hello poppets

I'm now the proud new owner of not one, not two but four blue/white polka dot Maxwell Williams tea cups and saucers not to mention a delightfully large tea pot that supposedly serves enough tea to fill four cups. The reason, I turned deliriously old ( well perhaps my friends think so) and was gifted this along with two generous boxes of twinings tea bags. All the more excuses for tea parties ?

Been busy, perhaps a little update on what I've been up to, the highlights, the cliffs notes.

My actual birthday was spent working at a booklaunch, then quick tea in Surry Hills before off to OAF to see an art/live music/installation night, one of those slash slash slash events. 

Spent yesterday seeing an exhibition at SCA gallery with Kim by a photographer whom I met at an opening on Tuesday night. Simple black and white photography in a small exhibition. After that went to creative sydney talks at MCA where I admired the kindred spirit belonging to the editor of magazine, Dumbo Feather pass it on. I liked the ethos of the magazine, no pretension, profiling low key professionals. Sounded like a magazine which you buy for the actual writing. Other speakers included blogger frockwriter, hip hop artist Morganics, Michael Alvisse, a hip hop comedy actress and Karolina York. An interesting mix of speakers.

Creative Sydney talks carry on through next week and bring out the best creatives emerging and established out of Sydney - though I'm not too sure about the top 100 list published by creative sydney of the top 100 creative people. How do you measure creativity exactly ? and its influence -  but the talks do demonstrate that there is a wide mix of culture emerging from Australia and it is developing world wide attention. And it was great that these series of talks bring together a wide spread mix of individuals and audiences across the various art/film/music/fashion scenes. Sometimes I find them a little scattered, after all Sydney tends to get a little too cliquey sometimes. 

Also light up Sydney is also currently happening with Yayoi Kusama's work being projected onto the MCA and also some other projection happening at the Opera House. Though passersby may not recognise the artists, I like the idea of public art leaving a subconscious footprint on people's consciousness, enough of it and it might just activate the right side of people's heads a little more. Don't you think ?

Now, am off to flip through Vogue and their blantant idol worshipping of Myf Shepherd.

xx Yu