Caught up with Jess today, who’s just gotten back from her 2 week break overseas. Jess is awesome at suggesting new places for me to eat at! This time we checked out Daisy’s Milkbar in Petersham (funnily just across the road from the Oxford Tavern which I was at last night for my friend Garth’s bucks party!). Food was delish, really cute place too.
Cute, right?!
We were served milk bottle lollies whilst waiting for a seat (it’s a really small cafe!).
Right across the road was Michael Jackson impersonator Richard Blackie’s old toy shop. A really sad and eerie reminder (I remember visiting his shop with friends a long time ago). In 2006, Richard was found dead in this shop, his death attributed to suicide.
I went for the Reuben and it was awesome! Jess went for the pulled pork, also awesome!
Feeling satisfied we headed off to Carriageworks and spotted this American Beauty on route.
Perhaps the most intense installation I’ve ever seen. Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock in his studio, every hour on the hour, twenty-four hours a day, for an entire year. Beyond insane!
Hsieh’s statement.
How he looked when he started.
And how he looked at the end.
A projector showing all the images taken on the hour from 1980-1981.
We also checked out the Biennale, which we both thought was better than all the Biennale stuff at Cockatoo Island.
Romance Was Born, an installation by duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales. Visually stunning but could really have done with some music to set the mood in my opinion.
Outside there was a huge mirrorball. Couldn’t help but take a few abstract snaps!
