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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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Tasmania – Part 2: Food
There are many many many people in the world who will tell you that the food in Tasmania is amazing. Food critics rave about the local produce, the restaurants and the coffee. My experience with the food in Tassie is that it is bloody brilliant! Honestly it’s some of the best food I’ve ever had…
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Tasmania – Part 1: Coffee
I have just spent the last week having a fabulous holiday with my gorgeous friend (and fellow writer) Louise. Louise and I met in about 2005 in Melbourne when we were both out at a bar on our own. We had both recently experienced break-ups, hers was just before a romantic trip to Melbourne (she hails…
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The Wall – Roger Waters Live
Before we get started yes this is a gig review from the show last week and yes I am listening to The Wall as I write this. Anyone who is not interested in hearing about my Pink Floyd fandom or who hasn’t seen the show yet and doesn’t want spoilers LOOK AWAY NOW!! Seriously, spoilers!…
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Life Photography
Last Sunday I spent the day with my friends Jonathan and Gabrielle in their lovely home in inner Melbourne. Jonathan is an artist whose work I really admire – he does water colour paintings. He works from reference photos mostly so his place has a studio setup that he can bring out for shoots. His…
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Rooftop Cinema – experiments with light bulbs
Last night I went to the Rooftop Cinema at Curtin House in central Melbourne, we saw “We need to talk about Kevin” – the film was amazing but can be best described as mind-breaking. The Rooftop Cinema has quite a unique décor with coloured light bulbs strung up around the edges. I watched as the…
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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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A Day at the Beach
On Wednesday I visited my mum and sister at the beach. When I was a kid we rented a house down the on the Mornington Peninsula each year for a couple of weeks, now my mum and sister carry on the tradition – this year, as usual they were at Balnarring. I went down to…
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Portraits – some first attempts
I spent some time yesterday with my very good friend Wade, and he was kind enough to let me take some pictures of him. They are really my first attempt at portraiture and I thought you all might like to see them. Looking pensively into middle distance. With lovely natural smile. With new harmonica. I…
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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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