A new friend said to me today, “comfortable is when I can buy bread and toilet-paper in the same week.” That’s going to stay with me for a while.
Archive for September, 2007
Comfortable
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Speaking of starting a revolution…
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Over at MorePraxis, we’ve started a generous revolution. Based on the giggle we had with Billy Bragg’s song, we are leading a t-shirt based revolution of generosity. Go here to be a part of it.
The revolution is just a t-shirt away
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007So, in an act of self-referential subversion, I have put these words from Billy Bragg on a t-shirt, hoping to kick off a revolution. Its the start of something cool – stay tuned for more on that later… Buy the t-shirt here. (Yes, its sweat-shop free.)
Facebook for artists (?)
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007I hesitate to claim the moniker “artist” as such, but Red Bubble is a neat way for me to put up a few pics and flog them off as cards or prints. Check it out – redbubble.com/people/rfbfmike for my profile, or redbubble.com for everyone else!!
A few of my favourite photographs
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Well, I’ve managed to cut it back to just 280 of my favourites. See them at this gallery site.
You’ll see quite a few of Billy Bragg, Duke Special, and Soweto Kinch. They were my musical highlights at Greenbelt, that’s for sure. You might also wonder why there are so few photographs taken with the people we met post-greenbelt. My brief to myself was not to take photographs of what was happening, but to photograph the context in which they happened. I wandered away from this at Greenbelt, but that’s ok… it was vast and overwhelming! There’s also a few gratuitous tourist photos. Ah well, so much for the brief…
Feel free to contact me if there’s an image you’d like, or, for fellow travellers, if you’d like a complete CD.
Belfast
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007It seems odd writing this from home now, but of all the stunning places we went, I think Belfast had me at hello. I know, I know. Don’t rush headlong into a relationship with a city you’ve just met! Nonetheless, I think I could spend some quality time getting to know Belfast.
It’s not the fields and kangaroos I’m used to, to be sure, but theres an industrial beauty to it.
The Duke of York. Great company made for an excellent night out! Not to mention the pissed Irishman hitting on my Australian travelling friends and buying us all drinks!
My cab drivers on the “political tour” of Belfast. Unashamedly biased, but decently even-handed. A political tour in Canberra earlier this year amounted to a walk through the houses of parliament. Totally different understanding of politics.
Mural detail from the Protestant side of the fence.
Belfast city centre – as vibrant as any, with new developments springing up. Of course, there are difficulties with any re-birth of a city, and some small snippets were revealed to us. Tourism is huge, too.