John O'Dal

John O'Dal - Journal

Otway Ranges, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

MY ONE PERSON SHOW DEC 2 2011 MELBOURNE - AFTER CANCER

Posted 9 months ago

Below is a preamble for an exhibition sent to a friend who is curating it with me.

I include it here on Redbubble because the exhibition, to me, is a concrete work of art which will bring together years of stuff which has been happening around me: in my head, in my classrooms, in my studio – even in my soul.Please don’t see this as being dark. It is in fact the complete opposite. I am…

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SMALL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION

Posted over 1 year ago

20 Melbourne sculptors at Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Opens Friday evening 18th February.

Support a starving sculptor.


Make Your Band's CD Cover

Posted over 1 year ago

Google ‘Photos’ and pick and copy any at random from the first page only.

Google www.quotationspage.com and select the last four or five words of the last quote. This is your album’s title.

Go to wikileaks. Choose ‘random article’. This is the name of your band.

Put it all together in photoshop or similar editing program.

John O’Dal

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NEED A SMILE?

Posted over 1 year ago

Aboriginal kids dance Zorba.

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HOMEPAGE FEATURE

Posted over 1 year ago

Thanks to Redbubble for the feature of Man As Butterfly 24th Nov 2010

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DON'T GO FOR A SUNDAY DRIVE (Two)

Posted about 2 years ago

In South America, or anywhere else, the plans of mice and men are but a figment.

Giant hole swallows building

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THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BUILD A BETTER MOUSE TRAP

Posted about 2 years ago

Autumn in Arcadia, where I live, brings the ever-changing wonders of nature.

One of these is field mice. The colder weather sends them on an annual migration to the nearest house.

Preferably one with central heating, or at the very least, a refrigerator with an out of sight out of mind warm humming motor which offers comfort and seclusion twenty four seven until the coming of Spring.

Field mice h…

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WHEN LIFE GETS YOU DOWN, DON'T GO FOR A SUNDAY DRIVE

Posted about 2 years ago

A Jewish proverb:

We make plans and God laughs


SUFFER FOR YOUR ART

Posted about 2 years ago

Written by Michelangelo as an old man………………….

I live alone and miserable, trapped as marrow under the bark of a tree. My voice is like a wasp caught in a bag of skin and bones. My teeth shake and rattle like the keys of a musical instrument. My face is a scarecrow. My ears never cease to buzz. In one of them, a spider weaves its web, in the other one, a c…

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Malcom McLaren

Posted about 2 years ago

Malcom McLaren has died aged 64.

Vale Malcom.

Look him up if you don’t know him.

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