Carry the Bags

This outfit was on Oprah’s favourite things for this year so I expect there are now thousands of American women wearing the ugliest pyjama-like creation I have ever seen. Let’s hope it doesn’t make it to Australia. Talk about unflattering!

This is currently my favourite Youtube video

Found this on Flickr today … and I thought I had too much time on my hands.

The things you do when procrastinating …

This is my campaign song for Kev.

I didn’t realise how much quality you lose in uploading to Youtube, but you get the idea.

Whenever I return to Australia from overseas or look at travelling in Australia, it strikes me just how expensive this country is. One good example is walking tours.

Chris and I are going to Melbourne in December* and I wanted to do a walking tour of the art and grafitti of Melbourne- it is $55 per person for three hours, and that is the cheap tour. Some of the others are up to $95. I couldn’t believe how this differs from the walking tours we have taken overseas. That is the great thing about walking tours- the overheads are low so they are usually affordable. But not in Australia apparently. See the list below for a comparison

Berlin €12=$18 AUD and this walk was more than seven hours long! The tours are all conducted by people who have degrees in German history.

London £6 = $14.00 AUD

New York $15 US = $16 AUD

At least two of these cities also run free walks- why is it so expensive here?

*ok the one thing that is not expensive about this trip is the flights. We are going with Tiger for $40 each return including taxes!

I am not good at keeping my fluids up. For some weird reason I put off having a drink until I am really thirsty. It would be much easier if I could have intravenous solution all day every day.

Right now I need water so I guess I will go get some.

Now that the little girl dumped at a Melbourne train station has been identified, shouldn’t the media be obscuring her face?

If she is a victim of a crime then her face should not be shown- isn’t that the law?

Those people at Meat and Livestock Australia really know their stuff when it comes to advertising- or at least they have employed people who do.

I thought the Sam Kekovich ad was great but the new ad “Falling in Lamb” is even better.

Just in case you have missed it so far, it is an ad in the style of a movie trailer for a romantic comedy. The thing that makes it so good is that the casting, music and scripting is perfect. It is indistinguishable from a genuine movie trailer.

If only all Australian advertising could be this good.

Newspaper sites everywhere are adding video and audio content to their websites. We are able to access mini television news bulletins, commentaries and of course the now all too common Youtube funnies.

These news organisations are attempting to claw back some market share as their hard copy circulation keeps dropping and this is a good way to offer up an interactive component that allows users to access broadcast and print versions of the same news item.

But while the online papers have realised that their audience responds to audio and video content, all too often they do not bother to make this content of the same quality as television and radio broadcasts. It seems that the print journos are just told to go and put down a voicer for their story and yet these writers are not given any voice or camera training. The result is of a quality akin to community television and radio.

If these news organisations want their content to be taken seriously, their journalists are going to have to become tri-media experts and not just writers with a microphone.

Getting arrested at a protest is one of those things that adds to your life experience. It is like shaving your head. You only want to do it once and for a good cause.

I have done one of the two.