Something from Nothing

The sun came out the other day after a long, wet month. 

The shadows returned to the footpath. 

But something else was present upon the grey concrete...

a hot pink dot of paint that appeared about every metre along the slopping path. 

It was really nothing but it made shiftazine think it was actually something…

Something quiet beautiful.

Frank Gehry: Building A Blue Sky Thinking

Wandering around the Chinatown / UTS precinct of inner city Sydney,

Shiftazine stumbled upon a wondrous piece of architecture that made no logical sense

and for that reason, instantly feel in love with it!

After waxing lyrically to all about this GREAT new building, 

someone was kind enough to mention that it was built by Frank Gehry.

Well that would explain why it is so BRILLIANT then, wouldn’t it.

The building is a part of UTS, and it’s the best part of UTS.

Here is a paragraph taken from the UTS website in relation to the building:

Gehry Partners designs from the inside-out, meaning that the design of internal spaces must be developed before design of the building's exterior can start.

https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/projects-progress/dr-chau-chak-wing

Colour and spice and all things nice

Use colour as you would spice.  Too much of a particular spice and all the other flavours found in that meal will just be swamped. 
Use spice in a restrained and yet brave way and you can make that ordinary meal something that people will be coming back for more.  
It is all in understanding the intensity of your ingredients.  
The palette in interiors needs to be the same as the palette in cooking...balanced and creative but not overwhelming. 
Simple.

The Bearded Tit comes to town. Could I have a drink with that etching, please?

The Bearded Tit flung opened its newly gold leafed door just last week on Regent Street  Redfern Sydney.

AND it is full of absolutely everything you can imagine including a bowtied stuffed rabbit, 

a  selection  of 1950s  awful art  prints,  the  rear  end  of  a  deer, half a caravan  attached to the  garden wall, a 1960s gas fireplace, etc, etc, etc.

Opened  Tuesday  to  Sunday 4:00pm to  midnight 

183 Regent St, Redfern   Sydney, Australia  (02) 8283 4082 http://www.TheBeardedTit.com/

Wallism & a love letter to Anthony Lister

So there shiftazine was on a cold wet day in Darlinghurst Sydney.  
Nothing was bright. 
All was dull, flat, just plain drab. 
And then suddenly, a ballerina danced across the wall of one of those semi crumbling terrace that populate Crown Street.

If you do nothing else today, do this...go to this site http://anthonylister.com/
and just enjoy. Be delighted. Be thrilled. Be excited.
Be grateful for art and creative people.  

Thank you for your generous act of this mural Anthony.
Yours Sincerely
shiftazine

A Winter's Blue

The colour speaks for itself.  
BLUE.

Madame Brussel's groove.

There we were on a hot Summer’s afternoon, drinking some great cocktails and listening to a play list that was the best of funk from the 1970s and 80s.  

Everyone looked fine and the overall vibe just kept grooving.  

The place was Madame Brussels found at the top end of Bourke Street in the CBD of Melbourne.  

Where the inside is outside and the outside is inside. Wine Bar, Pub Food, Romantic, Late Night, Outdoor Seating, Private Parties. 

Serves: Cheese Platter, Chicken Sandwiches, High Tea. 

Cocktails and Cocktail Jug Varieties: Pims Cocktail, Gin Garden, Delish Green Cocktail with Watermelon.

0396622775 Open Monday to Sunday 12 noon - 1:00am.

Level 3 (up the stairs), 59-63 Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria, Australia

A Black and White statement

We are surrounded by colour all the time.

As a matter of fact there are 12,000 known named colours, and there must be

thousands more that have not be formally named. 

So when we observed an almost exclusively black and white cameo, it is

both striking and restrained.