Australia Day 2009

January 26, 2009

Australia Day this year was spent with Mum, Dad, Godmother Linda and Teri - wandering through The Rocks - before lunch at Pony (the chips were OK).

Australia Day Lunch

Blast from the past: Australia Day 2008

Fun at Fox

Blast from the past: Australia Day 2007 (My First Australia Day)

Aidan, Mum and Dad at Centennial Park

Artist of the Week

January 13, 2009

I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

I’m not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography [...]

Bed Time

January 11, 2009

I’m over the cot. I’m so over it I’m going Japanese power-nap style in my chest of drawers.

So I’ve put the cot in the shed (ready for my new brother or sister), I’ve taken delivery of my first real bed (an Ikea Kritter bed), and my first night was a good one.

Many more to come [...]

The Zoo

January 3, 2009

We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zooHow about you, you, you?You can come too, too, tooWe’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo.

We been to the zoo zoo zooSo have you you youYou came too too tooWe been to the zoo zoo zoo

New Years Eve 2008

January 1, 2009

NYE this year was at Godmother Linda’s house. It’s really hot where Linda lives - way too hot to go outside, so everybody stays inside in their underwear and cranks the A/C to sub-arctic. Now I’m not one to make a fuss, so when in Rome…