Impromptu

Having played music the last few hours, I thought I’d take a break and browse around the net.. then I thought hey, even through no-one reads this, why not write something!?

Listening: Ballad of a Thin Man (Bob Dylan) live 1966.

Got kept in at lunch to be talked to (our whole level) about a kid who got his head kicked in in an exhibition boxing match between a year 9 and 10 at fed^2… apparently he ended up with brain damage and both of them are expelled, as our dear principal put it, “indefinitely suspended”.. what are they supposed to do? play on their computers the rest of the year while in limbo from our wonderful institution? and there’s our best friend among the authority… she’s big on “the good life” as she calls it, don’t know many times she’s referred back to that initial speech… Needless to say i was late for my rehearsal with people who have little time to wait on their hands. They’re a cool bunch though and after the initial annoyance they showed everything went off sweet and the rest of lunch and double wagged French later I was still hungry. Orchestra was a drag as barely anyone turned up. I missed a test in French… but that’s okay, we’re playing somewhere in Fed Square tomorrow morning, funkin’ it up for an hour or so, and should get out of cross-country, as thrilling as it would be to attend…

With my camera back to its previous and glorious working condition and the fuck ups in my films put down to a shithouse leaky bulk loader I went off to the local primary school where after ignoring this lousy sign: (spot the error)

Armed with a 28mm lens and a awful excuse I continued to make some bad photos.

Back at home, mum was throwing out our old kettle which is very cool.. real pity to see it go – someone will buy it from the oppe shoppe and enjoy it more than us – it’s so very blue… damn electric kettle.

And finally, whipped the camera out before our rehearsal for “new composers music group”.. or new music composer’s group… aka ms essex’ half baked ensemble… not so anymore.

Simon et Ken

Luke, Anthony, Alex et Simon

Anthony

That’s our little group, it is! We play musiic composed by other kids so its a really valuable thing to do and nice to get the music out of Sibelius and under the fingers of real musicians.

Listening to: No Pictures, Please by Rod McKuen

“When ratty faced children smile, they look even rattier.” Following the huge success of my I HEART E B t-shirts.. i’m now printing small batches and one offs of custom t-shirts for people.. if anyone’s interested. Eight dollars is the starting price for a simple design – you supply t-shirt. These blogs are getting longer and longer so to try to justify ranting and crapping on, I leave you with one last picture… a terribly scanned frame of my room, detailing my enourmous speaker stacks.

Hope you’re “all” well.

The Rally

Seeing I’ve had such a bewilderingly enthusiastic start to my first blog with a total of five comments… not too bad really… i’ve decided that this post, seeing as I have no new material to post, I’ll post some photos from my recent photo-escapades; namely my attempted coverage of a “peace” rally… i’m not going to get political as I was just there for the photos.Start with a couple of colour shots. If you watch this blog, presuming it goes on for a little while, you will find that I don’t shoot very much colour. This is because I am poor. Colour has three times as much.. colour as black and white and is roughly three times as expensive. So consider yourself lucky to see the following.

The main protaganist of the “peace” rally was this religious figure, he’s seen here riling up some Arab youths bearing a symbollic coffin. Again, I ask you to make your own judgements about the conflicts in the middle east. The second colour shot is of a woman who I think was a bit stoned, or overwhelmed by it all… she came to write some message in chalk on the steps of parliament and that’s what she was doing in this photo.. Seconds before a pack of wild human beings had just burned an Israeli flag.. this was the so called “money shot” which I missed because of my kindness to my friend Luke… his big expensive camera ate a battery and I lent him mine and missed the shot.

Moving on now we revert to my usual mode of capture, black and white. In case you haven’t noticed, I use film.. not digital, so that’s why black and white is cheaper.. i’m not some digital-black-and-white shooting moron. Having missed the newspaper shot I now realise that all was not lost in the day, as despite my failing cameras and depleted film stock I did get some shots that I consider to be fairly respectable.

The rally began at the State Library (this is in Melbourne, if you happen to be reading this and overseas…) and I spent a fair amount of time (the best part of an hour and a half) wandering around taking photo of people. If you’re interested in street style photography, protests are excellent because people expect to have their photos taken and don’t really object to a lens in their face. The shots that follow are all from this stagnant part of the rally where firey speakers yelled through overblown loudspeakers. Interesting what they had to say too… but…

One of the more colourful characters of the rally and one that kept it moving, this amazing looking man plays a drum. stop

This is one my favourites, over the shoulder of this girl/woman as she lit up her cigarette… I was standing next to her shoulder, thus the cool angle.

Interesting mix of people at this type of thing…

And one of my favourites from the day…

I hope those of you who haven’t seen my DeviantArt enjoyed that… now I leave you with my most recent photo… a very ordinary one at that, but symbolic… was taken with my new wide-angle lens and new Tri-x bulk roll of film. Shot, not even from the hip, but from the thigh. Hopefully this finds you, my hopefully growing bunch of readers well, William.

 

Welcome to My Life

This is indeed my very first blog. I am William. My hobbies and interests include photography and music along with any other teenage boy things you care to associate with me, I don’t care. I am not an emo, or a tryhard or an indie kid and I don’t like heavy metal. I listen to Bob Dylan and classical music. That is possibly the biggest generalisation ever made as my musical tastes extend into the far reaches of the universe of music.

This weblog will be taken up with my life as I choose to express it. It will discuss things that are important to me, perhaps that I want to straighten out for myself by writing them down. My life is very good though, so don’t expect a whole lot of angst, we’re not being bombed at present.

Seeing my life is centered around photography, this thing, if it ever develops into one like that of certain favourite photographers of mine, will be mainly oriented around the photos.
Thus the first one and probably the only in this particular stream of crap will be of my cameras, just so you people who are into looking at cameras and not through them can have your fun.

From left to right they are my Canon AE-1 program with 28mm 2.8 attached, a 50mm 1.4 next to it… then my Canon EOS10 with piece of shit zoom lens attached and finally, sitting on a tin of Tri-x is the Voigtlander Vitoret R with Lanthar 50 2.8. I think I will leave it at that for now and try to post a bit at a time until I get some people looking around here… hopefully I can give you somethign to be interested in. Thanks for being first in to have a look… Will.