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Bee Badge

Benjamin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:42:48 +0000

A badge made of tin from the Hive in Canberra. One of the first I ever bought and considering how easily it bends I’m surprised it’s lasted this long.

Degas – master of French art – National Gallery of Australia

Benjamin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:27:34 +0000

A beautiful trailer for the upcoming exhibition, the hi-Res version (and tickets) are available here. Produced by our very own: I will lead you to a life of crime

Incommunicado

Benjamin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:48:37 +0000

A quick post to say that I will be gone for a while. I’ll post again when I’ve reached NYC, hopefully with a few happy snaps as well. These are my last days in the ‘berra. I’ll leave you with a video which I think is fitting:

Ali

Benjamin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:14:41 +0000

Photos that I took recently of the Canberra’s own jazz star Ali. I think they came out quite well, especially considering that we were short on time.

Neal & Ben

Benjamin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:33:09 +0000

(are leaving you)

feel free to come along and bid your farewells!

Topping Off

Benjamin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:00:10 +0000

A little while ago I was on the bus going past the construction sites in the city and I took the pics below. The tree at the top of this building site made me laugh uncontrollably. If I was in charge of a crane I’d be doing stuff like this all the time but apparently this isn’t a stunt, it’s a tradition called topping off.

But the tree is the key symbol and it is not, as many might suppose, a holiday touch. In the high-steel trade, it announces that the construction has reached the sky without loss of life or serious injury. And it is meant to auger well for the future inhabitants of the building.

from Peter Wood

You learn something new everyday. And today it’s that builders are superstitous (in addition to being good at whistling and building).