RED DOG

I don't think I've cried so much, or been so pleased with a film like this for a long long time.

RED DOG is the story about a real dog that was given the same name. He was adopted by the Dampier community and became famous locally when he travellied the North West of the State. As this excert from the wikipedia shows...

Red spent a lot of time travelling on his own, although he was taken in by many members of the community and a veterinarian who treated him.[6] Red was made a member of the Dampier Salts Sport and Social Club and the Transport Union. He was also given a bank account with the Wales Bank, which is said to have used him as a mascot and sales tool with the slogan "If Red banks at the Wales, then you can too."

...he was much loved as well.

 

Cutting back

After a rediculous debarkle last night I'm cutting back on my time in Second Life. For me, the thing that's kept me going back was the PLAY element in it all, of creating stuff like clothes, buildings and things, and of making a web comic using it (which I do thouoroughly enjoy doing). However, of late it's becomejust as confusing and stressful as real life (yes, probably another reason I frequent the virtual) and frankly, I need to walk =away from it.

Also, I need to spend more time focussed on my Masters. It's still pretty much stalled at the moment. I do need to a web comic at the same time - something that isn't the Masters - but doing three is a bit much. That means I will finish the current chapter of Return to Second Life and not update Stuff Happens (of which it's a part) much until the Xmas Break (we'll see then). Likewise, I will finish the current sequence in Trope World and put up a notice that it's on hiatus until further notice (though I've also been toying with the idea of moving it as part of Stuff Happens). Tales of teh galli will be kept going, because I already know most of the rest of the story, and want to see it finished. 

Yes, the Masters has to come first.

"Cutting Edge"

I handed in my application and $10 for an entry in CLASSIFY ME - an exhibition to take place at the Watt Space gallery in Newcastle CBD. The exhibition is a protest. To quote the info page:

Earlier this year Tasmanian Senator Guy Barnett launched a senate inquiry into the classification of the visuals arts. If Senator Barnett’s recommendations to the inquiry are accepted artists may be forced to have all their work classified before public display; all art works and art books containing nudity would be classified; all artworks would be restricted to certain age groups and the ‘artistic merit’ of an artwork would no longer be seen as justification for the work’s content.

Of course, now I have to make it! But here's the thing, I had a VISION of what it should look like, and when I get one of those not creating and entering the work would be pissing such an opportunity away. Keep you posted.