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THE LAST FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL RAZOR
"I tell thee, that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops. I tell thee it is always advancing."
"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me!"
Madame Defarge
"A Tale Of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.
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This is one of the steel shearing hydraulic accessories that the demolition machines are using to deconstruct the Moorabbin Football Oval stands and outbuildings. Its severely practical construction reminds me of the guillotines that were the official mode of execution in France up until 1977.
I have to smile that this brutally efficient eater of metal's factory colour was a cheerful light blue that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of "Bob The Builder."
WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING OUT.....
fortitude and fidelity
strength through loyalty
and the big men flew
up there with cazaly
what they did in life echoes in eternity
after the fall.
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I've finished documenting the deconstruction of the bulk of old Linton Street Moorabbin Football Oval's grandstands and outbuildings which took place over the past year. Training ground of the St. Kilda Football Club. Damn, I'll miss the scenic ruins! I was saving this picture for a special occasion and today's the day, what with St. Kilda losing the 2009 Grand Final to Geelong Football Club on September 26th. The final score was 80 points to 68. (Some stubborn soul on wikipedia initially listed it the other way around!) By all accounts it was a closely fought game, so that's alright then!
St. Kilda's actual home ground is the Docklands Stadium, their training ground and social club remains in Moorabbin and they're moving some of their training and administation base to Seaford by 2010. All of which more or less still justifies their old club song of "We Do Like To Be Besides The Seaside". Though I daresay that the more New Orleans flavoured "When The Saints Come Marching In" will be entirely appropriate given the expected flood of tears from the club's supporters today.
I was born a sports atheist and have no stake in football as such, but have moved, over time, from complete antipathy to rather liking the roar of a football crowd...in the distance. I've never stepped foot inside the MCG or Docklands Stadium or indeed attended a League game, or really watched a game on telly, but I sort of feel that if there's a footy match being played somewhere in Melbourne on the 'weegend' then things can't be all that bad.
Besides which, it meant that the cinema, where I spent Grand Final day, had lots of room to kick back and enjoy films....not that I need to nail my geek colours to the mast, since that ship sailed years ago!
This particular bit of club signage was on the southernmost stand before it was demolished.
Oh, and Roy Cazaly was, at one time, a famous St. Kilda player, immortalised in a popular footy song.
Final scores:
Richmond 10.8 (68)
St Kilda 6.13 (49)
Attendance: 33,489
See AFL Tables for game stats.
MPLSLH000783
Very much like my other AFL Fan challenge I aim to post 1 photo per week of a beautiful AFL fan.
The challenge is that I can not duplicate the team (so no more St Kilda fans) and I need to capture all 18 teams in 17 weeks.
This week I think I captured 3 in one slightly out of focus picture, but it's still a nice shot.
1 down - 17 teams to go!
(BEST VIEWED LARGE)
"From the ground up our works were ground down.
After the Fall, the floors cracked as the plants invaded, unweeded.
Elsewhere, ancient, uncovered Roman mosiacs began a second fall into ruin. Tiled dolphins, lovers, gladiators and canines would caper for a few years before once again being shrouded by rubble and dust.
Pompei had gone global."
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Another Christmas Day picture taken at what used to be marvelously decrepit Linton Street Football Oval in Moorabbin, Melbourne. This flooring was outside near one of the turnstile ticketing gatehouses. It may have been removed from an interior and simply dumped on the concrete outside, but it's also quite possible it was part of a building that was torn down. Either way it's gone now, completely erased in one of the Oval's makeovers.
At any rate, it took on a character it never had when it was indoors!
That's one persistent weed, by the way. Right through the concrete and the tile.
Moorabbin, Melbourne, Australia. January 2009.
The St. Kilda Football Club is moving from its home ground in Linton Street after many years of wrangling with the local council and the old, semi-derelict grandstands and other structures are being demolished.
I'm not at all a footy fan but as an artist I'll surely miss the old ruin! As will the birds and other beasties that have made their homes there over the decades.
The 'clawdigger' here is tearing up the concrete terrace edging that lined the inside of the earthern berm. I hope that they at least retain the berm, as it breaks up the otherwise flat landscape.
The first sight I had of the demolition work in progress was this Jurassic Dino rearing its boom over the berm*, tracks squealing and claw bucket gnashing as it bit down on concrete...
(*Usually, le boom comes after le berm....)
Demons, Cats, Blues, Saints and Hawks: these are a few of the great names associated with the city's own brand of competitive football, which is now a national - and not provincial as some lament - code, the Australian Football League, AFL.
Just to confuse matters there also is a Melbourne rugby football club - rugby league that is, but that's another matter.
Today, July 13, 2013 Melbourne Demons play Geelong Cats, Carlton Blues play St Kilda Saints and Hawthorn - the mighty Hawks - play Port Adelaide (from another city and another state and not one of the original greats).
Many of those cruising the city boulevards on a Saturday morning are footy fans. Some have travelled from country farms and towns, some from interstate - some from overseas no doubt. The greater majority are from the four corners of Melbourne itself. Come for the footy, to its home and capital, where, if you're lucky, the sun will shine and your team will win.
魔鬼，猫，蓝调，圣徒和老鹰：这些都是一些伟大的名字与城市的自己的品牌竞争力的足球，现在一个国家 - 和不省一些感叹 - 代码，在澳大利亚足球联赛，AFL。
仅仅是用来迷惑重要的还有墨尔本橄榄球俱乐部 - 橄榄球联赛，但是那是另一回事。
今天，7月13日，2013墨尔本魔鬼玩Geelong猫，卡尔顿蓝调发挥圣基尔达圣徒和山楂 - 强大的老鹰 - 发挥港口阿德莱德（从另一个城市，另一种状态，而不是原来的伟人之一）。
许多巡航城市的林荫大道上的一个星期六早上褴褛的球迷。有些人专程从全国农场和乡镇，一些州际 - 一些来自海外毫无疑问。的更大的大部分是来自墨尔本本身的四个角。来吧褴褛，其家庭和资本，在那里，如果你幸运的话，太阳将照耀和您的团队将赢得。
This is probably not very original or a particularly difficult photo challenge, but each week I aim to post 1 interesting or amusing photo of an AFL fan.
The challenge is that I can not duplicate a team and I need to capture all 18 teams in 17 weeks
Car bumper sticker from around 1988 or 1989 promoting a competition for VFL Grand Final tickets through the St Kilda Football club and its then sponsor Snowdeli (referred to as the 'Snowdeli Saints' for a period).
Snowdeli was a chain of delicatessens in the late 1980s and very early 1990's before the brand disappeared. The Victorian Football League (VFL) was renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) for the 1990 Premiership Season.
This was on a power pole located not far from the former Waverley Park, where it probably came from!
We went to training and bumped into my fiancé's favourite player - Aaron Hamill. They stopped for a quick pic, even though they were rushing into training.