Ink seafood restaurant (single page site only, no menus Update 24 July 2008 – Ink now have a beautiful looking website with menus) is located on the corner of Alexandra Parade and Rae St in the southern border of North Fitzroy. Alexandra Parade divides Fitzroy and North Fitzroy and is not the greatest location for a restaurant – several lanes of constant traffic, no other entertainment venues on the same block and little passing foot traffic compared to Brunswick St or St George’s Rd.…
Lake Wendouree in Ballarat is completely dry, and has been for over two years. It’s surreal to see signs warning you not to swim when there is no water to swim in!
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In a fantastic community initiative, Safeway Fitzroy and the City of Yarra are promoting art work by young people created at Napier studios. Read the brochure at the bottom for details. Now Safeway has an art isle!
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The Brunswick St Gallery‘s small works show earlier this month was a triumph, and Mark and the gallery team should be congratulated on one of the Fitzroy art highlights of the year. It was fantastic to see the show and also to see how popular it was. Instead of the usually busy stairwell the white walls were bare, but once you got to the top floor the crammed walls exploded in colour.…
On Friday 20 June I attended the launch party at Dante’s of the Gertrude Association‘s digital media street festival. The launch was a great success with about 200 people attending. I then went for a walk to look at the projection sites. The video below is a short collection of the projections showing the sites and how people interacted with the images. Friday night is the closing party – check the Gertrude Association site for details.…
I was walking up Napier St on Monday night heading south from Johnston St and saw a film or television shoot in progress. There were women in leopard print miniskirts and faux fur jackets. Must have been the obligatory junkie hooker scene. A new crime or cop drama, I thought to myself.
I then found out from a friend who lives on Napier St that she had recieved notification in the letterbox about the blocked roads resulting from the shoot.…
Update 16 October 2008: Local artist Meggs says the Keith Haring work should be preserved.
Whenever I pass the fading Keith Haring mural in Collingwood I feel very sad. It was going to be protected but it now seems it will be destroyed (according to Jimmy at Signage). Jimmy says Haring wanted his work to degrade with time, not to be preserved, and that he would not mind that the building he painted will be demolished.…
I was not able to get to the launch at Hogan gallery in Smith St (the Collingwood side) of the Johnston St shop I like you / Kelly Jones, Nina Gudd and Rabbit exhibition on Tuesday 17 June 2008. I did manage to drop in on the Saturday afterwards to have a look. The exhibition finishes on June 29 so if you want to see it you’ll have to be quick.
Apart from the vibrant works I was impressed by the spirit of local cooperation and cross marketing evident in the exhibition.…
I hate inadequate research, relying on only one ‘expert’ source without checking for differences of opinion and other signs of sloppy ignorant journalism. A perfect example is the recent article Whoops I remembered not to have children in the Age. Writer Liz Cincotta makes a complete mess of discussing the topic of women who have chosen to be childfree.
First she gets the concept all wrong, arguing that there are:
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