350 PROJECT

        The art of writing is by its very nature hermetic. It’s one of the few jobs in the world where being a depressed, introverted alcoholic may actually be of assistance. Well, that and claims adjusting perhaps.

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  this is a summation of everything I learnt in 3 years of studying literature.

    In any case, as much as I love being cloistered away in my literary lair accompanied by only the dull blue glow of my laptop, a near infinite supply of mi goreng and the sounds of the dirty three, I do occasionally need to venture outside into the great wide world with its billboards, traffic jams, ikea stores and balloon boy hoaxes.    

    In the last two years I've busied myself with the chalk project, and the 4C arts collective and I’m working on a new abandoned building project. In the interrum I decided to assist my incredible friend, Anna; (the only person I know who is a brilliant scientist, environmental activist AND artist), with her 350 project.

      Anna stitched up these patches which a few of us then covertly distributed around Paddington in the dead of night. Okay, it was more like half nine, but seriously, graffiti artists take note: Paddington at 9.30 on a Monday is like Rupert Murdoch’s conscience; completely silent.

The genius of using these patches is that they are not only incredibly eye catching and made from recycled material but they also cause no permanent damage to property. We really didn’t have to worry about police presence because although we didn’t exactly write to Campbell can’t-fucking-do-anything-right Newman for permission, I doubt we would have had too much trouble from the po-lease even if they had spotted us.

For more information on 350 click here: http://www.350.org/

 Or to access getup.org.au's information on how to be involved locally click here:

http://www.getup.org.au/community/gettogethers/series.php?id=27

And remember, every time you read the twilight series or the vampire diaries, Ronald Macdonald sets a tree on fire and kills a panda.

 

Comments

[Anna]

Ha! he sets a tree on fire AND kills a panda? that's truly awful. But he must be impressively fast moving with those novelty sized shoes.

sadly, all but one of our patches were gone at 11am the next day when I caught a bus through paddington. It was the one I put on the roundabout- extra visible!

To the nice street cleaners; I hope you appreciated our work, and at least googled 350 before you threw them out.

[Rebecca Bloomer]

Hahahaha...I knew he was suspect, it's the face paint; it covers up the evil! Nice call on Twilight, hate to be a hater, but I felt the need to kill someone when I caught her on an interview saying "Oh I never wanted to be a writer..."

[Joshua Donellan]

How funny, I never wanted her to be a writer either. Also I have to pick your brains about some writing type things. Will send an email soon. Looking forward to 'Foley Russell!'

[The American mediafire download]

Such a nice read, i cant find other sites on the web like this. I have told my buddys about ur website, they love it.