April 2026
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
‘Wallisms’ are important and they more often than not reflect what is happening in society. The modern Australian culture is a new one. It has benefited from the diverse range of nationalities that have come to this wide, brown land and called it home.
Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect is an idea that is more commonly used in chaos theory. A small change can make much bigger changes happen; one small incident can have a big impact on the future. The idea started from weather prediction. … This term can be used in areas other than weather.
This term was developed by Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) who was an American mathematician and meteorologist. He established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.
This Wallism is opposite from Green Beacon Brewing Co in Helen Street, Teneriffe, Brisbane. this area is full of wonderful, micro boutique breweries. Each have their own personalities and clientel.
Here is a list of ‘must visit’ breweries:
Green Beacon Brewing Co, Helen St Teneriffe
Stone and Wood Brewery, Bridge St, Fortitude Valley
Felons Brewing Co., Boundary St, Brisbane
Range Brewing, Byres St, Newstead
Soapbox Beer, Gipps St, Fortitude Valley
April 2020
Our smiles are our armour
Smiling makes us attractive.
Smiling relieves stress.
Smiling elevates our moods.
Smiling is contagious.
Smiling boosts your immune system.
Smiling lowers your blood pressure.
Smiling makes us feel good.
Smiling makes you look younger.
Smiling makes you seem successful.
Smiling helps you stay positive.
Patterns.
Patterns: A regular and intelligent form or sequence discernible in the way in which something happens or is done. This image, captured by Felix Oppen, is a great example of a ‘Wallism’. Urban art generously created and installed by an anonymous artist, brings pattern, colour and provocative imagery to our dull and often artless urban landscape.
A concrete pillow.
Concrete Pillow.
It is hard, cold and unforgiving all morning, day and night.
Many think I chose this life for me, They say it’s not their fight.
Sometimes the hunger really sucks, but I do have my pride.
I wont beg, so if I must in the garbage I will dive.
My one pair of stockings are so filthy and so stiff I try to wash
in the public fountain since I wont likely get new ones as a gift.
It is hard, cold and unforgiving all morning, day and night.
Many think I chose this life for me, They say it’s not their fight.
Sometimes the hunger really sucks, but I do have my pride.
I wont beg, so if I must in the garbage I will dive.
It is now time to lay down to sleep, I pray the Lord, my soul will keep
And whether or not I die before I wake.
Jacob Folger December 22, 2011.
Athens, Greece
The walls of this splendid city are full of ‘wallisms’. They come in many styles, some are just spontaneous scribbles, some call it graffiti. Some are well executed images, that are considered and crafted and beautiful.
Old school.
Package design is an ever present part of the urban landscape. Strangely, cigarette and tobacco packaging, a key to the overall identity of this commodity, is vilified in many modern cultures. Although people within those cultures still use the product inside. In other cultures, usually more ‘old school’, this visual language is still considered and attractive and acceptable part of the everyday advertising and promotion campaigns.
Tokyo, Japan.
Manga are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.
The term manga in Japan is a word used to refer to both comics and cartooning. ‘Manga’ as a term used outside Japan refers to comics originally published in Japan.
The image on the left was found in a Tokyo subway station. It was an illuminated billboard for some advertising campaign and there were about 10 different images in the series. All the images were 19th century Japanese inspired but really evoked a sense of the contemporary Manga for me.
The image on the right was found on a wall at the Lord Gladstone pub in Chipendale, Sydney.
Kenridge and Rome.
The South African artist, William Kentridge’s ‘Triumphs and Laments’ is comprised of a 550 meter long frieze along the urban waterway of the river Tiber in Rome. The figures, which are up to 12 meters high, chart the city’s historic victories and defeats, ranging from Romulus and Remus to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s murder outside Rome in 1975.
It will, sadly, eventually fade away as the grim returns.
Together at last.
No words can really articulate what this image evokes. First seen in 2017, this visual sentiment is just as relevant 10 years later. A true worry for us all.
Athens, Greece.
Beautiful homes and buildings crumbling due to neglect and hard times are being reinvented and turned into canvases upon which wonderful, playful imagery is placed. A statement of renaissance and defiance driven by the artists of Athens which ensures this eternal city maintains contemporary relevance.
The musing of Athens.
Wallism is a creative activity which knows no boundaries, borders, or limitations. The degree of thought and planning and execution is of a constant source of delight and admiration.
These examples were found in the heart of Athens. A place that is rich in energy and art. Wallism rocks.
Rip, tear, see.
Walking home after work can sometimes be a drag. But sometimes it throws wonderful things in front of me. The pure ‘corner of the eye’ stuff. This example of ‘Wallism’ was found at the intersection of Cleveland and Regent Streets, Redfern.
This serendipitous collage, I fear, wont be there for long, as it is the result of a happy accident of actions and reactions. Just love finding something I was not looking for.
J O Y. One word says it all.
Delight, great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, glee, exhilaration, exuberance, elation, euphoria, bliss, ecstasy, rapture, enjoyment, felicity, joie de vivre, jouissance, literary jocundity, pleasure, source of pleasure, treat, thrill.
And I bet you experience one of the above at least once a day. Be grateful for that and be in that moment.
Write drunk. Edit sober.
Good ideas and insights come to us at unexpected times or in the most unexpected places.
Larger than Life.
Under the freeway overpass, near the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane, huge murals have been lovingly and bravely and passionately created. These works are grand and are of no small effort. They demand your attention both from an aesthetic point of view, as well as from a symbolic place.
They are beautiful.
February 2015
Just hanging around.
A hero.
December 2014
Whats new pussy cat?
November 2014
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
September 2014
May Lane, St Peters, Sydney.
August 2014
Life is black and white, sometimes.
June 2014
Chalk talk.
April 2014
To make one’s mark.
March 2014
Another slice.
February 2014
Dialogue.
January 2014
Little heros.
November 2013
A fresh refresh.
September 2013
Going, going, almost gone.
I remember when I shot these images I had a thought that this Wallism was doomed. This beautiful piece of visual communication, this wonderful, unique Wallism was torn down soon after, for no apparent reason. Then, eventually some god awful badly designed apartment block was put in its place. Old is not bad. New is not always good.
August 2013
The fawn.
June 2013
A love letter to type.
April 2013
Glisten.
February 2013
Love is love.
October 2012
The stuff of life.
June 2012
Horizontal on vertical.
August 2011
Good dog.
June 2011
The ‘ISM’ of the 21st century.
April 2011
Rothko in the streets.
This was the first ‘Wallism’. It was just around the corner from my house and I walked past it everyday. Then suddenly, I got it. This was art.
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