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Clone wars movie not that bad

Yeah it looks tacky but, while no masterpiece, this is still a lot more enjoyable than the last three SW movies – in fact it is almost a return to the spirit of the first two Star Wars flicks ever, yeah i mean the original and Empire Strikes Back. Perhaps the absence of Lucas is what helps here – the writing is fresher, and actually has laughs. The story moves along well, there is kick-ass action and the characters, tho animated, seem a hell of a lot more natural than the real life versions of the past three movies.

Perhaps Clone War's connection to TV has also helped it get a bit more with the times.

I would recommend this movie to all die-hard Wars fans (I am one)– especially to those disillusioned by Phantom Menace and its sequels. This small movie breathes new life into the series. Ironic isn't it?

Obama portrait

There def appears to be a lot of people out there - including artists - who are digging Obama and placing a bit of hope in him. I seem to be seeing more portraits of him all the time.

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Window papered over by exterior painters

 

Salut! Baroque performance, 13 August, Sydney

(pictured - Handel)

You can't really do wrong with Baroque Music, especially if you are feeling jaded. As soon as it starts you are won over, no matter what your mood is - the urbane elegance, the sophisticated melancholy, the wit of its endless experiments, is quite simply better than anything you can throw back at it. The music is like a supremely indifferent vampire, or Duchess, casually self assured no matter the era or the generation.

This performance - including music by Handel, Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Caldara and Albinoni, performed by a troupe of experienced and talented players led by artistic directors Sally Melhuish and Tim Blomfield at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, was a pleasure.

Anime lessons

This is worth reading if you love anime: http://www.abcb.com/misc/latt_03.htm

clipped from www.abcb.com All I Ever Learned, I Learned from Anime

Mark Jenkins: Street Installations

Art you can do lying down

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Samurai Champloo

 

Video: Curren$y f. FS Jets "Air Assult"

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Courtney Brimms at Monster Children

clipped from www.lostateminor.com Courtney Brims is a talented young Australian artist with an exhibition of new running at Sydney’s Monster Children Gallery until August 7th. Read more

Chris Mars - mutant fairy story art

clipped from www.lostateminor.com Chris Mars paints the kind of paintings you’d expect to find in the basement of a serial killer after he’s shown the cops where all the bodies are. Read more

Fabulous Diamonds - er - quirky I guess

clipped from www.thefader.com Freeload: Fabulous Diamonds, "LP7" Australia's Fabulous Diamonds new EP is available right now from Siltbreeze Records, who are mostly responsible for releasing good albums by bands that sound like they play twenty dollar guitars through cell phones and record that onto a Talkboy. Download: Fabulous Diamonds, "LP7"

Camilla d'Errico Release: "Malificent"

clipped from www.juxtapoz.com Camilla d'Errico Release: "Malificent"

Curren$y-She On My Mind

Check out this song

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