Everyone is getting married! Maurice and VJ, Leo and Denise. Next will be baby showers.

Haline and I went to see John Mayer last week, supporting him was pint sized rocker Ben Kweller, who we also liked so two for the price of one. I got to go see the early sound check, which was cool, he sang two songs and played his guitar a bit. Some images here. View mytube video here

Wahh! Jim Lee Original art. When I was in year 5 I drew the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and sold them to my classmates for 20 cents each…

Two different crowds, two different shows. CA3 and Refill 7 launch.

Fafi painting.

Semi-Permanent 07 images

Sophie Howarth, missed her talk. Toko, great work and sense of humour. Si Scott, great work, but the public speaking skills needs improving or just relax a little. Tiffany Bozic, awesome work and speaker. James Jean, didn’t realise he was Taiwanese and young! wow! Motion Theory, they were boring and kept waffling on and on, the work was awesome though.

Jonathan Zawada, came across as being an honest and down to earth designer, cool work. Mike O’Meally, ripped the audience into a frenzid mob hungry for free gear, didn’t stick around for his talk though. Headed down to the Mori Gallery to check out Audrey Kawasaki do a live painting session, but found Fafi there instead, I wasn’t sure whether I was more dissapointed of happily supprised, Fafi was good anyway. Dave Kinsey, lots of great work, but he skimmed over almost all of them, like, yeh we did this for Apple, it was cool. Nash Edgerton, I like him, first saw his work at Tropfest, He’s come a long way, he showed his recent short “Lucky” and went through how everything was done! “Tony the car seat driver” was genius! One thing he said struck me, “do something creative once a year for yourself”. I will go finish off those two paintings I’ve been meaning to do since last year for myself before 2007 is over. Marmalade, not since 1970 has a D&AD been giving to a magazine for art direcition, thats saying a lot about how good it apparently is. They started much the same way I did, with issue zero and a 1000 copy print run and the aim to showcase upcoming talent. Thats where the similarity ends and they’ve gone over mountains in terms of success whereas KLEFT is still trying to clear that crest. Left before Method Studio came on to go buy some Marmalade mags but the line was long, other people the same idea.

My favourites this year were Tiffany Bozic, James Jean and Nash Edgerton. One thing about all the speakers was that how low fi their presentations were, Powerpoint, Preview, Quicktime, and simple browsing their hard drives for content.

Photos from the recent trip to Japan. 514 from the D80 camera and 60 from the Cybershot T1. The D80 had two prime lens, one was a 50mm and the other was a 20mm wide angle. There isn’t many snow shots with the D80 because it snowed constantly and I was a bit precious with it. I took the T1 out most of the time, since it is now the non favourite “older child” camera. But I dropped it a few times onto concrete at the snows and the LCD display broke, so I was just pointing it with no idea what was being taken.

Matt’s CA3 thing which Haline is a contributor.

Follow up to the My Brand Project Poster is the My Brand Project Book! The brief was to customise the box. Homage to the Coke campaign bursting all over the world right now. Click image to see larger.

Built with 353 giant paper tubes and 166 shipping containers, this museum in Korean is a work of art in itself. Most of the site is in Korean, but watching the construction video and viewing the images is enough to give you a sense of its distinctiveness. I wonder what happens when it rains?

John Mayer is unbelievably sublime, that is all.

My little cousin’s public school had a Happy Rainbow Fete today, she won a competition to come up with that name, I wonder if all year 6 kids think that cute. The highlight for us was the thong throwing contest, I came within a foot of winning a goody bag.

Went to the Legs Eleven benefit concert on Friday night. The Domain is such a nice venue at night. Apart from the cold snap and smoking chimneys, the night was very good, I enjoyed Little Birdy and Bob Evans the most.

Harry’s Cafe De Wheels is now open in Liverpool. Its on the Cumberland Highway near the Office Works. Other fast food outlets in skipping proximity are McDonalds, Kispy Kream and soon, Subway and Oportos. I think its going to get a lot more hoony on Friday and Saturday nights now.

I found out my Grandma passed away after a week of sickness in Vietnam. It been touch and go for the past week and my dad phoned with the news this afternoon. I am devastated and gutted, she meant a lot to me, she raised me on her farm since I was a baby until I was 5 when I left Vietnam. I am glad that I got to see her 3 times as an adult, I am glad that she is no longer suffering. I will cherish the happy tears you shed when I came back to see you for the first time. I love you so very much.