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NSW Arts Minister Virginia Judge officially opened the festival and told the crowd of more than 250,000 that the State Government would invest $1.75 million a year into the festival for the next five years.

— Not quite, Sydney Morning Herald. She was cut short by the crowd waiting eagerly for the Reverend Al Green to perform on stage at the 2010 Sydney Festival.

CarriageWorks at night

Taxi and police car accident. Corner of Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney CBD. Crowd gathers.

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

Kellyville: a subject of modern art?

Richard Glover’s series of photos of the sprawling new suburbia situated in north western Sydney.

Not to be confused with this Richard Glover.

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.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin gets chased through the crowd during “Fix You” for the Sound Relief benefit concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

somethingchanged:

Hello world - my name is Jessica, I am moving to Sydney, and I have a new flat!

somethingchanged has moved from Melbs to (sunny?) Sydney! Congrats on the move!

Reblogged from Something Changed

Coldplay, how you broke my heart.

I’m watching the Sydney Coldplay concert filmed in 2003 on ABC2. It was one of the first concerts I went to at the Horden.

I remember how much I loved the band, particularly when Parachutes came out. I also remember how much I despised X&Y when it came out and blamed it all on Gwyneth “Yoko” Paltrow.

Ah, memories.