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In January 2014, Ping (hereafter known as “Daisy Bates”, the Australian adventurer/explorer) and I visited Central Australia on one of those 3-day camping trips. Day one: Uluru. Day two: the Olgas. Day three: Kings Canyon. Very good. Very interesting. Can now cross that one off my list. Glad I did it when I did though, Read more
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Derham talking to Radio New Zealand’s Jim Mora about Hopalong Cassidy’s Australian tour in 1954. https://derhamgroves.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/aft-20130815-1416-hopalong_cassidy-0483.mp3 Read more
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Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai, and some Chinese movie star. Shanghai Grand Theatre designed by Jean-Marie Charpentier. Ningpo Museum designed by Wang Shu. Hangzhou Grand Theatre designed by Carlos Ott. International Convention Centre, Hangzhou, designed by Xia Bangjie. Brick mountain sculpture, Hangzhou. Dragon boat, West Lake, Hangzhou. A hardware shop in Jinxi. The Grand Canal, Jinxi. Read more
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The Architect The Detective The Rugby Player The Cowboy The Mouseketeer The Urban Planner The Art Critic The Pirate The Iranian The Stowaway Read more
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Los Angeles, California The star of William Boyd/Hopalong Cassidy on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The grave of Topper, Hoppy’s beautiful white horse, in the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery. The grave of Andy Clyde, Hoppy’s loveable sidekick, California Carlson, at Forest Lawn Cemetery. The Colburn School designed by architects Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (opposite the Walt Read more
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Our little mud hut, which we’ve owned since 2007. Purple wildflowers. My trusty 1987 Subaru “Brumby,” the second one I’ve driven. Barbequed sausages for dinner. The bush next to our mud hut Read more
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The final election results for the three councillors from the City of Moreland’s South Ward are: FORSTER, Martin 1512 9.83% RATNAM, Samantha 3579 23.27% HOPPER, Meghan 2580 16.78% FARRELLY, Liam Shaun 985 6.41% GROVES, Derham 1314 8.54% CARMODY, Michael 1315 8.55% GRAEFE, Narelle 261 1.70% TAPINOS, Lambros 3832 24.92% While I didn’t win the election, Read more
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Produced by Bearcage Productions, 2012. Read more
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Last year (2011) the students who did my Popular Architecture and Design course at the University of Melbourne examined kebab shops in Melbourne. This year they looked at another similarly “invisible” and seemingly banal building type — launderettes (the English term) or Laundromats (the American term) in Melbourne. Kebab shops and launderettes represent “third places” Read more
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This envelope is being mailed from one student to another in my Popular Architecture and Design class. Each person has to add something to the envelope before sending it onto the next. Following is a photographic record of the “layers” that it has acquired to date. Read more
Derham Groves 