Visit the National Gallery of Victoria's gift shop and look at all the Lomo cameras - spend quite a bit of time examining all the different types behind the glass of their locked case.
Look and look and look and make sure you can't see a Holga, before going up to the counter and asking the attendant if they have Holgas in stock.
Look crestfallen when she suggests they don't have any.
Look hopeful when she asks her colleague to confirm that they don't have any.
Look happy when he informs you that all the Holga stock has been sent to the Ian Potter Centre.
Listen carefully as he gives you instructions on how to get to the Ian Potter Centre.
Go to the Ian Potter Centre toot sweet.
Visit the Ian Potter Centre's gift shop and look at all the Lomo cameras - spend quite a bit of time examining all the different types behind the glass of their locked case.
Look and look and look and make sure you can't see a Holga, before going up to the counter and asking the attendant if they have Holgas in stock.
Look hopeful as she suggests their January order had just arrived 2 months late from overseas.
Look crestfallen when she suggests they don't have any that didn't go out in preorders.
Look happy when she informs you there might *might* be a couple left upstairs.
Pace nervously as you wait for her to come back from the upstairs storeroom.
Pace.
Pace.
Look extremely happy when you see her coming back with a medium-sized, brightly coloured box with "Holga" printed on the side.
Barely contain your squealiness as she opens the box to make sure it contains all the items it should contain.
Squeal when you see the Holga.
Gladly pay for the Holga Starter Pack as she puts it into an Ian Potter Centre carry bag for you.
Carry it proudly all the way to Cafe Five for coffee with Eroica.
Order a latte.
Take a seat
Examine every item in the box on the table.
Thank the waitress for your latte.
Take as much space as you need.
Examine the camera.
Feel happy.
Examine the black tape.
Sip your latte.
Examine the batteries.
Feel happy.
Examine the film.
Feel happy.
Examine the Holga book
Feel happy.
Put everything back into it's Holga box.
Drink your latte.
Feel happy.
Don't make the low-brow joke "lucky Happy".
Have your friend Fox buy the same box of camera goodness from the same place the next day.
Shoot two rolls of film with your Holga over the next couple of weeks.
Take one roll to a camera developing store on Elizabeth Street.
Wait impatiently for the photos to be developed.
Be slightly disappointed at how dull and bad your photos are.
Take the second roll of film to LabX in St Kilda.
Wait impatiently for the photos to be developed.
Explode with happiness when you realise that the processing is soo..much..better at LabX and you have a pack of BEAUTIFUL photos.
Get all excited about blutacking the photo prints onto the loungeroom wall.
Load up your camera with more film and keep taking photos and going to LabX and having a serious crush on the serendipitous nature of the photographic process of toy cameras.