Artsy partsy

[sophrosyne31]

The other day I found myself in Canberra, our terrifying capital city. It is the weirdest place I know. Everytime I've been there I'm bemused by the entire apparent lack of people: it seems just vast freeways, always curving towards the distance, traversed in the bleak streetlight and the freezing dark by lone figures trudging haplessly (and yet

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[airgiodslv]

My mother got very excited about the crochet barnacles and wished to offer you more links. :-)

http://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/05b.html

http://sydneyreef.blogspot.com/2009/03/hccr-project.html

http://www.theiff.org/exhibits/iff-e24.html

[sophrosyne31]

Wow, your mum knows some really cool stuff. :)

I had no idea that crochet was at the cutting edge of hyperbolic space algorithms. How fascinating! I myself have not tried to crochet since I was but eight years old, but this stuff is amazing. Thank you and thank your mum!!!

[slashfairy]

ooh, she's fascinating, Fiona Hall.

crochet barnacles!

The Slip.... how big is that, IRL?

Canberra sounds like parts of LA.

[sophrosyne31]

Fiona Hall, how much do I want to buy all her stuff. I'd never really paid attention to her before.

The Slip... well it's in the room with the whole series (always more of them than I remember), I dunno, it's a couple of metres wide? I am hopeless, hopeless at estimates! It's not the hugest painting I've ever seen but there's something awe-ful and tremendous about it.

Canberra was basically built purely for politics. There are real people living there but you never see them.

[alassenya]

Terrifying? Surely not. All the restaurants are in the suburbs, there is very little in the city after working hours. Next time you vist, go to Kingston or Manuka - lots and lots and lots of restaurants, of every culinary persuasion imaginable, plus bars, cafes, and funny arts and crafts shops.

[sophrosyne31]

O god sorry, I dint mean to really insult Canberra! I am assured by many that it is lovely. It's just that every time I've been there I've been stuck in a hotel in the middle of nowhere, it's always windy and cold, and utterly mystifying. When I eventually tottered towards some bright lights I did find people and conviviality. It was an island in the dark.

One day I'll get more than 24 hours in Canberra and then I'll appreciate her beauties I'm sure.

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[alassenya]

It's fine, honestly, I wasn't insulted so much as embarrassed that no one was able to give you directions. It is a tricky place to negotiate as a tourist - there is very little on the main streets, it's all hidden away in the side streets.

Next time you visit, ask for the Griffin or the York, both in Kingston - the shops are just across the street.

[sophrosyne31]

I always seem to get stuck in Canberra at a hotel in the midst of the boondocks... will bring a map next time and find these wonderlands of which you speak. :)

[clackadackia]

The conservator's accent in that video clip made my ears go all funny on certain vowels. Pray tell, where is she FROM?

[sophrosyne31]

We have some odd ones here, matie. We can do things to a vowel that you Canadiadians only dream of.

*smooch*