A trip to the Melbourne museum
I went to the Melbourne museum the last two Thursdays in May 2003 (as a postgrad does). So I took the opportunity to take lots and lots of pictures. I was using a disposable camera, so the quality of some of the pictures is quite dodgy.
It began when RMIT mysteriously turned into MIT at night. I specifically bought the camera for this purpose.
RMIT
MIT?
Well okay… So the light behind the the "R" is out. But nevertheless, it's always fun saying to people that I study at MIT. And I have proof of it as well! As you can see, the quality of the image isn't that great. I was going to have another go at obtaining the second picture. But alas, they've already fixed it.
Quite rightly, I found that I had 20 more exposures left in my camera after I took the images above. So, when my friend asked if I wanted to go to the museum, I said yes immediately. They just very recently announced that the tickets were now AUD 6 instead of AUD 15. But, as we later found out, even this cut was not enough. Students could get in for free, complete with a free newspaper (The Age) and a free entry to ICE (Immersion Cinema Experience). Don't actually know what the latter one is. We haven't got the chance to go there yet. The tagline says "Play Australia's first interactive arcade-like cinema game".
Front view of the museum
Side view of the museum, also known as the "Eleojrne Nusej"
I love the overhanging bit in front of the museum. There's an identical one at the other end of the building. The scale of the size of that thing can be deduced from comparison with the people in the image. The leading edge of the building houses Melbourne's IMAX cinema. This is one of three IMAX cinemas in Australia. The second one is in Sydney. The third one is located at the Gold Coast's Dreamworld.
The entrance to IMAX cinema
The above is the entrance to the IMAX cinema. You can just make out a set of escalators going down. The fella walking past on the right gives the indication of size.
The Melbourne museum is located north of the city, next to the Royal Exhibition Building and the Carlton gardens. The images below were taken on different days. I am quite fond of the last image. I reckon it turned out quite well.
Front view of the Royal Exhibition Building
Back view of the Royal Exhibition Building
The Carlton gardens
I took some pictures in the museum, but unfortunately, some of them didn't come out quite well. The disposable camera is horrible when used to take pictures of far objects in a low-light environment, even using flash. The following are some of the good ones that I took.
A huge whale
Three creatures invading the museum, with only a thin panel of glass stopping them from terrorising the museum patrons.
CSIRAC, Australia's first computer, in all it's glory
A model of the MCG
I especially like the CSIRAC. It was Australia's first electronic computer and one of the first in the world. It was developed by Australia's CSIR (later becomes CSIRO) in the 1950s.
Even after the museum trips, I still had to finish up my films. What better way to do that than to go to Melbourne Uni. So I did. Here's a snapshot of the Graduate Centre building. Notice the presence of grass in the foreground. It's a completely unknown substance at RMIT.
Melbourne Uni's Graduate Centre
Melbourne is not Melbourne without it's trams. Here are a couple of images I took. The first one was taken from the bridge just outside the Physics Podium at Melbourne Uni, overlooking Swanston Street. The city centre can be seen in the background. The second image shows Melbourne's refurbished Z-Class tram in front of the new Siemens Combino tram. They're both operated by M>Tram.
Top view of trams
The old and the new
Lastly, we found this little juvenile critter in our living room. Looks like he went in through the kitchen window, wandered to the living room, and couldn't find the way out. Naturally, we trapped him and took a picture. Before you say anything, we let him go after we took this picture.
No possum was hurt in obtaining this image