The blitz that was..

Just this saturday past, Bondi was again host to the rocking' Blitz concert. At it, about 12 bands from around the greater Sydney area rip their squires and Gibsons out (and various Korg synths if you douchy like that) and play for 25min sets throughout out the day. The concert is targeted at Youth.. and our awareness of certain things.. for example they had this weird facebook stall about privacy and blah blah blah.. Now, you may notice I haven't said a word about Jeff. Well, um.. yeah.. we didn't play. *gasps from the readers erupt* Basically, there was a huge miscommunication.. we wanted a change in set time.. but, we got cut. It was a great shame, I mean cmon.. I was practicing my solo all friggin night, (though apparently it sounds a lot like Reuben's.. There is always the Blymps throughout the year, but they're just not the same.. Blitz is great because its outdoors in the sun.. and a more casual atmosphere, the public just meandering by at will. 

Anyway, so the other day someone asked me on my flickr if I could recommend any good photography website that have teaching resources etc. I was able to tell him a few that he was really pleased with.. but more interestingly, had never seen before. The thing with the internet it.. its such a great resource full of knowledge, information, resources and (other things).. but finding good sites for what you want can be a hard job.. its like a never ending treasure hunt of clicking to page 92728264 of your Google search. So today I thought I'd list some of the sites that I love.. 

Going through all the interests here.. Firstly, http://www.artwhatson.com.au/ is a great site, it tells you exactly that, whats on. It has a list of galleries around NSW that are having certain exhibitions.. inc. where and when.

Of course there is www.flickr.com ... outside of my photostream of course. If you want to see some mindblowing landscapes.. check out Australian/New Zealand photographer Kane Gledhill and his photostream at, http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanegledhill/  . 

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2010/  is hilarious. Just go on it, daily.. as is; http://theoatmeal.com/ check out their comic section as well. 

Finally, there's Reddit. Reddit is an open source "news" site that allows readers and followers to post everything from articles, news stories, experiences of theirs, funny pictures, opinions, music, games, links, websites… it goes on. Now all of that (and this is the great thing about it) is organised into separate catergories or "subreddits". For example, the music sub-reddit is http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/ click on that and you'll just be looking at links, stories, pictures.. basically anything to do with just music. But it doesn't end there.. in the music sub-reddit.. you have links to OTHER music sub-reddits like the guitar one http://www.reddit.com/r/guitar, all your guitar news in one little neat package. Now the thing is.. all the above websites.. I found by reading reddit.. its that good. At first it may look a bit bland.. but give it 5 minutes and I guarantee you'll love it. 

Bonus content for your viewing pleasure:

"It was a nice morning today..."

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Currawong; a little slice of heaven on the north shore.

Just got back from a little paradise 30min from Palm Beach called Currawong.. wow. This place has been in and out of problems for a long time now, basically, its owned by the workers union and use to be leased out to the workers on holidays.. for a while (I think its actually on-going) they wanted to develop it into a 5 star resort of some sort.. and geez, there's good reason too. I've been to a lot of places up and around australia, little coastal hide-aways like this, but nearly all of them didn't have what Currawong had, that was just total bliss and relaxation..

So, it started off on Friday morning where we all met at Paddintong for a morning coffee and breakfast. The 1h 30m drive ahead was looming, but I wasn't worried, my iphone was all charged up and loaded with 3 new albums, The XX; by The xx, Valleys of Neptune; Jimi Hendrix and Angus and Julia Stone's latest masterpiece. Its a nice drive, in fact I don't mind long drives, they're nice and relaxing.. the best being long country drives at night.. anyway. We arrived at Palm Beach shortly, ready to hop on the ferry. The weather was magical, a brilliant 27 or so degrees. The ferry ride took about 30m before we got to our final destination, Currawong Beach Cottages.

So what do you do at currawong? simple. Nothing. Now that sounds bad, but really, you don't have to worry, you have food, music, the sea.. just lying on the jetty watching the clouds go by.. could do it all day. Apart from nothing, you do have the choice of a few games and stuff, there's a Golfcourse (on my second hit it went into the lake, never to be found again), tennis courts, volleyball and pingpong, all the gear free to use.

After a bit of lying around, climatizing, we went on an adventure to the top of 'Champagne Rock'. Basically, its about a 15 min walk from the cottages through the hillside, or rather, up the hill with rocks and awesome danger. But the scabbed knees and cuts were all worth it, the view was quite something, from the top, you looked over the whole Pittwater area, all the sailing boats out doing their thing (I use to sail at Pittwater, won the national champs in 2006, go us.). Up the top we popped the Champz and took in the view and laughed the afternoon away.
It is an amazing place for photography, I took around 300 photos, as well as a panoramic series from the top of Champz rock. The water is so damn blue! it was like we were boating through the Mentanwai islands! If your one of those photogs that fancies wildlife, this is the place for you, daily, we'd see heaps of Wallabies and all different kinds of birds. Nice stuff, don't seem to mind the humans, weirdly..

So i'd defiantly go back again, for a longer time aswell. Its got to be one of the best places just to get away from it all.. like there is no excuse to just go to the shops like you can on other holidays.. there is no shops! the 'shop' comes by boat every morning at 8am! So that was my slice of bliss for the month.