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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

She really is lovely and has settled down really well!

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

#SBSOnDemand Hundreds of Beavers, 2019-22. Ultra-low budget (US$150,000) B&W silent: a man endeavours to succeed in a winter wilderness. Using silent comedy, cartoon & video game tropes, this triumph is a very funny tall tale - & covertly critiques colonialism. Ryland Tews is appealingly dorky/hunky

a black and white photo from a film showing a person in a beaver suit running away from a huge number of people in beaver suits

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

#latergram Visited Glyn and his new, very anxious foster dog Xena. She’s ultra nervous but quickly becomes comfortable and we went for a lovely - if erratic - walk.

two photos of a nervous-looking dog, one where she is being calmed by a man stroking her

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

#Malthouse Troy. An epic yet intimate work that, through Tom Wright’s poetic/brutal writing, makes every painful move relevant to today’s painful news, enhanced by Ian Michael’s sure direction and the fantastic cast & crew. Overwhelming; I came back the following week bringing friends.

three photos of a theatre production: the cast stand on the amphitheater set; two men embrace in front of a fire; a man plays a strange man bathed in red and darkness

three photos of a theatre production: three women look worried; a woman in an elaborate headdress grasps another by the arms; a woman confronts a man

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

#Malthouse for Troy, with a great seat and an atmospheric set…

two photos, one of a flower arrangement, mainly pink; the other of a stage set - a sand-covered amphitheater

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

#RUOKday treats at work.

three photos showing a plastic-wrapped circular object covered in multicoloured sprinkles, an orange box and its contents: three gold foil-wrapped chocolate stars

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

Unusual plaque on the #BrunswickTownHall crediting Sweetnam Godfrey & Ord for the 1994 renovations’ “concept development” - I worked at SGO for nearly 10 years from 1993!

two plaques on a wall, one circular and artistically designed, the other in the dreadful ‘Bunnings’ style so beloved by councils from the 1980s to save a little money

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

Walk along #SydneyRd #Brunswick: #BrunswickTownHall (Evander McIver, 1876); #ChristChurchBrunswick (1857, 1863-71) across the new Michelle Guglielmo Park (2024); arch typology of shopfronts (& Terrace House, 2021); Chemist Warehouse where (when it was Roomers cheap furniture) I worked in the 1980s…

a grand classical building and a would-be grand addition

a Classical church seen across a new landscaped urban park

six photos of shops showing typical arches above the shopfronts and a photo of a new building using arches

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

Trip to #RMIT #Brunswick campus: tram, takeaway coffee (from the cafe under #Nightingale #BrunswickEast, 2019, ClarkeHopkinsClarke), bus, the #MPavilion in the lovely courtyard.

five story development with apartments above a ground floor of retail

a cafe with stripped walls and timber fitout

a courtyard with lots of greenery and, half hidden, a bright orange canopy

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3h

#PrimeVideo Midsomer Murders, S1, 1997. Just like my childhood: lovely villages & characterful inhabitants but beneath roil tides of passion, jealousy, deviant sexuality, venality and vice. We just didn’t have much of the next logical step: murder. This is fun that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

two men, one middle-aged and one young, both dressed in suits and ties

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 13h

#OKru Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, 1956. Fritz Lang’s last US movie is a pale shadow of his earlier efforts, as an anti-capital punishment activist tries to get convicted based on planted circumstantial evidence. Less interesting than it sounds.

$two images from a film’s posters: a man’s face fractured with the text “what kind of man would frame himself for murder?”; a black & white image of a man and a woman being menaced by coloured blobs$

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 1d

Mouth agape at it 😳

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 1d

Jaw-dropping awful! 😳

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 2d

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 1d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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PK 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @paul.kidd.id.au · 1d

The forgotten genocide.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 1d

#OKru While the City Sleeps, 1956. Fritz Lang’s penultimate US film: a fascinating pre-Psycho mamma-boy serial killer tale, but subsumed into faintly interesting infighting between a media empire’s divisions. Characters are either flawed or clichés, like the slobbering, sweaty killer himself.

a film poster showing a woman being menaced by a silhouette of a hand, headed “Sensational Lipstick Murder!” and with the words “Ask Mother” written in red lipstick

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 2d

#OKru Get Out, 2017. Thoroughly unnerving, deliciously well-made and creepy, and with many important things to say - despite being a whole load of fun. Astonishing debut.

photos of the faces of a man and woman from a film, both trying to smile externally but obviously bottling something up inside

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 2d

This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/

Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
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Bronze head of a woman or goddess, torn from a full-sized statue. She wears a lunette diadem with inlaid silver patterns, with a star in the middle. Her wavy hair is center parted and pulled back into a bun. She looks directly into the camera with inlaid silver eyes, set beneath shadowed brows. With her mottled brown and green patina, the effect is frightening!

British Museum (1928,0416.1)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 2d

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 7d

Estrenando! - wearing some new Japanese convenience store socks on a warm early spring day!

looking down at a man’s legs - shorts, socks and laceless shoes - standing on a rainbow-painted pavement

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 7d

#DVD Kiss Me Kate, 1953. Enjoyable musical, mainly due to the astonishing Cole Porter songs and some great dancing (including a young Bob Fosse making his mark). Not quite as sparkling as it should have been, but great fun nevertheless.

three photos from a film showing a couple with the woman smiling on the phone and the man looking surprised, a woman in a skimpy costume dancing on a coffee table in front of some men, and a theatrical view of three men in tight pink costumes dancing with a woman on a green dress

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 7d

Two different ways of seeing who I have most interactions with on Bluesky. I don’t recognise many of these icons and have met less than a handful of the people… The black one is pleasantly rose window-like, but with meeeee in the centre!

concentric circles of Bluesky account icons surrounding mine, black background

a different set of concentric circles of Bluesky account icons surrounding mine, yellow background

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 7d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 7: dinner on the way back at #OKBilly #Mordialloc

two men wait hungrily with large plates of food

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 7d

#latergram Day trip to the Peninsula 6: #Frankston Yacht Club (2016, Gregory Burgess Architects). ‘Mirage’ sculpture by USYD students Deirdre Mair & Harry Stitt, 2022.

an arched pedestrian bridge and a large timber-clad building with water on two sides

a large curvy timber-clad building with orange sunshades over a ground floor cafe

view along a timber boardwalk past low vegetation to a timber-clad building and arched bridge

a red steel sculpture in several angular fragments that forms a portal when looked at from one location