Date: Friday, May 29th
Song: “Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger
I was sick today. I went to class anyway, sniffly and gross, but I was not pleased about it. I likely was up too late finishing a lab report.
But I didn’t really care, because tonight I was going to the Sydney Opera House to see Brian Eno give a speech.
In the morning it was starting to look cloudy, and some of the birds were going crazy. These few are in the tree by the U@MQ building.
Anyway, but I got ready to go to the Opera House. This was my first time going inside it and I was pretty excited about it. It was raining like crazy there, but I brought my umbrella and all was well.
The lights on the Opera House had started as a result of a festival the Brian Eno was curating (I believe called “Luminous”) and despite them looking gorgeous actually, my pictures are subpar. The rain didn’t help, but I have a few older pictures of them looking better.
Anyway, you were NOT supposed to take pictures inside the theater…which I honestly didn’t read until after I was yelled at, so here’s the inside of the theater I was in.
They didn’t care so much about you taking pictures of the lobby, so I have a bunch of those too. I got there ridiculously early because I didn’t want to miss anything. Brian Eno is a very fascinating person who has led a very interesting life. He is a master of ambient music, as well as having produced albums for The Talking Heads and U2. He also wrote the Windows start-up music. (Ironically, he composed it on a Mac.)
I wrote a lot more about his speech in my aesthetics journal for my Aesthetics class at Macquarie, so hopefully I’ll link you to that when I remember.
Oh right, but the lobby for my opera house theater looked a little like this:
Here’s my ticket.
I also really liked the bathroom:
Here’s a shot of the lighting apparatus that was illuminating the opera house.
After my show, which was very interesting, I walked around to one of the other parts of the opera house, which was a gallery displaying a constantly changing group of colorful geometric shapes on a screen. I sat there until I became bored, which wasn’t long, and then took my sick little self back out into the elements. I walked past the Opera Bar, which is underneath the street level leaving the opera house, but had no interest in staying, except to warm my feet briefly with their space heaters. I then headed up to the Circular Quay stops and grabbed a brownie with gold flakes. The gold flakes added nothing to the flavor, but it looked pretty cool.
From there I tried to find if anyone I knew was in town to meet up with, but pretty much no one was. It was a very rainy evening. I did take a few more pictures on my walk back to the bus though.
More of the Luminous exhibit:
An interesting church on the way to the bus:
And then I went home and rested up.
Luminous thing looks cool.
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