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I am 40

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i am 40 the big four o 4 decades in the blink of an eye or an i what else am i? i am a soul a spirit i am me not you i play music i read i love i live i hate i struggle i grow some two steps forward two steps back on a good day i am parochial but i see the universe i doubt but i pray i am always arriving but leaving something i dream but get bogged in reality i succeed and make mistakes i am good i am bad i am often indifferent but what sort of man am i perhaps you know? i act i hope i wonder i try i anticipate i see i am 40 years have taught me this that i am can be enough it is my journey it my depths it is my future.

home n hearth

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Picked up a very cool magazine yesterday at the News stand on Oxford Street. Its the sort of magazine which hides itself away between brighter pages and more "news worthy" (read: gossip) editions. Habitus:living in Design is a fairly new Australian Journal about homes, art, landscapes and design in the South East Asian region. Which is great because so often Australian Culture still takes its ques from the Northern Hemisphere (and as you yawn, yes, I know this has been said before) instead of the prevalent cultures which surround it. What's in it for me? To be honest I was very much attracted by the cover of this edition and the man working in the book lined room. Scenes like this inspire me to create my own environment like this and to continue to see the space in which I live, read, pray, play, cook, raise and family and reflect as important. Opening the journal further, I seriously admired the spaces belonging to Rirkrit Tiravanija . So much inspiration now I need so