Boxing

DSTV-Womens-Boxing
Originally uploaded by Robyn Vickers Snaps

I like the gender role reversal depicted here. Women's boxing is illegal in NSW but not in Qld, and Fox Sports used to broadcast women's bouts on Friday nights from the Gold Coast casinos (where else!)

What has this got to do with Library values, remember the task was to find an image expressing Library values and comment accordingly? After the week I've had so far with a lot of union stoushes my first thoughts turned towards the battle between management and workers that drives the modern industrial workplace, and boxing seems a fitting metaphor for pre-workers revolution relations between us and them.

State Library of NSW on Flickr

I'm wondering what our photography policy is nowadays as I'm sure we used to have a ban on interior photos, I suppose it's not so easy to stop people pointing and shooting with digital cameras plus the culture now with digital cameras so pervasive is for anyone to photograph whatever and whoever they like, no such thing as asking permission first anymore.

Port - Melbourne

Finished Double Fault, interesting but heavy hitting, to use a tennis pun, the main character very selfish, she was almost a caricature as it seemed to be the sole driver of her personality, the selfishness. Did a bit of a search for reviews and found that Shriver has written a lot of novels on a diverse range of subjects. I think Shriver will go down in history for the Kevin novel, my copy of which I have incidentally since loaned to 2 people, one of whom is called Kevin.
Now reading Careless, the Kibble Award winner from 2007 or 2006, can't remember which year. It's fantastic, I'm about half-way through. I postponed reading it for ages because I hate large format paperbacks, how shallow am I. The characters are all separately set up in their worlds and then gradually they all start intersecting and it's all one world. Again some very selfish characters especially the sculptor who reminded me a bit of the artist in Patrick White's The Vivisector. He just sucks people dry then spits them out.

Port - Sydney

Know nothing about blogs and haven't really got into them previously, one friend sent me a link to hers but I found it all a little boring. Am interested to learn more about them though, I like the idea of a structured course and now's a good time for me to do such a course while we await the new ACMS, as once it finally goes live it's going to be crazy in OMB.
Currently reading Double Fault by Lionel Shriver, leant to me by a colleague after we were both discussing Shriver's famous novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin" which was fabulous. This one not so good but interesting in its analysis of completely unlikeable, ruthlessly driven people. About pro tennis players, or rather players existing on the fringe of the pro circuit, forever trying to raise their rankings and make it big time.