Driving home one foggy evening recently I was amazed how all around me the steam and smoke rising from the myriad of factories in and around Port Adelaide seemed to just fill a low horizontal plane across the sky. It was as if someone had placed a gigantic piece of glass over it all and […]
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Entropy Payback
Entropy is a term commonly used in the physical sciences to describe how when order is created, the cost is paid for by more disorder elsewhere and how ‘things’ tend to higher states of chaos or disorder as time progresses. When this Holden Ute was created, a lot of entropy (chaos) was created elsewhere. This […]
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Na na na na Na na na na … BATMAN! Cosplay ( aka costume play ) is a big part of AVCon. Costume play is considered a performance art where costume and interactions closely represent a specific character. Rather than being a stage performer, cosplayers interact with each other in a social ways and here […]
Read MoreThe Lord Mayor of AVCon
I wonder if Martin Haese, the Lord Mayor of Adelaide, is a closet gamer or perhaps an anime fan in denial! Well I’ll leave you to speculate but his enthusiasm opening AVCon 2017 was unmistakable. It’s great to know the Adelaide City Council supports events like AVCon and Martin’s presence Friday let us all know […]
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On AVCon’s opening night the performers danced us the story of ‘Ayvee and Switch’. In this scene Ayvee, performed by Alice Willamsen, spins a gift of silk cloth for her rescuer Switch. Ayvee, in the form of a beautiful magical crane been caught in a trap set by the people of Switch’s village. Despite the […]
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