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links for 2008-07-07

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:33:37 +1000

HeatherMortonArt buyer

More good reading and inspiration for your photography from a Canadian art buyer.

(tags: photography business artbuyer tips)
YouTube - I Met The Walrus

In 1969 a 14 year old boy snuck into John Lennon's hotel and recorded an interview with him about peace. The now adult boy has since turned that audio interview into a beautiful animated video.

(tags: animation illustration thebeatles video)
Ocker Zeal - Interview with Daniel Boud of Boudist

More about me than you ever wanted to know.

(tags: boudist me interview)
Channel 4 recreates The Shining

An impressive recreation of the set of The Shining for a TV ad

(tags: stanleykubrick advertising)

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor under a dead horse

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:19:22 +1000

I took this portrait of Elizabeth Ann Macgregor the other week. She's the Director of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. It was to accompany an interview Time Out Sydney was doing with her to coincide with the Biennale of Sydney.

I took along some lights and Craig for some assistance. After scouting around the MCA for a bit we decided the best and most obvious place to photograph Ms Macgregor would be underneath the taxidermied horse which has become a focal point for the Biennale. It's a work called Novecento by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

After firing off some test shots with Craig we waited for Elisabeth to arrive. I ended up shuffling the lighting at the last minute to make the back light more even and add a bit of a hair halo effect. After she arrived i snapped off about a dozen shots and it wall all done and dusted.

You can read the interview here.

About the complaints the dead horse has drawn she states,

"People get quite hot under the collar about animals and they're wearing leather shoes! Novecento is a dead animal - a horse that died of old age and would have ended up at the knackery. Yet as art it's an extraordinary piece - the immobility of it, the fact it's looking back at the 20th century and the revolutions that went nowhere. Nobody complains about the stuffed hide of Phar Lap."

links for 2008-07-01

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:39:49 +1000

Amy Winehouse photographed by Bryan Adams

Yes, that Bryan Adams. It's shot for Zoo Magazine in Germany, which is unrelated to the more low-brow Australian Zoo Magazine.

(tags: amywinehouse bryanadams photography)
Wild Beasts - 'The Devil's Crayon'

My new favourite song.

(tags: youtube wildbeasts)
Loud Noise and Pictures

A new Australian music blog on the block.

(tags: blog music)

Biennale of Sydney photos

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:47:48 +1000

Last week i had a tour of some of the works which form the Biennale of Sydney. Covering several venues, most notably Cockatoo Island, there's over 180 works to see from now until the 7th September.

Above is Jill McKay, who along with three other ladies aged 80-plus continuously perform 'God Save the Queen' by the Sex Pistols. That's my kind of art. It's by an artist named Christoph Buchel.

Above is a sculpture titled Vitruvian Figure by Paul Pfeiffer. It's a stadium with one million seats. It's enormous.

I can't work like this by Natascha Sadr Haghighian is made up of nails hammered in a wall at the MCA.

This is buckets of Mike Parr's urine.

Continuing the toilet theme is this "found art" credited to Vernon Ah Kee. It's an old toilet block covered in offensive graffiti on Cockatoo Island.

News photographer Charlie Brewer shoots BUST(ED) by Julie Rrap. On a spot of trivia - Julie Rrap is Mike Parr's sister and shares his surname but spelt backwards.

These large sails cover an expanse of Turbine Hall on Cockatoo Island. It's a work by Jannis Kounellis.

This is George Bures Miller who has a sound installation titled The Murder of Crows on Pier 2/3. It's well worth experiencing.

Romanian artists Lia and Dan Perjovschi have covered the Art Gallery of NSW in funny graffiti.

Check out some more Biennale of Sydney highlights and photos over at Time Out Sydney.

links for 2008-06-23

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:35:09 +1000

The Beatles from above

I love this live shot of the Beatles. It's so iconically them, such a unique angle, and it's abstract enough to make you think a little before you get what it's about. I've no idea who took it or where though.

(tags: livemusic thebeatles photography)
Random Rules | The A.V. Club

A clever format for interviewing musicians. Get them to shuffle through their iPod on random and talk about the music. Makes for a more revealing interview than a stock standard Q&A format.

(tags: interviews ipod interview article music)
The Big Picture - Boston.com

A photoblog which lifts beautiful photos from the photo wire services. They're presented in a nice large format and in sets based on a theme or issue. Lovely stuff.

(tags: journalism photography photojournalism blog)
oculi

A collective of Australia's best photojournalists. Click on the "Singles" link for a best-of collection each month.

(tags: photography australia photojournalism)
The 100 Best Movie Posters of All Time

Linkbait for sure - but fun to look over some classic movie posters.

(tags: design film posters)

A small part of Aboriginal Sydney

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:29:27 +1000

A few weeks back Time Out Sydney published an indigenous themed issue timed for Reconciliation Week. I photographed some of the people and places we were profiling.

Above is Uncle Max Eulo who's commonly known for the smoking ceremony he performs as a welcome to Sydney. I ventured out with him on the Tribal Warrior early one morning.

Preparations for Gathering Ground, held on The Block in Redfern.

Filmmaker Darlene Johnson at her home in Bondi.

Edge of Trees is a sculptural installation outside the Museum of Sydney.

Aunty Sylvia Scott outside her home in Glebe.

Anthony Mundine training at the Tony Mundine Gym in Redfern.

Wayne Blair on the set of Romeo and Juliet, the production he was directing for the Sydney Theatre Company.

Onboard the Deerubbun on Sydney Harbour.

A mural at the top of Eveleigh Street, the entrance to The Block.

Uncle Max performs his welcoming smoke ceremony on Time Out Sydney's Editor-in-Chief Angus Fontaine outside the QVB.

Sydney Apple Store opens to the public

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:18:07 +1000

There were hundreds if not thousands of people snaked in a queue around the city to enter the Sydney Apple Store this evening.

It got very squishy indeed along George Street as the doors opened, not so much from the people in the queue who were kept orderly, but by the rubberneckers looking on in bemusement at the Mac fanatics.

Apple Store opens in Sydney

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:04:04 +1000

This morning Apple opened the doors to the media at their first Apple Store in Sydney. The official opening is tomorrow evening at 5pm.

I'm not usually one to be excited by a shop opening, but being an unabashed mac aficionado and given the striking shop design it's hard not to get caught up in it.

The store is fronted by 15 metre high panes of glass, the largest in the world we were told.

The store covers 3 levels and the staircase at the back of the store is translucent so you can see people wander above you.

We didn't get Steve Jobs, but we did get Ron Johnson to welcome us and give us an overview of the store.

There were stacks of media through the doors to check it out.

The stoor is on the ground floor of a new city skyscraper on the corner of George and King streets. Just opposite another Sydney shopping institution, Darrell Lea chocolates.

For the first time in Australia we now have our own Genius Bar. Hopefully this will improve the service of macs round here, which in my experience is terrible.

These Mac store openings tend to attract a devoted following and over 24 hours before the doors open a queue was already forming. This was Mike Kaufmann from ifo AppleStore who'd traveled from the US just to be at the opening.

Check out Time Out Sydney for more photos and Andrew P Street's take on the store.

Book Club party

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:50:35 +1000

On Saturday night some friends threw a party at Cybele's studio for their book club called Even Books.

The book was The Dirt, the story of Mötley Crüe, so the night was suitably hedonistic.

There was a reading from the book by Septimus Caton, Rock trivia with Elmo, Guitar Hero and a performance by Chaingang.

Lots more photos in the gallery.

links for 2008-06-12

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:35:04 +1000

Photography Internship

I'm looking for someone to help out at work.
The Great Escape

The line-up for this 2 day camping festival in Sydney has just been announced. It's one of the best festivals around.

(tags: festival Music)
Phone Sex Operators - The Morning News

Portraits of phone sex operators by Phillip Toledano

(tags: photography portraits)
Boudist Tumblr

I has a Tumblr. Not much new to see - but what it's good for is aggregating my blog, twitter, my Flickr photos and my favourite photos.

(tags: tumblr boudist)

Come Together Festival at Luna Park

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:38:55 +1000

It's been a while between shooting gigs for me, but i was back on the game on Saturday at the Come Together Festival at Luna Park. It was a good chance to catch up with a bunch of local bands and see the new upstarts.

Bluejuice seemed to have the best crowd reaction all day. People were going bananas for them. And despite Jake having a plaster cast on his leg, he was hopping around dancing madly on stage.

As usual Young and Restless were intense and Karina re-inforced her status as the number one frontwoman in Australia.

Dublin boys The Thrills made up the minor international component of the day.

The Galvatrons impressed with their Van Halen-esque anthems. They're the latest buzz band around but it remains to be seen what it will amount to.

Sparkadia was fantastic as usual. With their new album hitting the airwaves they seem to have picked up a legion of new fans.

It's a pretty cool venue for a music festival, a fun park underneath the Harbour Bridge.

Little Red crooned with their nostalgic love songs.

The cavernous Big Top where most bands played.

Faker deservedly headlined the day and put on a reliably energetic performance.

I'd not seen The Dirty Secrets before but they were rather good. Reminscint of The Killers or Hot Hot Heat.

See loads more pictures in the Come Together 2008 photo gallery.

Ladies of the Red Carpet

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:46:22 +1000

Here's a few snaps i've taken on red carpets lately. First up is Cate Blanchett who turned up for the Sydney premiere of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.

Next was the opening night of the Sydney Film Festival. I spent much of the time scratching my head asking the other photographers who these people were that were posing for us. I don't think i read enough gossip mags.

This is Laura Dundovic who was recently crowned Miss Universe Australia.

Rachel Taylor is a local actress who found some notoriety in the Transformers film.

As i like to do at these things, i took some wide snaps to show the scene. Below is Krystal Forscutt who's really stretching out her 15 minutes of fame post Big Brother.

links for 2008-06-04

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:32:48 +1000

Polite Young Things

A blog by Melbourne photographer Kristy Lee. It's often about the shoots she does for Abby Winters, the popular amateur adult/smut site. NSFW.

(tags: photography erotica blog nsfw)
Hipster Runoff

Like a more tounge in cheek Vice magazine.

(tags: music fashion indie hipster Funny blog)
51 Best Magazines Ever | GOOD Magazine

By no means an authoritative list, there's no Time Out for example :) But there are some great magazines in the list.

(tags: blog design journalism magazine publishing bestof list)
Ten Colours, Ten Songs. One Film. Nick Littlemore :: k l u s t e r

From the new issue of Kluster - some pictures i took of Nick Littlmore's avant-garde recording project. Click the pictures for a larger version.

(tags: pnau nicklittlemore kluster studio recording)

Ben Barnes aka Prince Caspian

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:42:15 +1000

Some man candy for you - here's Ben Barnes who plays Prince Caspian in the new Chronicles of Narnia film.

This was one of those quick snaps in the hotel room jobs.

He was perfectly charming and seemed well practiced doing his brooding heart throb look. He's well cast as Dorian Gray in a new adaptation.

Along for the junket ride was the director of Prince Caspian, Andrew Adamson. He was a lovely Kiwi chap, whose directorial debut was with Shrek, but moved onto live action with the first Narnia film.

The interviews with both of these chaps will be in this Wednesday's Time Out Sydney.

Youth Group launch The Night is Ours

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:13:25 +1000

Last Wednesday night, just after a storm ripped through Sydney, Youth Group played a show on the deck of a boat to launch their new album The Night is Ours.

The boat was the Cape Don, permanently moored at Balls Head next to where Youth Group recorded the new album. I took some pictures of that process, including the band on board the boat last year.

The album launch gig was lit rather poorly, so i was content to just get moody atmospheric shots.

The new album is out on June 26th. This is the video for first single 'Two Sides'.