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A few weeks ago Luca gave me the heads up on a special Q&A screening of Mike Mills new film Beginners at the Dendy cinema in Newtown. I quickly snapped up 2 tix for Christina and myself (lucky as it was a sold out event). It turns out Andrew and Murray form Semi-Permanent were hosting the screening.

From writer/director/graphic designer/illustrator Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Melanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humour, and hope that his father taught him.

Such a beautiful film and I’m a huge Mills fan now. I related instantly to his Dad passing away, and how the experience gave him the immense strength and drive to make the film a reality. I’m hoping the film reaches more people, hopefully outside of the Dendy and into more mainstream cinemas. It’s beautiful, touching, moving, real and funny.

Visit the movie site, buy tickets at the Dendy and after the film be sure to check out Mike’s Begginers blog site for more insight.

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I’m gobsmacked and feeling very un-worthy for being invited to display a typographical piece next to the names on this list. Seriously, wow. It’s all happeming August 17th on Oxford St. Darlinghurst. Put it in your diaries, come along!

New wired keyboard with numeric pad.

As much as I want to avoid being a mac fan (the few technical issues I had with my new mac didn’t help) I’m actually starting to like being back on a mac. Like anything else I suppose it’s about customising things to suit.

A while back the bluetooth mouse was giving me the shits with lost connections so I put my old wired Microsoft mouse back on and I’m loving it. Last week my keyboard batteries went low and started losing bluetooth connection. I charged up some rechargable batteries but failed to get the keyboard to synch up with the mac, in frustration (I never liked the tiny incomplete keyboard in any case) I reverted to an old wired Apple keyboard but instantly I found myself struggling with pressing the keys and as a result I was making spelling errors everywhere.

Remembering that the new style flat keyboard took a while to get used to I gave the old keyboard a few days to see if I’d get used to it again, but… no go. On Sunday I ordered a new flat style (but complete with numeric pad + wired so I’d never have flat battery issues again) keyboard from the Apple Store and it came this morning. It’s perfect and I’m loving it.

Matt just spotted me on this year’s Sydney Design 2011 web site. The photo was taken during the 2 day See-saw project I mentored last year.

For more information on this year’s See-saw project, visit: http://www.sydneydesign.com.au/2011/exhibitions/see-saw-mend-make-do-build-anew

We’re almost 2 months into the INfront re-brand and today we finally got to see some visual concepts. Zann wasn’t in Sydney this time but he was on Skype. Ivana‘s done a great job, conceptually it’s brilliant and we’re all pretty excited with the general direction. Can’t wait to reveal the new brand!