Tuesday 15 June 2021

No Rhyme Nor Reason

 Just some local curviform flavour ahead. 

The face of Dogecoin taking tea

Art deco coffee set in a shoppe window

Chinese tea for me
Tea-tini for Mr. P

Morgan Three-Wheeler
Turning heads in the 'hood

Council's stamp of progress on
The corner where works never cease

Beare Park homage to cartoon cat food

Putting some distance between patrons and staff
In the very nicest way

Footpath adornment for winter

Soup season is upon us

As is the seasonal joy of the Camellia sasanqua

Remember the Blood Moon?
'Phone cameras cannot capture the magnificence

Nor the Lunar Eclipse some minutes later

The El Alamein Fountain is safer phoney camera territory

The travelling installation known as Narcissus Garden
By Yoyai Kusama 1966/2002

Has come to the library of Alexander Macleay,
 Entomologist, natural historian & Colonial Secretary to Governor Darling*

The Greek Revival Elizabeth Bay House,
Never quite completed owing to Macleay's financial woes

But the delightful elliptical domed saloon
Is a great boon to the oeuvre of colonial architecture

Fin.

* The same Governor Darling who had his own post around these pages recently and where, temptress that I am, I promised another on his undignified departure from the Colony of New South Wales. Fear not! It is coming soon.


Image credits: Flying With Hands


28 comments:

  1. All very interesting images but possibly the most interesting one was the one suggesting your council is planing something about as complicated as a trip to the moon. Oh, and "Dogecoin"?

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    1. Andrew, those council workers would kiss you with appreciation over your assessment of their mighty works. It is, in my own assessment, an ongoing make-work scheme, as can be seen by the unsubtle scars criss-crossing the tarmacadam.

      Dogecoin, for the uninitiated, is an erstwhile spoof cryptocurrency that inadvertently has made its inventors one gazillion pesos. Viz. the coin's embossing around the Face of Dogecoin with "Wow much coin how money so crypto plz mine v rich very currency". The world has gone a bit mad falling for this one.

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    2. Being kissed by Sydney road council workers has little appeal for me. As for Dogcoin, I was one of the uninitiated but now I have been initiated, sounds great, where can I buy? :)

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    3. Where does one buy cryptocurrencies? Although a member of the Pipistrello colony is gainfully employed hereabouts in this sector of the modern world, I have no idea. It may prove a regrettable attitude on my part, but if I can't stash it under the mattress then I'm not having a bar of it!

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    4. By the way that magnificent dome reminds me of a somewhat similar dome here in Perth, Scotland (the original Perth). I expect Perth sent a few convicts down your way, and we still have plenty kept here in Perth prison, originally built to house French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars! Still full to bursting with Scots - do you want some more sent down to build more domes?

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    5. More Scots for this shore? What might the Irish say, who seem to have recently stitched up the contract building trade around these parts? Macleay was a Scot, and possibly brought the house design with him and had it adapted locally, and I think another Scottish architect supervised the works, James Hume, so maybe there's a Perth twin. But do we have a Napoleonic prison masquerading as summat else? Cannot comment.

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  2. That come though!! It's magnificent.

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    1. Loree, dear, it is a wonder in the flesh! And quite extraordinary when you realise it was executed when the settlement was only a few decades out from merely tents and slab huts. And probably built with convict labour.

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  3. Curves ahead... love this theme... and all the examples of same : ) Most especially the fountain that must be a dandelion gone-to-seed and THE DOME AND THE STAIRCASE... swoon worthy (except for the how it was built). Love reading your musings and accompanying photo journal : ) Envious of winter's approach, 'tis the summer doldrums here in Florida... Debbie

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    1. Thank you, dear Debbie, and who doesn't love curves? (Apart from the Straight Line Brigade). And we really love our local fountain which pulls us irresistibly toward photo memorialising on a regular basis. I'm surprised, in fact, that I've not slipped a pic in before now.

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  4. When I was at school, a friend of mine had an original Morgan 3 wheeler, that he kept hidden in a nearby car park. He allowed me to drive it once. Terrific fun; I've wanted to own one ever since.

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    1. What a treat, Cro! This M3W was pretty shiny and new and when the owner emerged from the (bottle)shop, he was rather mobbed by passersby and then all stood slack-jawed as he hopped aboard and zoomed off down the street. A real Boys Own Moment.

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  5. Thank you for showing the coffee set as I am passionate about Art Deco, particularly for architecture, war memorials and other large structures. Art Deco usually revels in linear and rectangular geometric forms, broken up by stepped outlines and bright colours. The coffee set in the window doesn't have bold, square handles and the colour is too pale.

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    1. Thank you for your keen observation, Hels, and yes, the rectilinear lines are absent from the handles and the colours subdued, but there was still something for all tastes in the Deco-era. The soft green of this - I believe Royal Doulton 'Jewel' pattern (?), mid-30s (?) - rather mirrors the original kitchen and bathroom tiles found some of our neighbours' extant apartments, circa 1934, where soft yellow, pink or green with black trim was the decorative order of the day in our condominio.

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  6. Still before breakfast I was nourished (soul and heart and imagination) by your highly interesting dainty! Thank you.
    I long to see that Greek Revival Elizabeth Bay House - driving up if possible with the Morgan Three-Wheeler, which will feed the soul of every Narcissus whose ego is so complicated to treat as those cold reflecting egg-shell-thin balls in the stunning Kusama exhibition.

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    1. A prize to you, Britta! There was a narrative to be found within these random photos, so glaringly obvious when you spell it out, which had eluded me. Your brain, even pre-breakfast, is on fire!

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  7. To see and photograph that Council graffiti: great!! Art without intention (or a pragmatic intention turning into art - contrary to Kusama who made his intention visible). If that sounds muddled: I still had no breakfast, very unusual.
    A question: what are those "cages" in the trees for - except being a great photo too?

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    1. The birdcages are just a piece of whimsy, I suspect, ordinarily hidden amongst the foliage and coming into their own after leaf-fall. The tree is in the footpath outside a row of Victorian terrace houses, and a resident, I guess, is the creative genius :)

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  8. Need a strong tea now - before finding out whether "dainty" was the right word...sounds kinda wrong..

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    1. I expect your morning tea has made everything clear to you but I'm happy to roll with 'dainty', dear Britta.

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  9. Hello Pipistrello, Your post is very opportune. I was just looking around my apartment thinking how to break up the rectilinearity. I've already rejected the idea of putting hundreds of steel spheres on the floor, but will be inspired by your other photos.
    --Jim

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    1. Wise decision, Jim, for I did notice they require some keen dusting and polishing to show them to best effect. It would be a tiresome affair to stave off criticism of slatternly ways.

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  10. We have similar street graffiti from the utility companies here and I felt a warm glow when looking at yours. In fact I photographed some here quite recently. Funny how although we are so far away we are joined together by such a simple thing as the utility companies marking out the paths of their hidden property.

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    1. It is rather a colourful form of street art, dear Rachel, and, like all graffiti, both catches the eye and is vaguely-enough illegible to suggest there's an accredited and internationally-recognised course that's behind the wielders of the spray cans.

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  11. Love the coffee set, your mirror over the fireplace, the beautiful presentation of your tea. . . . . well just about everything you shared with us.
    Thanks so much - take care, be well, and enjoy lots of wonderful winter soups of course.
    Hugs - Mary

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