For the Mimicry is the best form of flattery assignment, use a vector or raster graphic software to mimic your favorite artist work but use your own design. Doing my best to bring a Mondrian-esque Composition with Red Blue and Yellow to the iconic Flinders Street Railway Station in the City of Melbourne. My image …
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Visiting the State Library with a visit to the La Trobe Reading Room and surrounding area – lots of interesting books, manuscripts and other reading or published items in glass cabinets on display. Fascinating stuff.
For me, it’s the reframing of the derogatory comments and irrelevant opinions of others – they’re the ones that are “weird”. Nice one, John. Photos taken outside of John’s shop on Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
Checked out Memo Akten’s art installation at ACMI, which was colourful and at times, a little creepy with its processed digital voice. As the ACMI exhibition page on ACMIC for the installation observes… “Originally beginning as an NFT collection on the ecologically friendly blockchain Tezos, Memo Akten’s eight-channel video installation, Distributed Consciousness, features 256 unique …
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Super stoked that I participated in The Push-up Challenge for 2023. This year I managed all 3,144 push-ups, which is great. It’s official – I’ve now been a Pushuperer for 2 years. https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraiser/rowanpeter
In the ACMI collection there’s a video installation that spotlights a number of Australians film-industry professionals reflecting on their practice. The Tony Ayres spotlight resonated most with me, particularly the matter of fact, self-awareness of his craft and his reflection on the critical skill of communicating concepts and idea to an audience, and its capacity …
Wayfinding at pedestrian crossings in Melbourne’s CBD where pedestrians are most likely to be face-down on their phone, much like as I observed as early as 2011 in Busan, South Korea. Like the promoters in Busan, the designers from the City of Melbourne understood the pedestrians and their behaviour – this led to the intentional …
Super-stoked to have completed The Push-Up Challenge in June, 2022. My goal was to do 3,139 push-ups or as many as I can in 24 days to raise awareness and funds for mental health. I’m so grateful for the generous contributions I received and very proud to nominate Lifeline Melbourne, Vic as the beneficiary of …
I went to check out Digger & The Pussycats – Two-piece garage rock awesomeness.
I absolutely love Ruari and his radio show ‘Fang it’ which rocks out every Thursday from 5.00 — 7.00 on PBS 106.7FM Melbourne. On Thursday 22 November, Fang it! was live to air from The Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar in North Melbourne. I went along to listen. Super-fun!
I put together a second deck Jim, fitted out with my original Bullett 66s so we could go skate first thing this morning. Fierce. Early morning skate with @jimgroom pic.twitter.com/Aokt5SrcaK — Rowan Peter (@rowan_peter) July 22, 2017 @brlamb Jim is core pic.twitter.com/IbRZE091nm — Rowan Peter (@rowan_peter) July 22, 2017 I had no idea… https://t.co/8Ab7cVQA4X — …
I’m interested in the teaching and learning as well as art applications of this technology. What’s interesting about this as an exercise is the wasted opportunity to celebrate and showcase respondents of their input into the data gathering and research process. Metro and Monash could have actively showcase the exercise by representing the number of …
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On Melbourne’s metropolitan train network, interior and exterior advertising is becoming more prevalent. Needless to say that I was completely surprised when I entered the train and was assaulted the advertising for the new film by formerly-known-as-The Rock Dwayne Johnson. Advertising inside a train seems to makes sense. Once inside the train, travellers become a captive …
Peak hour on Melbourne’s public transport.
Early morning cloud formation around Melbourne’s outer-eastern suburbs.
An uncommon sight. Advertising on the inside one of Melbourne’s Metro Trains. This could be a test for a possible revenue stream for the franchise operator of our suburban railway network. I’ve seen advertising on the outside of trains before, but never on the inside. This is new. Also, the irony of an advertising campaign for …
Octo is the ultimate master on the audio mix. With suction cups covering the underside of each of his eight arms, Octo is able to make the best song selections and manipulate playback in response to the crowd. Octo also arrives at each soundclash equipped with his own sound system.
Something new. Advertising on the outside of Melbourne’s Metro Trains. An uncommon sight. This could be a test for a possible revenue stream for the franchise operator of our suburban railway network.
I saw the Rollins Band for the first time as a teenager in 1992. I went to the afternoon all-ages show. The show was mesmerising. Pulverising. No strobes. No coloured lights. Just the band. The Rollins Band, grinding out a sonic-fury under white work-lights. I kept the flyer.
Shape accident – Triangle, a photo by Rowan Peter on Flickr. Inspired by Adam Lemmo’s investigation into roadside shape recognition and shape accidents.
Know your audience – Anti-graffiti community service announcement, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter. An interesting approach to an anti-graffiti community service announcement by a local City Council. I’m curious if the outside of the bus is the most effective location for this kind of message. Would the outside of the bus be seen by the …
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Practising out in the open can sometimes lead to a happy accident, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter. 遺伝子組み換え食品との付き合いかた-GMOの普及と今後のありかたは? The way of dealing with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) now and in the future. Written by Ichiro Motoki. Photograph of page 81 from 遺伝子組み換え食品との付き合いかた-GMOの普及と今後のありかたは by Rowan Peter. Used with kind permission from Kaoru Kobayashi and Ohmsha Publishing. …
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Llama’s VS Ninja’s pre-game warm-up recorded with Puck Cam. Featuring the skating of Rowan, Julian, John, Keely, Ben, Bruce, Annie and Rohan. Saturday Night Light (SNL) Inline Hockey League at Puckhandlers (Melbourne, Australia) 17 Oct 2009. I recorded this video with a Nokia N95 gaffa taped to an inline hockey puck. Further research into documenting …
Yesterday, I wandered around inner city and suburban Melbourne. Here are some field recordings from my adventure. Listen to ds106 Field Recording 007 Crown Casino ambience Listen to ds106 Field Recording 008 Southbank Listen to ds106 Field Recording 009 Eureka Tower (Skydeck) Listen to ds106 Field Recording 010 Fitzroy Gardens Listen to ds106 Field Recording …
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