Total Bunch of Randoms

This was the first well-documented Great White shark attack in South Australia and it happened right here on my street, just a couple hundred metres from my desk in beautiful Brighton Beach. 

Kitty Whyte (nee MaCully) was a popular swimming instructor from the mid-1910s until one horrifically unlucky swim off the Jetty, that played out in front of her two daughters and the entire esplanade of Brighton. 

I've compiled every news article from the attack into one abridged story of Kitty's Great White Shark encounter (and grotesque demise) with the help of Sarah Tinney, who speaks about Kitty as part of her regular tours of Dunluce Castle, where Kitty lived.

-page 6 from ‘The Ladies’ in Observer, Sat 30 Oct 1915 (Adelaide, SA: 1905 - 1931);

It's shark season! This entire season will be about the Great White Shark. After a dive with the apex predators at Neptune Islands, the artist AZZURRO returns for Season 2 with a Total Bunch of Randoms - though this time they each share a common interest in sharks. Experts, cage-divers, attack survivors and previous guests weigh in with positive new perspectives on the powerful Great White. Does the media and its public need an attitude adjustment about sharks? Is there a place for the Great White in the public conversation of the ocean's beauty? What kinds of things stand in the way of forming better attitudes towards this incredible animal?

Further Sharky Reading;

Ryan is a zookeeper who has amassed a huge collection of creatures in his Yowie museum...

Yowie's bizarre and unique, classic and lesser known animal species are illuminated in exceptionally crafted miniature habitats by an avid collector with a knack for toy photography. Documenting 600 toy species in a historically accurate, scientific fashion, Ryan has recently completed a full catalogue of wildlife collectibles found inside the nostalgic Aussie chocolates. 

The project began as a hobby but has attracted a cult following and it's got Ryan thinking about using the toys as a means to contributing to conservation efforts that relate to their real life animal counterparts.

You can follow Ryan's impressive project on Instagram @yowie_museum.

Acclaimed vocal coach Mitch Brackman discusses the power of the voice in singing, screaming and speaking. 

He goes into harsh vocals, wrecking your voice, success story students, building an awareness of your throat, representing a band as a singer, expanding your musical lexicon, finding his tribe with music and the makings of his life as a professional contemporary singing teacher.  

For some people, seeing the surreal is not just a livelihood, but a way of life.

Jade Mars, a multi-media pro artist in Adelaide speaks about 'blasting-out' into a career climbing creative mountains in a technological landscape. 

Opening up about her exhibitions Raised Poor, Inferna, and the upcoming 'Angelology', she shares with me, her bestie, a unique insight into art practice that led to not just a sustainable income but a healing transformation for pain and trauma. 

Jade creates surreal paintings, commissioned murals, augmented reality installations and face filters, motivational street art, and NFTs. She streams and video documents the entire process through her presence as the artist Jade Mars throughout Adelaide and online via her in-depth art journal of an Instagram. 

Defiant primary schoolers build Capitalist tribes in unconscious rebellion against an alternative learning approach

Charlie tells the story of the rise of school community 'Down Bush' fostering trade relations and establishing hierarchial roles despite being students of an equal-access egalitarian alternative school 'Up Bush'. Ironically, lack of competition and pressures placed on kids to share all resources unintentionally lead them to seek out material wealth and competitive free-market economy in their play. Younger students build cubbies and huts, while the older students engage in political warfare surrounding their primary currency- huge balls of tree sap. A 'rite of passage' the lunch time tribes Down Bush were a way of life that stood the test of time through generations and survived an order by the school to abolish all material possessions only to start all over again...

Charlie speaks about the redemptive power of art. 

Who benefits from art therapy?

Check out her art @rubyudys

Wanna know more about my chat with River the Elder? Charlie from Episode Two asks me about Yowies, and talking about them live on radio at Fleurieu FM where Elder the broadcaster was already presenting when I walked into the room... Then I ask her about her own strange encounters in the Adelaide Hills...  

Next up; Charlie shares the story of how capitalism reared its ugly head among industrious tribes of primary schoolers, rebelling during lunch breaks 'Down Bush' against a strictly egalitarian alternative schooling program. No Dooligahl in sight... for now.