Media thread - 24 August 2024, 21:23

A screenshot of the iOS Alarms app with an alarm set for 4:50am.

@yayKM's mum is visiting for two weeks and her plane gets in at arse o'clock tomorrow morning, so our alarms are set so we can go pick her up from the airport. 😫 This is going to be a shock.

Posted on 24 August 2024, 21:23

A photo looking out the front window of a Sydney Metro train in the tunnel, the tunnel is a rounded shape and we're in motion so there's a ton of motion blur.

We are home! Taking the Metro to Central and changing to the airport line was such a damned good idea, it was so convenient. No road tolls, plus I didn't need to attempt to drive while being tired.

However the downside of being up at 4:50am is that it's now 9:23am and my body is telling me it's lunch time.

darkroom sydney metro

Posted on 25 August 2024, 9:17

A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app, showing I did 4221kJ, 79 exercise minutes, 19 standing hours, and 12,251 steps for a total of 10.51km.

I have never done NINETEEN standing hours before. 🫠

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Posted on 25 August 2024, 22:37

A photo of a three-section metal tray, the left has a roti canai which is a sort of fluffy balled-up pastry thing and a dollop of sambal sauce, and the other two sections have two different types of curry sauce in them.

A photo of a plate of mee goreng, with a slice of tomato, lime, and three slices of cucumber next to it.

Featherdale has been followed up by Mamak and it was goooooood as hell as always. 👌🏻

Good thing I've done 15k steps today, between Featherdale and an hour on the elliptical, because I am SO FULL now.

chatswood darkroom food mamak

Posted on 26 August 2024, 20:06

A photo of a big bowl of tonkotsu ramen with three pieces of fried chicken beside it, as well as an extra boiled egg.

Today was a quiet one, but we did go out to Japanese in Chatswood (once again, shout out to the Sydney Metro) and it was excellent.

chatswood darkroom food portrait mode ramen

Posted on 28 August 2024, 20:38

A photo of the tunnel right as you leave Gadigal station. It's brightly lit with walls that curve up and are corrugated to deaden echoes. The bottom half of the walls are an off-white, and the top half are alternating black and white, and the roof is black. It's very visually striking.

A photo of the HUGE mural at the middle set of escalators at Gadigal station. It's multiple storeys high, tiled, and features a bright cheerful yellow background with a blue tunnel painted in the middle that curves off the right.

A photo taken from the top of the escalators down into the Metro platform at Barangaroo. The walls are roughly-cut sandstone with some sort of leafy (I think?) art decoration at the right.

Today we took the bus to the Metro, then the Metro in to the city so we could go visit the Sydney Aquarium!

Have I mentioned how good the Metro is? Because I feel like it bears repeating, it's SO GOOD. We got off in the morning at Gadigal station, and after we finished with the aquarium we walked north and then took the Metro from Barangaroo back to Tallawong. They've done such a fantastic job with the interior of the stations, it's bright and modern and interesting, I love it.

I bought the DSLR along so I could take photos in the aquarium, and I got some shots of our wanderings through Barangaroo that I'm really happy with too.

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Posted on 29 August 2024, 17:22

A photo of an older woman with grey hair sitting at an electronic drum kit in the middle of playing. There's an iPad in the middle with the app "Melodics" open, indicating with coloured squares which drum pad should be hit when.

Currently teaching @yayKM's mum how to play drums.

She's a lot better with the coordination than my mum is, but then I found out that she used to play the full church organ that involves using both your hands and feet!

our house darkroom family drums

Posted on 2 September 2024, 10:49

A high-contrast black and white photo taken standing in the middle level of Sydney's Martin Place Metro station looking both up to the entrance and down to the bottom level. There is a lift directly in front at the bottom, with two sets of double-escalators on either side, and then another two escalators coming in from either side of the frame going up to the brightly-lit entrance to the station.

A high-contrast, very moody black and white photo inside a big gothic cathedral looking down the aisles of pews towards the altar.

A high-contrast black and white photo of the platform at Gadigal station, with a bunch of people standing around. It's all very clean and white and futuristic-looking.

Today was a day ending in Y so we took the Metro again, this time to the Art Gallery of NSW. We dropped into St. Mary's Cathedral on the way back, and I realised that the photo I took inside there plus the couple of the Metro platform and station looked great in high-contrast black and white. I also realised that with us getting off at Martin Place Station this morning, we've now seen all of the new CBD Metro stations!

I also brought the DSLR along and took some Proper Photos of my favourite pieces of art in the gallery.

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Posted on 3 September 2024, 20:10

A pair of individual framed paintings showing the two frames of the "Awkward Monkey" meme, with a little red sticker next to it indicating it's been sold. No, I don't know why either.

Today we went to Carriageworks to see the Sydney Contemporary exhibition. There were some really cool artworks, and also some weird and very pretentious ones.

Also for some reason someone painted Awkward Monkey.

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Posted on 5 September 2024, 13:42

A wide-angle photo taken from the bottom of the set of three escalators looking up them on the Metro platform at Sydney's Central station. It's a big open area with geometric textured sandstone-coloured walls above.

And now we're heading back home on the Metro, having dropped @yayKM's mum off at the airport. I don't think we've used public transport this much since pre-COVID!

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Posted on 7 September 2024, 8:22