Spring rain, falling down like love
This one goes out to Arthur Plum White Sarlos, born today, hooray! *first image: Dragonauttt
This guy’s in love
Best buds: flowers & stripes in 1982 via The Reels and in 1986 from The Go-Betweens. I always buy my striped boatneck from Remo and my flowers from anywhere, everywhere.
Down at heel
These thinkers photographed in the Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Café by Brian Bird between 1948-1951. Before most of Rowe Street became the MLC Centre, the Lincoln was the unkempt, unofficial quarters of the Sydney Push and smokers alike. “I was a Lincolnite…it was scruffy down-at-heel bohemia. Edie, the red haired woman who ran the Lincoln [...]
“The Quaint Little Australian”
(L-R: Kerry Koala, Blinky Bill, Angelina Wallaby, Walter Wombat) Cute flashbacks down in the ABC foyer at the moment. Normally I’m rushing in and out of work for coffee/lunch/retrieving things I’ve left behind in cinemas/sneaking peeks at my favourite news anchor, but today my stroll out for a seaweed salad was almost leisurely and for [...]
Some fun junk
NB Belted chair NB Glass of milk NB Gnarly bananas A few more gems from Australian Home Decorating by Babette Hayes (1970) and some tips too: DECIDE ON A BASIC STYLE Informal: The use of scrubbed furniture, folk-weave textures, sisal matting, marvellous junk shop accessories, brightly-painted doors, striking posters, divans, piles of coloured cushions, natural [...]
Workspaces 1970 & 2010
These days I have three different workspaces each week. One is six floors up, lording over Chinatown with a view of fast moving clouds and major Sydney radio legacy in the halls. This book perma-open. The second is where I found these images. It’s my sister’s space within a larger studio, where I work for [...]
Maggic Happens
From this glorious looking album of one William Henry Tietkens And I mean glorious The first known photographs of Uluru (nee Ayers Rock) Taken at a place called MAGGIC SPRING, July 1889. If flashing HTML was still around, I would totally have made Maggic Spring do that. More: State Library NSW
“What a helluva night!”
It was election day today. There’s a hung parliament so far. Last election I experienced was Obama’s victory (wild hugs in the street). The feeling in the air here is quite different. Trying to keep a PMA. Trying.
Why do you feel it? When will it stop?
Beautiful waste, stupid feeling Beautiful waste, wonderful feeling Stupid feeling making fools out of us Beautiful Waste by The Triffids is, surely, one of the best pop songs I’ve ever heard (mix tape staple). A big call perhaps, but heartfelt. A total jumping about in the kitchen tune, and the video is charming in that [...]
The rocker, the roller, the out-of-controller
A few weeks ago I went to a screening of Mad Max at the opening of the inaugral Australian Film Festival at a favourite art deco cinema. The film — “larger than life and twice as ugly” — was better than I’d remembered from childhood, a controlled mess of scrub, metal and skags. Amidst all [...]