Finding the radio book

In February 2012 I stumbled upon a trove of company documents from the 1940s and 1950s at a demolition site in Footscray, Melbourne. Here I tell the stories associated with those documents: the records of signwriting company Lewis & Skinner, and the tattered books of correspondence connected with writer Morris West and the radio serial company he started and ran, Australasian Radio Productions. Plus the more general exploration of 'ghost signs' that my discovery has sparked.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Fabulous ghost sign projection at Gertrude Street projection festival

Gertrude Street in Fitzroy is home to a ghost sign I've snapped a number of times. Now it's been given a new lease of life during this week's Gertrude Street projection festival. The phone pics below don't do justice to the brilliant animated projection by FloodSlicer (http://gspf.com.au/program/artists/floodslicer/), an architectural visualisation studio whose projection is about "extending the theme of illumination both literally and figuratively...‘dissolving’ the bricks away in places to reveal a space/place beyond."