Roaming. Two Blokes On A Breakwater.

Shootin' Gallery: Newcastle. People.

First 13. Bin With A View.

Shootin' Gallery: Newcastle. Thirteen. Wheelie Bins.

Roaming. Blue View.

Shootin' Gallery: Newcastle.

Roaming. Social Intercourse.

Shootin' Gallery: Newcastle. Televisions.

Roaming. Obscured Path.

Shootin' Gallery: Newcastle. Paths.

Roaming. Hound Sound.

Shootin' Gallery: Dogs. Newcastle. Red.

Roaming. Green View.

Shootin' Gallery: Green. Newcastle. Windows.

Spin. Stay Young.

With the year drawing to a close, it's time to start loosening up, to brush aside what was not to be, and to celebrate what was great this year. So here's a Mixtape kicking of with Stay Young by INXS, a track with a name everyone should heed and aspire to. It's been stuck on repeat and blasting in the studio over the past few weeks as a new project gets ready for release. In the meantime check out some of these tracks.

Stay Young — Inxs
Bullet — Franz Ferdinand from their latest album Right Words...
Song 2 — Blur takes me back to fun nights at Duckie in London
I'm Just Me — Diamond Rings hailing from Canada with a late 1980s video
Broken English — Marianne Faithfull
Motorway — Little Boots
Bicycle — Memory Tapes
Sugar — Garbage from their brilliant Not Your Kind of People
Lower The Heavens — The Donkeys
The Big Boss Groove — The Style Council
Hooting & Howling — Wild Beasts impress again

Roaming. Calm Before The Storm.

Shootin' Gallery: Blue. Newcastle. Skies.

Roaming. Fairyland At Redhead Beach.

Shootin' Gallery: Gnomes. Newcastle.

Roaming. Far From Home.

Shootin' Gallery: Newcastle. Statues. Women.

Roaming. Spoonbill Ibis.

Shootin' Gallery: Birds. Callaghan. Dead. Newcastle. White.

Roaming. Danger.

Shootin' Gallery: Deterrents. Newcastle. Orange.

Roaming. Fresh Horizons.

Shootin' Gallery: Graffiti. Look. Newcastle. Statements.

Art Martha. Fast Food Hell.

If you're in Newcastle this weekend, be sure to check out Ryan Fitzgerald's exhibition at Darcy & Rose just off Hunter St Mall. The show features breathtaking portraits and gut churning images of iconic Australian fast food items, think the stodgiest meat pie you've ever seen and the phallic, though here it's more turd-like, Chiko Roll. Over the past year or so Ryan has been perfecting a wet plate collodian method of photographing his chosen subjects using an 8x10 camera, and while the food is disturbing, the results are anything but. The show ends Sunday November 3, you'll be rewarded visually for checking this terrific little exhibition out.

Pie Report. Chicken With Peas.

There is a small café behind the Catholic church in Newcastle West serving a terrific selection of meals through the week. It's invisible from the street so you'll need to wander onto the grounds to find it. The chicken pie I had was moderately priced, delicious and generously proportioned. I even ate the peas.

Chicken with peas
4.50 Pastry
5.00 Filling
4.50 Tastiness
4.00 Structure
3.50 Value

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED | 4.30 

Roaming. Last One Left.

Shootin' Gallery: Newcastle. Trains. Windows.

Spin. Get Out Of Here.

As summer approaches, I'm craving cool climes where snow falls and the heat inside is toasty warm. Alas, the searing heat is on the doorstep, which means more time inside. Here's what I've been spinning as work continues on a project almost twenty years in the making. More on that soon.

Giant Step — Nina Hagen from Bee Happy
Summertime Cowboy — Husky Rescue from Country Falls
Swastika Eyes (The Chemical Brothers Remix) — Primal Scream
Do You Wanna Funk — Sylvester
Party Killer (terrific video) — David E. Sugar
Breakout — Ash Grunwald
Love in a Foreign Place — Gossip from A Joyful Noise
Somewhere Strange — Mirrors
Man on a Wire — Garbage from the brilliant Not Your Kind Of People
Subculture (John Robie Remix) — New Order
Bring on the Night — The Police
Bumbleebee Unlimited/Lady Bug — Annie
Fairytale — The Pointer Sisters
I Was a Flower — Agnetha Fältskog

Glossy. Real Time.

I'm late to report, but I wanted to congratulate my former student Shan Turner-Carroll on his recent success, which not only includes the cover of Realtime above, but also the Doctor Harold Schenberg Prize as part of Hatched at PICA earlier in the year worth a cool $35,000. He's not long back from his first trip to Myanmar, the fruits of which we'll no doubt see in a new body of work soon. One to watch.

Roaming. Memorial.

Shootin' Gallery: Beaches. Butterflies. Newcastle