THE HOOD # 229

El Beardo

WELCOME TO RIDICULOUS WORLD

So I've bought this step ladder and I'm getting ready to use it when I notice the warning stickers. 

Best read those and be responsible I think to myself. 

I'm pretty cool with most of the safety do's and don'ts on there, cool that is until the WTF moment...

"Do Not Stand On Or Above 2nd Top Step"

Here it is again on the actual 2nd top step, just to be sure that I've read it. What's the big deal I hear you say, that's kind of standard. Sure, I know it is, but this ladder only has THREE friggen steps and apparently I can only use 1 of them. So in effect I have bought a 90cm high step ladder that lifts me 30cm off the actual floor, I can jump that bloody high. What use is this ladder to anyone? 

Surely they're taking the piss?! I can only use one third of this ladder? I actually blame myself, I should have read the warning before I bought it, but still, what is the point of this ladder? Right next to it at the hardware store was one of these...

It cost $6, and is almost 30cm high. I smell step ladder conspiracy.

Looks like I'm gonna be breaking the step ladder code in my house on a few occasions, cos that's how I live my life folks, I hang out on second steps. I'm a risk taker, a mocker of ladder codes, a wild card, unpredictable, windswept and casual...Ladies! 

DAFT PUNK - HORIZON

This is a bonus track from the Japanese edition of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories called “Horizon” and it's drop dead gorgeous. Why isn't this on my copy? Oh cos I'm not in Japan... right!?

CONVOS WITH MY 2 YEAR OLD

I think I'm gonna subscribe to this series. Two adult males reenact an actual conversation that one of the males acting in the skit had with his 2-year-old daughter. Once you replace the toddler with an adult, the whole thing comes off more than a little bit psycho.

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This piece down in Cavendish St, Highgate now nicely exposed since they demolished the house next door...

If anyone know's the artist drop a note in the comments so I can credit 

suspect it may be the same as these

THEY BE OVERSEAS # 2

Another of Perth's awesome artists is laying down some colours in the US of A. Kyle Hughes-Odgers "the artist previously known as Creepy" is fillin up some walls in Brooklyn...

BSS ON Q TV

Jeebus I love this band

THEY BE OVERSEAS # 1

Perth's own Stormie Mills is over in Culver City, California doin stuff...

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A short wander down Grand Lane in the city last weekend...

ABANDONED STAR WARS SETS IN THE DESERT

New York-based visual artist and filmmaker Rä di Martino has taken a series of eerie and beautiful photos that capture scenes of abandoned Hollywood film sets. Martino spent over a year traveling throughout the desert towns of Morocco and Tunisia hunting down the old Star Wars sets.

TOASTFACE GRILLAH

Apart from being possibly the best name for an eatery that I've seen in Perth for ages, this place is located in a pretty cool spot too, down the end of Grand Lane in the city. Haven't had a chance to eat there yet but it's on my list. Lovin the artwork too... 

COMPARING PERTH - THEN AND NOW

Received a cool pic yesterday, from someone who knows what I like, it shows Perth in 1981/82,



natch I did one of these...

Perth in the 1940's then 1981/82 and 2012

yep we lost a big chunk of the river along the way

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Girl

THIS IS GROUND CONTROL TO COMMANDER HADFIELD Pt 2

Over the past few years I've followed a few astronauts on twitter whilst they lived on the International Space Station. None have been as awesome or as cool as Commander Chris Hadfield. He has taken some incredible pictures of Earth, I posted some he took whilst he travelled above  my country and my hometown back in January of this year. The title I gave to that post now fits extremely well with the Commanders latest offering, this fantastic video of him singing David Bowie's Space Oddity...

This is fantastic

Sadly he is departing the space station sometime in the next 24 hours, I'll miss his photos, some examples below...

The Black Sea, Crimea

More of the Black Sea, Crimea

Florida, USA

Lake Ontario, Canada

Safe travels 

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Googly eyes has fallen

GAME OF THRONESESQUE

Continuing with today's apparent theme of architecture, this church in Copenhagen, Denmark has a few features that instantly draws me to comparisons with some of the buildings in the TV show Game of Thrones. An incredible structure, now added to my list of places to visit.

Grundtvig's Church

Inaugurated in 1927

Completed in 1940

The architectural style is known as expressionism

It is named after the Danish philosopher and hymn writer Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig

HERE I COULD LIVE

Fulfilling major boyhood fantasies and just imagine the incredible dinner parties you could have...

Clever use of brick, wood, and cement has turned the ruined Astley Castle, destroyed by fire in 1978, into a contemporary home.  

by WWM Architects

TWO MEN

Fantastic short film

Two Men from Dominic Allen on Vimeo.

Award winning Australian short film, Two Men, directed by Dominic Allen and shot in the Kimberly town of Fitzroy Crossing by Joel Betts, features a robust and dynamic cast of indigenous Australian non actors. With an original soundtrack by Melbourne artist Felix Riebl, Based on Kafka's short story, Two Men Running, Allen's short film has been screened internationally at film festivals including New York, Prague, London, Melbourne and Sydney and in 2009 was a Dendy Australian Short Film of the Year finalist.

The film was instrumental in supporting director Dominic Allen's Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the 2009 Inside Film Rising Talent Award.
2009 MIFF Jury member Deb Verhoeven remarked "Two Men proves that the simplest scenario can provide the perfect premise for conveying the most profound insights. But (Allen's) key achievement is to understand that even the largest ideas are best told with brevity and the most serious with humour."

Two Men was made with the support of Yiriman, a community initiated and community driven project supported by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre which aims to build stories, strength and resilience in the Kimberley's youth.

INVADER WARS

New piece by Invader somewhere in East London

We have an Invader piece here in Perth dontchaknow

RANDOM IMAGES # 72

I know nothing of this image other than it intrigues me and has a certain mesmerizing component

Is he falling or is he lying?

click image to embiggen

LONDON 1927 IN COLOUR

"It's like a beautifully dusty old postcard you'd find in a junk store, but moving."

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with.

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Down an alley somewhere near that place over there...

THE HISTORY OF TYPOGRAPHY

Check this out, you might learn something, I sure did. Very cool short animation on the history of typography..

SPOCK VERSUS SPOCK

OMG this is awesome, my day has started off perfectly

What happens when old school goes head to head with new school in a battle of speed and wits? Leonard Nimoy takes on newbie Zachary Quinto and his all-new Audi S7.

I mean it's got Leonard Nimoy singing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.... to himself... in his car and so so much more win...