On June 26, August Weather
Yesterday, the Marking Day for July (see previous post) ended-up to have long periods of sun, after a copious rain in the early hours, while today, Marking Day for August is shaping like a drenching one.So the prediction is: July> showers at the start of the month then fine; August> rain for most of the […]
On Predicting The Future- Ethnobotany for travellers
There’s a piece of ethnobotanical knowledge where it comes from, that farmers and land dwellers have been using for as long as is remembered. According to the formula if you keep track of the weather in the last six and the first six days of the year you’ll be able to predict the weather for […]
On Why You Could Eat The Whole Field-or why IT took so long to digest the lot-
You’re back, the 2007 Europe Art Grand Tour left you speechless for nearly a whole month, in both languages. Winter solstice (summer’s in the northern hemisphere) is on us, Sydney’s cold, and the endless summer you’ve been experiencing dissipated in an haze of jetlagged early mornings wakes. So much went through your head during this […]
On The Mirror Reflection or Raining On Water
On Venezia And The Silk Road
It may well be that for the next couple of months the frequency of postings will drop. You’re off. Today you will fly to Venice to work on the installation of this year’s Biennale for the Australian Council of the Arts. Over the next two months therefore the blogging will probably be more frequent on […]
Ahhh, Foraging!
There is a talk tomorrow, at Sydney, and as part of the event you are going to offer “weed tea”. Today you went foraging! You never went through Leacock Regional Park before, even if you always wanted to. A couple of years ago you applied twice to the Australian Council for the Arts and once […]
On A Weed Man From New York
There is a man in New York who you admire a lot. He is funny, witty, knowledgeable and community oriented. His name is Steve Brill, but most people and media knows him by “Wildmanâ€. He describe himself as a ‘naturalist’ (whatever that means) and runs tours of city parks and accessible forests teaching people how […]
On A Weed World Talk
Come one, Come all to “A Weed World”!!! As part of the ongoing InfoTainment night at Sydney’s, local Nobody and german duo Iris-A-Maz will share their weed experience! Nobody’s ongoing project to reconnect people with plants (i.e. migrants with weeds) in an attempt to remind us all that the romantic view of an “Idillic Australian […]
On Talking About It
You gave a talk today, at the ATVP Contemporary Art. You bacame good at it, by now the catch-frases flow out of your mouth, like the one on multiculturalism in Australia,”a display of funny costumes, funny dances, funny foods and funny accents”. It works all the time, it always catches some smiles. At times you […]
The List Again – Common Thornapple (Datura stramonium)
Common Thornapple (Datura stramonium) Origin: Native of the USA and Mexico. Family: Solanaceae. Known Hazards: All members of this genus contain narcotics and are very poisonous, even in small doses. Physical Characteristics: Flowers: Trumpet-shaped and 5-lobed, surrounded at base by sepals 3–5.5 cm long. Flowers summer.Annual herb to 1.5 m high. Leaves 8–36 cm long, […]
