New name!

Turns out i'm moving away from the train moniker, I found it was a little confusing and tryhard especially when the only people who read this are people I know, so why blur it with a nickname. The new name is a clever (clever because I thought of it) pun on the film the sum of us. This movie i've never seen but i'm pretty sure Russel crowe was in it. It was about relatinships between father and sons and voyage of self discovery. I'd love to know if it's any good if anyone's seen it?

While thinking of my new name I googled 'Gus' to see if I could find a pun using my name. I didn't, but I did learn that Gus is Macgyver's first name, and Gus was the original animal playing sports movie. It involved a horse kicking field goals for a gridiron team. DOn't make them like they used to.

The photo above is another Chinga special, from his travels. I feel like they're too good for facebook so i'll post my favourites on here.

Hero's in a half shell

Sydney is a city of festivals. I feel like Sydney has a festival for everything. Tropfest, Field day umm the Sydney Festival and it's great, it's almost at a point where at any time of the year there will be some kind of festival on to keep bored Uni students and cultural sydney siders occupied. After attending the Livid festival of light in the City I couldn't help but feel that the festival facade was a temporary cultural expression that imposes itself intermittantly on Sydney's architectural foundations like the Rocks and Circular Quay and any number of venues across Sydney. This may seem a little negative but I feel like Sydney lack's a cultural soul. Cultural events come by, impose there creative world views then leave Sydney as an empty cultural shell waiting for the next pearl to arrive (nice mixed metaphor gus man)

The good part of it is that Sydney is incredibly dynamic and flexible. The venue which entertained tween's with the wiggles can transform at night to a haven of filthy electro heads. Many of the biggest bars and clubs fail to attract a regular crowd and are forced to rely on promoters and the acts they can book. Tank night club which I feel is a great venue and as Sydney as it gets, relies on club nights like the RnB super club and One love to fill it's floors rather than having a crowd for the venues sake. One love could move and Tank would be empty.

Anyway Here's an awesome song for those that like to kick it oldschool

Run DMC- My Adidas (pilot priest remix)

YO-YO Yayoi Kasuma

It was a thursday or friday and with some recession related free time on my hands I went down to the recession friendly Museum of Contemporary art in Circular quay to check it out and see what I could see. An exhibition showing by artist Yayoi Kasuma or Kusama (No idea who that is, is she famous?) called the Mirrored years was on. I didn't expect much from my maiden visit to the MCA but it turned out to be a quite the thought provoking play date. The exhibition was mainly based on installations as opposed to paintings, which is awesome since the best painting I ever did was mis-interpreted as an umbrella (yeah it was a boat). One of the installations which is pictured (taken from Yayoi's website) actually made me feel an emotion! I know isn't that impressive! The huge room was filled with Inflatable "clouds" that were black rubber boat material blobs with white painted on. The environment was so far removed conventional Museum spaces, and anything I had experienced and it was hard not to be taken away by it all. It showed a tension between the fluffy bubbliness of clouds, and the dark ominous feelings they can bring before a storm an emotion that I experience as I walked through. Pretty rad and arty hey!



It made me think of how aspects of design ellicit an emotional response. No doubt they tell you this in the first lecture of Design 1001, but it parrallels the way which literature is designed to do the same a notion I am familiar with from doing English at Uni.

Apparently my Post's are too long

My Back Hurts! My back Hurts!

So I know it's been a while between drinks here at the Train, and while most would assume that my absence has been due to laziness, it's been more to do with lack of inspiration. I try to avoid complaining about things which has cut back a load of material there's enough complaining on the internet already! I've got a few things I would like to write about coming up so I should be right for a while. I'm thinking of re-branding the train It's a little unecessary to have an "avatar" as they say, chances are you know me anyway!

Here is my friends website of graphic design stuff has a few pics of stuff she's done which is pretty cool. Not cool enough work on this blog's background though....Caroline's web site