The Newcastle CBD is about to change in a major way, and for the better if you’ve walked up through the Hunter Street Mall anytime in the last 6 months. The CBD is often like a ghost town, even during the middle of the day. One by one all of the businesses are relocating, or shutting down entirely, and this is why. MAJOR REDEVELOPMENT! Here’s... (more...)
As a follow up to the Cigars For The Man newspaper article I posted yesterday, here’s a couple of different treatments I’ve done to one of their photographs I shot in the studio. (more…) Read More →
Last night I went and caught up with a few of the Newcastle flickr crew for a bit of a shoot around. I pretty well spent the night talking and not shoot, as can be the case with these sorts of things and also when you’re not really a landscape shooter. Anyway had plenty of fun and grabbed these couple of photos so all was not lost. Hopefully... (more...)
So yesterday we had Part 1 of Advice for bands starting out where we covered things like social networking, recording a demo, putting together a press kit and even finalising the bands name. In this article we’ll continue on with some more basic advice that should hopefully get you on your way to rock stardom! Let’s dive right in. ... (more...)
I was emailing a friend earlier today and she mentioned that the brother of another friend had just started a band and that they were pretty good, and she wanted to know if I was interested in signing the band. Obviously it’s a bit difficult to give an answer to that in an email, unless of course the band is Silverchair, so I asked a few... (more...)
Yesterday I wrote a quick post about trying to get organised, but I forgot to mention one of the biggest, most time consuming, jobs that I was going to try and undertake… Editing, tagging, and generally tidying up EVERY post I’ve written in the last 8 months! So far it’s coming along reasonably well. I’ve cleaned up, tagged and... (more...)
As many of you would know I got married almost 2 weeks ago now, and after a very relaxing holiday up on Hamilton Island we’re back home with a few days off from work. Work, I’m really not sure how motivated I am to go back to it, but that’s a whole other story. (more…) Read More →
We’ve seen the official pricing of the iPhone from Optus for a day or so now, we’ve seen most of Telstra’s pricing, but we’ve still not sen anything from Vodafone? wtf For around 20 minutes or so earlier today Vodafone had some publicly released pricing on their website but for some strange reason they removed it. At this point... (more...)
July 11 is fast approaching. As a deposit holder, July 11 is all about you. We have some big news to share with you, so read carefully! Sydney midnight store opening - Optus mobile customers with holding deposits only. Can’t wait to get your hands on your new iPhone 3G? To celebrate the launch of iPhone 3G, we will be opening our Optus World store... (more...)
Well this weekend is a long weekend, apparently it’s for the Queens Birthday but that’s a whole other debate, and I’m really looking forward to having the time off. I’ve got so much to do around the house, around my blog, and well just around every where. It’s one of the advantages of having a broad range of interests,... (more...)