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Because everyone's videos are awesome..

To get you even more excited....

I took these when I went for a walk around my neighbourhood yesterday afternoon. I had to walk to clear my thoughts and de-stress, and that gave me the opportunity to get REALLY excited about meeting everyone. I can't wait! (Although I am still kind of nervous, but the excitement is winning right now!)


So, because I was thinking about you kids I took some photos for you. These are supposed to give you an insight into one of the many sides of Sydney you are about to experience.
This is the South side...Cronulla Beach. These are taken along the cliffwalk above the beach, literally at the end of my street.





Are you excited yet??

xx Ash

YOUR TASK MEA CULPAS

Take a photograph of five separate discarded (complete) objects you find in the street and make a note of its exact location/address.
See you next week!

just confirming...

friday the 16th of may,
im picking up jacquie and jim from the airport very early in the morning.

jacquie is coming to stay with me? at least for a few days.
does anyone know where jim staying? so i can look up where im going...

Ebony!

(prepare for good times!)

before you arrive in the land down under (so either in your last NY days or in San Fran),
i would like you to recreate the song australian iconic song 'down under' by Men at Work.
there are some options.

a) you've never even HEARD of it! in which case, here are the lyrics:

Down Under Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

"I come from a land down under!
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,

"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

i would like you to sing it - enthusiastically, without the knowing its tune, ie make your own! which would stem from all the sounds you know from being in new york (rap? haha). if you're feeling shy it may be sound recording with still images. but you are on your way to aus! so i wouldnt worry about making a fool of yourself.

or b) if you already know how the song goes, to make a film clip for the song - without any imagery from australia, purely what you imagine it to be when you listen to the song. can be collected images from NY, san fran, drawings, abstract imagery...what ever you see fit, all to make a motion picture though.

you should know the project im doing from you is humorous! and paired with this one will make for a very silly comparison of our homes.
can't wait to see you!

Ivory.

Sydney.

" I despair of being able to convey to any reader my own idea of the beauty of Sydney Harbour, wrote Anthony Trollope. I have seen nothing equal of it in the way of landlocked scenery, - nothing second to it. Dublin Bay, the Bay of Spezia, New York and the Bay of Cork are all picturesquely fine. Bantry Bay, with the nooks of the sea running up to Glengarrif, is very lovely. But they are not equal of Sydney either in shape, in colour, or in variety. I have never seen Naples, or Rio Janerio, or Lisbon; - but from the description and pictures I am led to think none of them can possess such a world of loveliness of water as lies within Sydney heads.

"I could not see the harbour from the aisle seat of the boeing 747 that brought me home from New York and I squirmed and craned just like my broad shouldered companions from Connecticut, each dressed in spectacular stars and stripes. Members of a martial arts team, they were so aflame about this journey, and had been loudly exited since we left L.A thirteen hours before, that they had tested the limits of my Temazepam to the limits. It had taken two 15mg capsules and and four glasses of of red wine before I could finally sleep. I knew only that they wished to win some medals in Sydney. They knew that I lived in New York City. I am sure they did had no idea that I was an Australian trying to get a glimpse of home."

Peter Carey. '30 days in Sydney. A wildly distorted account'. pub. Bloomsbury, 2001.

And so it begins. The NYC exquisites will begin their sky lines, each moving towards Sydney one or two a day from May 15th on, out of the sky we arrive in Sydney. 

NYCers you will fly towards the sun. A brief moment of darkness will occur near LA as we move out of the long summer twilight into night. But the sun rises soon over the pacific ocean and you will meet Sydney over the cusp of dawn, first the gold of the sand stone beach cliffs and then the harbour beneath you, arc of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, glimpse of the white Opera House sails, sail boats on the harbour, wind runs off the heads in a sharp intact, maybe a cloud and then the ground.

The first air I ever breathed was the salt air of the ocean. Australians are inextricably linked to the elements and the land. I know as sure as I know the rips and flows of the (my) ocean, that when I stand facing the ocean the desert runs to my back. That the sky gets higher at Cobar and the land starts a rise and fall like the ocean floor inverted.

Project Sydney starts now. May 20th?  you know there is always a twist. 

S.

From Ash to Mark....

Here is what I want you to do!

Explore the water around NY, and your relationship with it, and whether you feel the water traps or just surrounds you and NY. I would basically like you to document your relationship with the water near you and how it relates to your experiences of the city.

Do this through image/s, and if you can, try to create something that represents your findings.

Have fun =]

xAsh