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first. wow
Onya, jo!
thanks mark, and youre not dropped anymore.
oh, and…….. please note the link to my own place, called – of course – jo blogs
http://joblogsfromsydney.blogspot.com/
basically, it’s somewhere to throw up some pics – so far – statues from the cemetery, twilight, harbour bridge and cactus…..
That’s good to know!
Like the cemetery pics!
Jo, that angel
passionatelykissing the boy is spectacular.Imagine the person who made that statue. Who was he? And whatever was he thinking?
No, scrap that second question.
thx pc and mark.
hard to take a bad photo in that place.
the street i live in, is named after the stonemasons, but not sure if he/they were responsible for the statues. i intend to be a bit more systematic about researching and recording the victoriana features.
Ditto on the cemetery statues, especially the angel and boy.
I like the march of the cactuses as well. Your garden?
That statue is extraordinary. And the sky is great too.
It would be lovely if you could discover something about the history of the statue – it’s intriguing from so many angles (literally!)…
Mark, revel in the knowledge that your recomendation, “it never hurts to add a donate button”, caused this round of pain and suffering.
I’m still kicking myself.
Jo I think you have found a missing link of someone’s history. Bet the Ryeland family have wanted to know that she is buried there for years.
Yep, saw the post, Kieran.
Whoever made the statues in the cemetery obviously knew that they would be out in the weather. Rain,frost,sunshine,hail, time of day and night ,moonlight..dusk dawn etc. in the various seasons winds leaf fall and flowers dust maybe and salt spray.Rainbows. If Jo sticks to photos the angel and boy with raining events with the peculiarities of natural and human made light, would give perspective to the angel boy makers obvious understanding of the word angle as well. I can remember seeing many statues in the rain,and what unusual things they are with a good break of light. Please be encouraged..there are websites that specialise in accepting that type of unusual art photos,one with coffee in its name is greater than my drinks of herbal tea. Something like the statues at Jenolan Caves,if the Catholics are still to meet in Sydney,would be an unusual setting and probably a relief from Sydney to those who would travel the long distances in praise of Catholicism. Having suggests music in the caves,and taken up by the folk in Sydney,they could also have a Catholic Choir in the caves.
PC: Art Historians would assure us that it is about true love being heavenly!
I’m excited – Deborah Conway is playing a free gig at the Powerhouse this arvo:
http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/live-spark/
Crikey, I saw Deb Conway with Do Re Mi at the East Leagues Club in 1986 (I think it was 1986).
Anyway, cheap blog link whoring coming up. Although feeling a migraine coming on, I went and saw the new film about the Dixie Chicks yesterday called “Shut Up & Sing”:
http://thespinzine.squarespace.com/journal/2007/7/29/burn-those-witches-dixie-chicks-told-to-shut-up-sing.html
Heh.
Easts was a crazy venue.
Can I throw this into the ring, I have some money sitting in a bank in the Philippines, now I can’t get any bank in Australia to act for me to get the money released and the Philippine bank want an agent to convert the money to Aust.$ before they will transfer it to my bank. Problem is, I have no one I can “trust’ to act for me over there, it may mean I have to fly over to do it, and that I don’t want to. Anyone know if an agent or such is available to handle this on my behalf. I would Google but don’t know how to start.
Um, just throwing another thought into the ring . after due thought about “heavenly angels” kissing young boys .. erk, and following along after the thought about “trust”.
Do we really trust the Australian Federal Police .. to set up a 1200 strong “Paramilitary wing” with “latest weaponry” and “armoured personnel carriers”, capable of “instant deployment during “civil unrest” ??
Anyone else hate Romeo and Juliet balconies? I swear if I see one more with a couple of plastic chairs jammed in there, I’m going to vomit.
Grogbloggers one and all:
How did the farewell to SkepticLawyer go?
Davo [at 3:26pm]:
Oh goody. We get our very own Wu Jing just like China. “Move! Move! Move! Move!”
Mark, PC, tigs,
i’m going to see the cemetery manager soonish, i havent gone out my way to speak to him, as he was responsible or partly, for trying to get up a proposal for a crematorium to be built in the cemetery. the council who operate it, thought it a great idea for the revenue, but 6 public meetings and much angst later – the administration backed down.
every councillor ‘pledged’ it was off the books (seriously), the local state mp was agin it, and even malcolm jumped on the bandwagon….but they are up to something, no doubt….
the manager has done alot of good work over there, and he must be sitting on a wealth of information about history of the place (and possibly the sculptors & masons) , so might be time to bury the hatchet, and seek an appt with him.
i’ll post any interesting information and am keeping up the pics. in the meantime.
tigs – the cactus garden is unfortunately not mine, but you can visit them at the botanical gardens!
(background re: crematorium debate – botany crematorium doesn’t operate at capacity, located just a few klms away, and waverley is a heritage cemetery of great value. a smokestack wasn’t perceived as a great addition to the bondi-coogee coastal walk, amongst other issues)
Seeing as there is nowhere else appropriate to mention this .. has anyone else read this piece about Barbara Bennett, the director of the Workplace Authority?
It is very dodgy with quotes like this:
and this:
and at the end:
WTF?!? Talk about nasty misogynistic character assassination.