So, my trusty 21st centurians...we have plunged headfirst into the swelling tides of technology and bought an iPad. The 'new' iPad if you must know. It was a sweet and painless gumtree transaction and yesiree we are LOVING the sexy little thing!
We took it out on it's first excursion to the Biennale of Sydney yesterday and it was a most excellent travelling companion and helpful homeschooling assistant. 'Kids bored in the car? Never fear - iPad is here! Wether it's hangman or scribblenaughts, you can drive on, assured that the kiddies are playing happily AND learning at the SAME TIME!!!!'
I think we're going to have to give it a name......maybe Imogen or Eilleen.....it's only been a day and already it feels like part of the family. (;)
Cockatoo island is always such a fabulous place to visit and covering it with funky art is just a marriage arranged in heaven. The boys had already been a few weeks ago with Gav so they were dragging me around excitedly showing me this and that and how this lights up when you clap our makes a noise when you dance near it....
I am always so impressed with people's vision. I consider myself extremely aesthetic by nature, but seeing how a person has thought a thought and turned it into a huge scale thing of beauty and multi layered thought provocation is just so cool.
Like the cold mist that was pumped out and permeated through the industrial and sunny space, making you shiver and laugh at the same time, walking away with tiny droplets of water in your eyelashes.
Or the delicate mobiles constructed from plastic and lab equipment which contain heat and touch sensors so they move and glow when you interact with them, making you feel like you are in a magical undersea garden from the future.
Or the handmade paper hanging which you could peek through and made you feel like you were in a dream....
Or the walkway of soft hanging ropes which my Lucky made me walk through with my eyes closed. He held my hand softly, encouraging me to 'imagine what the ropes could be....' and then we compared notes while watching his little iPad movie of the experience....
Or the 'midden' of oyster shells and tea cups which captivated my two active boys long enough that they drew teacup designs while sitting on the concrete.
Or the 'Museum of Copulatory Organs' which featured molds and casts of enlarged insect genitals. 'Whoa' said my friend as we gazed at bug penises, 'Gross!' said her son.
And the reflections. There were many times I was captivated by the reflections of the artworks, and the theme of 'shadows' is one with just so much juicy richness and barenaked truth to it....
My fearless and fantastic friend and I got to sit in the sun and talk shadows while the kids explored the island in a small gang of home schooled goodness. They were beautiful to behold.
But I think the most beautiful thing I saw the whole day was a brown speckled minty green seagull egg. Perfect and with a real life inside it. Sorry Eilleen, you may be able to tell me what the weather is like in Peru, but you can't lay an egg
We took it out on it's first excursion to the Biennale of Sydney yesterday and it was a most excellent travelling companion and helpful homeschooling assistant. 'Kids bored in the car? Never fear - iPad is here! Wether it's hangman or scribblenaughts, you can drive on, assured that the kiddies are playing happily AND learning at the SAME TIME!!!!'
I think we're going to have to give it a name......maybe Imogen or Eilleen.....it's only been a day and already it feels like part of the family. (;)
Cockatoo island is always such a fabulous place to visit and covering it with funky art is just a marriage arranged in heaven. The boys had already been a few weeks ago with Gav so they were dragging me around excitedly showing me this and that and how this lights up when you clap our makes a noise when you dance near it....
I am always so impressed with people's vision. I consider myself extremely aesthetic by nature, but seeing how a person has thought a thought and turned it into a huge scale thing of beauty and multi layered thought provocation is just so cool.
Like the cold mist that was pumped out and permeated through the industrial and sunny space, making you shiver and laugh at the same time, walking away with tiny droplets of water in your eyelashes.
Or the delicate mobiles constructed from plastic and lab equipment which contain heat and touch sensors so they move and glow when you interact with them, making you feel like you are in a magical undersea garden from the future.
Or the handmade paper hanging which you could peek through and made you feel like you were in a dream....
Or the walkway of soft hanging ropes which my Lucky made me walk through with my eyes closed. He held my hand softly, encouraging me to 'imagine what the ropes could be....' and then we compared notes while watching his little iPad movie of the experience....
Or the 'midden' of oyster shells and tea cups which captivated my two active boys long enough that they drew teacup designs while sitting on the concrete.
Or the 'Museum of Copulatory Organs' which featured molds and casts of enlarged insect genitals. 'Whoa' said my friend as we gazed at bug penises, 'Gross!' said her son.
And the reflections. There were many times I was captivated by the reflections of the artworks, and the theme of 'shadows' is one with just so much juicy richness and barenaked truth to it....
My fearless and fantastic friend and I got to sit in the sun and talk shadows while the kids explored the island in a small gang of home schooled goodness. They were beautiful to behold.
But I think the most beautiful thing I saw the whole day was a brown speckled minty green seagull egg. Perfect and with a real life inside it. Sorry Eilleen, you may be able to tell me what the weather is like in Peru, but you can't lay an egg
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