Thursday, September 9, 2010

Clifton "Bungalo"


I was asked to photograph a house yesterday. They needed 360degree shots of this house. Address: Clifton 3rd beach. Arriving there I found it ironic how the sign indicating which steps to take to each different nr refers to the houses as bungalo's. I always thought of a bungalo of the type of wood/straw structure one would typically find on a remote Thailand beach - one that costs around R35 per/night if its a expensive one right on the beach.
Anyways, although this Clifton-"bungalo" did have some wood finishes,  and was right on the beach I found the description, "bungalo", a little misleading.











 As I was photographing this "bungalo" I couldn't help but to fantasize a little about how it would be to own it as a home. I started making sums in my head..... The house is in the market for 30 million......., so I would only have to photograph... emmm ...........  around a hundred weddings a week, for the next 52 years and I could buy it cash!!! Amazing. No seriously, how does anyone earn enough to be able to afford a house of 30 mil? It's gonna take me sometime to figure that one out. Let me know if you come up with any ideas and post them down here for everyone to see. Lets make the world a better (and richer) place.
Like always,
thanks for reading.


PS: See my friend's (Duane Howard) website to see what I meant by 360degree's shots. It's also referred to as "virtual tours", which means you can actually look around in the photograph as if you're standing in the house, or landscape or whatever the location. It's pretty amazing. www.virtualshift.co.za

2 comments:

  1. Cool blog Gideon! ek hou van die ontwerp ook :) Mooibly

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  2. the house is soooo amazing!!!! I saw it in capetown!!! wow!!
    so gideon...when you find your idea...let me know :-)
    lets film something like "body rock tv" in capetown :-) ...in this location :-) anyway: do we need to own it?? no...to work there would be o.k. for me :-)
    bianca

    http://www.youtube.com/user/charliejames1975

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