The Turner to Monet exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is visually sumptuous and well worth a visit. The exhibition traces the rise of landscape painting from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries into impressionism and post-impressionism. Monet - Water Lilies - photo: Everard - Musee d’Orsay, Paris The website is [...]

The video we made to promote Drew's amazing Multiball Contact book.

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The late Peter Barrett’s experimental steam car is up for sale - currently at US$20,000 (my guess would be a UK bid from Jeff Theobold - one of the few who could make real use of this amazing vehicle. The car uses two cylinders of a converted VW engine and is mounted in a fibreglass kit [...]

The Ultimate Peep Show

I have returned from the National Folk Festival here in Canberra with a notebook full of tune names and a camera full of images. Great session, great concerts and a fabulous meeting of old friends - some of whom I hadn’t seen in twenty years! Highlights were: the Vin Garbutt, Genticorum and Trouble in the [...]

In our latest poi spinning lesson: 5-beat weaves: backwards and (yes!) behind the back! One of the last tutorials in the coolest place we could find in Berlin. Enjoy!

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I have never seen a Wii, touched a Wii or care to speak of the horrid thing. I won’t be playing with anyone’s Wii. I think this is a blatant lazy excuse to disengage from life and reality. Blogging is also. But hey, I’ve picked my poison. There will be no Wii for me unless it comes with an all expense paid “exclusive” trip to Japan. I may consider playing Wii in Japan, for the moment that’s my stand.

Admittingly, given the right circumstances I really would consider most anything.