more housecapades

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After drinkies with Mitchie I popped into Mikeys House Party for some more fun and games. I think this is going to be a regular friday thing, time permitting.

Farewell Mitch

centre of attention :)
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after 5 years with KPMG Mitchie Girl moves on to brighter and better things. After a sufficiently boozy farewell party of course :)

Technoir

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Technoir again, what a good party that is. I think i've been blessed by the ITM gods, the main parties I go to, aLive, Lectro and Technoir are all awesome, and all almost randomly encountered. aLive was my first ITM meetup which put the idea into my head that I could publish pictures of events on ITM. Lectro was one of the first random parties I decided to check out, and Technoir was the first time a promoter had approached me at a party to take shots for him. All of those parties are absolutely awesome, and all are now on at the Mercat Cross Hotel, which is one of the best possible dance venues in town.

This Technoir was a huge party spread across two rooms, with such a great vibe going on in each. The messhall had Tronikelesch and Heath Myers lighting the place up and making it jump, and dancehall had Dee Dee, Ranjit Nijjer, Luke McD, and Elektra (my favourite) grinding us all down to pieces with dark and dirty techno goodness. Decor, was of course, fantastic once again, with a lot of attention to detail and unique usage of the dj space, and they also had some feature dancers and an acrobatic performance. This party gets better every time, I just can't believe my luck :)

house in the house

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Mikey asked me to pop into his regular House Party at Atoka/Stellar/98 Bourke on Friday and it was a lot of fun. The crew there are pretty cool, and the place always seems friendly and inviting, and they drop some very fine tunes too. I'm not into house so much these days for a dance party, but for sitting around chatting and having a few drinks it's pretty bloody good :)

Of pictures and poets

Jeff Lemon
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Tonight was one of the regular flickrwalks about the city, this time focusing on Birrarung Marr and the bridges nearby. It's always good to go on these things and take some pictures with other people, althoguh I try and not take the obvious stuff and usually end up taking shots of the weird stuff or shots of the other flickrnauts :)

Tonight was also the first time Fran's brother Jeff Lemon appeared as a feature poet, at The Spinning Room, held in ET's in Prahran. There were a number of good poets reading that night, some old hands and some new blood, but Jeff's stuff was really noteworthy. I had no trouble with his imagery, his words taking me to some interesting places and also reliving some interesting times, especially when he read a poem about Earthcore :) The night was very enjoyable and I thin I wouldn't mind going to another reading sometime.

a funny thing happened on the way to the forum

Geminae: bookends
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A friend of ours, Sally, was in the local production of the Sondheim musical A Funny thing happened on the way to the forum, starring as one of a pair of courtesans known as 'Geminae' and managed to sing and dance up a storm. It was an excellent production and Sally was, of course, superb :)

(that's her on the right) :)

Dancehall

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Kathryn and I decided we needed to go out dancing this week, so we popped along to Dancehall at the mercat to have a bit of a boogie.

I had spent the whole day sick in bed, so it was good to get out of the house and have some dun, and Kathryn is always good fun :)

suspended

suspended
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14 june 6pm - I helped George out by shooting a rope suspension he did for the artist Dennis Ropar. The photo shoot and suspension went really well, and it was quite good to meet Dennis as he's a very good artist. His current work is showing at his gallery about Popshop in the city, some really cool pop art depictions of some pvc/rubber kink scenes, I suggest you try and get along if you can. :)

Traincore

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Well, here it is, Traincore. I had wanted to go to the original traincore years back, but it just didn't eventuate, and I always felt a bit of regret at that. I had been to a number of Earthcore events and always had a lot of fun, they always seemed to know how to make a party special.

Add to that the recent parties I'd been to by the Lectro crew, parties that all managed to have that element of craziness, that glitz and glamour that just made the party shine, and the friendly atmosphere that makes it feel safe to be yourself, judgement free.

So when you take an antique train, restored to all it's glory, 600 happy ravers, partygoers willing to present the right attitude, willing to leave their dull and dreary lives behind and go out of their way to have fun, you add in the Earhtcore tried-and-true party team at one end, the Lectro shenanigans at the other end, then you have yourself a party.

There's something about dancing on a train and trying to add the motion from the rails into your dancing style. Something about being on an antique train and seeing an art-deco dining car turned into a Psy trance dance floor, including lasers and light up 70's style dance floor. Something to the look of the local when 600 munted kids show up at the local pub for some insane Goa and punjab trance. Something very special about being crammed into box cars like cattle and being surrounded by smiling people as the Lectro grinds its way out of the sound system all the way back to the station.

Fucking awesome, truly one of the great parties of all time.

Max Power!

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Today i had the honour of shooting photos for Max's naming day.

It was a very lovely ceremony with all of Max's crew there plus their assorted parents, and he seemed to have a pretty good day, and I managed to score some excellent trifle and chocolate cake. But it's all about the kiddies isn't it? :)

Pancake eating Freaks!

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Pancakes and beer with Elli and Kerryn and Joe. All such awesome people that it's hard to believe that we all really only just met recently (except Joe of course)

the Joe has left the Building

nice lunchpack joey
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After nearly 10 years at KPMG Joe has decided to head on out into the wide world and see what it's like when you don't work for a large accounting firm. According to the people who have already left. It's a lot better :)

singing up a storm

singing up a storm
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The Wilderness Society held their annual march to protest against woodchipping and to help commemorate World Environment Day and Vanessa was a part of the Wilderness Choir, who sang up a storm with some TV personalities :)

Good work 'nessa

Lectroland Glam/Grotesque

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3 june 10pm - More craziness from the Lectro crew, they definitely know how to throw a party and I am so glad I happened to walk into that first Lectro party all those months ago. so glad :)

aLive 10

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aLive hits the streets and makes itself known once more. Crazy drunken shenanigans and super good live and local music. Unsurpassed.

new location

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Found a new space in Richmond for some shots, so I'll be trying to visit it a bit and get some more cool shots.