something a little more interesting maybe?!

Hello fellow bloggers/readers! How are we all? I'm not too bad, am still stressing a little that I haven't done my work thoroughly enough and that my things aren't interesting. So in another attempt to create interestingness I've decided to put a small bit of my art work I did at the end of Year12 but not for my VCE.

I finished Year 12 in 2005, and as I was applying for uni courses that were all in the area of the arts I, like I'm sure most of you had to do, had to have interviews and show my folio at the different universities I was appyling for.

Now one uni/course, aside from wanting an interview and a look at my folio also set us the task of creating a story board to send in before our interviews. Now we were given four; for lack of a better word "topics" which were:
- Don't look down
- End of the line
- The fan
- and there was a fourth but I have forgotten it.

There were some guidelines to this story board it had to be told in 10 frames, using drawing, collage or photography as the medium. The last two frames needed to tell a moral to the story or be a twist or something along those lines.

I decided to choose the "topic" The Fan, and most things that come to mind when you hear those words are like a football fan or a fan of a band or something like that. I started thinking along a different line of like ceiling fans or air cons and then it came to me, pedestal fans! From there I created the story of my friend Mulla falling in love with this Pedestal Fan and dating it on a date.

So I have created a slide show with the photographs I took for this task and put them in this blog for you to view. As it's on a bit of a loop the first image to view from is that of my friend offering flowers to the Pedestal Fan at the front door.

Let me know what you think etc.

Enjoy!

Splendour in the Grass

Well guys and girls it has been like 5 days since I wrote my last post *shock horror* and for some reason decided to re-read Johannes' Blog post from back in the last week of school, and am now starting to freak out, that although I've completed quite a lot of that checklist there is still a lot that I feel I haven't covered thoroughly enough; especially for what we are ment to link in our final blog before emailing it to Johannes! I was told by Matt the other week that I ramble too much and that my stuff isn't interesting and now I am doubley freaking that I will fail from lack of interestingess!!! ARGH! Anywho, so for this post I decided to write about the festival Splendour in the Grass.

Last week a friend's sister asked me if I had seen the line up for Splendour in the Grass cos Triple J had annouced it and she said it was quite impressive, telling me that they had announced Bloc Party were playing. So off I toddled to Splendour In The Grass.com and pretty much had a heart attack by the shock of how great the line up was! So many of my favourite bands are going to be playing there!

Splendour in the Grass is a music festival being held at the start of August (6th-8th I think) for a weekend up in Byron Bay, so basically great music along with camping for a whole weekend!


As I said before Bloc Party was announced last week to be one of the main acts, they will be playing on the Sunday. For Bloc Party who reign all the way from Britain this will be their second appearence at Splendour, with the release of their new album A weekend in the city. I haven't yet listened to this, but if it is anything like their first album Silent Alarm then I have lots to look forward too!


Also playing at the festival and hailing from Britain is another one of my favourite bands, the Arctic Monkeys they too have just released a new album (came out today) Favourite worst nightmare with the first single being Brainstorm - it's similar to older stuff by the Arctic Monkeys but a little more edgier and a lot faster, I'm not sure whether I like the song or if my doubt comes from the crappy download I got. The Arctic Monkeys will also be playing on the Sunday.


Yet another band coming over from the UK to play (there are lots of them!) at Splendour and the one I am most excited about, the Kaiser Chiefs! They are also another band to release a new album Your's Truly, Angry Mob with the first single being Ruby. This album I feel is not as good as their first album Employment, but it would be very hard to make another album to this standard and Your's Truly is still a great effort and still worth a listen! I am so excited for them to be playing, I saw them live at a festival in England last year and it was an amazing performance, so hopefully this one will be as well!

There are quite a few other British artists playing (Lily Allen) as well as lots of local produce including Powderfinger (as they are bringing out a new album), Hilltop Hoods, Grinspoon and Josh Pyke.

I have decided I desperately want to go to Splendour in the Grass, even if it will take us like 2 days to get there, and Matt and I have talked about organising a group and driving up there! So anyone interested in going should so totally come, it will be well worth it. Tickets go on sale on the 12th of May I think and are $185, then in addition to this ticket you need another ticket to camp (these sell out very, very quickly) which is a further $115, I know it's expensive but for a great weekend who cares. To buy the tickets you also need to have access to a credit card as ringing in to buy is the only form of purchase as they print your name and birthday on the ticket to stop scalping.

One great weekend, hopefully a good group of friends, brilliant bands, camping, lots of fun and a mad road trip! Come on guys lets go to Splendour in the Grass 2007!

Until next time when hopefully everyone wants to go to Splendour, Peace Out!

P.S. For any of you interested, in a post I wrote last week on the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala wanting to know who two comdeians were I finally found out who the Welsh guy is, he was on Spicks and Specks as well as on Rove last night; his name is Mark Watson and he is HI-LAR-IOUS!

Nuh uh Not cool!

Shark!
Originally uploaded by Vivalin.

So I've been updating my Flickr account adding in some funny images a mate found on th netz... anywho long story short went to put them into a set and it wouldn't let me!

Apparently free account holders are limited to only 3 sets which I already have. I really like sets they make my photos feel organised, they make me feel organised...and clean (yeah I'm not OCD! lol!).

Anywho this is a rant at Flickr I think thats a really uncool thing to do, how does letting me have unlimited Sets affect them in any way, its just makes things neater and organised! If you go on to Flickr Pro you can have more/unlimited (not sure on this still reading up) but I can't afford to upgrade my account I'm a student for Christ's sake! ARGH! Not happy Jan!

That is all

The rubbish on television these days!

So as most people in our course know...especially those that live on campus, in all common rooms we get Austar YAY! this is a great privilege to me as mum would always say "you watch too much TV as it is, if we got Austar you'd never leave the house" which at the time is fair to say accurate.

Though I've noticed at uni we mainly only have Channel [V] and MTV going and watch a lot of the music channels and basically never switch over to ordinary TV, not that we actually watch that much only if no one is around to talk rubbish with.

Now being back at home I am forced to watch ordinary TV, and as I haven't been watching ordinary TV I have gotten very far behind in my soaps (Neighbours and Home & Away) though I was already 3 months behind after coming back from overseas. Any who trying to catch up with them these holidays has been extremely hard, all these new people and story lines and I've decided they really are a waste of my time! But too move on to some worse rubbish...



Today while eating my lunch I decided to pop the tele on and on Prime was this competition show from America called Master of Champions and what I was watching was Interpretive Pizza Throwing - two teams who each did a different "dance of interpretation" whilst throwing pizza dough bases in the air, I don't know about the rest of you, but this seems the lamest competition ever! I couldn't believe there even was a challenge out there like this and that people were wanting to enter it. How do you interpret pizza dough tossing?



The next guy to come on was a little better he wanted to beat his own personal record of juggling fire whilst dancing on one of those arcade dance machines with the arrows and to complete 250 combinations on the dance machine in 2 minutes. The poor guy missed out by 1 combination, I felt sorry for him. It was very impressive, just to be able to juggle fire is impressive, or to dance on one of those machines but to do both was impressive!

If you would like to watch this show it seems to be on most days at 2pm on Prime for those in the country, but not sure about those with Channel 7.

Even if I felt that second guy who danced and fire twirled was impressive, the interpretive pizza tossing put that show into the LAME box! and after those two acts I had to switch over I couldn't handle it any more!

Whilst trying to find some images to put with this post as well as a link to some more information for those interested in the show, I stumbled upon another website which is for the US Official Dough Throwers team, it has video tutorials to learn off as well as dates of upcoming events, including a demo in Sydney in September!

Any who that's my little random rant about rubbish television. Maybe I will make another post later...we will see!

Peace Out!