Melbourne Art Fair
Last night I got to go out to The Melbourne art fair. There was a myriad of brilliant contemporary art. But I don’t remember much after meeting the national treasure,Michael Leunig. There he was talking to someone so I stopped and stared, ready to make an idiot of myself. Hello I said, I think you’re Michael Leunig, he said he was, I proceeded to tell him how much both my daughters love watching…
abc arts
If you go to the abc website, www.abc.net.au/arts and click on the new work tab you can log in and set up a space to show your art, and include a video as many artists do about themselves. I’ve found no-one comments much and it takes along time to get a work approved to go on, once on though there seems to be alot of views which is one thing I like about rb and this site, your artistic cont…
Adobe lightroom 3 beta
In the livewire section of the green guide in the Age today there’s an article about Adobe lightroom 3 beta,which is digital darkroom software. You can download a full working version for free, until April 30th 2010. I don’t know anything about darkroom techniques, but I’ve downloaded the software and it seems pretty good so far. The address is
www.labs.adobe.com/technologies/lig…
Cranbourne botanical gardens
Visited the Cranbourne botanical gardens on a work excursion today and recommend them to any gardener or contemporary artist. It’s not like any other botanical gardens.
We saw the Australian native section where there are fifteen themed gardens, and had the tour, which is full of fascinating info. Especially the history of the site and of the making of the gardens. The sculptural effects and few s…
Self Portrait of Embarrassment.
I’m the bloke who goes into the public toilets at a big shopping center, and when I go to wash my hands it’s one of those lever taps which I push to far, the water jets into the back of the basin and flies into my crutch. So when I leave it looks like I didn’t make it in time.
Or driving the bus at work to pick up some equipment I overrun the shop so I go across the highway to do a U-turn, but fi…