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Published May 23, 2009 by

Dralion – Cirque du Soleil

dralionA work Christmas present got Geoff and I to Dralion, Cirque Du Soleil.

It was amazing, people should NOT be able to bend like that or hang off someones neck mid-air or run up walls or balance 6 people on a ball when they are dressed up in pairs in massive dragon costumes!

The dragon’s were by far the most entertaining (and if I can be girly and mention how cute they were), the acrobatics, trampolining and the juggling wonderful – astounding, the singing people were naff, but all up it was extremely worth every minute. Although the 2.5 hours seemed to go very quickly.

If you get the chance, go.

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circus cirque du soleil dralion thanks Ergo!

Published May 16, 2009 by

Measured words online

My friend Cat has just started blogging. I am still getting to know Cat: I can however already testify to the fact that she’s a marvelous cook, writer and has pretty much the cutest kids in the world (really – that is not an exaggeration) and she has rather good taste in art, accessories and other little things that some people don’t pay attention to.

I might make small note here of the fact that Geoff and I meet with Cat, her husband and a few others: Les (and Wepke) & Bob & Tim, some Wednesdays to eat good food, drink nice wine and talk about life inclusive of things of God (because it is all intertwined – as an extra or add-on it loses significance and that friends is a no-no and frankly just not how it works).

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Published May 12, 2009 by

Talk time

phone

Well after being on a phone plan through work… and previously pre-paid I have finally jumped on the post-paid bandwagon with my shiny new Nokia. Didn’t pay anything for the phone, otherwise would’ve kept my old one. But checking how a mini qwerty keyboard goes, as the provider (3) have some pretty good internet deals atm, with unlimited email/facebook etc. just waiting until twitter is included *hint hint* until then for the twitting, it’s through the website… or perhaps I can find an app. Perhaps I’ll find it’s too much using the internet on the phone but hey, might as well try it out (can opt out monthly if I want to) or just run it off the various wireless networks my life links to. It’s red. It’s nice. It’s a Nokia (Always the best phones). It’s a distraction. I don’t need distractions. I have a homework list as long as my arm and a house to clean before our rental inspection on Friday.

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nokia phone three

Published May 5, 2009 by

AGIdeas 2009

As of today (and the next 2) I am at AGIdeas a mega design conference held in Melbourne annually.

I’ll keep it brief as I’m slightly exhausted as they really do pack in one keynote after the next and my brain is kinda fried. We started at 9:30 (very respectable) and ran over the 5:30 finish, I left the building around 6:30 a bit before the last guy finished.

Highlights are many, but I particularly enjoyed:

Stefan Sagmeister (and hey the guy is famous at my uni and okay, pretty much everywhere in the world of design) – he spoke on Design and Happiness which is interesting in relation to some of my own ideas, much of it was about how design factored into his experiences of happiness but not in a freaky commercial way.

Shannon Bennett a young innovative restaurateur based in Melbourne (see Vue De Monde), completely delightfully creative in his field

Alexia Sinclaire mostly for her work, digital art, it was pretty inspiring

Detective Sergent Adrian Patterson (Retired) who was the criminal identification bureau and has helped revolutionise the use of computer graphics in a very practical cop-sense. Great presenter, and bought a good perspective personally about thinking about design outside the usual sphere of ‘where you do design’

Etiene Mineur can’t help but love the French, but facinating stuff with graphic design and the web and some pretty amazing interactive stuff

John Marsden scares me that the writer was probably my favourite presenter, he talked about finding your voice and the value of status (also not in a freaky commerical way) but in the sense of adapting language to fit situations and characters. Loved it.

Also worth a note here is Chris Bosse who designed the Bejing Olympics swimming arena (that square thing that looks like it’s made of bubbles), Bart Willoughby who is an Aboriginal Aussie musician and Michael Pearson who talked about Swedish design.

I am very impressed… except for one who was pretty much a write off in any sense of the word useful (He was also remarkably boring).

And…

We get a sweet book to keep about all the presenters and various design stuff etc. Free lunch on two days (and yes it was good!) And hey 😛 I could win an Iphone.

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AGIdeas design conference sagmeister

Published May 2, 2009 by

175/70R13… tyres

tyreYeah, so that’s our tyre. On the way back from our honeymoon (just after passing Horsham) over a year ago, we broke down.

Today we were off to visit friends in Horsham (The same friends who helped bail us out last time) and about an hour and a quarter out of Melbourne we heard this lovely grating sound {cue image on the right}. The spare naturally had something wrong with it as well, RACV could tow within 20k’s to an unknown tyre centre, but we exploited our other options and Geoff’s wonderful sister and her husband drove out (with what we thought was a tyre that would fit), of course that tyre was the right size but the bolt positions were different, so we grabbed the crappy spare and drove around and found a tyre place and the guy tentatively put a new tube in it and said that we really shouldn’t be driving on it, but home we are.

Laura – my sister – now knows all about tyre sizes, thanks to her Google research (pre Anita and Stu driving out) and I have the feeling that Geoff and I will never drive to Horsham again.

*A note here, we tried to book in for a tyre change the other day but the place was full, so we thought we’d risk it. Epic Fail. Don’t risk it. It wastes lots of time.

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