Do you ever have those weeks that melt into the next, where everyday just mirrors the previous day? If your Monday to Friday routine is set by default like clockwork - wake up, drive the same route to work, work, eat the same tuna and...
Continue ReadingBrisbane's Institute of Modern Art's current exhibition Let the Healing Begin is on display until the end of April. The Brisbane art lover can embrace the notion that art makes us better people, it can even heal our souls...
Continue ReadingFee diddly dee potatoes! It's March 17 and St Paddy's Day and I'm excited! The one day of the year where we celebrate all things Irish - drinking, drinking and well...
Continue ReadingIf you're like me then you absolutely dread Sunday afternoons when it's time to do the weekly grocery shop. I don't know what it is but my partner and I just loathe going to our local grocery store - be it Woolies or Coles. We...
Continue ReadingNothing screams “rubbish day” like row upon row of bleak grey bin bags piled along the curb. But what if we could take those boring (and let’s face it, depressing) bin liners and create art from waste, at least until the rubbish collection truck finally makes...
Continue ReadingA good friend of mine brought a very interesting site called 9-eyes.com to my attention recently. This site shows a collection of fantastic images that were caught by Google maps with Street View. I've shown you a few of my favourites here, but there are...
Continue Reading[caption id="attachment_5870" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Salvador Dalí 'Hallucination partielle' 1931"][/caption] One of the world’s important collections of surrealist art will be shown at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art this winter. Paris’s renowned Centre Pompidou will loan the core of its surrealist collection for Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams, a major...
Continue ReadingGreen Earth Day (the brainchild of Leigh-Chantelle Koch) will delight Brisbane greenies this Saturday 12 March at a new venue: Albion Peace Centre, 102 McDonald Road, Windsor, Brisbane. This free, family orientated, community event aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle,...
Continue ReadingIn the Brio office recently, an interesting conversation led not only to some confusion but also to the concept of what happens when math and design cross paths. It was all sparked by the recent release of GoogleLab's "Julia Map" project, a tool for exploring...
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