CARE FACTOR

Lake Macquarie / Mangapapapa

2012-01-27T02:48:00.000-08:00

Rich Picturing

2012-01-27T02:36:00.000-08:00

Rush

2011-11-20T18:50:00.000-08:00

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

2011-10-23T19:37:00.000-07:00

Reservoir, Victoria
August 2011

I'm still your friend

2011-08-02T16:35:00.000-07:00

Thirty Grand

2011-07-28T05:18:00.000-07:00

Trafalgar Square Shopping Centre, Wanganui, 2000

You're Welcome

2011-07-22T04:24:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-17T18:27:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-10T19:33:00.000-07:00

Africa at Majorca and limited edition book

2011-05-06T22:03:00.000-07:00

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

2011-02-28T02:54:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-05T14:16:00.000-08:00

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

Hernan

2011-01-05T03:18:00.001-08:00

I said merry christmas and happy new year.

COOKBOOK north/south

2011-01-05T01:38:00.000-08:00

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.

Chris by Joanna / Chris by Chris

2010-11-24T03:17:00.000-08:00

Funny old night up at Gertrude Contemporary art opening

2010-11-22T04:53:00.001-08:00

Friday 12th Nov, heavy rain. There was a normal art opening going on downstairs in the gallery. In the top space upstairs there was a nice party with some older people ballroom dancing to Taiwanese pop music. You could learn how to dance to that kind of music with one of the experts if you asked them, or if they asked you. There was home made party food which was made by Michael the host, and some other people, and Michael walked around with a tray and offered it to the guests. In this picture you can see Michael in the late stages of his long thank you speech. He didn't have any notes and he had a lot of people to thank. This is a picture of him trying not to forget anyone.

Jess

2010-11-22T04:48:00.001-08:00

Tender Centre

2010-11-10T05:09:00.000-08:00

Sunhill Police Station, that's the station I'm from

2010-11-07T01:53:00.000-07:00

Chris, Monica, Smithy and Chris

by Chris O'Brien

Chris and I made a TV together with a scene in it from a police programme called Rush, made in Victoria, with Chris in it as a police officer. The other officers in the car are Joanna, Josh and Rachel O'Brien. There is an old crow called Paul going "Creak" and the house you can see in the background is Edmund the house.

On TV

2010-09-27T06:56:00.000-07:00

Zambiance

2010-09-12T16:46:00.000-07:00

I'm going to Zambia at the beginning of next year!

I have been listening to some music from this great blog

http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/

and learning some new moves from Youtube

George Street Scraps

2010-09-12T16:38:00.000-07:00

Del

2010-09-12T16:35:00.001-07:00

This is Del who came to the Shipping Costs Heaps Garage Sale in February this year.

Lettering from the year 2000

2010-09-12T16:19:00.000-07:00

These are drawings from a font I made when I did a typography class in the year 2000. They are based on Eric Gill's font "Joanna" and my handwriting.

Portrait Exchange

2010-09-12T15:56:00.001-07:00

My friend Chris O'Brien and I have been hanging out at my place drawing portraits of each other, making lemon jelly and arguing.

Portrait Exchange is on now at Arts Project Australia. Come and have a look.

11 September - 16 October

24 High Street Northcote

Victoria Australia 3070

http://www.artsproject.org.au/event/portrait-exchange

Chris and Joanna aged 70 and 71 by Joanna

Chris tv and couch by Joanna

Joanna in chair by Chris

chair by Joanna

Sad Party

2010-07-19T05:59:00.001-07:00

This man is having a sad time at a party. It's summer but it's still sad.

2010-07-09T04:56:00.000-07:00

Choofla

2010-07-04T19:58:00.000-07:00

Met Choofla on the tram on a Thursday night.

Choofla writes books, has been in Melbourne for a couple of months

If you live in Sydney and you hear a song called "Rock Me Far Out", that song is by Choofla.

Choofla gave me a book, full of poems from the heart. It is dedicated to Geeborah Chestnut

The Supermodel of Angels.

I am glad Choofla and I met on the tram.

Chris at Arts Project

2010-06-30T23:15:00.000-07:00

Chris at Arts Project Australia, 17 June 2010

Sixty Seconds

2010-06-24T02:58:00.001-07:00

Problem Solving

2010-06-24T02:55:00.001-07:00

Tennis Player

2010-06-17T08:00:00.000-07:00

Sean R A February 2010

Lunch with the Chrises

2010-06-17T07:35:00.001-07:00

7 Evils

2010-06-04T07:40:00.001-07:00

I have some drawings in a group show at No Vacancy gallery, opens Thursday 10 June at 6pm. There will be a band playing at the opening. Come and have a look.

Palm

2010-05-09T22:35:00.000-07:00

Topaz House After 5

2010-05-09T05:06:00.001-07:00

Sadie and Scout are 3

2010-05-09T04:56:00.001-07:00

JOMAD

2010-04-24T07:27:00.000-07:00

Jamboree Of Motion And Dreams

My 30 times round the sun festival

14-16 May 2010

Powelltown, Victoria

Too much culture make you lose your nature

2010-04-23T20:35:00.000-07:00

Feeling Small

2010-04-20T19:04:00.000-07:00

Shinjuku

2008

Korobase

2010-04-20T05:39:00.000-07:00

Tokyo National Museum

2008

Sourpuss

2010-04-20T05:26:00.000-07:00

Unhelpful with directions on roadside in Oda.

Cute though.

September 2008

Thumbs Up Stack

2010-04-13T21:09:00.000-07:00

The Thumbs Up Stack is an invention my sister Caroline and I made whilst feeling good on the aeroplane to Japan in 2008. It turned out to be a nice alternative to the peace sign when posing for travel photos, and an especially good and inclusive thing to do when you don't speak the same language as the people around you, but you all want to somehow express to each other that you are having a good time.

Don't Smoke

2010-04-13T07:16:00.000-07:00

I don't smoke and if I wear nail polish I feel like my fingers are suffocating

To JK

2010-04-13T07:02:00.000-07:00

Singstar party wrapping. There's a Tiki Cat inside. Its on the way

Crystal T's

2010-04-11T23:53:00.000-07:00

Crystal T's was an erotic strip bar on Sydney Road with a cool name and a massive weird decaying science-fictiony 3d sign. The sign has since been replaced with an equally large new flat one in magenta and black with no planets on it that says "Hustlers Showgirls".

Chris waiting for his dad

2010-04-08T01:08:00.000-07:00

Powelltown

2010-04-01T23:43:00.001-07:00

Cane Hat

2010-03-31T04:17:00.001-07:00

I'm no island

2010-03-31T04:11:00.001-07:00

See My Face

2010-03-29T18:59:00.000-07:00

Portrait Of Neha Chib & A Honey Eating Bear

2010-03-18T02:35:00.000-07:00

Wanganui 2000

Robert's bday / Tiki tour

2010-03-09T02:43:00.000-08:00

Wanganui
24-25 February 2010

Whats his name

2010-03-09T02:29:00.000-08:00

Mum playing tennis
28 February 2010

This terrible fear

2010-02-22T02:54:00.000-08:00

Compare this cover with the cover of one of our competitors. The Beatles. See the amount of information we provide compared with the amount they offer. Which gives you superior value for money?

Z Von Bamberger, GGE 2005
Great Value

Together

2010-02-09T20:36:00.000-08:00

I have seen a lot of driftwood people in my time.
Here is a picture of my favourite one so far.

Come

2010-02-01T07:08:00.001-08:00

That's Jo's godfather again, he's turned out to be one of my muses. Don't PTO is what you write on a page that you wrote something secret on the back of.
Come and see my art show. Starts this Wednesday 3rd of Feb. 6pm at Seventh Gallery. 155 Gertrude St Fitzroy. Goes till the 20th. Come and have a look!

Godparents

2010-01-28T18:05:00.000-08:00

Professional Writing

2010-01-27T05:13:00.000-08:00

Crate Skates

2010-01-24T02:19:00.001-08:00

This is a tiny little picture of a man from a dream I had.

He was rolling through a big puddle on skates he had made from cutoff milk crates.

Tiny little cartoons

2010-01-20T17:16:00.001-08:00

Here are some tiny little cartoon pictures I found.

Clown Voyage

2010-01-16T16:58:00.000-08:00

Caroline is going back to New Zealand to spew out some anecdotes next to a mountain.
We are having a clown party to say Goodbye Caroline, We Love You.

Care Factor

2010-01-09T21:01:00.000-08:00

Blog done got a new name, "Care Factor", which is also the name of an exhibition I am having at Seventh. Opens at 6pm on the 3rd of February 2010. See you there?

Year of the Tiger

2010-01-06T05:51:00.000-08:00

Old babes are better than young babes

2010-01-06T01:13:00.001-08:00

Mrs Gertrude Lockhart Melchior
US Virgin Islands, circa 1983

What's hot what's not

2010-01-05T16:25:00.000-08:00

Cam

2009-12-22T04:24:00.000-08:00

Yesterday Murray told me about a friend of his called Chris Dean who changed his last name to Deal so that people didn't think he was a lady when they heard his name out loud. At the time we tried to think of other combinations of names that trick you with sex and didn't get very far. Then today I saw Steve and gave him a picture. I told him about Chris Dean and we had a chuckle about it, without even REALISING we had another one right there under our nose, the person the picture was of, Steve's own handsome nephew Cam Miller!

The persistent sensation of something substantial just out of my reach

2009-11-30T02:39:00.000-08:00

Jo Randerson's new play: Good Night - The End

You are not a leopard!

2009-11-21T21:24:00.000-08:00

First airborne root

2009-11-21T20:50:00.001-08:00

Bottom right

Look at me

2009-11-17T23:19:00.001-08:00

Heat Wave

2009-11-12T04:31:00.000-08:00

Swam 14 lengths of the Fitzroy pool 2 days ago and arms still sore. Cool change not for a week according to BOM. Haven't got a tan, although have been lying by txt to Katey T and telling her am really brown.

I'm scared

2009-11-10T05:11:00.001-08:00

Topaz House

2009-11-10T02:41:00.000-08:00

Topaz House on St George's Road is for lease. Caroline and I want to make it our office. It costs $300 a week for just the left hand side and its not very big so that's too much. Can't see the sign from inside so its probably better this way.

Amy Szostak

2009-11-09T23:20:00.000-08:00

Amy Szostak passed away earlier this year. Her pictures are sad and shocking, and, delightful! Does that sound strange? She had a special gift for storytelling in pictures and in words. She was very frank about topics that are scary to talk about, eg rape, vikings, Michael Jackson, lesbians, Camilla Parker Bowles,, and at the same time very funny. She transcended her intellectual disability to became famous in New Zealand for her artwork, singing and acting. Amy was a viking in a past life, she was a "Special Star" in the one she has just had, and I reckon she will be another awesome something in the next one.

it's hot

2009-11-09T22:24:00.000-08:00

O

2009-11-09T21:27:00.000-08:00

This O is the O for Of which is the Of for The Pageant Of Life which is the party my family is going to be hosting in december. Come as your favourite aspect of Life. So far I have friends who already know they are coming as an erupting volcano; a peanut; self-confidence; a sequin; and their Mum. Date is TBA. You're invited!

Born To Annoy

2009-10-27T00:00:00.000-07:00

Here are 2 more photos of Sean and Caroline I took in 1991.
I especially like how Sean, like a true big brother, born to annoy, yet sensitive beyond any of our understanding at the time, in an attempt at subtly boneheading my nice portrait of Caroline, has taken it to a richer and more beautiful level.
I also like the one stick in each hand.

A bird

2009-10-26T21:22:00.000-07:00

Rainbow Brite People / Charles & Camilla

2009-10-25T00:09:00.000-07:00

Top picture with the angry/burnt looking people is a shopping list by me, bottom picture with Charles and Camilla is a historical portrait that I love by Amy Szostak.

Geordy & Jimmy

2009-10-24T04:51:00.000-07:00

Come!

2009-10-24T03:23:00.000-07:00

This is CJ. CJ is one of my favourite characters from television. He's the boss at Sunshine Desserts on The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin which is a programme that was made in England in the mid 70's. He is constantly getting his idioms muddled and never notices anything!

Family photo 1991

2009-10-23T18:32:00.000-07:00

Mangaweka, 1991
Left to right: Dad, Caroline, Mum, Sean.

Crystal Diamond Writes

2009-10-23T18:13:00.000-07:00

Caroline M. Anderson (not the medical romance writer, the other one, ie my sister, whom you may know better as the founder of Crystal Diamond Swimwear) has started writing about EVERTHING SHE THINKS ABOUT. She's good. I reckon I have a dog whistle sense of humour, where most people are always not quite hearing it, well Caroline's is a real whistle like the kind they use at a bball game or the one they use to make people get out of the pool every 15 minutes at a swimming pool in Japan so they can check the bottom to see if anyone has drowned. Everyone hears Caroline's whistle. She is writing a breakdown on sweet living and profiles of her favourite people currently. Check it out here.

Barracuda

2009-10-14T03:52:00.000-07:00

xxx Monstera xxx

2009-10-10T23:26:00.000-07:00

Haloes

2009-09-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

You can pretend it doesn't bother you, but we all know it's real annoying when your mates' haloes keep muscling you out of the conversation

Kryptonite

2009-09-29T02:39:00.000-07:00

Hard Feelings, Bad Technique

2009-09-24T04:15:00.000-07:00

Keele St mechanic

2009-09-24T02:02:00.001-07:00

2009-09-21T18:55:00.000-07:00

Dad

2009-09-17T01:24:00.000-07:00

Look how similar my Dad looks to Aussie pop culture icon Reg Mombassa.

2009-09-08T05:32:00.000-07:00

2009-09-01T06:06:00.001-07:00

This movie by Winsor McCay has a few of my favourite things in it: Centaurs, families, and caring. I love freaks, but old freaks are the best.

Mix Tape for Dylan

2009-08-26T05:39:00.000-07:00

Max Poifect v.1

2009-08-26T05:26:00.000-07:00

Chronic Fat Syndrome

2009-08-20T06:26:00.000-07:00

My dad Lindsay Anderson has owned a fat factory for 3 years. When he first bought the factory, he talked about beef and pig fat in detail for a long time, and sometimes us kids got really tired listening to it. I believe the technical name for what he gave us is Chronic Fat Syndrome. Luckily he's got other interests now. Last week I spent some of my own time thinking about beef fat while Dad went mountain climbing in Peru. This is the new pottle that I designed and illustrated the graphics for. Ingredients: BEEF FAT. Produced and packaged by Rendco, Wanganui.

2009-08-20T06:07:00.000-07:00

2009-08-04T18:07:00.000-07:00

Tarantula

2009-07-20T19:58:00.000-07:00