Page 1: Sunday 28 July 2024 Feeling a little bit art block So, so. Darwin was so beautiful, but everything in the territory feels so raw. The obvious violence of colonisation is still so present, so undeniable. It's a place where every problem so-called australia manages to obscure or obliterate in its wealthier centres still remains. It doesn't feel like a margin, it feels like this outside, intentionally separated place.
Domestic Baggage Tag - Qantas Adelaide to Darwin.
Designed in Australia. Made in China.
All the buses were on a free trial the NT is currently running, but the signage was abysmal and the bus stops run-down, the ticket info booth [almost] comically shuttered itself as I walked towards it to ask a question, and two seccies and two police officers watched us like prisoners as we boarded the free! public! bus! Page 2:
30 July 2024
Instructions For Use
Super Flangeless Ferrules (Ferals)
Instructions For Use
Polymer Tubing
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31 July 2024
Nikita very comically kept making these janky, rigged 'blocks' when he was asked to close a line. There is something endearing about a cobbled together answer to a simple question. An over-engineered, poorly implemented, non-solve.
Relatable
BLOCK.
I've been working on the synthera V1.0 (B) which hasn't been passing pressure tests - I'm really not sure if I'm cut out for any of this - I made a small shim/stand off on the lathe for it. I think it'll work. Maybe?
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July 2024 Northern Territory
These two pictures were taken less than a kilometer apart.
I hate it when I can't even write a poem about something because it's too obvious.
Darwin Hospital - Kuibe Cyclotron - Casurina Beach.