on pdfs or, on describing nature using unorthodox points of refernce
You’ve been sent this article from the New York Times of 1910. It’s a peculiar offer, yet, you liked the story of an amateur ornithologist of the turn of the last century, who by observation alone, presented the Thayer Theory. After 25 years of research grounded on “description rather then observation” of Crows, gulls, warbles […]
on listening to dialogues for social sustainability in public spaces
You attended a fantastic conference last week, hosted by the Transforming Cultures Research Centre, University of Technology of Sydney. Three exciting days of extremely interesting topics being delivered around issues of social sustainability in the landscape, delving in re-defining how different cultures inhabit urban landscapes around the world. One of the presenters, Setha Low, a […]
on street plantings and where the neighbourhood is
On the way to Chippendale you stopped, the artificial lake in Victoria Park gave reason for a picture: Ibises roosting on a willow. These majestic native birds are one of the winners of nowadays urban wildlife, as the wikipedia entry: Historically rare in urban areas, the Australian White Ibis has immigrated to urban areas of […]
Coming up, Lempriere hype!
Your work has been selected for a group show which attracts much hype, year after year, here in New South Wales: The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. On the opening night (this coming Thursday) one artist will be selected to be the beneficiary of a hefty $60,00 to undertake a year of study overseas. As […]
while the hurricanes sweep the earth
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on acknowledging flickr’s community
So the Database is back online, after being forced down from the webmaster of weeds.org because of copyright issues. How funny that of all people the government is the one who complains about information being spread! Nevertheless you obliged, took offline the contested material and replace it with copyright-free content. Most of the material was […]
on privet posters, or rather, how you got there via a busy year
Somewhere you read 2008 is the year of getting busy building for the future..uhmm Sure you where busy up to now! This post is just to make a list of what you have been up to so far and a few upcoming events as well. You, reader, might or might not know you are involved […]
on one mile diets
There are lots of artistic investigations out there focusing on the way humans relate to their surrounding environments, like yours. Ally Reeves and Robin Hewlett have an ongoing project about just that. One Mile Diet takes the concept of the 100 Miles Diet movement to a new height (or distance, rather). Here’s how Ally Reeves […]
on taking down websites and rigging up potplants
well well, the webmaster for weeds.org.au (the online resource for the government’s agency which deals with weeds in Australia, Weeds Australia) decided to censor you. Here’s how it happened: To whom it may concern A website at the address http://www.weedyconnection.com/ contains material (images and text) sourced and copied directly from the Weeds Australia (http://www.weeds.org.au/) website. […]
Gardens stories
we got this one from the house we were living in, about 10 years ago, more even.. 14? This house was haunted, fully possessed …i was nearly snuffed out one night, i woke up from a dream and was in that nearly-awake state and opened my eyes, nothing was there, i couldn’t see anything but […]
