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Traces of Entertainment
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Travel on 12/10/2009
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The place we stayed in Newcastle is just across the road from this demolished site. From what I explored, it use to be a complex of: a boxing gym, a pub, a bottle shop and a food shop. It apparently was a background of Marcus Westbury’s interview with State Line and a place for some blokes and pigeons to live in.
Newcastle Doors
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Travel on 11/10/2009
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The major parts of the final project at Cofa have been done so far. Stilgherrian and I decided to spend NSW Labour Day long weekend in Newcastle for lots of reasons:
- To explore This Is Not Art Festival
- To have a look at Renew Newcastle project
- I’m a sucker for urban decay and here is the best to visit (although I should I was a bit too late for it)
- To catch up with Marcus Westbury
- Most of all, just to get away from Sydney for a while
There have been a lot article talking about Renew Newcastle and Stilgherrian has one as well. For my part, I could not think of anything else but transitional phases Newcastle has been going through. Let it shows from its doors.
going-away-and-maybe-not-coming-back-party
This is my small contribution to Project TOTO. I borrow Sony Z1P from COFA to have my hands on during the semester break and bring it to Stilgherrian’s farewell party at our local pub, Kelly’s on King aka Afternoon Office™. Mark Pesce suggests that we should do a vox pop on his big journey and I agree. The hard thing in making this video is I like to enjoy the party as well as run around make people talk to the camera. Later on Stilgherrian has a play with it himself with some cutaway shots until the tape is run out.
Stilgherrian is leaving for Tanzania in just one sleeps. I’m certain that he is psyched up about this project. We are looking forward to the two world meet.
To Tanzania with Love
In the next few days Stilgherrian will be travelling to Tanzania for Action Aid’s TOTO project. It is to set up and teach local officers to make use of social media to communicate to the world. Ideally, he is going to Africa to teach them how to blog their activities.
It has been hyped up on Twitter and bloggersphere for a while. And this could be a study case in many ways. It will be some culture shocks between revolutionary waves, organisations and Stilgherrian’s own struggle.
We are talking about a colonised country that has not been industrialised in this hyperconnected world, a non-government organization exposing and reflecting themselves through social media and a person who only once has been out of his motherland.
Although it is only a week he will be there, this test match has so many layers in it. Hopefully, they will achieve quite an experience working in Tanzania.
Liberty Theatre
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Travel on 05/04/2009
On the trip to Yass, Pia Waugh took us to this Art Deco venue, Liberty Theatre. Her parent bought it to renovate and make it active for the town again. We were also told that this place was often used as a wedding reception. That gave us the impression that it must have been very significant the community.
At the moment a local drama group uses it and the ground floor foyer is converted into a gift shop. Whereas the upper level foyer is the store room and upper seating needs a lot of work to do. The most amazing thing is the control room which has no electricity. The only light source is from the windows which illuminate like stained glass. It is beautiful and creepy at the same time.
It reminded me how the landscape of social entertainment changed. For examples, Thai folk theatres, Likay, are struggling for a living, let alone conserving the craft or old cinemas are abandoned in Southeast Asia. The world seems to be moving on too fast that we neglect to look back.
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