Kids come to dinner

Going back a week the plan for this week had been to have a birthday celebration for Chris and Jemma complete with cakes:

Chris: chocolate + Berries.

Jemma: Red velvet. 

Alas Jemma got sick.  I didn't want her to feel obligated to attend and after some thought and traded messages,  decided to cancel the Birthday celebrations.  

Flowing on from that,  I decided on a simpler meal of sausages, mashed potatoes, peas and corn. 

Before cooking dinner I made sticky date pudding.

I cooked the sausages on Graham's BBQ.

Phoebe took a wheelbarrow load of wood to the front yard and I lit a fire.  We sat around the fire and ate our meal. 

I pulled out my laptop and showed some of Tim's photos of me when I was much younger.  Dan has some photos of a younger me too.

Sunday Night Joy

"We" being Phoebe, Jai, Fletch and myself went to the Power House on Sunday evening.  The event was called the Night Feast. The particular draw card was Phoebe's daughter Amy was the DJ at one of the venues. 

next to Amy's venue was the vibrating mirror 

Behind the mirror was a big bass speaker.  A sign indicated a 14 minute loop. The mirror seemed to be made of a thick aluminium foil stretched taughtly across a frame.  I assume the thing has two fundamental modes of resonance. One based on the width and one on the length. 

Finally the main draw card was Amy's DJ space.  Zac was there. We went twice before and after the walk and eat.

CBR->BNE

4:00 pack car

4:15 Dep Kellaway st

4:45 Arr Airport

5:45 F & P Depart CBR

7:30 Arr BNE

7:10 M & J Depart

8:50 M & J Arr BNE

SUN CBR Lunch

On the way home from the NGA, we (Phoebe and Frank) dropped into the pie shop at Anslie shops and bought pies:

Henry: Steak & Mushroom.

Max: Chicken

Jemma: plain beef.

Phoebe: Steak & Kidney.

Frank: Steak, bacon and cheese. 

P also bought sweets that were cut into pieces - vanilla slice,  caramel slice,  lemon meringue pie, Crème Brûlée .

Tea was made and special note was made acknowledging the tea cosy knitted by Claire. 

SUN NGA

Getting a dose of artistic culture at the National Gallery of Australia. NGA

The big ticket drawcard were the Arthur Boyd Tapestries.

There's lots of them and they are huge. Commissioned by Arthur Boyd and made in a Portuguese workshop in the 1970's.

Someone had a lot of money. 

Getting Philosopical to me Art evokes a wide range of emotional feelings. Often for me there's a "wow". It can negative like "wow" what pointless rubbish or "wow" why do they even acquire and display this. Sometimes it's a wow curiosity about how did they make this and I often wish they would tell about how a piece was manufactured. Sometimes I have to sit and look and gradually I see detail.

Boyd said and I agree: you don't want to hang onto stuff. You want to ditch stuff and keep concepts. Stuff is the past and concepts are the future. 

To me the main "wow" with art is the light it shines on humanity and the potential for the future. Sometimes it's a sad "wow" that brings on tears and feelings of anger and sadness about the past. Occasionally it's an awesomeness about the future.

The obligatory Blue Poles photo. 

To me a comparison the complexity of the human arm to the relative clumsiness of a robotic arm. 

Grate Art:

A very practical installation:

The spaces always feel huge.   I wish I had that much space in my house. 

The main attraction:

A hands on DIY experience of weaving with a time line on the left. I felt they'd done a great job of contextualising the tapestries.  They had this time line,  the DIY activity which shows how hard it is to weave. There was a nice little documentary video. The sketches that were originally for a children's book and finally the Tapestries. 

two shadows from two projectors. Each projector projected the entire image. Presumably to make it brighter.  Must have been fun to align. 

Saturday

Pretty Quiet day. 

Park run. 

Removed roof racks from Henry's car.

Washed clothes. 

Sorted out Henry's flickering LED down lights. 

Observed no easy solution to his carport light. 

Woden Park Run

Today 00:37:28.

PB 00:36:52 here at woden.

It was pretty cold and I felt it was hard to breathe.

Woden Town parkrun results for event #41. Your time was 00:37:28.

Congratulations on completing your 79th parkrun and your 2nd at Woden Town parkrun today. You finished in 249th place out of a field of 346 parkrunners. You were the 128th male and came 8th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. 

Your PB at Woden Town parkrun remains 00:36:52. Your best time this year remains 00:36:52