Mother's day

Originally uploaded by Scootie.

For Mother's day this year I once again made the pilgrimage down to Rosebud to have a family dinner. Mum cooked up a good feed as usual, although I think we may have finally convinced her to let us sort out dinner next year :)
Dad told his usual jokes, I did a few updates on her computer, Cam, Cindy and Courtney were there as well, all in all a fairly pleasant evening was had by all.
I don't know why but I never seem to get the camera out when I'm with my family, it just seems to be part of a separate world, so as a consequence I don't have any shots of mum for mother's day, just this shot of the moon I took on the way home.

Happy Birthday Elli

looks like someone squealed to the pigs!
Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Saturday we attended a party to celebrate the birthday of one of my favourite people at the moment, Elli.
The party for Elli's 31st was in The Lucky Coq (formerly the Duke of Windsor) and was a bit of fun. Joe and I went around to Kerryn's first to help her drink some of the vodka she had lying around, since we were both a bit poverty stricken, so we got a bit hammered first on Absolut Vanilla vodka with lime and lemonade and it was pretty nice.
After we'd gotten sufficiently drunk waiting for the party to start, we jumped in a cab over to Chapel st.
Elli chose to celebrate her birthday by dressing up as a cop, a very hot cop, in fact she was an extremely hot cop, and we were all pretty happy with her decision. In part I was happy that she had chosen something fun, and in part because she was hot (probably still is, let's face it) :)

walkin'

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I was starting to get a bit upset with myself for not going out and taking more photos so I decided to do something about it and do a few photo walks this week. This one is from the MCG. It's not even clear what these things are when you're standing in front of them. They're just these huge oval shapes in the middle of the pedestrian walkway. I suspect that they're there to provide some break in the crowd, to stop people being able to crowd to the edge of the area, but I don't really know. They look cool though :)

meet

Barry finally gets in trouble for his Gangsta ways
Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Another Flickrmeet, this time at the Great Britain hotel in Richmond. Met some more flickr people, added some more contacts, and caught up with the usual suspects :)
Barry was there of course, although his latest incarnation as a Gangsta managed to catch the eye of the police, and his chicks had to sweet talk them out of arresting him. ;)

here's trouble

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It was a pretty big weekend this time around, Two big parties in a row, Technoir on Friday night and aLive on Saturday, with a few bits and pieces in between. Technoir is looking like a pretty regular thing, especially given the quality of music they lay down, and the effort they put into the party decor. aLive was, as always, a great and dangerous messiness wedged into an afternoon and evening. Many shenanigans ensued, Becy played again this time and she absolutely rocked. Vanessa and Kathryn joined us this time and got involved in the various silliness. Spent Sunday morning on the couch watching movies with Vanessa and generally joking around. Such a great chick.

a walk in the park

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Went for a walk in the park near Kathryn's place to take a few photos. Quite an interesting park for such a small place, and Kathry's company is always worthwhile.

Happy Birthday Kate

Happy Birthday Kate
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Went around to Kate's place to help celebrate her 30th Birthday. The theme was that of a children's party, with games like musical chairs and pass the parcel, and cupcakes and fairy bread.
It was a great party, lots of interesting people, all the usual suspects in Kate's crew, plus some new faces I hadn't met before. Sh definitely has a very high calibre of friend, which is to be expected for such a great person :)

photo walk

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Went on a bit of a photo walk with Joe and Clayton down along the Yarra for some night shots. Got some good stuff I think, and had a look at the newly renovated Sandridge bridge.

Anzac Eve

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Anzac Eve we went to The Lounge as it was the last day Luke McD was playing there. It was a pretty good night, had some dinner, saw Funkee Monkee and Grania, hung out with Vanessa, Kathryn and Ryan. I have to say, I have yet to have a bad time hanging out with Vanessa and Kathryn :)

From Web to Wall

From Web to Wall
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for those of you who don't already know, a bunch of us melbourne flickrnauts are having an exhibition of our work out in 'meat space' :)

The exhibition runs from 24 May to 11 June, Wednesdays to Saturdays, with the official opening from 3-6pm on Saturday 27 May.

If you're able to, please come along and have a squiz at everyone's work, it's shaping up to be a pretty good exhibition, with lots of very interesting works on display. Especially mine :)

Wonder Woman & Friends

Happy Birthday Vanessa
Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Saturday was the occasion of Vanessa's birthday, and she held a fancy dress party. She came as Wonder Woman, I went as Dick Dastardly (although I also doubled as the guy from the monopoly box), Joe came as one of The Sopranos, Kim went as Dr Livingstone, there was also a Hunter S Thompson, , 3 Guinness cans (guinNESS for vaNESSa)Cat Woman, Fu Manchu, and Iron Chef (with Iron). It was a pretty good party, lots of decent people and cheap food and drinks, since it was held in a pub, and even though it started early (7pm) didn't finish up until 4am when they finally threw us out, 4 hours after the pub officially closed. :) They are a pretty good bunch of people, which is to be expected given how cool Vanessa is :)

canberra crew catchup

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Friday night was all about catching up with the Canberra crew :)
Joe and I met up with Dean, Felicite, Mick and Steph at Transport, where we had a few rounds of drinks in the crowded conditions, and then headed off to dinner. Joe has recently become obsessed with the Shanghai Dumpling House in Tattersalls Lane, so that's where we all headed for dinner. It's weird having a proper dinner on Friday night, as it's normally just some sort of nasty junk food snack at the end of an evening of drinking :) It's funny to head home at the end of the night and not need to stop in to KFC or McDs for a junk food top-up :)
After dinner we headed into the Lounge for a few choice tunes and then headed home. It's funny because I have been to Lounge heaps of times but never actually went to the bar/cafe part downstairs. It's pretty cool :)

flickr meet and 80's music

next stop please driver
Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Instead of going to the movies this thursday I went to a flickrmeet and photowalk instead. The weather was pretty crappy so I only got a few shots, and I actually find I don't work well in a crowd, I find it hard knowing that everyone else is hanging around looking for the perfect shot. :)
It was good though to meet some new flickrnauts :)
After the meetup Kerryn and I went up to RMIT to join Helen Jamieson and some friends to be members of the studio audience for Chartbusting 80's, a locally made video show featuring 80's music videos, trivia, and live bands playing 80's tracks. It's a pretty funny show, with a very over the top hostess named Josie who you can't help laughing with. Anyway, as cheesy as it is, I had a pretty good time :)

Oh Comedy

Fran & Kate
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Managed to catch up with Kate and crew (Nick, Judy, Fran, Siobhan) for some Comedy Festival capers. We went to see The 4 Noels, which was pretty good, although difficult to photograph :) At first it looked like it might be pretty crappy, but then it turned out to be very funny indeed. We also had some time before the show to have a bit of a joke around and catch up. It was pretty good, I really need to spend more time with these people :)

Lectro

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Yet another superb Lectro party has come and gone, with all the usual elements of great decor, fabulous floor show, outstanding people, and this above all else: music music music.
More super electro loveliness was blasted out into our heads, this time by the ultra sweet Nexo stacks at the Mercat Cross Hotel, the new home of Lectro (and also the new home of aLive, making it our new home away form home).
Met some new crew, saw some old crew, dances to some new tunes and bopped to some old tunes, and overall just had a fabulous time. again. If you are considering coming to a party, Lectro is definitely a candidate, trust me :)

meetup

thanks beau
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Time fr another flickrmeet, this time at The Windsor Castle in windsor :) A good bunch came along, lots of new faces, and all the flickr schwag had shown up so there were all sorts of badges and stickers being handed out, which was pretty cool. Elli had also made up a bunch of Barry stickers, so we stuck them around all over the place until we started to get in trouble. When the meetup started to drift apart (due to an overcrowding pub and weather starting to get too cold for the beer garden) Joe, Marcus, Kerryn, Elli and I headed over to La La Land for a few more drinks and general shenanigans :)
These kids are all pretty cool, and the funny thing is that Most of us are really friends due to a mutual third party, Beau. Good people, all of them. :)

Life in a nutshell

Death's seduction
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After Risque I popped over to the Mercat to check out Nutshell. It was a pretty good gig, with a few of the usual suspects, definitely worth checking out again. Even if future floor shows don't have partial nudity ;)

Risque

Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Friday evening was another work social club function down at the boatsheds by the yarra, another night of drunken accountants and trying to enjoy stubbies of VB. Joy :)
Actually it wasn't too bad, since we don't really talk to the accountants much and just hang out in our little clique and laugh at them :)
After the social club Joe, Bec and I headed up to the John Curtin Hotel to check out Risque. It was a pretty good night, with a mix of tech and electro from some guys I hadn't heard before. Met the promoter and hung out a bit with some of the crew and then headed off. The John Curtin is shaping up to be a pretty good location, and i look forward to seeing more events there.

Bec's Birthday

Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Saturday Night we went to dinner with a bunch of guys to celebrate Bec's Birthday. It was a chance to catch up with some people I hadn't seen in ages and a damn fine meal to boot. The only problem was that the meal was so good I ate too much and nearly fell asleep on the table :)

aLive.8

sally likes beer
Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Well this looks like it was the last aLive at The Retreat, at least until summer rolls around. We managed to have a pretty god time, despite the venue mucking the guys around a bit, chopping off the tail end of the gig, but everyone seemed to have a blast and we squeezed into the undercover section to escape the rain and the cold as the day went along. :)