Well, not really, but most of my friends think I am. I first joined the ranks of the twitterers over a year ago after catching word of this new Ruby on Rails application going live and having signup options. As part of a crowd of early adopters of technology, and interested to see what it was all about, I jumped on board - with my first tweet telling the twitterverse that I was at work occurring on January 17, 2007 at around lunchtime.
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Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock kicks off the band’s set at The Big Top, Luna Park
I picked up the gig shooting Modest Mouse + Hot Hot Heat from Newcastle’s Reverb Street Press after having my shots printed in it from Cypress Hill’s gig at the Enmore Theatre (gig blogged here). Was good to shoot something again as this year has seen very few gigs head my way unfortunately. Caught up with Anthony Yong who was covering the event for 3D World and a girl whose name escapes me from Drum Media. The rest were either new faces I hadn’t met yet or old faces I’ve not seen around the traps.
Personally I thought Modest Mouse was a little flat performance wise. Hot Hot Heat’s lead man Steve Bays had the stage presence that Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock failed to capture. Maybe that is something that can be put down to lighting, but from a band with such a long history I expected more. It must be said that many of the cameras (my own included) focused on former Smith’s guitarist Johnny Marr. All in all I think Hot Hot Heat proved themselves as a great live act while Modest Mouse seemed to be lacking a bit of energy - perhaps to be expected given the age of the members and that they were touring with the V Festival.
Anyhow, more shots after the break or see the full set on flickr.
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While I know this isn’t a picture of ADSL it is a shot of optical fibres, something that I hope makes up at least a portion of the path to the web… (Photo: Creature - CreativeCommons license from Placbo)
As all good geeks who move into a new abode I’m currently going through the fun of organising my web connectivity. Now while I understand that processes take time, I find it amusing how many of the options out there in Australia involve contracts of between twelve and twenty-four months. Twelve is fair enough, as this is a fairly standard lease agreement and fits in, however twenty-four is probably pushing the possibilities there - not to mention the possibility for being stuck with a less-than-adequate connection contract as technology shifts over those two years.
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