Rives - Performance Poet Extraordinaire!

I have just discovered John G Rives - a very clever, very funny performance poet.
Rives is a performer, a storyteller and an author. He has appeared on multiple seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and was a member of the Def Poetry international tour group. He has made multiple appearances at the international thinkers TED Conference and has published several pop-up books for children.

Here's his rap on YouTube about Deaf Poetry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtVepS53t0




Here's his "Mockingbird" remix of the 2006 TED conference
http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_remixes_ted2006.html



Here's his rap on TED.com on the conspiracy theory of Four In The Morning:
http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m.html



And a cerebral poem interpreting emoticons...
http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html


enjoy! :))

En-Visioning Sydney, August 2009

Four members of the photo-gang (Richard, Morena, Berend and Kyle) arranged to meet at 6am last Saturday, rain or shine, to create images from the early-morning Sydney streets and headlands... We started in Kings Cross before breakfast, then sheltered from the drizzle at a cafe in Paddington and ended in Bondi around noon. The over-cast weather with soft tonal light was perfect for creating black-and-white images. The pics below are Kyle's photos, except for the last one which is a portrait by Berend.

(the last pic is a portrait of Kyle by Berend)

Italian Photographer

Early Light in Centannial Park

Circle of Trees...

Ducks in a Row

Conversation above the Bronte Cafe

Surfers on the Bronte Express

Crazy Fisherman

This pic was taken moments before he was swamped by a huge wave - luckily he was not washed off the rocks, but scarpered to higher ground quickly after...

Shirtless Fisherman

Blue Sky Chopper

Black Dog / Blue Sky...

Coral Tree at Clovelly

My Sauce Good! - Gypsy Music

Strolling through Paddington Markets on the weekend, we came across these wonderful Gypsy musicians from the band My Sauce Good, playing some passionate and lively tunes. Here's Veran Grigorov, the violinist.

Even the Little Sparrow...

Another pic with Jeremy's 150mm macro lens... sigh...

Lens Envy - Have your Cake and Eat it Too...

Jeremy came to town with a brand new 150mm f2.8 Macro lens that made me drool with envy... these are some pics I snapped while having a 'go' of his Nikon D300 in a cafe in Randwick...