I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week. Thanks, Sami.
The last mural of the year 2021 was painted for the Darwin Street Art Festival 2020 by Franck Gohier, a Darwin based artist, and it can be found at Shadforth Lane in the Central business district.
In the artists words, this mural represents: "The ‘Boxing Croc’ image represents a time in the late 80’s when my best mate’s mum owned a small take away shop at Humpty Doo. We would go and help out sometimes and imagine that the Boxing Croc was our own Territory version of Godzilla. In Japanese culture Godzilla was a metaphor for the USA and the fears of nuclear devastation brought on by the events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also at that time American B-52 bombers were landing in Darwin for military exercises with undisclosed payloads to the dismay of many locals".
Wishing all my friends and readers a wonderful 2022.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week. Thanks, Sami.
Painted for the 2018 Darwin Street Art Festival, by Vincent Poke, AKA Pokatronic, at the Darwin Plaza in West Lane, Darwin.
This Darwin based artist is influenced by pop, Japanese and graphic styles, and the mural is an interpretation of what it's like to live through and deal with the "build up" - in the Territory weather cycle, where the heat and humidity build up leading up to the wet season.
The build up is a famous part of Territory weather cycle where the heat and
To all my readers, followers, friends and family, I wish you a wonderful and peaceful Christmas, hopefully surrounded by family and friends.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week. Thanks, Sami.
Painted for the 2017Darwin Street Art Festival, by Melbourne artist James Beattie, AKA "Jimmy Dvate" and Darwin artist Jesse Bell, at 17 West Lane in the Darwin's city centre.
The gouldian finch mural shows the three colour variations of the birds found in the wild - the black-faced which makes up about 75% of the birds, the red-faced, makes up about 25% and the very rare yellow-faced, which only occurs in around 1 in 3000 birds.
This mural brings attention to the fact that nowadays fewer than 2500 gouldian finch are left in the wild, threatened by changing fire practices that reduce food availability and also the thousands of birds that used to be trapped for the aviary trade until 1981. These birds can be found just south of Darwin.
On Friday 5th and Saturday 6th, I attended the local Canning Show celebrating its 150th year.
We have been living in the city of Canning for 14 years and it was the first time we attended this annual show. The show held at the Cannington Exhibition Centre & Showgrounds, held 3 sessions - Friday 5 to 10pm, Sat 9 am to 4pm and the last session 5 to 10pm, with tickets limited to a total of 15,000. There are a large number of free tickets for residents of the council, and I applied and received 2 tickets.
On Friday night Jose and I walked around the stalls, perused the old machines, had a bite to eat, then checked the plants and food displays and at 10pm we watched the fireworks before going home.
A 1964 Anglia Police car was on show
Fabulous and creative cakes
Saturday afternoon I volunteered to man the stall of our neighbourhood's "Harvest Group" - a group where people get together to learn some skills - like making passata, jams, lemon butter, sausages... The group was started by Maria, one of the ladies from the "Facebook Buy Nothing" group.
Jose attended the group once to make tomato passata, but I have yet been unable to join them for any of the activities.
Saturday 13th - We attended the Melville Summer music festival at the Wireless Hill park. We spent a relaxing couple of hours listening to a jazz band.
War memorial
There is a small Museum at the park and it was the last day of an art exhibition of local artists. I found some murals too :)
From the top of the former transmissions tower, you get a nice view of the city across the river.
former transmission tower
The crowd listening to the jazz concert
The city across the river, as seen from the Wireless Hill tower
After the concert, we drove a couple of kms down the road to the Attadale foreshore, to watch the Fremantle Biennale "Moombaki" drone light show.
Mombaki, a Nyoongar word for "where the river meets the sky" - a choreographed drone show with 160 drones over the river and ocean created by Ilona McGuire.
Sadly we were far away so didn't get to hear the soundtrack, by you can watch a Youtube video below with the whole 10 min show.
Here is a youtube video with the whole show:
Saturday 27th - we had a bbq at Wendy and Lido's house with a common friend who was visiting from Tasmania. It was a very warm day and we had a refreshing swim in the pool after the bbq.
At 6pm it was duck feeding time.
Sunday 28th - World of Food Festival, a food and traditional dance fair, celebrating multiculturalism, held at Governor's house gardens in the St. George's Terrace in the city.
The Portuguese club had a little stall there and we bought a few nibbles from them, and also from the Malaysian stall.
It was a very hot day, but we managed to find seats in the shade, on the side of the stage, to watch dance some performances from various countries.
Usually the Governor's House is open to the public on this occasion, but this time I didn't get a chance to visit.
Governor's gardens with a view of city buildings, the house, a lake in the gardens
The fair ended at 3pm and we drove home, grabbed towels and our swimsuits and headed to Coogee beach. But it was very windy when we got there and Jose and I sat reading until the sun set at about 7pm.
And the month ended with our 41st wedding anniversary onTuesday 30th.
A bunch of flowers from Jose
Our kids gifted us a 9-course degustation dinner at the French restaurant - Petit Mort, in Shenton Park, near the city. What can I say about the experience? Superbe et extraordinaire!!
Sadly after 10 years the restaurant that sits about 50 people, will close its doors on the 18th December (they were already fully booked 2 or 3 months ahead), but they are opening another venue called "Twenty seats" in February next year. And yes, the name means they will just seat 20 people at a time. They are hoping for a Michelin Star in the future.
To end the meal they brought us a surprise - a plate with "Happy anniversary" written on it, 6 mini French sweets and a sparkler.
I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time.
Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks, Sami.
This was one of the murals I first spotted from our hotel room in Darwin upon our arrival (last photos).
It was painted by local artist Shaun Lee*, AKA Hafleg, for the Darwin Street Art Festival of 2018, and can be found at 32 Mitchell Street, in Darwin's city centre.
The mural is also one of 3 murals in Darwin with Augmented Reality, which you can check via this youtube video:
*Shaun Lee, Gwarkabah (Saltwater man), is a Larrakia, Wardaman and Karajarri contemporary freelance artist born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Shaun started painting as a young boy, learning from his large artistic family that includes his mother Danella Lee and his sister Mim Cole. Known by his artist name, Hafleg, Shaun specialises in murals and logos using traditional and contemporary designs. Shaun especially enjoys creating one-off pieces and his murals which feature as part of the Darwin street landscape.
View from our hotel room - can you spot the blue mural in that building in the middle?
