Just a little update since I’ve been rather quiet lately. The days have more and more rapidly been flying past until I head off to Amsterdam via New York on my birthday, the 26th of August. Typical luck spending my birthday stuck on a plane; here’s hoping that my travelling companion, Kat, will buy me a cake in the airport or something :) It’ll be the first time I’ve lived out of Australia for an extended period of time (not travelling) and the preperations are taking a lot more out of my schedule than I expected. I’m mostly sorted now with visas and relevant paperwork in hand, though there’s still a lot of work (projects, orange stuff) to get through before I leave.

I’m still glowing with happiness today after seeing one of my favourite musicians, Tujiko Noriko, perform last night during her brief stay in Sydney. I’ve been indulging in her wonderfully interesting, delicate, subtle yet experimental ‘avant-pop’ music for a few years now, but have been chronically annoyed after finding out I missed her show the first time she visited Sydney last year for the “What is Music?” festival. She’s been described as Japan’s answer to Björk, but that doesn’t do her justice. As much as I like Björk, Noriko’s far too individual and credible in her own right to have to live under that shadow.

On the way back from the Orange pre-production workshop in Amsterdam, I spent three nights in Tokyo and enjoyed it immensely. I’ve now finished processing, scanning, and uploading a bunch of photos that I took while wandering around.

It was nice to experiment with various medium format films in the seagull since I have very little experience with them. I went through a roll each of colour 800 negative, black and white 3200 negative, colour 400 slide, and black and white 100 negative film. Very fun!