photographs of two men with ice-creams and a crowd under trees hung with streamers
photographs of a stage performance, an inflatable rainbow 🌈, three shop-front performers, and two shops
photographs of street festival tents and umbrellas, and a man in the street
photographs of crowds under trees
#GertrudeSt #SmithSt #PeelSt #Midsumma Pride of Victoria Street Party. Ice-creams and crowds.
painting in earthy browns of a group of thirteen figures surrounding a table of food, with circles over their heads and the surrounding space crackling with electric energy
Tiwi Islander Johnathon World Peace Bush’s The Last Supper and the Big Breakfast, 2023, part of the ‘Punctuate’ group show at #ThisIsNoFantasy #GertrudeSt #Fitzroy
three photographs, one showing a brick arch with timber gates, the others of views into the yard behind
Rare opportunity to see the side entry & walls of the former #NicholsonSt Cable Tram Engine House, on the corner of #GertrudeSt (1887, Alexander Davidson) - in nearly 20 years I don’t remember seeing the side gates open. As expected the side wall is spectacularly unspectacular.
four photographs showing part of a shop awning falling off and notices taped to the pavement
“Beware of the awning above!” #GertrudeSt - it was being fixed the next day:
eight photographs showing a building being gradually demolished
Hooray, the ugliest building on #GertrudeSt has finally gone! Don’t know if the Snøhetta design really will get built though.
street corner landscaped with blocks of stone in informal seating groups
four photographs of a street corner landscaped with blocks of stone in informal seating groups, with suggestive seat backs, and a ramp up to a higher seating area
four diagrams, one showing a masterplan for a street corner with amphitheatre seating, a design response, and two views of the final design with dispersed informal seating groups
Openwork’s rather lovely new corner of #GertrudeSt & #BrunswickSt for #YarraCityCouncil, with rocks forming seats distributed in groups across the site rather than in a single corner auditorium as the masterplan suggested.
three photos of a gallery showing small square and thick artworks
#TheBreadAndButterCircusGallery #GertrudeSt - a newbie on the street - Nigel Higgins ‘Summer Garden’, showing a love of colour and impasto!
painting of various landscape and building fragments surreally mixed
#ThisIsNoFantasy #GertrudeSt Kevin Chin ‘From the Ruins’
a painting in subdued colours of a surreal but gentle combination of landscape and building elements
#ThisIsNoFantasy #GertrudeSt Kevin Chin ‘From the Ruins’
three photos of furniture on exhibit in a gallery, plus the name in a horseshoe shape ‘The World’s Smallest Horse’
#OigallProjects #GertrudeSt BMDO ‘The World’s Smallest Horse’. Is it furniture design or installation art?…
three photos of an exhibition showing large coloured metal sculptures of stylised flowers and geometric shapes
#OigallProjects #GertrudeSt Peter D Cole ‘Helen in the garden’.
photos of a meal and environs at a Malaysian eatery
a tree full of fruit against a blue sky
a wide open expanse of new road next to a new station entrance/exit
apartment windows lit up at night, each the full glazed wall of the room
#melbournelife: Great char kway teow at #Malaysian #Kalilang #BourkeSt; Melia trees in fruit in #GertrudeSt #Fitzroy; Reopened #FranklinSt should be pedestrians & bikes (it’s been closed for ~7 years and now has a major station entrance) but is a whole-width roadway; Little boxes on #AlbertSt.
collage of photos of a gallery with lamps in it
#OigallProjects #GertrudeSt lamps (with and without grass)
a shop filled with books and other items filling every surface with Stuff
Shop in #GertrudeSt #Fitzroy that is a too-close-for-comfort object-oriented claustrophobic collection!
large painting of stylised daffodils in a park or large garden
#DianneTanzerGallery #ThisIsNoFantasy #GertrudeSt Oliver Watts ‘The Other House Daffodils’ 2022 $12,000
Menu item: “Summer Gnocchi . Pan-fried Potato Gnocchi, blisted cherry tomato, stracciatella, basil crum (V)”
Shop with company name on window: “KEWL & BANALARAMA”
Names: 1. Menu item somehow combines expectations of Austin Powers (Basil Exposition) and Fawlty Towers (Basil Fawlty) with Harry Potter (Victor Krum). 2. #GertrudeSt video producers Kewl & Banalarama, “now making dreams”.
day and night views of vases of pretty flowers in a shop window
Pretty flowers in Bruce’s shop window, #GertrudeSt
Collage of elegant Deco brass cranes: two in a local shop window, the other at home, a remnant of my father’s childhood home
These two little cranes in a #GertrudeSt shop window are obviously relatives of my father’s brass crane, that for years stood holding a door open in Dwaleni, the Swaziland homestead he grew up in in the 1930s-40s.
Some nineteenth century shop houses, one with an octagonal corner tower, glow in the early evening sunlight
#GertrudeSt in the raking evening sun
Collage: street performers in emu suits; people in winged costumes; feathers, flowers and arseless chaps
Collage: streets with some, and later lots, of people
Collage: streets with some, and later lots, of people; also performance stages and a drag performer in a window
#latergram #VictoriasPride Street Party for #Midsumma on #SmithSt, #GertrudeSt & #PeelSt: not too hot (!) so filled up by mid-afternoon, earlier than usual. Lots of activities, lots of people, lots of fun - bonus Carrotman too!
Four men having drinks in a pub
Auslan demonstration in a tent
Collage of colourful umbrellas, street jenga, free Greens ice-cream
#latergram #VictoriasPride Street Party for #Midsumma: wandered up and down #SmithSt, #GertrudeSt & #PeelSt. We had plenty of pitstops (lunch, drinks, intro to Auslan) and retired just after 6pm.
Outside view of a gallery window showing a confusion of metal café chairs inside.
The launch of Aussie firm Steelotto’s Enzo stacking chair at #OigallProjects #GertrudeSt. Made in north Italy’s ‘triangle of the chair’ Enzo costs $730/$630 each, with/without arms.
‘Q3’ lithograph by Megan Cope at the #AustralianPrintWorkshop #GertrudeSt. Until recently her work formed the facade of the #ACU’s temporary building on the corner of #BrunswicSt & #VictoriaParade, now demolished.
#latergram After a quick sleep we got up to find Something was Up: #VictoriasPrideStreetParty in #PeelSt, #SmithSt & #GertrudeSt. We started with brunch at #Archies…
The old #GertrudeSt barbers has now become a parfumerie, riffing off the (?)1970s fitout. #FlânerFragrances (but isn’t it “flâneur”?)
