tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248351413604246692024-03-12T15:42:35.540+11:0052 suburbsa search for beauty in the Sydney 'burbsLouise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-50382624294791937492011-12-16T14:40:00.000+11:002017-09-09T07:56:39.828+10:00From surreal to real<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/goodbye/LH_09.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the past few weeks I've done little else but do stuff relating to the upcoming project, <a href="http://52suburbs.com/">52 <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Suburbs </span></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://52suburbs.com/"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Around the World</span></a>. I've been madly packing, sorting, tossing, cleaning - to get my apartment ready </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to rent out - at the same time<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>as dismantling and unplugging our life in Sydney. I've spent hours working </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with the lovely people who<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>are helping me design and create the new blog, finessing and fussing. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I've been organising Coco's distance education. It's all been about the project.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But until today the project itself has seemed very remote and surreal. Part of that is due to the fact</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> that I've been more anxious than excited to be honest. For so long it was about just trying to get</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> the project up that I never questioned whether or not I could do it. But ever since I got enough</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> funding to get the project up, albeit on a skinny shoe-string budget, I've started to question,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> can I actually do this? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because not only is it going to be a very time and labour intensive project. It'll also be done on the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> road. And I'll be doing it with my eight year old daughter at my hip. Coco occasionally used to </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">accompany me </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">out to the suburbs </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in the first project. But only for a couple of hours every so often.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> This will be 365 days worth of accompanying! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And not only that, I'm going to be home schooling her at the same time. I used to say quite breezily,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> oh, Coco, she'll be doing distance education. What I discovered when we went to the orientation</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> day at Sydney Distance Education Public School is that <i>we</i> will be doing distance education. While I'm</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> technically called the 'Supervisor' and there are real teachers at the school, the reality is that I'm</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> expected to sit with her and teach her for four hours a day. That to me is home schooling, something</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I've always greatly respected in other people but never thought I could do myself. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So. Ha! There it is. All the ammunition my brain needs to wake me at 3am and remind me that I'm</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> going to attempt to do a project that took me six days a week the first time around, at the same time</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> as navigating seven new cities and spending 20 hours a week home schooling, unless of course</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> one or other or both of us come down with some exotic illness and then, well, I'm not quite sure. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shambolic comes to mind. <br />
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When I sat down to post today I didn't intend to share all this. But I'd hate you to think I've been </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">wandering around in a pre-trip state of bliss, just waiting until the 30th of December rolls around. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, and while I'm at it, I've also gone into a decline about leaving Tom and Jinx. Now when I say </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that Tom and Jinx are cats, well, that's not really true. They're Burmese and being Burmese,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> they are more like dogs than cats. So in essence we're leaving our two dogs behind - and because</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> they don't understand English, I'm unable to tell them that we love them very much and have done</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> since they arrived as tiny kittens two years ago, and we're not abandoning them really and we'll be </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">back before they know it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All they're going to think is that they've been dumped. Too sad. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But today, finally, all the endless packing has finished and we are now officially living out of a </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">suitcase: the tenants move in tomorrow morning so we're off to stay with friends for two weeks</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> until we go. On the way we'll drop Tom and Jinx off to their new home, some dear friends of ours,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and pray that they don't try and escape. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So although I'll be a basket-case saying goodbye to the cats (and friends and family of course),</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">suddenly the whole thing has moved from surreal to very real. And finally I feel less anxious</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and more excited.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I also needed to post today because this is the last day I'll be posting on this blog from the computer</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and room that I began <b>52 Suburbs</b> on just over two years ago. It's been an amazing couple of years</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and for anyone who's been following for a while or since the very start, can I just say a huge </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">thank you for coming along for the ride and contributing to the project along the way.<br />
<br />
The upshot is that I'm pretty sure the next time I post will be on the new blog so this will probably</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> be the last post ever on <b>52 Suburbs</b>. Before we bid it farewell, can I just explain that the new blog</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> URL will be the same as this old one - 52suburbs.com. And then this blog will have a new URL, </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">52suburbs.com.au<br />
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Reason being, it was too long to have the new blog address be www.52suburbsaroundtheworld.com, </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so we've decided to keep it short and just change this blog's URL.<br />
<br />
Anyway, no need to absorb those fascinating facts as you'll be automatically transferred over to</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> the new blog unless you tell me otherwise.<br />
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So see you over there in the next week or so!<br />
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And I promise, this will be the last essay of a post. Back to brevity next time we meet.</span><br />
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</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com205tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-48836088000282019882011-11-23T14:05:00.000+11:002011-11-23T14:05:33.722+11:0052 Suburbs Around the World is imminent!<img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/Oz.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apologies for the break in transmission. It has been full-on around here ever since a few weeks ago when</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> the Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for <b>52 Suburbs Around the World </b>successfully reached its goal.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The funds played a vital role in getting the project over the line - which meant I was suddenly very </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">busy doing all the stuff you have to do when you exit your life in one country and prepare to start new lives</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> in a number of other countries.<br />
<br />
So first things first, my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported the Kickstarter campaign<b></b>, either by</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> making a pledge or just spreading the word. Many many thanks. I love yous all.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <br />
Next on the agenda is to let you know of a few changes to the itinerary of the project. We were all going</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to be nosing around the suburbs of Shanghai and Tokyo first, until I discovered that Shanghai's icy</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> winter can be debilitating for wandering photographers (let alone the eight year old 'assistant'), </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and Tokyo, well, Tokyo is just a little too iffy for my liking in terms of the radiation factor (and my budget</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> doesn't extend to buying imported food when we're there). So, after much mind-swirling, I settled on the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> following for the first three months of 2012: January, Hong Kong; February, New Delhi; March, Istanbul.<br />
<br />
I know it's a little disappointing not to be going to Tokyo in particular (I've never been but hear it's amazing).</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> But I reckon the new choices are going to be pretty amazing too. And they're all cities that received a lot</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> of votes from followers of this blog when I put the <a href="http://www.52suburbs.com/2011/08/introducing-project-2.html">question of where to visit some time ago</a> - so I hope you</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> approve.<br />
<br />
Then after March, it stays the same as it was: Paris, Berlin, Rome and ending in New York. All famous, </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">over-photographed cities that I hope to be able to show another less famous side of - and in an imaginative</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> way, care of my diptych, double-image obsession.<br />
<br />
Lastly, the new blog is moments away from being ready to show you - so hopefully next time I post, </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it will be on the new blog. Very exciting.<br />
<br />
Well, that's all for now. I am knee-deep in lists and packing boxes, and Coco is busy ticking off the days on</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> the calendar - we leave Sydney on December 30, precisely 37 days away.<br />
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Before I go, can I just say that, of course, I'm totally stoked about this upcoming adventure. Thrilled at the </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">same time as being a little sick in the guts with excitement and nerves.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yet despite all this, Sydney has never seemed more appealing, with purple carpets everywhere, fair-minded</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> people strolling about and until these last few cold and rainy days, a particular type of blue sky and quality</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> of light that I adore, especially around the 'golden hour' of 7-8pm. As if I needed any more convincing </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">after exploring the place for a year and finding so much to be proud of. But really, what a city. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/IMG_3292.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the purple carpets of Sydney</i><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'd love to hear your thoughts on the new cities by the way (and of course anything else you care to share). </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Good, bad, indifferent? <br />
</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-80556100313073566082011-11-03T11:13:00.000+11:002011-11-03T11:13:50.789+11:00NEWS! 52 Suburbs prints now part of Kickstarter rewards<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/bridge2.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The <b>52 Suburbs Around the World</b> Kickstarter campaign is looking pretty hopeful - we're 78% of the way</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to the goal! But there's only eight days to go - and if I don't reach my goal, I won't receive a single penny.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I thought I'd do a quick post to let you know about some NEW rewards on Kickstarter - prints from</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <b>52 Suburbs</b> rather than the new project. Unlike prints from the new project, these ones can be delivered</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> this month or latest, early December. Just in time for you know what.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Plus you can choose ANY image you like from the blog, book and exhibition. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, if the idea of <b>a 52 Suburbs</b> print and supporting the next project at the same time appeals to you,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> head over <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1638492543/52-suburbs-around-the-world?ref=card">here</a> to Kickstarter and have a look at the new rewards - they're on the right-hand side,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> at $165, $275 and $425.(Framing costs extra but I can point you in the right direction there too - the white</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> box frames like the ones in these photos are really good value, about a third of the cost of the print.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Of course, any pledge, as little as $10, will help too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thanks. </span><br />
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</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com88tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-89014769440417311732011-10-30T22:41:00.001+11:002011-10-30T22:42:08.181+11:00Suburb No 54, Mt Druitt<div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/Mt%20Druitt/intro4.jpg" /></div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, you know. There's only so much desk-ing a restless roamer can take. So where, I wondered, if I gave<br />
myself leave from my desk, would I wander? For reasons not necessarily known to me, Mount Druitt<br />
popped into mind. </div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think I chose it because, let's be honest, it doesn't get the best rap. Far from it in fact. But seeing as</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I've never clapped eyes on the place, how different would it be to the (not good) image I have of it in</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> my mind's eye? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hence why on a nondescript Thursday last week I found myself making the 43 km trek west.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Some facts. A Major George Druitt was given the place in the 1800s by Governor Macquarie and duly named</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> it after his good self. Has one historic house called The Manse (missed it), a large, sprawling shopping</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> mall/Westfield (can't miss it if you tried) and a handful of religious houses (found two). In 1966 they built</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> the first housing commission homes and more recently, masses of carbon copy blond brick 'villas'. Almost half</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> of the people living here were born overseas, double the national average.<br />
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So what did I find? Well, I'll let the pictures tell the story. But in a nutshell, it was perhaps one of the best</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> examples of how a few headlines can ruin a suburb's reputation. Mt Druitt is not without its issues but it</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> isn't nearly as bleak as you might imagine.<br />
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Let's go Mt Druitt!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 1: The mall<br />
<br />
I have to admit, I did drive around for a bit before I decided to commit to Mt Druitt. It reminded me of</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Blacktown and Granville - at first glance, it's hard to see what you'd actually photograph. But seeing as I'd</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> just spent close to an hour getting here, coupled with the fact I don't like giving in, I finally stopped my </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">kerbside crawl, parked and started to walk - to the outside mall area. If I wasn't going to find any </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">architectural gems, I'd at least find people.<br />
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Starting with a delightful (true) bunch of hair and beauty Tafe students.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, I asked one of the students, is Mt Druitt as bad as they say it is. "Nup", she said, "I can hang out here at</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 2: Religion<br />
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More unprepared and unresearched than ever, I stumbled across just two of the suburb's holy houses -</span><br />
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Was driving past when I spotted Ron and his whipper snipper. Been in the area for 40 years, "quite quiet really".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After Ron, I was told by another local that I should check out 'Old Mt Druitt' on the other side of the railway.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">David's five kids were home because they'd all just got back from a six week holiday in Malta, visiting relatives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A couple of streets away I met another truck-driver, Gary, and his lovely wife. I asked if I could take a few</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just as I was beginning to wonder if I'd find anything remotely sinister about Mt Druitt I stumbled across</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Kathleen. 89 years old, she was born a few streets away and had been here all her long life. Surely she</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> though really - her little dog, Trixie, would frighten the living daylights out of anyone who dared come near</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Kathleen - lots of gnashing of teeth and deep growling accompanied by Kathleen's warning, "He'll bite."<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Is there beauty in Mt Druitt? The place isn't flash and of course it has its problems. But it was so much more</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <i>normal</i> than I expected. And colourful, from the bright locks of the hair and beauty students to the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> multitude of flowers. But perhaps the biggest surprise of all were those quarter acre blocks with well-tended</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> gardens, tidy homes and nice people. You never hear about that in the 6 o'clock news. </span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-88786670754477718972011-10-19T17:21:00.000+11:002011-10-19T17:21:08.250+11:00progress report<div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/October%20blog%20post%20Kickstarter/globes_everywhere2.jpg" /></div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I thought I'd check in to let you know how the <b>52 Suburbs ATW</b> Kickstarter campaign is shaping up.</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As the nifty little Kickstarter widget shows, we are 32% of the way to our goal. 71 fabulous backers have made<br />
pledges to the tune of $6,499. Everything from $1 to $1,000. In return for their generosity they'll receive<br />
various rewards, everything from most excellent stickers to limited edition prints and a limited edition<br />
book of the project.</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Many thanks if you've already made a pledge. But if you haven't, can I be bold and say this: If everyone<br />
who subscribes to this blog forgoes one cheap(ish) bottle of red or one non-fancy pants pizza, and<br />
instead contributes that $15 to the Kickstarter campaign, this project will happen! That's all it will<br />
take. </div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I'm still flat out exploring every avenue to get this project off the ground.</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In fact, I've been so consumed that I can't think of much else. Everywhere I look I see the world, even<br />
when I'm doing my shopping down Marrickville way...</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<i style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">chatting to Life (yes, that's his name) I see a funny man!</i><br />
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I guess you could say I'm a little obsessed. But there doesn't seem to be any other way than obsession to get<br />
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</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you'd like to make a pledge please <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1638492543/52-suburbs-around-the-world">click here</a>. Arigato. Merci. Danke. Etc.</div>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-61919448258550789962011-10-07T08:19:00.000+11:002011-10-07T08:19:12.080+11:00Kickstarter has started! Help make 52 Suburbs ATW a reality!<iframe frameborder="0" height="410px" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1638492543/52-suburbs-around-the-world/widget/video.html" width="480px"></iframe><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the words of Steve Jobs: "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> the trap of thinking you have something to lose."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And so I begin my Kickstarter fund raising campaign for <b>52 Suburbs Around the World</b>. Nothing</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to lose, maybe lots to gain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The video above is the one I made for my <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1638492543/52-suburbs-around-the-world">Kickstarter page</a>. If you're interested in helping to make</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <b>52 Suburbs Around the World</b> a reality, please head over and check it out. If you're not familiar</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> with the concept of crowd funding, it's basically a way to raise funds for creative projects by asking</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> supporters to give some moola in exchange for various rewards. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A note about the cities I've ended up choosing. You know how I was going to visit 12 cities? Well, </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">having given it some serious thought, I've reduced the number of cities to between 4-6. Why?</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Because that way we can spend 2-3 months in each city and really get a feel for the place, exploring</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> 8-12 suburbs in each. A month might just have been rushing it. Plus I'm keen to try and get as many</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> locals in these cities to interact on the blog and the longer we're there, the more chance there is</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> of that happening.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When it comes down to it, the rewards you'll see are hopefully pleasing, but in my mind, the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> reason to give will ultimately be, if you enjoyed my first project, <b>52 Suburbs</b>, and want to help</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> make this second project happen so that you can enjoy another year of weekly installments of</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> virtual travel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyway, I don't want to say too much - all the details are on my <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1638492543/52-suburbs-around-the-world">Kickstarter page</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have butterflies just posting this. But, nothing to lose.</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-75421984638039037442011-09-29T12:45:00.005+10:002011-09-29T13:19:47.393+10:00the 53rd suburb, Palm Beach<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/Palm%20Beach/intro.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A few weeks ago I called for suggestions as to which suburb I should make an honourary 53rd suburb, as a</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> diversion from sitting stuck behind my desk trying to drum up support for <b>52 Suburbs Around the World</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There were so many fantastic responses - in fact, at one point there were exactly 52 suggestions, enough</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to keep me busy for another year. But the deal was, the one most voted for would win the day. So after tallying</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> up all the blog comments, emails and Facebook suggestions, the winner was Palm Beach.<br />
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Hmm. Palmie huh. Interesting. Although I felt bad that I couldn't satisfy everyone's requests, I did</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> quite like the idea of visiting Sydney's most northerly coastal suburb (41km from the city), the last one </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">before you hit water and then the Central Coast.<br />
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Brief history of the place: Named after the cabbage tree palms that still dominate the area. Original</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> residents were the Guringai people. European and Chinese fishermen lived on Snapperman Beach during </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the early part of the 19th century. 1843, the colonial government built a customs house to stop smugglers</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> entering Broken Bay. 1881, shot up a lighthouse. 1912, land sold off to wealthy folk interested in</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> 'fishing, sailing, golf and rowing'. Fast forward to today and not much has changed. PB is regarded as</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> one of Sydney's most beautiful - and expensive - suburbs, surrounded as it is by water with sweeping views</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> all around. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 1: Palm Beach in a former life - House No 1<br />
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As anyone who's followed this blog for a while knows, I am a sucker for the old stuff and not so interested</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> in the shiny new. So when I rang one of the real estate agents up there to ask whether it was possible to</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> get entry into a PB home, I requested 'old not new please'. As a result I found myself being driven up a </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">windy road by Noel from LJ Hooker to meet heritage listed Windyridge, and David, its owner. A modest</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> home but one that made you drop your shoulders the moment you entered and saw the view, uninterrupted</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to the north, east and west.<br />
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Thanks Noel and thank you David for putting up with a total stranger nosing around your house and for</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 2: </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Palm Beach in a former life - House No 2<br />
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I heard about another 'classic' PB house through an old friend. This time it was one of the 75% of homes</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> in the area that sit empty for the most of the year waiting patiently for a holiday to roll around and life</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to inhabit them once again. Luckily for me, not only did the owner happen to be there when I knocked</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> on the door but she also very kindly agreed to let me in.<br />
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In her 80s, Claire explained that the house has been in the family for donkeys and was once a boathouse.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The little cottage is the opposite of grand yet it has the most majestic position - literally right on the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> water's edge, looking out over the bay side of Palm Beach, Pittwater. I spent a good few hours there,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> talking with Claire and snapping away. Long enough for a southerly to hit and turn the place into a</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">wish I could stick my feet in the water</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 3: </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Palm Beach in a former life - Houses various<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nothing new here either, all wonderfully old and original.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jodie's house :: 1 - patterns from head to toe</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 4: Water to the west</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As I mentioned, PB is surrounded by water. Pittwater to the west, Pacific Ocean to the east and Broken Bay</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Starting with Pittwater, a body of water people traverse in anything that floats, from tinnies to ferries.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>straight off the ferry from the Central Coast</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Margaret's ride home aboard Myra</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the way back to my car for my final trip back home, I met another fisherman, Jo. He was surveying</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Having once lived in Avalon, I wasn't unfamiliar with this week's suburb. But I'd never liked it as much as I</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">stepped back in time, to a less showy and more down to earth Palm Beach. I thought I would miss</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> doing a more urban, gritty suburb but it was invigorating to get out of the city for a change. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Many thanks to those who opened their doors to a curious woman with a camera. <br />
</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-43723697511020566462011-09-14T15:50:00.000+10:002011-09-14T15:50:23.361+10:00pick a Sydney suburb for me to shoot<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/yellow_Car.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All this sponsorship raising/sitting on my behind is making me antsy. I need to get back out there to explore</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and photograph. So, do you have a Sydney suburb you'd like me to snap that wasn't included in <b>52 Suburbs</b>?</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The suburb most requested within the next two days will be chosen and henceforth visited.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com71tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-55152339099464378032011-09-11T16:00:00.000+10:002011-09-11T16:00:23.359+10:00family portraits anyone?<div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Aside from working on getting <b>52 Suburbs Around the World</b> up and working on a few corporate<br />
photography jobs, I've been doing some family portraits. It's pretty special to be allowed into a family's<br />
life for a few hours. I also like the challenge of trying to capture different personalities at the same time<br />
as making an interesting image that's well composed and takes full advantage of the light that's on offer.</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I thought I'd show you some of my favourite images and locations, from sculptural Ballast Point Park to<br />
moody Botany Bay National Park. If you're interested in having your family frozen in time, please email<br />
me at 52suburbs@gmail.com</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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Back soon.</div>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-37743795234338547942011-09-08T16:15:00.000+10:002011-09-08T16:15:02.656+10:00Progress report on 52 Suburbs ATW<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/Christmas%20cards/Christmas_lights.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, my exciting news that I hinted at last week? We have not one but two confirmed sponsors! It matters</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> not that we need 10 more such sponsors to make this project fly. It was just so thrilling to have two jump</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Quick explanation on how the sponsor side of things is going to work. Because we are exploring the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> suburbs of 12 cities, I am offering companies the opportunity to sponsor a city for a month - hence the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> 12 sponsors reference. </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Their brand ad will appear for one month in a rotating "ad tile" on the blog. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With two confirmed sponsors on board, we are 2/12 or 1/6th of the way to our goal. Yipee! But that still</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> means we need 10 more sponsors. If you know anyone in the travel/photography/design/communication</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> business that you think might like to be a sponsor for a very reasonable price, please email me - </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">52suburbs@gmail.com. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As I said last week, I am seeing how this goes before I launch into crowd funding. Will keep you posted.<br />
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Oh, and these extremely premature Christmas images? They're my take on the traditional Chrissy card</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> for Momento's new online shop. Momento is a wonderful self-publishing facility who make beautiful photobooks</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and cards amongst other things. And they're one of my two sponsors! They were the first one and when</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> they told me they were 'in' I squealed like a small child. Because not only are they helping to make this</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> dream a reality, Libby, Geoff and David who run the place are also incredibly nice people - I couldn't ask</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> for more. So welcome Momento!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If the images seem familiar that's because they're from <b>52 Suburbs</b> but in new partnerships for the yuletide season. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://www.momentoshop.com.au/shop/new">here</a> to check them out as well as a handful of my favourite diptychs now available as greeting cards</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last thing to update you on: I painstakingly tallied up all the cities that everyone put forward for the 12 cities</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• London, New York, Paris, Tokyo (all equal second)</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Then Rome, New Delhi, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, San Francisco, Chicago, Edinburgh, Vancouver,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Mexico City, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Montreal, St Petersburg, Hanoi and Singapore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A short-list of 21 to be cut down to 12. Easy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Interestingly they are all the bigger, more famous cities that garnered the most votes. </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And before anyone</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> starts saying, but they're <i>boring</i>, you know I don't do boring - my aim will be to show sides of these 'famous'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-10575831975731481582011-09-02T11:33:00.000+10:002011-09-02T11:33:56.294+10:00playing tourist<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm still head down working on getting <b>52 Suburbs Around the World</b> up. Before I launch into crowd</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> funding, I'm seeing how many sponsors I can woo to help us make our way around the globe. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And I have some news on that front which I am just a little thrilled about - will let you know next week.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the meantime I thought I'd share a little of what else I've been up to recently. A few weeks ago</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and Darling Harbour for a few days and take pics in my usual diptych/double-image way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was almost surreal. Having hung out in the burbs for so long, here I was in the heart of Sydney's tourist </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">centre, snapping away alongside visitors from all over the planet. But of course, unlike them, </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I wasn't interested in taking glamour shots of the Opera House or bridge or harbour. While they were</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> focused on the big icons, I was shooting their shoes or their ears or whatever. Or sidling up to a piece</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> of sandstone or door and shooting that. <br />
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However, I did enter fully into the tourist spirit when I visited the Chinese Garden at Darling </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Harbour. Having never been I was almost giddy with delight when I discovered you can dress up</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to play dress-up and away we went, happy as any tourist could hope to be.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I ♡ you too </span></i></span><br />
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</span></i></span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-91632733820838216782011-08-07T17:50:00.000+10:002011-08-07T17:50:50.711+10:00Kickstarting 52 Suburbs Around the World<img src="http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/louisehawson/kick.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Four days ago I blogged about my next project, <i>52 Suburbs Around the World</i> - as if it was a done deal, I realise</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> now. So apologies if you assumed it's full steam ahead. My mistake. I'm just so excited about the project</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I think I got a little ahead of myself.<br />
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So let me rewind a little. The good news is, it's a project that I reckon will be amazing, to do and to</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> follow. As evidenced by all the great responses - thank you all so much for your fantastic suggestions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The less than great news is, before the project can take off, it needs funding. Hence my reference</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to the moola bit at the end of the last post. I said I would explain where the cash is coming from to </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">make </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>52 Suburbs Around the World </i>a reality - so let me explain.<br />
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I'm hoping to raise the necessary funds by a couple of methods. The first one is from corporates</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> - so yes, that would mean some advertising on the blog page. I would limit the sponsors to ensure they</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> were in keeping with travel, photography, design, that sort of thing.<br />
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The second way I'm hoping to </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">make </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>52 Suburbs Around the World </i>a reality is through something</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> called Crowd Funding. It is as it sounds - a crowd that funds. There are various platforms to do this - </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've chosen one called Kickstarter.<br />
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I'm madly putting together a Kickstarter page that I can direct people to but it takes some time and I</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> didn't want to wait any longer before I let you know exactly what's happening. But here's an excerpt from</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> the page that should help to explain:<br />
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"Before we can all fasten our seatbelts onboard the virtual 52 Suburbs Around the World private jet,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> there’s just one thing. Moola. Cashola. The folding stuff. I self-funded 52 Suburbs by being frugal for a</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> year and increasing my mortgage. This time around I can’t do it on my own - my piggy bank is officially</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> empty and this is a much more ambitious, expensive project. <br />
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So I’m asking for your help. Unless I can drum up sufficient funds, <i>52 Suburbs Around the World</i> will</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> remain stranded on the tarmac."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So yes, Crowd Funding is basically a sophisticated form of donating to help get projects like mine off </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the ground. But unlike passing the hat around, with Crowd Funding you receive various 'rewards' </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">depending on how much you give. They range from a simple acknowledgement to prints and various</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> other things. And of course everyone would be rewarded with another year long virtual adventure </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">with a weekly burst of new to brighten up their day.<br />
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Look, to be honest, I'd much rather be able to wave a magic wand and whisk us all away without </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">having to ask for help. But the reality is this project won't happen without help.<br />
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I am so sorry if my former post led you to believe it was imminent and all organised. As I said I'm so</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> excited - and strangely confident - that I just sort of glossed over that one tiny enormous fact.<br />
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Once my Kickstarter page is up and running I'll give you the details. In the meantime, if you're curious,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> you can check out how it all works <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/">here</a>.<br />
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Of course I'm loving - not - the fact that I'm about to launch a fund-raising campaign just as GFC II is</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> about to rear its very ugly head. But you know, if it does, I guess there'll be an even greater need for</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> escape from the everyday via a project like this one. Here's hoping anyway!<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-61580482298365006592011-08-03T09:49:00.007+10:002011-08-04T12:05:12.566+10:00Introducing Project # 2<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well hello, long time no post. I've spent the last month doing a few final <b>52 Suburbs</b> talks and various</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> other things but where I've spent most of my energy is in my head - thinking upon the Next Project</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I could do this, I could do that. No, this, that. And so on and so on. Where have I ended up? Where I</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So without further ado, meet our next adventure - <b>52 Suburbs Around the World</b>. Yep. Having talked</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> down the whole overseas travel thing in favour of exploring one's own city I am now hell bent on</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> leaping off around the planet. Why? Because having discovered just how rewarding it is to experience</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> the 'real' side of a city, I'm now extremely keen to do the same thing in other major cities. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Basically I've realised I'm a crap tourist - I just don't get a lot out of following the tourist trail and</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> just seeing all the famous bits. <b>52 Suburbs</b> was all about ignoring the icons and interacting with 'real'</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Sydney. What would that experience be like in other cities I wonder? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For example, I don't get Paris. Been twice and just don't know what all the fuss is about. Mon dieu</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> indeed. But I reckon if I went beyond the Eiffel Tower and </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the waiter who serves me my croissant,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">explored the suburbs, I'd have a much more interesting time. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hope you agree. Because as much as I want to do this, it's really important to me that you also want</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> you to do this. I can't even imagine doing it without you. A virtual private jet filled with everyone who </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">followed <b>52 Suburbs</b>, picking up new passengers as we wend our way around the globe -</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> that's how I imagine this.<br />
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So here's the plan. We (you, me and Coco, my now eight year old) will visit 12 iconic cities over the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> space of a year - we'll stay in each city for approx one month, visiting one suburb each week. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">12 x 4 = 48, so a few cities will have a few extra suburbs.<br />
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The format will be the same as <b>52 Suburbs</b> - a weekly post with images, the majority of which will</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> be diptychs (two images married together). There will also be video from time to time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Since it's a new project, there will be a new blog site. Unless instructed otherwise I'll migrate all </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">subscribers over there automatically when the time comes.<br />
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The big question is, which 12 cities do we visit and explore suburbs in? I'd love to know what you</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And lastly, where's the moola coming from to do all this? Details to come in the next post...</span><br />
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</a>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com77tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-39032238713128489642011-06-23T09:22:00.000+10:002011-06-23T09:22:54.885+10:00Q is for Queensland<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last week Tourism </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Queensland </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">invited my daughter and I to spend five days in the Sunshine State</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> photographing whatever caught my eye. How could I say no? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I chose to spend the majority of time in Brisbane and just 24 hours in Longreach, 1200 clicks northwest</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> of Brissie. I thought, well, I'm kind of an urban photographer so it would make sense to aim my lens at the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> big smoke rather than a more rural landscape. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Little did I know Longreach would be so interesting. I'm obsessed with flying and planes - and guess what?</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Longreach is where Qantas began all those years ago. As a result it has a handful of wonderful things</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to inspect. My fave? One of the original Boeing 707s - with the most incredible retro interior, complete </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">with patterned screens and Mahogany timber panelling.<br />
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But I'm jumping ahead. Let's start with our first stop, Brisbane, Queensland's capital city and home to </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> 1821-1825. That was when Queensland was part of NSW - it wasn't until 1859 that it was proclaimed a</span><br />
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Fast forward to January this year when Brisbane hit the headlines after some of the worst floods since</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Let's go Queensland!</span><br />
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To my eye, Brisbane is all about the river. It sweeps and swerves and is crisscrossed by more than </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 2: Nice types<br />
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We stayed at the very wonderful boutique hotel, Spicers Balfour, in New Farm and at a more traditional</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> guest house, Franklin Villa in West End. From there Coco and I journeyed around the city in a pleasantly</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But no matter where we were - from the suburbs of New Farm, Fortitude Valley, Teneriffe, Paddington</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and West End to Graceville, Highgate Hill and the city itself - I kept noticing words. Words in different</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And a more masculine image for good measure - the fantastic Brisbane Powerhouse, refashioned as</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 4: Religion in the suburbs<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as well as a whopping 747. These two glorious creatures are parked just outside the tiny terminal</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The 707, built in 1959, is the one that really took my fancy. Saved from a British scrapheap after a stint</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sadly no-one is allowed to photograph the interior. But that does mean if you have the chance to</span><br />
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Waking early I ducked out to see what Longreach looked like in the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not one for these sorts of things normally, it was a hoot. Especially the bit where the four horses pick up</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a buzzing bakery and some friendly locals. Like twins Zach and Sam, the sons of a local policeman, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As much as I enjoyed getting lost around Brisbane, I really loved Longreach. Those vintage planes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> much of a city-slicker to live so far away but another visit? My oath.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We stayed at:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Brisbane - <a href="http://www.spicersgroup.com.au/property/spicers-balfour-hotel/">Spicers Balfour</a> and <a href="http://www.franklinvilla.com/">Franklin Villa</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Brisbane - <a href="http://www.thecrosstown.com.au/">CrossTownEatingHouse</a><br />
Longreach - <a href="http://www.qfom.com.au/">Qantas Founders Museum</a>; <a href="http://www.outbackheritage.com.au/">Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame</a>; <a href="http://www.outbacksunsetcruises.com.au/">MV Longreach Explorer Sunset</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Cruises; <a href="http://www.kinnonandco.com.au/">Kinnon & Co Station Store (Cobb & Co stagecoach)</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We thank:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tourism </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Queensland</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, <a href="http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/">www.queenslandholidays.com.au</a></span><br />
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</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-87687016195739058962011-06-09T23:28:00.001+10:002011-06-09T23:29:55.825+10:00Art Nation shoot<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've been nose to the computer fleshing out Project No 2 for the past few weeks - all will be revealed soon.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> But as exciting as it is to be dreaming up the next project, it is making my head swirl a great deal. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Which is why it was so delightful to be whisked away today by ABC TV's <i>Art Nation</i> for a walk down</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <b>52 Suburbs</b> memory Lane - a return to the suburbs of <a href="http://www.52suburbs.com/2010/06/suburb-no-38-bonnyrigg.html">Bonnyrigg</a> and <a href="http://www.52suburbs.com/2009/10/suburb-no-5-cabramatta.html">Cabramatta</a>. The piece will air next</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Sunday June 19 but in the meantime I thought I'd share with you a few pics I took while waiting for</span><br />
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To the Mingyue Lay Buddhist Temple in Bonnyrigg first. Not even 37 bronze buddhas or the heady smell</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then to Bonnyrigg's Cambodian Buddhist Temple just around the corner. When I <a href="http://www.52suburbs.com/2010/06/suburb-no-38-bonnyrigg.html">last visited</a> I was surprised</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-22003152020447826592011-05-26T09:16:00.000+10:002011-05-26T09:16:57.682+10:00Sydney Writer's Festival<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last week, I spoke at the Sydney Writer's Festival 'in conversation' with Robbie Buck.</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So for those who missed out on the launch at the Museum of Sydney or SWF, I decided<br />
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</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sadly the introductory bit is missing so we start about 10 minutes into the hour long talk.</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I chose a handful of images to talk about - when the video begins we're up to Suburb<br />
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</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's about 42 minutes long but you can always fast-forward - I was pretty chatty that<br />
day so you won't miss too much.</div><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Or, if you're in the city this evening, I'm yabbering on <i>in the flesh</i> from 6pm at</span><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/24206609">Sydney Writer's Festival</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2958908">Louise Hawson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-37574413088608307962011-05-23T18:20:00.001+10:002011-09-11T16:01:02.833+10:00immortality of a sort<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A brief intermission in all things <b>52 Suburbs</b> - you! Well, maybe. I'll let the pictures do the talking...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's a between projects kind of thing. As well as a keeping oneself and child in wild red skirts kind of thing. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So if you're keen to freeze time and immortalise yourself or your family, in any suburb of your choosing, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To all those who made it there, thank you so much for coming. I can imagine it must have been a little squishy sitting</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> there in the packed auditorium for 40 minutes (was it longer?). And I'm so sorry for those who made the trek and</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> weren't allowed in once proceedings had quicked off. I guess it was so packed in there already the Museum felt</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once I digested the fact that there were more than 180 people waiting expectantly for me to talk, I really enjoyed it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> There were a few butterflies doing somersaults inside me but really, what a great thing to be able to talk about</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I just felt, and still feel, full of gratitude. I won't repeat all my thank you's again in detail but let me summarise</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> - to those who allowed me to photograph them, to those of you who followed the blog, to my family and friends,</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to New South Publishing and to the Museum of Sydney - THANK YOU!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After the talk was over there was another wonderful experience in store for me - a queue that seemed to go on</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> forever, lining up to have me sign books. Many of them were blog followers and it was so lovely to finally meet</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> them/you. Some of you told me you have followed the project since week one or two, over a year and a half ago.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Really, I just wanted to jump over the table and hug you all.<br />
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But perhaps the most surreal part was seeing my images in the gallery upstairs. From blog to book to this! </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And all these wonderful faces staring back at me, faces I'm so so familiar with but have never seen so large.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Feeling the need to document things a little more fully, I raced in to the Museum of Sydney today with my daughter, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I got chatting to various people checking out the exhibition - and ended up handing one of them my camera to </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What's also strangely exciting is all the <b>52 Suburbs</b> merchandise downstairs in the MOS Shop. Initially I was dead</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They have done a great job in putting my images on a variety of objects, my favourite being the magnets, </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">drop-down postcards and tea-towels. Yes, tea-towels. And while I'm at it, I thought I'd let you know that you can</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you did miss out on the talk on Saturday, here's a <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/05/13/3216697.htm?WT.mc_id=Corp_52Suburbs">five minute piece the ABC did on me and my project last Friday</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or you could always come along this Wednesday at 1pm to <a href="http://www.swf.org.au/component/option,com_events/Itemid,124/agid,2463/task,view_detail/">hear me talk to Robbie Buck about the project at the</a></span><br />
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That's possibly enough about me for one day. Thanks again to all those who made Saturday - and I look forward to seeing</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today's the day that this blog is launched kicking and screaming into the real world as a book and an</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> later, it's been transformed from ether into printed form - in both a small but chunky book and as </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I so so so hope as many of you as possible can make today. I know you probably think I'm just saying it</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> but I treasure each and every person who has followed this project. Because it was such a shared adventure.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, if you can make it, please please come up to me today and say hi. Better still, join me for a celebratory</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> drink afterwards down at the Quay Bar, Customs House (just roll down the hill from the Museum of</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Sydney and it's right there.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Things kick off at 2pm sharp in the auditorium where I'll be giving a 20 minute talk. Yikes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hope to see you there, at the last pit-stop on the <b>52 Suburbs</b> tour of this amazing city called Sydney.</span><br />
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<div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Details:</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Museum of Sydney, cnr Bridge and Phillip Streets</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2pm</div><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">$10 entrance fee</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-5651191110881645342011-05-05T15:21:00.000+10:002011-05-05T15:21:13.675+10:00My mum<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Next week I'll be giving a little talk at the Museum of Sydney at the opening of the exhibition and</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> book launch. I'm dreaming it up as we speak, wondering how best to do it. When I come to the bit where</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I thank people, I would like to be able to thank someone who no longer resides on the earth but</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> remains just as alive in my heart and mind as ever - my mum.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The problem is, it's hard to talk through tears. And tears are what inevitably flow when I talk about</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> my mum. I absolutely adored Maureen Anne Hawson and miss her unbelievably. She was one of those</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> people who managed to be thoroughly decent and kind at the same time as being incredibly</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I thought I'd thank her here and now, in case I lose it completely on the day and spend my time</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Forgive me for being so sentimental but I hear there's a good internet connection up to the heavens and</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I'd really like her to read this...</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Mum - thanks.<br />
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Not just for being a kick-ass carer of your family.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
</span></i> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: #134f5c;">But for inspiring in me a curiosity about what's around a corner.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hope you like the book. </i></span><br />
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<div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am crossing all my fingers that you're free and can make it on Saturday May 14. </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Because as exciting as the book launch and exhibition are, I'm just as excited at </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the thought of meeting the people who helped to make <b>52 Suburbs</b> such an </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">amazing experience - my virtual travelling companions - you! Especially if you've </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">been following the blog for a while and perhaps left the odd comment from time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to time - it would be just wonderful to put name to face. </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'll be giving a bit of a talk and then it'll be up to the gallery space for a spin around </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the 52 suburbs followed by a spot of avo tea and a book signing. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I really do hope you can make it. </span></div>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-75731156779434032222011-04-10T13:28:00.000+10:002011-04-10T13:28:03.364+10:00from Lakemba to Surry Hills<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yesterday was too good to stay chained to the computer. Perfect blue sky and two things of interest on the</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I also wanted to show my book to show some of the people in Lakemba that I photographed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> If I didn't physically take it there, I doubt they'd ever know they were in the book. I could only find one</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> family so I decided to show other random people the book anyway - and photograph them having a flick</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I met Allen, Roba and their daughter Sabah 18 months ago when I took their photograph inside their</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After leaving them I wandered down the main street and showed the book to random people. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 3: Surry Hills Festival</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">From the land of veils to skimpy frocks and free flowing beer, Surry Hills. I can't give a fair account of the</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">while it lasted.</span></span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-17690018820945013712011-03-31T15:36:00.004+11:002011-03-31T18:07:30.091+11:00Redfern revisited<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In between exhibition preparation I'm spending some time in Redfern at the moment on a small photographic</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> job. Having visited it last March for <i>52 Suburbs</i> I wasn't expecting any new surprises really. But it turns out</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Redfern </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">is continuing its bold march towards interestingness at quite a pace.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Take <a href="http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org/">The White Rabbit Gallery</a> for example. I had no idea this extraordinary place existed where one </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> family's contemporary Chinese art collection gets rotated every so often. N</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ot a single Ming jar in sight</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.seasonalconcepts.com.au/SC_Site/HOME.html">Seasonal Concepts</a>, filled with everything from a stuffed giraffe to fresh flowers, has been there for a</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> while. But there's a vibrant new bar/restaurant, <a href="http://www.eathousediner.com.au/">the Eathouse Diner</a>, and judging by the feverish </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And when I left Redfern yesterday afternoon, I walked past some people having a personal training session</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 1: On the walls of Redfern</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part 4: There's a storm a comin, time to vamoosh</span><br />
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Hope you enjoyed a brief moment in Redfern, 2011 style. See you soonish.</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-74830687321497858272011-03-21T18:14:00.000+11:002011-03-21T18:14:37.996+11:00rain and sun<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Seems hardly right to complain about a bit of extra rain given the recent tragedies unfolding around the planet.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> But I can't wait for the moment that the sun streams through the dark grey, creating the most wonderful of light. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'll be back with new material just as soon as the rain stops pelting down.</span>Louise Hawsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365690239711837847noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224835141360424669.post-44331906342953388212011-03-17T21:43:00.001+11:002011-03-17T21:46:14.960+11:00green is good<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Someone asked me the other day what I was up to. I explained that I was working on getting</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As we were talking it dawned on me that as necessary as the life stuff is and as exciting as the</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> upcoming book launch and exhibition are, I am really <i>really</i> missing being out there with my </span><br />
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Unable to throw myself into a new project until mid May, I've decided to do a 'between projects'</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> project: to simply photograph random things that I happen upon wherever I may be. Radical</span><br />
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Today, for example, I met with a friend at Circular Quay to do two things I've been meaning to do</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> for ages: visit the pop-up uber-eco cafe, <a href="http://greenhousebyjoost.com/">Greenhouse by Joost</a>, and see the <a href="http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=11&content_id=7400">Annie Leibovitz exhibition</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> at the MCA. We'd arranged to meet at Greenhouse first and on my way there I passed by a lovely</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> 10am. With five minutes to go before I was to meet my friend, I took a couple of snaps.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wishing them well, I walked down to meet my friend at Greenhouse. It is a pretty amazing sight - </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fed and watered but most of all inspired, we left to see the Annie </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Leibovitz</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> exhibition. Another </span><br />
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