Fast Times Hard Times

Hard and Fast Edition 1 at the OK Gallery as part of Here and Now Exhibition

Hard Times was screened as part of a Hard and Fast presentation at the OK Gallery "as an extension of Now & Then 12, in conjunction with Here & Now 12 at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Nedlands."

"A futile and vaguely ridiculous attempt to survey Perth contemporary arts practice, in which as many artists as we could get to participate attempt to explain their practices in under 5 minutes each."

This video includes documentation by Casey Ayers, Daniel Bourke and Scott Northcott and includes contributions from Sheridan Coleman, Vincent Eliott and Verity Wells. 

It was projected by handheld projector onto the ceiling of the OK Gallery while an obligatory slideshow ran automatically and the Diamond Skull skeleton ran interference.

Words with Teeth

Chocolate Porridge Brain Man: c2004

Chocolate Porridge Brain Man was an eponymous series of short stories accompanied by a few (usually tediously) overworked sketches using MS Paint.  Chocolate Porridge Brain Man was a person of relatively few talents and far less personality the Rocky to his creator Mr. Bones: Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Chocolate Porridge Brain Man's superhero power was the occasional sneeze or episodic fit of rage which resulted in explosions of chocolate porridge. A sneeze was a mild event - needing only an apology but in a fit of rage Chocolate Porridge Brain Man would lose his head completely and take several minutes to regenerate a new one. In both cases the porridge from the explosion was edible, making Chocolate Porridge Brain Man popular with both orphans and zombies.

This whole thing started because one day I added cocoa powder to porridge. I like my porridge very goey with some whole oats added at the end for some texture. Adding cocoa was a hilarious mistake. Don't do it, it tastes mediocre and looks so unappealingly brain-like you probably wont be able to eat it.

Software Gone Wild

Parliament House Gift Shop

Australian Made Leather Goods

The Parliament Shop, Parliament House, Canberra

Australian Made Leather Goods

Australian Made Parliament House Teapot

Parliament House, Canberra

Yesterday we visited Parliament House, Canberra with a Canon 60D and 50mm f1.4

A map of Parliament House, Canberra

Public access reaches its limit

Reading about the house of parliament in the house of parliament

John Curtin

Paul Keating and four types of Australian timber

Hawke and Scott

Reading about the Senate in the Senate

Her Majesty. Outside.

"Please touch this sample instead of the Great Hall Tapestry itself.
The acid from human skin causes deterioration."

The eight-pointed Parliament star.
One for each of the states and territories, one for the tapestry

A long tapestry made for the great hall

A long tapestry made for the great hall 

This is a representation of the house of representation

Senate

Speaker of the house

A legal red light. There is a special law to let this light be red.

Tourists

Closed for maintenance

A rare glimpse into the underbelly of the Senate

"Blue"

"What touches all should be approved by all"

Magna Carta. I really thought it would be a lot longer.

Single measure

Parliament House, Canberra.

Batman in Bentley

Last week I saw the Batmobile in Bentley! 

The caped crusader drives a Holden! Who knew?

(I altered the licence plate to protect millionaire Bruce Wayne Batman's secret identity)