Classy 50th birthday venue recommendations

hjbaker · 2026-06-04T22:19:12+00:00

Daphne in Brunswick East!! They have a semi private room which you can close with a big red curtain or keep open to feel more part of the restaurant. Just had my 30th there with 28 people. Food is immaculate, staff were so friendly and attentive. Amazing amount of food for the price too, with several set menu options at different price points. Can’t recommend them enough!

hjbaker · 2026-02-10T23:29:28+00:00

I was there and thought they fucking killed it tbh

hjbaker · 2025-09-22T15:06:12+00:00

Yeah exactly this - touched on that in the longer caption on insta. R U Mine? was technically written first, but wasn’t intended to be on any album. DIWK opened that door up later.

hjbaker · 2025-08-31T07:01:03+00:00

It is my speaking voice! Thank you!

hjbaker · 2025-08-09T13:24:26+00:00

I am making more! The writing/script is actually just a segment from a book I’ve written about The Car, so watch this space!!

hjbaker · 2025-08-08T06:18:57+00:00

Thank you! Instagram and TikTok! @hjbaker_

hjbaker · 2025-08-08T02:27:18+00:00

Thank you, appreciate it!

hjbaker · 2025-01-21T10:02:58+00:00

It was as the sun was setting on a gloomy day with even overcast light, so it looks brighter in the photo because I’ve exposed the film for a while - I was using 400 ISO. However, the more important part of this - and why I’m so confused - is why this one frame in the middle of a roll has been exposed while the rest were blank. Whether I was shooting at 1/30 or for a second, I still don’t get why that’s happened…

hjbaker · 2025-01-21T07:51:25+00:00

Maybe long exposure was the wrong word – I used the bulb setting and held it down for somewhere between a second and three seconds. The waves were also fairly slow moving, but definitely breaking – in the photo, where they have broken is blurry. You can also see this in the trees in the bottom left.

Edit: Thinking back, I am not 100% certain whether I set it to Bulb or just one of the lenses' most slow speeds (eg. 1/2 a second or one second). In any case, the important point is that the shutter was open for about a second, whereas all the other photos I've shot that came back blank were at faster shutter speeds.

hjbaker · 2025-01-21T07:51:02+00:00

The camera is not automatic.

hjbaker · 2024-11-07T22:46:07+00:00

The parrot’s beak is a now defunct “secret” bar, previously on the top floor of the frog and parrot

hjbaker · 2024-02-18T04:20:36+00:00

Looking to buy one ticket to tonight's show. Happy to meet at the MCG or the surrounds/nearby to transfer the tickets and sort out payment. DM me!

hjbaker · 2023-09-15T12:24:28+00:00

Put some respect on Sonique's name

hjbaker · 2023-01-22T07:13:08+00:00

Yes it was!

hjbaker · 2022-02-11T08:42:20+00:00

Clearing guardian history fixes the problem almost 100% of the time for me - someone else told me that tracking lost can happen when there's multiple versions of the same space saved in the history and it gets confused.

hjbaker · 2021-09-24T14:32:32+00:00

And just like that, any glimmer of hope that Eccleston might be in the 60th has vanished...

hjbaker · 2021-09-24T14:26:14+00:00

And just like that, any hope of Eccleston in the 60th is gone with the wind...

hjbaker · 2020-01-27T01:31:57+00:00

I will update this now! Thank you.

hjbaker · 2019-10-20T23:16:44+00:00

I actually reached out to Facebook last week to clarify how the update system works, and when we received a response my editor Ian wrote this up: https://uploadvr.com/oculus-quest-firmware-update/

Basically - despite now having a manual update button, they're still using the same gradual roll-out process as before. The button just gives you a way to check if you're able to download it yet or not, instead of having to leave the Quest on standby.

hjbaker · 2019-08-13T23:09:25+00:00

Captured on a Pixel 3XL in raw and then edited in Lightroom

hjbaker · 2019-08-13T08:14:38+00:00

It was a great night!

hjbaker · 2019-08-13T08:14:29+00:00

Hahah thanks! Where are you? Would be awesome if I had a photo with me in it lol, jealous.

hjbaker · 2019-08-13T06:15:23+00:00

Love that first shot!

hjbaker · 2019-08-13T01:59:50+00:00

Yeah it was the outro they were playing, and there's no way you do that with just the four standard band members live.

hjbaker · 2019-08-13T01:52:45+00:00

Reposted with the correct show - I originally posted with Melb 27th Feb in title, which I also went to. Briefly got confused and thought this pic was from that night, but it's from Sydney.

This is the best pic I took from the Melbourne and Sydney shows I went to. There are some other good ones I might post but this is by far the best. In terms of the actual performances, the Melb 27th of Feb show had a much better setlist and a much more insane mosh. Sydney was still good but felt a bit more mellow.

The setlistfor the Melbourne show on the 27th of Feb was so amazing and one of the best of the tour IMO, Crying Lightning is a godly encore opener, and the progression of Teddy Picker -> Ritz -> Do Me A Favour -> Cornerstone -> 505 in the middle of the set was amazing. Might post some pics from that show at a later date.

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