tv

so, I watched a little TV recently (Apart from replay premier league and catching up with underbelly). There are some cool doco's on the HD free-to-air channels. Some crappy soaps aswell. I can't remember what I was watching - oh yeah the Rove dance after party thing.

Mischa barton rocks. There is a cool photographer called Chris Weeks that I follow/occasionally chat to through uber, deviantart etc. He doesn't care for technique, or what people think, as long as it sells. He has had the chance to photograph mischa a few times and keeps saying how cool she is. I didn't believe it till the rove interview. Her favourite TV is animal planet/nat geo etc. anyway, she's cool.

During this crap there were a few ads for BigBrother 08. It looks like a total freakshow. Might be worth a laugh, for once, until the media shuts them down for discrimination against, dwarves, mentally impaired etc etc.

so yeah, there is no real point to this post other than waiting 5 minutes for the hood, and Mischa being cool, and BB08 freakshowness.

Crust

Crust Pizza (Burked Rd, Camberwell) is the worst gourmet pizza place I have been to. $15.50 for a piece of crap that ended up having half of it thrown away. The base was good, so they did well with the crust. that's it. Perhaps they should sell bases to other pizza places. Anyway, my calzone was not much better, absolutely dripping in tomato juice and oil. Totally crap. Just thought I'd rant about it.

P.S. Here's a photo to relieve your boredom from the above rant.

why

why do melbournites dress so casually, yet it still looks cool.

why do they drive 20-30kms over or under the speed limit, but never at the speed limit.

why does the monash-westgate bridge upgrade project have mythical "roadworks" underway with reduced speed-limits (for months).

why does indomart sell organic, preservative free 500g tubs of tofu for only $1.80.

why does gelsolin give me issues cloning one fragment, but not another.

why does PKR never abide by the rules.

why do coated peanuts taste so good.

why is steph so hot.

why does nastro azzuro taste so good

just a few questions I have thought of recently.

byebye office

so the office area is being renovated... and I have to pack up my desk. It's kind of annoying after finally getting settled in. At least I haven't accumulate much yet.

So busy times, work, fun, work. Sister is down this weekend with her hubby. Jared's friend terry is down at the moment, so should be catching up with him. Joe cremin is moving down to melbourne next wed. My parents are visiting end of may...

Ahh well, stuff to do. I am addicted to coffee, I am drinking way too much of it lately. Not good. Need to slow down I guess..

Going to be redoing my photography site. My personal photo collection will be dumped (might put it up on facebook). My blog is almost done. The katharine kerr site is getting a long overdue overhaul. The worldsoffantasy.net main site is also getting a new look, which I should help with I guess.

I have so much crap to get sorted, stuff I just kept putting off till later. Now it's later and I still barely have the time. My aspect on life, work etc has changed. very little gets put off till later now. Refocussing.

TV

hey wow, gladiators is as crap as the original series. even in HD on my 32" it is still crap. haha, correction - it is MORE crap.

I have been watching a lot of sports lately. delayed telecasts (streamed from iinet) of premier league matches, asia cup, soccerroos friendly's, euro championship and even the AFL. It is impossible to avoid it down here... "football" (soccer) is still better though.  Hopefully I will start playing soccer down here aswell.

The variation of the HD channels is cool, especially with the extra doco's they seem to show. 

Not liking steph working night shifts, but ahh well, that's life.

I want to go to the Werribee zoo/safari park, before village roadshow spends $220M screwing it over.

Melanie Burford

So last night I went to the Kaleidoscope theatre at RMIT to see Melanie Burford give a seminar on photo journalism in the online age. It is sad, but true, that paper circulations are dwindling massively. The crew at Dallas Morning News, are like most of the US circulations, in that they are moving to the online world. More emphasis on audio, slideshows, video etc. The still image is dying, for that purpose anyway.

She is an incredibly laid back kiwi, shared winner of the pulitzer prize and several other awards, and inspiring. She cares, unlike most photo journ's.

Check out the Sugar Hill slideshow or The McCrays Full cycle or ... I'll add more later.

melb - the start

So, I haven't been out in melb too much yet, but gradually doing it. Our adventures took us to the Abbotsford convent which was built in 1861 or something. Right near the centre of melbourne (Carlton), next to the Yarra.

We also managed to get to the Howqua river, near lake eildon, for a day.

indomart

Ahh (one of) my local asian supermarket is good. Fresh organic tofu, 1/2kg $1.50. KohKae coconut cream coated peanuts at half the normal price. Redbean buns, BBQ pork buns, $3 for 4. And the awesome cashew/honey candy thing.