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Yes, that Bryan Adams. It's shot for Zoo Magazine in Germany, which is unrelated to the more low-brow Australian Zoo Magazine.
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My new favourite song.
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A new Australian music blog on the block.
Biennale of Sydney photos
Last week i had a tour of some of the works which form the Biennale of Sydney. Covering several venues, most notably Cockatoo Island, there's over 180 works to see from now until the 7th September.
Above is Jill McKay, who along with three other ladies aged 80-plus continuously perform 'God Save the Queen' by the Sex Pistols. That's my kind of art. It's by an artist named Christoph Buchel.
Above is a sculpture titled Vitruvian Figure by Paul Pfeiffer. It's a stadium with one million seats. It's enormous.
I can't work like this by Natascha Sadr Haghighian is made up of nails hammered in a wall at the MCA.
This is buckets of Mike Parr's urine.
Continuing the toilet theme is this "found art" credited to Vernon Ah Kee. It's an old toilet block covered in offensive graffiti on Cockatoo Island.
News photographer Charlie Brewer shoots BUST(ED) by Julie Rrap. On a spot of trivia - Julie Rrap is Mike Parr's sister and shares his surname but spelt backwards.
These large sails cover an expanse of Turbine Hall on Cockatoo Island. It's a work by Jannis Kounellis.
This is George Bures Miller who has a sound installation titled The Murder of Crows on Pier 2/3. It's well worth experiencing.
Romanian artists Lia and Dan Perjovschi have covered the Art Gallery of NSW in funny graffiti.
Check out some more Biennale of Sydney highlights and photos over at Time Out Sydney.
links for 2008-06-23
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I love this live shot of the Beatles. It's so iconically them, such a unique angle, and it's abstract enough to make you think a little before you get what it's about. I've no idea who took it or where though.
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A clever format for interviewing musicians. Get them to shuffle through their iPod on random and talk about the music. Makes for a more revealing interview than a stock standard Q&A format.
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A photoblog which lifts beautiful photos from the photo wire services. They're presented in a nice large format and in sets based on a theme or issue. Lovely stuff.
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A collective of Australia's best photojournalists. Click on the "Singles" link for a best-of collection each month.
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Linkbait for sure - but fun to look over some classic movie posters.
A small part of Aboriginal Sydney
A few weeks back Time Out Sydney published an indigenous themed issue timed for Reconciliation Week. I photographed some of the people and places we were profiling.
Above is Uncle Max Eulo who's commonly known for the smoking ceremony he performs as a welcome to Sydney. I ventured out with him on the Tribal Warrior early one morning.
Preparations for Gathering Ground, held on The Block in Redfern.
Filmmaker Darlene Johnson at her home in Bondi.
Edge of Trees is a sculptural installation outside the Museum of Sydney.
Aunty Sylvia Scott outside her home in Glebe.
Anthony Mundine training at the Tony Mundine Gym in Redfern.
Wayne Blair on the set of Romeo and Juliet, the production he was directing for the Sydney Theatre Company.
Onboard the Deerubbun on Sydney Harbour.
A mural at the top of Eveleigh Street, the entrance to The Block.
Uncle Max performs his welcoming smoke ceremony on Time Out Sydney's Editor-in-Chief Angus Fontaine outside the QVB.
Sydney Apple Store opens to the public
There were hundreds if not thousands of people snaked in a queue around the city to enter the Sydney Apple Store this evening.
It got very squishy indeed along George Street as the doors opened, not so much from the people in the queue who were kept orderly, but by the rubberneckers looking on in bemusement at the Mac fanatics.
Apple Store opens in Sydney
This morning Apple opened the doors to the media at their first Apple Store in Sydney. The official opening is tomorrow evening at 5pm.
I'm not usually one to be excited by a shop opening, but being an unabashed mac aficionado and given the striking shop design it's hard not to get caught up in it.
The store is fronted by 15 metre high panes of glass, the largest in the world we were told.
The store covers 3 levels and the staircase at the back of the store is translucent so you can see people wander above you.
We didn't get Steve Jobs, but we did get Ron Johnson to welcome us and give us an overview of the store.
There were stacks of media through the doors to check it out.
The stoor is on the ground floor of a new city skyscraper on the corner of George and King streets. Just opposite another Sydney shopping institution, Darrell Lea chocolates.
For the first time in Australia we now have our own Genius Bar. Hopefully this will improve the service of macs round here, which in my experience is terrible.
These Mac store openings tend to attract a devoted following and over 24 hours before the doors open a queue was already forming. This was Mike Kaufmann from ifo AppleStore who'd traveled from the US just to be at the opening.
Check out Time Out Sydney for more photos and Andrew P Street's take on the store.
Book Club party
On Saturday night some friends threw a party at Cybele's studio for their book club called Even Books.
The book was The Dirt, the story of Mötley Crüe, so the night was suitably hedonistic.
There was a reading from the book by Septimus Caton, Rock trivia with Elmo, Guitar Hero and a performance by Chaingang.
Lots more photos in the gallery.
links for 2008-06-12
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I'm looking for someone to help out at work.
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The line-up for this 2 day camping festival in Sydney has just been announced. It's one of the best festivals around.
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Portraits of phone sex operators by Phillip Toledano
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I has a Tumblr. Not much new to see - but what it's good for is aggregating my blog, twitter, my Flickr photos and my favourite photos.
Come Together Festival at Luna Park
It's been a while between shooting gigs for me, but i was back on the game on Saturday at the Come Together Festival at Luna Park. It was a good chance to catch up with a bunch of local bands and see the new upstarts.
Bluejuice seemed to have the best crowd reaction all day. People were going bananas for them. And despite Jake having a plaster cast on his leg, he was hopping around dancing madly on stage.
As usual Young and Restless were intense and Karina re-inforced her status as the number one frontwoman in Australia.
Dublin boys The Thrills made up the minor international component of the day.
The Galvatrons impressed with their Van Halen-esque anthems. They're the latest buzz band around but it remains to be seen what it will amount to.
Sparkadia was fantastic as usual. With their new album hitting the airwaves they seem to have picked up a legion of new fans.
It's a pretty cool venue for a music festival, a fun park underneath the Harbour Bridge.
Little Red crooned with their nostalgic love songs.
The cavernous Big Top where most bands played.
Faker deservedly headlined the day and put on a reliably energetic performance.
I'd not seen The Dirty Secrets before but they were rather good. Reminscint of The Killers or Hot Hot Heat.
See loads more pictures in the Come Together 2008 photo gallery.
Ladies of the Red Carpet
Here's a few snaps i've taken on red carpets lately. First up is Cate Blanchett who turned up for the Sydney premiere of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.
Next was the opening night of the Sydney Film Festival. I spent much of the time scratching my head asking the other photographers who these people were that were posing for us. I don't think i read enough gossip mags.
This is Laura Dundovic who was recently crowned Miss Universe Australia.
Rachel Taylor is a local actress who found some notoriety in the Transformers film.
As i like to do at these things, i took some wide snaps to show the scene. Below is Krystal Forscutt who's really stretching out her 15 minutes of fame post Big Brother.
