With the wind direction meter on our ‘Weatherscope’ looking well and truly broken, I’ve resorted to making an improvised weathervane. Happily, the internet offers today’s aspiring wind observers a full spectrum of […]
Meteorology - Site research
Being an Account of Rain and The Various Ways to Capture It
There is a little well at the back of the cottages, bound by a wire fence on which the bike tour company next door leans their bicycles. The man who […]
Research
Harrington St Library
Working Bibliography Aristotle, Meteorologica (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), 1952 Birmingham, John, Leviathan: the unauthorised biography of Sydney (North Sydney: Random House), 2000 Bonyhady, Tim, The Colonial Earth (Melbourne: Melbourne […]
Grammar
Grammar Lesson #2
In 26 Views of a Starburst World, Ross Gibson argues that William Dawes was exposed to an entirely different cosmology in the process of trying to record the Sydney language. […]
Field notes
The Storm of February 6, 1788
About seven years ago my flatmate James was reading The Fatal Shore when he came across the following passage and read it out loud: “A fortnight passed before enough tents […]
Grammar
Grammar lesson #1
In 26 Views of the Starburst World, Ross Gibson sheds new light on the ways in which the language of the Eora people differs from the rules of English grammar. […]
Field notes - Meteorology
Under pressure
We’ve acquired an old German barometer, and today tried taking hourly readings. Air pressure appears to have dropped slightly since the first reading this morning, which would indicate the approach […]
Field notes
A publishing venture
Cloudy though warm. A slight heaviness to the air. On our second day in-residence, Jen and I set about concretising our activities and expectations for the project. There are so […]
Field notes
The Weather Today
We are not only here to make jam, but also to investigate different kinds of human-weather relations. The most primal human-weather relation is the one where we exclaim something about […]
Field notes
Lillipillis
Our first day on-site. A crisp, sunny day. It turns out the large tree in the courtyard area is a lillipilli, with fruit literally covering the ground. Lillipilli jam may […]