Bit of an arty weekend, felt good walking around soaking up the sun and looking at pretty visuals. The Australian National Maritime Museum had a relaunch of a restored refugee boat to coincide with refugee week 2005.

The vessel, named Tu Do (Freedom) by the family it carried, eventually took the young mother, her husband and their three children from Vietnam, 6000km to a new life in Australia.

Taking photos and climbing on the boat and seeing it first hand, brought back some of the memories when I was about 5 years old, on a similar boat going on the same journey. Things are smaller than I remember them now, but Tu Do to me is just another boat. I think I was too young to be affected by the horrors of the high seas, pirates, lack of food and water. I don’t know if anyone had died on our boat. I just know from my dad that we made it to Pulau Bidong in Malaysia and we stayed there for 20 months. Our boat number was PB 792 and we arrived in Australia on the 15th February 1985.
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Chalk the Walk was also happening on the Pyrmont walk bridge. This was my favourite piece. Finally went to see this year’s PRIMAVERA.

KLEFT is now out and for sale online. KLEFT is also available from ARIEL BOOKS and PUBLISHED ART if you live in Sydney. If they are out of stock, ask them to re stock.

You Are Beautiful. Kinda reminds me of the “Practice Random Acts of Kindness” thing. A nice urban project though.

George is a delightful 1954 Austin A30. Recently he has been customised by two of France’s most famous graff artists, TILT and MIST. Through Ebay, George can be yours. Go bid on George NOW.

Please go sign up and vote for my T-shirt Little Red and The Fox. If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site and you can buy your very own! The cute drawing was done by the adorable Susan. Siah.

How can I ever go back to my rusty ‘86 Mazda 626 after driving this? I’ve always wanted to drive a mini and thrash it around corners. Been taking this Cooper S baby around for 2 days and its mad fun. Object love.

Haline and I went to hear our good matesTin&Ed at one of those Agda Talks last night. We checked out Art and About’s Sydney Life photographic exhibition in Hyde park afterwards. It was great fun hanging out with some fellow designers. img 01 | img 02 | img 03

Went away to Port Stephens with a good mate and his family over the long weekend. To quote a newly discovered illustrator/Commerce/Law student from Sydney, Matt Huynh .

My weekend was great, thank you, how was yours?
The highlight was the part where I did nothing!

Well, I did nothing in terms of work, but plenty of relaxing things. Saw lots of Dolphins swimming and feeding, did a lot of beach walking, mountain trekking and eating, very relaxing long weekend. The weather was perfect and the company was great. We also stopped by Newcastle for a quick drive by tour. Newcastle wasn’t what I expected it to be, a steel/coal city. Driving through Newcastle was like driving through Bankstown, Cairns, Fairfield and Parramatta all in one because every few kilometre the environment/houses/scenery changes.

Port Stephens is beautiful, the beaches have clear water and whte sand. We didn’t get to see everything, only staying around Nelson Bay and Fingal beach. Definitely have to go back soon.

Check out some candid shots here, which are not in the Postcard Viewer.

Art and About is on again. The Sydney Life photo exhibition in Hyde Park is always good.