These photographs were taken by Charles Ebbets in the early 1930’s depicting daily scenes of the workers who participated in the construction of the skyscrapers between 1920 and 1935. The photographs were taken in New York on September 29th 1932 and published in the New York Herald Tribune in the Sunday supplement of Oct 2nd of that year. They were taken on the 69 floor of the 70 that is the GE building in the Rockefeller Centre.

‘Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper!’

Paparazzi, will they stop at nothing!

Crikey is the bloke on the left drinking from a hip flask!

What is more dangerous for your health; smoking or sleeping on a pylon?!!
“Resting on a Girder.”

STYLE was the name of the game in Brisbane yesterday, as more than 30,000 Queenslanders stepped out to enjoy the Exhibition Day races as reported by the Courier Mail .
(p.12,Thursday the 14^th and p19. Monday 25^th  August 2008).

But it took a special someone to pull off Eagle Farm Racecourse’s prize-winning look.

As the only guy competing in the event, civil engineer Stephen Challenger, 21, of Beachmere, north of Brisbane, had his work cut out.

Fortunately, his op shop buys, including $3 jacket and waistcoat for $1.50, stood him in good stead.

Mr Challenger, who also chose a pair of beige slacks and snakeskin shoes, impressed the judges so much they awarded him third place.

“I was trying to create that awesome-guy look that you see on the catwalks,” he said. “I don’t think you have to spend a lot on your clothes to look stylish.”

Congratulations Steve, third is the new first! You are always one Sharp Dressed Man!!!! Love Net 

Work as if you have no need of the money,
Love as if nobody ever made you suffer,
Dance as if nobody is watching you,
Sing as if nobody is hearing you,
Live as if the Paradise were on this Earth!

- Author Unknown

Original author now sourced thanks to Ben May

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” -   —  Mark Twain

 [Image via Quote DB.] 

Michael Phelps just won his record eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympics as a member of the victorious US 400m medley relay team, breaking a tie with Mark Spitz for most golds in a single games.
Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Phelps and Jason Lezak won in a world-record of 3 minutes, 29.34 seconds, lowering the old mark of 3:30.68 set four years ago in Athens. 
Australia took the silver in 3:30.04
Japan earned the bronze in 3:31.18

 ”I don’t even know what to feel right now,….There’s so much emotions going through my head and so much excitement. I kind of just want to see my mom.”
Phelps said.

Click here to find out more…

[Image via CBA. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images) ] 

If all of you people ‘don’t care’ about anything Perez Hilton says, then why do you go to his page? … as offending as this American can be, avid bloggers keep going back for more to keep up with all the celebrity goss and to read Perez’s point of view… Perez Hilton!

Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. (born March 23, 1978) is an American blogger and television personality. His blog is Perezhilton.com (formerly PageSixSixSix.com), which he writes under the pseudonym Perez Hilton. On his website Lavandeira posts gossip items about musicians, actors and celebrities. He often posts tabloid photographs over which he has added his own captions or “doodles.” His blog has garnered both positive and negative attention for its brash attitude, its active “outing” of alleged closeted homosexual celebrities and for its role in the increasing coverage of celebrities in all forms of media.
Wikipedia

Click here to find out more on Perez Hilton from Rolling Stone….The Queen of Mean

 [Image via Perez Hilton!.] 

At 5.30pm, like hundreds of other locals, I wandered down to the Charlton Esplanade to watch the Hervey Bay Whale Festival Street Parade. The parade was lead by the Hervey Bay RSL Pipe Band and closely followed by our local Politicians in classic vehicles; Fraser Coast Mayor Mick Kruger,  Paul Neville MP Hinkler and Andrew McNamara MP Hervey Bay.

The parade seemed a lot shorter this year and I have heard on the local grapevine the costs and insurances involved with participating are too much for the average business/group. They have even band the distribution of lollies from the floats. As a child I would have been ecstatic and thrilled if a lolly hit me in the head!
Honestly, who brought in the Fun Police?!
Never the less, those that participated did not lack enthusiasm, colour or creativity.

  

It was fantastic to see Fraser Coast University, USQ were I am studying a Masters in Professional Studies make such a simplistic yet bold statement to advertise their campus, very effective, as were the other environmental issues on display.

Today I attended the Star of the Sea, Catholic School in Hervey Bay’s, Silver Jubilee (1984-2008). A time capsule that was buried 25 years ago was dug up and the historic contents put on display. As I was a pioneer student of the school in Grade 4, I was pictured in the first ever school photo that was among the buried treasures.

This picture of me was taken in April 1984 and published in the local newspaper when the school was officially opened by his grace the Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush from Brisbane. My grandmother and father are pictured in the background of the photograph. 

The new child care centre an extension of the school was officially opened today and the local politicians were out in force with Andrew McNamara MP, Paul Neville MP and Fraser Coast Mayor Mick Kruger all present.

I enjoyed a delicious steak sandwich with my parents and purchased promotional stubbie coolers as a momentum of the occasion. My parents also brought a Recipe book that the Grade five students had put together that was really well done.

My father was employed as a groundsman at one stage for the school and was involved in several Saturday working bees when I was attending the school.

We stopped to get a photo next to one of the original targets Dad painted on the wall for the students, and by the chalk marks on it today,
it looks like it is still a hit at lunch times!

I also caught up with Andrew McNamara MP on the oval where there was a lot of activity and plenty of people.

The school is probably five times bigger than it was when I attended and it’s great to see all the new shade structures for the children.