Day 83: January 10

I saw Candice Breitz's The Character today. The Character is at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) and is a collection of different types of films, all featuring people. I think there were eight separate exhibitions.
- The Character: The was a 20 minute film about 10 (or so) kids from Mumbai describing the main character from a film they watched. The questions they were asked were taken out, so it became sort of like a profile about the movie and character.
- King (A Michael Jackson Tribute) - There were 12 (or so) screens along the wall. On each of these screens, stood one person. Each person has their own personality, dress sense etc. One thing they had in common was the King of Pop. This exhibition showed them singing Michael Jackson songs. They recorded them together, but in their own style and it was displayed on separate screens.
- Him + Her: This was done very cleverly. The Him and Her were two separate parts of the same show. The Her part displayed Meryl Streep and the Him part had Jack Nicolson. Candice Breitz cut them out of their various movies and then edited it together as if it were a film, using the short film sequences.
- I have forgotten the name of this one: There were 7 scenes from seven different movies playing on seven different screens. On the back of each screen was another screen. On this screen, Candice Breitz is lip syncing to the actor's lines as she/he says them.
- Factum: This was one of my favourite ones. This exhibition featured three sets of identical twins. There were three sets of two TVs. In each pair, the twins were interviewed separately quite extensively and they were asked to wear the same clothes and to choose where the interview was going to be held. I'm not sure if there were questions asked or not, because if there were, they got taken out. One set of twins were two, who at first glance, looked male. When I tuned in, they were talking about their hands and the meaning of their yin-yang tattoo. They also talked about them being ostracised due to their queer nature. The second set of twins, who I didn't really watch much of, were two males. For the short bit I listened to, one talked about his brother's freedom {from not being married}, while the brother talked about his freedom. The third set of twins were definitely the most interesting for me. These identical twins are Korean, but were brought up in Montreal, Canada. Hannah and Laurie were their names. Hannah's fringe was on the right, while Laurie's was on the left. They talked about their anorexia and how much they were constantly being compared to each other. They talked about how they stopped being religious, as it was stopping them from continuing with their lives. They talked about their tattoos and what they represented. It was scary to see how similar they were, in both personality traits and physicality, but also so different. There were moments in this film where what they were saying synced up perfectly with what the other one was saying.
- The Woods: This was split up into three minor exhibitions
* The Audition: This was my other favourite. This exhibition displayed 10-12 fourteen to sixteen year olds, presenting themselves as self-help gurus. Normally, when you go for an audition, you are asked to learn lines from the play/movie/show. These kids were given a self-help book and asked to learn lines from there. It was certainly very interesting to see the kids say the lines that would normally come from an adult's mouth. The kids also had to sing a song (of their choice) and stand in front of a microphone, just 'expressing themselves'.
* The Rehearsal: This was a six panelled interview. All these kids were from Mumbai, India and instead of the normal lines to learn for rehearsals, they had to take lines from I forgot where they got their lines from, but it was somewhere unusual. 
* The other one which I can't remember what it's called: This one comprised of two actors that had known each other since they were young. They got interviewed on how they met, and how their acting experience was.
All in all, I'd have to say this was an absolutely brilliant exhibition and I have fallen (more) in love with film.

Eighty-three of the top viewed websites Australia 2012:
1. Google.com.au
2. Google.com
3. Facebook
4. Windows Live
5. Yahoo!
6. YouTube
7. Ebay (AUS)
8. Ninemsn
9. Wikipedia
10. Myspace (people actually still go on this?!)
11. News.com.au
12. Blogger.com (YAY)
13. msn.com
14. realestate.com.au
15. smh.com.au (The Sydney Morning Herald)
16. microsoft.com
17. Commbank.com
18. flikr.com
19. wordpress.com
20. bom.gov.au (bureau of meteorology)
21. abc.net.au
22. seek.com.au
23. bebo.com
24. theage.com.au
25. bigpond.com
26. imdb.com
27. Ebay.com
28. anz.com
29. westpac.com.au
30. amazon.com
31. national.com.au
32. photobucket.com
33. bbc.co.uk
34. Apple
35. mininova.org
36. domain.com.au
37. redtube
38. optuszoo.com.au
39. nsw.gov.au
40. rapidshare.com
41. about.com
42. partypoker.com
43. vic.gov.au
44. doubleclick.com
45. carsales.com.au
46. pornhub.com
47. youporn
48. ask.com
49. gumtree.com.au
50. adobe.com
51. stgeorge.com.au
52. twitter
53. aweber.com
54. baidu.com
55. qld.gov.au
56. adultfriendfinder.com
57. qantas.com.au
58. optus.com.au
59. LiveJournal
60. EnzineArticles.com
61. tagged.com
62. go.com
63. cnet.com
64. vnexress.com.au
65. whitepages.com.au
66. deviantart.com
67. cricinfo.com
68. yellowpages.com.au
69. Bp.blogspot.com
70. XE.com (currency convertor)
71. reference.com
72. CareerOne
73. answers.com
74. thepiratebay.org
75. yourtv.com.au
76. imageshack.us
77. sina.com.cn
78. megaupload.com
79. megaporn.com
80. mediafire.com
81. onemanga.com
82. qq.com
83. tradingpost.com.au

WHY WASN'T TUMBLR THERE (AND IT'S NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 100)