Now or Never.

"A painting, a book, a piece of music. They serve not just to depict but to capture- capture a time that will soon be absent."

- John Connell

This sums it up perfectly, doesn't it? It explains so well why I always have to finish making things straight away once I've started them- before the time that I'm depicting/capturing passes.

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Oh, The Quirk.

This young lady, Juno Temple, has such a quirky, inspiring look.







She also has fantastic acting skills! Double whammy. See her in Atonement, St Trinians, Mr Nobody, Year One and many others of which I haven't yet had the pleasure of seeing.

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Epic Collaboration.

Basement Birds are a pretty epic collaboration. The artistic talents of Kevin Mitchell, Steve Parkin, Josh Pyke and Kav Temperley come together to create a unique sound of brilliance. Their song Bus Stop is even more collaboration-full, with the addition of Julia Stone's greatness. It seems the more collaborationy it is, the more beautiful the outcome.



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Joint Thinking.

"While the Western belief in individualism romanticises this perception of the solitary creative process, the reality is that scientific and artistic forms emerge from the joint thinking, passionate conversations, emotional connections and shared struggles common in meaningful relationships."

- Vera John-Steiner, Creative Collaboration







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We're all alright!

We're not really though. People's houses are destroyed along with all of their belongings, people are dieing, missing, loosing power, phone lines are down, roads are invisible, public transport is down- it's a bit of a mess here in Brisbane. I'm a lucky duck, thankfully, all nice and dry so far!

The most ridiculous things are happening. Today at work, we sold 300 and something loaves of white bread, as opposed to the usual 40ish. It's so weird to hear about all of the floods and destruction, when I barley saw a drop of water all day! Being up on high ground in the sun makes it seem like the news is a movie or something. But if I were to go on a 5 minute drive or so, I could see the full effects of it all (spending the day at work, I could only see pictures that other people had taken of this insane mass of water). I also saw a picture of South Bank which indicated that my university is now part aquarium.. so that should be interesting. I worry for the organ down stairs! Do organs work after they've been under water?

I hope everyone's doing alright, and that we can function normally in the near future. Come and visit me to stock up on bread and milk (like everyone else seems to be doing) tomorrow, as most places were breadless today. Do not fear, your bakery is here.

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Beards.

The Beards. They have beards. They sing only about beards. Their album covers feature divine beard sketches.



They are all about the beard, and they do it well. I think they may start some kind of beard revolution.

But seriously, how do they think up so much beard related material? It must be becoming difficult to write about beards by now.. they've released two albums! And they sold ridiculously well at Woodford!! I raise my glass to them, they've really got something going on here.

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It really is summertime.

So I've recently(ish) returned from Woodford, and there are so so so so so many music related posts in my head that I am bursting to post. I have no idea where to start, so I'm just gonna postpone the starting thing to the near future. In the mean time, feel your soul explode with a bit of this.



Go Janis, go.




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