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The Blue Room Exhibition

Just doing a little plug for my TAFE Ceramics Exhibition.

There will also be a Mothers Day Market on that day to purchase some affordable handmade items for your mumsy :)

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Dugongs eating their greens

We saw Dugongs 'Pig' and 'Waru' today at Sydney Aquarium :)


Eating their cos lettuce in captivity which is the closest thing to wild sea grass in nutritional value. They are very fussy eaters and would usually graze on of sea grass in the wild by digging them up with their bristled snout.. they are sooo cute and one of my favourite animals aside from the orangutan and the rabbit lol.. We just happened to be standing directly where they were when they dropped the lettuce trays in :)

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They weigh 300kgs and it's all down to eating their greens.

Article Shared: SMH.com.au

IF YOU think your children are fussy eaters, you haven't met Pig and Waru. Sydney Aquarium's dugongs are so picky they eat only cos lettuce leaves, except on the rare occasion they can be persuaded to try a bunch of spinach.

A delivery of more than 200 kilograms of cos lettuce arrives at the aquarium every day. And they are fed only lettuce leaves good enough for human consumption.

''They're fed non-stop from 7.30am till 9pm,'' said the senior aquarist, Andrew Barnes.

With such a low-energy diet it is hard to believe both animals weigh more than 300 kilograms. The lettuce is washed, chopped and sorted before it is threaded into trays that are placed on the bottom of their enclosure.

''If they are eating quickly they can go through two trays every five minutes,'' Mr Barnes said.

Cos lettuce is the closest substitute for the sea grass dugongs consume in the wild. But despite the pair's healthy appetites, almost 70 kilograms of lettuce is wasted each day.

''Some of the leaves they don't eat because they're pretty picky,'' Mr Barnes said. ''Then some of the leaves dislodge from the trays and float to the surface.''

Sydney Aquarium has leftovers of almost 500 kilograms of the lettuce each week. But instead of throwing it away, the aquarium sends it to a Sydney electricity company which turns it into electricity and fertiliser using a process called anaerobic digestion.

Pig and Waru are among only six dugongs held in captivity. Both animals were found without their mothers in northern Queensland when they were just a few days old.

Apart from eating, the pair spend most of their day playing with the other inhabitants of their enclosure, including leopard rays, shovel-nose sharks and tropical fish.

read article:http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/they-weigh-300kg-and-its-all-down-to-eating-their-greens-20100401-ri53.html

Autistic Artist draws cities from memory

Artist to draw Sydney from memory

Talent discovered when he was just five

Diagnosed with autism at three-years-old

Artist Stephen Wiltshire drawing the New York landscape from memory. This week he will attempt Sydney's skyline 

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AN ARTIST who can draw a city skyline after looking at it for a few minutes is set to take on Sydney.

Stephen Wiltshire will arrive in Australia this week to show off his extraordinary talent for drawing cities in intricate detail.

The 36-year-old artist, who was diagnosed with autism when he was three, hopes to produce a poster-size pen and ink drawing of the harbour city after examining its skyline for just 20 minutes.

He's already impressed many around the world with his large-scale intricate panoramas of New York and London.

Before drawing those two world-famous cities, he memorised the position and size of hundreds of buildings and landmarks while on 20-minute helicopter rides.

His four-metre long panorama of London on a curved canvas took five days to complete in 2007, with not one sneak peak at a photograph of the city for help.

Last October he followed up with a jaw-dropping 5.5 metre-long drawing of New York City, including the Empire State Building, which took just three days.

When he arrives in Australia, one of Mr Wiltshire's first stops will be Sydney Tower so he can gain a birdseye view of the skyline before getting down to work at Customs House on Tuesday.

Sitting in his tiny studio perched in a loft above his gallery on London's famous Pall Mall, the quietly spoken artist is excited about his first visit to Australia.

"I have never been there before," he said.

"I wanted to go because it's a nice, beautiful city. It's going to be amazing."

Mr Wiltshire has been invited to Sydney by Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) to mark Autism month.

His arrival was delayed by more than a week because of the recent disruption to air travel in Europe following the Icelandic volcano eruption.

While he won't decide on what exactly will be in his Sydney drawing until the last minute, he admits remembering all the detail of a city's skyline is difficult even though he makes it look relatively easy.

"I find it hard work to put in lots of information in just a few days," he said.

"Sometimes it's hard to remember because there's lots of detail.

"My favourite is New York. They have the big avenues and lots of yellow taxi cabs. The traffic is chaotic and it's full of people."

Stephen's amazing talent for drawing was discovered when he was just five years old and sketching London's double decker buses.

His family and teachers soon discovered that his art work was one of the key ways he could communicate.

By age nine he had moved on to St Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge.

His works were so good that Sir Hugh Casson of the Royal Academy described him as "the best child artist in Britain".

Then as a teenager his attention switched to American cars such as Cadillacs and Buicks before enrolling as a fine arts student at City & Guilds.

In 2006, he was awarded an MBE for services to art by Prince Charles.

Aspect's education and research executive director, Dr Trevor Clark, hopes Mr Wiltshire's talents will help raise awareness of the one in 160 Australian children with autism.

"Stephen's talent is rare, but he highlights how important it is for potential to be realised and developed from an early age and how this can help with developing independence and self expression,'' he said.

RELATED: The Stephen Wiltshire Gallery Website