Dystopian future
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Watching Movies: Death in the Outback
On Monday I took advantage of the cheap tickets at Cinema Nova in Carlton. Seriously, $6 for a movie before 4pm – if you’re not working, why wouldn’t you? I was tossing up between ‘Frank’ and ‘The Rover’, I chose the latter because it started sooner. I’d heard a bit about the film, I vaguely…
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Watching Movies: Soylent Green
It’s been a while since I did one of these, so I thought I’d give it another whirl. Today’s film is the 1973 classic ‘Soylent Green‘. I saw this last night at the beautiful Astor Theatre in St Kilda. The Astor is a fantastic venue for exploring old movies in the format they were designed for…
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Below Babylon
On Friday night I went to see a friend perform in an amateur production of a new play called ‘Below Babylon‘ at the Revolt Art Space in Kensington. I’d met Chris (Grant, who plays Harry) at an acting evening class about this time last year, and while I wanted to show support for his work, I…
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California Hotel
I have been driving past the California Hotel for months now, possibly years even looking at it’s dilapidated exterior, it’s smashed windows like a gapped toothed smile. I have often wanted to go in and shoot it, but the because it’s winter here I haven’t been lucky with the light. Today Melbourne and Mother Nature…
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Adventuring
I spent today feeling like I did not achieve very much. In the morning I made a bag from an old pair of jeans I found while cleaning stuff out to go the op shop. Here is a bad photo from my phone: At about 5pm I decided I needed to go on an adventure.…
Fleur Blüm 