Whisky and Cheese Tasting
Stamford Plaza Circular Quay
Sydney, Australia
April 25, 2018
Wine and cheese.
Sure.
Natural companions whose strengths of flavors cross-pollinate and complement each other.
Now, sommeliers might recoil but pairing Whisky and food pairing is on the up. …
Talisker - Made by the Sea
Neighbourhood Bondi
Sydney, Australia
May 3, 2018
Talisker.
One of the triumvirates of whiskies that Robert Louis Stevenson claimed to be the king of drinks.
A classic Scotch whisky distillery located on the Isle of Skye, with …
Erwin Wurm.
Prestel Publishing
A humorous and playful artist heavily influenced by the all too familiar trivialities and banal objects of the daily humdrum, which he extends or manipulates to distort reality as we know it and thereby subtly questions the antics of Western civilization.
A …
Going Down
Malthouse Theatre
Melbourne, Australia
May 19, 2018
A migrant story.
Feminism.
Cultural identity.
Sense of belonging.
Racism.
Rebellion.
Sexism.
Individualism.
Stereotyping.
Labeling.
Lightheartedness.
Egotism.
Perseverance.
True north.
Self-righteousness.
…
DREAMS
Opera House
Sydney, Australia
May 29, 2018
DREAMS is Luke Steele’s (Empire of the Sun) and Daniel Johns' (Silverchair) and while it has been tinkered on for nearly a decade, it only recently came to fruition with tonight’s show as part of Sydney’s Vivid …
Raekwon
Metro Theatre
Sydney, Australia
June 2, 2018
When Aristotle coined the phrase that a collective is bigger than the sum of its individual constituents to signify the concept of synergy, he formulated something that become particularly true for the entity known as Wu Tang …
Good Design Australia showcase
Overseas Passengers Terminal
Sydney, Australia
May 25, 2018
Design.
Good Design, huh?
What constitutes “good design”?
When there is nothing left to add or nothing left to take away?
The jealousy of other designers?
Simplicity and …
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art
Jeff Koons is perceived to be a controversial artist – an iconic one that proves to be hard to by-pass.
This retrospective zeros in on the thirty-five year spanning career that is firmly based on …
Aleksandr Zhitomirsky
Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War
Yale University Press
As one might have noticed, I am an aficionado of German artist John Heartfield’s photomontages and the impact it has had on popular and underground cultures, e.g. Sakevi …
American Essentials Film Festival
May 8-20, 2018
Sydney, Australia
American Essentials is not your typical new world film festival with the saccharine blockbusters crowding the market. The focus is firmly on curating a program that sheds light on the independent productions of the last year, covering …
Thus, let us drink beer! – Australian special, part 2
If you have ever been to Sydney, chances are that you passed through The Rocks, a neighborhood of quaint laneways against the backdrop of Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge.
It is fabled that The Rocks harbour the city’s …
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Sydney, Metro Theatre
June 9, 2018
With seventeen albums under their belt, the collective known as the Brian Jonestown Massacre has been going since 1990.
Early on they firmly established themselves on the firmament of both the pantheon of psychedelic rock as …
Water of Life Part 3
Ardbeg Day 2018
Sydney, Australia
Miss Peaches
June 2, 2018
Ardbeg.
Where shall we start?
Ardbeg’s ten year old, non-chill-filtered; uncoloured variety is as good as smokey, soft peated single malts come.
Ardbeg is rich.
…
German Film Festival
May 22 – June 10, 2018
Sydney, Australia.
Not unlike the American Essentials Festival, the German Film Festival showcase new Teutonic cinematic talent from the ole world with exclusive Australian premieres.
In collaboration with German Films, the task of which is …
Mazzy Star
Opera House
Sydney, Australia
June 11, 2018
Despite exerting a massive influence and having created their own lane, with crooners like Lana del Ray only being one of the more obvious epigones, Californian dream pop darlings Mazzy Star rarely incarnate on stages.
…
The Spirit of Bauhaus
Thames & Hudson
Walter Gropius declared in his Bauhaus manifesto, which he penned in 1919 in Weimar and which forms the genesis of one of the twentieth century’s most influential schools of art and design, that all architects, sculptors and painters must return to …
Visit to Starward Distillery
What’s constitutes a “good whisky?
There are a myriad of distilling methods and tweaked processes that go into bottling the water of life, the quality of casks, with local contexts and climates adding their very own distinct coleur.
Whisky certainly is a …
What’s Sumatra With You? -- Part 3
Black, hot liquid gold makes the world go round.
Most like it hot but does it always have to be?
Ever tried cold extracted coffee?
I had not until I came across the liquid emissions of First Press …
Art and Design -- Part 2
Circada Books
Hidden Museum
Shaun Parr
Museum can be spiritual places.
They certainly are for me.
A place where I can lose my head, going from void to void to be filled.
There …
Kandinsky
Random House
For me, the art compositions of Kandinsky has always had a connection to music, not just due to the names of his paintings which are pervaded by musical terminology and, from a distance, could be interpreted to add to a holistic, seamless symphony …
