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.