Tag: art
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Bus stop.
Hidden handsGift a sprayOf sun. These concrete cylindrical bus shelters with their striking orange fibreglass window frames and matching seats were designed and built around Canberra from the mid-seventies. Despite their impracticalities and moth-to-flame attraction for vandals and graffiti artists (the Lexan windows were particularly vulnerable to being melted with cigarette lighters and are mostly…
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A most extraordinary woman.
In this podcast, Sam Harris interviews documentary maker Meg Smaker about the controversy surrounding her film The Unredacted (originally screened as Jihad Rehab). This documentary explores the lives and worldviews of four accused terrorists that were initially Guantanamo detainees, and were then sent to a rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia. Hence, Jihad Rehab. It was…
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Floriade 2022.
ducks.clean.traded Kelly and I took our mums out to see this year’s Floriade today. A perfect warm spring day to wander amongst the curated beds of the largest festival of flowers in the Southern Hemisphere. Floriade has only been open a couple of days and the artisanal palates of Daffodils, Triteleia, Irises and Poppies are…
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The Atacama Giant
Here is your object of wonderment for the day. The Atacama Giant is the largest geoglyph (a large drawing made on the ground) of a human figure in the world. It is located on the Atacama Desert plateau in Chile and measures an impressive 119 metres tall. The plateau is a canvas for over 5,000…
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