So every second or so Friday night I have been doing something a little out of the ordinary.

One of my friends is a very talented photographer. He has been working on an ongoing photography/research project based around the night life of the notorious Kings Cross area. I've been his assistant driving the car, looking out for cops, bowling bowl (one of the apparent toughs) and hazards such as "doof doof" drivers (hoons, morons etc). While I've been driving he has been filming or taking pictures of the night life. The second part of the project involves talking to the locals. At this point it's mostly the prostitutes. It's been an interesting experience even from the car. We are going to continue the drive by filming/photography into the summer so we have a complete picture of how the landscape changes with the seasons.

My mate has put together a blog complete with pictures and eye opening stories about life at the cross. Do check it out via the link below, there are some risky pics so I would not recommend viewing it at work.

The project is simply called "Cruising", scroll further down to get to the first entry and make your way up the page.

Cruising

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It's spring here at least and despite work being as busy as ever I've finished my studies for the year so I'm finally getting around to tidying up.

This means the usual tidying up the apartment, sorting out all my multimedia stuff and culling the LJ list. I don't remove friends from my list unless they never post any more or something has gone seriously wrong between me and a friend (which rarely ever happens).

Today's cull is simply about trimming the fat in terms of communities. I've basically culled off communities that A)Are dead, B) Have become irrelevant or served a specific purpose that no longer exists, C) I'm no longer interested in what is posted or D) They have entered the fandom weird zone and I spend more time doing Spock eyebrow while reading posts then I do enjoying posts.

I've also joined a few more communities and created one of my own (which has no content at the moment- it's a work in progress), but if you've been following my posts and seen what I would like and you want to suggest communities or other LJ users you think I would be interested in following feel free to suggest.

Megan Mullally is planning to resurrect Will and Grace’s inimitable character, Karen Walker, in a stage show -Karen: The Musical

More details here

It's a nice bookend to the series, go watch it! and no spoilers from me.

My lips are sealed, till you all go see it!

I was at amazon.com pre-ordering the plan (though by the time I get it everyone will no doubt have seen it) and I noticed they were advertising the new BSG calendar and shock horror they actually use one of the older actors on the cover. Now I can't seem to see what pictures they have chosen inside are but is it too much to ask that they a) Use pictures that are actually from the latest season? b) Don't completely dominate the calendar with Starbuck and Six and random characters that had very little screen time? and c) Actually include Roslin this time?

If anyone manages to find out any more about the calendar and if it at least meets a) and c) can you send me a message or something. I'd like to get a new calendar soon.

Meanwhile I always spell callender with an "e" yet spell check says I'm wrong. Is the inclusion of an "a" instead of an "e" an American spelling or is my dyslexia playing up again? lol

BSG Calender

..when you keep checking your gmail account for an invite to Google Wave. People this will so change the way people collaborate on everything over the internet. From business reports to fanfic this shit is going to kick it up a notch.

Hey does anyone know if the BSG transcripts for season 4 are online any where? I usually go to a site called TWIZ (or something like that) but they only have the transcripts up to the first half of season 4. I'm looking for "A disquiet that follows my soul" in particular. I watched it the other day and wanted to check the wording of something that was said in Baltar's speech.

I'm getting together my last minute travel items for the convention in Atlanta this week (so freaking excited!) any who as I am from Australia I have different power cords then you guys in America so I need to buy plugs that will fit in to the wall sockets there.

Any way I was at the airport today to sort out some other travel details and I went to pick up some plugs and the lady there said I would need to double check whether the area I was in used 2 pin or 3 pin power sockets.

Pictured is a 3 pin power socket below:



So does Atlanta use 2 or 3 pin power sockets? Cause lord knows I need my hair dryer to work lol.

The Laura Painting that is :)

As you may remember I mentioned my brother painting me a painting of Laura Roslin from a promo pic I choose. Well he finished it and I picked it up today. Now it is hanging along side the other painting he did for me of a cylon centurion.

Bear in mind I am not the world's greatest photographer I have 3 pics behind the cut (1 of the Laura painting by itself, one of the original promo picture and one of the cylon and Laura together)

My brother who also thinks Laura is awesome has called the painting the Mona Laura because of the slight smile she has in the picture.

( Who do you want to be? )

Does anyone have any experience converting MKV files to AVI?

MKV is a file type often used for high definition video. One such video I have in this format I need to edit in my video editing software. However my editing software will not accept this file format so ideally I would like to convert it to AVI.

I have done a brief google search on possible options for converters but many of them aren't free and the trial versions often leave a watermark.

Does any one have any other options for a converter that can achieve the above requirements?

Lovelies does anyone have a high res pic of the Laura promo pic from season 2's episode Home part 1? It's where she is leaning on the table looking all badass while Zarek and co bitch about when Kara will show up.

I need it for something EPIC and like now pleasums?

Edit: Never mind I found it!

Never mind I can fix that.

Lots of people on my flist write fanfic and as the writers of fanfic you all know the simple rule of disclaimers and the fact that you are only borrowing characters and not making any money from someone elses creation right? Right.

So I went to one of my favourite blogs Fandom Wank and found this entry about one fic writer who really doesn't get this concept, to the point where she has put her book on Amazon.

So behold the woman who may bring the downfall of all Twilight thank god! fan fiction!

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As some of you may already know what keeps involved in fandom discussions long after the curtain closes has a lot to do with the continual societal questions the show/movie/book/play offers. Just like in fandom in real life what holds my attention aren't the debates with clear cut answers or discussions that actually bring about solutions but the discussions that bring up new questions and ideas for us to think about and in turn ask ourselves new questions about what we believe and how that reflects in our every day life.

That's why I think the following clip I'm going to link to is an important place to start asking ourselves questions.

A show I want to talk about isn't a scripted drama or comedy, it's actually a show about advertising on the only network channel in Australia that has no advertising, known as The Gruen transfer. The ABC which is funded by the government didn't allow the following clip to be shown. The clip however has been made available online with all warnings about it's content included.

You may be asking yourself what is in this clip that is so bad it would be pulled from TV. Well the clip shows an ad made as a result of The Gruen transfer segment "the pitch". The Pitch involves two advertising agencies receiving a pitch based on something difficult to advertise and having to put together a commercial for it. Last week the challenge was to make a commercial advertising the benefits of having the Cane Toad (a notorious Australian pest) as a pet. Many of the commercials are funny, a little risqué and occasionally serious.

This week's pitch involved the idea of "Fat Pride" where agencies had to address shape discrimination in Australia. The agency that was allowed to show their ad based the commercial on the idea that fat Australians were saving our economy by consuming so many resources, that ad you can view on The Gruen Transfer website here.

The ad that isn't there the ABC have made available on another website. I won't tell you what it is about as when you go to the website there is a brief description of the ad and its' intent. If you feel up to it then watching the linked video on the site, particularly the discussions afterwards by the panel is very enlightening.

I came to this footage knowing the controversy and having read the jokes. When I watched the whole video this afternoon I felt challenged by my previous view of this ad and the reasons behind it and in a rare moment for me I agreed and understood each view point held by the panel and was challenged by all the ideas I was presented with.

So in the spirit of being challenged watch this.

When they first played Voyager here in Oz they played Caretaker as one complete episode yet I know that when it was played else where or repeated on cable they would split it up in 2 parts.

My question is, where abouts in the Caretaker episode did part 2 start?

Why? well I'm putting a few old school episodes on my MP3 player and want to break them up in the usual 45min format. Gives me something to watch when public transport abandons me in some dodgy part of Redfern.

x-posted to sjishere

Does anyone know of a website that compares DVD content between the various DVD regions?

I'm trying to find information for a friend on the show Extras. He seems to think that the UK DVD of the show has more extras than the US version he bought. I tried looking through Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk as well as wiki with no luck. Anyone have a clue where I could look next?

It's the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.

Must. have. Must. have. Must. have..

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