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Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:00 pm
by Simmo79
10 years ago I patiently listened to a tour bus driver in Brisbane link that city to every major conspiracy theory I'd ever heard of (back-engineered American UFOs are tested out of Amberley IIRC). Apparently the Battle of the Coral Sea happened just over the horizon from Moreton Bay and not up near the Solomons like the history books would have us believe.
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:25 am
by hot_dogma
When I was on the Indian Pacific in 2008 I did the whistle stop tour of Kalgoorlie. First attraction on the list was the brothels.
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:04 am
by yob
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 6032283353
THE Oscar-winning producer of The King's Speech decided to make his latest movie in Adelaide because it remains mostly unchanged since the 1980s.
The acclaimed new film, Oranges & Sunshine, starring Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham, opened in the United Kingdom yesterday and is slated for a June release here.
It's about the forced deportation of orphans from the UK to Western Australia and much of it is set in Perth from 1986-87 when the scandal was uncovered.
But producer Emile Sherman said the WA city now looked too modern and had too many skyscrapers to be credible.
The 1980s Perth scenes were instead filmed in Adelaide early last year. A shot of the city taken from the Central Market with Westpac House poking above older buildings is labelled "Perth".
"I felt SA was the best place because the film is set in the '80s so we couldn't just go to Perth now," Sherman said in the film's press notes.
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:21 am
by Jeffles
Now that's a backhand.
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:18 pm
by hot_dogma
yob wrote:http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 6032283353
THE Oscar-winning producer of The King's Speech decided to make his latest movie in Adelaide because it remains mostly unchanged since the 1980s.
The acclaimed new film, Oranges & Sunshine, starring Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham, opened in the United Kingdom yesterday and is slated for a June release here.
It's about the forced deportation of orphans from the UK to Western Australia and much of it is set in Perth from 1986-87 when the scandal was uncovered.
But producer Emile Sherman said the WA city now looked too modern and had too many skyscrapers to be credible.
The 1980s Perth scenes were instead filmed in Adelaide early last year. A shot of the city taken from the Central Market with Westpac House poking above older buildings is labelled "Perth".
"I felt SA was the best place because the film is set in the '80s so we couldn't just go to Perth now," Sherman said in the film's press notes.
I wonder if they'll CGI out Stobie poles?
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:16 pm
by the crow
Bot is on a pub crawl
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:58 pm
by the crow
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:39 am
by Jeffles
Maybe!
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:02 am
by yob
Group buy for 10 is $891...
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:18 pm
by IanRitchie
wonder what air new zealand has to say about this kind of thing.
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:35 pm
by yob
Jeff's house for the before party.
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:49 am
by Jeffles
If I had one!
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 12:15 am
by IanRitchie
jokes aside, if we have some sort of east coast (sydney preferably) catch up, if anz give me time off, i'm in.
ideas?
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:54 am
by yob
I'm 3 hours down the road so meh, I'll do whatever.
Probably have to cross Jeff's cardboard box and newspaper off the list.
Re: Austadiums Travel Thread
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:06 am
by Egan
Day 1 of the test match at SCG an option for a Sydney gathering? just thinking that cricket is going to be something that everyone can handle and get the most participants...