Monthly Archives: March 2009

Guys, Girls, Guitars

PhotoAccess, originally uploaded by deanlk. If you missed Andrew Mayo‘s exhibition of gig photography at Photoaccess, be sure to see it across the lake at The Front in Lyneham. Looking at the shots where you can see the crowd (the Josh Pyke one especially) reminded me of a shot of an ACDC gig in the [...]

Blighstar Governmentica

There’s going to be more than a little tension in your neighbourhood geek-with-more-than-a-passing-interest-in-Aussie-politics this weekend. Said tension will arise from a challenge of attention allocation; does one dedicate oneself to seat-by-seat punditry of the Queensland election tomorrow, or will the tweets & liveblogs capture minute-by-minute tactical analysis of Admiral Adama’s last hurrah, and what it [...]

Quick March in March Survey

I’m considering discussing the No Clean Feed campaign at Barcamp Canberra #2 in a few weeks.  This weekend’s rally follows on from the regional rallies, but I have no sense on how it’s going to go, so I thought I’d conduct a quick survey to answer some of my questions. Are you heading to Canberra [...]

I see a little silhouetto of a game – SingStar Queen

I reckon Sony’s on to something with these band specific SingStars. Clearly trying to widen the singalong’s repertoir to get new folk in that might’ve dismissed it as a toy for the Hot 30 crowd, they’ve gone for bands older groups will know intimately. Following-up from the Abba collection comes the prolific glam rockers Queen.  [...]

Glimpses of the Queanbeyan Rodeo