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Coming out + more ugo

Posted in Art and exhibitions, Great blogs, Melbourne cool, tagged , on 22 June, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Someone on the weekend asked me why I don’t have my name on this blog, and I realised it was time to do it. When I started this blog almost two years I wanted to write as unselfconsciously as possible so I wrote using only a blog title.  As time’s passed I’ve got more comfortable [...]

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John Monash: bridge builder, humble genius

Posted in Melbourne cool, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , , , , , , on 28 May, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The masthead shows Morell Bridge in Melbourne.  I cross the bridge several times a week, and each time I get a thrill at its prettiness and elegance and the fact it was built by the man dubbed “the best general on the western front”:  John Monash. The bridge was built in 1899, and apart from [...]

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Ocean without a shore: Jargon-free art for May

Posted in Art and exhibitions, Jargon-free art for the month, Melbourne cool, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 16 May, 2010 | 2 Comments »

There’s a church in Rome, just near Colosseo, called San Clemente.  It’s not one of the showstopper churches, at least, not until you venture inside and descend into the depths. Then it becomes an eerie and remarkable experience. The church one enters from street level was built in the 12th century.  It features golden mosaic [...]

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Exorbitant privilege of the eye

Posted in Melbourne cool, Perfume, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , , , , on 18 April, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The Grand Perfume Tour to Paris and the South of France via Oman and London is postponed due to client commitments.  Feeling wistful though resigned, took myself in compensation on mini tour to olfaction via Fitzroy and Elena Vosnaki’s blog. Pure, fake sensation First stop: Klein’s perfumery in Brunswick Street to play with the Demeter [...]

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Little parks

Posted in A Walk in the Park, Melbourne cool, tagged , , , on 17 April, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Melbourne has been hosting this week the international Healthy Parks, Healthy People congress, and Alan Saunders on Radio National spoke to two of the keynote speakers this morning. Having people enjoy public parks, and the effect it has on neighbourhood vitality and personal wellbeing, is a cause close to my heart.  Last year I established [...]

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From baked beans to luminaire

Posted in Art and exhibitions, Craftwork, Melbourne cool, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , , , on 8 April, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Still lingering on the attractions of the portrait, so I thought I’d have a go myself.  I’ve selected one of my unsuspecting friends, Jan, as the first guinea pig. Meet my friend, Jan Flook, industrial designer, ranconteur and king of the rubbish dump.  Jan is passionate about transforming what other people call rubbish into high-end [...]

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“Our magic hour”

Posted in A Walk in the Park, Art and exhibitions, Melbourne cool, tagged , , , , , , on 10 February, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I recently had the following article published in a walking magazine. ***** “Our magic hour.”  That’s what the sign says.  “Whose magic hour?” I sometimes think as I walk past on the other side of the river.  Or, “Really? This is my magic hour?” “Our magic hour” is the rainbow artwork perched on top of [...]

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Tidbits from the deep and Melbourne the cool

Posted in Great blogs, Literature, Melbourne cool, tagged , , , , , , , on 19 January, 2010 | 4 Comments »

News in The Age that David Mearns, the UK-based shipwreck hunter, plans to search for the Endurance, the ship crushed by ice and abandoned by Ernest Shackleton and his men on their Antarctic expedition in 1915.  Readers of this blog may remember my wonder and torment when reading Shackleton’s account of the expedition (click here and here).  It’s [...]

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