Chris
@chrismbr.bsky.social
art-architecture-food-theatre-history-delight and other pleasing things
#DisneyPlus Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1983. Deliciously dark version of Ray Bradbury’s tale of boys menaced by evil, cost $16m but Disney spent another $4m to inject family friendliness, resulting in a box office bomb. Worth seeing for when the original vision frustratingly peeks through.
December 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
#DisneyPlus Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1983. Deliciously dark version of Ray Bradbury’s tale of boys menaced by evil, cost $16m but Disney spent another $4m to inject family friendliness, resulting in a box office bomb. Worth seeing for when the original vision frustratingly peeks through.
#WestMelbourne, including a tiny residential remnant amongst the light industrial buildings; nifty corner at the Red Cross HQ (2011, DesignInc); curvy glass flats atop textured concrete podium (2020, Carr Design Group), and the unprepossessing Readings HQ.
December 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
#WestMelbourne, including a tiny residential remnant amongst the light industrial buildings; nifty corner at the Red Cross HQ (2011, DesignInc); curvy glass flats atop textured concrete podium (2020, Carr Design Group), and the unprepossessing Readings HQ.
Sustainable housing complex on the #ElwoodCanal: Ruskin Elwood’s 4 townhouses (replacing 2 houses), by Fieldwork Architects and HIP V.HYPE (developer), 2020.
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Sustainable housing complex on the #ElwoodCanal: Ruskin Elwood’s 4 townhouses (replacing 2 houses), by Fieldwork Architects and HIP V.HYPE (developer), 2020.
Walk with Xena along the #ElwoodCanal to #PointOrmond.
December 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Walk with Xena along the #ElwoodCanal to #PointOrmond.
Food-themed lunchtime quiz at work was innovative and had blind drink tasting as one round!
December 20, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Food-themed lunchtime quiz at work was innovative and had blind drink tasting as one round!
Annual work art exhibition, I was even cajoled to put something in this time!
December 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Annual work art exhibition, I was even cajoled to put something in this time!
This little bird swooped me two mornings in a row as I walked to work via the #FitzroyGardens - has never happened to me before!
December 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This little bird swooped me two mornings in a row as I walked to work via the #FitzroyGardens - has never happened to me before!
#YouTube Sweat, 2007. Na Hong-jin’s (The Chaser) 3rd short film is an artfully shot series of vignettes that show how class-coded perspiration is: working people sweat, their overlords watch and glisten.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
#YouTube Sweat, 2007. Na Hong-jin’s (The Chaser) 3rd short film is an artfully shot series of vignettes that show how class-coded perspiration is: working people sweat, their overlords watch and glisten.
#YouTube A Perfect Red Snapper Dish, 2005. 2nd short film of Na Hong-jin (The Chaser) is a satiric look at culinary perfectionism, ramping up to horrific levels. Acclaimed but a bit silly.
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
#YouTube A Perfect Red Snapper Dish, 2005. 2nd short film of Na Hong-jin (The Chaser) is a satiric look at culinary perfectionism, ramping up to horrific levels. Acclaimed but a bit silly.
#Brollie The Chaser, 2008. Super-exciting grimy Korean thriller with an ex-cop/pimp on the trail of a young man killing his prostitues. Escalating tensions (one sequence reminded me of Playtime!) and highly troubling violence make this a wild ride.
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
#Brollie The Chaser, 2008. Super-exciting grimy Korean thriller with an ex-cop/pimp on the trail of a young man killing his prostitues. Escalating tensions (one sequence reminded me of Playtime!) and highly troubling violence make this a wild ride.
#PrimeVideo The Monkey, 2025. Ultra-gory yet light-hearted, this tale of death & destruction via a toy is beautifully done but rather too gleefully nasty for its own good.
December 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
#PrimeVideo The Monkey, 2025. Ultra-gory yet light-hearted, this tale of death & destruction via a toy is beautifully done but rather too gleefully nasty for its own good.
#TradesHall #FringeFestival A Succulent Chinese Musical?! Jack Karlson’s 1991 arrest in a Chinese restaurant became legendary due to the drama as he was bundled away. This joyful short musical riffs hilariously on his personal history & puns relentlessly on his quotable pronouncements.
December 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
#TradesHall #FringeFestival A Succulent Chinese Musical?! Jack Karlson’s 1991 arrest in a Chinese restaurant became legendary due to the drama as he was bundled away. This joyful short musical riffs hilariously on his personal history & puns relentlessly on his quotable pronouncements.
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Be more Quaker.
The new guidance asks Quakers to invite the sharing of pronouns and gender self-identification, listen deeply to one another, avoid asking trans people to constantly justify their own lived reality, and avoid letting buildings to groups who intend to hurt or exclude. 2/4
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Be more Quaker.
#melbournelife buildings: a #PoMo glimpse in Daryl Jackson’s 1991 120 #CollinsSt; Angelo Candalepas’ 2016 Neo-#Brutalist QT Hotel #RussellSt, with its Scarpa-like brooch; Fender Katsalidis’ 2014 crinkle-facade 108 #FlindersSt.
December 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
#melbournelife buildings: a #PoMo glimpse in Daryl Jackson’s 1991 120 #CollinsSt; Angelo Candalepas’ 2016 Neo-#Brutalist QT Hotel #RussellSt, with its Scarpa-like brooch; Fender Katsalidis’ 2014 crinkle-facade 108 #FlindersSt.
We’ve been good and are still going to the gym, but #TheStrongZone social media has been passing me by. So here’s a quick flashback to June & August 🏋️♂️
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
We’ve been good and are still going to the gym, but #TheStrongZone social media has been passing me by. So here’s a quick flashback to June & August 🏋️♂️
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you know who you are
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
you know who you are
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I'm gonna take a few days out from social media because Australia is about to lose its goddamned mind (I'm on email for folks who need me). This is a small country of 27 million: we haven't had anything of this scale since 1996. There's a lot of misinfo about Australian gun laws, so quick refresher:
Australian gun control: 29 years after Port Arthur
Almost 30 years after Port Arthur, there are more guns in Australia than ever before, and the Howard Government’s landmark National Firearms Agreement is falling short of its stated aims. There is no ...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm gonna take a few days out from social media because Australia is about to lose its goddamned mind (I'm on email for folks who need me). This is a small country of 27 million: we haven't had anything of this scale since 1996. There's a lot of misinfo about Australian gun laws, so quick refresher:
#NGVA Indigenous works using photography and new media, and ‘Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday’, an exhibition in conjunction with #RMIT and with the participation of Alice Payne, Dean of Fashion & Textiles, of consumer products designed to reduce the harms of mass production.
December 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Visited the #NGVA to get my art-quotient up; the Indigenous galleries don’t fail! There are a couple of my favourite scraped scrap metal artworks as well as superb paintings, and contemporary works using traditional methods… 2/3
December 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Visited the #NGVA to get my art-quotient up; the Indigenous galleries don’t fail! There are a couple of my favourite scraped scrap metal artworks as well as superb paintings, and contemporary works using traditional methods… 2/3
Visited the #NGVA to get my art-quotient up; the Indigenous galleries don’t fail! The Bark Salon is both overwhelming and exciting, with its salon hang of Wonderful Things from the last 80 years.
December 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Visited the #NGVA to get my art-quotient up; the Indigenous galleries don’t fail! The Bark Salon is both overwhelming and exciting, with its salon hang of Wonderful Things from the last 80 years.
Artworks at the new #StateLibraryStation: Danie Mellor ‘Forever’, huge glass murals of Aboriginal people, and Maree Clarke ‘Tracks’, platform mosaics of native fauna footprints, in all 5 stations. Poor show compared to ANZAC Station. On Sneak Peak day there were musicians and roving performers too.
December 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Artworks at the new #StateLibraryStation: Danie Mellor ‘Forever’, huge glass murals of Aboriginal people, and Maree Clarke ‘Tracks’, platform mosaics of native fauna footprints, in all 5 stations. Poor show compared to ANZAC Station. On Sneak Peak day there were musicians and roving performers too.