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Road trip!!!

OK, time to call a spade a spade.

Creative-thoughts me is going on a road trip. Hop in the low-rider and come with me to http://alexofmelbourne.tumblr.com

Business and marketing me will still be chilling at http://lovenumbertwo.blogspot.com

- peace.

Melbourne vs Brisbane

Looks like Brisbane is getting its revenge on Melbourne.

Late in 2008 Melbourne lord mayor Robert Doyle famously labeled greater Brisbane as, "almost a contradiction in terms." Now it looks like those Brisbane-ites have snuck into Melbourne in the dark of night and extracted their revenge.

This photograph was snapped on Queen Street in Melbourne's 'heart' last night. Sightings of this sticker have also been made on Elizabeth Street, and no doubt it is located in many other areas of the CBD. Of course, BNE is the airport code for none other than rival city, Brisbane.

Oh, the troubles that Mayor Doyle will bring on this heart-filled city! No doubt his comments on Adelaide and Sydney will also come back to haunt Melbourne.

Watch out for a three way BNE/SYD/ADL revenge. Can Melbourne withstand such an onslaught?

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UPDATE 10.25AM 26/03/2009

Further research has proven that Brisbane is in fact not only seeking revenge on Melbourne, but has actually been holding a grudge on most major metropolitan cities across the world since 2006. Photos of Brisbane's rampant worldwide campaign can be found in the BNE Flickr group

St.Kilda Junction, creative billboard

Tardy, tardy me. The year is flying by and I my Melbourne adventures are not being logged! Must, must, must take more photos! Hopefully all will be resolved in April when I get a lovely new phone to take piccies with, my current one is ever so old.

Above is what I think is one of the best billboards I have seen recently in Melbourne. Erected at St.Kilda Junction, these Cascade Green billboards had been erected intermittently over 2008, but this one, I think, is the biggest I have seen so far.

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Manchester Lane - art

Who here remembers the classic PC game Alley Cat? It was the bees knees back in the day. And here, in Manchester Lane we are reminded that today's architecture and design is not all composite materials and state-of-the-art manufacture. That the good old tile and grout has just as much place in today's design handbook.

What a nice little piece of homeliness to see outside your apartment block each evening.

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