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Endeaver Park on a beautiful afternoon.

Akina goodies!

Its a thing of beauty watching a live telecast of the NASA Return to Flight launch. They had about 100 live cameras all mounted around the shuttle feeding back live images of the fuel tank separation with the earth in the background.

Siv’s birthday dinner at Cinta Ria in Darling Harbour, the food was okay, the company was great.

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Moving to the new space, 10am till 6am the following day.

Lang’s new endeaver. Akina is a villian with a button fetish. She adds to her growing collection by hacking up cute teddy bears to steal their button eyes.

In April 1975, in the closing days of the Vietnam War, more than 3000 babies were airlifted from Saigon orphanages and delivered into arms of waiting couples in the US, Canada, Britain, Europe and Australia. It was the largest act of adoption in history.

Went to see a friends new documentary, Operation Babylift tonight at the Chauvel cinema (Oxford Street, Paddington). I’ve heard and had a few misconceptions about the term “Babylift”, one being that it happened on a roof top of the US embassy during the final hours of the war when the US were evacuating people out of Saigon. Operation Babylift really started in early April with the help of a Hercules carriers and Boeing planes. Watching the documentary, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of connection with the grown up children who went back to Vietnam to find their birth mothers and what it feels like to finally meet them.

Operation Babylift, Written and Directed by Dai Le is scheduled to go to air on SBS TV on July 28th, at 8:30pm.

Saw Lior at the Metro last night with Haline and Sivear. First time I’ve been in the Metro, great venue. Compared to the last time we saw Lior at the Fairfield RSL, he rocked hard this time, less intimate and more energy with a band and a violin/cello string section to back him up.

The moment of the night would have to be the first encore, he mentioned the London bombing and did a haunting pray in arabic before unleashing a rock angst song of despair about his middle eastern home of birth.

I have much respect for Lior and his music now.

Brad Pitt as Vincent van Gogh?

“It seems there was Neville Brody, and then I came along, and the next thing doesn’t seem to have happened… it will, its inevitable, but I never thought there would be this big a gap.“

David Carson’s comments in this Hillman Curtis video special is debatable and can be taken as arrogance, but he might be right, I can’t name anyone right now in graphic design that has made the same impact like he did for a long time now.

I’ll admit he was a big influence during my college days and I have done a few designs inpired by his breaking up of type. I also have his book Photographiks, which also inpired my random shoot from the hip imperfect picture taking.

So, I don’t think anyone has influenced me in the past half decade like David Carson.