Burton at ACMI

Went along to ACMI at Federation Square today to see the new Tim Burton exhibition.

It never crossed my mind that there'd be a queue, so I took my time and arrived at around 1pm, only to find a queue wrapping around itself several times from the ticket office and out into Fed Square. I don't like queues at the best of times, but when a queue leaves you standing outdoors in 11 degree temperatures, not much would tempt me to join it. So I didn't.

I left Fed Square, and went shopping down at South Wharf for a couple of hours, then returned to ACMI around 3:30pm, to find the queue at the ticket office considerably shorter, and mostly undercover. This time, I waited and bought my ticket.

When I got downstairs to the exhibition space, I could see where the queue had gone. I've never seen the place so packed! It's great to see ACMI doing so well like this, but a shame that it was so hard to check out the exhibition through the crowds. I liked what I saw though, and maybe I'll go again in a few months, if it looks a little less crowded then.

I was sorry that they don't allow photography inside; there was some amazing artwork, costumes and sculpture that I'd have loved to have taken some shots of. It was well worth the effort to see the exhibition, though.

Next up: the NGV's winter masterpieces show, but not until at least after the school holidays!

not diggin' it

Notwithstanding the good news about Ms Gillard, a scan of the newspapers makes me start to wonder whether perhaps we all waste our time at the ballot box.

It sounds to me as though a gang of bully miners have hijacked the government, and are determined to set economic policy for the country, with, of course, the full support of the obnoxious mad monk and his arch-conservative cronies.

This is a key issue for me; Julia cannot back down on the mining tax issue. She must call the miners' bluff and ensure that the a fair share of the profits from the mining of our country come back to the people, and stop allowing these bullies to skim the money from our pockets.

If they don't like it, I'm sure other miners will find a way to make a reasonable profit under the new rules.

Julia... an important first

I was delighted to find out about Julia Gillard's rise to the PM-ship whilst I was o/s. It's way past time that we finally have our first atheist Prime Minister!

Soccer comes out

Soccer Officially Announces It Is Gay