Art and Abart

While researching my FOSS Hall of Fame I found this interview by Pia Waugh . She says "Once you find your passion, every day is a holi...

This week we are learning to operate a printing press and experimenting with colour. My print project is sort of taking shape. At the moment...

I want to combine my interests in FS/OSS, art and music and produce some material that can be used by FOSS folk. (See 2 posts below for th...

The penguins were taken from a German book published in 1935. The image was downsized using the cute little open source program called ‘Ir...

Last weekend I suddenly felt homesick. I missed my friends, missed Sydney. Today the tide has turned. We had our first day at school and I ...

My first Parsifal (Schlingensief Parsifal of 2006 in Bayyreuth) Elizabeth Gordon-Werner (October 2006) The year 2006 held several first...

Parsifal: Ich schreite kaum doch waehn' ich mich schon weit (I've scarcely moved, yet I seem to have travelled far.) Gurnemanz: Du...

My place at 20.40. The clouds are turning sunset pink as I work, you can probably see pink in the white of the paintbox. I am working on a p...

I have just been to a retrospective of Julia Morison ’s work that I found inspiring. It made me feel that I am where I should be, explained ...

These photos of the Shotover River were taken near Queenstown on the 6 th February which is Waitangi Day in New Zealand. Jetboats of tour...

This has to be the smallest museum in the world. It is in Tapawera on New Zealand's West Coast. It might be small but it has a great dis...

One of the locals told me in November that the winter here is lovely but the summer is always a disappointment. I am starting to understand ...

Today when I got up the thermometer in the kitchen said 13.2C but then the sun popped over the horizon and it was suddenly warmer. It is 2...

I bought a piece of greenstone recently in Greymouth. For years I had thought to buying a piece of greenstone, but only now did it feel like...

If you had not guessed, the photos in my November logs are of Dunedin. If you had asked me before I moved if it was possible to move countri...

A better photo (marginally) of my new 'Heimat'.

For some time now I have been feeling as if I was on the cusp of change. I just didn't know the direction. Now suddenly I am living in a...

The acoustics in the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth are just as amazing as everyone reports. The music glides out from under the covered orchestr...

The paper today reported that July temperatures in northern Germany were 5 degrees C above normal. I imagine people going to Bayreuth for th...

The rye field around the corner from where I am staying is ready for harvest. It glows golden in the evening light.