Filmed 19 Aug 2012 from 10th floor, 45 Macleay St, Party (sic) Point. Of course there's a big council truck of one sort or another, if not more, trawling along the narrow lane right below the flat, just for added noise!
The original video, as is from the camera:
Look at the DeepDream one, you know the machine would never do my signature, does a big indecisive scrub. Hilarious. In light of what it does do, I completely forgive it. This time.
This DeepDream composite is a composite of 2 of my recent photos of a moonrise over-styled in the colours of a sunset. The program has done a very classy, understated dice and slice of the valley below as well. Deceptively simple.
Moon rising around 5:42 AEST, 12 June 2025, looking sou'east.
Moonlight over my south east horizon, a very generous slice of heaven indeed.
Upscaled to 8K this time, nothing less, and rendered with the Real Smooth model instead of the usual Anime model to see what the diff is.
Here are enduring marks of an ancient structure.
A coastal depot or magazine, as the primary sources may call it, a military storage site for arms. An ancient stockade, a waypoint for wild animals and slaves captured farther south in the interior of Africa, bound for the households and circuses of Rome and Byzantium.
Earth built up on the eastern side indicates the deep tracks of the main entrance. A lot of work happened here so there must have been a lot of traffic.
Be great to know what era these are from. Could be originally Egyptian being so close to the Egypt/Libya border. Could well have been a sporting arena as much as anything else. Within the Roman Empire in 500AD.
The Glebe Point Road of 1975 is a distant memory, true. Then it was noisy, mainly grey concrete and tar, noisy buses, general diesel spiced traffic congestion. University Hall, I seem to recollect, was in great neglect and perhaps was condemned around then after being used as squats for a few years. As were houses way up farther along. And the Glebe church, where you'd visit a couple of times a week to commune with resident squatters and other friends, spending hazy crazy winter evenings tending the great hearth fire with broken pieces of church furniture to keep warm.
Now, though, things look very different. Narrow, sedentary, very chilled. Not at all industrial. Not at all antique, either, really. But very chic and intended to be somewhat above changes in fashion. While of course, all the better for safety and general peace and harmony, and absolutely right on the Glebe marque for cute; it always was a very elegant area, a goldmine beyond all proportion of property stock considering the period and their already veteran age and still rising in value. neo-Federation matter of fact cool bungalows with verandas and desire inducing classy Victorian three and four story mansions the aesthetic magic continues and probably gathers more intensity in Annadale, where it spreads out more sumptuously and ends up high up on the hill there overlooking the harbourside.
But unfortunately with all that comes the vastly increased cost to exist in this beauty.
And yet again, if that's what folk want and they can afford it.
At the start of Glebe Point Roadhttps://www.domain.com.au/21c-82-94-darlinghurst-road-potts-point-nsw-2011-2020168560
