Swimming with the fishes in Phi Phi
It’s been a bit quiet round these parts as i was dipping my toes into the warm waters of Thailand.
iPhone tour of the USA
As i mentioned before, on my recent US trip it was a joy to just be on holiday and take happy snaps again. That meant leaving the SLR behind most of the time and just using the iPhone. As The Awl pointed out the other day, it’s getting a little old hat adding film effects [...]
Tour USA
It’s been a bit quiet round these parts because i’m on holiday at the moment in the US. Cybele and i are in New Orleans now, leaving on a drive along the Gulf Coast today towards Miami, then onto New York. I’ve been enjoying not worrying about photography and just being a tourist again, taking [...]
Home from holidays
Cybele and I have just returned from a lovely week long holiday on the Fijian island of Matamanoa. Like our last holiday, i hardly took any photos. Since doing photography for a living, holidays have been more of an occasion for downtime, away from the camera, laptop, iphone and distractions of twitter, facebook, email, rss [...]
Curtain call for Academy Twin Cinema
I was very disappointed this morning to hear of the demise of the Palace Academy Twin Cinema in Paddington. Apparently rental negotiations between Palace Cinemas and the landlord, the Greek Orthodox Community of Sydney have come to a stalemate and the cinema will close for good on June 27. Quotes from both sides on Dark [...]
Covers – continues to February 20th
I was quite overwhelmed and touched by the support for Cybele and my photo show Covers opening night on Thursday. Our thirsty guests smashed through 15 cases of beer and 12 bottles of wine in just the first hour. We sold a bunch of pictures and made some money for Oasis. Now the first night [...]
UnderExposed music photography symposium
I’m off to Brisbane tomorrow, ready to speak at Underexposed on Saturday. Underexposed is a series of music photography related events, a gallery show of music photography, live gigs and a forum/workshop/symposium type thing which i’m involved in. The symposium goes for a full day this Saturday and features workshops for aspiring music photographers on [...]
Pride? Patriotism? Jingoism? Racism?
A few snaps of tats, piercings and t-shirts at the Sydney Big Day Out. Postscript I saw this happy family down at Bondi and thought they made a nice addition to the collection of flag wavers.
Monetizing Flickr
Getty Images – now with more cat photos. There was news this week that Flickr has struck up a partnership with Getty images to start allowing Flickr photographers to license their images via Getty. Specific details about how it will work are scarce, but we know the system will begin “soon” and that it won’t [...]
The Bill Henson controversy
Last night i went to Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Paddington for the opening of Bill Henson‘s new photography show, only to discover it had been cancelled in light of police intervention. A moral panic has developed over his photographs of naked adolescent children. It escalated with an opinion piece by Miranda Devine in the Sydney [...]
My new job
I started a new job a couple of weeks ago, Chief Photographer for Time Out Sydney magazine. It’s pretty bloody exciting, getting paid to take pictures fulltime. And for a magazine i’ve loved as a reader while travelling, one that’s just starting up in my hometown. It’s an unplanned career turn. For the past seven [...]
Goodbye Lanfranchi’s
As i brushed my teeth this morning i spotted this fresh graffiti out the window, "HELLO LANFRANCHIS". I live in a warehouse space in Chippendale, commonly known as Lanfranchi’s for the "artist-run performance space" upstairs. It’s been going since 2002 under that name and has had many previous lives as a fairly bohemian living and [...]
Arriving in Las Vegas
Life is pretty sweet when you get picked up at Las Vegas airport by your friends in a BMW, drive back to their house and drop your stuff. Then head out in a Porsche convertible to the edge of town and take in the sunset against Red Rock Canyon.
Podcasts to recommend
I love podcasts. Free audio pleasures that just pop up in my iTunes when i least expect it. Great stuff to lull me to sleep at the end of the night. Here’s some of my faves. Most are talk, but there’s some music ones at the end. Indie 103.1 – interviews from the LA radio [...]
iTunes meme
There’s an iTunes meme that Amanda dobbed me into and it goes a little something like this: How many total songs in your library? 15178 and counting… Sort by Song Title First song: ! +The Song Formerly Known As – Regurgitator Last song: Zuton Fever – The Zutons Sort by Time Shortest song: Benjilude – [...]
Merry Christmas y’all!
It’s a bit belated having just ticked over to boxing day, but Merry Christmas to everyone. Whatever your religion i think it’s a good excuse to spend time with your family and those you love, eating, drinking and being merry. That’s what i did anyway. I finally got around to uploading my photos from my [...]
It has arrived
I took delivery of two exciting things this morning. Firstly my ticket to Homebake. Yay, whatever, ho hum. That pales into comparison with the real excitement… My brand new iPod! Yes folks i’ve joined the white headphone brigade. Don’t bother speaking to me, i’ll be in my little cocoon of music. I hope i don’t [...]
The Carla Werner Show
Before my sickness took hold i went to see Carla Werner play at the Hopetoun. As expected she was amazing, captivating, enthralling and many other superlatives. Through a series of odd coincidences i ended hanging out with a mate of Carla’s for most of the evening. Despite me being a bit star struck i took [...]
Never say never
I never get sick, it’s a policy of mine. One that my body seems to abide by most of the time. Just this week i was congratulating myself on taking only one sick day in over 3 years. But my immune system has packed it in and for the past few days i’ve been really [...]
RIP Village Twin Double Bay
Before i began my career as a web monkey i worked at a cinema for nearly 5 years of my life. The cinema was the Village Twin in Double Bay and it closed its doors forever on Wednesday night. It was a casualty of the new Bondi Junction cinema complex, another small suburban cinema swallowed [...]
Pooped
I think i need another weekend to recover from my weekend. Events included seeing Ae Fond Kiss at the Film Festival, seeing Dallas Crane rock the Annandale, seeing Ugly Duckling and others hip hop the Gaelic Club, going to a house party in Paddo and staying out till dawn and finally moving to North Sydney [...]