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life painting
Erin has been so diligent at posting about her amazing watercolour class, so I thought it was about time I did a post on my class too. I am learning about the wonderful art of oil painting, it’s so much fun. It’s so nice to try a new medium after painting in watercolour for such a long time – I feel like I have learnt so much in such a short amount of time…
by kathryn 
Life and Music
A superb little video of philosopher Alan Watt’s recordings brought to life by animators Matt Parker and Trey Stone. I especially love the flying conductor and dancing ballerina who pirouettes into the last frame.
by kathryn Richard III at BAM
I went to see Kevin Spacey play Richard III at BAM the other day, and it was one of the most breath taking performances I have ever seen. In fact the whole cast were just fabulous. The stage production, although minimist was incredibly striking and the music was just phenomenal. If there are any tickets left, I urge you to see it, or at least watch the video so you can see what you’re missing!
by kathryn 
911 Memorial
It was an unusually sunny winter’s day, last wednesday when we visited the 9/11 Memorial Park. There are two fountains, both existing in the footprints of the former twin towers that cascade quietly and somberly into the ground. We felt such sadness for those whose lives have been so terribly affected by the events of 9/11, but also pride for their strength, which has been a inspiration to us all. It was both a beautiful and moving experience to stand in the middle of Manhattan and see and feel so much space around us. Afterwards we saw “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” which was such a heartfelt and touching film. We salute you New York, for your courage, support and tenacity.
by kathryn Before the first dot
THE OBLITERATION ROOM
1: Artist Yayoi Kusama’s perfectly white installation of a traditional Australian living room
2: The placing of the first few dots
3: The Room obliterated by a rainbow of colourful stickers, stuck on by the thousands of children visiting the exhibition
Amazing!
Photographs by Mark Sherwood
by kathryn What may happen in the next hundred years?
Snippets taken from the article ‘What may happen in the next hundred years’ by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. from ‘The Ladies Home Journal’ in December 1900
Seeing as it’s still sort of the beginning of the year, and still a time for reflection I thought I would share this with you chaps. A look back at a prediction made over a hundred years ago. It’s eerie how accurate some of Watkin’s predictions are, yet others are quite laughable. I love how certain he was that all foods would be enormous! Anyway, I don’t think that I have the foresight to guess what the world will be like a hundred years from now, except that it will be very very different!
Here’s the original article but if the text is too small, here is an html version for your viewing pleasure
by kathryn Hooray for the Holidays!
We’re so so lucky we have the week off so we are all hanging out with our respective family and friends in various delighfult spots around the USA.
We hope you all are enjoying the holidays too, and haven’t:
a. Eaten too much
b. Fallen out with too many family members
c. Drunk too much mulled wine
d. Sustained any snowman building injuries!
by kathryn Eno Henze
Aren’t these beautiful? They look like delicate, billowing fabrics. However they are actually computer drawings created by the talented artist Eno Henze. He states: “In this series I try to stress the idea of a drawing that is the result of a collaborative process between me and the machine”.
by kathryn 
oh crumble!
Doesn’t this crumble look amazing? I found it looking through the archives of the scrumptious food blog What Katie Ate. One of my favourite things about fall is that I get to eat a whole range of new foods that it’s just too hot for over the summer. I made my first crumble of the season last night (blackberry and apple), and gobbled it up with some hot custard!
by kathryn A Very Happy Friday
It’s a beautiful, sunny, Autumnal day here in New York and we are having fun painting and making a mess. We would like to wish you all a happy Friday, enjoy the weekend!
by kathryn I know halloween’s over but…
Aren’t these the cutest Owl cupcakes ever! Their eyes are made from halved oreos and their noses are Reece’s pieces – Yum!
by kathryn TINTIN
Isn’t this a great animation by James Curran! I loved the Tintin books growing up, and it was fun to try and spot all the different Adventures referenced in the video!
Also if you need a last minute Halloween costume idea, it would be so fun to go as Thomson and Thompson
by kathryn Robert Doisneau
“I don’t photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be”
Robert Doisneau
Found via this isn’t happiness
by kathryn DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL
I hope the rain doesn’t hang around all weekend, because for the next three days DUMBO is going to be a hubub of artists, designers, performers, musicians, dancers, poets and circus artists, all doing what they do best. I’m especially looking forward to Immersive surfaces (tonight, Saturday and Sunday: 8pm – midnight), a video projection installation onto the Manhattan Bridge – it looks awesome!
by kathryn You can have your cake and eat it!
A special Happy birthday shout out to Erin! In honour of this ‘oh so’ special day I thought I would share a few of our favourite cakes from The Australian Women’s Weekly’s ”Children’s Birthday Cake Book”. Both of us grew up with this book and over the years have chomped our way through many of these amazing cakes. Although newer books may have more up-to-date, snazzier cakes I don’t think this book can be beaten on creativity and charm! Cakes ahoy!
by kathryn Joyful, as his suns are flying
I just discovered the wonderful world of Sebastiaan Bremer and it’s magical!
by kathryn Otherworldly
We went to the Otherworldly exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design the other day… It was a great mixture of cute little dioramas and strange dark worlds but all celebrating the innate enjoyment one gets from seeing things in miniature. I really love the MAD and find it often gets overlooked due to the plethora of fine Art Galleries New York City has to offer. It’s well worth a visit and it’s always lovely to stop off at Robert (the delicious restaurant on the 9th floor with a spectacular view of central park) afterwards.
by kathryn Wired
I like the quiet fragility of these wire sculptures by Five from the ground, who also specialise in interesting, old, found objects… Browsing their site, I feel like I have stumbled into an attic full of forgotten things.
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