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I once spent a week stranded in Las Vegas, sleeping on someone's couch while waiting for my car to be repaired. While there, I learned about the proper fitting of bras. It turns out that the person who's apartment I was camped out in had worked for Dillard's for some time and knew a few things about it, and after a week, we were running out of things to talk about.
She told me that if you must wear a bra, as most of us with anything over a B cup must, then get a fitting at least once. She said to be prepared for surprising results. Then she told me the basics on doing it yourself.
She informed me that the most important issue when fitting a bra is how the cup fits. Forget everything else. Until you have the cup the right size, you can't continue with any degree of accuracy. When figuring your cup size, the basic method of measuring your barrel, around the ribs without including the breasts, then measuring with the breasts and taking the difference, subtracting 5 or 6 inches so you have an even number, and then dividing by 2 and converting the resultant number to a letter, 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, etc, is a good place to start. Use a medium style bra, I prefer soft cup to underwire but that is a separate issue, not anything sexy or puritanical for fit issues. You can branch out to taste after you know what you need.
After you've found your proper cup size, then it's time to find out how big around it should be. This measurement is important, not for how the bra fits around your body so much as for how much strap comes between the cups themselves. I have the terrible misfortune to have a wide back. This means that if I buy a bra that fits properly around my body, the cups are set much too far apart. This is the difficulty that causes the front strap of the bra to be held away from the sternum. I was told to mostly ignore the fit of the bra around the body as that can always be adjusted with a little sewing or extenders, and that the same goes for the shoulder straps. I am personally of the opinion that all shoulder straps should be detachable at the back, so that if necessary, you can cross them, but most manufacturers haven't followed through on this yet.
I personally feel very sorry for the women with large breasts and small frames. I have only a C cup and I have difficulty finding one that is small enough around with a large enough cup size, and while the back can be taken in, it's much more difficult to adjust the distance between the cups. Thankfully, the current trend seems to be an expansion of available sizes and size combinations. Now if only I could find some fun leopard print ones in soft cup.
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A 16-year-old boy climbed to the roof of the nearly completed one World Trade Center in New York after evading security at the site during the dead of night.
Justin Casquejo was arrested at 6am on Sunday for trespassing, US police said.
At over 500 metres high, the building, also dubbed the 'Freedom Tower', is the tallest in the western hemisphere. It occupies the site where the Twin Towers once stood.
A criminal complaint quoted Mr Casquejo as telling police: "I walked around the construction site and figured out how to access the Freedom Tower rooftop.
"I found a way up through the scaffolding, climbed onto the sixth floor, and took the elevator up to the 88th floor. I then took the staircase up to 104th (floor). I went to the rooftop and climbed the ladder all the way to the antenna."
After being arrested, the teen's camera and phone were confiscated, a spokesman for the police department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. He was released without bail on Monday after being charged with one count of third-degree criminal trespass and one count of trespass.
The incident has raised questions over how such a breach could have happened at what is supposedly one of the most security-conscious sites in the world. New York's mayor Bill de Blasio called the breach "shocking and troubling".
The guard that was posted on the 104th floor has been sacked the spokesperson said, adding that Mr Casquejo gained access to the site through a one-foot wide opening in a fence.
The young thrill seeker has a history of climbing building and cliffs and recently became interested in Parkour a neighbour told the Associate Press.
Following the escapade, Mr Casquejo tweeted the single word 'inspired'.
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You should consult with your pediatrician when your baby is ready to eat solid foods -- and when you are given the green light, expect to get messy!
Usually the first food you will introduce will be a rice or oatmeal cereal, since you can control the consistency. You will initially attempt to feed your baby with a spoon -- and before you know it, they will be sticking their tiny fingers (and at times, an entire fist) into the bowl.
After your baby starts getting the hang of cereal, you can then start introducing foods every two to three days so she can get used to the taste and texture of the foods, and so you can determine whether or not your baby has a positive reaction. You also might want to introduce vegetables before fruit because if your baby gets hooked on bananas first, trust me when I tell you they so won't want to eat peas!
By the time your baby is between 5 to 6 months old, you can start giving your baby three meals that include breast milk or formula, cereal, vegetables and meats. When it comes to meat, I suggest buying a mini food processor that can puree organic chicken breast. Add a dose of vegetable broth and you've got a tasty dish that will delight your little eater. Plenty of options also are available in your local grocery store -- from jarred baby food to frozen to freeze-dried. In the end, it's up to you and your baby on what agrees with them most.
At 8 or 9 months old, your baby will start getting the hang of feeding herself (no more fistfuls of cereal all over her face and clothes). At this time, you can start giving her dry cereal, as well as very small pieces of regular food. Just make sure you cut up the food in tiny bites and avoid giving her foods that could potentially cause choking such as popcorn, grapes, hot dogs, raisins and nuts.
The biggest concerns with feeding your baby solid foods are the dangers associated with food allergies and choking. If you suspect your baby could be allergic to any of the foods they have ingested, consult your pediatrician immediately. If you haven't yet taken an infant CPR class, you should definitely do so before you introduce solid foods into your baby's diet. For more information, visit www.healthychildren.org.
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best preventative - bread and lots of water before going to sleep. best cure - sleeping in, if you have time for that.
Just get really drunk again to cure the hangover and then gradually come off of that high. Kind of like a plane that's going to have a rough landing so you put it back up in the air to give yourself more time to properly land.
I wasn't trying to give sound advice, I just like the example I used. I'm sure Keeper's been through this so many times he doesn't need advice. haha
Gatorade a whole lot of weed is my main cure. There's no cure I don't think, just things that make it bearable.


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Top CBI sources said fresh set of documents as desired by the Ministry have been provided to know whether it needs sanction of the Home Ministry to prosecute four IB officials in the fake encounter case. (Agencies) Latest News from India News Desk
The sources, however, clarified that their supplementary charge sheet is almost ready and if the Law Ministry does not give timely advice, it might consider proceeding ahead with filing of the final report before the competent court.
The government's legal arm had told CBI to bring sufficient documents before a legal opinion can be provided on whether prior sanction is required to prosecute Special Director Rajinder Kumar (now retired), and three other officers -- P Mittal, MK Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede.
CBI had recently approached the Law Ministry through the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) seeking its opinion on the issue.
It is learnt that when the Ministry demanded the documents, CBI informed it that it would share the documents with the Attorney General but could not give copies as the papers were sensitive in nature.
CBI says it has gathered enough evidence about the alleged role of the IB officers in the conspiracy behind the encounter but there are contrary views on whether sanction from the Home Ministry is needed to prosecute them.
One view is that since Kumar was in active service at the time of the alleged crime, sanction for his prosecution is needed from the Home Ministry, which is the cadre controlling authority.
Another opinion is that since he retired from service in July this year, the agency could go ahead with its charge sheet without any need for a sanction to prosecute.


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The exhibition season is upon us. In the next few weeks anyone who has the faintest interest in home improvement can choose between Interiors UK in Birmingham (22- 25 January), Surface Design in London (7-9 February) or the power tools and colour charts of Totally DIY (5-7 February). And if, perchance, your resolution was to finally get round to building your own home this year, there's more. You could try the National Home Building and Renovating Show (29 March to 1 April) or EcoBuild at London's ExCel (20-22 March). This year it's estimated there will be between 1,500 and 2,000 exhibitions and last year they contributed in excess of £10bn to the economy.
It seems we are no longer content with trudging to our local high street on a Saturday afternoon to buy stuff, now we want our shopping experience to be a "show" complete with live "theatre" and celebrity appearances. And what's more we want to pay to do it. This year the price of an average ticket to one of these shows is now around £14.
"The exhibitions industry has shown amazing resilience in the face of the economic downturn," says Karim Halwagi of the Association of Event Organisers. "People appreciate the power of face-to-face business. It's permission marketing, whereby you're allowing a company to promote to you by virtue of the fact you have chosen to go to the show. You don't get that with television and print, where adverts appear before you randomly."
Over the past few years, Halwagi says, there has been a big shift towards making the shows much broader. "Trade shows have moved on from the old aisles and booths format," he says. "Now they are much more interactive, featuring live events, expert seminars and much more audience participation."
As co-owner of a new flooring company, The Colour Flooring Company, at the tail end of last year I suddenly found myself plunged into the wonderful world of the trade show. In quick succession, we took our flooring first to 100% Design in Earls Court, then Grand Designs Live in Birmingham NEC followed by the Ideal Home Show Christmas in November.
It was a sitting-round-the-kitchen-table, spur of the moment decision to sign up to 100% Design, which we did a week before the show was due to open.
It was a steep learning curve. Did we want a shell scheme or space only? A raised floor or a flush one? Did we want spotlights or were we going to bring our own? We had no idea. The costs started spiralling – the space itself, which was just 2m x 4m, cost almost £3,000. We gave stylist Beth Corner (no relation) two days to come up with a design for the stand and asked cabinet-maker Tom Perkins from Quendon Interiors to create a bespoke desk to house our flooring samples. Then after navigating the Earls Court car park in a hired van and a day setting up, we were ready to go.
The good thing about 100% Design is that it's an edited show – every exhibitor has to pass under the discerning eye of creative director Julieann Humphryes, head of design for Yoo – so quality is high.
"We only want original design, we don't do copies and presentation is key," says Peter Massey, exhibition director. Also, crucially it's a trade show, so you're not going to find gaggles of day-trippers out to bag a bargain, but instead architects, designers and retailers all serious about doing business. Last year nearly 19,000 went, so it's a big, highly targeted audience. We were inundated. We spent four days frantically chopping samples to keep up with demand and repeating our spiel about our lovely colours and how hardwearing it is, until we were blue in the face.
Bouyed by this success we signed up to Grand Designs Live at the Birmingham NEC. Again, it was a last minute decision. They clearly needed to shift the final few spaces as we managed to barter the price of the stand down by more than £1,000.
It all felt a very long way from the slick Channel Four show from which it was a spin-off. Two of the busiest stalls were the burger stand and the man flogging plastic photo frames, who drew crowds all weekend. It was a bit pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap. And what's more our stand was squeezed in the kitchen section between ovens and fridges – utterly useless for anyone shopping for a floor.
Weeks later it was on to the Ideal Home Show Christmas. Again we got a knockdown rate (£1,300 down from £2,800) and again it was the market-style traders who were doing a roaring trade – those magic vegetable peeling kits were flying out. Because it was the Christmas show, it was all about fake snow, gospel choirs and people stuffing cheap gifts into carrier bags. The man on the stall opposite, who'd also got in for a cheap rate, resorted to doing magic tricks to drum up interest in his water purification system. The woman on the vertical garden stall sold nothing all weekend and the patio furniture stand to our left was just left unmanned all weekend. Still, we had a prime view of the "theatre" and got to see Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen gabbling on about something and another celebrity, who I couldn't name, showing how to make festive flower arrangements. It felt very much as if the movement towards the live act has been taken one step too far.
There were many things we gleaned from the vantage point of our shiny new stand. If you are serious shopper, forget the Christmas shows – they have moved too far away from the original point. Also steer clear of the shows that come heavily laden with celebrities. It's all very well cramming in to watch Linda Barker divulging the secrets of her signature look, but really, what's the benefit? Also never go on the morning of the first day. At the NEC our first lot of frazzled visitors arrived to tell us they'd been queuing for two hours toiget in the car park. The best times to go are after three in the afternoon when the crowds thin out, or better still on the late night opening (most shows do one during the run) when it's lovely and quiet.
On the upside there are definitely bargains to be had. Most traders offer special discounts just for the duration of the show, but avoid being taken in (at the NEC there were an inordinate number of visitors wandering round with twee decorative wicker baskets which someone was clearly knocking out cheap). The best time to get real bargains is the final few hours of the last day of the show. This is when people are thinking about taking down their stalls and display product can be picked up at big discounts.
At the NEC, state-of-the-art cookers that had been on display for five days were going for half price.
Ultimately for us it was worth it, our sales shot up. Compared to the response we got from a couple of adverts we'd placed in the press, the trade show won hands down.
We failed to implement a discount code for each exhibition, so have no idea how much business we got from each show and so no idea if we'll ever do it again. As I say, it was a steep learning curve.
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This dinner was a happy accident. Sam and I each had a dinner planned for the other night. I intended to make a whole wheat pizza with the last of the pesto, tomatoes from our garden, and fresh mozzarella. Sam had already breaded and baked some of our eggplant from the farm share, and was ready to make Eggplant Parmesan. (He had dipped it in egg and then bread crumbs and baked it at 400 for about 15 minutes). So, we added it to the pizza!
It was delicious: the crunchy eggplant and the lemony pesto with the bubbly cheese. Mmmmmm. We started eating right away and I remembered to grab a piece for the blog. We will definitely make this one again.
I'm back from another fantastic day and night in Portland. My mom and I drove down yesterday to pick up my sister and my nephews who are here from Utah for a WEEK of fun. The forecast is impeccable, and I am never happier when in the presence of my big sis. I'll break away later to upload photos from today's adventure.
Sam spent the day (while the kids were at school) prepping dinner that he is finishing up right now, and soon we'll all sit down for a dinner on the patio. It's cool enough that the fire in the chimenea feels just right; the New England crisp fall air has arrived.
My sister's visit coincides with the end of summer, and we will send the season out with a bang after 7 straight days of the best Maine has to offer.
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I'm drooling here. I love it when two recipes marry each other and end up happy together! :)
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Ladies in waiting: Saudi brides disheartened as they wait in the paper line for their wedding kiss
Saudi Courts have not had marriage contracts for the past 40 days, forcing matrons to delay signing contracts for couples! [paulinemillard]
Many prospective Saudi brides and grooms have run into an unexpected and frustrating delay in their attempt to tie the knot because some local courts have run out of marriage contracts.
Some courts have not had marriage contracts for the past 40 days, forcing mathons — persons assigned to writing out these contracts — to delay signing contracts for couples, according to sources.
Many Saudis normally get married during holiday periods.
Mohammad Al-Babteen, director-general for marriage contract writers, told local media that his directorate received complaints from branches of the Ministry of Justice over the issue.
Al-Babteen said there was a problem with the distribution process from the ministry's stores to its branches and to the courts. He said the ministry has contracts in its stores and can also print them out.
Newlyweds need these contracts to get family identity cards from the Ministry of Interior's civil status department. The contracts have the couples' names, dates of birth, size of the dowry, information about the woman's guardian, the name of the mathon who signed the marriage contract, his license number issued by the justice ministry, and any conditions agreed to by the couple.
The judges at civil status courts have to approve the contracts.


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Combining high design with late-medieval architecture, this 15th-century former monastic cloister features a vast gothic church with a mezzanine dining area, glass lift, stained-glass windows and side-chapel lounges, plus a bar with an above-ground wine "cellar". The state-of-the-art interior, designed by Henk Vos, includes light installations by Ingo Maurer and select pieces by Le Corbusier, Rietveld and Marc Newson.
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The Night Hotel is a dark and brooding bolt-hole which lurks just off neon-lit Times Square. It is a collaboration between hotelier Vikram Chatwal and designer Mark Zeff. The sleek monochrome décor inside feels very Gotham City, with sumptuous inky fabrics, an Old English font motif, black leather sofas and "chariot" beds complete with cape-like headboards. The 1,600 square foot penthouse suite has outdoor terraces and panoramic views of the city.
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A medieval-style folly that towers over Hollywood's Sunset Strip, the Marmont has been a celebrity haven for decades. Built in 1927 as a replica of the Château d'Amboise in France's Loire Valley, it boasts neo-Gothic features such as a timber-beamed salon with pointed-arch windows, and a vaulted portico with frescoed ceiling. Andre Balazs breathed new life into the place in the 1990s, adding 1940s vintage furnishings – and an attic gym. This is LA, after all.
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Built in the 1950s, this Soviet-era behemoth, formerly The Ukraina, is a fine example of Stalinist gothic architecture and is one of Stalin's seven skyscrapers known as the "Seven Sisters". A refurbishment has provided even greater grandeur.
Radisson Royal Hotel, Kutuzovsky Prospect 2/1, Moscow, Russia (007 495 221 5555; radisson-hotels.ru/royal-moscow ). Doubles start at 10,178 roubles (£218), room only.
The Witchery by the Castle, Edinburgh
This 16th-century former merchant's house is gothic opulence on a grand scale. The restaurant has oak-panelled walls hung with tapestries, and its eight suites are decorated with red-and-gold brocade and trompe l'oeil drapery.
The Witchery by the Castle, 352 Castlehill, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh (0131 225 5613; thewitchery.com ). Doubles start at £295, room only.
Neri Hotel, Barcelona
Housed in an 18th-century palace near the cathedral, the Neri is a cool fusion of ancient and modern. Original features such as ornate ironwork and 12th-century arches sit alongside contemporary art and cutting-edge fittings. The restaurant is known for its medieval-inspired dishes, and the roof terrace overlooks the Gothic Quarter.
Neri Hotel, Carrer Sant Sever 5, Barcelona, Spain (00 34 933 040 655; hotelneri.com ). Doubles start at €197, room only.
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Here's one of the tracks from the session last week with Andy and Katsuhiko. It's a crappy messy track, but that's how we wanted it. Not much Katsuhiko on this one I'm afraid, but there's more of him later for sure. It's called Mizukusai, which doesn't mean stink-water, despite the literal translation.
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I want to do a lot more of this, it made me dizzy and happy. Andy's already posted another one of the songs on his blog here, but I'll put the links for all of them up here at some point, and one or two'll be on Loom this week too. Ah, cross-posting, or as I like to say, "Spreading the love".
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A sad postscript to the Ugandan High Court ruling against the Ugandan tabloid "Rolling Stone" (no relation to the American magazine) that had outed gays and urged that they be killed, discussed previously on this blog here and here. The three named plaintiffs in the case, all very brave gay rights advocates, had argued that the newspaper article in question exposed them to the threat of violence, and the High Court agreed. One of the plaintiffs, David Kato, was recently bludgeoned to death. The actual ruling in the case of Kasha Jacqueline, Pepe Onziema & David Kato v. Giles Muhame and The Rolling Stone Publications Ltd.–which, as noted previously, relies upon a subsequently reversed Saskatchewan Court of King's Bench decision–is available here; coverage of Kato's death, courtesy of the Guardian, is here.
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March 5, 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced transition dates for Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) due to the issuance of new contracts. The transition dates affect the manual medical review process for therapy claims, though it is unclear if or when providers will see changes in the additional documentation requests (ADRs) for therapy services provided over $3,700.
Current RACs are instructed to stop processing initial ADR requests in February. Because there is a delay in process and notification, it is highly likely that speech-language pathologists (SLPs) will continue to receive ADR requests, and they should continue to respond as directed on the ADR. The last date for the RACs to send payment adjustment recommendations to the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) is June 1.
Changes SLPs can expect in the new RAC contracts include the following.
SLPs should watch for updates and notices from their regional RACs and MACs for information regarding transition dates and process changes.
In 2012, a manual medical review process for Medicare Part B therapy services that exceed a $3,700 threshold was mandated by the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 and was extended until March 31, 2014. The mandate requires any therapy claims for combined speech-language pathology and physical therapy that reach $3,700 to be reviewed for medical necessity. After some difficulty with the MAC reviews, CMS determined that the RACs were better equipped for the review process and, beginning April 1, 2013, initiated pre- and post-payment review processes implemented by state.
The current exceptions process, including manual medical review, is set to expire on March 31, 2014, unless Congress takes action to extend the exceptions process or repeal the therapy caps. Absent Congressional action, the therapy cap of $1,920 on physical therapy and speech-language pathology services combined would be applied on April 1, 2014.
The CMS Recovery Audit program is a permanent, mandated audit program to recoup overpayments for Part A and Part B services. Four regional RACs are responsible for identifying overpayments and underpayments across the country, and one national contractor is assigned to Durable Medical Equipment and Home Health Services. The announcement for the changes in the RAC review came through the procurement process for new RAC contracts. CMS is transitioning out of the current contracts to issue new ones, which include program changes to address some of the provider issues regarding the process for ADRs and communication between RACs and providers. Though the new effective dates have not been announced, CMS extended the current contracts to offer a transition period.
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Embrace the Darkness! Embrace it, let it into your heart! Or should that be, let it into your glass? You should definitely do both, as this 20 year old Aberlour deserves your love and attention. It was finished for 3 months in little 50 litre casks that previously held Oloroso Sherry. The small size of the cask allows for more interaction between the whisky and the wood, giving it an in-your-face profile of Sherry notes and a deep, dark hue.
"Rich fruitcake but with demonic amounts of extra spice; quite brilliant! In true and very old Aberlour style..."- Jim Murray (95 Points)
Nose: Juicy raisins and dark spices, red apple, brandy butter and hints of apple pie with dark chocolate shavings sprinkled on top.
Palate: Dried fruit and oak with bitter marmalade and milk chocolate late palate.
Finish: Drying with more oak and fruit, touches of honey and also some cigar box that's perhaps been lurking in the background throughout coming to the fore.
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A friend who has just started to learn baking asked me recently - How do I decide which recipe to try out and how do I know if it will turn out ok? My answer to her is, for a baking fanatic like myself, I don't mind experimenting with different recipes of the same dish, as I enjoy spending time in the kitchen. But as I ponder over her questions further, I realised that most of the time, I tend to be intrigued by recipes with ingredients or preparation method that I've not use before.
One such example is latest version of chocolate chip cookies that I baked this afternoon. I've made countless versions of the cookies, and I'm still on the hunt for the perfect recipes. So when I chanced upon a blogger's post reminiscing about her stay at the DoubleTree Hotel many years ago and the chocolate chip cookies that she received upon checking in, I was curious and wonder how the cookies taste like. I looked for recipe online and managed to find it via Foodgeeks. When I looked through the ingredients list, I knew that I have to give the recipe a try as it calls for ground rolled oats which is new to me. I made some slight adjustments to the recipe by reducing the amount of sugar and chocolate chips, and I also made the cookies smaller. The cookies are delicious indeed and I've been unable to stop myself from eating them at all!
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Recipe adapted from Foodgeeks
1/2 cup rolled oats
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup caster sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups semi-sweet, chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups walnuts, toasted and chopped
1) Grind rolled oats with a blender until fine.
2) Mix flour, ground oats, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Set aside.
3) In a medium bowl, mix butter, sugar, lemon juice and vanilla extract with an electric mixer until well combined.
4) Add the eggs one at a time, mix until smooth.
5) Add flour mixture, using a rubber spatula, mix until combined.
6) Stir chocolate chips and walnuts into the mixture.
7) Chill the dough in the fridge overnight.
8) Preheat the oven to 350 deg C. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
9) Using a 4cm ice-cream scoop, drop spoonful of dough onto the lined baking tray.
10) Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from oven, and let the cookies cool on a wire rack.
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- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Those look divine!
Rosa - 4/21/2012 05:16:00 am
- Michelle Chin said...
double tree makes the best choc chip cookies. even i, who don't really enjoy sweet treats, would go head over heels for it!
- 4/21/2012 07:46:00 am
- Spencer said...
How awesome! It is my sons birthday soon and I know he would love it if I tried to make it for him.
- 4/21/2012 02:13:00 pm
- Anonymous said...
What's caster sugar? Could I use regular sugar?
- 4/22/2012 05:44:00 am
- The Sweetylicious said...
I love Choc chips cookies!! This looks crunchy and yummy!! (: may I know what's the sugar level you reduced to? (: thank you (:
- 4/23/2012 12:19:00 am
- daphne said...
I am in search of the perfect choc chip cookie as well. Will be bookmarking and trying this out!!!
- 4/23/2012 08:41:00 am
- Janine said...
this actually reminds me of the 'famous amos' cookie recipe on the internet with the ground oats! And I love experimenting too, so I've no qualms about trying new recipes (and failing :/)
- 4/23/2012 11:26:00 am
- Piggy said...
Rosa's Yummy Yum - Thanks!
Michelle - So you've tried the real deal at DoubleTree Hotel! The cookies must've been divine!
Spencer - Give the recipe a try, it tastes really good!
Anonymous @ 22 Apr - Caster sugar is superfine sugar (http://www.ehow.com/about_5230044_caster-sugar_.html). It is not advisable to replace it with regular sugar as the size of grains is different.
Sweetylicious - Thanks for dropping by! My recipe has already shown the reduced amount of sugar and if you prefer to use the original recipe, just click on the link which I've provided in the post.
Daphne - We're on the same mission then! ;-)
Janine - I didn't know that Famous Amos's cookies use ground oats, how interesting! - 4/25/2012 12:39:00 am
- The Sweetylicious said...
Welcome! (: So sorry for so many qn! In search of the recipe for choc chip cookies (: can I further reduce the sugar level? 1 cup of butter, how many grams would that be? Ty! (:
- 4/25/2012 11:44:00 am
- CL said...
I remembered having the chocolate chip cookies from doubletree. It was really good. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I shall bake it soon..
- 4/26/2012 02:56:00 pm
- Piggy said...
Sweetylicious - 1 cup of butter is equivalent to 226g. I guess you can reduce the sugar slightly but not too much though, as I'm not sure how it will affect the texture of the cookies. :-)
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And now….. Melbourne Now
This weekend sees the opening of Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, perhaps one of the most significant initiatives by an Australian museum in many years, in that it showcases hundreds of works made by artists associated with Melbourne (living here, working here, born here, or representing some idea of Melbourne in their work…). Here's the website:
The show is significant for its scale: hundreds of works selected by thirty curators, situated in over 8000 square metres of exhibition space spread across the two sites of the NGV and with a number of off-site locations in the city. It's significant also for its broad-ranging interpretation of 'creative Melbourne', bringing in to the gallery spaces an impressive range of art practitioners. By this I mean not just a diversity of artists (sculptors, print-makers, video artists and many more), but also architects, designers and performers (the exhibition includes elements such as dance – perhaps a first in any Australian museum).
The exhibition also continues the NGV's refreshing willingness to categorise street art as a valid and interesting art form. In July of this year, the NGV hosted 'Suburban', a solo show of new work by Ian Strange, also known as graffiti writer Kid Zoom, and has also temporarily exhibited work by Melbourne contemporary artist Miso, known for her many years of working in the street as well as in galleries. Such initiatives have been impressively open-minded for a major museum, but it would have been easy for the gallery to have left street art out of Melbourne Now. Instead, the exhibition includes two artists well-known for their work in public space. Ash Keating, who came to public attention in 2004 when he painted the hoarding over the Mockridge Fountain in City Square using a paint-filled fire extinguisher, is represented through two works: one is the stunning video work, 'West Park Proposition' which shows, on three screens, his transformation of a blank concrete wall into an artwork that blends harmoniously with its outer Melbourne setting. The other will be located on a billboard hung on the outer wall of the NGV itself, and Ash will paint the billboard on Friday 22 November, prior to the exhibition's opening on 23 November. So the gallery makes itself into a wall that can be draped with artwork being created before the eyes of the public – a gesture that seems to represent in a really positive way some of the fundamental ideas underlying street art.
Some more of those ideas can be found in the work of Lush, the other 'urban artist'(to use the gallery's term) included in the show. Lush has created an installation that fills half of a small room, and comes with its own dumpster and piles of litter:
It's worth spending time reading the dozens of stickers and sheets of paper that cover the surfaces of the installation, with shout-outs to Peezr, Sofles and Jetso included as well. If you follow the blog Vandalog, you will have come across contributions by Lush, and you can find many more in the NGV's installation:
I walk down Brunswick Street every few days, since I live nearby, and there's a shopfront and doorway entirely covered with Lush stickers. I love it that this installation is almost the same as that shopfront in the streetscape. Both Lush's installation and the exhibition curators are thus posing a question to us: 'graffiti doesn't belong in a gallery?'. There's no right answer to that question, but it's worth thinking through….
Finally, the other way in which the NGV is building its reputation for supporting street art, is through its endorsement of All Your Walls, a community-organised re-paint of Hosier Lane, and Rutledge Lane, located opposite one of the NGV sites. The exhibition catalogue for Melbourne Now lists Hosier Lane as one of the locations for the exhibition beyond the main gallery sites. A decade ago – or even five years ago – it would not have been possible to have imagined a major museum associating its name with a site known for illicit art. (And although some museums, such as the National Gallery of Australia and the Tate Modern among others have had exhibitions showcasing street art and graffiti, this is a little different. First of all, Ash Keating and Lush are included within the line-up of exhibiting artists on the same terms as any sculptor, fine artist, architect or designer. Their art practices are =regarded as being just as valid as any of the more conventionally respectable ones. And in sponsoring All Your Walls, the gallery is acknowledging that Melbourne's art exists within the cityscape as much as in the galleries and studios of the city. It's a gesture that says clearly that street art is part of Melbourne – part of Melbourne now.
The city-as-light
Over the years that I have been writing about street art, I've come across the work of many different artists. Out of all of these, the work of Miso is always there among my very favourites. (Full disclosure: along with Ghostpatrol and Timba Smits, Miso and I co-wrote a book about street art in Melbourne.) As regular readers of this blog will know, I've written about Miso's work a number of times here, and her recent show, Les Lumières, demonstrates that she continues to be one of the most interesting artists in Melbourne (and indeed on the international scene).
Miso is well known for her beautifully placed, delicately drawn paste-ups on city walls, such as this:
But both Les Lumières and a previous solo show, Tschusse!, are evidence of her increasing interest in engaging with the shape and form of the city itself, by raising questions about how we experience it, about who owns it, and about how cities look and feel and are developed.
Les Lumières transformed the gallery space of No Vacancy at Federation Square into a vision of an urban space inflected by pockets of calm, of a city lit by white neon light, and composed of spaces oscillating between the functional and the beautiful. Gorgeously drawn works were present, of course, but also doorways, pieces of wood, and a range of objects, implements and plants that evoke the city and some of the possible things we do in urban space (such as move through it, make gardens in it, go out drinking in it, live in it…). It was a show that seemed influenced by travel (in that Miso has in the last couple of years been to the Ukraine, Japan, London and New York) but also by a lot of reading and thinking: the result was a show that invited us as spectators to look, think, and perhaps even to read…
The show finished several weeks ago, so apologies in that you are not able to go and have a look. But Miso's website has some photos of the works, here, and if you are interested in reading about new ways thinking city spaces, have a look at the website of This Is Not A Gateway, which promotes 'knowledge and agitation from emerging urbanists'.
Ho ho ho….
Headed into the centre of Melbourne today to try to do the minimal amount of xmas shopping that I am involved in. Since I was on Bourke Street, I came across the massive queue of people that was waiting to see the Myer windows.
For those readers who are not from Melbourne, let me explain that Myer is a large department store (a bit like Macys in New York City, or Selfridges in London). Every year, its windows are the location for a display of elaborate mechanised puppetry and kitschery, with some kind of seasonal theme (this year it's The Nutcracker; in previous years it has been things like a staging of Mem Fox's novel Wombat Divine, or one of the Olivia stories).
The Myer christmas windows are particularly kitsch, like a pantomime staged in the middle of a city street. They exist ostensibly to entertain children and are supposed to be part of the 'magic of christmas' and viewing the windows has become part of the run-up to christmas for many people. (The fact that viewing the windows brings people to a department store where, after looking at the windows, they might well wander inside and spend some money, is both taken for granted and also repressed within the acceptance of the Myer windows as part of 'the magic of christmas' in Melbourne.)
The Myer windows have hosted some other displays which have been less kitsch and more challenging. Over a decade ago, the Urban Dream Capsule lived in the Myer windows for some weeks: eating, sleeping, dancing, clowning, and passing the time, all the while on display to the passers by. I went down to Bourke Street on several occasions and watched the Dream Capsule's members, and the whole event was, variously, highly entertaining and humorously staged, while also being quite moving and affecting at times (occasionally, the participants would feel the strain of their lengthy performance, and would attempt to find moments and spaces of privacy within the extreme visibility of the windows: at those times, as an audience member, you would suddenly become aware of the nature of the gaze and the relationship between performer and audience in a completely new way).
So the Urban Dream Capsule was a nice antidote to the commercialism of the christmas windows. But now there's another way to think critically about window displays, commerce and art, thanks to Nick Ilton and Bados Earthling, who will be putting on their own version of the Myer christmas windows on Saturday 18th December in Union Lane and Hosier lanes.
Bados has done some larger panels which will be temporarily put up in the lanes, and he'll do his performance graffiti in front of them; Nick has made triptychs depicting Mary and Joseph as outer suburbanites:
Sounds like a great reason to come into the city next Saturday.
Banksy at the movies: Part II (Banksy's hands)
Since the previous post, about expectations of what Exit Through the Gift Shop is about, turned out to be a long one, I thought I'd write a separate one dealing with what it's not about.
So let's go back to the second response that a lot of people seemed to have after seeing the movie – a feeling of surprise that it's not 'about' Banksy, or at least not as much as they had expected.
It's worth looking at this closely. Is the film 'about' Banksy? Well, the film is made by him, and thus it provides us with a text which tells us something about the artists and his concerns, just as his artworks, books and exhibitions do.
And then again, Banksy is in the movie: we see him in his studio; we see him stencilling; we see him with his crew of helpers creating the famous 'vandalized telephone box' in London (which goes on to sell for an extraordinary sum at auction); we see him installing a blow-up doll, hooded, shackled, and wearing an orange jumpsuit, at Disneyland, in a direct juxtaposition of American mass entertainment culture with the torture of detainees at Guantanamo. (All of these occurrences are filmed by Guetta.)
But of course, while all of these events are taking place, Banksy still withholds himself from any kind of identifying gaze – he wears the hood of his sweatshirt pulled over his head, his face is blanked by pixillation, his voice distorted (and his assistants' identities are similarly masked).
So Banksy's certainly in the movie, but he's simultaneously on display and hidden from our view. But what we do see in plain sight are his stencils and his hands: as Banksy himself states in the film, 'I told Thierry he could film my hands but only from behind'.
As he says these words in voice-over, the film shows us Banksy at work, cutting stencils (for one of his signature rats, to be put up on a wall in LA). And for me, that was one of the highlights of the film – watching those hands, whether at work on the stencil or gesturing along with the words spoken by Banksy's distorted voice.
They're slender hands, with long fingers. They're the hands of an artist. What does the face matter, or the voice? Watch the film – and watch out for the scene of Banksy cutting stencils, with speed, and with great skill. That moment might not be central to the film, but it's certainly what street art is all about.
Art and the senses
I've been thinking for some time about the ways in which we experience an artwork, whether it's located in the street or in a gallery. The most conventional way in which to think about this would emphasize vision – after all, we are used to the idea that an artwork is something that we look at.
But this leaves out other sensory dimensions, ones which are not so commonly talked about in relation to art. Is it possible to hear an artwork? Can we taste it?
In some works, image and sound are certainly inextricably combined, so that it's not really possible to think in terms of simply looking at it or listening to it: Bill Viola's work is a great example. Some artists entirely ignore the visual in favour of the auditory: in 2008, for example, an artwork called Speed of Sound Nau Interactive Bells was installed in Union Lane in Melbourne (this laneway was mentioned in a previous post, Street art and 'authority'): the sound of bells, chiming at irregular intervals, played from speakers installed at different heights along the laneway walls, so that the sounds increased and receded according to one's progress along the laneway.
And I'm also pleased to be able to report that I have had the experience of eating art. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Cuban-American artist, created installation pieces in which lollies (or candies, or sweets, depending on which continent you live on) were strewn across a gallery floor or piled in its corners. Spectators were able to dip their hands into the artwork and pull out a handful of sweets to take home or to eat. You can get a sense of what Gonzalez-Torres's wonderful work looks like if you click here – the tiny golden objects piled against the walls constitute one of his works, Untitled (Placebo – Landscape for Roni). I can still vividly recall how transgressive it felt, to pick up a piece of an artwork and put it in my mouth and taste it (it was lemon-flavoured, in case anyone is interested).
The spectator's relationship to that particular artwork involved touch as well as taste: touching art is definitely something that is actively prohibited by most museums and galleries as illicit behaviour in relation to art: think of all those signs on the wall, saying 'Do Not Touch'.
One of the most memorable instances in which I was able to touch an artwork certainly had a sense of the illicit about it. I was visiting a gallery overseas to chat with its director, and was informed by him that he had just received a shipment of works by one artist who would be featured in their next show. The director was hugely enthusiastic about this artist and invited me not just to look at the works but in fact to touch one. As I ran my fingertips over a tiny section of the work's surface, I felt acutely aware of how forbidden such an act usually is.
In addition to the simple transgressive pleasure that came from touching a painting, I also felt a strong sense of how much my relation to the image was altered by the act of touching it: instead of standing facing it, as it would hang on a wall with me looking directly at it, it was brought towards me and held close to me, lying at an angle, slightly tilted from the horizontal, the light slanting off its surface, my gaze directed downwards, and my hand drawn towards it. Much later, I realized that part of the extraordinary charge that arose for me in this moment derived from the experience of relating, momentarily, to the artwork as if I was in the position of the artist. I don't mean that I experienced a sense of acquiring any of the artist's skills or abilities, but rather simply some of the privileges that come with the position of the work's creator: the ability to touch it, the ability to stand close to it (rather than behind a white line in a museum), the ability to look at it from different angles.
(Of course, anyone who buys an artwork acquires the rights and power to do all these things too, but it's interesting that it is the artist that was evoked by my altered position in relation to this work, not someone with sufficient financial resources to purchase it.)
What about smell? Does art have an aroma, an odour? Artists themselves are usually well acquainted with the olfactory dimensions of their work (from spray paint, oils, acetone, lacquer, glue, and many other substances) but it's something that isn't often discussed when we think about spectatorship. And yet those smells can have a powerful affective impact on the viewing of an artwork. When I went to see an exhibition by the wonderful Jose Parla at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in London last October, many of the works on display were recently painted: as a result, the gallery rooms were filled with a perfume of oil and varnish, which made me, as a spectator, feel extremely conscious of the works as things which had been brought into being through the artist's exertions with canvas, and paper, and paint.
It was on the same visit to London that I had the good fortune to meet the charming Nick Walker (you can see more about Nick here). As we finished our conversation about his work, in a small room at Black Rat Press, Nick indicated a neat pile of prints sitting on a trestle table, awaiting his signature before sale. He removed the protective cardboard from the pile, so that I could see the image below. But when the cardboard was lifted, an amazing smell drifted from the pile of prints: it was an intense, concentrated smell of paper, and it was strangely beautiful. I'll never forget standing next to that table, under a low-hanging spotlight, gazing at these prints and inhaling their smell – a potent reminder that artworks are utterly material, not ethereal images floating free of the world of things.
Much of what I've been describing relates to the phenomenon of gallery or museum display, in which the smell or feel of an artwork is rarely encountered. When an artwork exists in urban space, the commonplace prohibitions of gallery spectatorship usually don't apply – if you can reach it, you are perfectly free to run your hands over a paste-up, or, if you wanted to, there's even nothing to stop you having a good sniff of a stencil.
That freedom is definitely an important part of how we look at street art and the sense of democratic spectatorship that often attaches to it. But this freedom of access comes with a downside, of course, as the artists belonging to the AMF crew from Sydney discovered, when they were arrested painting trains in London last year. The six guys have been given prison sentences ranging from 8 to 16 months (click here for more details about the case). How did they get caught? Police officers said they were alerted to the artists' presence by hearing the rattle of spray cans and smelling aerosol paint. When it comes to art, our senses may lead us to an encounter with the sublime, but they can also be the means through which the force of law comes to be exercised.
The art of the space
Once again, it has been a long time between posts, and, once again, apologies for the delay. Same excuse: I'm (still) finishing a book, and am spending every minute I can trying to fix up references, check quotations, and, yes, write bits of chapters. Almost done: hopefully by the end of April, after which normal blogging will be resumed!
But even though I'm not posting as much as I should be here, I'm still looking at art, still living by certain images. In the last few months I've seen a lot of works around Melbourne by the same artist, and I have taken photographs of some of them. I keep coming across more: I spotted some more last night, and am hoping to go and photograph them soon.
Here's one I kept seeing, in the hot days of the summer, since it's in a laneway off a street that I drive past most days:
And if I don't drive down that one (Elgin Street), I'm driving down Grattan Street, where I kept seeing this:
I also discovered one not far from the Law School at Melbourne University:
What really appeals to me about these images is not just their graphic, characterful humour and style, it's the fact that the images work so well in the spaces they have been placed in. Whether it's the boxy shape of the switching box on the corner opposite the Law School or the narrow space between a billboard and the corner of the wall on Grattan Street, the artist had made images which respond to the spaces they inhabit. The space enhances the image, and the image gives the space a buzz. Look closer, and from a different angle, at the one on the switching box near the Law School:
Here you can see how the artist is working with three-dimensional space, not just placing an image on a flat surface, but making the most of the possibilities offered by the box, extending the image around the corner and onto a second side, to make an image which works from different angles and which draws our attention not just to itself but to the space it occupies. Really satisfying to look at…
And if anyone knows who the artist is…..let me know!
Bill Viola: 'Ocean without a shore'.
These last few weeks in Victoria have been all about heat, fire and drought, and so there's a certain aptness in writing about an artist whose works often make use of water. Bill Viola is an American artist whose work, Ocean without a shore, has recently been purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria. It has been installed for a number of weeks, and I finally managed to get to see it. As with the other times I have seen Viola's work, I was completely awestruck by it.
The work was originally made for the Venice Biennale, where it was installed in a small chapel. Each of its three screens took the place of altar pieces within the chapel, and the setting must have generated an amazing atmosphere in which to view this work. Here's a short film about the installation of the work in Venice:
The NGV installation retains a sense of the work's engagement with the sacred and the uncanny by placing it within a very small, darkened room. The spectator sits on a low bench just inside the room, a low bench reminiscent of a church pew. Each screen is placed on one of the three walls, in a manner very similar to the Venice installation. Unlike a standard chapel altar piece, however, the images within the screens are moving.
Each screen shows the same scenario, performed by a different person. A blurry figure stands at a distance from 'us', or, from the 'front' of the image, if the screen constitutes some imaginary 'front'. These images strongly evoke depth of field – the figures start in the distance, walk forwards, halt, look around, turn, then walk away. When they have each returned to their starting point, each one is succeeded by a new figure (although this moment of succession is never possible to see on screen – I found myself always either distracted by the other screens or simply unable to make out the exact moment of transition due to the fuzziness of the figure once it has receded into the depth of the screen).
The figures do not move in synch with each other; they come and go in series, sometimes in the same order (left panel, then centre panel, then right panel), sometimes not (left panel, then right panel, oh, then left panel again, then centre panel, then right panel… and so on). The speed of the figures is slow: they are in fact shown in slow-motion, which makes their movements seem both ponderous and tentative, and which adds to the ominous tone of the piece.
And what else is happening as each figure makes this slow walk forward and back? There is, as with all Viola's work, a great deal more going on, consisting mainly in the thick texture of the artwork itself. As each figure draws near to 'us', they pass through a wall of water. Digital effects mean that we do not see the water, except as after-effects – droplets, spray, sprinkles – after each figure passes through it. But what we really are being invited to look at is the transformative capacity of the water: the individuals are of course drenched by the water, so that previously frizzy hair lies flat, or a light coloured shirt is soaked dark.
But more than this, passing through the water wall plunges the figures into rich, deep colour and sharp focus. No longer grey and blurry, they seem fully present as they stand and look around, sometimes seeming even to gaze directly at the viewer. They exhibit no pleasure or joy, however; their moments are still solemn and hesitant, and after a short time, each figure turns and walks back through the invisible water (which we still see only in its after-drops) and back into black and white indistinction.
While this takes place, we hear a dull continuous, almost industrial thrumming sound, which crescendos to a cascade of noise whenever a figure approaches and moves through the water wall. Here's a short clip which gives a sense of what this looks and sounds like:
Viola is, as many of his other works will confirm, fascinated by the anunciatory and transfiguring power of water. A number of years ago, I had the experience of seeing one of his works, Five Angels for the Millenium, at the Tate Modern in London. Here's a video clip which gives an idea of what this work is like – you have to persist till the end for the extraordinary pleasure of the last few seconds:
That work was installed in an enormous, extremely dark room; five gigantic screens were installed on the walls, each showing a single figure plunging into and out of water in extremely slow motion. For the viewer the experience was utterly disorienting: I found my gaze compelled by the screens, and the surrounding darkness meant that I often did not see other spectators on the periphery of my visual field, so that I would bump into people while moving around to view the screens. Thus, just as the figures in the work were plunged into dark water, so the spectator was temporarily immersed in darkness: 'all at sea', as if moving through an unlit ocean.
In the NGV piece, although water plays a large part (as you can tell, both from my description and from the title of the work), we are not being invited to feel any such consonance or connection with the figures depicted, or to measure our experience in comparison with theirs.
On the contrary, the invisible wall of water marks a threshold – between the worlds of the living and the dead. For Viola, the figures in each panel are ghosts. The work makes literal the archaic term for a ghost: shade. Faintly visible in blurry grey tones they come towards us – the living – and attempt to press themselves into our world, but are always, after each brief return, forced to withdraw, to fade once more into the shadows where they belong.
The triangulation of the three screens, with each successive apparition gazing at the spectator, provides a melancholic sense of a threshold that cannot be surpassed, of the limits of life for us all, and of the irrevocable rupture that death brings about. It's an artwork of immense power, and, in the immediate aftermath of the devastation brought by bushfires in Victoria, it's an artwork that seems made for this sad time.
2008 – the best and worst….
Newspapers are full of these 'best of…' and 'worst of…' lists right now, and reading some of them got me thinking about some of the great (and not so great) moments in art and cinema this year. What follows is a really incomplete – and really subjective – list of images that I've been happy to live by in 2008. In no particular order (and apologies for repeating some topics already written about, but they still deserve to be mentioned as some of the great moments of 2008):
• Jose Parla's work. I saw his show at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in London, and I think his images are gorgeous. You can read more about Jose's work here.
• Miso and Ghostpatrol's show, 'Nesting and Dying', at metro5 Gallery in Melbourne. Beautiful works, beautifully installed in the space.
• Seeing Brad Downey's presentation of a series of short films about his 'street sculptures', at the Tate in London.
• The Kill Pixie show at Until Never Gallery in Melbourne.
• C215's work, all over London in July. Some of it is still around, like this:
• The JR show at Lazarides. Haunting.
• Being shown some new works by Elbow Toe, freshly unpacked and ready to hang, at Stolen Space in London.
• Meeting the artist who paints these cats all over Amsterdam:
• Walking around San Francisco with Russell Howze.
• Regan Tamanui's portrait of my daughter. Love it!
• Spotting new Invader works around Melbourne several times during this year. How many did he put up? Fantastic!
• Watching the Mikosa mural evolve.
• The Cans Festival in the Leake Street tunnel. Awesome. Both times.
• Meggs's show at Dont Come gallery in Melbourne.
• Seeing Hunger, by Steve McQueen.
• Seeing the Peak Hours sticker being put up on the London Underground. I would still love to know whose work that is… Thanks to everyone who contacted me about the sticker.
• Seeing Gilbert (of Gilbert & George) walk past on Brick Lane.
• The Sidney Nolan show at the NGV. I'm not an Australian, so I don't have the attachment to the Ned Kelly iconography that an Aussie does, but I still thought Nolan's images were breath-taking.
• Meeting Laser 3.14.
• Logan Hicks's show at Stolen Space in July. No space could have suited his works more.
Every year has to have some of these. Again in no particular order:
• Too many great shows missed, one way or another. MuTate Britain in London, the Poesia Urbana show at Famous When Dead Gallery, Acorn's solo show in Melbourne, Locust Jones at Until Never. And many more. What can you do?
• Not photographing the 'little diver' stencil by Banksy in Cocker Alley before it had silver paint poured over it. I walked past it so many times, always thinking, 'yeah, I'll take a picture some other day'. Strange how something becomes part of the cityscape and then – gone.
• The Victorian State Government's new anti-graffiti laws. Perhaps 2009 will bring some greater appreciation of street art in Victoria – but I will not be holding my breath.
• The Bill Henson debacle. So many people should be ashamed of their roles in this business. And its aftermath continues, with new, incredibly strict, rules governing the production of images of children.
• All those times I didn't have my camera with me when I came upon some amazing image on the wall.
This is the last post for 2008. Back in a few weeks.