A tiny party

Art and Music

The Four Seasons




Man Ray




Len Lye



Celeste Boursier-Mougenot

81/2

I really like this film

Mountains

My friend John was really thoughtful and generous and gifted me two framed photos of the Himalayas taken in the 1930's. They have a wonderful script in pencil beneath each photo, describing the images taken. I will post pictures of them soon.

John is a collector and dealer of old photographs (mostly from the 19th century) - he gave the photos to me because I draw and paint mountains a lot. And I just really like the look of them - something about them captivates me.
I like volcanos a lot too, I am working on a small painting of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines) at the moment for a forth coming exhibition.

New records

Why do mac books take images backwards? Why didn't I use a digital camera to document this?

Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?

Fog

Skulls

(Mayan?) Skull carved from a single piece of quartz crystal



I can't remember the name of the artist who created this skull. i do know that she cut this image out of paper.

Blue Filter

Space






I have no idea what this - a sea creature?


Blue filter



Some kind of castle/ homestead. A baron probably lives there

Deconstructed lady forms

In searching for a picture of an aeroplane, I came across these two amazing images. I think the object in the first picture is either a tambourine or a drum - very odd!

I love the fluid lines in this second picture. Unfortunatley I dont have names of either artist behind these :(

Wish List!

Hmmm if I had lots of moolah I'd own all these things. I assume the inka masks would cost a few million - lay by?


1. Opal/precious stone/metal covered Inka masks

2. An Audrey Kawasaki original

3. A Tree Bed (this reminds me of where the wild things are)

4. An Audrey Kawasaki kokeshi doll

5. This brooch by Julia DeVille

6. The Little Wanderer doll by Yoshitomo Nara

7. Philippe Starck Gnome

Wunderkammer

Wunderkammer translates to cabinet of curiosities.

The wunderkammer was an early way of ordering and cataloguing objects and artifacts prior to, and during the renaissance period.

Perhaps one of the goals of collecting in this manner was a form of controlling nature, as the collections are housed in rigid, square, clinical spaces.

Sunfish

This is a Mola-Mola also known as a Sunfish.

There used to be a taxidermied one at the Dunediun museum and was my favorite thing there.
When I went back a few years ago, the Sunfish had gone.

KODAMA

The Kodama are a japanese tree spirit that live in particular types of trees/flora. They act as guardians to these trees and to the forest areas in which the they grow.

Cutting down a tree that houses Kodama will bring bad luck.

Man bitten by snake 9 times

My friend Joel first showed this article to me about 5 years ago.
It could be the best thing I've ever read.

I'm sorry if the font is too small. If you cant read it, the jist of the story is that a Darwin based man was so drunk he picked up a King Brown snake which bit him 9 times.

Hong Kong dragons

In Hong Kong they put holes in their buildings so dragons can fly through them.

Sebastien Tellier and The King

....Are the shit!

By the way, happy birthday Elvis. Say hi to Klaatu and E.T for me.

Watching Jaques Cousteau

When I was little and living in the Phillipines, I used to watch these three VHS tapes of Jaques Cousteau's adventures through Papua New Guinea. They were given to my parents by family friends who had escorted Cousteau around the islands, reefs and rainforests of PNG.

Prior to the stint in the Phillipines, I briefly lived in Port Moresby. Most memories are of the beaches. Of looking at sea-cucumbers in rock pools, digging for pippies, and making peanut butter at my kindergarten. I also remember throwing my sister's cat down the stairs (sorry Juliet).

I remember on one of the tapes, footage of a beautiful Cus - cus that had climbed up a tree and then got trapped as water levels rose. They ended up saving it and keeping the Cus-cus as a pet on their boat.














My sister met Jaques Cousteau once and said he was actually quite boring...

New Years Resolutions

Learn to drive

Stop punctuating sentences with swear words

Make more art

Learn to sew - this is so I can make a soft bigfoot/yeti/tree spirit creature thing.

I'd curl up and fall asleep on this guy's belly...my own Totoro

Banksia Man (who reminds me of Jermaine Clement)

Various mushrooms - I like these

A jelly-like mushroom
(Pseudohydnum gelatinosu)


Bird Nest mushrooms

Red Cup mushrooms

Apricot Jelly mushroom

Poisonous species of mushroom

(I do not know what they are called)

Spikey mushroom...

Veiled Lady mushrooms

some more Cup mushrooms

Toadstools (poisonous)

Magic mushrooms

Coral mushroom family