April 18, 2004
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© 1999 Peter Murphy – Panorama of Sydney HarbourWOW. Check out these Quicktime images of Australia at Peter Murphy’s Virtual Scenes and Panoramic VR Weblog (click on the ‘panorama’ links)
“Asked to define his style, Murphy calls his blog a social documentary and points to a number of continuing themes: ships and the Harbour, urban environment and cultural heritage issues, parades and protests and crowds, art exhibitions and performance art, sunrises and sunsets, street scenes.
While Murphy thought the blog would motivate him to make more panoramas, his main motivation was to promote the concept of panoramic VR photojournalism.” - vrmagFrom GlobeandMail.com’s article on Cholo style.
“Like their L.A. hipster counterparts, who flock to lucha shows, collect lucha figurines and tune in stoned to Mucha Lucha! (the No. 1 kids cartoon in the United States), they are barrio wannabes. And their “cholo” look — wearing bandannas folded flat over their buzz cuts and sporting clothing tattooed with Old English lettering just like the Latino outlaws, or cholos, of L.A.’s gang-riddled East Side — is fast replacing hip-hop as the next new style signifier of street credibility.”
Really? ML – the No. 1 kids cartoon in the USA? Talk about exaggeration! And this is the first time we’ve heard of lucha fans tuning in stoned and wanting to be cholos. Could this be happening in Canada?Urban75 Rave Dancers! - Where’s my keys, Picking fruit, sock drawer etc…
We’ve just booked our flights to Melbourne for this Friday. Eddie is going to spend some time with his Dad. I’m going to hang out with my friends Suze and Goretti.
In the two days we’ve been back in Sydney – we’ve been cleaning out the studio which was covered in a thick layer of dust (!) and clearing out our PCs – getting rid of files, archiving and defragmenting. Sadly, Eddie’s Vespa won’t start and it’s going to the repairers today… Still have to renew our visas. Then, it’s back to work…
Comments (3)
Interesting article. I have a hard time imagining Canadians getting into this scene as well, but Toronto is a pretty happening place.Growing up in Whittier amid the gang violence and drugs that Cholo culture represented, I couldn’t see much to celebrate about it. They were the guys who would threaten to slit my throat and steal my lunch money so they could buy tubes of glue to huff. And congratz on having the number 1 cartoon in America!…;^)
You grew up in Whittier? The Oceanic Arts place is still on our list of places to visit. – lili
Yes, I lived in Whittier from age 11 to 19, and I had absolutely no clue that Oceanic Arts was there, even though I used to frequent the rollerskating rink right down the street from it! I didn’t find out about it until I read Matt Moranian’s book, L.A. Bizarro.