My Friend is Opening an Artist Run Initiative today - the gallery is called Treehouse in St Kilda Melbourne. What a lovely way to celebrate the resurrection by supporting creativity and offerings.

The image above is a draft of a painting I did earlier this year and it looks very different… Read full post »

Lately, I have been blundering through life uncertain of what I want in the future and without any idea of how to serve the skills that I do have.

I fell in love last year a couple of times and both men mean so much to me.

The whole situation was… Read full post »

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Marysville Research for Documentary on Rebuilding Communities After the Burn.  Read full post »

Victoria on Fire / Black Saturday

By  Rusalka Johnston

A weekend escape to Marysville

I had decided to escape the city with my thirteen-year-old dog Mack, to escape the noise of the St Kilda Festival and enjoy the countryside that I love, for… Read full post »

 I have been preparing to go back to Marysville for the first time. 

I rang the Healesville police to find out if the Black Spur is open as it is the most direct route to Marysville from Melbourne. Which it is - so the drive this time will be direct as… Read full post »

CONTENT

1.

What is the community you will make your documentary about?

· My documentary will focus on Marysville a town that is in Victoria.

Marysville was decimated by the bush fires that hit the township and surrounding regions on February the 7^th 2009. This day is/… Read full post »

Breakfast Club, Donny Darko, Let the Right One in, Redbelt and Election are movies I have seen that engage with the theme of subcultures within their plot and structure. Subcultures exist everywhere and can be seen as small communities within communities. Todays lecture about social software and Soci… Read full post »

I have been trying to upload a documentary I made on to You Tube.

I am s pleased that I have been doing this work because the process has been extended and frustrating to be engaged in. Firstly, the size of the project was an issue,  compression is tied up with… Read full post »

My Dcoumentary has been on my mind these holidays - I have been watching movies I have made -  Art Works  and a documentary called St Kilda Lives. The documntary I am going to link to my blog because there are aspects of it that I really like that are relevant… Read full post »

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The Bush fires have affected many many Australians and influenced media mechanisms from print, to radio, to blogs, television, txt and in turn the fires and their destructive expanse have sculpted the content of these mechanisms and their delivery. 

This image is a copy of a page from The… Read full post »

I was doing research - looking at a variety of theoretical concepts that I could incorporate and respond to in my current projects. 

I found a book in the Library yesterday - its old and tatty but for some reason I wnated to look at it. Late,  late last night I… Read full post »

The lecture today encompassed the ideas of Anomie and Ennui in relation to community. Jenny Weight showed us theoretical concepts via You Tube videos and texts which was really cool. Whilst the Tutorial with Dean Keep asked the really important question of: What is a Documentary??  … Read full post »

My Blog is being established in line with a subject I am doing in my Masters degree. The subject is Transient Spaces and the focus of this subject is Social Software and Community.

I am in the process of developing a strategy for the content of my blog and… Read full post »