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I've been toying with when to take my delayed trip to Melbourne, after that deferred trip earlier this year. Early July sounded good, and it just got a bit better.
As part of this year's Melbourne Design Festival, the National Design Centre in Fed Square are hosting an exhibition of the work of Charles and Ray Eames, including a film night showing the Eames' short films.
I'm an Eames fanboy from way back, so let's just say this announcement got my attention. I may have audibly squeeked while reading the list of events.
The Eames-fest also includes a "Chair Camp," which appears to be a chair design workshop. It sounds like it's for students, so I may have to don a beret and pencil moustache to pose as an architecture student and sneak in there.
My one hope is that the touring exhibition includes chairs you can actually sit on. If you've been spared this rant previously, I'll give you the highlights reel: Design is problem solving, ergo a chair is the solution to the problem of needing to sit down. You therefore can't judge the design of a chair without sitting in it (Vitra Design Museum, I'm talking to you).
Uh.
Why do I admit these things in public?
Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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In amongst painful browser-wranging this morning, Emiliana Torrini's Sunnyroad came up on iTunes' shuffle like a musical ray of sunshine. If you haven't heard it, this is a song so blissfully sweet that it makes everything okay with the world. At least for the three minutes and four seconds you're listening to it.
This morning it was followed by Simon and Garfunkel's similarly mellow The Only Living Boy In New York, which I can now report has a slightly disconcerting stereo effect on the vocals when played on headphones.
Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006
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Another shot of the dunes around somewhere around Whitfords.
Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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I've got plenty of photos to post, but I've set a nasty precedent lately of writing wordy posts to go with the photos, and I haven't been in a wordy frame of mind recently.
So here's a photo. Is it the moon? Is it a small sand dune just south of Whitfords? Maybe we'll never know.
In site news, I finally got around to making a proper little link list which is on the right-hand of the homepage. It's not 100% polished yet but you can now comment on linkage if you feel so inclined.
I'm also slowly bringing across a stack of links I posted here in 2004, in which I accompany links with embarrassing commentary such as "I have a weakness for bent plywood."
No shame. Whatsoever.
Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006
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Right next to the stereo at home there's a small stack of CDs that I've been cycling through lately, mostly because I can't be bothered walking to the other end of the house to my CD collection just to pick out a new album.
The current stack, from top-to-bottom:
- There Will Be A Light - Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama
Bought it after hearing the title track on a mix album and digging the combination of Harper's wails and the soulful bass of the Blind Boys. Sounds beautiful on good speakers.
- Is A Woman - Lambchop
So very mellow. It still amazes me that so many people are involved in making such quiet music.
- Riot on an Empty Street - Kings of Convenience
"I'll make you laugh by acting like the guy who sings."
- Autumn Flow - Lior
Mellow. Australian. Hoping to catch him playing live soon.
- Even World (EP) - The Hampdens
I'd peg it as their best EP. Still wondering where the rumoured album went, and if we'll ever see a release of their cover of The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (originally by the Postal Service).
- Cities - The Cat Empire Project
Great album. A little bit motown and with more emphasis on the keys rather than big-band. It's a different mood, but I think I'd rate it above their last outing, Two Shoes.
- We Are Little Barrie - Little Barrie
A bit nasal, but good fun.
- Comfort of Strangers - Beth Orton
Beth Orton can do no wrong. Unfortunately I missed her tour last month (sighs).
- Premiers Symptomes - Air
Must also acquire a copy of Moon Safari, if only to hear 'All I Need' again... Such a sweet song.
Honourable mention goes to Veneer by Jose Gonzalez, which is in the other stereo (next to the CD collection) at the other side of the house. It's also mellow, and it's definitely an album to wake up to.
What's in your stack (or playlist) at the moment?
Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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A few months back, Derek Powazek wrote a little piece called Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, about switching to a purely digital music collection. It struck a chord with me.
I'll be the first to admit to an unhealthy love for my iPod and my frustratingly-fragmented iTunes libraries spread across my G5 at work and two laptops.
But I don't think I could ever give up CDs in favour of digital downloads.
Continue reading "Liner Notes"
Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006
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I'm not 100% certain any more, but I think this photo was the basis for the header stripes in the new design. There may have been some colour-balancing involved.
Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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Driving through the CBD on Saturday afternoon with some friends, we pulled up at the lights at Milligan and the Terrace, right outside the Woodside tower. I looked across into the foyer at Woodside to see some guy rocking around on one of the little pod-like groups of chairs (I may have previously mentioned this foyer and its red Egg Chair splendour).
Seeing one of my dream chairs roughhoused by some guy, it required restraint to not lean out the car window and yell "OI! YOU! RESPECT THE CHAIR!"
...And in hindsight I'm not sure it's wise to admit these things in public.
Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006
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Chairs
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Life
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I'm tired. Time for a rest.
Posted on Wednesday, May 3, 2006
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