I’ve embarked on a project to document Sydney in the closing days of 2008. It will be filmed on 8mm film in a number of locations in and around the central business district (CBD).
The primary aim of the movie is to document what Sydney looks like in 2008. What wasn’t there in the heyday of the 8mm format and how it has changed since. By using this old film stock I hope to, rather contradictorily, show Sydney in a timeless fashion, in a medium that hasn’t changed for almost 50 years.
The Rudd government has somehow, quite successfully managed to cover up their attempts to censor the Internet. Their plan started off as almost a good idea. Provide opt in filtering of objectionable material on the Internet. Sounds great doesn’t it. Parents could rely on a centralised, more efficiently managed filter. (more)
I thought I’d write up a quick post about my conversion of an Ikea Benjamin stool to a “work of art”. Originally I bought the stool to cover in Marimeko fabric. Due to lack of funds and the cost of Marimeko I shelved the idea for a while. Lo and behold on the next trip to Ikea I saw a stool covered in Ikea fabric. Suffice to say it put me off the fabric idea.
A lot of smaller businesses are making people redundant and even large businesses have frozen new hires. Spending is being slashed everywhere.
I’ve had a lot of people tell me that they want something but don’t think it’s a good time to buy stuff. My response to them has been that they should. That if everyone man, woman and child in Australia (or any other country) went out and spent $100 each on something nice for themselves it would solve all our economic woes.
Yes people it’s back on. Spring, open air, the ocean and sculptures. What could be better?
For those of you who don’t know Sculpture By the Sea is an annual event held in spring every year in Sydney. Hundreds of sculptures are placed along the famous Bondi to Bronte seaside walk and hundreds of thousands of people come to look at them over a period of two weeks.
For Sydney siders this has to be the biggest art event of the year. Especially for such a superficial city as ours.
In the first part of this (what could turn out to be quite a rant I addressed (a small part) of what I think has to happen for Sydney to continue to grow and move on from a Beta city into a Global city. I’ve also found some interesting plans which I will present and incorporate into my vision.
George Street, Sydney
“It’s certainly no Broadway, Oxford St or the Champs-Elysées”
As anyone who lives in Sydney knows. It’s a horror to get around, even with a car.
The CBD, the supposed inner heart of the city, is without a heart. Emptying out after 5pm as everyone goes home to watch television. Not because there’s something interesting on TV, there isn’t. There’s just nothing to do in the city and even if there was, they’d have to catch a ($50 plus) taxi home as public transportation practically shuts down after 6pm.
