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21st June 2009

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Smart Light Sydney was a whole load of awesome. Come back next year, please?

Evocative Salvation Army/Oasis advertisement from Marketforce.

More amazing shots from the White House’s team of photographers.

Basketball + Trampolines = my new favourite sport

What Matthew Johns should do

Trevor Cook has a three-point plan that could help Matthew Johns try to right some wrongs. Makes perfect sense to me.

Children’s choir + Crowded House + Questlove of The Roots = Hunters and Collectors cover = awesomeness = everything is right in the world for a moment.

New Wave goodness: The Promise, by When In Rome. As heard in Napoleon Dynamite (The bit at the end of the movie).

Rooster: Okay, I have to admit, I don't know how to use a can opener.
Mushroom: Then how have you been able to make your food all this time?
Rooster: We have an electric can opener from the early 80's.
Mushroom: No way, that's so kitsch!

Another quality Josh Pyke music video. This is The Summer.

Check out his little cameo at around the 2:35 mark.

From the Letters pages of the Sydney Morning Herald…

In the spirit of White Whine and Stuff White People Like, Bruce Hulbert of Lilyfield writes into the Sydney Morning Herald with some gold!

It is disappointing to hear that the Sydney Film Festival is being truncated to 12 days from last year’s 19 (“Splice of life - film festival drops a week”, March 30).

I can understand there may be sponsorship problems but for the chief executive, Mark Sarfaty, to cite the other major reason as reports of viewer fatigue last year seems to miss the point.

Talk about wimps.

This is a film festival. The opportunity to watch too many films is why many people go. And as for the idea that the festival needs “to benefit from the extra focus on the arts in the city” generated by the new concurrent Vivid Sydney festival, reducing your offering from 175 to 120 films probably isn’t your greatest strategy.