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I spent Friday night on an art gallery opening crawl - at two of the three galleries that were featuring works in the Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives Festival - Kiln in Paddington (which has the most steampunky art website in the world, I would venture to wager) and Jugglers in the Valley. Danielle O’Brien’s prints and paintings started an octopus theme, which continued on at Jugglers. Later on, I enjoyed the Five Spice Tofu and a Shanghai Beer at the fabulous Super Bowl in Wickham Street - so a really pleasant evening.
I didn’t have my camera with, but here are some photos of Kiln from an opening last year. It’s a transformed former tram substation, so a wonderful example of post-industrial architecture, and you can see why it sits nicely with a steampunk theme.
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I’m still going with, ahem, a certain project - couldn’t keep up the 6000 words a night pace, but that’s ok. Hopefully it’ll be finalised this week and I’ll be able to have a life again. I did go for an afternoon walk the other day, and here are some New Farm and Brisbane River photos for you!
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As for me, I’m over-writing “Lazy Sunday” as it’s anything but for me. I expect to be up to the early am hours tomorrow getting the first draft of my thesis into a shape I’m happy to submit to my supervisor. So while everyone else is more than welcome to post on their weekend doings, I thought I’d share some photographic insights for the benefit of any other research students out there - Mark’s tips on how to finish a PhD dissertation!
#1: Use the tried and true yellow post-it note method for the citations and references you need.
#2: The dietetics of thesis completion are as important as the dialectics. Stock up on a nutritionally varied range of stimulants.
#3: While prayer and/or meditation may be important aids to writing, ensure that candles are not lit next to piles of books but remain symbols only.
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I’m in the final stretches of polishing up a first complete draft of my PhD thesis, so outings are obviously largely out. But since Lifeline Bookfest - always one of the highlights of the year as far as I’m concerned - is on this Queen’s Birthday long weekend (in fact finishing on Tuesday), I couldn’t resist popping over the Convention Centre for a quick visit yesterday. I think I’ve mentioned before that it’s reputed to be the largest second hand booksale in the world, and any bibliophile is in heaven when surrounded by a million books. I normally go each day and spend lots of time in the different areas (unpriced, priced and quality) and different categories, but other demands on my time meant I spend only about an hour - mainly with the “quality” books where you might pay up to $10 a volume, as opposed to $1, $2 or $3 in the other sections. Illustrated are the books I got for $87. Politics and history mainly this time, since searching through fiction takes so long!
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It’s definitely wintry indoors weather in Brisbane this weekend, though we had some glorious days last week - particularly on Tuesday when I was delighted to get out of the house and away from the phd writing for a moment to pop into the State Library of Queensland to do a quick bit of research. Incidentally, the completely made over library is a fabulous place to visit - for all sorts of reasons - and I’m looking forward, post-phd, to spending some time there for a small research/writing project I have planned on Brisbane culture 80s style.
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I have very little to report - since my weekends as with my weeks at the moment are a combination of sleeping and thesis work. So, instead a few photos of curios in the Brisbane CBD. First, a “printer’s devil” sculpted above the main door of the old State Government Printing Office in George Street. The origin of the phrase is uncertain and disputed but what’s certain and undisputed is that it inspired some rather fab sculpture on buildings. Secondly, two facades of old buildings between the Treasury Hotel and the Myer Centre on Elizabeth Street - the buildings themselves were demolished long ago (as long ago as the 1980s, I think) but their facades remain - seemingly immunised from redevelopment for reasons I don’t know. But I like the gap in the streetscape.
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I had dinner in town on Friday night with a friend - we went to Pane e Vino, where I think the quality of the food isn’t what it once was. We were reflecting later that our continuing to patronise this establishment was probably an artefact of habit more than anything else - back in the mid 90s, it was one of the few places to eat in Brisbane town at a price point between Hungry Jacks and the really posh silver service joints. Now there are bistros all over the place, but we haven’t tried any. So any recommendations of good CBD eateries where you can get a meal and a glass of wine for about thirty bucks are much welcomed!
I was back in town yesterday - going to the QUT Gardens Point library for books for the thesis. When I emerged from the library, the weather had changed from being a beautiful sunny day to cold and grey - and it felt like a storm was building up. By the time I got to the bus stop on Adelaide Street to go home, the sky had gone a very odd shade of yellow - just minutes before the storm hit. Fortunately I had my camera with. It was a doozy of a storm - the bus stop crowd had to move back about half the width of the sidewalk to avoid getting drenched, and heralded the coming of some very cold winds. So we were all rugging up last night!
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Unfortunately, I forgot to recharge my camera battery, so no pics this week. We’ll have to content ourselves with an image from Keating! The Musical, which I took my mum to see last night for Mothers’ Day (she’s a big PJK fan). Apparently, I’m not alone, as Paul Keating also took his mum to see it. I’d be really interested to know what non-Labor folks would think about it. They’d have been lonely in the audience at the QPAC Playhouse last night, surrounded by a gallery of Labor luminaries from Anna Bligh down. It’s also interesting to speculate whether a hypothetical Howard! The Musical would get much of a run - and I’m not sure Terry Serio would be cast in the eponymous role - his portrayal of Howard was cruel in its verisimilitude. Alexander Downer, in Rocky Horror style fishnets and corset, came off much better.
I also enjoyed catching up with a couple of friends who’d been at the matinee for a drink at The Point on Grey Street at Southbank first, always a good spot for a glass of wine or a cocktail, and while I’m doing recommendations, I went round to some other friends’ place for dinner on their back deck on Friday night and ate a very scrumptious lasagne concocted out of the pages of the Veganomicon - best. cookbook. eva! Today? Well, it’s been a lazy Sunday!
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I’m just getting over the flu (and a secondary infection which caught me in its grip) so I have been having a lazy weekend. Overdosing on anime dvds as well as dosing on antibiotics (including all of Ergo Proxy, which, like Kim, I’d also recommend.) I took some photos down in the Valley yesterday on one of my trips to the video store I’m rather happy with though.
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After a big burst of thesis writing, I’ve spent a rather miserable weekend, lamenting the fact that I didn’t get a flu shot this year. But before the lurgy got its grips into me, I did go down with an old Uni friend to The Bowery in Ann Street in the Valley - Brisneyland’s best bar to be sure - for a propitiatory Laphroaig or three. When the nights start getting cooler, it’s time to unstop the malt scotch bottle!
If you’d like to see a larger image of the photos, click on them then click on “full view” once you’re inside the gallery.
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
By contrast to the last twoweekends of art and free drinkies, I had a very asocial one - have a major deadline on my thesis - chapter due by Thursday. So my only outing was to the Queensland Uni library for some books! Though this arvo I’m attending the Search Foundation“Re-Imagining the Good Society” event where I’m speaking. I took the camera along to UQ, and took some shots of the Green Bridge from Dutton Park to the St Lucia campus - one of the few unequivocally good things to happen on the Brisbane transport scence in the last few years. It’s restricted to walkers, cyclists and buses, and is also designed to reduce public transport and car congestion in the Western suburbs - UQ is the second biggest car traffic attractor in Brisbane afer the CBD.
If you’d like to see a larger image of the photos, click on them then click on “full view” once you’re inside the gallery.
I also got lucky in terms of the afternoon light for photos of the fountain and the lake between College Road and Staff House Road, and continuing the uni theme, snapped the Royal Exchange pub at Toowong on the way home - aka the “RE” and the scene of much binge drinking (yikes!) during my undergrad days.
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