Brisbane Developments: Albion Station and the Defiance Mill

The old flour mill and Albion station, originally uploaded by HelenPalsson.

This photo by flickr user HelenPalsson shows the old Defiance flour mill and wheat silos in the background, next to Albion rail station, in the inner-northern suburbs of Brisbane.

This site is being developed into a new high-density block of apartments, with cafes, shops and offices to be part of the plan. Brisbane blogger Derek Barry at Woolly Days has a detailed report on this sort of development, how it has worked in other parts of the world and what it might mean for Brisbane.

Brisbane Booksales: Lifeline Bookfest June 7 - 10

The Lifeline bookfest is coming around again. It will be on the Queen's Brithday long weekend, from Saturday June 7th to Tuesday June 10th. As ususal there will be over a million second-hand books for sale, some at ridiculously low prices. If you want to stock up on some reading, this is the place to be.

Brisbane Music: The Warm Guns

This video by YouTube user gertar4053 is of The Warm Guns performing at last year's Valley Fiesta 2007.

You can hear more songs by The Warm Guns at their MySpace page, if you click here.

Brisbane Zombies: ZombieWalk 2008

Brisbane Zombie Walk 2008, originally uploaded by lifemusicmedia.

On Sunday May 25th, the 2008 Brisbane Zombie Walk shuffled around once again. This photo is from flickr user lifemusicmedia, and flickr user cindytoo has heaps more photos if you click here.. And if you click here there are plenty more photos from other people on flickr.

There are also a couple of videos on YouTube of the walk (well, the first one is of people singing in their car on the way to the walk. They're in costume though):





Unfortunately there was an injury at the ZombieWalk this year as someone tried to crowdsurf, landed on someone else and hurt her neck. You can click here to read the post here on her livejournal explaining exactly what happened. She's out of hospital, but damnit people BE CAREFUL!! This sort of stupidity is what makes it harder and harder to do anything without paying for insurance and having a team of lawyers on call.

UPDATE: YouTube user OzShadow has made a five-minute video with lots of pictures from the day, and set it to music:

Brisbane Dance: Zouk Nights Dancers

Zouk Nights dance school (click here to see a map) teaches Brazilian Zouk dance. This YouTube video by indoorlightening shows students dancing back in February.

Zouk Nights offers a free introductory lesson: click here for more information.

Brisbane Kites: Clontarf Kite Fest Photos

Clontarf Kite Feist 2008-07+, originally uploaded by cindytoo.

The Clontarf Kite Fest, organised by the Redcliffe Kite Club is on this weekend - it's still going today if you want to head to Pelican Park at Clontarf (click here for a Google Map).

This photo from flickr user cindytoo shows some of the giant kites that are being flown. If you click here you can see more of cindytoo's photos of kites.

Brisbane YouTube: Last Night's Storm

These two videos, from YouTube users portantwas and Brisbren are of the big storm that blew through Brisbane last night, May 17th 2008.