Black Dodge is just a really nice old car that’s parked every day outside the Tasmanian School of Art. An iconic piece of industrial design circa yesteryear, particularly the grill and front bumper bar. When cars were designed for style and made out of steel. I’ve got the Black Dodge on my own desktop right now.

L’Astrolabe Research is another industrial design photograph of the scientific research vessel named L’Astrolabe which travels between Hobart, Tasmania and the Antarctic. This shot is capturing the industrial nature of the machine as opposed to the romance of the sea. Man’s mechanistic beast for conquering the elements. Garish, yes. Unforgiving perhaps. But there is beauty in rough textures of the ocean battered research vessel.

I’ve also uploaded a 1024 x 768 version of each for those who don’t run higher resolutions. Black Dodge calendar at 1024 x 768 and Black Dodge no calendar at 1024 x 768. And L’Astrolabe Research calendar at 1024 x 768 and L’Astrolabe Research no calendar at 1024 x 768.

The wallpapers will be available here until the end of the month.

She’s been a prolific blogger on the local art scene since 2004 with her weblog Translucent. She is also a web standards web designer (who gets the big web standards picture) with Certificate 4 qualifications to back that skillset up in Web Design, as well as Multimedia. She is also one of the founding members of local NPO Hunter Island Press Inc where she has been the web mistress for the last three years and writes and manages a great deal of the content generation. She’s also one of the busiest people I’ve ever met in person with an interesting personal and family history (if you ask her). She found me under a cauliflower (OK that’s a fib) and we’ve been in a solid relationship for nearly 8 years.

This week Linden has been interviewed by Steve Gray over at Art Re-Source so you might learn a bit more about what she gets up to (especially when I’m out of the house).

And it’s my mother’s birthday today so I wish them both well. We won’t go into the banana story… suffice it to say the smacking of bottoms proliferated but I think I won through determined resistance.