Plentiful in Portland

A love letter to the eats, drinks and general weirdness of Portland, as seen in the August edition of QANTAS The Australian Way. 

Memories from the Polaroid tin

Ask people to pose for a Polaroid and they almost always smile. What's not to love?

Ben Shewry (Attica) and Christian Puglisi (Relæ), Attica, Melbourne, March 2012

 Clare Valley, South Australia, February 2012

Hendrick's Theatre of Curiosities, Sydney, April 2012

 

Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, New Zealand, July 2011

MAD 2012 Polaroids

In keeping with the retro photography theme of this blog, here's a selection of Polaroids from my recent trip to Denmark for a friend's wedding and the MAD 2012 Food Symposium. I'm slowly coming around to the new Impossible Project film, but expired original Polaroid material is still number one in my heart and worth shelling out the extra bucks for.

Etiquette for flyers

Great snippet from a piece with Andrew W.K. in the current edition of the excellent Aussie skate, art and subculture quarterly, Monster Children. And it's true. Being in the middle seat has zero benefits. No view out the window and being able to crash out on a long-haul flight. Not being able to grab stuff from the overhead locker or go to the bathroom without having to disturb others. While we're on the issue of airline etiquette, do people really need to put their seat back all the way the instant the seat belt light goes out? On certain planes - the swanky Airbus jets that Thai Airways fly between Perth and Bangkok, for instance - the economy class seats recline so far back that it's actually impossible for the person behind to eat their meal or watch their television screen. Yes, first world problems, indeed, but I don't think there's anything wrong with making a call for considerate behaviour either.