Watch a comparison between an English shopping street and a shopping street in New South Wales, Australia shot on the same day but 10,000 miles apart.
In 1999, Paul and Tom cycled from England via Norway to Istanbul in Turkey. We took along a small video camera (this was waaaay before iPhones) and made a film of the trip. You can see that film here • England to Turkey by b...
20+ years later, we wanted to keep making films together but Paul was living in Australia and Tom in England. So we started making a few films that compared the two places in which we were living, with not too much in the way of rules about what we filmed and what we talked about.
In this, the third film of comparisons, we decided to walk along a shopping street, to only hold the camera facing forward and to have the road on the right hand side of the shot. Paul, who travels around Australia, was in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, while Tom was in Walthamstow, London England.
Shot in February, Tom was lucky to get a sunny day while Paul was sweltering down under but on a slightly cloudy day. The streets look a little different. Australia’s street is newer, wider, more uniform. England’s street looks older, with more various ages and types of buildings. The shops are quite different too, although the locations aren’t so comparable given that Wood Street is a small shopping street in a suburb of London while Wagga Wagga is the biggest in land town in New South Wales.
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