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Here are some snaps of Jonathan creating his piece for Batteries Not Included.

Stolen from here.

BLACK MAGIC TRICKSSSSSSSS!

Don’t Miss it!

At a time when she was not yet my wife.

I don’t care if you are a hippy and you’re free and all. I am of the belief that I should not have to deal with your feet at a Bill Callahan concert just because he doesn’t wear shoes on stage.

Dining next to your wet swimming togs in a Sydney dumpling restaurant.

Here is a peak at the catalogue for the show on Thursday night at the Australian Centre for Photography produced by Izrock Pressings for the ACP.
If you are in Sydney, get down and see the excellent work these artists have produced and take one of these green beasties home.

Oh and if you can’t make it down to the ACP and want one of these, paypal me at info@izrock.com AU$10 and your address and I’ll post it to you folded once. (I have about 10 spare).

So I get a text message from my brother Sam on Saturday. It reads “Keep tonight free. You are going to see Neil Young” That was good news right there as I was bumming some that I hadn’t bought a ticket way back when they went on sale.

So we had some first row tickets courtesy of his father. They were pretty side-on but really great.

My Morning Jacket supported and were great. But it must suck for supporting acts at an arena like this. For a group as great as these guys and the seats are pretty much empty or holding the arses of the unenthused, this would kinda suck.

This was our view - pretty close.

Neil Young is no longer young and he wears comfortable clothing. But he sure knows his way around a guitar - he had heaps of energy still in him.

The crowd was massive - I never go to these gigs and I believe I am right not too - but the chance of seeing some people play smaller venues doesn’t always come around.

The man was great - they encored the Beatles song “Day in the Life” it was quite excellent. Neil Young is one of the greatest American musicians. It’s unarguable.

The Marcus Oakley book was included in a still life shoot for Inside-Out Mag this issue.
I think this is pretty cool.
It is listed to buy at Via Alley so I think I can thank Ben and Jane for that - thanks folks! And all the best for the new location - look out all for Via Alley on Crown Street soon.

The ACP opens a show next week that I curated with Malcolm Smith called

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED.

Ben Barretto
Martin Bell
The Changes
Marley Dawson
Ross Manning
Spat + Loogie
Paul Winkler
& Jonathan Zawada

The blurb reads:
Environments that encourage experimentation and risk-taking are often where the most interesting new ideas can be found. In these spaces, unlikely unions produce curious crossbreeds that defy easy classification.

Batteries Not Included at the Australian Centre for Photography presents the work of 12 artists investigating the hybrid offspring of photomedia; splicing photography with performance, reanimating found images or mechanising the moving image.

With backgrounds and influences as diverse as fashion, street culture, education, new and old technologies and telemarketing, the artists in this exhibition come from the fringes of contemporary visual art practice. With their appetite for risk-taking, experimentalism and disregard of convention, this selection of artists combines the fresh and energetic work of emerging artists with the ground-breaking work of legendary avant guard filmmaker Paul Winkler.

Get down there on Thursday the 29th January from 6 - 8pm

Musical performances from:
Jeff Burch + Max Doyle
Ross Manning

Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford Street, Paddington  NSW 2021 Sydney
www.acp.org.au

The Changes

Ben Barretto

Ross Manning

Jonathan Zawada

Paul Winkler

Spat + Loogie

Marley Dawson

Martin Bell

Here is the official invite with the other shows that will open the same night