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- It is the Way You Look at It
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- A 'sand volcano' of liquefaction silt. The photograph has been rotated 180 degrees. The photographer comments, "This could be just a horrible hole caused by liquefaction pouring out of a hole after the Christchurch earthquake in January, but turn it upside down and it becomes an outcrop on the floor of an unseen tidal estuary".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 3:54am 12th February 2012
- Tags
- Bexley, liquefaction, silt, sand, 23 December 2011, quake art, art
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- Looking Towards the Red Zone
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- A view down Beresford Street in New Brighton, looking west towards the city at sunset. The photographer comments, "On the other side of the Avon river from New Brighton is the Bexley red zone. Here numerous earthquake damaged streets of houses will be flattened due to it being to uneconomical in the current climate to repair the land to be suitable for housing. There is a campaign at the moment to try and convert all this red zone land, which is mainly adjacent to the Avon river to a giant park".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 5:17am 14th May 2012
- Tags
- New Brighton, Red Zone, cars, lamp posts, road, street lights, Beresford Street, 22 February 2011, Bexley
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- The Worm of Liquefaction
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- Liquefaction silt in Bexley. The photographer comments, "This is not really a worm but a sliver of liquefaction that has fallen out of a tyre tread".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 10:16pm 24th December 2011
- Tags
- RedZoneApp, 23 December 2011, liquefaction, silt, Bexley, tread, tyre, quake art, worm
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- Here We Go Again
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- A worker repairs a leaning power pole in Bexley. The photographer comments, "I was told that this electricity pole in Bexley always leans after every big earthquake. Maybe it might take more than a one man and one shovel to put 'straight'".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 9:57pm 24th December 2011
- Tags
- RedZoneApp, liquefaction, Bexley, elecricity, pole, leaning, worker, repair, fix, Waitaki Street, 23 December 2011
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- The Bexley Community Garage Sales
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- Balloons and a sign advertising a garage sale hang from a fence. The photographer comments, "Today, 23/7/2011 the Bexley community in Christchurch got together and held a Bexley wide garage sale. You could pick up a map of the garage sales in Arncliffe St, which meant that people could find all the garage sales even if they were on the back sections. People got together with close neighbours to hold joint Garage Sales. In the area where the garage sales were held all the homes have been 'written off' by the government, as the land on which they sit is too damaged by the Christchurch earthquakes to repair. In places it looked more like a ships graveyard with the hulls of the houses sinking lopsidedly into the sand. Unfortunately for nearly everyone in the red zone they cannot rebuild a new home as sections to build on start now around $2,000 and the government is not paying them enough to buy a plot of land and build a new home. The choices for Bexley residents in most cases is to rent, buy a house at least a few years old or move to Australia to start again. I was told that up to 80% could be off to Oz".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Tags
- garage sale, balloons, sell, sign, Bexley, silt, liquefaction, Red Zone, sinking
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- Watch Where You Are Walking
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- A large hole surrounded by liquefaction silt in the garden of a house in Bexley. The photographer comments, "This was most probably the serious hole I saw today. Can you imagine that when this occurred the whole area would have been inches deep in brown water. You would not been able to tell what you were walking on. Back in February a little girl rode her bike into one of these and had to be rescued by a passer by".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 10:15pm 24th December 2011
- Tags
- RedZoneApp, 23 December 2011, liquefaction, silt, Bexley, hole, Morganwood Street
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- Don't Worry Be Happy
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- A sign on a fence in Bexley reads "17 19 21. We are all home, smiling, staying positive, looking forward, A.J. included." The photographer comments, "These three neighbour families in the Bexley Christchurch red zone are all great friends. They are so fond of each other that they want to buy a big parcel of land and then build three homes next to each other".
- Creator(s)
- Steven Taylor
- Date
- 10:24pm 24th December 2011
- Tags
- RedZoneApp, Bexley, neighbours, staying positive, looking forward, 23 December 2011