2005
Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction
Pictures
Objects
Animations
PICTURES are both finished and ephemeral works made for animations.
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Ancestors and descendants
My daughter Katherine in Melbourne gives birth to twin boys. I teach full time at the Conservatorium High School, Sydney: Art, English, Puppetry, Animation.
Cousin Richard and I participate in the Tom Roberts Festival, Inverell. Richard brings his son Al, a graffiti artist. The Tom Roberts Festival was developed as a tri-annual event by Camilla McCrae and a team of local event managers, designers, conservators and historians. The previous festival featured a re-enactment of the 'Bailed Up' picture. Descendants of some of the original people in the picture performed. My father's brother Peter played a part in that re-enactment.
2005. I take this photo of the spot in Inverell where Tom Roberts painted Bailed Up.
Bailed Up
Painting by Tom Roberts
Photo: Camilla McCrae
Cousin Richard Roberts (left) and me (right) at the 2005 Tom Roberts Festival where Richard talks with local students about how he goes about designing sets and costumes for a play. As I remember he said: First, read the play right through, with no pre-conceived ideas about 'right' or 'wrong'. Allow the playwright's words to suggest the forms, colours, tones and textures that evolve as it progresses. Then re-read the play several times and make drawings and notes as you go, of things you imagine on the stage. Listen, imagine, and engage all your senses.
Photo: Camilla McCrae
I lead a workshop with Inverell community members. I guide them to each make a personal thesaurus of words and pictures that tell the stories of their lives. Building on the idea of the 'Roget's Circular' project, we acknowledge that people attach different meanings to every word in the English language according to their cultural background, education and personal experience.
We fold A4 paper to make A5 books. We make the number of pages correspond to the number of years we have lived. For each page we write and draw significant things we remember from that year. We choose one word to signify each page - each year. We discuss our similar and different life journeys, and if any of our stories connect.
In a corner of the McIntyre (the bushranger)
Painting by Tom Roberts
Me in a corner of the McIntyre
Photo: Camilla McCrae
2005. Birth of first grandchildren, Melbourne
Drawing from my journal.
How fulfilled my daughter looks.
In Melbourne. 9th April 2005. I wake from a dream about writing - the same dream I woke from yesterday. I can't quite remember, but it's about writing about film, writing from another point of view.
Idea: I have trouble remembering what happens in books. Just after I've read a book, I find it hard to retell the story. Is it because I concentrate more on how it's told rather than the action? The imagery, the "sparkle" (or whatever) of the language.
[reading Gould's Book of Fish].
2005 diary entries
EVENTS
The world population on January 1, 2005, was estimated to be 6.545 billion people and increased to 6.629 billion people by January 1, 2006.
YouTube was launched; "Me at the zoo" was the first video on the platform.
There were 32 conflicts in 2005 that caused at least 25 fatalities, all of which were intrastate wars involving violent non-state actors.[4] Five of these resulted in over 1,000 fatalities: the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Kashmir insurgency, the Nepalese Civil War, and the Colombian conflict.
The highest-grossing film globally in 2005 was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, followed by Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Critically acclaimed films from 2005 include Brokeback Mountain and A History of Violence.
The year 2005 was estimated to be tied with 1998 as the hottest year on record. Areas around the Arctic Circle were especially hot relative to historical temperatures. Heatwaves occurred in Australia in March through May and the Southwestern United States in July, while the Balkans experienced extreme cold in February.
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza remained a major health concern as fears of a pandemic persisted.
In 2005, Singapore experienced its worst dengue fever outbreak on record.
George W. Bush was sworn in for a second term as president of the United States in January, but he grew unpopular throughout the year. Iraq held its first free elections in decades, which were followed by the establishment of the Iraqi Transitional Government; a constitution was approved in a referendum, and new elections were held in December. The trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein began on October 19, where he and seven others were accused of mass killings and torture.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas collaborated to reduce tensions in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, but negotiations stalled as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched attacks against Israel.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the 2005 Iranian presidential election.
Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats won the 2005 German federal election.
Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein announced that the Irish Republican Army had disarmed.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan faced political backlash when it was discovered that his son Kojo Annan was involved in a corruption scandal in the UN Oil-for-Food Programme.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il entered into talks with China and the United States to negotiate access to nuclear power.
Pope John Paul II died after serving as pope for approximately 27 years, the third longest tenure of any pope.
The birth of the first cloned dog, Snuppy, was announced in 2004.[43] A report in Science announced several sightings of what may have been the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct. Paleontologists announced the discovery of Falcarius utahenisis, presenting evidence of dinosaurs' evolution from small carnivores to large herbivores.
Space Shuttle Discovery launched on July 26, marking the resumption of flights after they were paused in response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.[46] The 15th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope was celebrated with the release of a photo featuring the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005
Written by me, Lisa Roberts/Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill), on
21/04/2026
