NAME: Gregory Blakey
BRIEF: Melbourne Graphic Artis, Gregory Blakey is responsible for the design of all the templates within the Soul Food Cafe.

A talented graphic artist, with flair, imagination and the ability to meet the needs of his clients, Greg has created and exciting array of presentations for creative projects at Soul Food

Check out the Popular Fiction Hip Hop Music feature that was completed by LaTrobe Secondary College students. Students made altered vinyl covers and wrote lyrics about To Love Veronica Bee. They cut their singles at the Experimedia Centre in Melbourne's State Library. Graphic artist, Greg Blakey has designed this exciting cyber DJ studio where student tracks are played.

I love a sunburnt country...

Celebrate being Australian, learn about Australian History and discover the essence of creativity all at the same time. The Dig Tree, is etched into the Australian pysche as one of the greatest ironic tragedies. Dig and unearth some of the secrets of creativity. The Dig Tree was designed by Greg Blakey, a talented design student, with flair, imagination and the ability to meet the needs of his clients. Greg has created, amongst other things, Soul Food's zany Magic Writing Tram.

Send Soul Food Chocolates

If you have an artist, a dreamer, a dancer, a mythologist, an imagineer, a writer amidst your clan, make sure to nourish their creative spirit by sending them a box of Chocolates from the Soul Food Cafe. But be cautioned! These hand filled chocolates are totally addictive and may change lives.

Childhood is a state or phase of imaginative existence, the phase in which the world of imagination is still a brave new world and yet reassuring and intelligible.

The strictly non-fat chocolate from the Soul Food Chocolate Box is full of projects and material to help us return to that wondrous kingdom where imagination and creativity rule. The special fillings focus on celebrating childhood joy, spontaneity and imagination.

Magic Writing Tram

To participate in the primary school writing program clamber aboard the Magic Writing Tram, designed by Greg Blakey, and do some of the exercises that you will find on board.

Camel Stew - enough to feed an army

Skin trim and clean the camel, the lamb and the chickens
Boil until tender. Cook the rice until fluffy
Fry the nuts until golden brown and mix with the rice

Stuff the chickens with eggs and rice. Stuff the lamb with five of the chickens and some more rice. Stuff the camel with the lamb and still more rice

Bake in a large, and we mean large, oven at 180 until brown, basting regularly.

spread the remaining rice on a large tray and place the camel on top. Place the remaining stuffed chickens around the camel. Decorate with rice with boiled eggs and nuts.

©2002 Gregory Blakey

Alluvial Mine

An Alluvial Mine has been discovered within the grounds of Soul Food and it is opening for sturdy miners who know that to find real creative gold you have to be prepared to dig deeply.The human mind is like an alluvial mine. Below the surface of the ground is that area of mental and emotional activity which carries with it all the mental and emotional activity which have been experienced by the individual. The mine contains a volumne of experience and reality. Within it are creative powers beyond belief.

Advent Calendar for Artists - 2004

Soul Food is proud to launch what has become an annual feature. The December 2004 Advent Calendar is full of projects that have been test run during 2004 in Melbourne schools, and features the work of artists from around the world.

Make sure to let all you friends know that they must visit Soul Food on a daily basis during December in order to experience the joy of opening up a new link on the Calendar.