Straw Bale House

Julia Gillard: Australian Prime Minister

Julia Gillard has been elected unopposed to the Labor leadership after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd decided not to contest the leadership ballot.

Vulcans lunch

the veg

the spicy pork

the twice cooked duck

down the road and back

metropolitan water, sewerage & drainage board [MWS&DB]

winter fruit

among the trees

zoom in

veranda music

home again

In the creek

steel house update

Melbourne

Tanaka film goes to Melbourne

Asialink Winter Series: 6:00pm – 7:30pm Thursday 10th Jun 2010

Yasuko Myer Room, Level 1,

Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne

Tanaka-san Will Not Do Callisthenics is a documentary from Maree Delofski about a man whose refusal to do early-morning company callisthenics led to his sacking. He’s since maintained a daily protest vigil outside the company gates for more than 25 years.

Katoomba winter

more wood

reflection

lemons

Picasso: Peace and Freedom

Tate Liverpool 21 May – 30 August 2010

Picasso: Peace and Freedom reveals Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, actively involved in politics and the Peace Movement during the Cold War. In October 1944 Picasso joined the French Communist Party and remained a member until his death in 1973. His work during this period chronicled human conflict and war but also expressed a deep desire for peace, international understanding and equality.

The exhibition looks at Picasso as a 'History Painter', injecting this traditional form of narrative painting with new significance and meaning. It tracks how he followed the success of Guernica 1937 as a political protest painting with a series of ambitious works reflecting events during the Cold War: The Charnel House 1944-45; the War and Peace murals; The Women of Algiers 1954-55; Las Meninas 1957; and The Rape of the Sabines series, painted at the height of Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Louise Bourgeois: 1911 - 2010

2007

Roppongi Hills Tokyo for the evening and what did we find ... another sighting of Maman ... Louise Bourgeois' huge spider!

Mining CEOs / and their woes

Israeli state piracy