My Christmas present to you all is the new theme. It spices things up a bit to change the look and theme of Brisbane Is home and I hope you all like it. You may also want to check out the new about me page to find a little bit more information about me and where I would like to take this blog. I have kept all existing advertisements on the website so that through them I’ll be able to buy a new camera to take many beautiful photos to be shown on this blog.

The following photos are some photos from a setup last year down at South Bank. They gave me a great laugh and I’m sure that everyone out there will also enjoy it.

Have a great Christmas (and don’t forget to tell all of us what your special present was!).

If you haven’t noticed, Home Turf Media is out and someone new is in. That new person would be myself, Chris Vincent. Because of the large work load involved with running HTF the owner finally decided to sell off this website to someone else who had the time and would be willing to continue blogging.

To formally introduce myself, I’m Chris Vincent. I’m a fellow Brisbaneite and blogger. I live on the north side of Brisbane and regularly visit both the inner, outer city and down the south side. I’ve been seeking a project for a long time that would be interesting, informative and something that everyone around me could relate to. Once I saw this website, it came to me as the perfect opportunity. 

To start off my career on this blog, I’m going to be revamping this website in quite a few ways. Here’s only a couple of ideas that I have for the future:

• A new blog theme
• Regular updates to show popular Brisbane Events
• The ability to share your Brisbane images to everyone
• More frequent posting
• Local cafe reviews (contact me for more information)

So if your like me and excited about our wonderful city of Brisbane, and would also like to see growth within this blog, please feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed through your Microsoft Outlook account. Otherwise, If you would like to help me write articles or help me with photography, please contact me through the contact page.

Have a wonderful day.

Ekka time!, originally uploaded by David

Brisbane’s Ekka starts thursday. Brisbane central train station has a petting zoo set up to promote the agricultural exhibition. Tickets can be purchased at queensland rail stations and a loop train will be running every 15-20 minutes to drop people at the gates. Brisbane’s Ekka public holiday is wednesday 15 august, but surrounding shires have their holidays on other days next week.

Image013.jpg, originally uploaded by David.

Ekka time! Ekka.com.au

Ekka time, originally uploaded by David.

In addition to animals, the Ekka has a range of art, craft, cooking, commercial and various other displays, popular music concerts, rides and the best strawberry ice cream.

CALEB was released just two days ago on YouTube. According to fallenrosemedia, who produced the movie, it was

Filmed in Brisbane, Australia with a zero budget and in 2 days.

It’s a 22-minute film, and the producers say:

Over six months of secrets and lies, Caleb, Matthew, Dione and Charlotte’s lives became inexplicably intertwined. Told in a unique style and shrouded in mystery, C A L E B presents the lives of four young adults with seriously twisted lives.

Adult Themes, as they say, so this one probably isn’t for the under-16s.

The stars of the film are Matthew Backer, Julyan Stephens, Lozen McDairmid and Lauren Edwards.

Click here to see CALEB’s myspace page - and you can click here to see Fallen Rose Media’s own myspace, and also click here for director Ashlie Rose Bertwhistle’s myspace.

This service has now been canceled by David. If you would like to see a service like this back up please contact Chris

Tonight, I’ll be trying something new-ish. I’ll be using the Twitter channel for Brisbane Is Home to do a live call of the first twenty-odd minutes of the Rugby League match between the Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys. This means that if you are signed up to Twitter and subscribed to Brisbane Is Home’s channel, you’ll get updates on the game sent to your mobile phone.

This is a test run for doing some live calls of big matches. So feel free to sign up to Twitter and start following the updates for Brisbane Is Home - you’ll also get updates whenever Brisbane Is Home posts new stories (see below).

Do you want to get live SMS updates on your mobile phone when Brisbane Is Home releases new stories? Then subscribe to Brisbane Is Home at twitter - just sign up for a twitter account, set up your phone to receive your twitter messages (yes, it works for most Australian phones, even prepaid :) ), and add http://twitter.com/brisbaneishome as a friend.

If you have the internet on your phone, you’ll be able to surf directly to new stories at Brisbane Is Home. And if you don?t, you?ll get an SMS letting you know what?s waiting for you when you get to a computer.