{"id":363,"date":"2008-08-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-08-02T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T11:00:00","slug":"a-birds-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"A Bird’s Eye View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Silhouetted against the view from the Q1 Building, Surfers’ Paradise, from the 77th floor<\/em><\/span> to be exact – is one of my sisters, who lives nearby at Nerang. Her transport department job gives her an intimate working knowledge of routes through the area and people-moving problems, and there’s no better place from which to view the region than up this tallest building on the coast, probably Queensland\"\"<\/a>. It’s amazing how widespread and important waterway development is there, where to be able to say ‘water frontage’ adds value to any property. <\/em><\/span>And looking south to Tweed Heads in the far distance is just this ongoing coastal development strip. Looking in the opposite direction it is the same – up to well past Brisbane. Despite the very mild, ie for Queensland ‘cold’ weather, there were people swimming and surfing, like the tiniest ants below us as we gazed down… a cluster of people with blue and yellow surfboards are way down on the sand below, indicated surfing school was ‘in’ that day.<\/p>\n

For some reason the toilet facilities were further up on the 78th floor, and naturally I had to go try them out. No bathrooms with a view, though you could actually access an outside verandah area and enjoy the rather cold wind whistling by.<\/p>\n

Our next move was lunch and then to a nearby arts centre where we realy enjoyed the movie “Children of The Silk Road”<\/strong> and popped in to see a Brett Whitely<\/span><\/em> exhibition in the same centre – joy oh joy, my favourite, Self Portrait in Studio was there – it was the controversial 1976 Archibald Prize winner <\/em><\/span>– I’ve always thought it very clever, really witty. And actually the self portait part of it was himself to a ‘T’, too. There were several other marvellous paintings and drawings, and a 50 minute doco of BW talking about his work, paintings, drawings and sculptures. What an articulate interesting person he was talking about his own work – we had to watch the whole thing, spellbound, and so left ourselves no time for the sculpture walk outside, but had to leave it for next time.<\/p>\n

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