Category: Creatives
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Australia Independent Film Festival (AIFF) 2019
Opening Night for the three-day Australia Independent Film Festival 2019 (AIFF) in Brisbane was Friday Nov 1. It featured the festival’s best short films, or “Australian shorts” as they call it. I know almost nothing about film and wanted to see what good short films are like. The thought that I might even meet someone […]
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Sen Shao, model & actor
Sen Shao was born in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, famous for its terracotta warrior historical site. His parents moved to Shenzhen in Guangdong Province, a burgeoning technology hub of nearly 13 million residents, considered to be China’s equivalent of Silicon Valley, before he came to Australia in 2010. When Sen arrived in Brisbane he could barely […]
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BuJo: Chihiro from Spirited Away
Term 4 starts in the second week of October so it’s time to nurture my inner child! I’ve been learning a piece of music from an anime movie (more about that later) and it brought back memories of watching beautiful Studio Ghibli movies with my son many years ago. So to kick off three delicious […]
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Chong Ali and Akira Le: growing the fam
Photo of Chong Ali by Akira Le. A lovely thing has happened to me. I am meeting creative Asians in Queensland. You know, the ones who didn’t pursue STEM careers. There are a lot of them! I started meeting some on film sets. Then I joined the Asian Creative Network on Facebook, and was invited […]
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Review: Laughing Buddha by Chong Ali
Laughing Buddha is a new single by Vietnamese Australian emcee Chong Ali, who hails from Brisbane. It premiered on Australian music portal Tone Deaf on July 23 2019. I love this. Chong Ali is a poet. With a big heart and a fighting spirit, he is an inspirational voice for his community. More about him […]
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Estampa @ Brisbane Jazz Club
This review was first published in Scenestr and the Brisbane Jazz Club website. Fancy some wine at a Parisian brasserie, or sharing tapas at a café in Rio? We packed suitcases, headed for the Brisbane Jazz Club on Thursday July 11, and got on a plane with Estampa for a musical sojourn of samba, gypsy […]
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Arts Ablaze Fusion Artists in Residence jam session
The Scenic Rim Regional Council is presenting Arts Ablaze, a celebration of regional arts in Queensland. Some very fine musicians are involved in a cross-cultural fusion performance, and that event is happening in October 2019 at the Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley! As a curtain-raiser, the Arts Ablaze musicians were in residence at the resort for […]
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Police Officer in “Harrow” S2 E1
Love watching the crime drama tv series “Harrow” with Brisbane city as its gorgeous backdrop. Bright blue sky, skyscrapers that sparkle, and that winding river. However this scene is indoors. Dr. Daniel Harrow (Ioan Gruffudd) is talking with a man who is about to identify his dead wife’s body. I play the police officer who’s […]
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Bujo – Code Lyoko
Am probably the last person to discover bujo art, but now that I have, I wanted to try. Picked up some IKEA watercolour pencils and this is my first painting entry in my journal. Luckily the paper is thick and absorbed the water well enough. Love this kid in Code Lyoko, she’s got the haircut […]
