as it navigates itself through the colourful people, places, spaces
& architecture of Sydney City.
HAND GAMES #11 JUN, by Hand Games
12 track album
Hand Games has released its latest mixtape filled with 12 excellent tunes from Australian bands. It’s not easy to release a new mixtape every month with amazing music, so go download and give it a listen, support Australian music and have a boogie.
This is a portrait I did of my father when I was 16 years old.
Oil on Canvas,
Adam Madigan-photographer, friend, writer, teacher…many things to me is (caught) wearing Nudie Jeans and his beloved doc martens. This was taken at our old workplace (prior to them amending our employee contracts with the new ‘social media’ abstract) in Bondi Junction.
MESSINA
If you have yet to visit ice creamery Messina (located on Victoria St Darlinghurst, Surry hills or in the Casino) I urgently advise you to drop all things (work-related, baby-related, gym-related, food-related, sex-related) and march your way over to the small 1970’s patterned ice cream parlour. It is a taste of heaven, a small sexual encounter that your taste-buds and your brain will ride on for a while (till the endorphins calm themselves down) and will leave you feeling indulgent, satisfied and in a state of wild delight!
The flavours change all the time, but staples that need to be licked (ha!) include: the salted caramel, palang and coconut, raspberry sorbet, chocolate sorbet. YUM
Bayswater Rd, sometime during the day, Potts Point.
It occurred to me that there is going to be a re-development of the corner hotel on Bayswater road (thank god), for the beautifully tree-lined street needs an added touch of (dare I say..) residential/mixed used development that does NOT include a bar of some sort (maybe a restaurant..)
For now I can only imagine and hope the outcome will add to the urban landscape, and perhaps add a touch of new modern architecture textures and design.
Thus he died, and all the life struggled out of him;
And as he died he spattered me with the dark red
And violent driven rain of bitter savored blood
To make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers,
Of god in glory at the birth time of the buds.
Madigan: thanks for showing me this.
MAGICAL MONDAYS
Today was spent outside in the sun reading Walt Whitman, Montaigne’s essays and remembering Hamlet, followed by a boxing class in the evening. awesome day.
i cannot wait to move so our kitchen will always be like so:
Alice and Gertrude
Hall St, Bondi Beach.
Named after the infamous critic Alice Stien and her lover/friend/organiser Gertrude, this beautifully cluttered cafe replicates their love for literature and intellectual conversations with a splash of jazz music (when I use to frequent) and the warm buzzing aromas of a well rounded coffee.
The space is filled (to my utter delight!) with shelves upon shelves of books covering all sorts of genres, sizes, and time eras, with tables situated for light (or deep) reading to accompany your late night latte.
A favourite of mine to meet up/finish dates or study dates, my new territory(Potts Point) has led me to replace Alice and Gertrude with Spanish coffee house Hernandez. Nevertheless, a place worth visiting if you enjoy the company of a good book, coffee and yourself.
deadly.
amazinng
