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Babakiueria ("Barbecue Area") here


Babakiueria (“Barbecue Area”) is an Aboriginal film directed by Don Featherstone and written by Geoffery Atherden which confronts the topic of Indigenous Australians living within White society. Using the reversal of social/racial stereotypes, it places white Australians under the magnifying glass living under similar social stigmas Aboriginal people experience daily to create a very refreshing and insightful viewpoint. You can find part 2 and 3 on youtube here

chicken im gonna eat you

Van's Santasic Meringues

"Dyslexic demonologists often end up selling their soul to Santa." -anon

Tis the season already! Tis the season when that tricky character Santa begins to show his many faces. When my dear sweet friend, vietnamese baker Van, presented me with these festive season abominations my spirit did soar. All we could do was laugh at her attempt to make Santa out of meringue. She likes to think of them as being Santa, tired after delivering presents. I like to think that they speak of the horror of Christmas and it's capitalist specters of defeat! The disfiguration of all Christmas time values, the smiling face of the season made barely recognisable by the glut of consumerism. The abstracted and disintegrated echo of the hopes of childhood evolved into objects of horror. But seriously now, they are a beautiful failure.Van I love you all the more for your most recent work. Jarred, when I saw them I knew they were for you :) Want 
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Passport changes for the 'gender diverse'

 Unbelievable. I never would have thought Australia would be so open to this issue. What a great stepping stone to recognising gender binaries and issues. Something to get excited about.
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Lucia, Luis and the Wolf.




Lucia, Luis and the Wolf is a video installation by Chilean artists Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León and Niles Atallah. The assembled installation includes the two main films being projected onto walls and a series of other animations projected onto smaller screens amongst soil and furniture.

The feature stop-animation films (Lucia and Luis) are just fucking incredible. They blend stop-animation, drawing and story telling together to create a very textual and haunting incite into the world of these two characters. The style of the script is very unnerving with its strategic negligence to divulge any tactile information about the story. The whispery voice technique and the style of the script leaves a lot to the imagination, creating a impenetrable cocoon of mystery about what exactly the two characters are talking about. The audience are given glimpses of information but have no context of the characters. Well that's what jumped out at me.

I am really interested in making work that is experiential through incorporation of projection and sculpture. I am interested in creating an installation that encourages people to search through a building setting off projections and challenging their preconceptions of normal behaviour.

Just some inspiration.
Just an idea.

 
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''Judgment Day is upon us!''

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21-05-11

Harold Camping, the eighty nine year old voice of Familyradio.com, a christian cult that disseminates numerological interpretations of the Bible via FM radio and website podcasts, predicted that today is/was to be The Rapture. Well, actually, today the 21st of May is the beginning of Judgement Day and that the full blown Apocalypse wont be until the 21st of October.

The next Apocalypse prediction was made by by Sir Isaac Newton and isn't until 2060.

I'm not sure if i can wait that long to be proven wrong. ;)
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The Secret Life of Vivian Maier

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I woke up this morning to an inbox full of messages, one of which included the link above.

Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was a New York born amateur photographer who grew up in France and returned to America where she worked for 40 years as a nanny. During this time has reportedly taken over 100,000 photos. Her work remained undiscovered until after her death when John Maloof purchased a box full of her negatives at an auction in hope to discover some images of early Portage Park (during the time he was writing a book on the Chicago neighborhood of Portage Park). Maloof is currently in the process of collating as much information about Maier and presenting her name and work, humbly, to the public. Maier executed her photographs with a Rolleiflex camera. Her photographs usually depicted images of the 1950 - 1960 Chicago and New York streets. Maiers photography has been classified under the genre of 'Street Photography'.

Which brings me to the subject of Street Photography.
 
Street Photography, is a form of documentary photography that reveals subjects during candid situations in public spaces. It uses the technique 'Straight Photography' in so much as it provides a pure and realistic depiction. Some other famous Street Photographers include Weegee and Diane Arbus.
 
 I really love photography.