Showing posts with label my photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my photography. Show all posts
May 18, 2011
May 16, 2011
And my teacher just told me she's dactylic!
I love discovering new music. It's so exciting, don't you think? Well I had recently discovered Ben Folds and on a random impulse bought tickets with Hannah in the middle of Flash class back in April. We were surprised there were still some good seats left. Anyway, I nearly didn't go to the concert because I was starting to regret making such a big dent in my wallet for it, but in the end I wound up inside the State Theater drooling over the loveliness of the building.
My camera really doesn't do it justice....
Anyway, we got in there and from out seats we could see this:
Which looked like a pretty good view to us! Aside from the smokiness in the air from the crew obviously testing the smoke-machine before the audience came in.... It added significantly to the lighting later on :)
So first off Kate Miller-Heidke came out as support, and I wasn't really too keen on her performance because I'd never heard her before. Hannah told me she was pretty good, and she's a trained opera. Opera? I thought. Who listens to opera? No wonder she's turned to pop. So yeah, that was me initially being all skeptical and prepared to be bored, because I have had several bad experiences with support acts....
I short, I really loved her. I am no longer skeptical about the opera thing. Seeing her live, singing normally one moment and then bursting into this bit of vocal awesomeness in the middle of her songs was pretty rad. This song in particular that caused me to have a little spasm in my seat and think omgihavetogetthecd. Hee.
I get particularly excited when I discover a new female singer, because if you look at my ipod my top artists are Mumford and Sons, Coldplay, Ben Folds, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Newtown Faulker, Peter Murray, and U2. ALL MEN. The only two female singers that I listen to a lot are P!nk and Regina Spektor. And bonus points, Kate Miller-Heidke is Australian! She has a Vegemite product placement in her video clips and sings humorous songs about Facebook and Southern Cross tattoos. And we get it. It's great.
Anyway, onto the star of the show! Ben Folds can really rock the piano. That was awesome. We got a couple good photos of him smashing some stuff out on the grand piano, accompanied by drums, tambourine, bass guitar and french horn. Um, cool or what?!
As I said, the lighting was an entertainment in itself.
So yeah. I love concerts and discovering new music and that is the point of the post. The end. :)
P.S Here's a couple videos for you.
One that I took of Kate and Ben's duet at the concert. Like hello! How does she even do that with her voice???
And if you haven't watched Charlie's music video for Ben Folds and Nick Hornby's Saskia Hamilton, you must. Right now.
And this song is on the Kate CD that I now own. I really like the video clip and the song is just AWESOME because it's about not being able to dance, and I can't dance. So yay. Watch it :)
My camera really doesn't do it justice....
Anyway, we got in there and from out seats we could see this:
Which looked like a pretty good view to us! Aside from the smokiness in the air from the crew obviously testing the smoke-machine before the audience came in.... It added significantly to the lighting later on :)
So first off Kate Miller-Heidke came out as support, and I wasn't really too keen on her performance because I'd never heard her before. Hannah told me she was pretty good, and she's a trained opera. Opera? I thought. Who listens to opera? No wonder she's turned to pop. So yeah, that was me initially being all skeptical and prepared to be bored, because I have had several bad experiences with support acts....
I short, I really loved her. I am no longer skeptical about the opera thing. Seeing her live, singing normally one moment and then bursting into this bit of vocal awesomeness in the middle of her songs was pretty rad. This song in particular that caused me to have a little spasm in my seat and think omgihavetogetthecd. Hee.
I get particularly excited when I discover a new female singer, because if you look at my ipod my top artists are Mumford and Sons, Coldplay, Ben Folds, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Newtown Faulker, Peter Murray, and U2. ALL MEN. The only two female singers that I listen to a lot are P!nk and Regina Spektor. And bonus points, Kate Miller-Heidke is Australian! She has a Vegemite product placement in her video clips and sings humorous songs about Facebook and Southern Cross tattoos. And we get it. It's great.
Anyway, onto the star of the show! Ben Folds can really rock the piano. That was awesome. We got a couple good photos of him smashing some stuff out on the grand piano, accompanied by drums, tambourine, bass guitar and french horn. Um, cool or what?!
As I said, the lighting was an entertainment in itself.
So yeah. I love concerts and discovering new music and that is the point of the post. The end. :)
P.S Here's a couple videos for you.
One that I took of Kate and Ben's duet at the concert. Like hello! How does she even do that with her voice???
And if you haven't watched Charlie's music video for Ben Folds and Nick Hornby's Saskia Hamilton, you must. Right now.
And this song is on the Kate CD that I now own. I really like the video clip and the song is just AWESOME because it's about not being able to dance, and I can't dance. So yay. Watch it :)
May 15, 2011
In eighteen years, precisely, the planets will align ever so nicely...
Yeah so on Friday morning Dad and I woke up at 4:45 a.m. and cruised down to Coogee Beach to see this:
Those three dots at the top of the picture are planets - Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, to be precise. Down below in the middle of the photo is Mars. They're all rather pretty, aren't they? In 29 years time Saturn will catch up with them, and all five planets visible to the naked eye will be together :) God is pretty amazing, building all that stuff up there. I'm glad we get to see so much of it. It was totally worth nearly freezing to death at the beach to see this.
Those three dots at the top of the picture are planets - Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, to be precise. Down below in the middle of the photo is Mars. They're all rather pretty, aren't they? In 29 years time Saturn will catch up with them, and all five planets visible to the naked eye will be together :) God is pretty amazing, building all that stuff up there. I'm glad we get to see so much of it. It was totally worth nearly freezing to death at the beach to see this.
May 3, 2011
Behold!
My new desk. It's pretty awesome. It's also a belated birthday present. Thank you family :D
Now I feel like a real writer with a real office desk and a real office chair. Now all I need is filing cabinet....
Now I feel like a real writer with a real office desk and a real office chair. Now all I need is filing cabinet....
April 30, 2011
The Cave.
Also a wonderful song by Mumford and Sons, but in this case I refer to my bedroom, which is becoming a bit of a cave seeing as I've had to spend so much time cooped up in here, thanks to my injured ankle. But all is good.
It's the last day of April today so I'm endeavoring to at least match the number of posts in March, if not better it.
I spent the better part of my afternoon printing photos and cutting up magazines to cover my wall with bits of lovely. I've finally covered one entire wall. Like whoa. I'm wondering what I'll do once I run out of free space... Here's some photos for you, just because I love this little space in the universe that I call mine :)
The complete wall. Pretty, isn't it? Particularly loving my newest editions, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield, hee.
The novel planning/Baz Luhrmann wall. Featuring my Romeo and Juliet poster, some Empire articles on Baz and his movies, my Buckingham palace research and Eloquence plotline, and plenty of free space to add more stuff :D
And this part of my room has all my favorite things - my kitty, my bed, Coldplay, the best of Marvel (ie Ironman, Spiderman, and X-Men), the Scream trio, and the first glimpse of Carey in The Great Gatsby. I get shivers of delight looking at all the goodness on my walls.
Right. Now I must find out what is on TV tonight and hope that there's nothing tempting so that I can get some writing done :) Tata. Hopefully I'll think of something good to make an 8th blogpost of the month, but if not, I will be back in the early days of May, fear thee not.
It's the last day of April today so I'm endeavoring to at least match the number of posts in March, if not better it.
I spent the better part of my afternoon printing photos and cutting up magazines to cover my wall with bits of lovely. I've finally covered one entire wall. Like whoa. I'm wondering what I'll do once I run out of free space... Here's some photos for you, just because I love this little space in the universe that I call mine :)
And this part of my room has all my favorite things - my kitty, my bed, Coldplay, the best of Marvel (ie Ironman, Spiderman, and X-Men), the Scream trio, and the first glimpse of Carey in The Great Gatsby. I get shivers of delight looking at all the goodness on my walls.
Right. Now I must find out what is on TV tonight and hope that there's nothing tempting so that I can get some writing done :) Tata. Hopefully I'll think of something good to make an 8th blogpost of the month, but if not, I will be back in the early days of May, fear thee not.
March 20, 2011
NEW!
Yeah, so I was messing around in my room today doing a bit of photography, so I thought I'd make a new blog header just for fun. And I can now introduce you to my blog's new name, Alt Escape. I kind of like to think of it as the keys on your keyboard, alt and esc, but also as an abbreviation for Alternate Escape. Seeing as this blog is one of my many escape-the-world outlets, it seems fitting.
Anyway, I feel pretty bad that I've only blogged three times this month, and two of those blog posts barely even count as they only consist of two photos and three sentences.... But I don't actually have time to keep blogging right now as I've got homework to catch up on for TAFE this week. Ta ta for now!
Anyway, I feel pretty bad that I've only blogged three times this month, and two of those blog posts barely even count as they only consist of two photos and three sentences.... But I don't actually have time to keep blogging right now as I've got homework to catch up on for TAFE this week. Ta ta for now!
February 24, 2011
Just gotta!
I know I shouldn't be blogging right now ... I should be doing my exam paper, but I really really just felt like blogging and lately my blogging has been so few and far between that I thought what the heck, it's now or never.
Anyways, the reason I feel like blogging is the despite the major stress I'm feeling about my exam, I'm feeling really happy about everything else. Life is good :)
I'm enjoying TAFE so much more than I did last year, and I'm SO grateful to God for that. I kept doubting about whether or not I should even go this year, but even when I thought it wasn't the right decision, God knew it was. I'm glad I was able to leave it up to him to make that choice for me, because he always knows what's best.
So, I have three things to share with you:
1. The sun has shone for the past two days, so I'm hopeful that God will answer my prayer and keep the sun shining for my birthday party on Saturday. Praise God for the beautiful weather! I'm so geared up for this party - cannot wait. :)
2. I've recently discovered a TV show from the 80's called Family Ties. I think my fascination/new love for this show stems from A) the fact that Michael J Fox is the main character (and I have a teeny bit of a crush on him in his Back to the Future Days), and B) the fact that his character, Alex P Keaton, graduated high school the year before my Mom did. Thus a fascination that my parents used to live in a world that was a bit like what's in that show. Like whoa. Not to mention, it's pretty hilarious. I rewarded myself for getting a good bit of my paper done last night by Youtubing a couple of episodes, one where Tom Hanks shows up as a guest star (and he's pretty darn amazing), and another one where Alex and Mallory (who are aged 17 and 15 in the show) argue over who's babysitting their little sister. It's Mallory's turn to do it but she's organized a date to the movies with her new boyfriend, so when he walks in the door to pick her up the dialogue between Alex and the boyfriend (who is rather an insecure fellow) goes like this:
Alex: Jeff, you've got to be crazy, driving around on a night like tonight!
Jeff: What?
Alex: I'm serious, I don't think you should go out. It's far too dangerous to drive.
Jeff: What're you talking about? It's a beautiful night!
Alex: That’s what makes it so dangerous – all the people who are afraid to drive in the rain are out there!
Yeah. I laughed out loud. Anyway, I love sitcoms for their humorous dialogue like that. There are some episodes of Family Ties that cover some pretty heavy issues like commiting crimes and sexual abuse and yet it's always light-hearted so that after the serious moment, you're laughing again. :)
3. This morning before TAFE I went out to Newtown with my classmate, Hannah, to take some photos of buildings and landscapes as homework for one of out classes. We took some pretty good ones while we were out walking, but as we were driving back, we saw an angle of a building that we'd missed before, and quickly wound down the window and took a snapshot as we drove past. It turned out to be the best photograph we got. Pretty awesome. :)
Okay, back to work for me! Hope you have a beautiful evening :)
Anyways, the reason I feel like blogging is the despite the major stress I'm feeling about my exam, I'm feeling really happy about everything else. Life is good :)
I'm enjoying TAFE so much more than I did last year, and I'm SO grateful to God for that. I kept doubting about whether or not I should even go this year, but even when I thought it wasn't the right decision, God knew it was. I'm glad I was able to leave it up to him to make that choice for me, because he always knows what's best.
So, I have three things to share with you:
1. The sun has shone for the past two days, so I'm hopeful that God will answer my prayer and keep the sun shining for my birthday party on Saturday. Praise God for the beautiful weather! I'm so geared up for this party - cannot wait. :)
2. I've recently discovered a TV show from the 80's called Family Ties. I think my fascination/new love for this show stems from A) the fact that Michael J Fox is the main character (and I have a teeny bit of a crush on him in his Back to the Future Days), and B) the fact that his character, Alex P Keaton, graduated high school the year before my Mom did. Thus a fascination that my parents used to live in a world that was a bit like what's in that show. Like whoa. Not to mention, it's pretty hilarious. I rewarded myself for getting a good bit of my paper done last night by Youtubing a couple of episodes, one where Tom Hanks shows up as a guest star (and he's pretty darn amazing), and another one where Alex and Mallory (who are aged 17 and 15 in the show) argue over who's babysitting their little sister. It's Mallory's turn to do it but she's organized a date to the movies with her new boyfriend, so when he walks in the door to pick her up the dialogue between Alex and the boyfriend (who is rather an insecure fellow) goes like this:
Alex: Jeff, you've got to be crazy, driving around on a night like tonight!
Jeff: What?
Alex: I'm serious, I don't think you should go out. It's far too dangerous to drive.
Jeff: What're you talking about? It's a beautiful night!
Alex: That’s what makes it so dangerous – all the people who are afraid to drive in the rain are out there!
Yeah. I laughed out loud. Anyway, I love sitcoms for their humorous dialogue like that. There are some episodes of Family Ties that cover some pretty heavy issues like commiting crimes and sexual abuse and yet it's always light-hearted so that after the serious moment, you're laughing again. :)
3. This morning before TAFE I went out to Newtown with my classmate, Hannah, to take some photos of buildings and landscapes as homework for one of out classes. We took some pretty good ones while we were out walking, but as we were driving back, we saw an angle of a building that we'd missed before, and quickly wound down the window and took a snapshot as we drove past. It turned out to be the best photograph we got. Pretty awesome. :)
Okay, back to work for me! Hope you have a beautiful evening :)
September 27, 2010
It's so fluffy...
Hiya. Crazy weekend. Double sleepover. Watched Despicable Me for the second time. Wandered around the park and snapped a million photos of each other. And yeah. I'll post something a little more coherent later but it's early in the morning and I'm off to paint the cry room in the church... I'll leave you with this picture.
June 17, 2010
10 seconds of fame for you
So I just submitted my magazine design for TAFE. It looks something like this.
For those of you that know of Picture Poetry's existence, there's a bigger, better version of it there. Hmm. I didn't really ask Justin or Katherine permission to use their pictures for the cover but I don't think they'll mind :)
For those of you that know of Picture Poetry's existence, there's a bigger, better version of it there. Hmm. I didn't really ask Justin or Katherine permission to use their pictures for the cover but I don't think they'll mind :)
June 14, 2010
oh we don't notice any time pass ... we don't notice anything....
La la la, long weekend.
So we helped the Deligiorgakis's move on Saturday. It all happened amazingly fast and neat! Well done everyone.
Sunday and Monday were awesome. 25 hours of The Katherine and Justin Show, 4 movies, 3 milkshakes, 2 a.m bedtime, 1 tricycle, and way too much food. Good weekend? I think so.
I'll start with moving day.
Got the Deli's at about 8, and the truck arrived right after. Spent a good portion of the morning sorting out all Karen's books with Beth and trying to figure out a solution to the books-to-shelf-space ratio problem we appeared to be having.
Oh, and enjoying their new living room rug:
These three promptly dove upon it the second it got laid down, to make sure they got to test it before they coffee table was put in place. I think the new rug has their approval.
I can't remember why Justin put his hand over Beth's mouth ... might've been trying to stop her talking while I took the picture....
Anyway. While Beth and I sorted the books on one shelf Justin and Katherine busied themselves attempting to put all the DVD's onto the other shelf. They didn't think it out very logically. Ended up putting ALL of them on the shelf and then took them ALL off again to sort them alphabetically. Silly kiddies.
And yeah. Arrived home that evening and watched Old Dogs with the family. Low expectations = hilariously funny film. That's how it's done.
Moving onto Sunday and Monday, I shall begin with a detailed account of the food us three persons (Justin, Katherine, and myself) consumed over the space of the 25 hours we were together. It was quite epic.
At 5pm on Sunday Katherine and her parents arrived at our house for dinner. Dinner consisted of:
Dinner was followed afterward by:
At 10 a.m that morning I made French toast with maple syrup, and for lunch we had hot chips with ketchup. Yes that's right, Heinz tomato ketchup. Not tomato sauce. Munched on some apples during more Little Big Planet. Thoroughly enjoyed the array of vegetation and cheese mother produced later that afternoon when Katherine and I were snuggled on my bed watching Julie and Julia. Not that great a film, really.
Speaking of films, we watched 4 in the 25 hours and I wanted to give a short review on each, in the order we watched them.
9 was the first film we watched. 80 minutes wasted, in my opinion. I had hoped it would be better. Had wanted to see it for a long while; it seemed kind of interesting but the plot was lame and rather pointless. Long story short (or should I say, short story in a nutshell), the little sack creature 9 wakes up in a post apocalyptic, clockpunk world and goes searching for others. He meets 2, and 2 gets captured by a mechanical beast. 9 is discovered by 5, who takes him to meet all the others. 1 is the leader of the group and leads in fear, so he basically sucks at being a leader. 9 and 5 defy him and go to try and rescue 2. Upon rescuing him with the help of 7 who kills the beast, 2 is killed by a second, larger beast that 9 awakens. Got all that?
*SPOILER FOLLOWS*
The entire rest of the film involves most of the characters being killed off by this beast. 1 and 7 eventually destroy it and free all the souls of their dead friends from the belly of the monster. I had expected their friends to come back to life but instead their souls float up to heaven. The film ends with 7 saying, 'They're free now.' Fade out. Bor-ing. Don't watch it.
The second film was The Island. I quite liked this one. Appreciated the cinematography and the general mood of the movie. I can't say much about the plot because it gives away the movie, but it's essentially a sci-fi thriller starring Ewan McGregor (LOVE) and Scarlett Johansson (HATE).
Basically in this movie Ewan McGregor, named Lincoln 6-Echo, questions his safe, enclosed environment to the point of annoying the antagonist enough that he wants to kill him. That sounds dumb but you have to see the movie, okay?!
Scarlett Johansson plays the best friend turned love interest ... yeah I know, I don't like her either.
BUT Ewan McGregor saves the world, so that's why you should see it.
Third film of the night was Psycho. Do I need to explain this one? It's Alfred Hitchcock! Very famous, very clever, and very creepy. Grab some friends and go watch it.
Final film was Julie and Julia. Meh. I mean, it was a film about food. So I wanted a bit more 'wow' factor when it came to the dishes that were incorporated into the actual plot. I also felt a bit like Julie Powell's mother concerning Julie's blog - 'No one cares!' It was a bit boring. I think Katherine fell asleep at one point. It wasn't a bad movie, just not my kind of film. Especially after watching movies such as The Island and Psycho, it was a bit bland. But Meryl Streep was good, if you like Meryl Streep.
Anyway, back to Monday. After lunch we had an epic time doing the kind of stuff we Stanmore kids do on a regular basis, of course, such as...
Taking the Ford Anglia for a spin
Driving a bus
And doing crazy stunts
As you do. Yep, just a typical day in the life of me. :)
So we helped the Deligiorgakis's move on Saturday. It all happened amazingly fast and neat! Well done everyone.
Sunday and Monday were awesome. 25 hours of The Katherine and Justin Show, 4 movies, 3 milkshakes, 2 a.m bedtime, 1 tricycle, and way too much food. Good weekend? I think so.
I'll start with moving day.
Got the Deli's at about 8, and the truck arrived right after. Spent a good portion of the morning sorting out all Karen's books with Beth and trying to figure out a solution to the books-to-shelf-space ratio problem we appeared to be having.
Oh, and enjoying their new living room rug:
These three promptly dove upon it the second it got laid down, to make sure they got to test it before they coffee table was put in place. I think the new rug has their approval.
Anyway. While Beth and I sorted the books on one shelf Justin and Katherine busied themselves attempting to put all the DVD's onto the other shelf. They didn't think it out very logically. Ended up putting ALL of them on the shelf and then took them ALL off again to sort them alphabetically. Silly kiddies.
And yeah. Arrived home that evening and watched Old Dogs with the family. Low expectations = hilariously funny film. That's how it's done.
Moving onto Sunday and Monday, I shall begin with a detailed account of the food us three persons (Justin, Katherine, and myself) consumed over the space of the 25 hours we were together. It was quite epic.
At 5pm on Sunday Katherine and her parents arrived at our house for dinner. Dinner consisted of:
- A huge salad of lettuce, cucumber, capsicum, carrots, tomatoes and feta cheese
- A choice of both beef and lamb (we all had both, of course)
- Cooked veggies - potatoes, pumpkin, eggplant and capsicum
Dinner was followed afterward by:
- Milk and chocolate chip cookies from Aldi, eaten in the duration of the movie 9
- Popcorn - popped sometime in the middle of The Island
- Strawberry and chocolate milkshakes, made by me halfway through The Island
- Sour lollipops - given to us by Jackie, and sucked on whilst playing Little Big Planet
- Peanut butter slathered heavily on thick-cut bread - consumed at about 1am during Psycho - apparently too thickly for Katherine's liking!
At 10 a.m that morning I made French toast with maple syrup, and for lunch we had hot chips with ketchup. Yes that's right, Heinz tomato ketchup. Not tomato sauce. Munched on some apples during more Little Big Planet. Thoroughly enjoyed the array of vegetation and cheese mother produced later that afternoon when Katherine and I were snuggled on my bed watching Julie and Julia. Not that great a film, really.
Speaking of films, we watched 4 in the 25 hours and I wanted to give a short review on each, in the order we watched them.
*SPOILER FOLLOWS*
The entire rest of the film involves most of the characters being killed off by this beast. 1 and 7 eventually destroy it and free all the souls of their dead friends from the belly of the monster. I had expected their friends to come back to life but instead their souls float up to heaven. The film ends with 7 saying, 'They're free now.' Fade out. Bor-ing. Don't watch it.
Basically in this movie Ewan McGregor, named Lincoln 6-Echo, questions his safe, enclosed environment to the point of annoying the antagonist enough that he wants to kill him. That sounds dumb but you have to see the movie, okay?!
Scarlett Johansson plays the best friend turned love interest ... yeah I know, I don't like her either.
BUT Ewan McGregor saves the world, so that's why you should see it. Third film of the night was Psycho. Do I need to explain this one? It's Alfred Hitchcock! Very famous, very clever, and very creepy. Grab some friends and go watch it.
Final film was Julie and Julia. Meh. I mean, it was a film about food. So I wanted a bit more 'wow' factor when it came to the dishes that were incorporated into the actual plot. I also felt a bit like Julie Powell's mother concerning Julie's blog - 'No one cares!' It was a bit boring. I think Katherine fell asleep at one point. It wasn't a bad movie, just not my kind of film. Especially after watching movies such as The Island and Psycho, it was a bit bland. But Meryl Streep was good, if you like Meryl Streep.
Anyway, back to Monday. After lunch we had an epic time doing the kind of stuff we Stanmore kids do on a regular basis, of course, such as...
Taking the Ford Anglia for a spin
Driving a bus
Stealing a tricycle
As you do. Yep, just a typical day in the life of me. :)
June 1, 2010
Oh and nothing else compares ♫
It's been a good morning. Class was canceled so it feels like a Thursday. I stayed in bed til 10:30, then had breakfast of peanut butter bread and chocolate milk.
Yeah it was good. Been listening to the likes of Coldplay, John Mayer and Jon Schmidt while I tidied my room. Haven't finished yet. Hektor was in the way of me making my bed.
But I can forgive him.
Ta ta. I'm off to take a walk down to Officeworks to pick up some new notebooks, do some homework, get laundry done, and read Terry Prachett.
Ta ta. I'm off to take a walk down to Officeworks to pick up some new notebooks, do some homework, get laundry done, and read Terry Prachett.
Happy first day of the last month of the first half of the year!
May 23, 2010
SALT
Haha, success!
So yesterday I went to Gough Whitlam Park to do the stop-motion photography for my TAFE assignment. I'm making a 30 second promotional video for my youth group, SALT. The majority of this video is going to be taken up by a stop motion clip of some kiddies from Salt making a mural on a wall in the park.
It went quite well, considering only 5 people turned up in time for filming. It was a bit cold, so thank you to those who made an effort to help me out! And thank you Lord for the sun!
We chalked up the whole wall, but I'd forgotten to bring some cloths to clean it off at the end... ended up making a dozen trips to the toilet block to refill a water bottle to tip over the wall, and used Justin's socks to rub it off. Aren't we clever. We did a pretty okay job considering our lack of cleaning resources. Got a bit worried when a police car drove through the car park, slowed down, and finally kept going. It did look a little bit like we were doing daylight graffiti... luckily the police didn't think so, or at least weren't bothered to get out of their car and question us.
Here's a few quick snapshots of the 1,877 photographs I took! That's 4GB worth of photos, for you techy people ;)
So yesterday I went to Gough Whitlam Park to do the stop-motion photography for my TAFE assignment. I'm making a 30 second promotional video for my youth group, SALT. The majority of this video is going to be taken up by a stop motion clip of some kiddies from Salt making a mural on a wall in the park.
It went quite well, considering only 5 people turned up in time for filming. It was a bit cold, so thank you to those who made an effort to help me out! And thank you Lord for the sun!
We chalked up the whole wall, but I'd forgotten to bring some cloths to clean it off at the end... ended up making a dozen trips to the toilet block to refill a water bottle to tip over the wall, and used Justin's socks to rub it off. Aren't we clever. We did a pretty okay job considering our lack of cleaning resources. Got a bit worried when a police car drove through the car park, slowed down, and finally kept going. It did look a little bit like we were doing daylight graffiti... luckily the police didn't think so, or at least weren't bothered to get out of their car and question us.
Here's a few quick snapshots of the 1,877 photographs I took! That's 4GB worth of photos, for you techy people ;)
May 10, 2010
Come now, don't you want to see what a difference you've made in me?
Hello fellow bloggers!
Well this morning I left the house wearing three layers and a beanie. So I've brought my laptop from the depths of my bedroom out in to the sunlight in an attempt to regain a little energy and generally enjoy the weather. I've already shed my hoody and feel much more comfortable. In my defense when I left this morning there was still fog in the air, the sun was yet to climb over the city buildings and the TAFE classrooms are hideously chilly; you would be a warmer if you stripped naked in the snow and sculled a Slurpee. Not to mention that would be much more thrilling than sitting for two and a half hours in Flash class. Today the teacher wrote a website link up on the whiteboard and instructed us to spend the lesson going through the tutorial on the site, while he went down for coffee and came back to check the rugby scores on his computer. Joy.
Anyway, yesterday was Mother's Day and I got my mother some flowers. She'll probably read this blog about me giving away my spectacularly awesome scheme to bring her said flowers, but I'd like to share it with the rest of you as well, so...
Well this morning I left the house wearing three layers and a beanie. So I've brought my laptop from the depths of my bedroom out in to the sunlight in an attempt to regain a little energy and generally enjoy the weather. I've already shed my hoody and feel much more comfortable. In my defense when I left this morning there was still fog in the air, the sun was yet to climb over the city buildings and the TAFE classrooms are hideously chilly; you would be a warmer if you stripped naked in the snow and sculled a Slurpee. Not to mention that would be much more thrilling than sitting for two and a half hours in Flash class. Today the teacher wrote a website link up on the whiteboard and instructed us to spend the lesson going through the tutorial on the site, while he went down for coffee and came back to check the rugby scores on his computer. Joy.
Anyway, yesterday was Mother's Day and I got my mother some flowers. She'll probably read this blog about me giving away my spectacularly awesome scheme to bring her said flowers, but I'd like to share it with the rest of you as well, so...
*SPOILER ALERT FOLLOWING*
I was contemplating for a long time how I would bring mom flowers with her juice and little presents in bed on Sunday morning without her previously knowing of their existence. There aren't really any flowers shops in short walking distance; the nearest one is on King Street and it would've taken me at least 40 minutes to go there and back, and I didn't even know when they opened. So I was thinking about this as I was walking up to catch the bus into Newtown on Saturday afternoon, and as I rounded to corner onto Enmore Road I nearly smashed my shins into a massive flower pot with some magnificent lilies in it.
I looked up and it just so happened that a flower shop had opened that day, literally 5 minutes from where I live! So was I overjoyed and skipped inside immedaitely to enquire about their opening time the next morning.
I woke my brother at 6:45 am to make mum orange juice, and at 7 I raced down to the shop (still half-dressed in my pyjamas) and bought her a bouquet of those beautiful lilies I'd seen yesterday. They look and smell absolutely gorgeous. Here's a picture. Don't you love them?
When I got back we went into her room together and gave her her presents. She was splendidly surprised, and I must say it's probably the best job we've ever done keeping secret about what we had planned for her. We also got her a little book of Sudoku, called A Sudoku of One's Own, and I made her a voucher for Yolanda's Mexican cafe in Ventura, so we shall take her out there when we go on our trip in a couple months.
Went out for breakfast before church. Had bacon and eggs, and it was nice. Played guitar at church as usual; came home and watched Dead Poets Society (*tear*) while mum and dad went for a walk to the beach, or somewhere. Went to youth group that night and played guitar again. Sat in the back row at Salt for like, the first time ever. It was odd. At the end the Dicker family came to visit us; as I forgot to mention, our youth minister and his wife just had their second daughter, Josie. So now Evie, who is not yet 2, has a little sister. They are such darlings. :)
And yeah.
A few other things worth mentioning: I saw Iron Man 2 on Thursday night with Katherine. I didn't get around to reviewing it but I definitely recommend it. Also, we really need another Earnest meeting, darlings. You know who you are.
April 2, 2010
The longest walk, earth’s darkest day, the pressing crowd, his mounting pain. A heavy load of grief and shame.... Breathless that we should breathe again! ♫
What an awesome two days. On Wednesday I finished TAFE at 10am, got back and made a huge pot of chili for dinner later that evening, went to drama and hung out with friends, then came home to find that mum had made scones - epic win - and later ripped up Nazi Zombies with Justin, Katherine, Oliver, Daniel and Jamie. Took photos on the mac in our mad new SALT hoodies, which are giant on all of us! Snuggled up with Katherine and Justin on the couch after the boys left, watching Lost and The Big Bang Theory. Mum and Dad had been out with Katherine's parents so when they all got back to the house, we stood outside for a moment and looked at the stars.
What better way could there be than to start the Easter holidays standing outside in the cold night air with people you loved and admiring God's beautiful universe?
The next morning we headed off by train to the Royal Easter Show. Meh. When you don't have hundreds of dollars to splurge on it's a bit pointless. But I got some cool photos! As you can see. And had a wonderful time chilling and eating free samples with Keira and Jayden. :)
Today is Good Friday. The day we remember the death of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, who took upon him God's wrath for our sin by dying on the cross. How amazing, and so unfair. But by grace we are now cleansed of our sin and in a relationship with God once more. And that is why we praise Him today!
Today is also Mum's birthday. So this afternoon we're going to Max Brenner with some friends to celebrate. A birthday + friends + chocolate = good times. :)
What better way could there be than to start the Easter holidays standing outside in the cold night air with people you loved and admiring God's beautiful universe?
The next morning we headed off by train to the Royal Easter Show. Meh. When you don't have hundreds of dollars to splurge on it's a bit pointless. But I got some cool photos! As you can see. And had a wonderful time chilling and eating free samples with Keira and Jayden. :)
Today is Good Friday. The day we remember the death of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, who took upon him God's wrath for our sin by dying on the cross. How amazing, and so unfair. But by grace we are now cleansed of our sin and in a relationship with God once more. And that is why we praise Him today!
Today is also Mum's birthday. So this afternoon we're going to Max Brenner with some friends to celebrate. A birthday + friends + chocolate = good times. :)
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