tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88572986296515060142024-03-13T09:35:58.925-07:00Black DogBlack Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-58467539180629589882016-04-22T06:40:00.005-07:002020-11-20T20:39:09.728-08:00Black Dog is now a support blog for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SouthernArtsSA" target="_blank">FB page Southern Arts SA</a> and also the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SPIN-Southern-Performers-Interactive-Network-140161852672481/?fref=ts" target="_blank">FB page Southern Performers' Interactive Network (SPIN)</a>. If you are a South Australian poet or a musician and have an event you want publicised in the Onkaparinga region and beyond, post the info on the SPIN FB page and/or send the details to me on this blog.Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-11088355436197409392013-02-13T16:40:00.000-08:002013-02-13T16:41:04.034-08:00Thanks to <a href="http://www.getup.org.au/" target="_blank">Getup!</a> the super trawler has been sent packing. You can see the whole story <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-12/burke-to-block-super-trawler-floating-freezer-plan/4515416" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
This is a superb example of how we, the citizens of Australia, can make ourselves heard in the face of Government apathy and Opposition stupidity. But the fight is not over yet: the Coalition is going to take <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-13/another-supertrawler-knock-back/4515540" target="_blank">court action</a>. We all need to follow this story and make sure we understand the implications. If each and every one of us is alert to the dangers facing our coastline and marine life, we may be able to avoid adding to the mass extinctions and rapid depletions that are happening to fish stock and other marine life all over the world's oceans.<br />
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<br />Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-66518927034544415522013-02-11T18:04:00.001-08:002013-02-11T18:05:16.160-08:00And this is the year I become a <a href="http://www.amlrnrm.sa.gov.au/Coast/Coastalcommunitysupportandawareness/CoastalAmbassadorsprogram.aspx" target="_blank">Coastal Ambassador!</a> A great thing to combine with walking for a good cause - I aim to do some coastal walks to give me some insight into what's happening to our coastline. One thing I've already learnt is that <a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/failure-to-protect-seagrass-may-cost-australia-45b-12110" target="_blank">seagrass</a> is a vital part of our environment. It used to be all over our coast, but has virtually disappeared from many urban coastlines. I've also been learning about the <a href="http://www.nnrc.com.au/pdf/HP%20poster%20copy_FINAL%20A3%20NO%20NAMES.pdf" target="_blank">hooded plover</a> which I was completely unaware of until I moved down to the coast. Until their nests were marked out and protected by simple fencing, people were quite obliviously walking over them and crushing the eggs.<br />
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More to come this weekend - we are kayaking in the mangroves at Port Adelaide. I'll be taking my camera, hoping to get some interesting wildlife shots!Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-10261556359020313422013-02-11T17:12:00.001-08:002013-02-11T17:17:14.780-08:00Happy Chinese New Year! Now is a good time for me to resume blogging after a very quiet period. Black Dog is getting very arthritic these days so we are taking far shorter walks, but she's still determined to help out with this year's <a href="http://www.walkinhershoes.org.au/">Walk in Her Shoes Challenge</a><br />
She has allowed me to put her image on a tshirt to suport the cause: anyone who joins our team can have a free tshirt!<br />
But you might just like to donate to a <a href="https://walkinhershoes2013.everydayhero.com/au/black-dog-walkers" target="_blank">good cause</a><br />
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Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-10886762979855367742012-05-27T05:39:00.001-07:002012-05-27T05:39:47.018-07:00radio plays rockI saw this on stage and the radio version's almost as good!<br />
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/airplay/9-fragments-of-sappho/3992040">http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/airplay/9-fragments-of-sappho/3992040</a>Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-1823369107545154392012-05-27T05:31:00.000-07:002012-05-27T05:31:41.405-07:00Poetry goes viralWhen the Radio Adelaide 101.5FM show 'Poets on Air' had its funding withdrawn at the beginning of this year I assumed poetry was going to remain permanently unfashionable, but it seems to be spreading slowly but slyly not just over the Internet but onto the airwaves and podcasts as well. Thanks to acclaimed poet and fellow blogger Mike Hopkins, Adelaide poets are getting a fair hearing at last. Follow their progress on <a href="http://mistakenforarealpoet.wordpress.com/">http://mistakenforarealpoet.wordpress.com</a> and listen in to <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/the-poet-stripped-bare/4030782">The Poet Stripped Bare</a> on RN on Sunday June 3 at 10.05am. To hear more about the Nameless Project, look up <a href="http://streetcast.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/the-nameless-project/#comments">Streetcast's</a> interview with Royce on Radio Adelaide.<br />
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While all this was happening, I was being enthralled by <a href="http://www.thevine.com.au/life/art/william-kentridge-five-themes-opens-at-acmi/?gclid=CPqKpNO6oLACFcIlpAodfS5vWw">William Kentridge</a> at ACMI and the <a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/audio-video/love-devotion-exhibition-preview">Persian illustrated poets</a> at the Victorian State Library. The first one is sadly finished now, but the other one is on for a while to come - the catalogue is well worth investing in, as the pictures are very small and the room dimly lit. For a dose of Rumi, try <a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/4471">this.</a>Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-64636861064609966212012-03-20T05:01:00.006-07:002012-03-20T05:14:37.342-07:00The Endeavour departs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMt0zlolZjRIZrOc1ElMaWwtgG5RbmX9x7eV2RCu1ZF-Fwi3kIieRJM5KJ3ynaS5FKmKXkrGrG_drzyTEOYEvruWXYsPQED_7gtc82KbqWNJ9AXBR9GorM-7ACuHeLgoUSQ8iCe2rrA7K/s1600/black+dog+image.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMt0zlolZjRIZrOc1ElMaWwtgG5RbmX9x7eV2RCu1ZF-Fwi3kIieRJM5KJ3ynaS5FKmKXkrGrG_drzyTEOYEvruWXYsPQED_7gtc82KbqWNJ9AXBR9GorM-7ACuHeLgoUSQ8iCe2rrA7K/s320/black+dog+image.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721949386049267986" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This is the Endeavour replica leaving Adelaide, photographed by my friend Jose. She's aided and abetted by a pair of very modern engines - in the old days the original ship couldn't go anywhere without a wind.<div><br /></div><div>Bon voyage! Adios! See you next time!</div></div>Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-69998018569694741572012-03-20T04:43:00.002-07:002012-03-20T04:59:06.612-07:00Sense at last!<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; ">I was listening innocently to Classic FM today when I heard David Gillespie talking clear common sense at last about the overweight epidemic that has the health systems of affluent countries on their knees. I had long ago decided that there's nothing wrong with eggs, butter and animal fat - we've been eating them for thousands of years, unlike that revolting invention called margarine, and canola oil, the petrol substitute that is now being grown instead of other genuinely nutritious crops.</span><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; ">When I googled him I found suspiciously little about him (he is after all just a lawyer, not a nutritionist or a doctor, or even a food producer with a vested interest in marketing certain products), apart from this site:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "><a href="http://www.sarahwilson.com.au/2012/03/six-big-fat-myths-about-fat-a-podcast-with-david-gillespie/#comment-202977">http://www.sarahwilson.com.au/2012/03/six-big-fat-myths-about-fat-a-podcast-with-david-gillespie/#comment-202977</a> </div><div><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; ">I suggest that if you've tried everything else, try cutting out sugar. The strongest message was his opening statement - that on average we used to consume 2kgs of sugar per year - now we consume </span><span ><b>50kg</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "> per year.</span></div>Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-49291975272647103282012-03-15T23:55:00.003-07:002012-03-16T00:10:03.460-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigK9n6seP1XsNI6EFeuSz45MwUEi9An5fpwDNIw-gYBS5UEfp_j0LbBTA6hwOBpuR2lQ6PCfYTgtTqwPrPLK2YQmG7Co7VGlChzyL8n_dXHJmv20CvL36mazwsks0n1PuC3Giq5RqHwYeA/s1600/Endeavour+for+BD1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigK9n6seP1XsNI6EFeuSz45MwUEi9An5fpwDNIw-gYBS5UEfp_j0LbBTA6hwOBpuR2lQ6PCfYTgtTqwPrPLK2YQmG7Co7VGlChzyL8n_dXHJmv20CvL36mazwsks0n1PuC3Giq5RqHwYeA/s320/Endeavour+for+BD1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720388266466817778" /></a><br />well I'm not too good at keeping up this blog, but I could say that's because I'm too busy... have been trying my hand at recording fringe reviews for Radio Adelaide, which is totally new and has nothing to do with what Black Dog considers is my real job, i.e. carving her image in blocks of wood and taking her for walks by the sea. She was also highly insulted when I forsook her company for three nights and spent them shipkeeping on the Endeavour replica in Port Adelaide. A wonderful experience, it's a shame they don't let dogs on board. This is what part of her (the ship) looks like in the dark.<div><br /><div>No, I didn't have to climb the rigging, but I had my first experience of sleeping in a hammock, and did reasonably well.<br /><div><br /></div></div></div>Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-18922210983390623372012-01-19T02:30:00.001-08:002012-01-19T02:37:23.556-08:00Happy New Year everyone! It's almost Chinese New Year so it seems like a good time to start a new blog for 2012. The Black Dog enjoys her daily romp in the surf and the subsequent creep through the undergrowth stalking crested pigeons. The studio has slightly given way to rigging the boat recently, so I need to get down to business and start ordering t-shirts. I've discovered men are rather fond of this one: <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/mimidesigns/works/3980538-winter-waltz-the-tshirt">http://www.redbubble.com/people/mimidesigns/works/3980538-winter-waltz-the-tshirt</a> I thought it was more of a girl's style, but there's no accounting for taste.Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-51222431532787504222011-11-23T00:52:00.000-08:002011-11-23T00:57:23.801-08:00Well I have no idea how many people are following this blog, but they've probably all given up as it's been so long since I did any posting. A lot has been happening: I have moved, for a start. Only 5 minutes away from Port Noarlunga, but now much closer to the dedicated dog beach, which is wonderful. And Black Dog Gallery is now Black Dog Studio and Gallery. For the moment the Gallery is merely virtual, while the Studio is still coming together. Watch this space to see the work in progress.Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-11429984711911333022011-09-01T05:32:00.000-07:002011-09-01T05:42:12.462-07:00Black Dog has a real name: I thought it was spelt Portia or possibly Porsche, but I have decided it must be spelt Porchia. Thanks to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=721716492">Amy Bodossian</a> for putting me onto this esteemed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Porchia">Argentinian poet</a>, who is a very fitting namesake for my thoughtful, extremely empathetic and constant companion. <div><span class="Apple-style-span" >
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >The aphorism that Amy quotes, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>'I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.' </i> is exactly what Black Dog appears to be saying when she looks into my eyes and lays an anxious paw in my lap. </span></span></div>Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-7028654130504347762011-08-24T06:27:00.000-07:002011-08-24T06:31:27.283-07:00Thanks to everyone who came and shared tea and cookies at the opening and last Sunday, both of which were glorious sunny days! Black Dog and I had to tear ourselves away from the beach on Sunday where we were being treated to the sight of a mother and baby whale cavorting in the waves. I hope this Sunday will be fine if not quite so sunny.Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857298629651506014.post-8056492859492761262011-08-07T19:38:00.000-07:002011-08-07T19:42:52.965-07:00At last! Black Dog is ready to start blogging. All we have to say today is that we are looking forward to meeting some of you this Sunday, August 14, from 2-6pm, at the Black Dog Gallery in Port Noarlunga. Tea and cookies will be provided. Come and browse the pictures and the poetry books, talk about art, poetry and everything else in the universe, and let me know what you'd like to see happening in the space.Black Dog Galleryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709076983111478921noreply@blogger.com1