A big assortment of pictures, video, and reading today.
arts & entertainment
music, stage, writing, comedy, cinema, telly, arts, sport, crafts, photography – all this and more!
Mondayitis
School holidays continue to fog my brain. Methinks I have a touch of the writers’ block. There’s been a lot of stuff about 1968 around, seeing as apparently many journalists laboriously counted their fingers and toes twice and realised that… Read More ›
Cool photo
Literally. via a Terry on a private mailing list
Surfacing
Yes, it’s more pictures from Tasmania! This dolphin and its blowhole was part of a large pod in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island – there must have been at least 50. Unlike the usual mid-grey bottlenose I see occasionally around… Read More ›
Rhapsody in Shoe
Who knows why? On a country road in Southern Tasmania, on the way to the Freycinet Peninsula. The title, and taking a photo in the first place, was my son’s idea. (View Large On Black)
I knew I could rely on Richie
I couldn’t face the horror I suspected was awaiting those who went to see Alien vs Predator: Requiem. I hoped Richie would succumb, just so I could read his critique, and he has now delivered: Why “Requiem“? This isn’t a… Read More ›
“conspire and collaborate”: quilting with 1s and 0s
Sometime Guest Hoyden sajbrfem is putting the “feminism” back in “cyberfeminism”. This Cyberfeminism 101 slideshow is the first of her web-based art project, producing one cyberfeminism work per week for a year. This is the creative-practice part of a doctoral… Read More ›
A day in Hobart: Xmas Eve
This miscreant would turn up as soon as we opened the blinds and the door onto the balcony. mr tog and I spent the morning chasing up last minute Xmas requirements while Nana kept an eye on the kids. It… Read More ›
Caption this: Proto-feminism
Maeve, the made-of-awesome daughter of sometime guest Hoyden baroquestar, brings us this week’s caption contest.
Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007
I’m sitting here, back from the “family” fireworks display over Sydney Harbour at 9pm (just slightly less frosty than the New Year firework display in Norway that we attended last year), about to pour myself a something with Frangelico, and… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 