Further to the recent article on valuing the arts that I posted, the always engaging and informative Rebecca Fitzgibbon discusses the value of large-scale public art with particular reference to recent public discourse on the topic in Tasmania and further afield in an opinion piece in today’s Mercury newspaper. Often perceived as a waste of…
A different, and belated, souvenir
Feather dusters of all shapes and sizes – short ones for getting around bookshelves to great long ones on extendible poles for (presumably) giving one’s chandeliers a good going over, all extravagantly constructed of ostrich feathers, sufficiently long and luxurious enough to adorn the headress of a Pigale showgirl.
Valuing culture
In an interesting article in The Australian Julian Meyrick asks some searching questions about this very questioning, and explores some metrics around measuring the value of the arts, festivals, museums and culture in general.
Modernist houses of Lindisfarne
A shortage of building materials led to post-war housing fashions changing radically in Hobart’s suburbs
Some photos from my 2008 trip to Bali
Some photos from my 2008 trip to Bali, compiled into a movie. Enjoy!
My tour of Egypt
Myu 2009 journey through Egypt resulted in an article that I wrote being published in the June 2010 Forty Degrees South.