A few nice business listing images I found:
Western Sydney Awards in Business Excellence
Image by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer
Western Sydney Awards In Business Excellence Gets Bodypaint,
Today hundreds of Western Sydney based business people attended the annual Western Sydney Awards In Business Excellence to celebrate their successes.
The venue was the impressive Waterview Convention Center, located in Bicentennial Park.
We were surrounded by beautiful landscaped gardens, lakes and ponds.
My company, Human Statue BodyArt, was contracted by the Parramatta based Gyrate agency to deliver a human statue model bodypainted in the official colours of this years business awards - light blue, dark blue and white. As they say, a picture tells a thousand words, so be sure to check out the photographs of our creation here.
Our model for the day was the delightful Anastasiya Bakss and I was assisted by talented bodypainter Tony Cantali.
The end result of our creation was a human statue that complimented the awards theme, and one that tuned heads, raised eyebrows, and became quite the conversation piece as the otherwise rather conservative business people present got a close up look at bodypainting with a branding tie in, complete with an exhibition component.
Our friends at Fairfax Media (The Parramatta Sun) were also present. Stay tuned for a complete list of awards winners, but its safe to say that anyone who witnessed our bodypainted creation today also felt like a winner.
The organisers were delighted with the way everything went, and we're looking forward to continuing to work and collaborating with them again very shortly.
Business should incorporate fun, and we're glad to have done our modest little bit to tantalise and delight today.
Websites
Human Statue BodyArt
www.humanstatuebodyart.com.au
NSW Government - Premier & Cabinet Office
www.dpc.nsw.gov.au
Waterview In Bicentennial Park
www.waterviewvenue.com.au
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Human Statue BodyArt Flickr
www.flickr.com/humanstatuebodyart
Eva Rinaldi Photography
www.evarinaldi.com
Music News Australia
www.musicnewsaustralia.com
“Facebook’s favorites list is useful, but not for messaging” $ FB #UX #FAIL #opinions / SML.20130118.SC.NET.Facebook.iOS.iPad.App.Opinions
Image by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
“Facebook’s favorites list is useful, but not for messaging” $ FB #UX #FAIL #opinions
On the iPad app, Facebook displays a list of “favorites” when the app is viewed in landscape mode. I don’t know its particular algorithm implemented, but I can deduce based on experience that it has to do with frequency of interaction.
It is a great feature except that what I want it to do is most definitely not to message that person. I turn off chats anyway as it is an ineffective and distracting form of communication [1].
A better implementation would be to show the person’s feed so I can interact with. The 80-20 rule [2] certainly applies here, and I would say that using one third of the screen for the kind of interaction that users would use 20% of the time is a complete waste of space..
# Notes
1. A large percentage of humans think that “available for chats” equates “spammable targets” for infinite “how are you”s. Once engaged, it is impossible to end this nonsense with no apparent escape route without hurting anyone’s feelings. Oh humans.
2. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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Business cards front - Tea Rooms of Yarck
Image by avlxyz
Since we decided to head back to Melbourne early, we worked out that we could arrive at Yarck just in time for lunch! Any excuse to try out this Sardinian outpost in country Victoria. :)
Yarck is one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it towns, with not much more than a fire station and pub. Why chef/owner, Sardinian-born Pietro Porcu decided to open up here is a mystery to me, but on a Sunday afternoon, it was filled with well-dressed Melbourne types. Not a farmer in sight. His other restaurant is Da Noi in South Yarra.
As was recommended by The Age Good Food Guide 2009 and our friendly waitress, the best option is to leave the meal up to the kitchen, which we did. At AUD75 per head for 4 courses, it's not cheap, but not terribly expensive either, especially considering we were rolling out the door after coffees!
The food was simple, unpretentious, and very good, focusing on good produce and good cooking. The highlight was the Crab Spaghettini with saffron and a hint of chilli bound together with a rich crab stock and good olive oil. I suspected that the sauce had a drizzle of crab-shell oil as well, just to give t that extra whack of crab and the smokiness of burnt grilled shellfish. After that, eating the blue swimmer crab itself was a bit of an anticlimax, despite being superbly fresh.
The baked eggplant parmigiana was also superb. Silky smooth eggplant with a hint of charring with an intense tomato sauce and the cheesy hit of aged parmesan.
We were eyeing the Capretto Arrosto (roasted kid goat) on the menu as well and lo and behold we were served an interesting mix of ribs, neck and leg. I'm quite partial to the sticky gooeyness that usually goes with slow roasting and there was a bit of it around the ribs but the rest of the meat seemed a bit dry. Although there were some burnt bits that really had an intense goat flavour.
Tea Rooms of Yarck
+61357734233
6585 Maroondah Hwy
Yarck VIC 3719
map: www.whereis.com/vic/Yarck/6585_Maroondah_Hwy
Reviews:
- Tea Rooms at Yarck - Mietta's
- Tea Rooms at Yarck, The Age Good Food Guide 2009 September 15, 2008 - 15/20 2 hat The only way you could be disappointed by a visit to these Tea Rooms might be to turn up expecting scones.
- Tea Rooms at Yarck, Jane Faulkner, Reviewer, The Age Epicure, July 3, 2007 15.5/20
Photos:
- Shopfront
- Bread, Olives and Olive Oil
- Wine list cover
- Empty dining room
- Filled Dining Room
- Empty sun room
- Blackboard Menu
- Asparagus and Spinach Fritatta
- Swordfish Carpaccio, Poached Ocean Trout with Aioli
- Roasted Zucchini antipasti
- Roasted Red and Green Capsicums antipasti
- Eggplant Parmigiana
- Salad of Lamb Shanks
- Chef and wood-fired overn
- Crab Spaghettini with Saffron and Chilli
- Capretto Arrosto (Wet-roasted Kid Goat)
- Chocolate Tart, Vanilla Gelato, Almond Praline
- Amaretto cookies and Crostoli
- Julia, Alpha, dessert
- Genovese Caffe Lungo
- Business cards front
- Business cards back
