Word: picnics
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...Traveling to many of the world's trouble spots, the artist has documented the atrocities of Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda in a hyper-real mix of painting, drawing and diary-making. A typical Gittoes canvas, with its Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight...
...even, but organizers hope to do better this year.HORSE LEISURE When they’re not watching the ball, the spectators will tailgate in elegance. The men will come in jackets and ties; the ladies in cocktail garden party attire.“They’ll bring lovely picnic baskets and set up their lunch and eat on the grass,” says Kirsten Lewis, manager of the Polo Club. “People get very enthralled in these matches. There’s cheering, and there’s a lot of hoopla. But it will...
...good about Australian eating. Graze the stalls in the covered hall and choose as you fancy?staff will cook fish, slice sashimi or shuck oysters to order. Then go grab a cold, dry Riesling and a couple of plastic cups from the on-site wine shop before finding a picnic table on the dockside. The best part? This exquisite feast should come in for less than $30 a head...
...good about Australian eating. Graze the stalls in the covered hall and choose as you fancy - staff will cook fish, slice sashimi or shuck oysters to order. Then go grab a cold, dry Riesling and a couple of plastic cups from the on-site wine shop before finding a picnic table on the dockside. The best part? This exquisite feast should come in for less than $30 a head. PIER: You want fresh? You got it. Fish at this Rose Bay restaurant, tel: (61-2) 9327 6561, are killed by the Japanese practice of ike jime (or driving a point...
...phone call from his loyal sound designer, offering him a permanent office in Adelaide. "It's off the center a bit," admits Currie, "but he has everything at his beck and call." Indeed, with the nearby infrastructure of the South Australian Film Corporation, where such seminal pictures as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Storm Boy were made, De Heer has found his perfect filmmaking home. With the transgressive, sometimes dangerous nature of his work, one senses De Heer enjoys working below the radar. "He opens your eyes all the time," says Currie, "and you can never ever pick what...