale - Riverside views
        • Moving on
      • ► February (5)
        • Flat out #2
        • And another thing
        • One more thing
        • Flat out
        • I love St Kilda
      • ► January (5)
        • Permanent fixture
        • New year's resolution
        • Waiting for rain
        • Hot afternoon
        • Legless
    • ► 2006
      • ► December (10)
        • Border town #5
        • Border town #4
        • Border town #3
        • Border town #2
        • Border town #1
        • Local Character
        • Out of site
        • Unconscious art of demolition #2
        • Is there a pattern here?
        • The politics of privatisation
      • ► November (14)
        • Anything is possible
        • Writing in public #4
        • Writing in public spaces #3
        • Writing in public spaces #2
        • Writing in public #1
        • In my next life I'd like to be a tech head.
        • Locked out
        • Lunch break
        • Mobile memorial #1
        • Mobile memorial #2
        • Tidy Town #3
        • Tidy Town #2
        • Tidy Town #1
        • Hillsy's chairs
      • ► October (9)
        • Not enough water
        • Toilet wall
        • More wheat silos
        • House in the sky #4
        • House in the sky #3
        • House in the sky #2
        • House in the sky
        • No monument
        • The other side
      • ► September (8)
        • Hotel St Kilda
        • Unconscious art of demolition
        • From the badlands
        • Contested space
        • Another redemption?
        • On Punt Road Hill
        • Afterlife #2
        • Afterlife #1
      • ► August (15)
        • A brief history of stencils #8
        • A brief history of stencils #7
        • A brief history of stencils #6
        • A brief history of stencils #5
        • afterlife
        • A brief history of stencils #4
        • A brief history of stencils #3
        • A brief history of stencils #2
        • A brief history of stencils
        • More signs
        • Is it art or is it science.....
        • Moving to St Kilda
        • Same words
        • Quiet resignation
        • St Kilda pill popper
      • ► July (14)
        • Size 10 shoe
        • Monument to mediocity
        • Love that design
        • The height of fashion
        • Another conversation
        • Another voice
        • On edge #4
        • Girls on edge #3
        • Identity crises
        • Passive smoking
        • Another Furphy #2
        • Sydney postcard
        • Isn't everybody?
      • ► June (15)
        • Writing in public
        • Urban fabric #12
        • Urban fabric #11
        • Urban fabric #10
        • Rural/urban #7
        • Rural/urban #6
        • Rural/urban #5
        • Rural/urban #4
        • Rural/urban #3
        • Rural/urban #2
        • Rural/urban #1
        • Laneway smoko #9
        • City fabric
        • Waiting for a new home
        • Urban fabric #9
      • ► May (14)
        • The last of the pink bags
        • Another furphy #1
        • Pink bag
        • Town square
        • Out of place
        • More freeway art
        • Waste not want not
        • A work of art on every corner
        • Business as usual
        • Peak Hour
        • Privatising public space.....
        • Laneway smoko #8
        • Laneway smoko #7
      • ► April (14)
        • Object on pedestal #2
        • Object on pedestal
        • A long walk home
        • Marked for removal?
        • Message board
        • Out of site
        • Duds #1
        • Laneway smoko #6
        • Old St Kilda Monument
        • What does it mean?
        • Laneway smoko #5
        • Re-direction notice
        • Another set of signs #1
      • ► March (14)
        • Back to normal soon
        • Official marks #6
        • Official marks #4
        • Official marks #1
        • The Commonwealth Games
        • Urban fabric #6
        • Urban fabric #7
        • Urban fabric #4
        • Urban fabric #8
        • Colour on canvas
        • The other game in town
        • Grand Prix bump-in #2
        • Grand Prix bump-in #1
        • Commonwealth Games clean-up #1
      • ► February (11)
        • Bindings #1
        • Bindings #2
        • Depends on your point of view #2
        • Depends on your point of view #1
        • The original Heidelberg Mall
        • Still flying the flag
        • Re-establishing
        • Heidelberg Mall renewed #1
        • Heidelberg Mall renewed #2
        • Heidelberg Mall renewed #3
        • A different language
      • ► January (9)
        • Preserved from another era....
        • Road side honesty system'#2
        • Roadside honesty system #1
        • Why not $1.50?
        • Too much information
        • Onions
        • Country Xmas
        • In memory #2
        • In memory #1
    • ► 2005
      • ► December (12)
        • Final word
        • Week before Xmas #4
        • The week before Xmas #3
        • One week before Xmas
        • Relaxed and comfortable? #3
        • Relaxed and comfortable? #2
        • Relaxed and comfortable?#1
        • Sydney postcard
        • No longer on edge
        • Get smart when they get tough
        • Have you ever read the signs?
        • Sacrificial smoke
      • ► November (19)
        • Hard way to earn a buck
        • Laneway smoko #4
        • Waiting for ........
        • A simple set of instructions
        • Exchange rate always on edge
        • Telstra on edge
        • Graffitti artists on edge
        • Howard Government on edge
        • ACMI on edge
        • Laneway smoko #3
        • Laneway smoko #2
        • Laneway smoko #1
        • Sydney Xmas bunting
        • Annandale letterbox
        • Another directive
        • Another version
        • Fitzroy street picnic
        • Message from the Melbourne City Council
        • The city and it's strangers
      • ► October (13)
        • Temporary mark
        • Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival
        • Community Notice Board
        • Melbourne Festival bumps out
        • Trip hazard #3
        • Trip hazard #2
        • Trip hazard #1
        • Sydney's rubbish #6
        • Sydney's rubbish #5
        • Sydney's rubbish #4
        • Sydney's rubbish #3
        • Sydney's rubbish #2
        • Sydney's rubbish #1
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