Julian O'Shea
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Creator of educational videos about design, cities and interesting places. Educator and researcher.
Melbourne, Australia + Beyond
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If your vehicle can’t fit in the lane. It’s shouldn’t be allowed on the road. Dangerous design creeping into Melbourne.
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I wrote a piece for The Age / SMH about the mega trucks hitting our streets. (Feel free to leave your comments over there).
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Have you ever ridden a long escalator and felt weird? This is Australia’s Most Dangerous Escalator and an explanation about what’s going on.
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It’s now Dr Julian O’Shea. Lovely PhD graduation today!
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This protest in Melbourne shows how city design can limit democracy.
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There are some rocks in this river. They are the reason that Melbourne is located where it is.
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Sydney’s biggest street has been wiped off the map. Here’s why. (Spoiler: cars)
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Millennials are doing their own thing. This graph of Australian political trends vs age is wild.
#auspol
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If you thought a pedestrian crossing was just some lines on the roads, it turns out there’s more to the design than that. This is a new one in Melbourne.
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A new bike lane just dropped. Here’s why some bike lanes suck, and why some are good.
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Some cities like Hong Kong and Sydney have famous ferry systems. Melbourne has the opposite. It has a ferry - but most locals don’t even know it exists. Here’s why.
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One way the city has made the streets more interesting is birds. Digital birds. Here’s what it’s about. 🦜🦆🦉🐓
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The Barbie movie is coming out and I compared the design of the pink Barbie car with current vehicle design standards.
It turns out the Barbie car is significantly out of compliance. 1/8
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@GuardianAus
This “data” comes from Lightspeed Commerce, a payments platform. This is aiming to normalise tipping in Australia. We don’t tip. We should never tip. Fair wages. Decent conditions.
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Melbourne is a great city - but one thing I’d love to see changed is more cafes open past 4pm.
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If you look up the main street in Melbourne you’ll see what looks like a face looking back at you. Here’s their story.
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This fence and some good long term planning is why the city of Melbourne has world-class water. 💧
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The Montague Street Bridge remains undefeated. I was there to film the damage from today’s crash:
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I went on national TV this morning. Made sure to dress for the occasion.
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🟦 These blue squares are on poles all around the city. Here’s what they are and how they work. 🟦
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There are streets in Melbourne that people aren’t using how it was deisgned. Here’s why.
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Daylight savings broke this multimillion dollar memorial. And how they fixed it is very clever.
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This unusual pattern on the road makes this entire street lovely. Here’s why.
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There’s a number on every Melbourne Tram and it tells you a surprising amount about it. Say hello to Tramela Anderson.
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Have you ever seen these maps that say “5 Minute Walk” and wondered how accurate they are? Today I put it to the test.
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You will have likely seen these pavers around the city. But there’s some design features you might not know about. 🦮
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This is the Mad Max carpark - a surreal underground space. It has even made a pop culture impact.
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The city of Melbourne have all the trees email addresses. Here’s why. 🌳
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Here’s how 100,000 people can all see the action, inside one building. I went to investigate. 🏟️
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There’s an unusual symbol on the street signs of Melbourne. Here’s what it means.
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Love this retro style poster promoting a tram route. So good.
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How (and why) to design a bike roundabout. The first one in the city. 🚴
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Melbourne streets having a naming convention. Street. Little Street. Repeat. There’s one exception.
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This statue tells the story of a great sporting and cultural moment. Inspiring stuff.
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These bins are solar powered and the reason why impacts transport, urban design and makes for a nicer city. ☀️🗑️
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DO NOT SPIT - There’s a series of signs inside this train station that date back 100 years. Here’s why they’re still here.
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There’s an inaccessible piece of land off a major road exit - so what do you do with it? Make it homes. For animals. 🦇
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So pleased to have my digital series, Unknown Melbourne, recognised at the Vic Community History Awards.
@CraigCormick
@VikkiPetraitis
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@simonjabrahams
The winner of the Digital Storytelling Award is
@julianoshea
for Unknown Melbourne
#VCHA2023
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This is one of Australia’s most dangerous cycle paths. 🚴♀️
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This whole encounter feels very Australian. Not sure this would play out like this in too many countries.
Sometimes you have a wardrobe malfunction and it's not a big deal, other times it's in front of the Prime Minister of Australia.
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There are gold circles 🟡 on the street all around the city. If you haven’t noticed them before - you will now. Here’s how they keep the city in line.
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Someone asked me to solve the mystery of these green boxes that are on the streets around the city. I took the case…
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You’ve heard of zebra crossings, but have your ever heard of a wombat crossing? 🦓
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This iconic building is covered in triangles. But there’s a hidden pattern inside the “fractal facade”. 📐
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Australian money is cool. And a 13 year old made the design even better.
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The Montague St Bridge got hit by a glass truck. I went to the scene.
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This feels right. The oldest building in the city is … a pub. 🍻🍺
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Average cost of a medium sized car is $13,000 per year. What else could that get? I did some maths:
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@internetdepths
This is what the internet was like before the great centralisation to big platforms. Hobbyists sharing what they love. I kinda miss it.
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Iconic Melbourne. The City Circle tram over the Montague St Bridge.
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There’s a massive historical shot tower inside this shopping centre. Turns out you can get inside and answer the question, what is ‘shot’.
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We have a confusingly named NATIONAL Gallery of Victoria. How can a state have a national institution?
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There’s a jetty in Southbank that is not what it appears.
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Some flags are beautiful. Some are elegant. Some are inspiring. And then there’s this. 🚩
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Australia is massive. Big challenge for cartographers are when they need to put the small and dense Europe on the same scale as Australia. Here’s the surprising result.
#maps
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This running track has had decades of records smashed all at once. There’s a reason why the top times have gotten so much faster.
#running
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Why did the chicken cross the road? 🤷
I do know that if this is the design they’ll have an easier time doing it.
This is a continuous footpath:
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This is one of the city’s most dangerous intersections. Here’s why. 🚚
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Count Trackula and Abratram Lincoln. Naming all of Melbourne’s 500+ trams.
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Is this the most dangerous park in Melbourne? You won’t (or shouldn’t) believe this design.
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Ever wondered why train seats are ugly? Perhaps there’s a hidden message in it. 🔎
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Ever wondered why Postal Service Logos around the world are the same? No? Now you don’t need to. 📯
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Bridges normally go straight across a river. Not this one. Here’s why you’d design a bridge longer, and less direct, across a river.
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In Melbourne, there are 🏍️🛵 on the footpath. It’s not normal.
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So this car isn’t getting its road-worthy certificate. For safety reasons, it’d perhaps be better to leave the Barbie car at home, and take the Barbie train instead. 8/8
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Linguists went back to find the first recorded use of the word “selfie”. The result was a drunken night out by an Aussie - shared on the
@ABCscience
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@DoctorKarl
forums.
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Spot the difference between these two pictures. Here’s how Melbourne’s graffiti artists are taking on the government.
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I’ve been talking about the oversized RAM Trucks on Aussie streets for a while - but this is getting out of hand.
We love big things in the Hunter and it was great to be in Goulburn this morning as I drove home from Parliament, to see this on the move to its new home in the hunter.
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This piece of paper is a great piece of Australian history. 🗳️
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Melbourne’s City Square has vanished. But it’s coming back.
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Ever turned on a tap and wondered where the water comes from? It’s here:
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Got to join Tom Scott to help him film a video here in Melbourne - all about the manually operated rollercoaster at Luna Park. -
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If you take up more space should you pay more? I was on 7News talking truckzillas this evening.
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This game is legal for just one day per year. Today is that day. 🪙
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There’s a massive red tower in the arts precinct which has a surprising purpose. It’s not public art.
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Great move and leadership here.
Yarra City Council is being asked to discourage large and heavy vehicles, including imposing “proportionate parking fees” based on a vehicle’s size.
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@theheraldsun
Climate-friendly policies like encouraging sustainable transport are most welcome in Melbourne. And with the cost of living issues, affordable transport, like cycling, is great to see.
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This photoshopped Kate photo is strange. I think we should become a republic until we find out what’s going on.
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What does the name of Melbourne’s new station have to do with cookie ingredients? Answer: a 100 year old law.
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These are three of the city’s strangest statues. Here’s what they’re all about.
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There’s the remains of a library from centuries ago sinking into this street. Or is it? 📚
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Here’s how to make an urban forest when you’ve run out spaces for parks.
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I was on The Project this evening where the topic was the truckzillas making their way onto Aussie streets.
Aussies love a good ute, but American-style monster-sized trucks are gaining popularity, and it may have massive implications on our roads.
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There’s a pop up ice cream place that serves only greyscale mystery flavoured ice cream.
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Hilarious. Take the train to Glen Waverley and here’s what greets you. (Car park extension coming soon).
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This is the year! I’m doing a live show at this year’s comedy festival - it’s called “M is for Melbourne - The World’s Mostly* Liveable City”. I explore the weird and wonderful side of the city (alphabetically): M is for the Montague St Bridge. P is for Puffer Jackets.
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Great news today that two suburbs are getting safer streets. More of this please.
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This is the Roundabout of Death. Here’s how it came to be.
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