Amazing photos

Check this guy's technique out: here's a sample:

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/magazine/17-07/pl_art

On Earth as in Heaven ?

Sydney, York Street.  This old church facade has been retained with apartments built on top. There is still a functioning church on the opposite side of this block.  A good use of the church's commercially valuable real estate.

Squeezed ?

Clarence St Sydney.

DRINKS AT THE OFFICE

cheers !

Eugene and Sherry

Our friends visiting from Hawkes Bay, NZ, I took them to Oxford St this morning.  Thanks for a great few days, guys :)

The Dome

Robyn and Sherry at The Dome bar, Surry Hills, a well-known mostly gay bar.  We managed to time our arrival to coincide with a speed dating evening, but left before anyone was snapped up :)

The Pie Cart

Down at Woolloomooloo Wharf - with our visitors from NZ.  Just the thing to round off a night out....  pie and peas !

HANGOVER - The Movie

Spotted on Oxford Street - finally, a movie you will remember the morning after.

Dodgy Colombian

You have to wonder about the name of this hotel and pub, Oxford Street...... traces of white powder on the footpath..... ?

Idyllic Watson's Bay

End of the road on the Sydney Harbour's south head.  A lovely winter's day. Looking back towards the city, and the bridge just visible above the treeline.

Powerful Pigments

(Source: The Independent)

Powerful pigments: An exhibition dedicated to colour

Tate Liverpool's latest exhibition dedicated to colour is dazzling. But they could have thrown even more into the mix, says Tom Lubbock

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JIM LAMBIE

Primary instinct: 'Zobop 1999', an installation by the Scottish artist Jim Lambie, is part of a new exhibition which celebrates the random use of colour

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What does colour mean to you? "Little boxes all the same/ There's a green one and a pink one/ And a blue one and a yellow one/ And they're all made out of ticky-tacky/ And they all look just the same."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/powerful-pigments-an-exhibition-dedicated-to-colour-1699067.html

Plastic fantastic

(Source: Sydney Morning herald)

In the midst of the northern Pacific Ocean is a liquid desert, a vast floating garbage dump, devoid of complex ocean life, prone to doldrums, seldom visited by fishing vessels, away from main shipping lines, and thus rarely seen by visitors.

It offers, by all accounts, a disturbing vision. Anyone sailing through this liquid dump will encounter, from horizon to horizon, concentrations of bobbing rubbish, in every direction, for day after day. Most of what is floating is not even visible, because it is plastic which has broken down into microparticles.

This degenerating soup is much larger than NSW and Victoria combined. It is about the same size as Britain, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal. It has been created by a giant spiral of clockwise ocean currents, known as the North Pacific Gyre, which carries human-created garbage that is slowly collected and consolidated by wind and currents.

The phenomenon has a name: the Eastern Garbage Patch. It was first properly documented, quite recently, by a Californian sailor and ocean researcher, Charles Moore, after he took a shortcut by motoring his yacht through the doldrums on his way back from the 1997 Trans-Pacific Yacht Race. A second giant floating mass, created by the same gyre, has been discovered thousands of kilometres away between Hawaii and Japan. Together they are commonly referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Beautiful QVB

Beautiful QVB shopping mall in Sydney CBD brings two of my passions together: architecture and retail.

In the city

Spotted in Sydney, yesterday.

Goldilocks the Koala

(Source: Independent)

The koala who thought he was Goldilocks

By Kathy Marks in Sydney

Wednesday, 3 June

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The koala might have been searching for food according to wildlife ranger, Cliff Harman

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A koala wandered into a Queensland holiday apartment and tried out several beds in a role reversal of the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", before curling up on its chosen one and having a snooze.

The three young women, who had rented the apartment on Magnetic Island, were unable to persuade it to move. They had first noticed the koala in a tree outside after checking in last Friday for a weekend break. They took several photographs, after which it descended on to their verandah and then joined them inside.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/the-koala-who-thought-he-was-goldilocks-1695491.html