*AusRock87

Good news everybody.

Some of you may be interested to know that i have an exhibition coming up in september. Its a joint exhibition with another talented photographer called stella. Its entitled "Live: A Collection of Music Photography" and will run from the 22nd of sept to the 12th of october.

Many of the works will be familier to you if you have checked out my gallery. All prints will be for sale and i am hoping to have a small launch party as well.

If you didnt know, vivid is happening all in canberra and i have been informed that it is the largest photographic festival in the world so make sure you check out [link] and [link] for details on the festival and my exhibition.


PS..

If anyone knows of any photographers looking for assistants.....lemme know.

Well after the week of death comes the week of sick it would seem, i am so so sick its not funny.

also i have decided that because i am a poor student in need of some cash i am going to start doing prints.

8x12 (a4) $25
larger on request.


send me a note if you are interested.

I cant wait,

27/5 Kisschasy, The Donnas, The Getaway plan
28/5 Faker, Grafton Primary, The Violent Soho
29/5 Cog, Jakob, Kora
31/5 Winter Warehouse music festival


Time to go buy some more No-Doze as there are gonna be some all nighters coming up!

CIT still sucks balls but atleast i have some gigs again

Doors (Now And Then My Life Feels Like It's Going Nowhere)

Ever get the feeling everything is surrounded in bullshit.

"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

Although im not a heroin addict this is a bit how i feel at the moment, thinking more and more about why im doing what im doing, why im studying what im studying and why most importantly none of it seems to be worthwhile, why should i bother spending 3 years of my life and $30,000 or more in a degree that would have been outdated 10 years ago that is taught by someone who has no experiance in what he is teaching in a school that doesnt have enough equipment for even 20% of the students they have enrolled and of that equipment around half of it is unusable.

Seriously considering getting out of this town and doing a degree the hard way, by working from the bottom up.

The joys of possessing a dream that is unachievable.

expect to hear from me this time next month.

is an amazing book, with some amazing stories.

I have alot of awesome gigs coming up soon. including shihad gyroscope and dead letter circus this Thursday and then corinbank the following weekend.

Corinbank is going to be interesting, i have already been looking at the gear i will be taking and i dont know how i am going to fit all the cameras into one bag. While out there i will be taking the usual band shots but also lurking around trying to get some stuff for a folio based on the environment.

I want to shoot ALOT more on film, and mainly medium format, there is a real satisfaction with 120film, so at corinbank besides the usual (LARGE) digital kit i am also going to be carting around my F80 film camera and either a 6x45 or 6x6 system as well as a shitload of film

Im looking for a larger bag already.