New Australian cinema

Went to see the new Australian film Look Both Ways last Friday. It's a superb film and I think I'll have to go and see it again. Another one of those films that looks at people, relationships, death and life in the context of several people brought together by a tragic accident.

I'm off to Austria and Britain in late November and look forward to catching up with folk on the way...

Gen Pets

Canadian sculptor Adam Brandejs has created a chilling and provocative installation. Gen Pets is a study of a commodification of life, as seen from a perspective of a genetically engineered world.
Thanks to Paul Schmelzer's excellent Eyeteeth weblog for the link.

And more mundane matters...

A boring but important bit of digital photography gear is a card reader and today my Lexar FireWire CF reader arrived. This means that I can now easily transfer image files from a CF card to my G3 Powerbook, which suffers from a broken PC card slot. In this day and age of USB 2.0, FireWire devices are a bit hard to find for this application. Ebay is indeed a handy thing.
The Lexar card reader came in an envelope with no manual and it did take me a while to work out how to insert the card.