LiveJournal user brynderoy was asking on the Brisneyland LiveJournal community if anyone can help with any of the above props, suitable for a film in a fairytale genre.

Click here to find out more details or to offer help, and if you can help out that would be great.

If you’re a member of Twitter, you can get told when new stories turn up on Brisbane Is Home -  Just make Brisbane Is Home your friend on Twitter, follow the updates, and you’ll get an SMS every time a new story turns up here at BiH.

You’ll have to send one SMS to an American number to sign up, so check how much this will cost you on your plan. I’m on Virgin’s prepaid BeanCounter plan, and the foreign SMS only cost me 25c.

What is Twitter? Well, it’s a way to let friends know what you are doing via SMS. You send an update just once, and everyone who is following you can see what you just said. You can make it so only chosen friends can read your messages, too.

I don’t think it’s going to be that interesting listening to most people just talk about their day, but if you were planning for five or six people to go out somewhere - or even five or six hundred -  it would be good for keeping in touch.

People are also doing interesting things - for instance Tom Morris has set up Twitter accounts that tell you when there are delays on the different lines on the London Underground, or the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit (in the San Francisco region))

I’ve also got a personal twitter account where I post about interesting stuff I find on the net, usually. I always post links, so you can follow up if you want.

Let me know if you can think of any interesting ways to use Twitter.

And you might want to read the Twitter Wiki which has a bit more background info on ways people are using Twitter.

Cyron’s photo is of Boxing Day, not Good Friday, but you get the idea. Deserted.

Even if you’re not religious, Easter is a special time in Australia. It’s the first big public holiday after the January holiday season, and millions of people head on family holidays, and other escapes from working too hard.

Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday are all public holidays in Queensland, although a lot of retail workers will have to go to work on Saturday. But the people who work 5 days a week or more traditionally get a four-day weekend, and many make the most of it.

Even the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s national NewsRadio station in Sydney has packed up, headed off to the coast for the weekend, and flicked the switch over to relay the BBC World Service

If you really need to buy something, you can still try heading into Brisbane’s Chinatown, especially Burlington’s Supermarket (they sell a small variety of cow’s milk) in the Chinatown Mall (Duncan St Mall) - click here to see the exact location. Many restaurants in the Valley there appear to be family owned, so can afford to work right through the holidays.

And of course there are people in the emergency services, in call centres, working in hospitality and tourism, and so on, who don’t get to rest at all this weekend.

But for many, the four-day break is a cherished way to lose a bit of stress. I don’t know what we’d do without holidays - I know a lot of people have to work pretty hard.

Enjoy your Easter break.

UPDATE:

Visiting musician ?uestlove isn’t quite so pleased:

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I can’t find any sign of him playing a gig in Brisbane, but if you want to find out more about his music you can hear 3 tracks at his myspace page.

?uestlove also has an entry on wikipedia.

And here’s what at least one person does when he otherwise would have been working:

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“Boarding the Brisbane River“, by YouTube user flyingdonky.