I wanted to create something with lots of texture.  This is what I came up with:

Sorry, it isn’t a very good picture.  The painting is quite large and I took this photo standing on the table and holding the camera as high as the ceiling, and it still doesn’t quite all fit in the frame.  Hope it shows a little bit of the texture I tried to create.

In other news, next week I will be involved in an exhibition called “Through My Eyes”.  I am one of 6 artists exhibiting, and it is the biggest exhibition I have been involved in.  So, if you’re interested and live in the Brisbane area, I’d love to see you there!  Come along to our opening night and you can sip a glass of wine, meet the artists and view some art.

“Through My Eyes”
Opening night 6pm 08/08/08
& 11am – 6pm on 9, 10, 11 & 12 August

Art Factory Gallery
84 Merivale St,
South Brisbane

My thumbs breathed a sigh of relief on Saturday – I finally got a new mobile!

My old phone was giving me the shits in multiple ways – I’d dropped it twice, so there was a noticeable crack; it was less customisable than I wanted it to be; I kept copping lots of ‘your phone is chunky’ comments. But most of all, the keypad was just about stuffed. Some keys worked only if you pressed with the force of King Kong’s little finger (on the right hand of course, his left pinky was weak as piss). Others would spontaneously combust perform multiple lots of whatever you had just decided to do – scroll down, insert a character, etc… After not-so-long, my thumbs bore the brunt of this keypad-induced trauma and sought legal action against the phone. I on the other hand, thought that a bit extreme, and decided to hold out until my contract was up and just get a new phone – one with keys that worked by applying only moderate pressure.

This I finally did on Saturday (Kirsten is still waiting for hers, but that’s her story to tell), much to my (and my thumb’s) delight. For those interested, you can go and see what my new phone looks like (and my old one for comparison).

The phone comes in a semi-gloss black finish, with silver highlights and the odd bit of purple (including a pale purple keypad-backlight) for effect. Of course, in my 80’s Childhood Nostalgia™, I wasted no time in ripping off an existing theme creating and applying a matching Decepticon theme to my phone, complete with transforming noise message alert!

I look forward to receiving your calls and SMSes on my new phone

Many thanks to Matt for *finally* doing this for me.  I know he says it isn’t finished yet but it looks pretty good to me.  Plus I think we all know he will never be completely happy with it: there will always be something that needs tweaking.

I hope you will all check back regularly, and I’m looking forward to doing some (hopefully) interesting posts.