Birds outside my window

The tree outside my window at home is producing green berries that is attracting heaps of birds.  There are five to six birds... they're so beautiful (and white) and so cute.

But they make one hell of a mess on the ground below.

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William Yang: My Generation

Just seen William Yang's latest one man show, My Generation at the Performance Space.  He's a photographer who gravitated to Sydney from Queensland and as an artist have been the unofficial and sometimes official photographer for many of Australia's leading artists, including Brett Whiteley, Patrick White, Jenny Kee...

For me it was obvious that Yang was an outsider, that photographers needed to be an outsider to take in the situation and yet an insider to be afforded the access.

He looked like an outsider too in his expensive charcoal suit and red shirt, brown shoes.  You can tell they were expensive items, which were made for a caucasian build... not flattering to an ageing old asian man.

He talked too about discovering his asian identity late in life, which world does that outsider/insider belong to?
My favourite pictures were of and elderly couple, Patrick White and his partner, Manoly Lascaris. There was one particular picture of the two old men sitting in their kitchen and facing the camera and you just knew they were lovers and will always be.

I'd like Walter and I to be like that old couple.

THE RIOT AT COMPTON'S CAFETERIA

Saw this great doco, The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria at the 2010 Sydney Transgender Film Festival. According to them, this was the first time the community fought back against the system... even before Stonewall.

Sydney Traffic

Took this pic while stuck in traffic last Friday.  It was after 6pm and Olympic Drive, Homebush Bay was a carpark.

I wonder how much of my time has been lost in traffic.  It's a joke.

Lunar New Year's Eve, Cabramatta

 

Walter and I visited Minh Giac, our local temple yesterday to pray for the new year.  We drive by all the time but haven't stopped by for a while.

It was obvious that alot of work has gone in to sprucing and decoration.  And it worked, the beautiful signs out the front (hand carved by one of the monks we found out later), mai flowers and lanterns outside to show off Kwan Yin; the goddess of compassion, a wonderful display to the fat buddha, the shrine room.

And to my surprise a zen coffee area, which was all built by the monk, complete with bodhi leave entrance sign.  He insisted we go in and view his wonderful creation.  Simply wonderful.

Vietnamese Iced Coffee

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Coffee drips into cup... layer of condensed milk... mix it all up and pour over ice... Vietnamese ice coffee, a traditional favourite.

This one was at Phuoc Loc Tho (PLT) restaurant in Canley Heights.

Destination Saigon: Adventures in Vietnam, advance copy

Too exciting for words, the printed, advance copy of Destination Saigon, by my boy, Walter Mason arrived today.

As you can see Walter is justifiably proud.