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Quick, fun one. I'm sure a lot of people know this already, but I very much enjoy nerdy wordplays ... puns, alliterations, and the like. So ... here we have, the smug mugs. (Breakfast with Socrates contains a sizeable collection of clever wordplay, yet another reason to love it.)
(I've just spent an hour or so trying to arrange the photos in a pleasing manner, but I'm not sure if it is working for me. Seems a bit cluttered and proportionally wrong?)
I forgot how much fun it is to walk around with a camera in hand ... endless discoveries.
- plastic bags are not toys ... a bucket struggling with a plastic bag over its head (disgusting and immoral of me to take a photo!)
- two pipes begging and screaming to be connected
- sss
- two pipes begging and screaming to be connected
- sss
- Small quest to locate Ghostpatrol and Miso work around Melbourne
- On Liverpool St
- Lovingly, delicately and beautifully handcut
Presgrave Pl
Ah, how wonderful Melbourne is ...
Nothing like a Sunday afternoon spent with a coffee, some bikkies and a cool book. I picked up Breakfast with Socrates in December, started reading it and stopped reading as I entered a wonderfully serious affair with Alan Bennett's wonderful play and autobiography. I've always wanted to know more about philosophy, having studied and learned bits and pieces of Derrida, Foucault and back in high school History Extension (history nerd alert!). To be perfectly honest, philosophy is intimidating and their texts not always easily understood. Breakfast with Socrates is an easy introduction and sort of ... philosophy injected into and analysed in everyday mundane tasks. I can already hear philosophy students and the like cringing (you snobs!) ... but this book is very much accessible to the general public who wishes to know a little bit more.
This is a renovation of a workshop and its garden by Ecuadorian architect firm Daniel Moreno -to clean up and create a light-filled space for the organisation and storage of materials. I absolutely love the use such humble yet visually powerful materials - steel reinforcement bars, timber logs and its manipulation of the notion of surface. My future conservatory?
Note the ladder, beautiful!
(All images from Archdaily.com)
I may have gone a tad carried away with this post ... I blame regular trips to Borders, Readings and Metropolis. There are a few more, but these are enough for now. They're all fantastic books to have on hand - to read, and for reference and inspiration. Now to find the funds to get my hands on these babies.
^^^Jess, you'll find this rather interesting I reckon.
All images from Amazon.co.uk, except for The Melbourne Design Guide, which is from Magnation.
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The colour scheme has a sort of story-telling quality to it, I reckon. But something is not quite right with the colour ... might re-colour it actually*.
I decided to do flight (with balloons) again after coming across a print at NGV International today - one of a dead squirrel in a series named White Mammals by Kiki Smith. I quite like the overlapping balloons.
*OK I tried .. but was not very successful. Result below. Much prefer the first one.
Go see it. I'm not sure how much of Mueck's work is conceptual, but it is a great exhibition. To a degree, his work do explore the human condition ... and they are meticulously detailed and beautiful objects to look at.
Well curated, great space, I thought - all the pieces seem to be having conversations and talking to each other. It certainly is a very 'accessible' form of art, I suppose, family-friendly too, due to the shock/wow factor. This is probably why photography (without flash, of course) is allowed in the exhibition. I remember my mother, who isn't really interested in the art world, forwarding me an email with pictures of his work due to how 'cool' they were. And they certainly are cool.
Sometimes we need a bit of fun, even in the most mundane of things.
Designed by Israeli-based Artori Design
Tea infuser by Israeli design studio, Ototo
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