Well here’s to positive attitude – no matter if it is somewhat misguided. Tattoo Studios, the dinky, tiny little boxes going up in Wigan / Abel Smith St, are proceeding at an alarmingly fast pace. One week there was nothing, the next… well, there’s a whole load of concrete planks standing in the air there. Blink again and there’ll be some apartments before too long! It’s…
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Its that time of the year again, when the sun comes out just as people have things to tempt us indoors. Coming to cajole us this week are a plethora of End of Year Graduation Exhibitions, dotted around our fine town. No pictures yet – maybe later – but as a starter for 10, there’s a Weltec final exhibition hidden away in the basement of 39…
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Our previous post was all about the glorious polystyrene and digital fabrications of Weta Workshop and the mind of Sir Peter Jackson. Yes, we do love a good hobbit adventure, and yes, I’m thinking that in some ways the architecture in the three LOTR films far surpasses nearly everything our city has built IRL. But, there comes a time when one has to wake up In…
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” So, after a week or two of stoush, the waiting is over. Just as…
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A quick post here, that brings me much mirth – and specifically for our Melbourne subscribers. Tonight, at RMIT, if you rush now you will be able to catch it, is a special talk, presenting the results of over 3 years research. I beseech you, someone, to go there and please report back. I need to know how to do this properly – I’ve had so…
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On a lovely summer day like today, the last thing you want to be doing is sitting inside – but there is one conversation going on today that we should be talking about – The Rock. Unveiled to the Media yesterday (no, we weren’t invited) and to be opened by the Key Minister today, there is going to be a Public Open Day soon too –…
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There is a letter in the DomPost today, from a John Wilson in Roseneath. In it, he says in regards to Kerry Prendergast going, that she “leaves us with more than $250 million of debt and unquestionably the worst architectural building developments in the entire southern hemisphere.” I have absolutely no idea what he is referring to. Do you? Presumably, as he is blaming her personally,…
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A slight segue from what we normally discuss here, but a question for you: because I just don’t get it. What is the big fuss about selling privately owned land to foreigners? I really don’t understand that. It is pretty simple: you don’t own that land now, or have any rights over it now – and nor will any of that change in the future. The…
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Well that was a surprise! Here in Fish City we get little in the way of advertising blurb from candidates, and so I was pleasantly surprised to see the result come through on the wire that we have a new Mayor. Not that I ever had anything against our previous Mayor, but you know – after 3 terms, its got to be time to give the…
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While we’re all waiting for the case of the hung mayoralty to be settled (due today – will it be Prendergast for a 4th or Wade-Brown with a 1st?), Post-script: Just announced – We have a new Mayor. Celia Wade-Brown beat Kerry Prendergast by a total of 176, the closest mayoral race yet seen. End result: 24,881 to 24,705 votes. To be sworn in 27 October….