017 June 16 2021
Elly Smallwood
Elly Smallwood is a Toronto based painter who creates this amazing portrait and figurative paintings and drawings of the people in her life and of herself. The messy sketching and painting gestures, use of color and moodiness in each piece is incredible. Love her work!
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The Cobargo Santa Project
In March of 2021, Melbourne Architectural firm Breathe, travelled to the town of Cobargo in south-eastern New South Wale. After the devastation of the bushfires that ravaged across the nation across the summer of 2019/2020, there was over 3000 homes that were lost in the January bushfires. Breathe felt compelled to act, and began calling on the generosity of suppliers such as, Design by Tradelink, Fisher & Paykel and Taubmans, as they felt one family in particular was in need of assistance.
Dave & Barb Rugendyke moved to Cobargo around 10 years ago, having previously lived in Canberra. They have fostered well over 400 children and having spent a number of years working in the public service in Canberra, Dave became a volunteer RFS firefighter in Cobargo. He also acts as the town Santa each Christmas, utilising a converted red tractor to drive through the township and hand out gifts. The Rugendykes had lost their home and all their possessions as the bushfire ripped through their property on New Year’s Day 2020.
McLaren GT
McLaren is driven by their “everything for a reason” design philosophy and fueled by the spirit of innovation.
Its structure is built with MonoCell II-T carbon fibre chassis for maximum strength but minimum weight - perfect for touring with power, speed and efficiency.
The GT tells a story with its presence and balanced proportions. The profile is shaped by more of a refined touch that tapers and flows - for aerodynamic efficiency, and to create space.
It is known as the perfect companion with perfect proportions. In nature, as in McLaren design - what looks beautiful so often works beautifully too!
This car caught my eye one day just parked on 17th Avenue and I had to research about it. And just by its aesthetics, I knew it was a high performance product.