Tag: sydney
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Cuteness Overload With Newly Hatched Baby Chameleons Create at Sydney Zoo
If you’ve ever had any doubt about how cute reptiles can be, let us end those doubts right now. This gang of more than 20 baby chameleons, recently hatched at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, is one of the cutest band of curious explorers that we’ve ever seen. The little green guys are veiled chameleons, which are…
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Terracotta Warrior Sculptures Glow in Sydney for Chinese New Year
To celebrate Chinese New Year (which, this year, lies on February 19), visit Dawes Point in Sydney, Australia from February 13 to February 22 to see 90 colorful lantern sculptures that were inspired by the famous Terracotta warriors. Created by Chinese artist Xia Nan, these larger than life lanterns were made from fabric and wire.…
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City Girl Escapes to the Australian Outback to Capture Images of Amazingness
Imagine leaving it all behind – leaving your boring city job and failed relationship behind to escape into the wild Australian outback and embrace your dreams. That’s exactly what nature and landscape photographer Julie Fletcher did 12 years ago when she left Sydney to take absolutely stunning photos of the Australian outback. Fletcher’s photography captures…
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Beautiful Sydney Transformed by Light for ‘Vivid Sydney’
Starting yesterday through June 9th, the city of Sydney is hosting an annual exhibition of light and music called Vivid Sydney. Dozens of light sculptures and projections will be viewable throughout the downtown area as well as in the Sydney Harbour in an event that is completely free to the public. Looks like a lot of…
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Bringing Mozart to the Kids… Spectacular Costumes and Props in the Magic Flute
Costume and effects guru Julie Taymor has outdone herself with Opera Australia’s latest production… Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. With a particular focus of entertaining the kids as well as their parents, Taymor (who was previously the director of the Lion King on Broadway), brings together a nine-metre serpent, towering polar bears and hundreds of paintstakingly hand-crafted props…
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40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s
Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 ‘special photographs’ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department. As curator Peter Doyle of the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney explains: These ‘special photographs’ were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station in Sydney and are of men and women recently plucked from…