Coming up, Lempriere hype!
Your work has been selected for a group show which attracts much hype, year after year, here in New South Wales: The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. On the opening night (this coming Thursday) one artist will be selected to be the beneficiary of a hefty $60,00 to undertake a year of study overseas. As […]
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on acknowledging flickr’s community
So the Database is back online, after being forced down from the webmaster of weeds.org because of copyright issues. How funny that of all people the government is the one who complains about information being spread! Nevertheless you obliged, took offline the contested material and replace it with copyright-free content. Most of the material was […]
on privet posters, or rather, how you got there via a busy year
Somewhere you read 2008 is the year of getting busy building for the future..uhmm Sure you where busy up to now! This post is just to make a list of what you have been up to so far and a few upcoming events as well. You, reader, might or might not know you are involved […]
Reward Yourself one said, and let your readers know
What a steep hill you just climbed. It took you 5 days. Welcome reader! This is the upgraded version on the weedyconnection blog. It might look just the same to you, but behind the pretty pictures the code is new, the wordpress you’re seing is version 2.6!!! whoo hoo!! WordPress is an opensource facility which […]
on The Hanging Gardens and Other Tales
Do you have a potted friend that means something special to you? Perhaps a hanging succulent that’s followed you from one home to the next? Would you like your plant’s story to be part of an exciting new project about these oftenoverlooked neighbours? … Then we’d love to hear from you. Contact the artists: Karl […]
on the right ones
We went mushrooming again, we filled an 8 seater and off we ventured on the highway all the way to Belanglo State Forest. View Larger Map The day was cool but sunny and the mood was festive even if we all raised very early in attempt to beat the competition. But no competition was found, […]
on pies and the lack of fingers
There’s going to be another tour tomorrow, two actually, at 12 and 1pm. The WeedyConnection project is been invited as one of the artistic component for the Cook River Festival 2008, organized by the Marrickville Council. Noticeable is that this festival is basically on the other shore of the Cook River from the Riverworks Festival […]
on black locust seed pods, african olives and pointing at smaller ones
Autumn’s in full swing now, the temperature dropping while sunsets linger on in luminous displays. In you garden the old Robinia Pseudoacacia is dropping its seedpods, the few left which survived a year-round foraging practice of the resident Brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). The long branches were raided in several waves, for the young shoots first, […]
on touring whitlam’s weeds
Canterbury council is organizing a festival along the shore of Cooks River, in Undercliffe, Sydney: R i v e r w o r k s 2 0 0 8 Gough Whitlam Park Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 March Bayview Avenue, Undercliffe (2 minutes walk from Tempe train station) 10am-3pm both days As the organizers say […]
