. . . inside an egg!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/27/2287538.htm

in other news, I have some jewellery in a group show in Newtown, in a gallery called At The Vanishing Point, until 6th July.


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'alumium' was suggested for the metal that has since become known as 'aluminium' (or in some parts 'aluminum').
Way nicer, I think.

Restart it ( Read more... )

as yesterday's entry indicated, my workplace is not always chatty. 
Today I'm in another branch where the mood could be described as somewhere on the "nervous to hysterical" axis.
It's not my regular and so I'm a bit disoriented as I try to find things which may (or not) be somewhere. I'm also finding many things which should just never have been ( Read more... )

... extrovert staff make all the difference.

In the opera "Carmen" the main character works in a cigarette factory in Seville. Her initial seduction of Don Jose, the man who eventually murders her, occurs in a scene where she is involved in a fight with co-workers leaving the factory. They are sometimes portrayed streaming out of the building smoking the produce of their labours ( Read more... )

  spending 3 years doing a course in jewellery and object design.
The culmination for the time being is next week's end of year exhibition. Student works, including mine, will be on display and for sale.

Where: Danks Street Depot, 2 Danks Street Waterloo
When: Wednesday 28th - Saturday 1st
Times: about 11 till 6 daily.
Students will be speaking about ( Read more... )

Remember how I was blown away by an Anselm Kiefer painting at the National Gallery in 2004? (link) Now he has a whole show in Sydney, at the AGNSW, till the end of this month!!!!! (Turns out my intuition about hanging his art on walls of industrial spaces was right in line with his way of doing things - his 'workshop' is a desolate French factory ( Read more... )

Saw 'Paprika' at the weekend.  You should too.  It's rather better than the trailer suggests.  Watch some Lynch, as much Miyazaki as you can find, and 'Roman Holiday'.  Then enjoy this latest Japanimation.
Deconstruction, sci-fi, psychology, thriller, aesthetic feast.
Discussion on what song/piece the dream parade music evokes from anyone else who's ( Read more... )

ways to kill and repel cockroaches that don't involve toxic chemicals from giant corporations.

http://www.alfalfahouse.org/html/FEATURES/cockroach_remedies.htm

Now, for the corresponding approach to rodents....