From a second session at life drawing with the iPad. And a small world it proved to be. The model in the morning had gone to the same Wheeler event as I had, and read my blog about it. And the man drawing next to me, who seemed rather familiar, and who thought likewise, turns [...]
I downloaded the Brushes program onto the iPad and went off to a drawing session on the weekend. There were a couple of nude models. After fiddling with old media –I mean the other kind: pencil, charcoal, ink — I swapped to e-drawing, which is finger painting directly on the projective capacitive glass surface (no, [...]
Bad Feminism Two women friends accused me of bad feminism for my blog post yesterday on Julia Gillard’s ascension. The post was essentially a visual thought: Julia’s head — looking formidable and in control — applied to Uma Thurman’s famous bodysuit in Kill Bill. Which is to suggest Gillard as a woman warrior who of [...]
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The judges of Australia’s premier literary award have given this year’s prize to Truth, a crime novel by Peter Temple. We know Truth is crime because it shares characters with its not-quite-prequel, The Broken Shore, winner in 2007 of the world’s top crime writing award, the Gold Dagger. And now we know Truth is also [...]
Because I’m writing up a couple of posts needing some thought — on Marr’s essay on Rudd; on watching Noel Tovey perform his life — it seemed like a nice idea to make this a picture board. Of warming things in a chill winter, so close to solstice. Left to right, top to bottom: A [...]
“Dark, grainy, under-exposed, blotchy, over magnified photos…”* “The depth of solitude in Masahisa Fukase’s photographs makes me shudder.”** The British Journal of Photography has chosen the best photobook of the past 25 years. It is an “obscure masterpiece” – Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu (Ravens, republished as The Solitude of Ravens), from 1986. He “made his pictures [...]
The 24th Annual Marvin Gaye Jr Appreciation Day Festival is being held tomorrow, 19 June, at the playground in Marvin Gaye Park, Lincoln Heights, Washington, D.C. (The park was previously called “Needle Park,” ask not why.) I happened to hear the music nerds on NPR’s ‘All Songs Considered’ throw around the topic “The Best Opening [...]
“BHP and Rio Tinto want to destroy the government. They want to get rid of Rudd,” said David Marr, a man not short of an opinion. Stellar Marr. (No, that’s not her name.) Last night at the Wheeler Centre, interviewed by Robert Manne, the journalist David Marr put in a stellar performance as he talked [...]
I went off to see Animal Kingdom knowing almost nothing about it — how lucky was that? If you haven’t seen it or read a review, don’t read any (though this isn’t that) and do yourself a favour soon. . They didn’t like Animal Kingdom David and Margaret At the Movies both gave it four [...]
By W H Chong
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Posted in movies
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Tagged Animal Kingdom, Anthony Lane, At the Movies, August Sander, Ben Mendelsohn, Chopper, David and Margaret, Guy Pearce, Ingmar Bergman, Jacki Weaver, Michael Haneke, The White RIbbon
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