{"id":3339,"date":"2012-07-03T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T07:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outbackart.com.au\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2012-07-03T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T07:16:50","slug":"why-outbackart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outbackart.com.au\/wordpress\/why-outbackart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why OutbackArt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It struck me today, in the midst of juggling the viral Alpaca gone mad video thing and emails, images, licencing etc….. that it seems odd that my website is called OutbackArt<\/span><\/span>!<\/p>\n

I mean, like, what the hell?\u00a0 Chrome naked ladies against seascape backgrounds, with fish, monkeys, beachballs<\/span>, Alpaca videos, travel videos………..hu<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d better start at the beginning I suppose.\u00a0 You see life wasn’t always this complicated.<\/p>\n

I once lived in a little mining town in the middle of the Australian outback, called Broken Hill.\u00a0 Many of you would know Broken Hill, even if you’ve never been there.\u00a0 Think of : Priscilla queen of the desert, wake in fright, razorback, town like Alice (yes Broken Hill was\u00a0 used as a substitute in scenes for Alice Springs) Outback bound, Race the\u00a0 sun<\/span> etc and of course….Mad Max2.<\/p>\n

Now of Mad Max… see when I was a teenager, we went to the movies and saw this cracker of a film with this bloke<\/span> we’d never heard of called Mel Gibson. I think I saw him in a poncy<\/span> film called ‘Tim’ but never took much notice.<\/p>\n

Fast forward about 8 years and holy schmoly<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 I find myself living in the same town Mad Max was filmed in. Not only that, a few years later, I found myself as the new tenant of the 110 year old, abandoned Catholic church high on the hill in sunny Silverton<\/span><\/span>!\u00a0 You can’t get closer to Mad Max than that!\u00a0\u00a0 Many<\/span> of the car chase scenes, including the final chase with the tanker, were filmed just outside Silverton<\/span><\/span> on the road to the Mund<\/span><\/span> Mundi<\/span><\/span> plains.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I digress.\u00a0 So for the next 6 years, that dusty old church was my studio gallery. Here I produced hundreds of paintings, met hundreds of thousand of people (not exaggerating<\/span>) and lived and breathed<\/span> the ‘outback way of life’. Well, after a move into town to a ‘city’ gallery in the main street, <\/span><\/span>a few more years passed and it became apparent that the time was upon us to leave the dustbowl<\/span><\/span> of Broken Hill for greener climes. What more greener than God’s own country in sunny Queensland.<\/p>\n

So we upped stumps and hauled ourselves 1800 kms<\/span> to the Sunshine Coast, where we now reside on a few green leafy acres, with two mad dogs,\u00a0 a heap of wildlife and 9 spoilt Alpacas.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the midst of all this madness you call life, we would regularly travel overseas. Most often to places you’ve never heard of, nor would ever want to go!\u00a0 Now I would always take a camera with me, then later a video camera too. After nearly two decades of travelling, we have enough photos to bore an entire generation shitless<\/span><\/span>, let alone our poor earbashed<\/span><\/span> photo inundated<\/span><\/span> friends.\u00a0 Hence the photo pages of the site. I can now bore a whole new generation of people in other countries too, completely shitless<\/span><\/span> with my photos!!\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Which brings me to closing….\u00a0 Hence the photography\/ film fetish and the inevitable boredom that sets in… between painting and travelling to places that are hard to find on a map. So…. film Alpacas!\u00a0 I just happened to catch one of the babies (a Cria<\/span><\/span>) napping and filmed it. This sat in the cupboard for 2 years before I dragged out the tape, transcoded<\/span><\/span> it to the computer and last week, threw it together with some music and uploaded it to You Tube.<\/p>\n

And here I am……..\u00a0 better go do some real work now….\u00a0\u00a0 Shane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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