THE ART OF BLACK AND WHITE # 7

this time round some of my own shots

the bridge of narrows

race to god

a shed for boats

i love lamp

365 DAYS WEEK 46

Week 46 of my 365 Day Challenge started in a cave and ended back at home, just the way I like to spend every week.

SO LONG BERNARD SCHWARTZ

One of my favs

June 3 1925 - September 30 2010

SKY MALL ROCKS

If you've ever flown in the US of A there's a good chance you're familiar with Sky Mall. It's a little piece of late night TV shopping channel in the pocket of your airline seat. Oh and it's packed full of awesome gift ideas, errr well mostly it's packed with awesomely whacko hilarious craptastic and out there products. My brother was in the US last month and he promised to grab me the latest copy, so here are some of the greatest things you may never wish to own. This is just the start, cos there is an incredible amount of crap to get through so I'll do it over a few blogs. Sit back and enjoy the greatness that is Sky Mall....

The latest cover page

now can't you just see yourself belting down your street on the StreetStrider, be the envy of all your neighbours, stylish looking too aint it. Let's see those happy smiles....

"Can't see shit when you go to a game or a concert? Well stress no more because the Brobdingnagian Sports Chair has arrived. There's even ample room for full body gesticulations and did we mention the reinforced powder coated steel frame? You'll need every ounce of that reinforced protection to save you from the savage arse-whoopin you're gonna get from everyone seated behind you!"

surely this one's not real, I mean come on

Are all of your CD's, DVD's, VHS's and Betamax tapes lying all over your house? Well now you can store them ALL in this attractive media cabinet*

*suitable only for those people still living in 1966

Now for some incredibly discreet products, so discreet people wont even notice you're using them

The SkyRest*

*I think he's dead

The Body Back Buddy

Use it anywhere, on anyone

Wrist Cell Phone Carrier

Never miss an important call again and no more pesky bulges in your trousers*

*can be set to spiderweb and laser beam mode at the flick of a switch

Now I'm guessing after getting through all of that you're in need of a quick nap and when I say nap I mean sleeping on your face

Next time I'll bring you some of the fantastic items they have for pets, wait till you see the places they can hide the kitty litter these days.

EVERYTHING NEW IS OLD

"If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages just here and there."

Patti Page

Groove Armada

MY HOUSE IS TRYING TO KILL ME

One of the perils of living alone is nobody can hear you scream. Twice in the past few weeks my body and my house have had a serious disagreement. The first occasion found me walking down my stairs in socks. The last few steps on my staircase turn at a 90 degree angle and I kind of missed the 2nd last one, my feet flew out in front of me and I landed on my arse and back. My left arm smashed into the last step and my shoulder crashed into another. First thing I did was moan, then quickly check every bone in my body and then had a little think about having a small cry. Not a fan of that level of pain. I lay there for around 5 minutes as the pain slowly ebbed away.

Today I leant across my desk to put some mail in my office bin, mistimed my grip on the table, jammed my knee into the heater, spun myself around a full 180 degrees and slam dunked myself into one of my bookshelves. My head cracked down onto the second shelf, my left arm into a lower shelf and the middle of my back scored a perfect impact on the shelf between those two. I now have a welt across my left back the size of a tennis ball.

No I wasn't drinking, in fact I haven't had an alcoholic drink in two weeks! My eye sight is fine and I can count backwards from 100, so I can come to one conclusion and one conclusion only, my house is trying to kill me. Is this what happens when a sinner like me moves into an old church building?

*apologies to all who rang me this afternoon, my mood did not lend itself to conversation after my gymnastic spin. I'll speak to you all very soon, gravity permitting.

WHITE KNUCKLES

Ever seen an OK GO clip you did not like? No you have not!

365 DAYS WEEK 45

Week 45 of my 365 Day Challenge was spent up in the north west of Oz. Mostly moving dirt from this place to that and finding the odd cool thing.

WORKIN THE SIEVES

Day 5 on the same cave, time to move on ....please

there's something nice about being covered in dirt

IS THAT A DEAD ROO OR ARE YOU JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME?

Today we started on our third cave for this trip, we have 9 to excavate all up. This one is oh so very cool, it's one of the largest we've found so far and consists of 4 connected chambers. About 20 metres wide and 40 metres deep it's gonna be a big job. Took a heap of pics today whilst we set up and did our initial checks....

Ildy surveys the height of the cave entrance

looking out from inside the cave

a mummified roo lay between myself and Ildy & kate, very creepy

Kate in profile looking back down towards the entrance

part of the team crawled right up into the very back chamber to look at some wood that we found cached in the rear. It was pitch black up there, covered in roo poo and pretty damn hot. But all worth it when you find cool stuff like this that can be dated. We started to think about those miners in Chile who are stuck down there for months, no thanks, glad to have a way out.

looking back down towards the entrance over my feet and past Tom

Adam and I decided that way down in the rear chamber would be a great time to check conditions on our excavation permit, err okay

all hail the found wood

some more mummified roo action

previous tenants

tomorrow we dig

IT'S A BIRDS LIFE

Some cool interaction with birds yesterday, ravens, hawks and ducks. Ravens you can keep but this hawk was very cool to watch buzzing over us as it scoured the ground around us for our lunch scraps.

and then as we got back to camp I spotted these ducks making the most of any water available, seeing as it hadn't rained up here in almost a year they looked pretty damn happy