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Wednesday was a crazay busay day!!!
We had a field trip organised for the "architecture and consumer society" class, so we visited the Casino, which was sort of crazy. It was sad to see people at 10 o'clock on pokies all by themselves... wasting their money... anyway, we heard many crazy facts... for example, you have to be able to see a clock wherever you are standing in the casino so that people won't lose track of time, since some people stay for days and days in a row, without seeing daylight...
After that, we visited the Powerhouse Museum, which was interesting. I had never been there so that was a good occasion, and the guy who gave us a talk and a tour was pretty interesting. He's the guy in charge of designing all the ehibits for the museum, it was really good.
After the visits, I invited Charmaine and fff to come with me to a photo exhbition opening in Paddington, at the Stills Gallery, where my current photo teacher also works.
The opening was pretty good, and some photos were really beautiful but the prices were equally impressive... well, I guess not so much if you have an extra 5000 dollars floating around with no purpose in your wallet....
After all that, I was exhausted, partly because of the interesting Sydney bus system... let me explain, you can take about 500 buses if you are going to circular quay, 300 for central and about 1456 to Bondi Junction, but when your destination is somewhere else, then you walk because approximately 0 buses go there..... so I walked and we walked and I walked again, all day long... with uncomfortable shoes giving me blisters... it was great!!
Yesterday (thursday), I went to another opening night, at the Blenders gallery this time, and it was great!!!!!!!! the exhibition was called the "body confessional" and it was exciting because the photographer had done precisely what I tought of doing a few weeks ago... The idea is basically to ask people to chose the part of their body they would like to have photographed and explain why. The thing that was interesting about it is the variety of reasons to picking a particular area. It went from basic reasons like the favourite part, to much more sensitive reasons like a family ressemblance, or a part they didn't like, or parts that people gave some kind of almost spiritual meaning to... etc.... It was good, and it confirmed that my idea wasn't that bad at all, and much more interesting than I had actually imagined when I had thought of it.
The other cool thing that happened last night, is that when I went to get some cake for Tina and me, (tina came along too), I put all my courage together and introduced myself to the photographer, Paul Mallam, who was the one cutting his own b-day cake and explained that i was getting into photography and told him that I had thought of doing the exact same thing a few weeks ago and so that i was really happy to be there because it proved that it was a good idea afterall, and that seeing it done showed me how much potential a simple idea like that did have...bla bla bla.... anyway, he was really nice and asked me questions about what I was doing, and how i thought of doing that too etc etc.... and the conversation concluded by exchanging our names, shaking hands and him telling me "well, you should really do it and contact me because i would really like to see your work" and me going "hiihihihii, thank you, hihihihi" (dork) but smiling broadly, I left and kept smiling!!!!!!!!
yesterday was also Christo's b-day so happy birthday again my little angel, I love you and we will be able to celebrate very shortly!!!! the man will be back tomorrow morning!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!!!!!!!!
Caz' blog has been updated too, she's going fine and is still in Argentina having a wonderful time!!