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Mar 19 2013
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Network launch, QUT

Tuesday 19th March 2013, 3.55pm (day 572)

Christine, HERN launch, 19/3/13

Feel like I should feature on here some of the nice people at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) who have set up this academic visit of mine and are doing their best to make me feel at home. This is Christine, speaking at today’s launch of the HERN (Higher Education Research Network), in the atrium of one of their impressive new buildings (in fact, on the floor above the Digital Barrier Reef which featured back in early February). There are actually a couple of hundred people in this room at this point, but I like the sense of emptiness in the shot.

Incidentally, I think the following universities have featured on this blog at some point, in no particular order: Manchester, QUT, Charles Sturt, Helsinki, Otago, Alabama, Leeds, Birmingham City, Bergen, Bergen University College (these are two different institutions) and the Academy of National Economy in Moscow. The nicest campus? Er…. probably Alabama.

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Mar 10 2013
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Neil Young

Sunday 10th March 2013, 9.05pm (day 563)

Even if he didn’t sing it at the Sydney Entertainment Center tonight – this man wrote Down By the River. For that reason alone, I’d have his babies.

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Mar 09 2013
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Hyde Park, Sydney

Saturday 9th March 2013, 2.15pm (day 562)

Hyde Park, Sydney, 9/3/13

This is definitely one of the world’s more photogenic cities – I got a whole bunch today that I might have put up here. I know there is a voyeuristic element to taking photos of strangers without them knowing, but look, they’re looking good and I hope I honour them by putting it up here. A fine city, yes. Lots to like.

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Mar 04 2013
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Research awayday, Charles Sturt University

Monday 4th March 2013, 2.00pm (day 557)

CSU research meeting, 4/3/13

Just to confirm that I am still getting on with the occasional day’s work while on this trip. In Manchester we are lucky if we can get a sight of the smelly and overtrafficked Oxford Road from one of our office windows, here at CSU in Wagga we have a view of miles of uninterrupted hills, scrub and vineyards.

Also a happy birthday to Joe today – 10 years old, born 04/03/03 (and yes, we have all sometimes regretted that he arrived 14.6 hours too late to have a really numerically cool birth date). Sorry I couldn’t be there, my son.

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Feb 20 2013
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Waiting for the penguins

Wednesday 20th February 2013, 8.55pm (day 545)

 

Waiting for penguins, 20/2/13

First night on Stewart Island: not only the most southerly place I have been, but pretty much the most southerly place one can go. Only the very bottom of South America, the Falkland Islands (or Malvinas), and Antarctica are further south than here.

Evening entertainment in Oban, the only settlement on Stewart Island, consists either of going to the one pub, or hanging out here on the dock waiting for the penguins to turn up. We did see one. But as is often the case, it turned out more productive to photograph the crowd and not what the crowd was waiting for. (Incidentally, having got to know her a little tonight, it turns out the woman to second right here is a highly accomplished photographer in her own right, far better than me – see her blog here.)

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Feb 19 2013
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On the bus to Invercargill

Tuesday 19th February 2013, 2.20pm (day 544)

Bus to Invercargill, 19/2/13

Since I took this photograph I have been speculating about the reason why this item of clothing exists, and I’ll be damned if I can work it out.

Still, it was more interesting than anything I could find in Invercargill tonight. On to Stewart Island tomorrow.

 

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Feb 12 2013
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Retro exercise, Botanical Gardens

Tuesday 12th February 2013, 11.55am (day 537)

Hula hooper, 12/2/13

 

Blimey. I haven’t seen anyone doing this seriously in years, possibly decades, have you?

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Feb 11 2013
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Debs, on the balcony

Monday 11th February 2013, 7.00pm (day 536)

Debs on balcony, 11/2/13

 

This is Debs who is a regular of the Railway (you’ve seen it often enough) – she has been here for a while visiting family and we both happened to be in Brisbane tonight, so shared a couple of Guinnesses (there they are) at the Irish pub with its cool balcony on the corner of George and Elizabeth Streets. Sláinte!

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Feb 09 2013
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Jetty jumping, Glenelg

Saturday 9th February 2013, 2.20pm (day 534)

Jetty jumping, 9/2/13

 

What is it with Antipodeans and their urge to fling themselves off high places? Don’t expect any bungee jumping action shots from me on my upcoming trip to New Zealand, either. Glenelg is one of Adelaide’s beach suburbs, very busy today but it does have great sand so one can see why. Last day in South Australia, back to Brisbane – briefly – tomorrow.

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Jan 31 2013
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GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art), Brisbane

Thursday 31st January 2013, 3.55pm (day 525)

GOMA visitor, 31/1/13

 

This is an exhibit by (if I remember rightly) Tiffany Chung – who has cast literally thousands of little glass animals and arranged them in this twenty-foot long swirl. There were lots of interesting pieces in this place today, for the ‘APT7’ (Asia-Pacific Triennale) exhibition. I was more into taking photos of the visitors, though.

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