STILL LIFE IN WAITING As composed by Kyra Henley

“THIS book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that
shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought
- our thought, the thought that bears the stamp of our age and our
geography - breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with
which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things,
and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our
age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes
a ‘certain Chinese encyclopedia’ in which it is written that ‘animals are
divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame,
(d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in
the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a
very fine camelhair brush, (1) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water
pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’.”

I’d forgotten just how elegant this opener to Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things really is.

[A MEDITATION ON FLIGHT]

Thank you Danny Jumpertz and Alpen!

snapper:

A Meditation on Flight - Alpen
This is the newest track from my long running music project Alpen. It’s from an album which I’ll release in about three months - to be titled Inside the Sky. Enjoy!

LAKES DISTRICT

IPHONE APPS I ACTUALLY WANT

#1
A Shazam-like doover to ID plant species from photographs. Please.

OLD NOTEBOOKS FROM A BIG ISLAND

WOMBAT MATING RITUALS, BLOW BY BLOW

‘Objects for Enhancing the Experience of Being Lost’ is a quick and dirty project made during a brief workshop in Singapore in collaboration with Michael Kontopoulos. This series of objects are inspired by the unique urban landscape of Singapore and address ideas of disorientation in a foreign city. A traveler may tote the objects around in a briefcase, using them to enhance the experience of being lost.

item 1: A collaborative compass that affords paired travelers an exercise in compromise. The travelers each points towards the directions they wish to travel in but the simple wooden mechanism of the compass always arrive at an average orientation and guides the travelers towards a compromise.

item 2: A map of Singapore made of ice which melts quickly in the tropical heat.

item 3: Blinders that simulate the experience of tunnel vision at any given location.

item 4: A Flag can be used to claim unfamiliar space, but we disliked this territorial act especially in regards to Singapore’s colonial history. Instead, a “propagating” branch is used to carry the flag which will in turn yield a new tree as a gesture of thanks.

whiterevolver:

BONDI STYLE BOOK LAUNCH @ WHITE REVOLVER wed 18th NOV, 2009.

AMAZING!!!!!

click below for review, and check out there website

website:

http://bondistyle.com.au/