WOOJam is about establishing a creative community in our lifetime. Neither an extinct species nor a dying dream, it is the creative commu…
WOOJam is about establishing a creative community in our lifetime. Neither an extinct species nor a dying dream, it is the creative community of the naughties. It’s an awe-inspiring event that began as an open mic night and rapidly evolved into a hotbed of creative collaboration where artists of all disciplines can come together and fuse their talents in a non-intimidating environment. In a world of social isolation, studio apartments and averted gazes, WOOJam brings the love back to Sydney’s / epicentre of boho chic in Kings Cross. It is a creative space where everyone is encouraged to sing a song, perform a monologue, play piano instrumentals or simply shake your tambourine and stomp your feet to the music. And there’s no cover charge in sight. We set it up to establish an an outlet for creativity, to build a community of artists and to reinvigorate the arts scene by supporting and inspiring, rather than losing touch in an uber cool environment where self-expression is quashed by a desire to see and be seen. WOOJam is about surrendering your ego at the door. It’s about experimentation, development, enthusiasm / and generosity. It is successful because it thrives on a sense of community and belonging. People listen when you play, they cheer when you finish and the adrenaline rush of performance resonates beyond the on-stage experience. / / New friendships have been forged, but best of all new creative collaborations have flowed from WOOJam nights. Artists who have performed now play gigs around Sydney and some are laying tracks for their debut recordings. Before WOOJam many of these artists were simply strumming to mum and dad in the lounge room. It’s not a hippy commune…but it could be. WOOJam spirit demands optimism and respect. Cynicism is so 1999. WOOJam is about being pro-active, not waiting for government hand-outs or giving up on your art. Our aim is to offer aspiring artists the opportunity to extend themselves. Many have come from the bedroom, to the stage to the studio, and this is just the beginning. / / We have recorded an EP featuring four regular WOOJammers and we hope this is the first of many more to come. We raised money for the recording through raffles, donations and an auction of raspberry-flavoured WOOJam. People believe in WOOJam and want it to flourish. / / The dedication and support we receive from our regulars and special guests is amazing. WOOJam fills a void providing a non-pretentious space to engage with art and produce it together. And we’ll be darned if you don’t feel the urge to let fly with a big “WOO!” once you come on down. See www.myspace/woojam for further details. Next WOOJam is February 5 in Sydney at Bar Me (cnr Brougham / and William Streets, Kings Cross). The EP launch is February 17 at Bar Me. Get there.
Thank you to the person that bought my Pearl Jam “Alive” card! You’ve made my night! I thought it would never happen! I hope you enjoy i…
Thank you to the person that bought my Pearl Jam “Alive” card! You’ve made my night! I thought it would never happen! I hope you enjoy it! Thanks so so much!
Monday was Jam night at my friend Tony’s jazz club the Paris Cat in Melbourne. Here are some of my shots…
Monday was Jam night at my friend Tony’s jazz club the Paris Cat in Melbourne. Here are some of my shots of the incredible musicians at work Paris Cat Jam Night It was definately the hardest show I’ve had to shoot so far. It was much, much darker than I have shot before, as well as fighting over saturation from red lights… my new greatest enemy. I think the shots turned out well, and I’ll get some more practice there – I can see myself becoming a regular there on Monday nights… free entry, and 2 hours of incredible music – can’t go wrong
Finally finding the beauty of online journals, only just realized that this site has one. Which on my part was really slow of me too real…
Finally finding the beauty of online journals, only just realized that this site has one. Which on my part was really slow of me too realize. Current mood; Annoyed. My USB isn’t working and it has a crap load of work on it :(. Technology always seems to fail you at some point, it seems to do it too me a lot. Also currently trying to get some Law Coursework done for this Wednesday. =[ it sucks a lot. but other than that life seems to be okay in my eyes. I’m determined to start writing again, and painting i have painted in a long while. Marie aka SilentxPoet. edit;Typo’s :S
Hey there beautiful bubblers! / Yes, the title of this post is calling out to all Melbourne Red Bubblers who sing, play an instrument or c…
Hey there beautiful bubblers! / Yes, the title of this post is calling out to all Melbourne Red Bubblers who sing, play an instrument or can just shake a tambourine!! / We are having a very casual (and let me emphasise the words very casual!) musical jam! / / Where? / Dane Rehearsal Centre – Room 12 / 25 Leslie St, Brunswick 3056 / On the night a Bass Amp and Drum Kit will be supplied. / If you decide to participate, please be prepared to chip in for the cost of room and equipment hire. At this stage it looks like being no more than $10ea… but make sure to bring a little extra for Pizza’s!! / When? / Friday 2nd May 2008 at 7pm / Why? / Why the heck not? :D / / So, dust off your Recorder, Triangle, Maracas, Tuba, Vocal Cords, Fender, Gibson, Acoustic, Fiddle or Banjo and bring them along and lets make some noise! / I’ll be keeping track of who is coming and what instrument they will be bringing along at this thread / / If you do not play a musical instrument or are in no way musically inclined, you are still most welcomed to pop in and have a listen to the racket we may be creating, it may just be a whole lot fun! :D
Another productive morning! I love getting up early when I get to have fun like this! !http://www.peanutbuttergenie.com/littlejams.jpg…
Another productive morning! I love getting up early when I get to have fun like this! So, much like the Evelyn comic, this is another prequel of sorts. The comic is supposed to show us a little of Jams’s situation, but it also takes place right before the actual Zuda comic (Have you voted? Go vote! ;o) Whew. One more week and you won’t have to hear that from me again. Yay, you say? YAY I say! Check out the rough pencilled fun…
Thank u so much whoever bought a canvas of this image. !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/1172629-2-jamming-i…
Thank u so much whoever bought a canvas of this image. I am truely over the moon..
A long 3 hour wait. I have had my P plate license for approximately 1 week and 1 day, I have been loving it, playing music and scourin…
A long 3 hour wait. I have had my P plate license for approximately 1 week and 1 day, I have been loving it, playing music and scouring the town for new streets, and access points within the Blue Mountains. I have visited a friend after being at TAFE today, I have also been sick with the flu. I finished visiting a friend at Bullaburra at 3:15, I had a minor head ache and I was blocked up in the nasal area, so I decided to come home. When I walked outside to the car on the backstreets of Bullaburra, I noticed there were sirens wizing past and more than usual car traffic for a backroad. When I headed for the main highway, I saw a police man directing traffic to the left (Hazel brook area) towards the city. I quickly stopped off at a gas station to get a coke waiting for all of the fuss to calm down with lines of lines of traffic. It appeared when I got home, I heard information that two cars were street racing on Lawson main strip! I think they were also P platers too, I am a P plater too and I am a safe driver who keeps to the speed limit if it’s 60 or 40km/h I always do the limit, If I see a hazardous situation then I slow down just in case. I am so pissed off at these idiots who want to show off by taking dangerous risks in public populated areas, they are making that all P platers are up to no good! They should be punished regardless wether they are in hospital or not. They made the decision to speed in a 60KM/h zone (40KM/h zone during weekdays) which I heard the sirens go past at round about 3:15PM during the weekday – Meaning they would have probably have been speeding in a school zone street racing. The world should not go through another case of another Sophie Delezio! I hope all P plate drivers and Full licensed drivers are safe drivers! This chaos should stop with P platers especially with crashes and near misses killing their own lives, and others leaving families distorted for months maybe years!.
Yes, you too can eat this delicious Marmalade, but be warned…it’s not for the faint-hearted. Only for REAL marmalade lovers!!! It’s …
Yes, you too can eat this delicious Marmalade, but be warned…it’s not for the faint-hearted. Only for REAL marmalade lovers!!! It’s a true Seville Orange Marmalade, made with nothing but Seville Oranges and sugar, lovingly made in the Tania Rose kitchen, with lots of daydreaming and brainstorming thrown in for good measure over the pan as it bubbled. So, how much is a jar of gorgeous golden love worth? Well, how about you bubblemail me an offer. You choose the price, but you must be prepared to enjoy every last morsel, so only true Marma-lovers please. / ....mmmmmmmmmmm
33° 31’ 7” N 90° 11’ 2” W The ardent numerologists and the vaguely insane amongst you spot it immediately. Three. The taint…
33° 31’ 7” N 90° 11’ 2” W The ardent numerologists and the vaguely insane amongst you spot it immediately. Three. The tainted seed from which all that is debauched and pagan and just plain naughty about rock ‘n roll flowers. All those blowjob closets and black amphetamine blood replacements and seafood buffet insertions. All that devil baiting and jailbait buggery and death by vehicular misadventure. A lurid bacchanal: a rock and roll Grand Guignol. A bas relief of vice, sin and theatre to give Caligula or The Marquis pause. Dante’s Inferno in tight pants and tall hair. Three. It’s all right there in the maths: elementary. 3+3+3+1+7= 17 1+7= 8 9+0+1+1+2= 13 1+3= 4 8+4 = 12 1+2 = Yep. 33° 31’ 7” N 90° 11’ 2” W. The crossroads near Dockery’s Plantation. A bluesman, a dream of immortality and a classic Faustian pact. Three. The recurring leitmotif at the very root of belief. The triquetra is the holy trinity: father, son, ghost. An triangle, inverted, is earth. Strength and life in geometry. Three sixes. And then there’s The Tritone. Diabolus in musica- the Devil’s Note, or flattened fifth. The Tritone was banned by The Church in the Dark Ages for its apparent knack of whipping the listener into a frenzy of rape and generally unbecoming behavior. Naturally, it’s the progression of notes that’s at the guts of the blues scale. The Tritone: a sonic Grail. The poisoned chalice offered in exchange for Robert Johnson’s mortal soul. The echoing, potent rumble of Sin chiming down through generations of popular music: Evoking shamen, from moonlit altar they spread their doctrine, summoning whores, rallying baying hordes: Legion. In alliance with mystics, yogis and snake oil salesmen, the gospel insinuates. Crowley, The Yogi and Colonel Tom Parker. False idols in greasepaint and Viking armor, the trappings of battle; totems living outside societal norms, evoking a wild mix and match procession of ideologies and perversions. The stuff of serial killer diaries and half lit dragons chased and ritual. The zodiac, tarot. Thoth. Enochian, runic and dagger alphabets. Shadowplay and performance conjures sex and death, martyrdom, golden Gods. All the good stuff. An embarrassment of Pans and Bacchii; a tapestry of grand narrative and gutter epitaph. Lizard Kings and Gods of Sun and Fuck, ego and id unbound. Hedonism at its most elemental, unbound: the pursuit of a personal truth, projection and worship of oneself over all others, the delineation of a personal narrative above all others. To what pantheon do they devote their howls? What primal, monolithic totems? What round table or Canon, steeped narrative embellishment and legend? Nine icons. Nine concepts. Nine stories. 33° 31’ 7” N 90° 11’ 2” W Three. Mea Culpa: Or it could all be rambling, self indulgent load of old toss hinged on a fanciful premise dreamed up in a desperate attempt to generate something outside my digital comfort zone to execute. Props go to Alan Moore’s cane, Christopher Guest et al, Diamond Dave, The Priory, Aleister Crowley’s mighty forearm tattoos, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ZOSO & Jimmy Page’s dragon pants, Paul Wilkinson, Seb Hunter, Chuck Klosterman, The Egg for impetus, The HWC (a triumvirate of ‘toonists, what’s more) and me Mum for banning me from listening to Poison in Year Seven.
Egg hatched and raised in the fiery tumult of the Australian comics scene, The Brigadier, The Baron and The Lord were drawn together like…
Egg hatched and raised in the fiery tumult of the Australian comics scene, The Brigadier, The Baron and The Lord were drawn together like orbiting planetoids swirling in the cosmos, as if nature, history and the gods themselves DECREED it! Science Adventurers. Philanthropists. Dandies. Playboys. Thespians. Desert wanderers. Broadcast personalities. Master swordsmen. Many have tried to pigeon hole these three, all at once known and utterly mysterious gents since they burst onto the scene they CREATED almost 94 years ago! What is well known to date, however, has been debated, studied and mulled over by the greatest minds in HISTORY! MOST say that in 1914, on a drunken whim, they ventured into the deepest regions of the Swiss Alps to put its neutrality to the test (there had not been a fist fight in that country since 1815)! While unable to provoke any of the peace loveing Swiss natives into fighting each other, they did piss off Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who was hiding out in The Baron’s rented chalet (which as it turned out belonged to the now infamous CAPTAIN DREADNAUGHT, the ‘Toonists’ eventual arch nemesis and a man whom the three would encounter numerous times throughout their colourful careers). Lenin fled Switzerland back to Russia in a huff and, as the history books detail, vented his frustrations on the Russian empire. Predictably, our stout hearted heroes refused to let their predicament get the better of the, and with nought but time on their hands and a bold creative itch to SCRATCH, they set about redefining the very notion of pop culture ITSELF! Firstly, the three intrepid adventurers grew mighty and luxuriant BEARDS. Then, with the combination of their powerful good looks, superior artistry and a keen sense of drama, they prevented the Hun armies from invading their adopted home during BOTH World Wars, and then quickly went on to invent every subculture EVER (yes, even goths), the comic book form and prog rock. Finally, mere NANOSECONDS later, in a final expression of raw creative OMNIPOTENCE, the global movement known as WAYWARDISM was born! Historians, critics and even Kings have suggested an arcane significance in this statistically improbable confluence of unrelated events- a grand, and as yet unknowable, SCHEME! Since those fateful months in the most neutral country in the world, these dynamites of industry, ink and inevitability have regularly met to compare egos, facial topiary and their innate ladykilling abilities. And from each ever more memorable meeting another gossamer thread is tied and another astonishing page in the story and influence of Waywardism is etched into TIME ITSELF! Join us now as we, the Wayfarin’ Wayward ‘Toonists, bestow upon YOU, our adoring PUBLIC, our latest gift to POSTERITY, a titanic excursion into art-nirvana which has come to be known as The Swingin’ Jukebox Jam!
For once stuck in a morning traffic jam that was actually moving on our local ring road, I saw the perfect shot, birds in one’s, two’s an…
For once stuck in a morning traffic jam that was actually moving on our local ring road, I saw the perfect shot, birds in one’s, two’s and small flocks flying across the blue pink sky straight in front of the near full moon. Just for once I wished the traffic was still so I could have grabbed the camera to take the shots, the paradox of the traveller against the photographer at work :( so what was the shot you missed recently?
“Apricot Jam Still Life”, one of my personal faves, has been featured on the “Art” home page! Thanks to Red Bubble and all its wonderful …
“Apricot Jam Still Life”, one of my personal faves, has been featured on the “Art” home page! Thanks to Red Bubble and all its wonderful members!
A very dear and beautiful friend of mine has just bought 2 standing tickets to go see Pearl Jam!!!...and she is an absolute Goddess!! I l…
A very dear and beautiful friend of mine has just bought 2 standing tickets to go see Pearl Jam!!!...and she is an absolute Goddess!! I look forward to our dance… They are one of my all time favourite bands…I still remember, back in ‘91, the first time I heard Black ,how my heart stopped and soared to new heights… ...I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a sun in somebody else’s sky, but why, why, WHY can’t it be mine… I have been to countless gigs ranging from Guns n’ Roses to Ray Lamontagne to Nine Inch Nails with a whole host of the weird and wonderful inbetween…But I have yet to see Pearl Jam….and I can’t FUCKING wait!!! This is for you… My Friend Thankyou! Elizium xx
Last night I saw Pearl Jam live… ...I am still floating… Ever since I first heard Alive...
Last night I saw Pearl Jam live… ...I am still floating… Ever since I first heard Alive back in ‘91 I have been in love with their music, the words, the voice… ...My tastes in music have varied over the last 18 years but Pearl Jam have always been the band I fall back on… The Setlist ...A Huge Thankyou goes to my Beautiful Friend Delphine for buying me a ticket…She is also my music ...because of you I experienced quite possibly the most radiant night of my life…....akin to the first night we met… Elizium xx
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Here is some news encompassing our networks activities all over the place
_for years they budded / all around my property / on several bushes / in several places / never did I dare eat them! / only the deer dared de…
for years they budded / all around my property / on several bushes / in several places / never did I dare eat them! / only the deer dared devour them! / a friend named them for me / Autumn Olives is what they are… / then Google enlightened me / now I harvest and eat them gladly / knowing they are so good for me. How I make my jam and also my bread spread See my video! / Free Autumn Olives grow freely and are hearty and sometimes invasive in New England. Learn more from wikipedia: / It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 4-10 m tall, with a dense, thorny crown. The leaves are alternate, 4-10 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, entire but with a waved margin they are silvery when they leaf out early in spring due to numerous tiny, scales, but turning greener above as the silvery scales wear off through the summer (unlike the related E. angustifolia, which remains silvery to leaf fall). The flowers are clustered 1-7 together in the leaf axils, fragrant, with a four-lobed pale yellowish-white 1 cm long corolla. The fruit is round to oval drupe 1 cm long, silvery-scaled orange ripening red dotted with silver or brown. When ripe, the fruit is juicy and edible, and works well as a fruit leather. It is small, extremely numerous, tart-tasting, and it has a chewable seed. It has been shown to have from 7 to 17 times the amount of the antioxidant lycopene that tomatoes have. Lycopene has been consistently shown to be useful in decreasing the risk of prostate cancer. It has naturalized in some parts of North America, and is sometimes considered an invasive species.
Drawing Jam is a great forum over at “Drawingboard….
Drawing Jam is a great forum over at Drawingboard.org where everyone has a go at sketching a particular model. I’m not a regular contributor, but I do have a go occasionally. Here’s one of the few that I feel good enough about to actually upload. This sketch is from the July 2008 jam, although I only just did it last night and coloured it today. I’d like to hear any comments, positive and negative. What say you?
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