I turned 26 a week ago. It was a rather quiet one. I sometimes wish the future me would send a message to the present me; it would make me appreciate more what I have in the present. Nothing specific, of course, as I don’t want to ruin the surprise.
Basically I just want to know what the 30 year old me would say.
I stumbled across photographer Phillip Toledano recently and have been transfixed by his images. He seems to create strange and desolate worlds; either abandoned, as in the case of the ‘Bankrupt‘ series, or the almost claustrophobic and heart-wrenching series ‘Days With My Father‘ by the end of which, I guarantee, you will be at least misty-eyed.
Photo by Tom Hide. I’ve never seen anything like this. Head on over to the flickr blog for some amazing photos of a dust storm that has descended on Sydney. I took some pics of my own which I will upload soon.
Hungry Beast is an upcoming show on the ABC (that’s Australia’s ABC, folks) that I’m looking forward to seeing for a number of reasons. 1) It’s being produced by Andrew Denton, 2) I know a bunch of people involved in the show – namely my friend and flatmate, Aaron Smith (who developed and shot the cool slow-mo-pro-mos) and 3) It’s an interesting premise.
From the PR department:
“The media is a hungry beast it devours everything and is never satisfied. Now, 19 newcomers to television recruited after a nationwide call for young talent – are being given the opportunity by the ABC to feed the beast. Each week, they will produce a half-hour of topical TV, as well as daily web content, bringing viewers news from outside the loop. This means they are being asked to find stories that arent part of the regular news cycle or to cover stories that are, from a fresh angle. They have been given one editorial instruction: tell us something we dont know. Beyond that they are being encouraged to use every skill they have humour, curiosity, passion, bullshit-detection and good old-fashioned snooping around – to bring us the world as they see it, re-mixed.”
