Month: September 2010
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Night Photos
Spent a night with Ve taking photos of a ferris wheel from a secret location because we were cheapskates and didn’t want to pay the entry fee to the nightshows of the local carnival. Night
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Birthday Graf
Last week was my birthday, sadly the computer I was processing them on died a little before I was going to make this post. So here are the photos now. Overall it was a great day, just basically hanging out with a friend, Em, while we traipsed through the town taking photos of graffiti as…
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Friday Night Magic
Went out Friday night, and I’m late as usual. Drove across the town to the scratched-throat vocals of Tom Waits playing through dying speakers. I promised to pick up Em to deliver her to La Chat Noir, an irregular nightclub event that’s run out of the Kremlin Bar. Its a place that capitalises soviet chic,…
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Zine Reviews Part 2
BATS – Heinrichs, Melmeth, Lynch, Donohoe, Ward, et al. – Site The Skinny – Five senior/post- high school girls put together a fashion/trends/culture magazine with each issue following a different theme. The Look – Go to Borders. While avoiding all of the Twilight merch, go directly to the Culture and Society section of the magazine…
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In The Post
Two things arrived for me in the post today. Firstly my copy of Weathercraft by Jim Woodring. This is simply a marvelous looking book and inside, continues the adventures of the various characters of the Woodring World, and in particular ManHog. For the most part, these comics are silent. They tell their tales solely through…
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Crash
*Sigh* Some things are not meant to be. Yet. My birthday was on Friday. All went fairly well. Spent a day with a friend, Em, taking photos of graffiti as per the weird tradition I do every birthday now. I did take a lot of photos, but a great chunk of them were long murals.…
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Zine Reviews Part 1
So far things have been massively busy. And I have not done as many reviews as I would have liked. So here’s the first installment (of a few) of my zine reviews. Burger Force #1 – 4 – Jackie Ryan, et al – burgerforce.com The Skinny – Nervous and paranoid university student, Mercury, is selected…
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Landed
Well I’m back home now. It was a really good week. I was busy helping out with an art exhibition, got to see my family, and generally break from my routine. Over the week, Jeremy put me up in his place. Part of it looked like this. And when I say part I mean about…
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Brisbane at Night
On my last night in Brisbane, I went out to the cliffs overlooking the city and took photos. Night.
The Screaming Wall 