Aaron Irving – Nightshadow

Awesome.

The piece, by Peter Greenaway, is pretty impressive. A unique mix of artwork, lighting, music and pojector/cinematography. Short (20mins) but sweet. I found the use of lighting/projector on top of a fixed painted image to be a pretty decent blend of skills. If you are in Melbourne – it is going on for another 2 weeks. http://www.melbournefestival.com.au/program/production?id=3505 Check it out.

A few visual sights I have found disturbing recently:

- A 5yo girl wearing a miniskirt so short I saw her g string when she bent over.

- A pink toilet bowl on the side of the street that someone had taken the initiative to use (hard rubbish collection, where people dump furniture etc on the side of the road).

- Someone had stuck a photo of a guy on the cow up a tree – http://blog.panedia.com/2007/04/27/docklands-cow-up-a-tree/

-clayton

-One of the regulars at my local pub spill bill on himself because he was trying to drink while pissing at the urinal.

- An indian cabby getting changed in the back of his cab (fully changed).

-The amount of blood that can be mixed with snot when you have a seriously blocked nose.

-The fungus growing on one of my supposedly ‘bacterial’ plates.

- The ants pouring out of the mini-CBD buildings in the docklands and running to get to the train station (by ants I mean people in suits).

So – science is geeky. We all know it and embrace it. Sometimes you can use geeky scientific knowledge to make cool objects.

The bloodlamp by Dutch designer Mike Thompson is a glass ball filled with Luminol. It reacts upon binding blood to fluoresce – hence giving off light.

Pic c/o the NS pic of the day – http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn15018-pick-of-the-pictures

It was designed to make the person think about how precious energy is and how much they really need light.

anyway – how’s that for a random post of the day.

SO – priorities. Trying to finish thing that NEED to get finished and sorted. Also trying to organise time better so there is minimal waste. Getting there.

Now some random thoughts – TV: is crap, especially in australia. There are very few shows I like to watch. Bones, rush, nciis and occasionally csi. SO there is now a new tv channel (on freeview) called GO. It is basically a second ch 9 tv channel – where they show all the shows they canned. I like the crap shows!

Cars: So, I’m a little sad. The proton is gone. traded in. But i’m over it. Got a used 5yr old peugeot 307 xse (2l, 5dr hatch, 100kw). It’s nice. the leather seats a tiny bit cold when your skin touches them after work and melbourne is 8 degrees. – but it warms up fast enough.

Melbourne is awesome – still love being here – even with the sporadic weather patterns. Last weekend was so beautiful on the saturday arvo at a chilli cookoff in a brewery in the yarra valley. The sunday was bucketting down in rain. c’est la vie. Still managed to visit one winery. p.s. coldstream brewery rocks.

Sitting in the lounge room watching soccer, chatting to steph, chilling (feel too sick to do any work) and yeah – the soccer is streaming through the mac onto the TV c/o iinet/telstra fox sports online. In case you haven’t guessed – the new premier league season has started. It is lookig interesting. Arsenal and liverpool are both playing well now, and Man utd is playing crap. WIll be interesting.

Haven’t watched b’ham or the wolves play yet – burnley was looking ok though.

Just playing around with the Safe-T-Light and the fluorescent DNA stains.

Simon:

So, recently steph purchased:

HTC touch dual – http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=142 

(work will pay, eventually).

Recently I purchased:

Canon EOS 40D – http://www.canon.com.au/eos/range/eos40d/default.aspx

Sigma 17-70mm F/2.8-4.5 DC macro – http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3315&navigator=6

Canon 70-200mm F/4 IS L series – http://www.canon.com.au/products/cameras_lenses_accessories/telephoto_zoom_lenses/ef_70-200mm4lisusm.aspx

so yeah, I feel guilty.

So last night I went to the Kaleidoscope theatre at RMIT to see Melanie Burford give a seminar on photo journalism in the online age. It is sad, but true, that paper circulations are dwindling massively. The crew at Dallas Morning News, are like most of the US circulations, in that they are moving to the online world. More emphasis on audio, slideshows, video etc. The still image is dying, for that purpose anyway.

She is an incredibly laid back kiwi, shared winner of the pulitzer prize and several other awards, and inspiring. She cares, unlike most photo journ’s.

Check out the Sugar Hill slideshow or The McCrays Full cycle or … I’ll add more later.