Other Interests: pursuing your passion

Anna's photo-media exhibition at the Bleeding Heart Gallery

PHAI-RA! is a survey exhibition of contemporary photo-media art featuring new work by six female artists: Phoebe McDonald, Heidi Stevens, Anna Jacobson, Imogen MacDonald, Rebecca Smith and Ashleigh Kennedy.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 25 March from 5-9.30pm and continues until Tuesday 6 April at Bleeding Heart Gallery in the iconic, heritage-listed School of Arts building at 166 Ann Street, Brisbane.

PHAI-RA! is one of the first exhibitions to be heading up the Third Queensland Festival of Photography – a month-long celebration of the best contemporary photographic practice in Queensland.
www.festivalofphotography.com.au

Start Time: Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 5:00pm
End Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 10:00am
Location: Bleeding Heart Gallery
Street: 166 Ann Street Brisbane

TEDx Brisbane 2010

I was delighted to be an attendee at TEDx Brisbane 2010.

The planning and preparation was well organised and there were high expectations.

And the speakers and presentations (both long talks and short brain bursts) were excellent and varied.

Unfortunately trying to accommodate double the numbers by alternating attendees between "live" and audio/visual auditoriums did not work for me.

Session 1 in the "other" auditorium was not a good experience, starting off with no sight or sound, then sound only until vision was restored.

Attending session 2 "live", was a huge improvement in the "experience".

I was pleased to be able to watch the other sessions at home on Ustream.

Anna Jacobson: officially a young person creating Queensland

Anna has been included in the Young People Creating Queensland project here.

Anna's work selected for 2 competitions

Anna was a finalist last weekend in the Olive Cotton photographic portraiture award at the Tweed Shire Council Art Gallery.

Next weekend she will be showing a short film at the Queensland Poetry Festival Film Challenge

Anna Jacobson exhibits Doll Awakenings videos

Anna is showing some video works at the 123 Days Photo-media exhibition at the Queensland Centre for Photography from 28 February to 29 March 2009.

Exhibiting Artists:

"Doll Awakenings" by Anna Jacobson, "Birds" by Marian Drew, "Natural Progression" by Paul McCann, "123 Days" by Adrianne Hayward and Aaron Burton, and "Under Currents" by Lindy Wissler.

Randy Pausch dies

I wrote about Randy Pausch's Last Lecture here.

Yesterday I bought his book.

This morning I learnt of his death here.

We need more optimism and inspiration in our lives.

J.K.Rowling on the benefits of failure and the value of imagination

JK Rowling's Harvard commencement address is worth watching (Parts 1 and 2) :

Weekend in Sydney

We recently had a terrific family weekend in Sydney.

Also enjoyed a visit to the Brett Whitely studio and listening and dancing to Monsieur Camembert.

Exhibition

Anna had her 3rd year student exhibition last night.

Here's the invitation (the photo in the middle is hers)

Are you aware?

As you do things during the day, are you fully present, mindful and aware of what you do?

In this video Jon Kabat-Zinn introduces us to meditation and your mind.