Sunday the 30th.

Today we found an old car in the forest.

I'm just glad they didn't contract tetanus.

my first public exhibition!

Last night was the opening of the exhibition 'All Today's Parties' at Crate59! We were given around 4 days to develop an idea and create an artwork based on the thoughts of what we do today for fun and our social fabric, trends, etc. We were asked questions like "what consumes you?" and "what is 'cool'?". I had a piece exhibited and it was so fulfilling to watch people smile and tell me they like my art, and that they agree with my artist's statement. Here's my response to the question, what consumes you?



The curator arranged and displayed it so wonderfully!



"This Is How We Live Now
Prior to creating this piece I was asked the
question, "What consumes us?" Simply: technology.
We've woven such intimate relationships with
technology that we can no longer see ways to live
without it. People develop anxiety over the loss of
a mobile phone and insist on paying hundreds
of dollars to upgrade to a flashy, newer
version of something they already own.

It's terrible quality as I just enlarged the first photo and didn't actually take a separate photo of the artist's statement. More enlargements:

"this is how we socialize."

more enlargements.



"this is how we tune out."

more enlargements.



"this is how we read the news."



"this is how we live now."
"this is what consumes us."



on the wall. The Medics were playing live, and the music fit well with the setting and theme of the exhibition, so it turned out to be a good end to the night :)





the local kids, sitting around while The Medics play live.



post-Medics, when everyone was either lounging around or leaving. I left. I was tired!

Yeah, it was a good night. Next week is the opening of the Energy Exhibition at The Tanks, where two of my photos will be shown, so I'll be sure to post that as well!

I finally uploaded those photos off my camera.

So seeing as I haven't written a lazyman blog in a while, I thought I would. I feel like rambling and saving it forever to the abyss of this interweb. Whoops, pretty sure I just broke the table..

One of my best friends got her P's about two weeks ago. During that first week, someone slams into the back of her car and knocks off her bumper. Not only did I used to work for the girl's mum and go to primary school with her, a girl I work with goes to uni with her. It's a small world. Anyway, we had to shove the bumper back on so we kicked it into place and shot to Nightowl. I told my friend to buy duct tape, but she bought brown sticky tape instead coz "it was cheaper." yeah, coz it's flimsy and crap. Anyway, I think it gives her car character. For now :)



Usually, when I go to the local music gigs where my boyfriend's bands play, I like to take a lot of photos with friends. Not last weekend. This is the only photo I got:



Of Laura's hand, while she's telling me it's okay for us to sit in that seat on the bus coz pregnant women sit there and we could pass as pregnant. Thanks man.

So last Friday night it was mumma bear's birthday and we went out to dinner the Greek restaurant in town, Adelfia. The food was BRILLIANT, especially their lamb, and afterwards we got to smash the plates!





Went camera shopping with my friend on Thursday night. Don't you love how smart you feel when you point out a shop's spelling mistakes? Yessir, I'm onto you JB HIFI.



Also, I like the fact that McDonald's named a burger after one of my friends. Not only can I order a Prime Angus, I can also order a Mighty Angus. How you like them apples?

I'm real shit at..

REMEMBERING TO WRITE ON HERE! SORRY!

so my last real post was during.. CGen? yeah. so CGen and Brisbane was FANTASTIC! I really should have written up up as soon as I got home so it was fresh in my mind.. our awards ceremony was on the last day of our trip and my beautiful friend Zoe came! it was great, I didn't realize how much I'd missed her, so we got a sweet Polaroid of us together, being gangster and all:



and got a Polaroid of the CGen kids with Grant Marshal.. doing his trademark pose, ROCK WARRIORS! totally lame but also, totally kickass!



going home was sad :( and I didn't even get to have another look at GOMA. stupid Tim Rogers distracting me!

anyway, I've been back home for around 3 weeks and so much stuff has happened since then!

I had a workshop on Sunday as part of the REACH art program, and the piece we created that day will be exhibitioned in the local indie hip art gallery in town, Crate59! it's at 7pm this Friday and local indie band The Medics are playing so all you local kids should come down and check out some sweet art created by other local teenragers.

THEN next Friday night is the opening of the Energy Art Exhibiton at the Tanks Art Center in Edge Hill. not sure what time it starts but my photos of Kayla in the dinosaur suit will be there so come along and make me feel loved :D

that's all I can really think/be bothered writing right now. plus, my neighbor has been making Chewbacca noises for the past 20 minutes and I can't concentrate on what I'm actually writing.

if I was goinng to be a film crictic/reviewer, then..

I'd be something like this:



watch only up until 3:10, coz that's funny and the rest isn't.

I'll get around to updating and finishing my Creative Gen blogs when I get a spare hour or so in my life :(

ps; psyched for Jennifer's Body. read the script MONTHS ago and it was great :D how it'll look on film, is a different story..

Day Five!

TODAY, I MET TIM ROGERS.

yep, that's right. we were just walking through the GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art) gift shop today and I saw this guy looking at books in the corner, and I asked Liv "hoii, is that Tim Rogers" and her reply was "hmm no.. ye-no it's not.. OH MY GOD YES IT IS" so after I hyperventilated a bit, I went over and talked to him and he is seriously such a cool 'laxed guy, and we talked about film and how everyone is using all this fantastic new technology to re-create the look of old technology and how ironic that is, and I got an autograph and a photo, which I'll post on here once I get home and upload all my other photos. seriously, it made my year meeting him.

after that we went and watched another BIFF (Brisbane International Film Festival) film, this one was a German doco called Pool of Princesses and honestly.. I like docos with more of a storyline and a meaning.. Last night's movie Unmade Beds was AMAZING! seriously, it's in my top 5 I'd say. We saw that at The Regent cinema in town, and that place looked like a freaking cathedral inside! yeah, I took photos.

today we talked to some game developers from SEGA and this guy who creates mythical creatures for films, which was like a history lesson as well but I am really NOT good at drawing so I got a little bored after a while..

We're all trying to finish our vlogs again right now, hectic crazy madness! I really hope we get it done but the capturing of the footage is taking so long, it's ridiculous and I can't edit! Dinner is in 25 minutes. I hope we get this finished by tomorrow!

xx.

today and yesterday of CGen.

whoa whoa whoa, this whole experience has been FULL ON! yesterday we went back to the studio at Griffith to finish filming the music video for Tyrone's new song 'Tight Black Dress' with Grant Marshal. We split into two groups though, and I went in the group that was going to the stop motion animating studio upstairs. We hung out with this lad called Jason. He worked on both Wallace and Gromit 'Attack of the Were-Rabbit' and 'Mary and Max' as an extra animator, and just being in his presence was amazing. He knew so much about all his projects and all the techniques that make stop motion and claymation what it is, and even though I don't want to pursue it as a career, it has definantly been added to my hobby list. Me and this nice girl called Emma worked on making a girl doll, aka the girl from the music video. It was fun, even though she had massive Michel Gondry-like hands, and even though the plasticine made our hands smell feral.

Then after lunch we went back down to the band shoot, and as soon as I walked in the door I had a prop shoved into my hands and was told to walk through while the band was playing, thus I COULD MIGHT MAYBE might be in the music video. WEIRD but it was fun. Even under massive pressure Grant is still a real great, friendly and nice guy, and I really hope I turn out like that when I'm working as crazy and as full on as he is, though I doubt I will. I have vee low patience levels, and a quick temper.

OFF THE CHANNEL NINE! it was about half an hour out of town, high up on the hill. We walked through and got ot see this lad editing a segment of The Shak, then we went downstairs and saw the actual set, THEN we got to meet the nerd character off the show, Curio. He's a nerd in RL as well. As we were walking back to the bus, we walked past the make-up room and we saw this old guy getting his face done up, and realized it was Wally Lewis off The Footy Show! Getting his make-up done! There goes all the manly-ness and brute of The Footy Show..

That night we went to another forum, but this time with gaming and mobile game stylus, and this crazy lad called Justin Brow was there. He reminded me a lot of my art teacher, not so much in appearances (he had dreadlocks and was tanned, my teacher is pale-ish with black brown short hair), but more in the way they talk and explain things with their hands. It kept me awake, seeing as I usually fall asleep when I get too bored; it's my reflex reaction to boredom.

We got the night off editing, so we got back to our rooms at about 10ish, so I charged my ipod, checked out the music that was already on the Mac laptop, and got a call from Mrs. Williams (my art teacher). She wished us luck, and said she was proud of us, and all that teacher-ish stuff. Still, it was lovely to hear from her.

TODAY we went back to Griffith and went up to the editing rooms to watch Grant and Jane edit the video from the past two days, and give us tips, MASSIVELY APPRECIATED! We got to edit our vlogs from the past two days, and that's what we're back at the hotel doing right now. Sitting in the William Jolly room, drinking V, watching people eat food, edit their footage and laze about.

But very soon we'll be getting ready to go to the film screening of Unmade Beds, which I'm so psyched for! Seriously guys, Google it, Youtube it, IMDB it, if it has a page.. it just looks good and I'm heaps excited, PLUS we get to have dinner at the Italian place again tonight.

So far this week has been so hectic and stressful, but it has been the most amazing few days of my teenage life. Getting a taste of the industry, the people, the studios, the editing programs, the whole damn shebang, and even though I'm basically dead right now, I wish this week could last a lot longer than, well.. a week.

ALSO, UPDATE: We have a name for our vlog group: Accidental Awesomeness.

ciao ciao!

Creative Gen!

Day two of this amazing trip! yesterday was far too packed to be able to take 5 to get on here, but the vlog we're uploading right now is taking fricken forever to upload so, stealthily, I'm typing out this. yes, I've already checked out my Myspace.

yesterday we arrived and settled into the hotel, rooming with Tasia. after that we, hmm, did something.. walked to the river to film some of our day one vlog, and we were so starved of creative ingenuity it wasn't even funny, it was sad. like when a kid is running and falls over, you WANT to laugh and you know you shouldn't. that's what our video was like. but we had dinner at this cute little Italian restaurant slash pub, and the pizza was heaps good.

editing our blog took longer than I thought and we got back to our rooms at around 11ish, got back, turned on tv and JAPANESE VERSION OF GODZILLA with vee bad Asian voiceover dubbing was on. wonderful costumes, it was purely glorious.

wake up time was 7, which is actually an hour later than when I usually have to get up. peanut butter SHOWER TIME, then breakfast. walk walk walk to this studio at Griffith University to.. wait.. record a music video for Tyrone Noonan from George, for his new song 'Tight Black Dress'. that experience was absolutely mind-blowing. I'm more unsure than ever as to what I want to pursue, being involved with every aspect is just TOO TEMPTING! I spent a majority of the time sitting around, filming some vlog material and shining a torch on the background, but simply watching everyone do their thang was great. I could DEFINANTLY get used to days like that.. only.. I'd be doing my thing, and not just sitting around like dust in the corner. my task this week is to be a sponge, absorbing all the info I can, and I'm writing all the little tips and tricks I hear on scraps of paper I find littering my bag. I plan to compile my own little bible out of them all.

walked to the post-production company Cutting Edge and had a peeksie around, saw all the different offices and departments and got to feel a little of what post-production is about.

got back to the hotel, ate food, left.

got to the forum talk at Griffith with 4 of some industry pros, and they told us about what they've done and achieved, told us what to expect of the industry and how to 'make it'. it's going to be mission impossible, but it's good to hear about all this BEFORE I invest my whole life in achieving a good OP for uni. coz I'm definantly not getting a good OP. I hate math.

the talk was great! and I won a tee shirt which is pretty sweet. I lack clothes, so donations are great for me. I wish we could have spoken to them a little longer but alas, monsuir bus man was waiting.

so now, we're sitting in the 'William Jolly' conference room, surrounded by Mac laptops, cords, PD170 cameras and sweet kids, and we're all attempting to upload yesterday's vlogs to the net, and I will post a link to our vlog page once I'm back home, or once the upload system starts working.

hey guys, what's up?

I'm going to Brisbane in 3 hours, that's what's up!

I'll post a proper good blog when I get back!

Creative Generations, oh yessir!