http://luminousobjects.com.au Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:59:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some photos from the Cucina Povera demonstration by Armando Percuocco (and featuring a cameo by David Dale) at Casa Barilla in Annandale, 24/11/2009. Click on an image to open the larger version. http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=190 This was a Threadless submission. The competition was on the theme of  "Geeks". Isn't Yoda sweet! Alas, even though I'd seen Star Wars shirts on the site before, and even though this was totally drawn by hand and all my own work and hardly even looked like Yoda unless you ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=189 We've all seen these beautiful aluminium theatre lights that've been popping up all over Sydney recently, mounted on old wooden surveryor's tripods. This is a spectacular example, seen in Balmain in May. This is really well done up; the wood shines that perfect honey-golden colour. Don't even think about the price, ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=181 This is a photo record of some lava lights I've created. So many happy memories; so many fumes. The Lawson Lava. This beauty was commissioned by my wonderful friend Cath in the mountains. It's been keeping the place warm ever since. That spectacular jar actually came from the Lawson markets one ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=174 A few years ago I had a fantastic old sculpture workshop in a falling-apart Newtown terrace. There was a lot of space for strange experiments, including this technique for making gigantic lava lamps out of supermarket ingredients. These ones aren't quite as active as the ones you can buy in ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=159 Somewhere in Newtown there's a heavily graffitied wall (no kidding!). Something on it jumped out at me. That's cool, I thought. It's a really neat perspective on non-dualism, kind of like where the Matrix trilogy ended up, or a lot of Yoga philosophy, or William Blake's insights into the multiple worlds ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=154 Years ago a friend invented an awesome acronym. It was something to do with Spike from Buffy; it insightfully described an aspect of his relationship with someone else in the show and spelled a word that was unexpected enough to provide a comic disjuncture while still being incisively pertinent. It ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=152 This is a design I did for Threadless. It was from a sketch done months ago, and as it was so appropriate for a competition they were running I hustled it through -- hooray for deadlines!! The sketch was pretty awesome too. First version: And further along: So do vote for it! Then ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=144 This is on a bin on King St. They did it in biro, by hand, and the note is so incredibly heartfelt it made me want to stop buying battery eggs all over again. Or do something about it beyond a lame consumer boycott. All of which is good. It must ... http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=136 Seen in Chatswood; it was raining, as seems appropriate. This was growing out of a tree stump so energetically that hardly any tree stump was left. Go on — look at the closeup!! It's soooo fungusy. http://luminousobjects.com.au/?p=131