Building designers sometimes enlist incredibly talented artists to help create the mood and feel of a building. While travelling though Hamad Airport I particularly noticed that very special attention to detail was everywhere. There were no dead spaces. There were no visual eyesores. The entire and vast space was a visual delight. I’m not sure … Read more
I’m not sure what they mean by ‘concept restaurant’ here in Hamad Airport. On closer inspection almost every square in this mosaic carries an American theme. There are a few international tokens but mostly there are repeated themes of big cars, American airlines, gas stations and route 66. I simply see red.
For a couple of years now I have been commuting along a route that takes me past the Barker Inlet Wetlands and the Wingfield Waste and Recycling Centre. I’d noticed the windmills, the prolific bird life and the sights and smells of a civic rubbish dump but in my head I was already at my … Read more
Lake Lockie and its big brother, Lake Hattah, in the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park of northern Victoria is little natural wonder I have only just discovered. As the Murray River winds it’s way through the arid mallee scrub of this region it spills out onto wetlands that cycle from wet to completely dry. For much of … Read more
It’s hot. The run off from the swampy on the roof fills a bucket under the the eave of the house. Every drop captured. Every drop precious. It’s nearly full. Time to water but not every plant can handle this almost brackish Adelaide water. Under the verandah with a glass of cold water in hand … Read more
It’s hot. The run off from the swampy on the roof fills a bucket under the the eave of the house. Every drop captured. Every drop precious. It’s nearly full. Time to water but not every plant can handle this almost brackish Adelaide water. Under the verandah with a glass of cold water in hand … Read more
Lake Lockie and its big brother, Lake Hattah, in the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park of northern Victoria is little natural wonder I have only just discovered. As the Murray River winds it’s way through the arid mallee scrub of this region it spills out onto wetlands that cycle from wet to completely dry. For much of … Read more
The Bluebottle jellyfish (Physalia utriculus), also known as the Pacific Man O’War, is a complete stranger to my local South Australian waters but here on Bondi Beach, Sydney we found hundreds of them washed ashore. One poor unsuspecting child must have found these bright blue toys scattered all around too irresistible to ignore. We heard … Read more
‘Birdcages’, hidden away in Angle Place Sydney is a magical art installation where the artist, Michael Thomas Hill, has combined suspended birdcages accompanied by recorded sounds of the birds that once lived here. Walking beneath these cages and hearing those beautiful sounds was both strange and soothing. For a brief moment the city wound it’s … Read more
To me lighting is everything but usually its about how the light falls on the things around us. Sometimes though it is just about the lights and the lighting in Sydney’s ‘The Establishment’ blew me away. It’s more of a globular cluster really rather than a planet but I could not make that roll off … Read more