I’ve been trying my hand at being a tourist in my own city, before I leave for overseas in a few months.
So far, I’ve (slept through Australia Day), been on ferry trips to Manly (with random yank sax players), beaching, doing rounds of The Rocks, Quay, MCA, Big Dayed Out, gone to the zoo (zoo, zoo, how about you, you, you?), and soon hopefully Pyrmont. I’m also armed with a new digital SLR (co-owned) with two noice lenses (which still need a major workout), so expect to see lots of photos!
Some friends and I went to Taranga Zoo yesterday and then scoffed ourselves silly with pots of mussels from The Belgian Beer Cafe. Glorious. I think the Chimps were my favourite – their sooo cute! There were two playful young ones, who were inseparable – complete with arms around each other the whole time! (Awwww). Also, saw a Leopard or Cat thing catch and eat live fish in it’s enclosure! Missed the seal show due to timetable confusion and too many prams being in the way. Saw elephants pee and poo at the same time (gross). The reptiles were also cool (I like pyhtons and bully turtles).
In comparison, Big Day Out was nowhere near as good. My highlights were Bob Evans, Red Riders, The Killers (during whom I ended up in some random corporate box…), I missed Muse and couldn’t see anything for The Violent Femmes, and kept missing Afra the incredible Beat Box. Very dissappointed with the Peaches and Herms set (I went to the side show and it’s perhaps one of the best I’ve seen in a long while. My friend even caught the drumstick!). I wished there were more small international bands like last year.
Sydney also sucks for BDO. Melbourne is a much better environment. I believe unless the acts are amazing in the next couple of years, 2007 was my last Big Day Out.
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Corrrrr! I portrait tattoo of Slash from the Gunners! Awesome! That’s dedication, man.
I’d like to get something like that if I didn’t shudder at the thought of a realistic portrait of someone’s face on a part of my body. That’s just eery, dude.Check out the site it is from:
http://www.thecobrasnake.com. Crazy Americans enjoying silly Wolfmother.
I use to like and appreciate the site with more humour and even a touch of affection, when the only celebrities at these parties were the DJs spinning at the party, and maybe Senior from Junior Senior. Now they have Brandon Lee and Paris Hilton! What’s doin?
Damn, I’ve crossed that line in Blog-usery. That is; I’ve started blogging about everything and nothing. I’m sorry.
I’m a little obsessed with tattoos again. Check it out: UV/black light tattos. How fully sick is this tatt? They can be invisible in normal/day light, and glow in different colours under UV. I don’t exactly hang out under places with UV though… (update: I just got a reply from a Tatt Parlour in Darlinghurst that does actually do this!)
There are more examples of this emerging inkform here, and here is another generally funky tattoo site. And just to balance the good vs. bad tattoo tastes here is a site on the worst tattoos.
I’m itching to get my next tatt. Here’s an interesting project some author is doing. A short story she’s written is being tattooed on participants from all over the world. Each participant has one word of the story tattooed. In all, 2095 words need to be inked on 2095 individuals. Point is that the story changes as each word/person dies. Intriguing. 1780 people have already been inked. I’d only do it if I could read the story in advance and really liked it. Wouldn’t mind as long as it wasn’t a very peculiar word… hmmm.
Or better yet, does anyone have a very creative idea to update/improve my current “virgo/83″ one??
Check it out, the new 2006 Big Day Out website’s up, with the new identity & preliminary lineup. www.bigdayout.com
It’s on again: http://picnic.vze.com
I spent most of the afternoon making the one page. It’s been a while since I excercised the old Dreamweaver. Please don’t tell me right now if the divs are floating or you can’t see something. Firefox doesn’t take to the CSS very well, but IE’s being nice today. I’m sick of it. Unngh.
A few drinking fiasco’s in the past few days.
Gemma’s 21st party was last night, and Em’s 21st was the day before that. Happy birthday kids – congratulations on being legal to drink in the US… Good times. Some photos were taken, but will not be posted to spare those involved of shame and embarrassment…
On another note: Miguel Calder�n. My fave artist of the week.
His art’s playful and vary – some so very simple (i.e. the coloured wet toilet papers on the ceiling is coooooool). He’s a mexican artist, currently has some work at the 2005 Yokohama Triennale.
