tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119328842012-01-28T08:44:27.380+11:00swaggiestravels here and thereswaggiesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-24555304514859098212012-02-05T09:08:00.000+11:002012-01-28T08:44:27.396+11:00Lorne: Kabbindi Exhibition
Yam people –ochre & acrylic on paper [ Kabbindi website ]
Solo Exhibition, February 5th 2012
Qdos Gallery Lorne Victoria.
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-18988451252520552652012-01-28T07:55:00.001+11:002012-01-28T08:43:14.650+11:00The Ballad Singer - 1841
The Ballad Singer - William Henry Hunt 1841 Aberdeen Art Gallery
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-76719003625231675052012-01-25T15:24:00.001+11:002012-01-25T15:24:54.455+11:00Greece: Financial Vultures circlingCostas Lapavitsas guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 January 2012
Negotiations to reduce Greek debt have been suspended after no agreement could be reached last week. At some point in the near future Greece seems certain to default on its obligations. But the drama surrounding the talks in Athens, Berlin and Paris shows that there will be nothing co-operative about Greek default. It is a ruthless contestswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-65294866069234941302012-01-19T17:45:00.000+11:002012-01-19T17:45:22.972+11:00Katoomba: Red sky at night ...
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-41302093635830624382012-01-07T16:54:00.001+11:002012-01-07T17:39:35.145+11:00Kirk Douglas on Dalton TrumboNew York Times : December 28, 2011
To the Editor:
It was with great pleasure that I read “Trumbo Gets His Due for ‘Roman Holiday’ ” (ArtsBeat, Dec. 21). Although it has been said that justice delayed is justice denied, in this case that maxim does not apply.
Dalton Trumbo was my friend and one of the finest screenwriters of the 20th century. He told me that because he was blacklisted, he swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-52181094555407482992012-01-02T22:19:00.000+11:002012-01-02T23:04:27.176+11:00more roundup
kapitan sauce !
patonga
thali in newtown
masala dosa
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-10226600846799408412012-01-02T21:28:00.001+11:002012-01-02T21:28:38.917+11:00Roundup
xmas veggies
the heads
garden island
north head
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-66532590333619380642012-01-02T14:52:00.000+11:002012-01-02T14:54:29.365+11:00Woody Guthrie 01 Jan 1942
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-80336367487383126542011-12-25T10:29:00.000+11:002011-12-25T10:29:30.807+11:00merry christmas and happy new year
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-20690242941282787102011-12-23T20:56:00.000+11:002011-12-23T20:57:26.795+11:00The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League 1936-1951
Marvin E. Newman's “Halloween, South Side,” from 1951
One of many artistic casualties of the McCarthy-era blacklists was the Photo League, a New York school and salon for amateur and professional photographers. Progressive in its politics and uncompromising in its aesthetics, the league was the place to be if you had a hand-held 35-millimeter camera and a left-leaning social conscience — and swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-79303427567702597662011-12-23T08:04:00.000+11:002011-12-23T08:05:12.331+11:00SMH 23 December 2011
Thuso Lekwape has always been bold.
As a four-year-old in Johannesburg, he knocked on the door of Australian journalists Sharon Davis and Geoff Parish and asked, ''Can I come in?''
In drama classes at International Grammar School in Ultimo, he was ''always willing to take risks'', his head of drama, Rita Morabito, said.
And at his NIDA audition this month, the institute's acting tutor, swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-69226103545787126292011-12-19T23:24:00.001+11:002011-12-19T23:24:00.799+11:00Melbourne at night
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-55924392839893104222011-12-19T08:57:00.001+11:002011-12-19T18:00:03.884+11:00Melbourne
St Andrew’s Cross Spider --- Argiope keyserlingii
yellow flower
tree flower
yellow door
Melbourne lace
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-13114772688925552882011-12-14T09:27:00.000+11:002011-12-14T09:45:05.942+11:00Hindsight: William CuffayABC Hindsight Tuesday 20 December 2011 2:00PM
William Cuffay in Newgate Gaol 1848
In 1848 William Cuffay, the son of a freed slave, was arrested and transported to Van Diemen's Land by a government fearful of revolution that was sweeping through Europe. Aged 60 Cuffay, a tailor and leader of the London Chartists, was campaigning for the right to vote as part of the first mass working class swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-33367300067383960112011-12-11T14:32:00.000+11:002011-12-14T14:39:05.931+11:00Katoomba
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-2300877779842750822011-11-30T12:44:00.001+11:002011-11-30T12:45:25.901+11:00Sydney Morning Herald today
Sydney Morning Herald 30 November 2011
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-70570796854539185382011-11-22T20:55:00.001+11:002011-11-22T20:55:19.362+11:00
large exhibition of small works ... opens tuesday 29 november 2011
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-15991578134806157272011-11-13T10:16:00.000+11:002011-11-06T19:21:40.043+11:00Deus: Car and Caravan
Friday 2 December 2011 - Deus Cafe - 8pm
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-21288289976939784062011-11-06T19:18:00.002+11:002011-11-06T19:21:00.451+11:00Potts Point
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-86933254011294762202011-10-31T19:09:00.001+11:002011-10-31T19:12:21.083+11:00Katoomba spring
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-4736840881003049052011-10-28T10:08:00.000+11:002011-10-28T10:24:14.332+11:00Katoomba [via graynomad]See http://maarla.blogspot.com/
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-17422332066245906382011-10-26T21:48:00.000+11:002011-11-05T17:46:52.330+11:00Potts Point
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-22440720251273323862011-10-21T09:24:00.001+11:002011-10-21T09:24:34.875+11:00Tango protest
Ismael Ludman and Maria Mondino
On the 14th of April 2011 Ismael Ludman and Maria Mondino two tango dancers from Argentina arrived in Glasgow. They had been invited to give a tango performance and workshops in small venues throughout Scotland something they do all over the world. They were detained by the UK Border Agency and questioned for some hours
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-11434459743077611822011-10-08T23:05:00.002+11:002011-10-08T23:07:29.925+11:00(e)scapes
Evening cityscape from Potts Point
Dinner at Pan Roma
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-71811475588323628432011-10-07T23:19:00.000+11:002011-10-15T18:05:26.172+11:00Artisans in the Gardens 2011
Saturday 8 October to Sunday 16 October at Lion Gate Lodge and its own cottage garden, Mrs Macquaries Road, inside the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. The exhibition is open from 10 am to 4 pm daily. Entry is free. All works are for sale with proceeds going to support the work of the Friends of the Botanic Gardens and the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust.
moreswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-65988157203266813552011-10-06T09:28:00.000+11:002011-10-08T23:20:48.057+11:00Across the Western Suburbs
From Politics in the Pub see http://bmuc.blogspot.com/2011/10/politics-in-pub-humphrey-mcqueen.htmlswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-52381785557531227682011-10-05T23:49:00.002+11:002011-10-05T23:51:57.979+11:00antenna: international documentary film festival
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-37033175572321393232011-10-02T21:03:00.000+11:002011-10-02T21:08:38.729+11:00Opera House: Slavoj Žižek -Demand the Impossible
In the late 90's, political theorists, economists and politicians were talking confidently about the end of history and the undisputed triumph of liberal "democratic" capitalism. Communism was written off as dead and buried. But after 9/11, the GFC, the Arab Spring, and the protests spreading over Europe, the ideological gloss of capitalism may be beginning to fade. If the alternative is swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-16505295666048251552011-10-01T10:51:00.000+10:002011-10-02T21:10:37.683+11:00Mike Daisy ay Opera HouseThe dark side of Apple: one man's monologue of misery:
His gripping monologue has made Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak cry and forced the company's new chief executive into a strident defence of Apple's supply chain, but now Mike Daisey has a message for Australian Apple fans: open your eyes.
For the past 15 months or so Daisey been touring the world stunning audiences with his two-hour tale swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-86822400477790211202011-09-22T22:38:00.000+10:002011-09-22T22:39:06.628+10:00Hanoi: Wilfred Burchett CentenarySydney Morning Herald 22 September 2011
Wilfred Burchett and Ho Chi Minh
VIETNAM'S communist leaders have rolled out the red carpet to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wilfred Burchett, the controversial Australian war correspondent who was branded a traitor.
President Truong Tan Sang feted members of Mr Burchett's family in the presidential palace in the lead-up to an exhibition ofswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-22503210503262952692011-09-08T16:27:00.000+10:002011-09-08T20:45:56.145+10:00Sydney: Brecht - Weill: The Threepenny Opera
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-90061949847551026842011-09-06T22:36:00.000+10:002011-09-06T22:48:22.331+10:00Bernard Smith 1916 - 2011
Bernard William Smith
And so we come to the present unafraid
Having learned the lessons of Eureka;
For history is always man, man and a stockade
And a clear cut reason for resistance.
It is not our intention now to cease
The struggle. Our first comrades fell
At the federation wall of Pere Lachaise,
With a song for the lips of the future.
We have no gods or prophets – all we ask
Is the swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-89144638002302097722011-09-05T22:08:00.003+10:002011-09-05T22:09:30.135+10:00Joe Hill: the man who never died
Westword: What inspired your interest in Joe Hill?
William M. Adler: I was reading Bob Dylan's memoir shortly after it came out in 2005, and he devotes three pages where he talks about Joe Hill's influence on Woody Guthrie. He said that if Hill was a forerunner of Woody Guthrie's, that's all he needed to know. But I needed to know a bit more. I was also attracted to the whodunit nature ofswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-22256106489924584962011-09-05T20:04:00.000+10:002011-09-05T20:06:32.645+10:00Mid-day walk
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-47641752575301657552011-09-04T17:59:00.004+10:002011-09-04T18:00:29.016+10:00lost chook
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-41735208116407864282011-08-29T12:26:00.004+10:002011-08-29T12:33:45.229+10:00Sydney: out and about
Ticket of Leave
Malaya: taster
Kapitan prawns
Kwai du
Eggplant and chilli
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-83953520262643656182011-08-27T13:25:00.003+10:002011-08-27T13:51:57.059+10:00Elliott Johnston QC: 1918 - 2011Former South Australian Supreme Court judge Elliott Johnston QC has died.
Among his many achievements was heading the royal commission on black deaths in custody.
He became its lead commissioner after Jim Muirhead resigned and delivered the inquiry's report in 1991, detailing more than 300 recommendations to improve the lives of Aboriginal Australians.
Colleagues said during his long legal swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-11042931571154935372011-08-26T19:09:00.000+10:002011-08-26T19:14:57.700+10:00Woody Guthrie 100
Woody Guthrie Centennial - 2012
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-22744983531690465572011-08-21T17:50:00.002+10:002011-08-21T17:55:17.101+10:00Sydney: Built environment
Seagulls and Coke
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-63729454137716907112011-08-14T15:09:00.001+10:002011-08-14T15:10:42.011+10:00Sydney: Botanic Gardens
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-70408080554739468972011-08-09T13:47:00.006+10:002011-08-09T14:09:35.937+10:00Plein madness
Plein air painter Jane Bennett
For 30 years, Jane Bennett has painted Sydney's changing urban landscape, lugging her easel and canvas to big industrial sites from Woolloomooloo to White Bay to record the city's history.
Rain or shine, she paints en plein air, or outdoors, and was expecting to do just that when appointed the inaugural artist in residence for Artfiles, a group involved in a swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-4927515396085911402011-08-05T03:00:00.000+10:002011-08-27T07:34:12.803+10:00Frank the Poet concert Illawarra Folk Club
Russell Hannah, John Broomhall, Bob Campbell, Mark Gregory, Alan Musgrave, Bob McInnes
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-29192604988285920702011-08-04T13:22:00.007+10:002011-08-04T13:28:33.610+10:00cross eyes
Toby's machiato
Manning St
Ancient water
McElhone park
magnolia
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-18236956096360858752011-08-03T22:58:00.002+10:002011-08-03T23:05:02.516+10:00Kings Cross 1950
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-20867574244637967242011-08-03T22:04:00.001+10:002011-08-03T22:04:41.704+10:00Bridge from Potts Point
The Bridge from Potts Point - Sydney Ure Smith 1937
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-48914506200051121922011-07-31T10:06:00.001+10:002011-07-31T12:18:36.940+10:00The Isle of Denial: William Cuffay in Van Diemen's Land
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2011/3275929.htmswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-58168676778472585472011-07-29T14:11:00.004+10:002011-07-29T16:30:50.715+10:00trees in winter 2
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-34448417515402297742011-07-25T20:39:00.002+10:002011-07-25T21:10:54.830+10:00Murakami Haruki on Fukushima
Japanese author Murakami Haruki put the Fukushima nuclear disaster into perspective on June 9th in a brilliant speech in Barcelona in acceptance of the International Catalunya Prize.
He linked the nuclear disaster in Fukushima with the holocaust caused by the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945. The people of Japan are beginning to see the fallout of 1945 andswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-31668112943828110012011-07-25T19:41:00.003+10:002011-07-25T19:43:46.640+10:00Hiroshima Day Sydney 2011 - 6 August
www.hiroshimacommittee.org
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-84943104598427068792011-07-25T12:27:00.000+10:002011-07-25T12:27:21.335+10:00trees in window
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-17565158367977254042011-07-18T12:35:00.000+10:002011-07-25T12:35:58.101+10:00Cadel Evans - Tour de France 2011
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-29545234328237450882011-07-15T12:11:00.002+10:002011-07-15T12:11:47.481+10:00Never Buy the SunA Song by Billy Bragg©Billy Bragg 2011
Never Buy the Sun, was written in the wake of the News of the World hacking scandal. It also refers to the Sun's sales in Liverpool, which never recovered after its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster
Bragg, who is appearing at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Trade Union Festival in Dorset on Sunday 17th July, said "Over the past few years, any swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-79092654289367231092011-07-14T19:11:00.002+10:002011-07-14T19:21:44.400+10:00Bastille Day
Paris 1789: Liberty - Fraternity - Equality
popular demands –– by popular revolt
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-2566961288663162632011-07-11T22:26:00.001+10:002011-07-11T22:27:28.303+10:00Facundo Cabral: 1937 – 2011
Argentine singer-songwriter who was one of the most eloquent voices of protest against military dictatorships in Latin America from the 1970s onward, died on Saturday, shot to death while on tour in Guatemala. He was 74 and lived in Buenos Aires.
The death of Mr. Cabral, who in 1996 was designated a “worldwide messenger of peace” by the United Nations, caused consternation throughout the swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-90039302750839701842011-07-10T19:18:00.004+10:002011-07-10T19:18:57.914+10:00Looking out ...
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-38662659268667868962011-07-08T17:13:00.003+10:002011-07-08T17:23:13.809+10:00Victoria St. Hop Scotch
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-78304884863752028642011-06-24T17:34:00.002+10:002011-06-24T20:18:45.330+10:00Mike Waterson 16/01/1941 – 22/06/2011
Guardian: Mike Waterson obituary
Remembering Mike Waterson, a born storytellerswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-10418614385176791862011-06-23T19:05:00.001+10:002011-06-23T19:08:32.128+10:00Ai Weiwei released on bailOutspoken Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei is released by government authorities after nearly three months of detainment.
Ai is among China's most internationally known artists and had a hand in designing Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium before souring on the event. His fame has soared in recent years, both for his groundbreaking art and his bold irreverence toward authority.
Ai's swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-85788471164924415772011-06-22T21:20:00.002+10:002011-06-22T21:20:49.075+10:00Green Bans: 40 years on
Kelly's Bush: First Green Ban 16 June 1981
In 1971 a group of women in the leafy northern Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill were battling to protect a piece of urban bushland, Kelly's Bush.
They had exhausted all available avenues and as a last resort turned to the unions for help.
Last Thursday marked the 40th anniversary to the day of the placing of the first 'Green Ban' on June 16, 1971.
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-34329790991829110082011-06-20T08:12:00.000+10:002011-06-20T08:33:56.984+10:00Ethel and JuliusPablo Picasso: Ethel and Julius RosenbergNobel prize-winner, Jean-Paul Sartre, called the case "a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation".Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg remained on death row for twenty-six months. They both refused to confess and provide evidence against others and they were eventually executed on 19th June, 1953. As one political commentator pointed out, swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-71827440422118958352011-06-19T22:15:00.004+10:002011-06-19T22:31:02.593+10:00Brian Haw: 7/01/1949 – 18/06/2011 rest in PEACEBrian HawBrian showed great determination and courage during the many long hard years he led his Peace Campaign in Parliament Square, during which it is well documented that he was relentlessly persecuted by the authorities which eventually took its toll on his health.Brian showed the same courage and determination in his battle with cancer. He was keenly aware of and deeply concerned that so swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-2933853419548677692011-05-12T14:10:00.001+10:002011-05-14T22:00:57.208+10:00Patrick Galvin 1927-2011Patrick Galvin podcastsswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-45571712316583078882011-05-09T18:32:00.002+10:002011-05-10T07:15:59.857+10:00getting colder ...swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-63206091618399123102011-04-26T15:19:00.000+10:002011-04-26T15:19:04.690+10:00Autumn
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-51582882652977542192011-04-26T15:13:00.002+10:002011-04-26T15:14:38.123+10:00Possum!
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-32586601564307710732011-04-24T11:22:00.007+10:002011-04-24T11:36:49.320+10:00Hazel Dickens: 1935 - 2011Hazel Dickens: 1 June 1 1935 - 22 April 2011
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-39362491798973717662011-04-23T11:32:00.000+10:002011-04-23T11:32:19.889+10:00Tim Hetherington: 1970-2011
Acclaimed photojournalist who had covered conflicts in Kosovo and Afghanistan, Tim Hetherington co-created the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo and won a host of prestigious awards.
See Human Rights Watch tribute
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/04/20/tribute-tim-hetheringtonswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-36027506278894499892011-04-22T12:24:00.002+10:002011-04-22T12:26:16.397+10:00Neilson book coverswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-91185656393998306372011-04-16T18:09:00.000+10:002011-04-16T18:09:04.246+10:00the wheel's still in spin ...
William Morris quoting John Ball (1381)
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-47719677478436119292011-04-12T09:55:00.001+10:002011-04-11T22:03:24.909+10:0050 years: First Space Traveller
Yuri Gagarin | Ю́рий Гага́рин
Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-25196432158878288102011-04-09T19:08:00.005+10:002011-04-09T19:27:08.330+10:00Tony Barrell 1940 – 2011Tony produced several award-winning radio and television documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC World Service, usually with a focus on Asia and particularly Japan.
He was working with his wife on a DVD film about their many visits to Molivos, Lesbos and a book on the same subject. He retired from full-time employment with the ABC in May 2008, and had hoped to swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-41809186907506282472011-04-03T09:17:00.002+10:002011-04-03T16:37:12.717+10:00The Shed
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-4892999379992710992011-03-26T08:26:00.004+11:002011-04-03T16:39:11.024+10:00TOOT for the Future!
‘TOOT for the Future’ Music/Video
In the run up to the State Government elections, with the intention of showing the community support for the return of train services to the Casino-Murwillumbah rail line, a music video project, ‘TOOT for the Future’ was created.
In February the song was recorded by Garth Kindred and the ‘TOOTERS’ at Old Dog Studios Corndale and on March 10th & 12th a video swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-20651547429019070252011-03-23T22:48:00.001+11:002011-03-23T22:50:18.514+11:00Daphne Oram: music synthesizer 1957Oramics from Nick Street on Vimeo.
Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a sound effects and music studio established in the 1950s that had a vast influence on electronic music and synthesizer technology. At the BBC and after, Oram developed an incredible new kind of sound synthesis technology, called Oramics. The video above offers a swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-5926322629997342022011-03-14T11:05:00.000+11:002011-03-14T11:05:10.086+11:00Patonga
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-50375983622445948222011-03-11T16:36:00.002+11:002011-03-11T16:36:33.203+11:00We Can't Afford to Save the PlanetA song by Kevin McCarthy©Kevin McCarthy 2010
Kevin writes:
'With the climate change debate reaching boiling point (again), I've enclosed a demo of my song We Can't Afford to Save the Planet, sung by myself and Darwin schoolgirl Luci Susanto Although written a year ago, it could be described as the School Kit edition of Tony Abbott's Climate Change Policy'
More songs at unionsong.comswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-5526916697508159352011-03-10T14:16:00.000+11:002011-03-10T14:16:46.327+11:00tea cupsswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-22798823332099190212011-03-08T17:34:00.001+11:002011-03-08T17:35:38.122+11:00Koala
Koala: near the Kennett River midway between Lorna and Apollo Bay
courtesy Alan Gray
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-83713210576428607592011-03-08T08:23:00.000+11:002011-03-08T08:23:30.084+11:00international Women's Day Centenary - 8 March
www.internationalwomensday.org.au
The first International Women’s Day rallies were held in March 1911, inciting what would become a world-wide movement to champion the cause of equality for women.
“The centenary of International Women’s Day is an opportunity for us to celebrate the extraordinary women who have broken down so many barriers throughout the last 100 years,” Kate Ellis MP said.
“swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-2612254807361772252011-03-07T17:13:00.002+11:002011-03-07T17:13:56.103+11:00Thanks to Wisconsin Senators!swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-80974421276431332062011-03-02T10:27:00.006+11:002011-03-02T10:42:09.198+11:00Robeson at Opera House!During his world tour Paul Robeson gave an impromptu concert in Sydney. Invited by the Building Workers Industrial Union (BWIU) Robeson is visiting the construction site of the Opera House. There he is under that magnificent roof long before its beautiful bare arched concrete ribs were lost to view. Sydney November 1960.
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-47781494894896163432011-02-27T13:00:00.002+11:002011-02-27T13:00:35.284+11:00Wisconsin: 100,000 Strong!
On a snowy Wisconsin Saturday over 100,000 union members, working families, community members, faith leaders, activist groups and concerned citizens gathered in Madison to tell Gov. Walker to stop the attacks on the middle class and kill the bill.
Despite the weather today’s rally was the biggest in the thirteen days of protests. The people of Wisconsin will continue to fight for their swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-87133533772464774592011-02-18T18:15:00.003+11:002011-02-18T18:17:26.116+11:00Japan's whaling ships should never leave portFriday, 18 February, 2011
Greenpeace is demanding that Japan's Government finally end its commercial whaling programme and re-open an investigation into corruption scandals inside the industry, following today's announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries that it has recalled its Antarctic whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean, marking the fleet's shortest ever season.
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-67463095699721433822011-02-15T14:28:00.003+11:002011-02-16T12:16:52.369+11:00Pete Seeger wins GrammyMonday, February 14, 2011
Folk legend and Beacon resident Pete Seeger along with Beacon schoolchildren won a Grammy Award tonight.
The album "Tomorrow's Children" by the 91-year-old Seeger with The Rivertown Kids and produced by Appleseed Records, won in the Best Musical Album For Children category.
According to the record label, "When Beacon fourth-grade teacher Tery Udell invited Clearwater swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-18901462674953405282011-02-13T16:45:00.004+11:002011-02-16T12:18:58.339+11:00foggy blue mountains
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-60185549412190890242011-02-09T14:32:00.000+11:002011-02-09T14:32:11.312+11:00Darwin's Walk
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-42040803353423482542011-02-08T20:05:00.000+11:002011-02-08T20:05:15.949+11:00Sofala - Hill End - Mudgee
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-74465023088832599762011-02-07T17:24:00.000+11:002011-02-08T19:28:44.750+11:00Sydney by ferry
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-8876713777499373832011-02-07T11:45:00.001+11:002011-02-08T08:15:46.315+11:00Sydney
Annie Leibovitz Museum of Contemporary Art
Annie Leibovitz in Paris (Martin Schoeller 1997)
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-51252010468301520202011-02-04T13:58:00.000+11:002011-02-04T13:58:37.813+11:00Tulley
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-2743684886297722842011-02-04T11:07:00.000+11:002011-02-04T11:07:30.859+11:00Year of the Rabbit 2011
Year of the Rabbit 2011
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-72083159596062460992011-02-02T19:43:00.000+11:002011-02-02T19:43:20.706+11:00Queensland: Tropical Cyclone Yasi
JMA MT-SAT
Queensland Satellite Notes
Swirling cloud moving over northeast QLD is Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi bringing areas of heavy rain and destructive winds. Thick cloud about the west in a trough, is causing widespread storms. Patchy cloud in the south in another trough, is generating isolated storms.swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-47446510696042554262011-02-01T21:30:00.001+11:002011-02-02T19:44:13.095+11:00Up the garden path
Goanna
purple 'panthers
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-17447808996265365332011-01-29T14:54:00.000+11:002011-01-29T14:54:28.008+11:00Steel house updateswaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-18088170371297059812011-01-29T14:52:00.001+11:002011-01-29T14:53:01.347+11:00Orb weaver
click to enlarge
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-29026988888638311122011-01-13T15:02:00.000+11:002011-01-13T15:02:33.142+11:00Hobart
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-19381147469861064582011-01-13T07:42:00.002+11:002011-01-13T07:42:44.238+11:00Catch the Green Music Train!
All Aboard! 2011 Green Music Train Sat 15 Jan Sun 16 Jan
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-69416732316736765012011-01-01T20:24:00.001+11:002011-01-02T13:30:07.261+11:00New Year Clouds
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-56241122654476534182010-12-27T10:37:00.003+11:002010-12-27T10:41:56.084+11:00foggy morning
swaggiesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-36942455426160564052010-12-26T15:33:00.000+11:002010-12-27T10:38:52.121+11:00... feast 2
the bombe
the second slice
the grilled prawn
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