BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-22

July 22nd, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • Hershey's Kisses and Jellybelly beans from the newly opened Costco! How more American can I get?? #fb #
  • @TheGLB just saw some cool late art done by the kid with the coffee cart. 'Cappuccino cat'. the face has already been drunk. Photo tomorrow! #
  • Orphaned kids living with disability? :( Proud to launch new site for hporphanage.asn.au! :) Background blog post: http://t.co/mOPVfhd #fb #
  • dichogamy is weird. Avocado flowers switch sex every time they open and close! That's an Avocado Fact! #fb #

The Friends of Huong Phuong Orphanage

July 18th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

Events, or accounts of events, often drive my focus. I’ve always said context is important. With it you can better understand the human values at play in a given circumstance. When I heard about an orphanage for disabled kids in central Vietnam and the story behind it the thought “Must help…!” was evoked. Not that we don’t have orphans living with disability here in Australia. But I happen to know someone who got caught up ‘in the whole thing’. He’s Lithuanian, has a huge knowledge of  Australian indigenous history, and now has decided to help out in Vietnam.

Visitors here and friends know that I’ve spent a some time attempting to support local community here in Australia. Focusing on Canberra was driven by the idea of ‘get your own house in order first’. With homeless and poor, those in need, in significant numbers in my home city the direction of my civic duty is clear enough. Spending the time that I have in the community service sector has taught me a few things about spotting projects that have hope and those that, while well intentioned, are likely not to make it. Some people have a conscious or sub-conscious drive, focus, that can be clear to see. It’s less about commitment and more simply about being configured in a certain way. Sometimes, rarely it seems, a particular configuration of idiosyncrasies of an individual  match with a collective need and social ability is created. Financial, political and social structures, so intertwined, can be massaged at the same time and in a certain way, given the context, to produce a progressive outcome. In this case the status quo is being challenged by a small group of dedicated people in Australia. The view is to improve the living conditions for a group of orphans living with cerebral palsy, deafness, blindness and psychiatric problems in Vietnam. At the same time they will provide scholarships for education to the women that provide the care to the orphans. A remote association driven by immediate and local needs isn’t a new way of operating and in the past impressive outcomes have been the result. The ideas from this group seem clear enough to me, the level of detail and research that has gone into forming the project is sensible and at many levels impressive. Most importantly the goals are achievable!

That’s why I am proud to announce the launch of Friends of Huong Phuong Orphanage Inc’s website: http://hporphanage.asn.au.

BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-15

July 15th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • very disappointed by the actions of @greenpeaceaustp in Canberra today. Myself + others now rethinking our support for the organisation. #
  • very disappointed by the actions of @greenpeace in Canberra today. Myself + others now rethinking our support for the organisation. #
  • 'Can not save because file in is use.' yes that's right, computer! In use by me, trying to save it. #
  • Enemy of The State In My Pants, why not? #improvefilmtitlesbyaddinginmypants #
  • Super Size Me… in my… pants? *sigh* #improvefilmtitlesbyaddinginmypants #
  • @rbravonet ah cool! all is normal here. I assume you will be using the time off for a marathon gym session? ^_^ #
  • working day in full swing and still no sign of @rbravonet! Whatever shall we do?? #
  • Will only be satisfied by a lime milkshake this morning! #
  • @rbravonet outrageous! I just walked through something that wasn't snow, wasn't sleet but wasn't rain either. Cold enough to be ALL THREE!!! #

BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-08

July 8th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • hitting the gym with @rbravonet and Team Fitness. GO TEAM! #
  • pie stains and hoummus on official documents :( the auditors will love me! #fb #
  • super powerful winds this morning. It's raining there are no clouds above me!! #fb #

BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-01

July 1st, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • my twitter app has had all tweets as 5 days old for the past week. This will never do! #
  • such a scenic drive in today! #
  • @rbravonet and actually I don't think they meant to hurt me as much as they did. #
  • @rbravonet yep, only a few hundred metres from my house! It was an opportunistic thing, clearly they were not local and passing through. #
  • @rbravonet they jumped on my back while I was on the ground (2008) had a lot of digital albums they made off with! Like losing CDs + player! #
  • @rbravonet inspiring post! When i was mugged I learned the fragility of a digital music collection and my collar bone. Back up your iPod!! #

11,000 Lanterns Floating Over Poland

June 29th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

Sweeeeet!!!


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BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-06-24

June 24th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • always manages to misspell the important tweets! #
  • just went passed the #Diamant I've never seen so many emergency services! #fb #
  • tea at perfect temperature. Happy. #
  • James Blake @ The Metro, July 30th = Heck yes. http://t.co/Z3Vu4Fm #

Two music facts

June 20th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

We have an old 45 that has on it Prince’s work that was rereleased for Tim Burton’s Batman. I used to listen to it as a kid. Didn’t like it all that much, really. Born in 1985 I missed out on the Prince thing and have always wondered how exactly he became associated with the Batman franchise. It turns out that originally it was envisioned that Michael Jackson and George Michael would work with Prince on tracks to be composed for the movie. MJ dropped out early on and legal complications with George Michael’s record label saw him miss the gig. Apparently Prince got so into the movie that he went off and scored the whole thing by himself. Unsurprisingly it was never used. Instead we ended up with Danny Elfman’s score and we’re all better off for it. That’s a movie music trivia fact.

Another fact that exciting news has emerged that James Blake is on tour and performing in Australia. Thanks to James’s eagle eye while leafing through BMA we have tickets to the July 30 show at The Metro. This kid has emerged fast and he was an act I had on my list of “would love to see, but am unlikely to anytime soon” performers. He’s done some remarkable work and while Lisa informs me that he’s now well known in the UK, I’d still say this is a bit of an underground sound. Get in while you still can because you’d be silly to miss it!

JAMES BLAKE

BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-06-17

June 17th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • @Kate_Alexandra hmm that didn't entirely make sense. Watch out for the hobo that smells like cabbage. Is all I'm saying. #
  • @Kate_Alexandra two outta three ain't bad! #

BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-06-10

June 10th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

If rain drops were made of chocolate

June 9th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

I know a lot of teachers. A number of my friends are teachers, I have family who are or have been teachers. I know people training to be teachers. A hugely honorable vocation, teaching forms the cosmic line between humanity and animalism. It provides a positive, powered, position to push back against the things that are wrong in this world. Each teacher has had to deal with the best and the worst in individual circumstances, each in their own way.

What follows is one of the saddest video I’ve ever seen.

But at the same time, through the horror, comes inspiration. There’s no actual physical violence pictured in this video and I suppose that’s part of the point. How my friends would behave in a situation like this I guess I could never say. But I do hope (if you can use that word here) that it would be similar to the following:



BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-06-03

June 3rd, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • @rbravonet oh… I thought you meant the drug! Well nevermind..! #
  • @rbravonet probably depends on it's end use! :p #
  • fogmaster 5000! #fb #
  • ready to learn about the #varroadestructor with @rbravonet. We're buzzing with excitement! #
  • word of the day is 'parthenocarpic'. "Seedless watermelon! They did it! It's done! We have it now." #fb #
  • cold out here. Would have been easier to check The Bureau's website.. #fb #
  • @piawaugh my hair is alway like that, sans supportive comments. Its a symbiotic relationship; it needs a place to live, my head needs warmth #

Items of Interest

May 28th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

An older album by Solar Fields recently popped up on my radar. Used as the soundtrack for the new game Capsized, ‘Movements’ is good news. Released in 2009 it sits right next to Solar Field’s soundtrack composed for EA’s Mirror’s Edge. I’ve had the Mirror’s Edge soundtrack for ages now but only recently played the game, it’s always interesting to make the connection after so long. If you’re a fan of the music in the game, you’ll be loving Movement’s music album oriented tracks. Definitely worth the buy!


Solar Fields - Movements

Meanwhile Jon Hopkins’ album also from 2009 is making an impression here at BuzzMoo HQ. The variety of styles contained in his album Insides is impressively broad. It sits in form something like The Flashbulb’s Soundtrack To A Vacant Life. The first track of Insides ‘The Wider Sun’ will take you far away. You can go as far as space, even, with Light Through the Veins. Brilliant stuff.



In other news Elroy plows ahead. There’s nothing stopping him and his weirdo movie buff friends – and I mean that! There’s absolutely nothing stopping that guy uploading stuff to the Internet. He’s been doing it for ages now. This week among other things the Remote Viewing crew cover Pirates of The Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides. I saw it on Tuesday in 3D because the stupid cinema was making people pay more to see it in 2D. Socialised with work friends, actually. We weren’t sure it was a good idea but no harm came of it, in the end. The movie is supposed to be based on a book that is very entertaining and is the inspiration for some of the things you love about Monkey Island and the first three Pirates films. On Stranger Tides, written by Tim Powers and published in 1987, is pulp fiction that gives you pirate action mixed with voodoo mystery. Its action is pictured just before Hollywood got the technology to show it on the big screen. Pirates 4 is tenuously connected in the main plot line but you’ll be disappointed if you expect the movie to pick up and use the ideas that made the book entertaining. Darn!

Despite moving towards “getting out of IT” I have of course still had IT related bits and pieces going on. We’ve launched the ACT Chronic Fatigue Society’s new Joomla powered site which turned out to be an easy gig, completed entirely without the input of a designer. They’ve taken to the new tech very well and have started adding content already. Peter Kabaila has been in central Vietnam helping extend an orphanage for poor disabled kids and he’s taken some photos of the work. Apparently they could use help with their limited IT means, too.. He’s also published an amazing new book on Aboriginal life here in this region called ‘Survival Legacies‘. I have a copy and I encourage everyone to get one for themselves. Meanwhile i’ve also been helping Rafe out with his online presence but it’s not ready to go yet. He’s a funny kid. Our meetings generally follow an hour or so of my floundering in the pool, which still happens on a regular basis. But more on that later.

This year’s University of Canberra graphic design students have put on their final exhibition dubbed ‘Taste Test Exhibition‘. I’ve been hosting the site for the event which by all account was a huge success. The site details the student’s style and aspirations and won’t be the last web page you see them featured on.

There was more but this alone is enough to say ‘not a bad week!’ and leave it at that.

 

BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-05-27

May 27th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • @rbravonet i assume there are still cartoons on! Better to watch them instead if that Sunrise drivel. #
  • classic Canberra autumn morning. Crisp, clear and awesome colours. #fb #
  • lunching with @katinacurtis. All off the record if course! #
  • Kit Kat Chunky Caramel = all I need. #fb #
  • @rbravonet it's an approved treatment method right? Cold air at -1c for 7.5hrs #
  • wishes they'd fix the aircon in here. Maybe colder outside than in… and this is a Canberra autumn morning! #
  • @piawaugh that too! #
  • @piawaugh damn. At least you didnt loose an eye! #
  • @rbravonet you should have just come in super early! #
  • nothing greyer than Fyshwick on an overcast morning. #

BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-05-20

May 20th, 2011Posted by BuzzMoo

  • @theromulans pics or it didn't happen!! #
  • added to my collection of office plants. Have enough of a jungle now to warrant the purchase of some dinosaur toys! #
  • is being stalked by the angry sleep monster #fb #
  • @theromulans I'm enjoying the updates … but what is your actual job? If they pay people for coverage like that sign me up! #
  • @piawaugh I hear you. I avoid peak hour at all costs, would take the bus but can't afford towards 2hrs of unreliable transit a day! #
  • @theromulans then it's only a matter of time!! #
  • @theromulans are there any bees nearby? My buzzmoo sense is tingling. #
  • went to go to bed but ended up eating cake instead. #