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Walking

My Holga and I took a walk today. It was sunny. It was cloudy. It was raining.

More photos on my flickr.

Gregor Schneider

This is what I will do when I move into my new house.

The light in this photo is beautiful I love how it's softly mirrored on the floor.

Neil Krug

His series Pulp Art Book shot with out of date polaroid film, slowly builds a sense of unease in you and even makes you feel a little disturbed. Maybe thats why I couldnt look away. Definitely check out his work.

image source: neilkrug.com

Holga Japan

My Holga was one of the three cameras I took with me to Tokyo and I finally got the prints done! Here are a few of my favourites and there is more on my Flickr. I was so in love with the dude in the last picture. He is amazing.

Lost for words on this one...

DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.

Roni Horn

RAT HOLE GALLERY

Grand Band

white lies - bigger than us from EL NINO on Vimeo.

Hostel

Plastic

Toxic Garbage Island on VBS.TV is an amazing little doco about how humans continue to destroy the planet. If you can, definitely watch the whole thing. If you cant be bothered just watch part 3. Hopefully it makes you change the way you think. I've seen alot of climate change/global warming/pollution videos but this is by far the worst one. It made me feel sick and totally ashamed to be human and to be part of the problem.

"Social contract, that we give up our individual liberties to the society as a whole because it can liberate us greater than we could do by ourselves. Is that still the case? Are we getting the bang for the buck out of our society and our social institutions that we give up our anarchistic tendencies for?"

Watch the video here

Parklife

I live for this. Sun, music and good friends.

Photos taken by me on my Pentax.

Bill Viola in Conversation

Most amazing dude I have ever heard. He spoke for an hour an a half at ACMI about Japanese death poems, eternal love, why there is so much emphasis on the visual part of our world, and how post-modern art is like a piece of clothing with the price tag on. My favourite bit was when he talked about how in order for art to be pure and to come completely from within yourself you have to unconscious of what you are doing and forget everything.

Viola’s Fire Woman and Tristan’s Ascension can be experienced at St Carthage’s Church, The Raft is showing at ACMI and his work is also part of the Mortality exhibition at ACCA. Ocean Without a Shore is a permanent installation at NGV International.

Two Women, 2008
Color High-Definition video on plasma display mounted on wall
Performers: Pamela Blackwell and Weba Garretson
Photo: Kira Perov
Photo Source: billviola.com

I'm still alive...

Uni has been quite busy with the semester coming to an end. Soon I will be free to create whatever I want and not have to force out the creativity but let it slowly spill out when it wants to. Heading to Japan in November so I'm sure there will be plenty of work from that too.

José Parlá

image source: joséparlá.com

I want to live like this.

Saw this on Dutch Courage and just had to share it.

Stoked & Broke Teaser from http://vimeo.com/apeel on Vimeo.

Verandah

jorge.

These shots from the Jorge campaign are so beautiful. The colours are so soft and I love the way they merge effortlessly into each other. I must try this method of double exposing. I've seen it before but this is just so beautiful and feminine.

Image source: Circa Now

Schaffa Dear

I am so glad to finally be able to share this with everyone. Schaffas 2 launched on Friday in Adelaide and all the Schaffas went to auction. The website is up and running where you can see all the Schaffas including mine. There is also a book you can buy that has them all in there including some from the first Schaffas.

Have a look!!

Project 10

Some of my work which was featured in my blog earlier this year is in this exhibition. It will also feature in Verandah Literary Journal sometime in September. It shows off some of Deakin University's talented art students through a range of mediums. Worth a look.

This Friday...

Finally its here! The Schaffas 2! I have a piece in this exhibition so I'm going to try and get to Adelaide for the opening and everyone else should too!

All info is on Screamdance or Schaffas 2 website. Check it out.

Good times

Image from Gráinne Breen.

Felt it in my fists

Hipstamatic killed Lomography?

On the weekend my friends felt the need to show me (because I am extremely noob when it comes to iPhone apps.) the Hipstamatic. Apparently it won iPhone application of the year. True to it's name it creates incredibly interesting photos. It's just the 'matic' part I have a problem with. Photographers worked their asses off to created images like this, they tried all sorts of different techniques and then went and got the actual film developed. Now all you have to do is download this app and you can create the same thing without all the effort. Then again as my friend also mentioned 'they are all just accidents anyway', it still feels a little wrong but it looks good.

Images taken at Sandringham Yacht Club, on my Pa's boat 'Ultimate Tune' with good old Pa featured in there too. There was no wind. Bad day for racing.

Indonesia

Was amazing. I took hundreds of photos so here are a few.