The Polaroid Art of Destiny Deacon
Dolly Eyes
Dolly Eyes
Swan Dive
Regal Eagles – B
Ride A Cock Horse
Ask Your Mother For Sixpence
Under The Spell Of The Tall Poppies
Smile
My Boomerang Did Come Back
The Polaroid Art of Destiny Deacon
Dolly Eyes
Dolly Eyes
Swan Dive
Regal Eagles – B
Ride A Cock Horse
Ask Your Mother For Sixpence
Under The Spell Of The Tall Poppies
Smile
My Boomerang Did Come Back
this is stunning stuff, David: you have excelled yourself this time; each pic has wham and wow ! and yes, I remember Charlie Drake’s song: at the time I thought it was a hoot, unaware of its darker implications —
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We seem to be the by-products,
and even the victims, of tribal
social engineering. History, and
damn lies, is written by the victors.
As Crosby Stills and Nash once said;
You, who are on the road
Must have a code
that you can live by
And so, become yourself
Because the past
is just a goodbye
Teach your children well
Their father’s hell
did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick’s
the one you’ll know by
~ Graham Nash
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I love that song so much, David; from memory it appears on the Deja Vu album —
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Crosby, Stills, and even Nash,
would be left rather helpless
without a song from Neil Young 😎
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K D Lang does a very good version of ‘Helpless’
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As smooth as silk 🎶👌😎
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The eyes are terrifying and the bloody boomerang.
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Unfortunately, just like pretty well
everywhere else, Australia has a
dark and bloody past. As Nelson
Mandela believed, best to expose
darkness to the light, as then it
loses it’s power to shape the future.
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The quote is interesting.
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Nelson Mandela was a
champion of peaceful protest☮️
and hard won reconciliation ☯️
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Yes.
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A brilliant collection by silicon hands/sands
The swallows/gallows eyes landed
Doubly exposed and colourfully branded
Centuries of wife swinging/swopping at the rock
Boomerangs do comeback, but where do they stop
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Did Michael Hutchence
and his band of INXS
have the last laugh when there’s
plenty of guilt to go around?
“And we take it down
To the end of town
Where they have control
But they’re losing touch
when the lights go out
Everybody’s down on their knees
Listen like thieves
But who needs that
When it’s all in your hands?”
Thanks for the solid rock reminder 🙏
Ivor. Just added a piece of Goanna 🦎
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Oh Goanna.. I saw them live in Geelong when lvor was younger and dancing to Eagle Rock..
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I saw first caught the Goanna
at the Station Hotel in Prahran,
way back when. Sadly, that pub
has gone, but Shane Howard is
still going strong 🎸🎶
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Wow.. great to hear that David… I’ll have to dust off the old vinyls…🎵
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My vinyls were called
to give evidence
against Phil Spector
as they refused to give
him a character reference.
Turns out Phil was
livin’ on borrowed time,
and the winds of change
are blowin’ down the line
… right down the line 🎶
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For some strange reason
over many winding roads
blown’ pass destiny’s seasons
I still possess my vinyl odes
Nearly 300, and all of Leonard Cohen’s
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Worth a King’s ransom to anyone
with a turntable 👍😎
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Funny..I have a working turntable…
And love watching the spinning ladels
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Don’t prick your finger
on the needle when
spinning the vinyl,
like poor Aurora, Ivor 😎
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I have to scratch off the fluff
So it doesn’t sound too rough
Can’t have ’em gravely like Tom Waits
Singing at Joe Cockers wake
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Most befitting for a mad dog
Englishman laid so low ☠️ 😥
a Satchmo Scratch ‘n’ Go-Go!
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My sundial’s aging shadow
Doesn’t go as far as Satchmo
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My sundial needs a new battery.
It keeps telling me it’s the stroke
of midnight, back in 1973?!
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I find such dolls creepy as hell. They even made me write about them. I mean, they asked for it.
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They’re been punished enough,
Bojana. I mean, they’re future
looks decidedly bleak, and tragic
as plastic 😱
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Tragic and plastic are still creepy.
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🖤🖤🖤
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🙏 ♠️♦️♣️♥️ 😎
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Different, but intriguing all the same.
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Vive la différence! 😎
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Cheers to that!
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I’m with Bojanna on this one. Such dolls are creepy as hell.
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All the better to see you with, Liz 👁️😎
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You’re doubling down on the creep-out factor?! Oh, for shame . . .
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The eyes have it, Liz 👁️😎👁️
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You’ve won this staring contest. I concede defeat! (In the most gracious fashion, of course.)
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Yes Liz, nobody wants to see
an ageing has-been trying, in a
futile fashion, to get a reaction
from his action figurine 😱
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😀
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Powerful.
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Like a mirror held up to
a post-colonial culture.
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Fascinating and thought-provoking artwork!
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Thank you, Caroline.
It’s Australia Day today, January
26th., celebrating the day Captain
Cook landed and claimed this land
for the English Crown. The only
problem being there were people
already living here, many of whom
now refer to it as Invasion Day.
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Enjoyed reading this. I remember the boomerang song with a smile on my face.
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Precious memories, now in danger
of cancel culture. But then … some
things do need to change.
Thanks for viewing, Sheila 🙏
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford.
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