Archive for February, 2007
A quick whinge.
In my neighbourhood there are three parks that I frequent with my kids. Every playground within the parks is littered with cigarette butts.
Who smokes in a child’s playground? Really, Who does that?
My one year old inevitably tries to eat a cigarette butt just about every day. It is so disgusting!
In one of these […]
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So - I’m getting married this year and want the wedding to be a great party but do not want to have to sell my hair to a wig-maker to have to pay for it!
Anyone want to share ideas on how they made their “big day” a day to remember?
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Do you remember when a news-readers job was simply to read the news? When they were mere vessels through which the daily local and world events were brought to our tables?
How did it happen that the old fashioned news-reader became more important than the news they read?
Our news-readers are now served up as the main […]
Last week I caught the end of a home improvement show where the in-house interior designer was giving tips on how to improve the look of a room.
Her finishing instructions were to buy four canvases and paint them to match the colour scheme of the room. Then buy four place mats in a contrasting colour and stick them to the middle of the canvas. Then buy four more place mats in a contrasting colour and texture and stick them around the bottom of the canvas to create and I quote ” four original artworks for under $25 each”.
Now the result of all this painting and buying and sticking was little short of hideous but it is not for me to question here anyone’s taste in place mat adornment. However, I must say I did take umbrage at it being called art!
Of course I know that art can have a million different definitions and take a billion different forms but the one thing I am pretty sure it’s not is eight place mats stuck to four canvases! Unless, and this is a big unless, the place mats represented something wholly cryptic to my eye.
Did, for instance, the place mats represent western society’s egocentric philosophy?
Were the place mats’ textural and chromatic contrasts high-lighting the precarious balance between religious ideologies in Australia?
Could these four canvases be so steeped in iconography that they rival Nolan’s “Ned Kelly” series? “Nolan’s Place Mats”, I must admit, it has a certain ring to it.
Were the place mats a commentary on the “have and have not’s” of this world?
Or
were they just crap?
I leave it with you.
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
New release DVD
Directed by David Frankel
Starring Merryl Streep and Anne Hathaway
Young college graduate Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) unable to find work in her chosen field lands a job as personal assistant to the notoriously difficult Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). Priestly, the brains and style behind Runway Magazine, is a woman who […]
I have just seen an ad for the latest Woman’s Day.
My estimation of this magazine has soared to new heights!
Renae Lawrence of Bali Nine fame and Shapelle Corby are featured having a public spat ( probably over what is more stupid; trying to smuggle drugs out of Indonesia or trying to smuggle drugs into Indonesia!).
Woman’s […]
Have just received my new iPod!
Thankyou thankyou Sam-I-Am!!!
It Rocks
Isn’t it time we brought David Hicks home to find out if he really has done anything wrong - based on Australian law and Australian values. Surely he can languish in an Australian jail if he really is guilty!!
INDI
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