f*cking polymaths**

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August 2011

23 posts

It is immensely sappy to identify with Tess...

And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand farther away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, ‘I’m coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!’ …

“Simplificando, cuando uno decide pasar el tiempo haciendo supuestamente arte se...”

something old NOTHING NEW: A mutually beneficial... →

My very nicely dressed friend Bec is buying no new clothes for a year and blogging about it here: somethingoldnothingnew. The year’s just started, and she just had a clothes swap that I am sad that I didn’t make it to but was busy staring at a baby. But! “Incidentally, there’s three enormous bags of stuff left over,” she says, “which we’ll probably be flogging at...

NOICON review by Bethany Small of The Thousands →

Oh hey, look what I did!

“Nothing too small or too strange should escape my attention – an insect’s wing,...”

– Call me dead inside, but this basically sums up why I cannot like John Olsen. How could one, by 1997, say such a thing in all sincerity and lack of self-consciousness? That said, click through for one of his paintings that I saw the other day and disliked much less than I usually have his others.

But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my roots in the soil Sucking up minerals and motherly love So that each March I may gleam into leaf, Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted, Unknowing I must soon unpetal. Compared with me a tree is immortal And a flower-head not tall, but more startling. And I want the one’s...

A very cute interview in The Blackmail about the...

Melissa Loughnan: What was your reasoning behind opening in South Yarra?

Jarrod Rawlins & Vasili Kaliman: South Yarra is almost half way between the Simon Johnson store at Chadstone and the Simon Johnson store in Toorak Village, so it makes getting the caviar a lot easier than being on the North side of the river.