Sydney March 2016 (5 photos)
You’ll never see a dark cloud hanging ’round me
Now there is only blue sky to surround me
There’s never been a grey day since you found me
Everything I touch is turning to gold
So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day
Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way
Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above
And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love
Just colour my world
Just as long as I know you’re thinking of me
There’ll be a rainbow always up above me
Since I found the one who really loves me
Everything I touch is turning to gold
So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day
Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way
Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above
And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love
Just colour my world
Sunshine yellow, orange blossom
Laughing faces everywhere, yeah
So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day
Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way
Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above
And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love
Just colour my world
Colour my world
Oh, colour my world.
“Colour My World” is a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent and recorded by Petula Clark in 1966. It acknowledged the sound of the later 1960s by featuring a riff played on the sitar. Recorded in New York City, “Colour My World” was rush released in December 1966 in an attempt to counteract the disappointing performance of Clark’s preceding single “Who Am I?” which had fallen short of the US Top 20 and more seriously had become the first Petula Clark single since “Downtown” (1964) to not rank in the UK Top 50.
City Walls is a series of street art projects presented by Art & About Sydney and Elliott Routledge of Funstudio.
I’ve already shown you the first artwork in the City Walls project, To Be Free Is To Have No Fear in a recent post.
For the second artwork in the City Walls project, one of the world’s most renowned mural artists has transformed a pocket of the Kent Street underpass into a vibrant canvas.
Using his trademark primary colours and love of practical geometry, MOMO has created a technicolour dream. Known for being the pioneer of the abstract movements within large scale public art walls, MOMO is an artist working in public spaces with homemade tools. His current interests lie with an evolving range of adapted masonry techniques to draft, design, and organise wall murals.
Born in San Francisco, MOMO has travelled most of his life, lived in New York for six years and currently keeps a studio in New Orleans. He has previously created a double-façade 5 story printed vinyl mural in Manhattan, a 73 metre tall mural in downtown Philadelphia, and a 61 metre long mural between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges in Brooklyn. This is his first painting in Australia.
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I was photographing this artistic urban landscape when suddenly, a man dressed in white shirt and black pants just came and sat down, surrounded by all this colour. From my perspective, the timing was perfect and this is a perfect addition to the Half light Weekly Photography Challenge.
Wow, what an absolute dazzle! Adore the perspective and surrealism of the seated man in your third shot, where all points of the work appear to begin with him.
Thanks, Patti. Yes, his tablet was aglow and just seemed to be shooting out light. Very surreal.
Looks like he was there for quite a while, with his tablet?
Definitely, I was practically able to walk right around him without being seen. 🙂
So ironic isn’t, that we want to be where he is, but he is in a different world of his own 😉
I sat there after he left. It did give me a happy feeling to be there. 🙂
And I don’t think anyone photographed me. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I wish someone did 😛
LOL 🙂
Colour My World. I vaguely remember that tune when I listened to the oldies station as a kid – it was my parents’ choice to listen to the station. Perfect timing indeed with these shots. He looks absorbed with his phone and tablet. If I were there, I’d be admiring the coloruful art right at my feet 🙂 But I like the detachment aspect of this photo, but can’t point my finger on it why.
He just walked in, sat down, then walked out. Yes, very detached from the art, but it was good for me. 🙂
Definitely right place at the right time! Only color my world song I know was done by Chicago.
I agree; he was the only one that came by in the 15 minutes I stood there. 🙂 The photographer and model were a few hours later when I came back.
As an afterthought, I’ve added the music video of Petula Clark to my post. I thought everyone knew the song – maybe I’m just showing my age. 😉
I know Downtown and that’s about it. The Chicago one was one I thought was perfect for a wedding…one of my girlie girl moments 😉
It has that sound to it. 🙂
What an incredible city street art project, This song lyrics that interweaved with your remarkable photos made MOMO’s art work even more beautiful! 🙂
Thank you, Amy. A rainbow paradise in a concrete jungle.
A rainbow paradise in a concrete jungle
I won’t wear white shirt there, no matter what.
Good idea, Amy. 🙂
the black-and-white man provides such a great contrast to all those vivid colors… and balance at the same time 🙂 beautiful post, especially with the lyrics to that song… 🙂
Thanks, Alex. I was so happy he was dressed in black and white. It just worked so perfectly. And the song came instantly to mind. 🙂
Quite impressive that Tablet Man was able to focus with all that color going on.
Virtual world often distracts us from the real world. It was like looking into a fishbowl from where I was. 🙂
Shows my age- I was singing along. 🙂 He looked engrossed though.
Yes he does. I can still hear the song. 🙂
The colours are all painted ? I thought it was a carpet or floor covering when I first looked at it. The photographs are definitely better with people in them. Otherwise, it lacks a subject.
Yes, all paint on concrete. I would have liked to have seen it being painted. 🙂
I’m surprised they didn’t put more mature plants into the nature area in the middle. A small tree would have been nice.
si potesse colorare così tutto il mondo forse le guerre e le cattiverie non avrebbero più ragione di esistere! un reportage di cui mi sono innamorata accostato a bellissime parole!
Un bel sentimento. Grazie mille.
And I thought it was going to be:
As time goes on,
I realize
Just what you mean
To me
And now,
Now that you’re near,
Promise your love
That I’ve waited to share
And dreams
Of our moments together
Color my world with hope of loving you
Boy…was I wrong. But your post was brilliant 🙂
Well, of course the lyrics of Chicago would come to your mind immediately. 🙂
Thank you. The song came straight into my mind as I came across this small oasis. A man dressed in B&W surrounded by colour and sitting on some sunshine yellow. 🙂 Perfect! 🙂
Great art work – and I now have the song in my head 😄
Sorry. LOL. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yup, I thought of Chicago too!
I love these colors Lignum.
Makes me think of a beautiful rainbow.
Music influences us in many ways.
It’s an oasis in the concrete jungle. Thanks, Lisa.
Wonderful post Lignum, have a great day. Oh yeah that song is sticking in my head now.
Thank you, Karen. Have a wonderful day, too. It’s great song. 🙂
The oldies are the goodies.
Absolutely! They bring back good memories of our youth.
How good is that! Wow!
Something quite unexpected, isn’t it? 🙂
This is such a surreal series of shots ~ and matches the music you’ve listed as well. Perfect. This is the first I’ve heard of Petula Clark, and, of course, matching with your post so well – she’s perfect, vintage. The geometric patterns and hues…with your last shot being my favorite.
Thanks, it’s a very vibrant burst of colour for this city. Much needed.
Petula Clark is an English singer/actor, so I suppose that’s why she seems more familiar to me than my American friends.
I’m amazed at the number quality artists that were big around the world and for some strange reason did not make it in the USA. There have been some nice discoveries over the years…
With technology today, it’s much easier to get your name and art/music known to a wider audience, even with only a modicum of talent. For Australians, simply breaking onto the American scene was difficult enough and considered a major success in years gone by.
Very nice!
Thank you.
Hey Mr D .. I love ‘colour my world’
Julie, I thought you might. 🙂
😄
Colour my world it certainly did. But I noticed no one was looking at all that vibrant colour, just going about their daily “whatevers” mainly with their heads down. I guess after a while things just become common place, and the black and white man is the perfect counterpoint to all that colour. I Googled MOMO and he has some amazing murals around the world, all similar, with vibrant colours and geometric shapes. Another beautiful part of Sydney and an interesting artist you have introduced me to LD
Yes, even the extraordinary becomes ordinary after a while. People go back into their own world.
MOMO’s work is so vibrant. I’m glad he came to Australia to do this.
Perfect place to sit and recover from Monday Blues 🙂
With a strong coffee. 🙂
Absolutely..
😉
Well you know I love that mural. Every one of your captures of it are beautiful. And I love the backstory on the mural…and Petula Clark.
Thanks. It’s a lovely art work. I’m glad the city commissioned it. I wish I could have seen it being painted. That would have been interesting.
#metoo ❣
🙂
SSS = simply stunning and splendid, wow!!! 🙂 Petula Clark… she’s been very popular in France, too!!! 🙂
Thank you. Some great music by her. 🙂
Nice…. and a shout-out to the b&w guy for showing up. 🙂
I know. What a great coincidence. He didn’t look up from his iPad/tablet at all. 🙂
I remember that song. Now those were the days with songs we all enjoyed singing and jumping and dancing to! Thanks for the tour down memory lane!
My pleasure. Such songs are our golden oldies. I wonder what today’s youth will consider as their golden oldies in the future?
That will be an interesting discovery!
Absolutely. 🙂
Oh my gosh, what a great find! It makes me feel happy just looking at your photos of the space. I can’t believe people were just walking by…
I guess if you walk past everyday to/from work, the wonder wears off a bit.
You’d enjoy seeing this. The building in the background is 1 York St. Catch the train to Wynyard. Let me know when, and I’ll come to photograph you. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’d like to think/hope that the wonder doesn’t wear off, especially when street art can be so temporary.
Also, I knew it was too easy to get the location off you. I may need to wear a disguise when visiting 😉
I agree. Street art is only ever temporary. Enjoy it while you can.
You’re like one of those criminals who leaves clues to taunt the police. Secretly they want to be caught, just as you secretly want to be photographed by me. 🙂 😉 🙂
It’s interesting what you said about the songs of Petula Clark – Who Am I doesn’t have that same upbeat feel or classic 60’s melody, where as Colour My World does, perhaps that’s why it failed so badly. Down Town (a favourite of mine!) has an even more positive vibe. And what young person doesn’t love the idea of going out for a great night, and casting all the heaviness of their week away?! Those song writers knew what words would make megabucks!! 😀
Some of the best pictures I’m pretty sure are lucky moments, and the appropriately dressed man is a very good example of that! But why so little interest in sitting in such a colourful place? He’s all on his own! You’re pictures really highlight the sheer fun and bursting brightness of that art. I wonder if it feels too zingy for a lot of people to handle? Often people choose serene colours, like soft grass green and grey, or blueish water to chill out with. But a great place to take a photo shoot! 🙂
In all honesty, Downtown and Colour My World are the only songs of Petula Clark that I know, and I could practically sing them word perfect. Yes, we all love an upbeat song and tune.
The colours are very loud at that small oasis and as you say, that may be off putting. Or else, people know that sitting there is a guarantee of being photographed? 🙂 The man in black and white was one of the luckiest moments I’ve come across. 🙂
Haha…yes, you might be right there, it would attract a lot of photography attention! 🙂
Indeed. 🙂