polaroid alphabet

i have been asked to be in a group polaroid show, based on my drunken polaroid's on facebook. but rather then exhibit those schnapps, and surely piss everyone off by doing so i have decided to do a mini project that i have been wanting to do for some time. so this week i am wandering around with my 600 polaroid camera and photographing the alphabet from signs and shapes in the sydney environment. i have done 5 in one day, so i am off to a good start. i want to look for the more abstract lettering in thing, like in a staircase for a Z etc etc, but it is quite hard!
anyway the show is next week at the ma galleries in chippendale, so come buy a letter, or a vowel.

slurry of the hills

fav moment in time

this is sofia and her neighbours cat
i met the cat while wandering through a back alley in Arles, in the south of France. the cat was cute as, i sat and chatted to him for a long time then this lady came round the corner, speaking to me in french. i just smiled and she beckoned me to follow her. she lead me into her house where she sat and talked to me in broken french and gave me a cup of tea. simple yet wonderful.

man 'o man

so i need to clean up my act so to speak.
this is how i work.... and i dont even want to throw up a shot of my desk space. i have the notebook full to the brim of ideas but i push them around for yonkers until i finally sit down and then i get all anxiety-ish about working on them. mission for this week, do 3 new designs, do hanleys business cards, quit markets (this one may not happen), start planning to go overseas again AND play more Harmonic 33.... seriously how good is this guy??!?!!!!!!

an idea......

schnapp me happy

ok someone schanpp me happy plesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssse. why do i always do the same thing 2.5 years in rotation? you think i would honestly learn but i dont.
buggers.
all i want to do at the moment is go and get all happy snappy with my favorite camera in the entire world. my trusty f80 nikon with a 16-35mm thrown on the front. no flash, F8, 1/60th given we have some ok weather here in sydney. i had a chat to my ma today and we said that 3 years ago to the day (given to those who knew me 3 years ago i was a totally different person) i would never leave this camera at home. i would change bags, change outfits, changes shoes to take my best mate out with me. and now i look at him, wrapped in a plastic bag, no lens on (man he must feel naked!), sitting on a shelf full of other cameras that i never have used. given that i own like 30+ cameras, this is a bad thing.
i also went to see world press photo today at the state library. i got all depressed. that is my utter dream, to be in some war torn country, taking images that change one persons opinion about that conflict or issue. i really wish i got on that plane 4 years ago and did what i wanted to do. i so have to start taking chances and living life, stop wasting time worrying about trivial shiz that in 2 months wont matter.

so this is it.
i want to do photo essays and design each to their own book.
i want to deal with issues that matter to me on a daily basis.
i want to start showing my work again.
i want to publish my dream book (in the think tank for at least 8 years mind you....)
i want my gallery idea to start happening