I’ve been doing some work for some Brisbane property clients recently which has lead me to start collecting blogs and news stories about the current state of Brisbane property. Here’s a few RSS feeds I hope you’ll find usefu if you’re interested in keeping up to date with news about Brisbane real estate.
I was scanning the lead story in the local rag “The Independent” (which is a thinly disguised excuse for some property ads) over a quick lunch today. It’s about how Stephen Fitzgerald, the guy who has owned Ric’s Bar and Fat Boys Cafe in Fortitude Valley for the last 15 years is calling it quits due, he says, to “The Hill Song Brigade and Bligh”.
It read like a serious article until I got to this section on page two:
He had to “get his COC out”? “We got the COC in our hands…”??
I don’t know who the guy on the left is, but the guy on the right is Orson Welles.
In the online version of the story, The Independent uses this photo instead:
Well the story made me laugh but it’s a serious issue and it’ll be a shame to see Ric’s / Fat Boys go. I’ve seen a lot of great new bands there, including one of @pressdarling’s outfits. I think Fat Boys was the first place I had coffee in Brisbane when I moved here and it was great to know that a good latte could be found here, although, I’m sad to say, the last couple of coffees I had there were quite below par.
Three 13 year-old girls and an 11 year-old boy make up the Brisbane band who call themselves The Danger Bunnies. I caught up with them recently to chat about their inspirations, aspirations, and crows.
Cubozoa –L-09 is a hauntingly beautiful and dramatic interactive and mutating installation which explores what happens to organisms when competition is removed by human depletion of fish and other environmental factors. It takes its cue from the invasion of the Brisbane River by blue blubber jellyfish.
New York based Taiwanese artist Shih Chieh Huang’s work explores the unusual evolutionary adaptations undertaken by creatures that reside in inhospitable conditions.
He creates analogous ecosystems in his installations and populates them with organic living things made from common, everyday domestic objects that comprise our modern existence.
These objects are reconstructed into experimental primitive organisms that reside on the fringes of evolutionary transformation: computer cooling fans are re-purposed for loco-motion, Tupperware serves as a skeletal framework, guitar tuners rewired to detect sound, and automatic night lights become a sensory input.
Cubozoa–L-09 is part of the 2009 Arc Biennial of Art which runs from September to December 2009 and will showcase innovative and groundbreaking works of Australian and International visual artists through an extensive program of exhibitions, installations and workshops.
For more information on the 2009 Arc Biennial of Art, including program information and full event listings please visit arcbiennial.com.
Ozfrank is a theatre company based in brisbane who have written a new musical based on the songs of nick cave – ‘up jumped the devil’. i caught up with the director and cast to chat with them during one of their rehearsals. By tickets to the show via qtix.
Joshua Levi Galleries, located in Woolloongabba, is an art space revamped from an old antique shop. Josh, an artist himself, seeks out emerging artists that he can explode into public awareness by combining a funky “dero-chic” gallery space with live music and attention-grabbing stunts.
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you? —Bix Beiderbecke
During the Valley Jazz Festival I caught up with three of Brisbane’s best young jazz musicians – Rafael Karlen from the West End Composers Collective, Laura Kahle who is now based in NY but was a co-founder of the WECC and the guest composer and conductor for the WECC during the festival, and Andrew Garton from The Abbreviations Orchestra – to talk about the state of jazz in Brisbane.
Sam Eyles is a Brisbane artist whose latest show, Perserverance, was recently featured at Juggler’s Gallery in Fortitude Valley. I chatted with Sam about the theme of his work, what the role of an artist is in modern Australian society and the art scene in Brisbane.
John Ronchi and Eugene Phua, owners of Campos Coffee in Fortitude Valley, were generous enough to be guests on the pilot episode of this show back in October 2008. So I was very pleased to hear recently that Campos has been voted the best cafe in the country by the thousands of their customers who participated in the annual LifeStyle FOOD Channel’s I Love FOOD Awards 2009. I sat down with John and Eugene again last week to get a tour of their roasting facility and to learn more about the wonders of the mighty bean.
Queensland Art Gallery presents “American Impressionism & Realism” and “The Met Up Late”, weekly live music performances, jazz DJ and talks. I managed to chat to the performers who opened this year’s event – Aussie rock legends Kim Salmon and Dave Graney. Check out details about the exhibition and upcoming performances at qag.qld.gov.au/the_met.
