Really wishing i could get to this on the weekend: Fifty-three artists in the Yarra Valley area will open their studios to the public in one of the biggest single arts projects in the region for many years. Visitors will be able to spend an afternoon, a day or a whole weekend exploring the rich…
[dawn] we had a few queries from people asking whether copies of the images we used at the solstice are up for sale… and now they are! I’ve put all the images into 2 low res pdfs here: solsticeweb and solsticeweb2 [about 4mb each], but if you’d like to see one in a higher res,…
[photo from The Age] Sam and I went up to Healesville today to see the new exhibition, ‘Resurrection’, which has been put curated by Three Stories Gallery. It’s an exhibition of art work made from the ruins of the fires… mike emmett [who is part of our basement spaces, and so much more!] has a…
the sun was blood red as it rose this morning over melbourne. The fire is back again in Chum Creek, and Mike and Claire are in its path again this morning. It will be hell where they are just now. [If you’re new here, and i know a lot of people are reading the blog…
Mike has two galleries of photos from their property at Chum Creek. [click on the photo to enlarge – you can make out their house among the trees to the right of the cars. advice is to put cars in an area that’s already burnt out so that if another fire comes through they won’t…
I’ve had some emails and texts from people this morning wanting to know how Mike and Claire are doing – their house [at Chum Creek] is under urgent threat again from the Healesville complex fire. I last heard from Mike at around midnight when things were ‘ok so far’. Hodges Road was mentioned on the…
I just checked my phone. Mike sent a text at 1.20 am: ‘holy shit that was scary’. i hope that was the worst of it over for them, i’m not confident it was.
[the sun over Warragul yesterday] Yesterday was one of those extraordinary weather days that you rarely, if ever, encounter. It was apocalyptic – it got to 46.4 degrees celsius in Melbourne [that’s 115 degrees fahrenheit – the hottest ever recorded here], and it was hotter still in other parts of Victoria. The wind was gale…
I talked about this briefly in a recent post, but i didn’t want it to get lost … Proost have released an amazing collection of movies and music based around the traditional service of 9 lessons and carols for advent and christmas. It’s a whole christmas service, and it costs less than A$25 to download!…
[update: more photos from mike here – thanks mike.] mike takes the best photos. looking towards the entrance of the basement, projection of degraves lane on the ceiling… holy ground …
