This one time I went up the Empire State building. It was glorious.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Visiting Family.
My cute as a button little cousin gave me this shell he had been carrying around in his school bag for weeks. I then proceeded to ask him if he knew how shells were created. I then realised that I myself did not know. Full of knowledge I am.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Little Art.
A collection of postcards I picked up whilst visiting New York.
Most of these I had glimpses of at MoMa, the Natural History Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including works by Monet (who I saw an exhibition of in a Vermont museum, sun damaged and all), van Gogh, William Blake (that one's cheating actually, a friend sent it to me from London), Salvador Dali, Kandinsky, Leonardo da Vinci, Gustav Klimt and Jackson Pollock. There is also one from the Natural History Museum (suspending blue whale) , of the Guggenheim and of the Algonquin hotel, where I stayed on West 44th Street.
John Lurie + Friends
Willem Dafoe + John Lurie
John Lurie + Tom Waits
John Lurie + Dennis Hopper
John + Tom
Fishing with John.
Fishing with John was a 1991 television series written and starring John Lurie (Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law). It's a kind of mockumentary fishing show where John Lurie, an untrained fisherman, takes various friends (Jim Jarmusch, Matt Dillon, Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper) out on fishing excursions, while they chat and bicker, the narrator voices over bizarre, dramatised and irrelevant information regarding the nature of the fishing trip. It's one of the most brilliant things on television (computer screen?) I've seen in a while and it made me fall in love with John all over again (he's so cute and giggly!) It probably doesn't help that the amazingness of Jim is involved (lately have been attempting to re-watch all of his back catalog). He even sings the theme song, fiiiishing with johnnnnn.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Road Trip.
Road tripping through Australia.
We drove for 13 hours from South Australia (for Laneway festival) back home to Melbourne, Victoria. A long drive, but we got to see the Great Ocean Road and see wild animals and meet nice people in hostels during the journey. Then back to China Town for dumplings. Brilliant.
Heathers.
Actually, the film's pretty dark, but it's also rather comical and has some great lighting and one liners.
Home Made.
One of the first rings made in the jewellary workshop.
A five stacked textured silver ring (two were whitened by repetitively annealing and pickling, another two wee oxidized in oxidizing solution, the other was left silver ), textured with fine and course files and laced together with drill holes and cotton string. The hinge at the knucle is secured with a join so that the two rings sit nicely on the upper finger.
The necklace is made from fossilized sharks teeth (ten for $1 at the crystal shop), wrapped in fine wire and put on chain.
I miss having a studio! Will have to try and get one in New York.
Birthday Life
Izakaya Den - Melbourne
Continuing the tradition of Japanese for my birthday celebrations - this year in Melbourne triumphed with a delectable course of dishes of tuna tataki, kingfish sashimi and ox tounge, to name a few. The vegetarians gave up on life and ate everything that was put down, and then we washed it all down with endless bottles (beakers?) of plum wine, cold and warm sake. Up there with the best I must say.
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