Inspiration
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Tasmania – Part 5: Arty Photos
There are a number of photos that don’t really fit under any of the headings so far; photos that I thought were artful, some of the slightly more adventurous shots. These are some awesome silk scarves that were at the Salamanca Markets. The bar stools at the Café in MONA Cascade Brewery from inside the…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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Inspirational Conversations
Today and yesterday I was helping out friend and fellow blogger Jen (Red Parka) by staffing her stall at the Rose St Artist’s Market in Fitzroy (Melbourne). The market runs every Saturday and Sunday and has a collection of stalls; clothes, jewellery, accessories, knick knacks, paintings, art and various other miscellaneous items. As far as…
Fleur Blüm 