Port Phillip Review Local

Title: Port Phillip review local.
Later Title: Bayside review local Weekly review (Bayside and Port Phillip)
Former Title: Melbourne weekly Port Phillip
Published: Docklands [Vic.] : Metro Media Publishing, 2012-2013.
Physical Description: v. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Subjects:  Port Phillip (Vic.) — Newspapers.
Australia Victoria Docklands
Australia Victoria Melbourne
Australia Victoria St Kilda
Summary: Distributed in Melbourne suburbs in the City of Port Phillip (Albert Park, Balaclava, Elwood, Garden City,                    Melbourne, Middle Park, Port Melbourne, Ripponlea, South Melbourne, Southbank, St Kilda, St Kilda East,                  St Kilda West and Windsor)
Notes: “Delivered with Melbourne’s best lifestyle magazine, The weekly review”
Merged with: Bayside review local; to form Weekly review (Bayside and Port Phillip)
Journal Dates: July 25, 2012-Mar. 20, 2013.
Related to: Weekly review (Stonnington and Boroondara)
Frequency: Weekly
Language: English
Dewey Number: 079.9451
Libraries Australia ID: 50028639
Contributed by: Libraries Australia

As I complete my 26th Australian Open (one year of my life has now been spent in this arena), I thought I would reflect on how AP covers this major sports event and how our coverage has evolved in the digital age since my first Open in 1989.

It was a time of no computers, no Internet, no Wi-Fi, and we never dreamed of transmitting directly from the camera within seconds of capturing compelling moments with the quality we enjoy now.

AP Photographer Rob Griffith sets up a remote control camera before the women’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015.

Serena Williams of the U.S. poses the trophy after defeating Maria Sharapova of Russia in the women’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015.

The biggest change has been the camera, the move from the film camera’s four frames a second to the digital’s 14 frames a second. The digital camera now is a sophisticated piece of equipment, a computer and transmission system all in one. The 10-by-8 inch black-and-white or color prints have been replaced by a 60-megabyte digital file, compressed in JPEG to 2-3 megabytes, the 30-minute analogue transmissions of a color print to five seconds for a color digital file.

Kodak film, so synonymous with our industry for over 100 years, is assigned to history. We now use 16-gigabyte flash cards and can shoot at 5000 ISO, enabling picture taking in very low light at close to 10 times the quality that film ever gave us.

Manual focus lenses and the skill to use them are gone, replaced by super-fast autofocus lenses, with faster apertures and increased sharpness and quality never imagined when the first digital cameras were introduced late in the 20th century.

Technology has improved so much that we are incredibly reliant on it always working, as well as having the latest computers and the tech staff in place to maintain all our connectivity, which is a constant battle when we rely solely on a Wi-Fi network to move our pictures within this venue.

Andy Murray of Britain makes a backhand return to Nick Kyrgios of Australia during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015.

So what have these changes meant?

In the film days a photographer might shoot between 10 and 15 rolls a day or a maximum of 550 images. Now, photographers will shoot from 2,000 to 2,500 frames a day. Multiply that by five staffers over 14 days and I was casting my eyes over more than 150,000 images during the Open. Of the approximately 12,000 images taken each day, some 300 plus make it to our customers.

The photographer now files directly from his camera live with a Wi-Fi device to the editors in a cabin located about 50 meters from the main court, where we select, crop, tone, caption and send images to our clients and their customers now see them within minutes of the events taking place on the tennis court.

We have remote cameras set up in the roof of the main court for the finals in Rod Laver Arena, which are fired by the photographers on match point and during the trophy presentation. These cameras are placed where photographers are not allowed to be stationed during a match and offer a view and perspective not normally seen, adding more variety to our file from the men’s and women’s finals

So what hasn’t changed?

The players still have to battle out there on court for three and five set matches in extreme heat and the photographer still has to capture the peak moment of action or reaction. Whether it is Pete Sampras crying, John McEnroe being disqualified, Novak Djokovic tearing his shirt off after the longest men’s final ever played, or Serena Williams leaping in celebration, there is a defining image and we are expected to get it and get it to you.

Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates after defeating Maria Sharapova of Russia in their women’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015.

So the 2015 Open is over, two of the game’s great players, Williams and Djokovic, have added another Australian Open to their tallies, and as we left the venue at about 2:30 a.m., waiting for the transport to take us home, the men’s champion walked down the corridor carrying his newly acquired trophy followed by his coach and former champion, Boris Becker. It is rare for us to see them off the court but seemed a fitting end to our 16-day assignment.

Tennis photography isn’t just a backhand, a forehand, a serve or even raised arms in celebration; we have tried to see more from the game using as much of the latest technology, the light and the talent of our photographers to illustrate events on the court.

The AP team of Bernat Armangue, chief photographer for South Asia, based in New Delhi; Lee Jin-man from Seoul; Vincent Thian from Kuala Lumpur; Rob Griffith from Sydney; Melbourne stringer Andy Brownbill; super editor Shuji Kajiyama from Tokyo, and our tireless technician from Bangkok, Kittisak Sataporn, were all instrumental in making this year’s coverage a success. We hope you enjoy this small sample of their work

Remember there are another 148,980 not attached!

– Mark Baker

MAJOR parties involved in beautifying works on Carlisle Street were not told of proposed building demolitions as part of a master plan for the Balaclava Walk.

The master plan aims to overhaul the area around Balaclava Station, starting next year, as part of other works that would prepare Balaclava for thousands more residents.

The walk aims to increase pedestrian and transport access.

But part of the master plan to build public spaces and expose historic bluestone on the south side of Carlisle Street at the train bridge needs support from the landowner, state government body VicTrack, to succeed.

VicTrack owns two buildings at 205-207 and 209 Carlisle Street but says the master plan’s intentions for the space is news to them.

“VicTrack has, to date, not received advice from any party as to any land requirements for the project,” spokesman Mac Henshall said. “Accordingly, we are unable to comment further.”

VicTrack has not approached the buildings’ tenants, who have received documents outlining the proposal in a council letter. The documents include a diagram (pictured) that shows planter boxes and seats where their shops are now.

Port Phillip council produced the master plan and is co-ordinating the plan’s public consultation.

Acting mayor Frank O’Connor said no property would be demolished without consultation with VicTrack and Public Transport Victoria once leases near their expiration.

Wilson Real Estate moved into the property at 209 Carlisle Street in the past 12 months.

Balaclava Optical Service has been a long-term tenant at 205-207 Carlisle Street.

Representatives from those businesses did not speak on the record; VicTrack would not say when the leases would expire.

Cr O’Connor said the waiting areas on Carlisle Street will not be built until “opportunities arise”. It is understood leases on parts of the site last until nearly 2030.

The plan aims to repave a walkway along the railway between Carlisle Street to Nightingale Street and install lighting, due to begin next financial year. It will also plan for housing to be built at the car park on the west side of the station, which has no start date.

Las Chicas part-owner Jim Olliver said he had been in talks with the transport department about the Balaclava Walk for two years.

He said the loss of car parking at the back of his cafe was “a concern to me and traders”.

But on the whole, the project would be beneficial to the area. “We’ve embraced it from day one with council and the Department of Transport.”

Information boards will be displayed at the site on July 11 and July 25.

I meet Amy Schumer in a curious corner of Crown’s Club 23. Pushing through its black lace drapes feels a bit like consulting an Eastern mystic or, well, visiting a brothel. It’s clear the US comedian isn’t comfortable, but that might have more to do with her packed schedule than the location.

Most of her Australian media appearances could be best characterised as “awkward”. At her stand-up gig later tonight, she’ll describe her current publicity junket as “physical pain”. I ask if her (apparently last-minute) decision to perform a stand-up gig in Melbourne was an attempt to escape the junket and connect with her sizeable Australian fan base.

“It’s really not about me getting to know the audience,” she insists. “I just like doing stand-up.”

Doesn’t she thrive on her connection with the audience, though? Part of Amy’s appeal is the audience feels they really know her – she’s one of us rather than some lofty Hollywood ideal.

In her fantastic new film,

Trainwreck, she plays a thinly fictionalised version of herself, as if conscious it’s the “real” Amy people want.

“I don’t know what people want,” Amy insists. “I wanted to tell this story because it’s personal, it’s important to me and I think the message is good. I wanted it to empower people who’ve had some bad behaviour to forgive and love themselves.”

Amy’s TV show

Inside Amy Schumer has been called “the most feminist show on TV”. She’s aware of the pitfalls that come with being seen as a spokesperson.

“People want you to be their dream girl, but you put a camera on anyone 24 hours a day and they’re going to disappoint you. I’m not going to become like a politician. I just want to be honest and authentic …’’

Given Amy’s screen persona is someone flawed, frustrated and unsuccessful, won’t the blockbusting success of

Trainwreck make it hard for her to keep being that person, authentically?

“I’m no happier today than I was when I was waiting tables. And the people I know who are really successful are usually the loneliest.” Amy laughs. “So I don’t foresee that being a problem.”

“But then I told myself, ‘This has nothing to do with your mental health. This is simply a hard situation. There’s nothing wrong with you.”‘

The depression had not been a problem and she did not think it ever would again, Billing said.

“It’s one of the many wonderful gifts this experience has given me.”

She is now looking forward to touring China and Japan with the Wellington Ukulele Orchestra, as well as auditioning for new television and film roles.

Overseas, it looks like Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is rather pleased with himself at linking up with Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence, but Martin’s estranged wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, may be far from thrilled.

According to New Idea, 41-year-old Paltrow is “beside herself with rage”.

A longtime friend said: “Gwyn makes out that she’s all chilled and zen, but when Chris told her he was dating Jen, she was completely shocked and jealous as hell.”

At the heart of the problem is age. Lawrence is just 24.

“She [Paltrow] never thought Chris would go for someone so young, nor did it ever occur to her that someone on top of her game like Jennifer would be interested in an old father of two like Chris,” the friend said.

Martin is 37.

An insider told Woman’s Day Lawrence was the anti-Gwyneth.

“She smokes, drinks, eats junk food … With Gwyn, life was militant.”

Lawrence even joked about Paltrow’s New Age philosophies, which include acupuncture, dream analysis, intravenous vitamin drips, detox cleanses and meditation.

Even away from Paltrow’s strict regime, Martin is unlikely to ever have to lose any weight for love, but journalist Sean Plunket did.

The RadioLive talkback host with a new television show on Prime, is 20 kilograms lighter and has a new outlook on life as a result of a new relationship.

Plunket, 49, and MediaWorks account manager Tara Merriman, 44, have been together since December.

They first talked properly at a client event when they went for dinner as part of a large group, the pair told New Zealand Woman’s Weekly.

Late in the night Plunket turned to Merriman and said something like: “Let me know when I’m allowed to fall in love with you.”

Merriman replied: “Never. My God, you’re fat. You need to lose some serious weight.”

She then told him he was amazing man who needed to go to the gym because he was at risk of dying.

Instead of going on dates the two went to the gym together three times a week and walked Plunket’s dog, Pax.

Sleeker he may be, but Plunket is unlikely to be seen showing off the new range of jewellery from Jaime Ridge.

The Auckland University student created the range in collaboration with local designer Lindi Kingi. It was inspired by the Armenian heritage of Ridge’s father, former rugby league star Matthew Ridge, New Idea reported.

The range was based on the evil-eye motif, inspired by a tiny charm her father’s Sydney-based family gave 20-year-old Ridge when she was born.

“It’s meant to keep evil souls away.”

Ridge relied on advice from her boyfriend, basketball player Josh Bloxham, for the male line of the jewellery collection.
– Fairfax Media

Oh yes, it’s here! Are you ready for the next chapter in the intergalactically awesome saga that is Angry Birds Star Wars II? Get your lightsaber, blaster or whatever you need ready, ‘cos it’s time for the RISE OF THE CLONES!

Just like last time, you get to battle either with the force, or against it. Is your dark side calling? Then perhaps it’s time to join the Pork Side… Mua-ha-ha-ha! Check out the gameplay trailer here.

To celebrate this most epic of Angry Birds Star Wars updates, Vesa Lehtimäki (@TheAvanaut) has taken some incredible pics of our favorite Star Wars characters – using actual Telepods!

Chewie after a rough weekend.

This Tusken Raider’s gonna get sand in his undies if he’s not careful!

It’s Yoda, yo!

And that’s not all of them! You can download the whole set of Vesa’s hi-res pics here.

PLUS: A not-so-galactic Giveaway!

If you love those pics as much as we do, then let us know in the comments below. Give us your best impression of a lightsaber and you could win a high-quality print of one of these awesome shots! We’ll even throw in some Telepods.Competition closes midnight on Monday 2nd June. Five winners will be chosen by a panel of judges who will recreate your impressions out loud and choose the best. Thssgggwaaaarh!