Art
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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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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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Healesville Adventure
Today I drove from Melbourneto Healesville with a friend and her dad, who was visiting from Dubai. Healesville is about 60km from Melbourne, it’s a lovely town with a population of about 6,500 (according to Wikipedia). There is an excellent eatery/winery there called Innocent Bystander Giant Steps which is where we ate the most amazing…
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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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New Year’s Eve – Experiments with night pictures
Most of us would have been out celebrating New Years Eve in style last night. Myself I was at a friend of a friend’s apartment in Footscray (inner Western suburb of Melbourne) on the 8th floor. It was a fairly low key affair, there was a little drinking, a lot of eating, some movies and…
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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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And that is your reward.
Today while I was watching an performance and interview with Stephen Fry from the Sydney Opera House* for ABC1 on October 6, 2010 on Youtube he said something that hit me in the face like a slap: “[Oscar] Wilde said ‘If you want to be a grocer or a general or a politician or a…
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