“Liam Alexander the porn star is for real. I was the photographer that did the originaleuroboys.com photoshoot with Liam that is now on originaleuroboys.com. To add the the interest in Liam take a look at our studio website http://www.7bluestudio.com because Liam features on the homepage larger than ever! Ben Willis, Director”

Another unforseen consequence of this post was the large amount of website traffic it generated. Here are some of the search key phrases that hit my site:

norwegian gay porn
gay služby
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danish gay porn
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I suppose I should have known that the title of this post was going to attract people searching for gay pornography but was unprepared for the volume.

Further more…

I have been aware for some time that there is yet another Liam Alexander; a professional photographer based in New York. I sometimes get emails obviously intended for him with messages like “great photo shoot on the weekend Liam, hope to catch up soon”. Of course I always dutifully forward the emails to Liam the photographer. His web address http://www.liamalexanderphoto.com/ and mine are similar and people understandably sometimes land on my contact forms rather than his.

Liam the photographer left these comments on the same post:

“ummm… yeah… i’ve noticed this as well… Hahahahahahahahahahah. kudos Liam… you almost out google me when you google me. but not for long… i will soon have the ENTIRE 1st page of GOOOGLE!!”
“PS if your getting any mail for me bro, please fwd it along! cheers! also i am married to your prime ministers “wildchild” daughter in law. Haha”

I Googled this and found that Liam the photographer is in fact married to Staci Child, the heavily tattooed daughter of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard‘s partner Tim Mathieson. Staci Child posed in a series of provocative shots for Zoo Weekly in September 2010.
I think that Liam the photographer’s work has a great deal of artistic merit. His work is innovative and interesting and is quite famous in his own right. Being connected to Julia Gillard confers and even greater claim to fame, yet Liam Alexander the photographer is still to eclipse me. When ‘Liam Alexander’ is entered into Google, results referring to me still fill up the first and second pages of search results.

Compared to Liam the photographer (and Liam the porn star) I am a complete nobody. (I am in fact a complete nobody compared to practically anybody). I outrank other ‘Liams’ on Google etc. because I am relatively active on a range of social media sites and I have put quite a lot of effort into applying SEO principles to my own sites.

I would be the first to admit that Liam the photographer is much more notable than I am and that his content is far superior to mine. If you want to outrank me on Google Liam you really need to apply SEO principles to your site or perhaps hire a specialist.

I am currently available

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Dan started out playing music with a group of other  he had met in West Village playgrounds who were also there with their kids. These fathers playing music together eventually became The Wonderland String Band, which played at parks and parties and on a tape of songs that Zanes recorded at his home.  Dan is an inspiration to parents like me, proving parenthood does not have to mean calling an end to creative pursuits.

The New York Times Magazine, said, “Zanes kids music works because it is not kids music; it’s just music – music that’s unsanitized, unpasteurized, that’s organic even.”  Unlike many who make ‘kids music’, Dan Zanes feels no need to dumb down his music for his audience.  While kids may enjoy other performers, many parents (like me) find enduring them quite an ordeal.  Zanes music appeals to young and old alike; the parents at the performance I attended enjoyed every minute and just as much as the kids.  All are able to participate and dance and be completely involved.

The other members of the band Dan is currently touring with (colin brooks: drums, john foti: accordion, saskia sunshine lane: stand up bass and sonia de los santos: vocals, guitar & mandolin) are also very entertaining; excellent musicians with easy going, friendly personalities.  All made themselves available after the performance and chatted with anyone who approached them.  I bought a CD and have all their signatures.  Read more about the band members here:

If you want to introduce your child to a fun and enlightening musical experience, I can’t recommend Dan Zanes enough.

Details of Dan Zanes’ Australian tour here:

More Dan Zanes photos:

I am not against graffiti per se.  Many works of graffiti art show a great deal of skill and imagination.  Furthermore; it’s truly art of the people; not to be cloistered in some gallery for the dilletante elite or created for auction at Sotheby’s etc.  Graffiti art has come some way to being recognised as a legitimate art form, but defacing public art works, no matter how pedestrian does this cause little good. 

If graffiti artists and taggers were to confine their creative expression to faceless expanses of concrete, the majority of people might be a great deal more sympathetic.  When outdoor murals, public sculptures and historic architecture is thoughtlessly covered in spray paint it doesn’t brighten anyone’s day and entreches the view that graffiti is nothing more than a wanton act of destruction.

I am at pains to point out that this Liam and myself are NOT the same person, not that there’s anything wrong with that… some of my best friends… um err…

I’m not even sure that this Liam is a real person either; quite likely he was dreamed up by two guys fantasizing on the phone.  If Euroboy Liam is out there, by all means feel free to get in touch; I’m sure we’d have quite a lot to talk about.

Farmers are not the traditional allies of environemnatlists, but as the reality of climate change dawns and river systems like the Murray Darling dry up even they are changing their tune.  There is plenty of motivation to take climate change seriously when the changing environment threatens your very livelyhood.  The great shame is, even as attitudes to conservation begin to make a mass change, it may well be too late.

shoes on a wire

The ubiquitous pair of trainers thrown over a telephone wire has become a very common suburban sight.  To see a quite stylish pair of high heels hanging in the same manner makes a refreshing change.  At first glance, this might seem like a random act, but of course, it’s not.  Even to get a pair of trainers to hang from a phone wire would surely take several throws.  To get this pair of ladies shoes to hang from a wire took at least a little consideration.  They first had to be tied together and then carefully flung into position.

The question for me is; did the perpetrator consider this to be an act of ‘art making’?  If they just meant it as a random act of mischief, is it still art?  Perhaps no.  If someone else (like me) considers it to be art, photographs it, presents it, does it then become art?  Perhaps yes.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still fall?  (Can anyone be so egotistical they imagine things don’t happen if they don’t happen to be there?).  What is the sound of one hand clapping?  Swish swish swish.

Earlier modern artists (such as Marcel Duchamp) proved that art can be about anything.  ‘Postmodern’ artists continue to make art which is about nothing, which understandably alienates a great many people.  Perhaps art does not have to be the domain of an exclusive elite if the man in the street can make art by simply throwing a pair of shoes over a wire.

There can be few things as melancholy as a repossessed house, especially one with forgotten Christmas decorations still displayed.  Presumably the family who put up the decorations expected to be in their house, at least until Christmas, but had to leave in a hurry.

We might think that banks and lending institutions should be a bit more compassionate and cut families a bit of slack, but then, our economy has never been built on compassion.  When one borrower defaults on a loan it will inevitably lead to someone else not recieving their payments and being unable to pay their debts.  If that someone else was you it might lead you to be a little less positive about compassion.

Which ever way you look at it, it’s still going to be a pretty miserable Christmas for a lot of families.

I included this post as a change of pace from the political negativity I usually indulge in. 
Tra la la la la, the joys of Spring…

I’m also using it as a means of testing the NextGEN Gallery plugin which is available from wordpress plugins.  Jeroen Wijering’s flash based image rotator has been used to display the slideshows included in this plugin, which unfortunately is no longer available in the easy configuration wizard on his site, however, you can still access the image rotator here.  The plugin makes including slideshows such as the example above very easy in Word Press blogs.  

Jeroen Wijering’s site allows a number of options for including flash based video and audio players on web pages, blogs etc.  An example of the JW Flash player in action can be found here.  These players are easy to configure and embed and are free for non commercial purposes.  They now support WMV and WMA in addition to flv and MP3 files and the new Microsoft Silverlight.  Highly recommended.