No, fuck you. I don’t want a world without art.
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Monthly archives: June 2011
Fitzroy history – from pub to fashion
What began as the Shamrock hotel in 1861 became the Ellington (or Eglinton) Castle in 1891 and then the Fitzroy Club hotel (between Rose and Leicester streets on Brunswick St). It was possibly not the best pub in Fitzroy – in 1894 they were convicted for selling cheap brandy out of Hennessy bottles. In 1913 they were prosecuted for, but found not guilty of, Sunday trading.
The end came soon after in 1916 due to a government led policy to reduce the number of licensed venues.…
oversharing
Argyle St near George St. A metaphor of Gen Y perhaps?
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Timis gelato has closed
It must be difficult making money when people only want your product for half the year. Timis gelato on Brunswick St has been closed, supposedly for renovations, for some time now but recently a ‘for lease’ sign appeared in the window.
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films about artists
After seeing the Vienna art and design exhibition yesterday at the NGV (very good, but not quite amazing, with the Schiele works the best of it), I was thinking of again watching the biopic of Klimt starring John Malkovich (which also features a depiction of Schiele). As I like films about artists, despite their annoying tendency to be excessively and unnecessarily historically inaccurate, this soon expanded to thinking about the biographical films about artists I have previously enjoyed.…
time to get ill
A cute new work on Little Victoria St near George St by Irk.
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Fitzroy history – a chemical factory on Napier St
In 1895 the Phoenix Chemical Company was established on Napier St. I am not sure what function the building now serves, perhaps residential, but it is nestled in the Fitzroy Primary School precinct. The chariots have changed too…
Courtesy the Fitzroy local history collection / ID: 18061 / photographer: unknown / copyright: expired – image is in the public domain / c1895…
legal to do but illegal to show
If you enjoy various forms of fetish sexuality, whether real (performed), viewed (via pornography) or imagined (mental fantasy), such as a bit of ‘consensual slapping and whacking‘, you may be aware that the government hates what you like. For the past two decades has been working to censor and ban legally produced media that depicts consenting adults having sex with other consenting adults.
The federal government is currently undertaking a National Classification Scheme Review.…
I can haz the power
On Argyle St near George St.
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