WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS)
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Yesterday I took a walk along the Northern Beaches in Sydney. As you can see, the weather in the depths of the Australian winter was unforgiving…
This is Palm Beach, which is pretty much the most northerly part of Sydney. Fans of dubious Australian soaps will no doubt recognise it from Home and Away.
Whale Beach is the next cove down.
I was wearing my Vibergs, which were apparently inspired by Tatooine. They worked well on the sand.
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The Northern Beaches are on a narrow peninsula, and the Pittwater is a river system and estuary that runs behind it. It's a popular area for sailing, and people have holiday homes up here.
This is the view across to Scotland Island, which is only accessible by boat.
Local colour.
I'm pretty sure that this is the immature form of the Gosport Mushroom! :o
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and they look great…
I like the look, but I don't entirely get on with the 2030 last that the Styleforum crowd seem to be obsessed by. They're a bit cramped in the toe, and my feet are feeling it slightly.
The fact that I walked 17 km yesterday, and 16 km today probably didn't help.
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Today I took a look at a place that's up for sale…
It's a 1950s house designed by Harry Seidler, who is one of the early modernist architects in Sydney. I've mentioned it before. It needs a lot of love, but it'd be a fantastic place.
Shame the Sydney property market has gone full retard.
This truck was parked outside, and also needs a bit of love. Its flatbed was loaded up with panels for old cars.
Whilst heading back across town I stumbled across a totem pole in a park. No idea what it was doing there…
And a bit down the road from this is Deus Customs. They've gone a bit mainstream and possibly full hipster, but had a few cool machines on display. The café there is pretty good though.
@Giles they'd seem like a natural fit for Iron Heart. There was even a (less cool) XJ1300 in.
Aside from that, Sydney provided poor competition against Melbourne on the cool street names front.
And I had dinner from a cool Chinese eatery called Two Sticks. They do fantastic, spiced fries.
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grilliant! @Graeme
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Shane, Sofi, Jake & I are doing a GORUCK kill that 5K today on Randall's Island in NYC, photos will follow later.
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@Snowy recommended Artificer Coffee in Surry Hills, and this morning they had a run of artisanal pastries on sale. It'd be rude not to…
There's an Australian version of Grand Designs, and this house was one of my favourites. It sold for nearly $1.9 million last year.
You can find the episode on YouTube…
And this is the Dental School, which is a cool art deco flat iron building.
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Continuing with the architectural theme, I took a trip out to see the Rose Seidler House, in the north of Sydney.
A bit of history: The Seidlers fled the Nazis and Austria just before the Second World War. Harry Seidler, the architect, was interned in the UK and then Canada, before being released to study. He worked in New York and then Brazil, before heading to Australia when his mother asked him to design her a house. This is the result, which was built between 1948 and 1950.
It's actually on a large block with two other properties, which still remain in Seidler family ownership, and aren't open to visit. Hence there's a very cool letter box at the end of the driveway.
Very little furniture was available in post-war Australia, so Seidler imported everything, such as these original Eames pieces.
The mural was influenced by his time in Brazil.
My favourite detail was the stairs. Whilst open treads are a common feature in a lot of modern houses, these have glazed gaps, which seals the stairwell.
The fifties house I looked at the other day was designed at around the same time, and I could recognise details that were common to both.
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A few random photos from today.
An old school Skyline. Not a GT-R spec car.
Proof that some Aussies do actually drink Fosters. @dylantbmayes consider yourself rumbled!
And these are the latest thing in Antipodean aviation! :o
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Home chillaxing and breaking in my new wallet from Japan. It's going to be neat watching it darken over time.
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Looks like a very happening place, @Graeme
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ill take the ducati please
