Monday, May 26, 2008

The horse, the man, and his son?

One of the cool things about the shops in Newtown is that as a general rule, they make a bit more of an effort with the ethnic diversity of their showroom dummies. I particularly enjoyed this little hybrid/multi-cultural family in a Riddiford St window:




Especially the accidental pseudo-religious effect produced by my phone camera when trying to deal with the blow-out from the from-above lighting. Sorry about the crappy photos.

Tilahun Gessesse with the Walias Band - Untitled wailing Ethio-funk classic (14.4 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)





Awesome Tapes from Africa is not exactly my Favourite New Blog; more like a perennial favourite for a long time now. If I had time I'd possibly start one in kind: "Awesome Tapes from Newtown", or something.
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2 comments:

  1. Robyn26/05/2008, 4:47 pm

    The manchild boygod: he is ready to hit the town in the early 1960s, hanging out at a milk bar, looking at the hep chicks, loitering outside the local picture theatre, and making the crippled mans walk again.

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  2. Anonymous27/05/2008, 2:45 pm

    One of the most interesting scenes I have witnessed in recent times was at that shop.

    I was walking to work and saw the proprieter changing the outfits on the mannequins. He tried to preserve the dignity of his female mannequins by stringing up a large white sheet across the window, so that their plastic lady bits couldn't be seen by stray passers-by.

    Bless him. It was really quite sweet (albeit slightly disturbing).

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