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ok, so plan B of the blog updates is to not focus too much on capturing every party that goes by the wayside, but to just post about what's happening at any point in time.
at the moment i'm kind of tracking my life in about 20 different places, so anyone really interested can catch up with me on myspace, facebook, twitter, flickr, inthemix, resident adviser, samesame, tranzfusion, and clubsguide.
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Another Peppermint party at the Inkerman Hotel. pretty good parties with good music that happen to get a little crazy as everyone is someone's friend :)
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Went to the Corner Hotel to see Matt's band Autumn Gray perform. They sounded bloody good on the big sound system.
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Vanessa was working on the Wilderness Society booth at the Akasha festival out near Sale, so I decided to go along and have a bit of fun. Since I couldn't be arsed with the whole tent thing (and I don't own one at the moment) I hired a camper from Wickedcampers and i'm damn glad I did. Not only is the camper (a converted crappy old van) painted in a cool design, but it's so worth a few bucks to be able to just drive up to a campsite and be all set up. I think i'll be using a camper for festivals from now on.
as-strobe-boy
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I've gotten some new gear lately to play with. A Lensbaby I bought off phunkdust, which lets you twist the front element about to create focus tunnel effects. A Holga lens for the Canon, a dodgy plastic lens with basic focus control, creating some low quality images that can be fun. And also a whole bunch of flash gear to use multiple off-camera flashguns to create better lighting for portraits and other work, it will take a whle to master but I think it will provide a lot more options for portrait work especially.
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17th feb - It was Ryan's birthday and they played lawn bowls during the day, but I could only meet up with them later in the day for some drinks at Loop and some shenanigans at FFour
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Went on a flickrwalk with a bunch of flickrites near the exhibition buildings, hanging out with Vanessa has made me want to photograph trees more.
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We decided we'd hit up the St Kilda festival, but didn't really see much, just hung out a bit at one of the bars and happened to run into a few friends while we were there.
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Went to 3rd class for the first time, what a laugh! 3rd class is the club that has sprung up in the space that Honkytonks was using until they closed on new years day. They've pulled out all the classy fittings, filled it with low rent op-shop furniture, the main room is all blacklight, and the DJ booth has chicken wire across the front. Hilarious to see Melbourne's premier top class nightclub turned into something that is, well, 3rd class.
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Shot the Christopher Lawrence gig at Room, but to be honest, I found him a bit disappointing, I much preferred the side room run by the obsession crew.
disco frisbee is a dangerous game
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Beach Party with all the usual crazy shenanigans. Of note was when Ben Evans was keen for a frisbee but nobody had any, so he grabbed a promo record he had a few copies of and we started using that.
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Joe and I went for another night shoot, this time down Williamstown and Port Melbourne, for some nice city skyline shots.
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Had dinner at Kathryn's place, while her sister Dani and her friend Stacey were in town, just a bit of family-like fun :)
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Had dinner in Kew at a nice indian place called Milan. In attendance were Mick, Steph, Dean, Felicite, Bec and Joe
