This is your life, and it’s ending one minute spray at a time.
Ironlak casualties can be found far and wide throughout Melbourne abandos.
They work hard and are then left discarded on the ground.
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Ironlak corpses
•March 28, 2012 • 1 Comment
Old Queens Parade warehouse
•March 24, 2012 • 4 CommentsI’ve been going through a tonne of old photos tonight, and have found quite a few of abandoned places that I’d forgotten I even had.
One such place was this old warehouse on Queens Parade in North Fitzroy. Mail was still being delivered through the mail flap on the front door, and had clearly been accumulating for some time.
I’d just tagged along with Maka who was scoping out a potential new place to paint. It was small but had some interesting features – aside from the mail on the ground (I’m always fascinated by the human elements to abandoned places), there was a makeshift bar upstairs, a disused foozeball table, and a hanging hook above a hole in the floor(!). Lots of good walls for painting, too.
Pre-painting:
Post-painting:
The above photo was taken by my fellow street snapper Melissa Findley; you can see more of her photos from this location on her site under the ‘Street‘ section.
Interestingly, as I was finishing this post, my iTunes – which is currently on ‘random’ – decided to play Wu-Tang Killa Bees. Not even making this up.
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…And all the rest from the abandoned office space
•March 22, 2012 • 8 CommentsFollowing on from yesterday’s Stabs pieces inside a fresh abando…
So much good stuff in here. Sorry this post is a bit image heavy.
There were a couple of pieces I didn’t end up getting good photos of, but here is most of it.
Braddock and Klara
A gallery where the walls are the canvases
Dotty computer room, and a Psalm drifter
Evil lounge
Symbolic reflection
Neon loungeroom
Nelio
Korom
I REALLY wanted this mirror...
Li'l Braddocks
Even the toilet got redecorated
Eeeevil
Klara and I & The Others
Li'l puppeh
Wonderlust
Good place with decent light. Would be good for a studio.
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One Stabs, Two Stabs, Three Stabs, Four!
•March 21, 2012 • Leave a CommentActually, there were five…
All in the one abandoned building.
More photos of this place to come.
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Hot air balloons over the Yorkshire Brewery
•March 19, 2012 • 1 CommentHere’s a few from the vault. I took these photos almost two years ago now. It was a lovely mid-Autumn morning, and I was still living on the Fitzroy-Collingwood border at the time, so I decided to go down the road and watch it from the top of the Yorkshire silos.
Just as I got there, hot air balloons were drifting down over Collingwood from the north.
After awhile they disappeared off into the distance southwards.
This place used to be like my second home when I lived nearby.
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“Murder at TinLids” by Murdoch80
•March 16, 2012 • 4 Comments
The abandoned factory we waited seven months for
•March 13, 2012 • 6 CommentsThe second site we visited on Sunday was one we started staking out last August. The first time we went there, two of our crew got in, only for a car to drive up to the main gate and gain access with a swipe card. We didn’t know who it was, so the two guys inside hid for about half an hour until it was safe to make a hasty exit. They reported that the place did indeed appear completely abandoned though. And untouched by taggers/vandals.
So we kept our eyes on it whilst busying ourselves with other adventures, and were about to return, when Psalm beat us to it. Damn that Psalm. He always gets to the good places first 
It was good to finally get a chance to explore the factory – it’s massive – but demolition has already commenced, and I’d say this place will be completely gone in a matter of weeks. I got a mini-workout getting in to and out of the place as well.
There were old living quarters upstairs: little bedrooms complete with built-in wardrobes, kitchenettes whose once-sunny shades of paint are now faded and peeling. It has those beautiful sawtooth roofs that a lot of Melbourne’s early factories had (and these types of buildings really should be preserved).
A different section of the factory yielded several more staircases, and we were delighted to find that there were in fact two more floors above. A large room at the top has a raised platform, what seems to have been a small stage – did the workers have social events here after hours perhaps? There is also a massive kitchen area, followed by a large, empty room decorated with ripped, golden brown curtains and layers of dust. This must have once been their cafeteria.
There were a couple of other cool things we found. I’m not giving those away though…
Here are some shots from the factory:
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