Media thread - 12 December 2024, 12:38

A photo taken from my seat looking down the length of the plane, with people busily piling in and putting their luggage in.

We are on a plane! Very shortly to arrive in Melbourne.

Posted on 12 December 2024, 12:38

A photo of a big underwater section of the aquarium with lots of fish swimming around.

Today we went to the National Gallery of Victoria, then caught up with @joffotron for lunch, and just finished visiting the aquarium. Pretty overpriced tbh, but the aircon was nice and we had a good sit and watched the fish and it made me want to play Subnautica again, haha. Now we're just killing time until we meet up with everyone for Fedivus!

darkroom melbourne fish

Posted on 13 December 2024, 16:33

A quite zoomed-in photo of a small dark blue helicopter.

And now we've been buzzed by a VERY slow-moving, low-flying helicopter that's going along the river.

darkroom melbourne helicopers

Posted on 13 December 2024, 16:41

A panorama photo of fourteen people sitting around a set of wooden outdoor tables. @ajft is at the very left but also did a runner after the camera moved from his position and is also pictured sitting at the opposite end of the table, haha.

A++ would Fedivus again! Wonderful to meet-slash-see-again @ajft @[email protected] @[email protected] @koosli @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @ThermiteBeGiants @[email protected] and @[email protected]! Plus @koosli's lovely partner!

kristina darkroom friends melbourne

Posted on 13 December 2024, 23:21

A photo of a very small corner of the Chapel St Bazaar. In the middle on a table are milk crates with old records, behind them in glass display cases are just TONS of random small knick-knacks: old round metal containers from decades ago that used to contain things like shoe polish or tobacco or sweets, similar things but boxes, small porcelain statues, and so on. At the left are larger tins and such that say they used to contain cocoa, milk powder, coffee, black tyre paint, imitation maple syrup, etc. Everything is just absolutely jam-packed next to everything else.

A photo taken looking down Chapel St in the grimier Prahran end of things. There are lots of cars parked on either side of the road, with traffic stopped along it, and a bunch of older-looking two-storey building/shop fronts.

Today we had an extremely lazy morning, then went for a walk along Chapel St through South Yarra into Prahran to go visit the Prahran Market and the Chapel St Bazaar. The Market wasn't that interesting, mostly just food, but the Bazaar was amazing. Massive and just absolutely chock full of the most random stuff, from vintage cameras and old paintings to Playboy and Penthouse magazines from the 1980s and earlier. Chapel St itself gave me EXTREMELY King St in Newtown vibes, if you took away the tram tracks and overhead wiring it's an absolute dead-ringer. In South Yarra we've seen not one but TWO McLarens, a Ferrari, several high-end Porsches, and a goddamned Rolls Royce as well. It was interesting how quickly the atmosphere changed from "gentrified high-end wankery" in South Yarra to "grimy and a bit run down" in Prahran as we walked south along Chapel St.

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Posted on 14 December 2024, 16:09

A selfie of three people sitting around a restaurant table, all smiling at the camera. There's River, a white non-binary person with long brown hair and glasses, Kristina, a white woman with short brown hair, and me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair.

Our final outing of this trip was meeting up with @[email protected] for dinner, after MANY years since we last saw them! A++ company and food.

kristina selfie me darkroom friends melbourne

Posted on 14 December 2024, 21:24

A photo taken out the window of a plane as it's banking, showing lots of houses and trees and a section of maybe a mall? There are a few unit blocks scattered around too.

I love looking out the window when the plane is coming in for a landing, makes me want to play Cities: Skylines. 😛

sydney darkroom plane

Posted on 15 December 2024, 15:18