Mostly the aquarium

Been at the Hope Street centre in Darlinghurst today:

And tonight I spent about three hours at the aquarium, which was very relaxing.

I'm in Sydney

Got up early yesterday morning to catch the bus to Avalon Airport with Sarah (from Seeds in Bendigo). When my hand luggage went through the scanner, they said they weren't sure what was in it, and they wanted me to open it up. So I opened it up, and asked me if there was perhaps a binder in there, and I said there wasn't, but I realised I had a steel ruler in my pencil case, so they had a look in there, and there was a craft knife in it, which I hadn't realised when I packed my pencil case. So they had to chuck that out. Oh well. It turned out that one of Sarah's friends from uni just happened to be on the same flight as us, which was a pretty big coincidence.
Bryan picked us up from Sydney Airport, and drove us to Surry Hills, to Lauren's place, where Sarah is staying this week, and we dropped Sarah off there. Took this picture near Lauren's place:

Then Bryan took me to his place in Glebe to drop off my things (I'm staying with him and Heather). We had lunch there, and then went out to the Hope Street centre in Woolloomooloo.

We met up with Dave (my housemate) and the other people who are visiting Hope Street for the week. It turned out my friend John (from uni in Ballarat)'s sister Kim is also visiting Hope Street this week.
In the evening Colin (the director of Hope Street) showed us around Woolloomooloo and Darlinghurst a bit, including Kings Cross.

Late in the evening we went to a food van in Woolloomooloo, to see what it's like eating there. It was really different to what i expected. In my first year at Urban Seed some of us spent a fair bit of time hanging out with people at the food van at Flinders Street Station, and generally there weren't heaps of people, and it seemed like everyone knew each other, and there was often a kind of boisterous atmosphere. At the food van we went to last night there were heaps of people, and there was a really long queue, and everyone was very quiet and serious, and not many people were talking or even making eye contact with each other.
I was really surprised to see that there were a lot of people sleeping out in Woolloomooloo, in fairly big groups, just out in the open. You don't really see that anywhere in Melbourne. Most of the others slept out with them last night, some of them under the railway bridge, some of them at a library, and some of them at 'Kiwi Park' (a lot of New Zealanders sleep there). I slept in Hope Street's Backshed Cafe, which was still outside, but it was enclosed. I was pretty exhausted from working all day at Urban Seed the previous day, and then doing my cleaning work, and then getting up early yesterday morning to fly to Sydney. I still didn't sleep much. Some of the neighbours were playing Pokémon very loudly, and there were trains going overhead regularly. At about 1 am someone outside was shouting very loudly, 'WAKE UP YOU F***ING HOMELESS PEOPLE! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!'
This morning we went to the free breakfast which Hope Street runs, in Tom Uren Place, just outside the centre, and then hung around for Street Church, under the jacaranda trees. This afternoon I'm just having a rest. Might visit Café Church in Glebe later.
Tomorrow we're going to be at the Darlinghurst centre.

Dirty mo'

Tonight we went out for dinner with Andy, for his last night with us. I gave my self a dirty mo' for the special occasion. (For Movember last year Andy had a pretty ridiculous mo'.)

(Don't worry it's gone now.)

Easter, Footscray, Mission Exposure...

I haven't blogged for ages because too much has been going on. Easter. Via Crucis. House sitting in Footscray. Mission Exposure week. Earth Hour. Working on art for Pentecost.
Here are pictures:

Me and Dave and Sarah (she's from the Bendigo mob) are going to Hope Street in Sydney on Saturday. We'll be there till Thursday.
And Andy's decided to move out.

Healing

Started this after a conversation I had with Dave on Tuesday night:

Via Crucis @ Docklands

I haven't been posting any more artwork but am working on stuff for this:

Via Crucis @ Docklands 2008
Stations of the Cross for meditation and reflection in the Norla Dome, Mission to Seafarers Building, 717 Flinders Street, Melbourne’s Docklands.

Via Crucis @ Docklands 2008 will include art and multi-sensory, interactive worship stations based upon the Easter stories. The space will be open for personal reflection from midday on Maundy Thursday, 18th March. The exhibit will close on the evening of Good Friday, 19th March with a Reflective Worship Service commencing at 8pm.

Via Crucis feature work from the “Being Human” exhibition of Solace’s, Stuart Davey and sculpture by Karly Whalley from Common Ground.

Other communities participating include Seeds, Loam and the Red Network for whom this will be something of a farewell event for the Jensen family who are soon returning to America.

Their contribution to emerging/missional church movement across Melbourne has been much appreciated and its fruitfulness is embodied in a joint ventures such as this.

Best parking is available off Wurundjeri Way near Telstra Dome or at Wilson: World Trade Centre.
Look forward to seeing you this Easter.

Much Grace

Marcus Curnow, Seeds Network (inc. Urban Seed)

Desert Files - Day 25

Desert Files - Day 24

Marcus asked if he can print out a big copy of the image I made on Shrove Tuesday, to use as part of an Easter art installation (like Dead Man Rising last year), and I said he could. Now he wants to know if I can do one for each other the seven things Jesus said on the cross, with the same image, but different colours. I'm not sure about that, because the image was supposed to go specifically with, 'Into your hands I commit myself.' I also feel a bit funny about the idea of mass production of my image, and the idea that it takes away your soul. Marcus wonders how Jesus feels about that, seeing as there have been quite a few images of him produced now.

Desert Files - Day 23

Desert Files - Day 22

Yes, I didn't do any artwork yesterday. I took some pictures for Laneway Cricket though, which should be up on the Credo Cricket page soon.
This is what I've done today: