My Journey
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Sydney – Part 3: Write Club
Some of you may know that I aspire to be a writer, or at lease be better at writing, it is something I used to do when I was an emo teenager but that I forgot to nurture as I got older (along with a lot of things). Louise is a fantastic writer, really she’s…
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On why I choose to be poor and happy rather than rich and miserable
Recently both my psychologist and one of the guys who works at my gym have commented on how much happier I appear; that there is much less rage emanating from my presence. This makes me happy. I know that when I started this blog I said ‘I will never get a job’ – but I’m…
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Tasmania – Part 3: MONA
Up until now I haven’t really told you all why Louise and I went to Tasmania; we went to see MONA. Louise read a review of the Museum of New and Old Art which had opened in Hobart in January 2011 (it may have been this one) and sent it to me with a message…
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DSLRs 101
On Friday I attended a course on how to use my new camera. It was fairly basic stuff: aperture, ISO, shutter speeds, what each of the preset modes do, the pros and cons of each setting, what you lose when you maximise one element over another, and what you gain when you focus on one…
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Artist Date – The Mad Square @ NGV
Today I went to the exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) called The Mad Square with my mum and my sister. It looks at German Modernist art from 1910-1937. Now when I started the exhibition I didn’t really understand what Dada was, or Constructivism, or New Objectivity of Bauhaus were from an art…
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To be or not to be… in a relationship
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking today (and recently) about relationships. I am coming to the time in my life were a lot of people around me are in long term, stable relationships and many of them are starting families. Even the media seems to be obsessed with sex and coupling and babies and…
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Not your ordinary New Year’s resolutions post
I have been seeing a lot of stuff recently about New Year’s resolutions, about how 2011 sucked and how 2012 will be better and I wanted to write something about that. For me, a New Year’s resolution is largely redundant seeing as I started to radically change the way I lived my life two months…
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My Christmas present to myself
Christmas was kind of fabulous – I got lots of lovely things from my friends and family and it was really very relaxed and cool. On Boxing Day I decided to brave the sales and buy myself an extravagant gift – a brand new digital SLR camera. After shopping around for a while I decided…
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Poetry is not easy (listening)
Those of you who have read the last post will remember that I said I’d found a reading to go to this afternoon; it was at the Dan O’Connell Hotel in Carlton and happens every Saturday from 2pm. They had an open mic section where numerous local (well known/loved by the crowd) poets performed for…
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Writer’s Group
One of the things I really want to do now that I’m being all creative and stuff is join a writer’s group. There are a couple of things standing in my way. it’s a bad time of year – a lot of the groups I have found online don’t appear to meet over summer, or…
Fleur Blüm 