Mel and the Street Art!

I managed to fulfil another photography goal I honestly didnt expect to for a while - using Melbourne's famous street art as a backdrop. Some people might know that I draw a goofy webcomic about Australian capital city gijinka (personifications), with Mel being Melbourne. He's basically a hipster artist (and also a huge nerd), and ever since I decided to make a DD of him I had hoped that one day I could take photos in the graffiti laneways. But Melbourne is really far from where I live and I don't usually have reason to go there.

I got that chance last weekend thanks to getting tickets to see a certain comedy show as a super early birthday present. It was only a very short stay, so I didnt get to go everywhere I would have liked, but I did manage to get some lovely colourful photos.

 

Unfortunately Mel isn't much of a poser, and I was kind of doing these in a hurry and wasn't able to think of many interesting angles/poses so a lot of them he kind of looks the same. Because of that I thought I'd only upload a few that I liked the best...but I ended up not being able to decide, so I'll just upload most of them.

 

These ones are all from Hosier Lane:

DSC_0816 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0818 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0821 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0827 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0829 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0830 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0859 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0864 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0876 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0815 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0831 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

(that message just made me laugh)

 

The next day I got some more in AC/DC Lane, including one of the sign.

DSC_0894 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0888 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

and I wanted to get a pic of him in front of the cute possum one, but unfortunately Melbourne is also famous for very temperamental and constantly changing weather and it suddenly started raining, so I had to hurriedly put him away.

DSC_0883 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

 

And just cos the street art is so cool, here are some more in-focus pics of it alone.

DSC_0881 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

DSC_0844 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

 

Maybe one day I can do it again with more time. The best street-art is apparently in the suburbs as opposed to in the city itself. There are also entire web-sites dedicated to dobleepenting it!

 

I am not sure yet what my next photo goal is - just this year I fulfilled the three main ones (the other two being snow and cherry blossoms). I'm really pleased about it though, and I need to make a list of new ones.

if you ever make business cards for like.. IRL doll meets or cons or whatever, this should be the image!

 

DSC_0827 by torinomh mh, on Flickr

Wow! I actually didn't know about all that amazing street art. That is super cool! Great shots with Mel, glad you checked off another photo goal!

Super cool photos! I love looking at street art, it can be so interesting. Mel looks super cool himself too