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Combat Wombat live at spectrum

I actually made it out to a gig on a Friday night - this is one of my favourite Sydney bands Combat Wombat - they're on my fav Sydney label, elefant traks. they're partly a subversive, hip hop, outdoor party band, & have been running a traveling vege-oil & solar powered van & crew called the "Lab Rats Solar Sound System" which traveled the outback and brought music & mayhem to various outback & Indigenous Australian towns for many years - before the cars were talking about being converted. http://www.myspace.com/labratssolarpoweredsoundsystem Combat Wombat at the Curse ov Dialect album launch 27/11/2009 http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=artists&artistId;=81 http://blip.tv/file/2904562

Published 9 months ago

strathfield symphony

strathfield symphony vlomo09 day24 24/11/2009 this one's for @cherylcolan in response to her http://www.hummingcrow.com/2009/11/05/night-birds post- I can't find the recordings of my train station birds or the north sydney birds - I think they might have been archived. so I heard these tonight at Strathfield station whilst waiting for the train. it's recorded on my phone camera and there's a bit of wind noise, but gives you an idea. I think they do sound like birds at the pub on friday night

Published 9 months ago

SOLD!

SOLD! says the website listing now. the loan came through and papers have been signed. it's done. it's not a very exciting video, and I forgot to unlick the 'use default song' in QT. but it's been so busy the past week preparing for the purchase (which is why I'm a few days behind with #vlomo09 this past week). the purchase went through OK this afternoon, and when I arrived home the papers from the bank had arrived. huge relief. now it's just packing and preparing to move in (hate packing, but I think this'll be the last time hopefully!) vlomo09 day2323/11/2009

Published 9 months ago

sci fi similarities

this afternoon I watched some of the 1939 Buck Rogers series. I saw lots of similarities with the sci fi movies from the 1980s - current day. I love the older methods of making sci fi movies - using the models & filming miniature sets. when I saw Moon I had the feeling that they'd done some of this but I haven't googled to check if this is correct or not. Buck Rogers has the tilted title text like Star Wars does, and the transporter beam like Star Trek, as well as the communications panel and tv screens zooming in on different locations - everywhere under surveillance like today's world. also I loved how the end of each episode had a slide saying the next episode would be seen at your local theatre - I think it'd be cool to have series shown this way again instead of the instantaneous methods we have today where you can download on demand or goto the video/dvd store or watch on TV in your lounge room. also I thought it was interesting that the leaders in 2440 were wearing capes and outfits that would fit in in feudal England or Rome. and the silver bathing caps and headphones that the modern people wore as protection and communication devices. and I loved the kaleidoscope effects behind the closing titles on some of the episodes. I saw so many things that seemingly influenced modern sci fi films. I filmed my tv, so there's lots of flickering - buy or hire the series & take a look for a clearer view. #vlomo09 day22 #2 22/11/2009 blog entry : http://www.aliak.com/content/sci-fi-similarities

Published 9 months ago

in search of air conditioning

Sydney's had a heatwave over the past few days. today reached 41 degrees in my area. I didn't feel it at home but once I went outside it felt like someone had opened the stove door and put Sydney in front of it. I went in search of air conditioning for lunch - along with the rest of the people in Western suburbs. it was like Christmas shopping parking conditions - long queues, available parking spots were quite rare. even when I left there were long delays. but it was better than walking - I would have melted had I tried this. #vlomo09 day22 22/11/2009 http://blip.tv/file/2880852 blog entry : http://www.aliak.com/content/search-air-conditioning

Published 9 months ago

I admit my crime / broken ladder - mumbai one year on

I admit my crime / broken ladder - mumbai one year on I was in Mumbai last year when the terrorist attacks were happening. luckily I was not staying at one of the affected hotels. but I'd received at txt around 3am asking if I was ok, so I woke and started watching the tv. at that time the news media were reporting pretty irresponsibly IMHO - showing live footage of locations of the police and telling everyone what the police were doing. the journalists seemed to be in shock which was understandable, but it wasn't until mid the next morning that they started delaying the footage and not handing out details until later. at the time I was trying to use the internet too but twitter was overloaded all the time. I think I got a couple of messages through to facebook and my blog. I was recording some of the tv footage - the English speaking channels at least. the night before I'd recorded the ad for the Champions League cricket competition, which I think was canceled - or at least, the Australian team didn't go? there were many criticisms of the media's coverage of the event on the Indian blogs, and on Sarai list and Kafila blog & elsewhere. this week will be one year after the attacks. the Times of India website has some articles so tonight I was reliving the night and following day (where I'd flown to Delhi and later caught a flight back to Sydney). I'd been able to get onto a couple of people via mobile the next morning which made me feel better. and I'd had lots of calls from people from work too checking how I was which was comforting. I spent a lot of time in the following months reading the press articles and blogs. I read the confession of the arrested terrorist - he was the only remaining survivor from his group. I almost felt sorry for the situation he had found himself in and I kept wondering, at which point in all of this training did he not stop and think, "hang on, they're talking about killing people", and what sort of life he must have had in order to not find this a problem. it's awful what they did to the people of Mumbai and tourists. but it's also a desparate situation on his/their part too as I'm sure they were not the organizers behind the attack - just the participants, however willing. what a crazy world this is. it made me sad for a while to think about me being there (even if not directly involved) and what happened to the people involved and the whole situation & background of many of the people there that puts them into these situations. I think watching the tv made it worse as they sensationalized everything - really gave it the CNN / USA flashy headline - scare the public treatment. as I understand it, Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist is awaiting trial in an Indian prison "Mujhe gunah kabool hai (I admit my crime). We fired on the public at CST" -- Ajmal Kasab confesses via http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Sir-mujhe-mera-gunaah-kabool-hai/articleshow/4801037.cms this all happened during #vlomo08 which is why I had my cameras ready at the time http://www.aliak.com/content/broken-ladder http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/11mumterror-confession-of-caught-terrorist-mumbai.htm http://indiainteracts.com/columnist/2008/12/03/Youth-Violence-and-Terrorism--Why-this-fatal-attraction http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Sir-mujhe-mera-gunaah-kabool-hai/articleshow/4801037.cms http://www.aliak.com/content/mumbai-people-advised-stay-indoors #vlomo09 day21 21/11/2009 blog entry : http://www.aliak.com/content/i-admit-my-crime-broken-ladder-mumbai-one-year .mov video file ::: video page at blip.tv

Published 9 months ago

cupcakes & macaroons

mini cupcakes are quite popular in Sydney these days - there's cupcake stores popping up everywhere selling fancy mini cupcakes. I haven't actually tried them before so when I saw the "Cupcakes on Pitt" store after I stopped for lunch I thought I'd try one. I bought a "cookies and cream" cupcake and a macaroon. I can't remember having a macaroon before either though I'm sure I must have at some time. these have become popular too since the first series of Master Chef aired in Australia earlier this year and the contestants had to cook macaroons as one of the challenges. I've saved the macaroon for tomorrow night - it's a strawberry macaroon. the cupcake was yummy though!music is (part of the intro to) "Elevation" by Infected Mushroom

Published 9 months ago

Day 15 - shadow out of time

Ian's video was called time travel. this initially brought to mind the Orbital song with the Star Trek TNG "Time Squared" episode sample for the Mobius & time becoming a loop. the past few weeks have felt like this for me - I've gone back to 2000, 2001, and hopefully 2003 this week if all goes well. then I also thought about "Moving Time" as I might be moving house soon but the theme I went with for the final video (though I sneaked the Mobius quote in the title text..) was the H.P. Lovecraft book "Shadow out of time". we read this for an online class I'm taking, and I really enjoyed it. I thought about Plato's ideas of "remembering knowledge" across the aeons (time travel of the mind?). one of the other class memebers mentioned the mental projections and mind swaps & the data-body and likened the spaces between dream/reality in the book, to the virtual spaces common these days & how we often have a data-body these days as well as a flesh-body. so I then thought about outsourcing memory using photos, videos, blogs etc and how by uploading these we become a virtual self on the internet. and how sometimes these things can become cluttered and cross-over each other and even annoying after a while (as I think watching this loop for 1:30 is..but this is on purpose :), and they're not an exact copy of ourselves. and how sometimes these things can overshadow our real selves, or at least other's impressions of our selves. and how, when watching something on loop you sometimes focus on the foreground moving text, and other times 'me' - this seems to match my real world experiences too - shifting between online me & real-world me focuses I represented the data-body using text words as this is the medium of the book. using Isadora I made a controller that would move the words around the screen - often blotting out the video of me playing in the background. but it's not really me - it's another virtual image -> mirror image of me, rather than the me I imagine in my mind, distorted by the join in the two glass mirrors and my face is covered most of the time by the camera - the recording of the data-body. the video is playing on loop with my washing machine as the soundtrack. using footage of 'me' in the video was inspired by Cheryl's videos, as this is unusal for my videos, so I looked forwards & backwards for inspiration - as in the book, Peaslee & the Yithians look forward & backwards in time for knowledge vlomo09 day15 vlomo09 30/30 project 15/11/2009 over to you Cheryl! good luck ::: "The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession. --wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Out_of_Time there is the theor of the mobius a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop of which there is no escape... when we reach this point - whatever happened will happen again -- "Time Squared" Star Trek Next Generation (I just noticed the text title slide has the date as 15/22/2009 instead of 15/11/2009 - oops! maybe in the future, there will be more time / months in the year ;)

Published 9 months ago

chasing storm clouds

this evening a large thunderstorm rolled into the city - it poured down rain, and there was thunder & lightning. I caught the train home and it felt as if I the train was chasing the storm clouds. the video is overlooking Parramatta. I recorded about 6 minutes which gives a better feel for the spaces between the thunder & lightning but the file was too large so I had to trim it. 12/11/2009vlomo09 day12see other people's videos at http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org

Published 9 months ago

let the happiness in (part3)

David Sylvian's Let the Happiness In with isadorian footage of the western line express - part 3 11/11/2009 north sydney - parramatta vlomo09 - day11 view other people's videos @ http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org

Published 10 months ago

september (part2)

David Sylvian's September with isadorian footage of the western line express - part 2 11/11/2009 north sydney - parramatta vlomo09 - day11 view other people's videos @ http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org

Published 10 months ago

promise

David Sylvian's Promise (the cult of Eurydise) with isadorian footage of the western line express - my train journey home - part 1 11/11/2009 north sydney - parramatta vlomo09 - day11 view other people's videos @ http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org

Published 10 months ago

bradbury vs abela (TINA2003)

bradbury vs abela TINA 2003 : vlomo09 day10 one from the archives for today. this is Garry Bradbury's session at TINA2003 where he gaffa taped Lucas Abela to the chair and then played his cut-up creation. 05/10/2003 Newcastle vlomo09 day 10 - watch other people's videos at http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org

Published 10 months ago

drive to Cootamundra - sheep & wheat country

the drive to cootamundra - snapshots of the drive from the n95 along the way 31/10/2009 country NSW Australia

Published 10 months ago

circles of saturday

finished reading "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by HP Lovecraft for class yesterday. so I went for coffee & eggs to think more upon spheres and came across a few circles & turns in my saturday travels. 07/11/2009 blog entry : http://www.aliak.com/content/circles-saturday day7 navlopomo09 / vlomo09 watch other people's videos @ http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.com

Posted 10 months ago

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