Hoist
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This is another shot that I took on the 5th of May as part of the 24 hours of flickr. It is the shot of Australias own (or better my own, since it is in my backyard) Hills Hoist that was prominently featured at the 200 Olympics Opening Ceremony. / And now I have to learn that it was not even an Australian Invention: Taken from Wikipedia: / “The Hills Hoist is an Australian version of the rotary clothes line, the distinguishing feature of which is a crown and pinion winding mechanism invented by Adelaide based Lance Hill in 1945. This allows this clothesline to be lowered and raised. The rotary clothes line itself had been invented as early as 1855, diagrams of which were published in Scientific American that year. This style of clothes line was popularised in Australia by Lance Hill and is a common sight in Australian and New Zealand backyards. It is considered one of Australia’s most recognisable icons, and is used frequently by artists as a metaphor for suburbia in Australia. For many post-war baby boomers it is a symbol of their childhood and an Australian national icon. / It is widely (and incorrectly) believed by the public to be an Australian invention.However, other Australian and American precursors existed decades before it was produced in 1945 in the Adelaide suburb of Glenunga by Lance Hill.” Please also visit my website alexkess.com and my photoblog . Cheers and Thanks, Alex
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HDR of my Hills Hoist
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Silhouette Art t-shirt design – Childhood memory of kids using Hills Hoist as a Merry Go Round!
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the quintessential australian childhood; playing with the Hill’s hoist in the backyard! Other Images / All Things Italy / Animals / Fabulous Felines / Flowers & Leaves & Things / Black & White / Urban / Land, Sea & Sky Scapes / Textures & Abstracts / Triptychs (and one quartet!) / 35mm Film / La Serenissima / Other Places & Things
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This is a typical Australian clothes line, an icon known as the “Hills Hoist”. During the 1950’s, most homes had these installed during building. But now they are rare and hard to find. All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / (c) Stephen Mitchell : Using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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The old and decrepit but somehow endearing hill’s hoist at dusk.
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A piece of Australia. Abstracts and Artsy Architecture Landscapes and Nature Street Tasmania
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This was taken from a replica of the Nina (Christopher Columbus) that now lives in Corpus Christi (once belonged to Spain).
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South Australia’s iconic invention exported to the world, the Hills Hoist – rotary clothes hoist. This is an original with the Hills casting, unfortunately the gears have seized. Now sadly the factory is slowly winding down with production moved to lower labour cost countries, and head office is moving to a brand new city office tower.
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/ Seems about once a year that a kookaburra will come and have a look around, here, in the backyard, where I sit in this granny flat, at my computer. / / When we first came to Australia, going to the cinema was such a big deal and the kookaburra laughing, at the beginning of the newsreel, before the cartoon and the main feature is a good memory. / / De kookaburra lacht (The kookaburra laughs) Brieven van een emigrant (letter from a migrant), was written by Koos Schuur and was a collection of letters which he sent to friends in the Netherlands, on the topic of his life in Australia, between 1951 and 1963. / / I wish I still had the aerogrammes that I sent my Oma Mul (My father’s stepmother) covering the period between 1956 until the late seventies! / / Elsewhere on Redbubble, I have commented on the reports that two journalists, not long out of the Netherlands, are sending to the Netherlands (In particular, the Volkskrant). / / It’s all so subjective!!! Even though the Mediabureau journalists describe themselves as down-to-earth Dutchmen, or nuchtere Hollanders, they’re human and observing and understanding a different culture takes time. / / Coming from a different culture and not from Mars, it’s so hard to be objective!!
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Yippeeee! Thank you mystery buyer!
by alexkessSomebody just completely made my day, by buying one of my photographs (Hills Hoist and I jus…
Somebody just completely made my day, by buying one of my photographs (Hills Hoist and I just wanted to say a big “THANK YOU!” to the wonderfull buyer, obviously you have fantastic taste…haha. Cheers, Alex
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You can’t get more ‘Aussie’ than this! An old outside toilet, or ‘dunny’, in the Australian vernacular and a ‘Hill’s Hoist’ rotary clothesline. Taken at Steiglitz, an old gold-mining town near Geelong.
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This flat dweller in New Farm Queensland found that the Hill’s Hoist was just something she couldn’t live without.
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Australiana (Eureka Nugget) Prospectors Hoist the Eureka Flag (Original For Sale with COA)
by EJCairnsUS$3.42–US$91.20
Depicts a prospector lifting a newly found nugget; also prospectors hoisting the Eureka Flag. (Original For Sale) Painting Acrylic on canvas ready to hang in the naive Australiana style. 60.9cm width X 76.2cm Hight Double thick canvas ready to hang painted on sides. Henry Lawson,The Roaring Days, 1889 The night too quickly passes / And we are growing old, / So let us fill our glasses / And toast the Days of Gold; / When finds of wondrous treasure / Set all the South ablaze, / And you and I were faithful mates / All through the roaring days.
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I’ve been learning more to think about backgrounds when i am photographing people (which is what i mainly do). When taking some photos at a friends wedding, it appealed to my sense of humour that there was a hills hoist in the background
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Under the Hills Hoist
by Malcolm KingThe simple ability to lie / naked, on a blanket / Spring’s first sun / fresh cut lawn / oranges ripening / under the Hills Hoist / turns sheets…
The simple ability to lie / naked, on a blanket / Spring’s first sun / fresh cut lawn / oranges ripening / under the Hills Hoist / turns sheets crisp / as a sea zephyr / blows over tightening / skin / is no secret
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A extraordinary view of an icon which was an integral part of most Australian back yards – often used but so frequently overlooked. From the collaborative exibition “Out the Back” held at Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa, 2007.
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