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I’ve been having a Flickr Fest over the past couple of days. I’ve discovered how much more addictive it can be when you start joining groups and contributing to pools. I’ve really taken a liking to the Judgement Day group because they’ve given me some really valuable and useful feedback on a few of my photos. Not only that but there are some photos in there which are just wonderful beyond description^[1].

There is also some wonderful street art exposed to the world via Flickr. Without Flickr I may never have heard of the Listen Bird. It’s art like this that gives graffiti a great name. Something a little closer to home (which I’ve mentioned before) is the group dedicated to capturing Brisbane’s Traffic Signal Box Art. There is heaps more street art around Brisbane worth checking out too.

I spotted some fantastic body art over the weekend using Flickr Leech as well as some truely scary stuff^[2]. My favourite tattoo out of everything I saw by plugging 44124357558@N01 into the Group Pool function on Flickr Leech was this massively cute little number. Some people have wonderfully creative ideas about how to permanently scar their bodies, like this chick who has the lyrics to a Bjork song tattooed on her back in braille. That photo was taken at a Modest Mouse concert, which gives me a tenuous link to the second subject of this post: Splendour in the Grass.

The lineup was announced today, and it’s exceedingly good. Just enough to convince me that the price increase is worth it. For camping and festival entry this year we’re going to have to shell out $259 each. The new ticketing system^[3] worries me a little and makes me think getting camping tickets could be a bit of a lottery.

Splendour Lineup

Saturday 22 July

• Sonic Youth
• Grinspoon
• DJ Shadow
• The Grates
• Death Cab for Cutie
• TV on the Radio
• Augie March
• The Avalanches^[4]
• Youth Group
• Brittle Fex
• Atmosphere
• Paul Mac

Sunday 23 July

• Brian Wilson
• Wolfmother
• Scissor Sisters
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Jose Gonzalez
• Snow Patrol
• You Am I
• Decoder Ring
• The Presets
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• The Zutons
• Matisyahu
• Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set

1. Have a browse through the 58+ Best of the Best! thread. [↩]
2. Some people do some bizare things to their body. Check out the Cat Man for instance. [↩]
3. Tickets are only being sold via the Splendour website or a special ticketing phone line this year in an attempt to avoid the horrible levels of scalping that happened last year. [↩]
4. The Avalanches are doing a DJ set which is really cool. If can possibly do it make sure you check out some of their radio mixes. Very cool stuff. [↩]