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Lazy Sunday!

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7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Continuing the photography event/free drinks theme from last weekend, I ventured across the river to Raw Space at South Brisbane for a cocktail party celebrating their current exhibition (Heimo Schmidt and Kate Bernaeur) on Friday night. The event had a nice vibe, with most of the action taking place on the long deck facing Melbourne Street where a guitarist was playing. It was good to catch up with a friend I hadn’t seen for a while, and I can also recommend a visit to have a squizzy at the photos… Saturday - lunch @ New Farm Deli, a bit of shopping, and a bottle of wine on some friends’ back deck. Later this arvo, of course, we have the LP drinks @ Kaliber to look forward to.


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Lazy Sunday!

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7 months, 4 weeks ago
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I had another really pleasant weekend. Friday night was art crawl night, kicking off with a bunch of friends at the Dell Gallery at the Queensland College of Art for free drinks as part of the Queensland Festival of Photography program. (It’s ongoing, so check it out if you’re interested - I hear good things about the Annie Hogan exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane.) We then headed across the river to Jugglers Artspace in The Valley for the launch of Nic Plowman’s new exhibition. After that, various bars, etc! On Saturday, some other friends and I decided to do Taco Saturday on their back deck - with a couple of bottles of New Zealand white, and some tacos we made with much garlic at every stage - watch out, vampires!


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Lazy Sunday!

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8 months ago
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I had a really pleasant weekend - Friday drinks, then dinner at Thai Wi-Rat in the Vall, and sweets at Gerbinos. Saturday I caught up with friends for brunch at Moray Cafe, popped into town for a bit of science fiction bookshopping at Pulp Fiction, and then went to Brian’s place for a joint birthday dinner (mine was actually ages ago but I was sick at the time, and his was much more recent) where we sorted out the problems of Australia and the world (sorta), looked at some old photos from Brian’s days on the farm as a teenager, and exchanged presents - Brian got a history of Prussia and I got a bottle of Cragganmore single malt! I can also recommend anchovy sauce. Today - internetting, sleeping!

Here’s some photos left over from last week’s peregrinations around the ‘hood.

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Lazy Sunday!

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8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Lazy Sunday!

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8 months, 3 weeks ago
in Brisbane, History, Life, Media and Religion
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After doing my 4zzz interview yesterday, I went for a walk into town and stopped to take some photos of St John’s Anglican Cathedral on Ann St - whose completion is ongoing and where spires were added just the other weekend. Aside from that, had some after work drinks on Friday night with friends, and have been reading a fascinating book I picked up at Kinokuniya when I was in Sydney last month on Prague, culture and the history of the Czech lands and watching vampire movies on dvd…

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Lazy Sunday!

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9 months ago
in Brisbane, Life and Music
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I went to the Powerhouse today for LiveSpark! featuring that excellent band Coda. I’m uploading a video and will post some photos when it finally makes it on to google, so more about that later.

But here’s to you all! And may your t-shirts carry obscure situationist mottos…

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Lazy Sunday!

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9 months, 1 week ago
in Brisbane, Life, Photography, Sociology and Transport
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I had the good sense yesterday to sleep through Brisbane’s hottest day of the year (and in the process I think put paid to my flu… almost), waking up around the time the cool change came through and the temperature dropped about 15 degrees from its 40 degree peak… And today, I wandered out to my alma mater at UQ to return some phd thesis library books, then after a CityCat ride over to West End, dropped by the dvd store in the Valley to return Rise - Lucy Liu as a girl reporter vampire!

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Lazy Sunday!

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9 months, 2 weeks ago
in Brisbane, Culture, Life, Photography and Urbanism
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I’ve got the flu, so not much to report for me. But I did take a constitutional this afternoon - the weather in Brisbane is just beautiful at the moment - so different from the putrid and stinky Februaries of the last decade or so. And I took some photos for a mini-architectural tour of my ‘hood.

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Lazy Sunday! (Monday edition)

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9 months, 3 weeks ago
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I was a bit worn out still yesterday after my trip to Sydney, so this is a day late! 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!

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Lazy Sunday! (Searching for Paradise edition)

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10 months ago
in Art, Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, History, Life, Photography, Queensland, Religion and Sociology
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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! As well as going to the wonderful Kenneth Macqueen exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery yesterday, as described in this post, my friends and I also popped in to see the new State Library, a visit which inspired some thoughts…

As Julianne Schultz wrote in her introduction to the latest Griffith Review - Re-Imagining Australia:

The existence of a vast landmass at the bottom of the southern hemisphere had entered European consciousness – like unseen creatures in the bush at night, present but not visible – well before the last continent was mapped.

As she goes on to emphasise, while settler Australians often disclaimed vision in favour of practicality, moulding this continent in the image of the colonial project was as much an act of imagination and often, of utopian dreaming. The State Library of Queensland’s exhibition, Paradise, traces the projection of that particular key cultural motif onto Queensland - both its built and natural environments and its social and cultural patterns:

From the Garden of Eden to virtual worlds, this exhibition explores notions of paradise through art, historical objects, kitsch and memorabilia and looks in particular at how paradise has been represented in the history of Queensland.

As I hope to show in a few photos I took today, the configuration of the urban space of the Cultural Centre itself gestures towards this desire and perhaps the current exhibition only makes clear what is always implicit in its spatial and social en-visioning.

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Lazy Sunday!

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10 months, 1 week ago
in Brisbane, Culture, History, Life, Media, Music and Urbanism
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I had some fun yesterday - through the auspices of the Centre for Policy Development, I was asked to go and do a live to air interview on higher education funding on community radio 4zzz fm’s Brisbane Line show. I used to be in the zzz collective around 20 years ago - I got into radio through the anti-Joh and land rights activism that was such a vibrant feature of mid to late 80s Brisvegas. So I was chuffed to be on air - the contribution the Zeds has made to community radio, music and politics is really inestimable - it was the first fm community licence in Australia approved in the dying days of the Whitlam government, and its roots go back even further - to the 60s civil liberties movement in Brisbane. A few years ago, there was talk of a drama based on the station’s history being in development for SBS, but it may have fallen victim to John Howard style political incorrectness police.

The building zzz is in now is also a significant site in the alternative history of Brisbane. First located at the UQ union in St Lucia, the station was spectacularly evicted by a National Party led student administration in 1989 - I was there when it happened, and really should write something about it sometime. After a short stay at Toowong, the Communist Party when it wound up in 1991 offered zzz the use of its building on Barry Parade in the Valley. I was interested to see that the paint has been stripped back on the door and you can see a visible trace of that building’s history - “the People’s bookshop” which Brisbane radicals of an older vintage than me would remember well.


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Lazy Sunday!

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10 months, 2 weeks ago
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I have very little to recount - the major focus of my activity is finishing my PhD thesis, and I’ve been advised from several quarters that socialising is completely incompatible with that goal being achieved (at long last). But I did take some photos, including a couple of a sculpture on Queen Street I’d never looked at closely before. Walking around with a camera, I find, makes looking at things rather more interesting.


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Lazy Sunday!

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10 months, 3 weeks ago
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My main weekend activity has been attending the ever wonderful Lifeline Bookfest - and since it goes til next Saturday and I’ll no doubt be popping in again, I think I’ll save up my own tales for a dedicated post.

In the meantime, here are some photos I took down in The Valley the other day.


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Lazy Sunday! (Unseasonable weather edition)

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11 months ago
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Here in Brisneyland, we’ve escaped the heatwave that his hit some other parts of the country, but we’ve been on the edge of some of the weather events that have brought floods elsewhere (and we send our love and best wishes out to any LP readers affected) - it’s been cool and extremely humid rather than hot and extremely humid as it would normally be at this time of year, and we’ve had tons of rain - some of it quite heavy. That’s all to the good from the point of view of dam levels, showing that the Labor elected, drought breaks adage still has some validity.

It’s been good weather for thesis writing, which is what I’ve mostly been doing. The big aim is to get most of it finished (if not all the loose ends tied) by my birthday on 13 Feb. But I ventured out yesterday - on the one day when it was hot and sultry - to return some books at the QCA library, stroll through Southbank, and buy myself a coffee pot and a bean grinder (if I’m going to be working from home, instant caffeination from sources other than instant is vital). I ran into a friend and ended up having dinner at a local eatery, Vue Lounge on Merthyr Road, which has a very good $12 pasta and $4 house wine deal on Saturday night. Today, nose to the grindstone again.


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Lazy Sunday! (New Years Eve long weekend edition)

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11 months, 1 week ago
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After all the Xmas celebrationy stuff, I’ve been working away on a chapter for my PhD thesis on Walter Benjamin (so the absence of any political blogging from me can be related to that as well as the desire to tune out from the day to day political stuff for a bit), but I took the time out to relax on a couple of Citycat trips - by far the nicest way to see Brisbane. For those who aren’t from round here, one of the most interesting things I photographed was the heritage listed Bulimba Ferry Terminal - built in 1922 - and built in Federation Queen Anne style. There’s lots of info on the EPA website here.

As I think I mentioned last week, I’m reading Dickens’ Bleak House, and in my one concession to post Christmas sales mania today, I picked up a copy of the dvd of the BBC series (only bits of which I saw on tv earlier in the year), which I’m looking forward to watching. The first chapter is an absolute tour de force, btw.

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