Brisbane 2high Festival 2013

From Saturday's Art immersion with my girl Lana.





Presented by Backbone and Brisbane Powerhouse the 2high Festival 2013 is Australia’s one-of-a-kind multi-arts festival.









Untitled by Illma Gore: A live art installation on a temporary wall with a controversial twist on an art classic.



The festival celebrates art in its myriad forms and the creative process, the next generation of bands, theatre-makers, visual artists, digital artists, film makers and circus performers.







Digital Head Video on my Instagram.

Digital Head by jason haggerty: Absorbs intense streams of data, popular culture, social networks and advertising.





flow[er] by vidhi shah and jeniffer heng: Made completely of recycled materials that responds to movement. flow[er] senses your presence and ‘blossoms'. WATCH flow[er] prototype ">VIDEO.







Stranger than fiction by Caity Reynolds: is a series of small scale painted renderings of text presented as architectural interventions. It focuses primarily on concepts of the absurd and the perpetuation of the bizarre and irrational within everyday experience.



re: medical history by Laura Seeds: revisits medical photographs of the late 1800′s and their elegantly shameless presentation of the afflicted or “freak-show” specimens. The work brings that practice into the present with moving elements designed to catch the audience off guard and draw them closer.



Asylum seeker by Sha Sarwari: His recent work reinterprets found objects, giving them new meaning through a multi-layered poetic narrative. It also comments on social and political issues, such as asylum seeker and refugees.



7bit hero: is a bit-pop band that uses video games, audience interaction and visuals working together like you’ve never seen before. 7bit Hero turns your smartphone into a joystick – you control a character in the multi-player game that is projected behind the band.

World Press Photo 2013

World Press Photo visits Brisbane for the sixth year running at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The exhibition draws talent from professional press photographers, photo-journalists and documentary photographers from around the world. Some of this year's award winning images are strong examples of work by photographers who have taken courageous positions that challenge the simplistic orthodoxy of the mainstream.











Journalism was indeed the word of the day. One shot can capture the heart of a moment. Current issues, social problems and expressions of simple, primal human emotions are being revealed. Through photojournalism, we see the world, we see the truth.




Photo by Wei Seng Chen - Joy at the end of the run


Photo by Nadav Kander - Daniel Kaluuya


Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza - Bullfighter's Comeback



Room draped in black cloth, is set apart for particularly traumatising photos, viewers 15+ only. In there pictures of the slain and mutilated, of widows, of parents burying their children, buildings reduced to ashes. I believe everyone who entered the room, for a moment at least, felt the pain and agony those images wanted to portray, the injustice and the despair of war and broken lives.


The most controversial winning photo by Paul Hansen - Gaza Burial


Photo by Rodrigo Abd - Aida


Photo by Majid Saeedi - Life in War






Photos by Bernat Armangue - Gaza


Photos by Esteban Felix - Pool Hall Attack


Photos by Frederik Buyckx - Pacified Favela

Looking at all the winning images of this year's WPP, it made me wonder. What does it say about what is actually happening in the world? And more specifically, our way of looking at the world and what we think is important to report and reward.



2012, the year that these awards honour, has also been a tragic year for the profession, in loss of life. 89 professional journalists were targeted and killed with an additional 48 citizen journalists adding to the terrible toll that is the highest in the last decade.

Sunday at the Brisbane Powerhouse

It was lovely, to catch up and spend quality time with Lana, this past Sunday at the Brisbane Powerhouse.













Every Sunday from 6:30pm the Powerhouse presents Livewired,free comedy program. In the past we’ve been entertained by the likes of Tripod, Josh Thomas, Wil Anderson, Gina Yashere, The Bedroom Philosopher and Stephen K Amos.





































Some random boys who stopped to say hello. Weird things happen!







And, its all for now. Cheers everybody!