AUSSIEMANDIUS - "TRULY, THEY WERE AS GODS WHO BUILT THIS PLACE!"
Quo Vadis?
Where are you going?
Gone to the Gods.
To a Forum without form.
After the Fall.
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In the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark, When Bender sees a 20th Century Pizza Parlour in a museum he remarks, "Truly, they were as gods who built this place!"
It's considered that this may be a reference to By The Waters Of Babylon, a 1937 science fiction short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Babylon is a post-holocaust story, set sometime after a future war has destroyed our present civilization, and the descendants of the survivours wander amongst the ruins wondering at the nature of those who built the abandoned marvels surrounding them. In many respects this is similar to how some later peoples regarded monolithic architectural remains of Roman, Egyptian and other fallen empires and kingdoms.
I took this picture inside Melbourne's Forum Theatre, while waiting for a performance to begin. It's the eastside interior scupture alcove flanking the stage, which, thanks to some clever perspective tricks, look astonishingly large. This is one of Austrian born American architect "Papa" John Eberson's many gaudy Greco-Roman fantasy embellishments in his 1929 Moorish Revival picture palace on the corner of Flinders and Russell Street in Melbourne, Australia. The Forum began life as a cinema and has experienced several reinventions as a live entertainment venue and a revivalist centre.
Eberson designed over 100 picture palaces the world over, many of which no longer exist or have been stripped of their interior decoration, makng the Forum a priceless relic.
Here's another interior detail:
www.flickr.com/photos/83287853@N00/453581967/
My camera doesn't handle low lighting levels well and this area was beyond the range of the built in flash so I knew that the shot was going to come out very grainy but in this case that proved to be precisely the effect I wanted, along with a basic sepia filter.
AUSSIEMANDIUS - "TRULY, THEY WERE AS GODS WHO BUILT THIS PLACE!"
Quo Vadis?
Where are you going?
Gone to the Gods.
To a Forum without form.
After the Fall.
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In the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark, When Bender sees a 20th Century Pizza Parlour in a museum he remarks, "Truly, they were as gods who built this place!"
It's considered that this may be a reference to By The Waters Of Babylon, a 1937 science fiction short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Babylon is a post-holocaust story, set sometime after a future war has destroyed our present civilization, and the descendants of the survivours wander amongst the ruins wondering at the nature of those who built the abandoned marvels surrounding them. In many respects this is similar to how some later peoples regarded monolithic architectural remains of Roman, Egyptian and other fallen empires and kingdoms.
I took this picture inside Melbourne's Forum Theatre, while waiting for a performance to begin. It's the eastside interior scupture alcove flanking the stage, which, thanks to some clever perspective tricks, look astonishingly large. This is one of Austrian born American architect "Papa" John Eberson's many gaudy Greco-Roman fantasy embellishments in his 1929 Moorish Revival picture palace on the corner of Flinders and Russell Street in Melbourne, Australia. The Forum began life as a cinema and has experienced several reinventions as a live entertainment venue and a revivalist centre.
Eberson designed over 100 picture palaces the world over, many of which no longer exist or have been stripped of their interior decoration, makng the Forum a priceless relic.
Here's another interior detail:
www.flickr.com/photos/83287853@N00/453581967/
My camera doesn't handle low lighting levels well and this area was beyond the range of the built in flash so I knew that the shot was going to come out very grainy but in this case that proved to be precisely the effect I wanted, along with a basic sepia filter.