It's the Biennale right now, which is a big, international contemporary art festival that takes place in Sydney every 2 years. Parts of Sydney are flooded with installations.

For today's design excursion, we went to check it out, mainly the 50 or so video installations on Cockatoo island which is a 15 minute ferry ride away from Circular Quay. Cockatoo Island is a Corregidor of sorts, abandoned, and filled with tunnels, ancient, rusting machinery, old deserted buildings, cannons, etc.

It was a fine winter's day, with beautiful soft-box lighting, and it had rained in the morning, and there were big puddles all around the island reflecting the sky. The mood and the color palette reminded me of a Miyazaki movie, and the ancient, nut-and-bolt, rusty machinery reminded of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".

It was a strange and beautifully dreamy industrial scene. I'm in love with rust.