Chris
@chrismbr.bsky.social
art-architecture-food-theatre-history-delight and other pleasing things
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 ...
australiainstitute.org.au
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.
Pre-opening visit to new #StateLibraryStation. Down the 2nd set of escalators to the loooong platform. Impressive orange decorative arches & linear chandeliers, though disappointing they’re also at the City Square Station. Nice cast aluminium brackets for everything, and at last! platform barriers.
December 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Pre-opening visit to new #StateLibraryStation. Down the 2nd set of escalators to the loooong platform. Impressive orange decorative arches & linear chandeliers, though disappointing they’re also at the City Square Station. Nice cast aluminium brackets for everything, and at last! platform barriers.
Pre-opening visit to the new #StateLibraryStation. The entry off #SwanstonSt, the concourse below with connection to #MelbourneCentralStation, and the strange empty curved tunnel (future artwork/adverts?) to more escalators…
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Pre-opening visit to the new #StateLibraryStation. The entry off #SwanstonSt, the concourse below with connection to #MelbourneCentralStation, and the strange empty curved tunnel (future artwork/adverts?) to more escalators…
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Here he is taking the photo.
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Here he is taking the photo.
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
In #StPatricksCathedral the south aisle plaster vaults are lone remnants of George & Schneider’s 1858 cathedral; Wardell’s stone vaults are simpler. The 1997 central altar has Book of Kells floor mosaics: at the west end are artworks and a funny clock. The 1962 organ has 5,000 pipes & 24 trumpets!
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In #StPatricksCathedral the south aisle plaster vaults are lone remnants of George & Schneider’s 1858 cathedral; Wardell’s stone vaults are simpler. The 1997 central altar has Book of Kells floor mosaics: at the west end are artworks and a funny clock. The 1962 organ has 5,000 pipes & 24 trumpets!
In #StPatricksCathedral the amber glass gives everything a rich orange glow. The original high altar in the eastern chevet (French-style curve of radiating chapels) is by Wardell, 1896 (the central altar is post-Vatican II) while the great west Ascension Window is from London (Hardman & Co, 1868).
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
In #StPatricksCathedral the amber glass gives everything a rich orange glow. The original high altar in the eastern chevet (French-style curve of radiating chapels) is by Wardell, 1896 (the central altar is post-Vatican II) while the great west Ascension Window is from London (Hardman & Co, 1868).
Sculptures south of #StPatricksCathedral: Ss Francis & Catherine and a lamb in a fountain (Louis Laumen, 2000), St Mary MacKillop (Louis Laumen, 2012), and busts of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac (Mladen Mikulin, 2001) & Father George Preca (Peter Corlett, 2008). The south portal has foliate carvings.
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Sculptures south of #StPatricksCathedral: Ss Francis & Catherine and a lamb in a fountain (Louis Laumen, 2000), St Mary MacKillop (Louis Laumen, 2012), and busts of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac (Mladen Mikulin, 2001) & Father George Preca (Peter Corlett, 2008). The south portal has foliate carvings.