I’d posted about the Revs Slay the Ramp Soiree previously, but the comp had been postponed due to some unforeseen circumstances. It’s back on! The comp is now scheduled for the 28th of July, and looks like it’s all going to plan – this is going to be awesome, so don’t miss it if you get the chance to come along.
Wednesday, 28th of July.
Revolver Upstairs
229 Chapel St, Prahran 3181.
Just had a couple of days off and dropped a friend of ours back home in Nowra, New South Wales. On the way in we spotted this hill so we bought brakes, taped our phones to our bikes and rode down really fast.
I’ve posted the unedited footage of the hill bomb below. You might want to adjust your volume, because the brakes come through pretty loud.
Ironside Studios, where I keep a space are having open studios this Sunday. While I’m not able to open my space there are around 15 tenants who will have their studios open, it should be pretty interesting.
Sunday 23rd May, 12-3pm.
Ironside Studios
4 Chelmsford st, Kensington 3031.
On Saturday I had the chance to see Martin Bell’s show ‘Skull Gully’ at Hell Gallery in Richmond. He’s showing a series of black and white drawings which feature vintage toys, action figures, trees, patterns and my favourite – BMX parts and hand drawn type. Highly recommended!
Each Saturday until April 10th from 12pm-5pm.
Hell Gallery
5a Railway Place, Richmond.
Just got back from my sebatical in our southern-most state, cycling down the east coast from St Helens through to Hobart. I took heaps of photos on two cameras and have to get around to looking through them, probably today. In the meantime here’s few I snapped on the camera phone. Newchies.
This has been sitting on my camera for over a month now, I’ve finally had the chance to upload it. It’s one of the three pieces I’d shown at the Animalistic show, which was the beginning of last month. There are a few process photos after the jump..
Just yesterday printed this bottle for a birthday present. I love how it turned out, but had a heap of trouble because the screen mesh was way coarse and the ink quite thin. The design is actually had crisp lines and I’m lucky the distressed look is appropriate in this case – it’s left me thinking overtime about a good screen an ink combination for glass. I’d love to do some stained glass prints or something.
I’d also be interested to know if ‘Trigesimo Cumpleanos’ really does mean ‘Thirtieth Birthday’ in Spanish..
It wouldn’t otherwise be worth a mention, but if you tire of Facebook enough to want out, instead of easily deleting your account they allow you to ‘de-activate’. If you’re brave enough to switch off, I’ll admit I was slightly reluctant to make the click – You’re informed that you can ‘re-activate’ at any time.
Friends are still able to invite you to events, there might be an important message in your inbox, or one you’re about to receive. Thanks for offering guys, but I still want out. I’m reluctant to have that much personal information stored when I don’t know who has access to it, namely advertisers.
Facebook seem to make it deliberately hard to find a way to delete your account, I spent a couple of hours deleting my friends and personal information. This morning though, I found this link:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
That’s a little easier. Now I’m free of social networking, I have piece of mind and more control over my presence on the internet. Don’t even get me started on Twitter.
I hope you might also consider similar attack. If you really want to put something out there – Create your own content, host your own blog, switch things up a bit and help shape your own web 2.0. It’s like growing your own vegetables.
Update, 10th June 2010: Really Whale actually has a twitter account. Still, watch the video above because it’s pretty spot on.