Brisbane - Spring Hills

norman.ho

These are some recent snap shorts of Brisbane.  Spring Hills is part of the Brisbane CBD (central bussiness district) located at the north side of Bristane.  Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia, there is a good Asian migrant community who choose to live here.  Its the third largest city in Australia, next to Melbourn and a lot quieter when comparing to Sydney.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb5 T8 U+ Q% t7 M9 y2 g4 G5 e

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One of the city park at Spring Hills
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The popular St John Cathedral: 5.39.217.76# A! U- {& z6 q6 U  E& n

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- C: M( _+ E$ J( O4 B公仔箱論壇And no, there aint no kangaroo running around the streets, except this one 公仔箱論壇6 A( x% W0 B$ m" ]  x3 F7 X

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Arial view of some resort islands:   
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norman.ho

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7 U# b) j5 k: O$ b9 G1 OI suppose it is one way of solving the problem.  A win win situation.

norman.ho

I forgot to apologize to our viewers that I can't write good Chinese, but I can read most of them. Thanks to our mod who would accept English for posting to this forum.
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norman.ho

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$ Q5 w; \6 w# A. S7 c9 x0 xtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbFirstly, I do not condone defacing public properties.  I am glad that when I visited HK, I didn't see much of it.公仔箱論壇( b0 \6 L$ b8 g
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Yes, the graffiti painters who were engaged by the local council or private owners do get paid a small amount of money to do the work.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* I5 X3 r& L9 ]( O! E' V9 `' }
and No, they are not an organised gang, most of them are teenagers who are bored, some with better artistic skill than others, and most of them do grow out of it.  For the ones who are engaged to do the painting, its more for their personal pride than the monetary gain.& G- S2 A0 U5 u

# I; \* m1 M( pThere are still a lot of tagging on old building walls and bus shelters though, it does cost the tax payer a lot money to have them cleaned.  By the way, those who are caught doing graffiti, they are usually charged and ordered to do the cleaning up themselves.

norman.ho

Oops, there is an update to one of the photos, this is not a kangaroo sculpture at all, but it did look like a traveling kangaroo to me:
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The sculpture was done by an artest called Cezary Stulgis who studied in both the Brisbane University of Technology and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Sculpture, Krakow, Poland.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb  j( E5 o& Y* S% I4 c
The sculpture is actually a dog and the tree trunk in his backpack represents the last tree on earth, and there is a large square hole though the torso only visible from the front and back, containing a ball. The ball represents the life force or energy. TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。+ g+ `6 ?3 X0 B) s# D) f) |4 c
This piece was commissioned by the owner of the apartment building behind it.