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Comment on Tidal Pull by She Hawke by Janelle Marrington

Janelle Marrington — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:42:59 +0000

Yep still up here, Jude. Come and visit

Comment on Tidal Pull by She Hawke by Shé Hawke

Shé Hawke — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:03:56 +0000

Janelle, The mothers of these children are turning 50 this year. are you still in Torres Strait. That would be great water to map???
Shé

Comment on The Whale Story by Charles Siebert

Charles Siebert — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:08:02 +0000

“Eighteen feet of boat on open seas is in almost any circumstance a tenuous alignment. But to suddenly find yourself in that same small vessel above a fleet, 40-foot-long midsea mastodon — one whose fluke alone could, with a cursory flip, send you and your boat soaring skyward — is to know the pure, wonderfully edgeless fear of complete acquiescence. I watched, wide-eyed, the soundless slide of that “moving land,” as Milton once described whales, everywhere beneath our boat, and suddenly felt the whole of myself wanting to go away with her; to hop on for a long ride downward toward some dimly remembered, primordial home.

And then, within moments, the mother was surfacing again off to our stern and doubling back in our direction, but this time with her newborn male in tow: a miniature version of herself — if two tons of anything can be referred to as miniature — the calf’s skin still shiny and smooth. The baby gray glided up to the boat’s edge, and then the whole of his long, hornbill-shaped head was rising up out of the water directly beside me, a huge, ovoid eye slowly opening to take me in. I’d never felt so beheld in my life.”

- from NYT July 2009

Comment on Goodbye, Mark C by Tod c

Tod c — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:55:14 +0000

I’ve been reading all the above posts again and the tears still flow. Seems like yesterday but many years ago that Mark Morning of the earth 40th anniversary was recently touring and caught the show at the civic In Newcastle. Unreal gig band was solid and tight as it gets. The film screening in the back ground and I was just seeing Mark through out it. The sound track sending chills up my spine and tears I’m my eyes.
Simple Ben breaks me up every time for so many reasons.Think of Mark often and know he would be so proud of how beautiful and clever Del Scout is. Miss you man..

Comment on Surfing Taiwan Note # 4 by seo

seo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:59:52 +0000

Hello there! This is my 1st comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and say I truly enjoy reading your posts. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that deal with the same topics? Thanks a ton!

Comment on Queensland Art Gallery – Scott Redford exhibition by J Watson-Evans

J Watson-Evans — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:31 +0000

My family is the proud owner of the original ‘model’ which the permanent piece outside GOMA was taken from. Our model was also in the show at QAG, and refers to AustraliaDay 1992 when Nirvana played at the old Fishermans Wharf( where Versace Hotel now stands), The Spit Main Beach, with the words ‘Perhaps Locality Doesn’t Fail’.

Thank you for your wonderful comments on this fantastic piece of Redford ‘public art’.

Comment on “Wade in the water” by SimonO

SimonO — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:05:16 +0000

more on localism, connection to land, and a stewardship in today’s post Shacks http://kurungabaa.net/2012/01/30/shacks/ about a farflung community of beach lovers, biking, fishing and surfing who built their comfy hovels over a couple of generations – now calling for heritage listing their holiday community and lifestyle. It is worth a 3min squizz.
I wonder how they might welcome boating newcomers wanting to share their patch? Or think about the agents tasked with protecting the environment, to ask them to leave in order to stop various degradations. Or the irony of them claiming a kind of ownership without paperwork or formal rights (it was my father’s, and his before him…).
Entitlement – can make us narrow, proprietorial, and discourage self-reflection.
Just saying, maybe travel really does broaden the mind.

Comment on 80 miles by Megan Washington by SimonO

SimonO — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:34:30 +0000

yes, the missing piece of papyrus – thanks Shane
she speaks volumes

Comment on Submission Guidelines by dinamique

dinamique — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:54:37 +0000

Dear Jake,

Issue 4:1 is currently in production, and the deadline for submitting material for that issue was August 31, 2011. We have yet to set the submission deadline for the next issue, however, our editors are periodically monitoring submissions that float in during the interim, and filing them for consideration for 4:2. We will begin the full reading and decision process for the next issue’s submissions as soon as 4:1 is published.

-D

Comment on Submission Guidelines by Jake

Jake — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:05:39 +0000

When are the submission deadlines for the next issue? I’d like to send a poem