AUSSIEMANDIUS - ZERO 'G'
(BEST VIEWED ON A COLOSSAL SCALE..)
There are degrees of silence.
After the Fall the great stadia and arenas of the world stood vastly, achingly empty.
The amplifying bowls and tiered stands that had shouted the team spirit of millions of fans to the sky echoed only to the forlorn cry of passing seagulls.
Mourning the food that the thronging crowds had born as their natural bounty.
Drained of life when the World unplugged the gathering places gathered dust
and silence until they were full of emptyness.
And the gulls abandoned them for the seas....
After the Fall.
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground in Yarra Park in Victoria, Australia, can hold a capacity crowd of just under 100,000. Like all such big, mass gathering places when it's closed and empty it's VERY empty....
The MCG is affectionately known to Melbournians as "The G". So: "Zero 'G'". And no, my avatar is named after my Science Fiction radio show, not after the MCG.... ;)
This is a view of the exterior of the Southern Stands...I hardly had to desaturate the colour at all it was such a grey old day.
Very Nevil Shute's "On The Beach", the film and mini-series versions of which were shot in Melbourne.
AUSSIEMANDIUS - ZERO 'G'
(BEST VIEWED ON A COLOSSAL SCALE..)
There are degrees of silence.
After the Fall the great stadia and arenas of the world stood vastly, achingly empty.
The amplifying bowls and tiered stands that had shouted the team spirit of millions of fans to the sky echoed only to the forlorn cry of passing seagulls.
Mourning the food that the thronging crowds had born as their natural bounty.
Drained of life when the World unplugged the gathering places gathered dust
and silence until they were full of emptyness.
And the gulls abandoned them for the seas....
After the Fall.
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground in Yarra Park in Victoria, Australia, can hold a capacity crowd of just under 100,000. Like all such big, mass gathering places when it's closed and empty it's VERY empty....
The MCG is affectionately known to Melbournians as "The G". So: "Zero 'G'". And no, my avatar is named after my Science Fiction radio show, not after the MCG.... ;)
This is a view of the exterior of the Southern Stands...I hardly had to desaturate the colour at all it was such a grey old day.
Very Nevil Shute's "On The Beach", the film and mini-series versions of which were shot in Melbourne.