Rush

Images by Chris O'Brien and Joanna Anderson from the forthcoming book
Rush, Made In Victoria, With Chris In It As A Police Officer.

Reservoir Magic

Reservoir, Victoria
August 2011

I'm still your friend

Thirty Grand

Trafalgar Square Shopping Centre, Wanganui, 2000

You're Welcome

This Sunday at Mars Gallery in Port Melbourne there's an art raffle - 100 artworks by 100 artists - to raise money for the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre who provide advocacy and health services for asylum seekers in Australia.

Tickets cost $100 each and they are close to running out! Get a ticket if you have a spare hunge for a good cause. You might score an artwork by a superb artist like Mark Rodda, Jess Lucas or Matlok Griffiths. Here's the link.

theyourewelcomeshow.com

Put a personalised felt phone case on it

Chris O'Brien has a new side project: making personalised felt phone cases for women. Here's a selection of cases made by Chris at Arts Project for his lady friends.

In the library

Africa at Majorca and limited edition book

An exhibition of blown-up spreads from my book about Africa is on now in Centre Place, Melbourne, in the Platform gallery windows either side of the entrance to the Majorca building.

It's open 24 hours from 6-28 May 2011.

There is also a limited edition of 50 copies of the book. Some are for sale at Sticky Institute in the Degraves Street Subway.

Come and have a look!

Supafriquey

Went to Africa and got back the other day. Here's a page from my travel diary. This is when we met Mustafa in the Manyango Pub in Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania. Each time we saw Mustafa, he opened his bottle of purple fanta with his teeth.

Mustafa is Mto Wa Mbu's ambassador for brushing your teeth thrice.

Long White Clown

Caroline chatted to me on the phone last night from her bean bag in Te Waka A Maui.

Hernan

I said merry christmas and happy new year.

COOKBOOK north/south

COOKBOOK north/south is a choice project that was co-ordinated by Lily, Shona and Kristy from Wolfgang, Shlomo and Max. It has recipes, stories and pictures from Melbourne chefs, writers and artists, who each describe an aspect of their experience of food and culture in a particular suburb of Melbourne. The type was letterpress printed at the Melbourne Museum of Printing and the pictures are all linocut. Here's my picture of Oly McLeish.