OBSERVATIONS

First I was like "What the fuuuuu....."

Then I was like "Hmmmm maybe I'm the only person who read that as www dot scatologist dot com dot au

I need to wake up more before driving to work

Happy to note that I am not alone in my disdain for the Yellow and White Pages....

BEAUFORT ST FESTIVAL

Wandered down to the source of the music floating past my place yesterday and into the first ever Beaufort st Festival. I'm not sure why but I kinda figured Beaufort st would have been closed off for this, but then I fathomed the hell that would have caused. To be honest I thought it was good, not great, but very good and there really is now a foundation for an awesome event to develop over the coming years. That the street remains open and the sidewalks are crammed with people and events might just become the feature we all head there for in the future.

Hopefully more street artists are involved next year because watching the few that were there was one of the highlights for me. Beaufort st has lots of nooks crannies and laneways and it would be awesome to see these filled with happenings. Maybe that's just the archaeologist in me talking but I think everyone loves discovering stuff ....right?

Really liked the knitted pole pieces

Stormie Mills giving the wall at the side of the Flying Scotsman a makeover for the festival...

some other pics including the outdoor house that was created in the lane between Mary and Chatsworth

slideshow of the rest

SOLUTION

My brother sent me this clip as a solution to this problem, haha

THE HOOD # 118

The piece on the corner of Mary and Beaufort is expanding again, previous post is here

Artist Robert Jenkins hiding in the tree

THE ART OF BLACK AND WHITE # 8

Americana 2

I MOUSTACHE YOU A QUESTION

Is it just me or does anyone else find inappropriate tiny Hitler moustache graffiti funny?

ARCADE FIRE - THE SUBURBS

A video by Spike Jonze | Taken from the short film: "Scenes From The Suburbs

LOCKED IN

or.... A funny thing happened to the fastidious guy at the airport yesterday

Nigel (fellow archaeologist) and I were sitting in our car at the mine site airport yesterday morning, enjoying the cool air conditioning that was being produced by the wanton burning of fossil fuel. Our attention was drawn to this guy who was clearly an office worker* at the mine. How would we know that he was an office worker I hear you ask? Well because.....

1. He had a very clean uniform
2. He was wearing a helmet in an area that does not require a helmet ie: the airport
3. His helmet was very very clean
4. He had the cleanest car on site, no doubt this 4wd was used only to transport other office people from office to airport to camp etc etc

Now our attention be drawn because whilst we were sitting back in the air conditioned comfort of our car, this guy had a bottle of Windex in one hand and a cleaning cloth in the other and he was vigorously cleaning every piece of glass on his vehicle. Which kind of made us laugh, mostly because to do that to our cars would be laughable as they'd be covered in dirt/mud seconds later, our cars are content with their fortnightly hose down and scrub. It's more than they deserve too.

So imagine the hilarity when we looked back over our shoulders to see that now he was in fact sitting inside the rear compartment of his vehicle cleaning the inside of his back window. "Man what the hell is wrong with this guy? Why so friggen neat, we're in the Pilbara and on a mine site FFS" were the kind of comments that were flowing freely between Nigel and I. It was then that I felt I should snap a pic because "nobody is gonna believe this".

sorry about the pic quality, I used my iPhone, but I've lightened him a bit in the next one

After I grabbed the pic I noticed he was tapping on the side window of his car, trying to get the attention of an Emergency Services guy who had parked next to him, then he spun to look at me, feeling kind of embarrassed to be caught looking I quickly looked away. Probably about 3 minutes later I noticed the Emergency services vehicle pulling away from the car park, so I glanced back at the cleaning guy and he turned to look at me. Again I looked away but this time I kind of felt something wasn't quite right so I looked back. And I was right, this time he was banging on his window and waving at me to come to him....then it hit me, the guy has locked himself inside the back of his car. (these cars have safety cages between back seat and rear compartment so there's only one way in and one way out)

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I shouldn't laugh but man did I ever. "He's locked himself inside!" Nigel and I are now both bent over with laughter and then I realised that whilst we had the air con on he probably didn't, so I jumped out and ran around to open his car door. Poor bastard was sweating like hell and red faced with embarrassment, in between breaths, in between laughing, I checked that he was okay and he was. Just a bit hot and bothered and sheepish.

"Mate I'm sorry but this is possibly the funniest thing I've seen in months"

"Oh jeez thanks for coming, I really didn't know how I was going to explain this once my boss arrived"

Poor bastard!

*not that there's anything wrong with that, us field personnel need office people to back us up and keep us safe in the field, just wanted to clear that up

RANDOM IMAGES #46

A more innocent time was 1968

Kiddies, never buy your acid from dirty manchilds at rock festivals who sell from a stand made from bin liners

DAMN

I had such a good view from my back deck when I left home two weeks ago....

but now I've come home to this....

ughhh!!

at least I still have this....

SHADES OF GREY

THIS IS HOW JESUS WOULD DANCE

An epic clip of a dude captured on the Jumbotron feed at a Celtics home game recently. Notice his mum egging him on at the start ... too funny

THAT'S SOME QUALITY STUFF RIGHT THERE

I've sat and looked at the TV set in my camp room for over a year now and only tonight did I notice that my Panasonic set wasn't exactly what I thought it was. No expense spared up here eh?! Hmmm my fridge says Kevinator.....

THAT'LL DO DONKEY THAT'LL DO

I can't help myself, I just find donkeys fun to look at. They seem to like staring at me too....

CAVES FOR THE FINDING OF

We found some great caves whilst out on survey today, lots of work ahead of us as a result. Love my job.

bigger version over at YeLPanorama

IT'S MAH BIRTHDAY

Had a great birthday today even though I was working up in the Pilbara in 45 degree heat. None of that mattered when I got the dozens of sms's, emails and FB wall posts. A whole lotta love in the room. just to make the day all that better I scored a few prezzies from my crew, including two packs of tim tams from Nigel which the crew devoured in a creek bed for morning tea....

Followed up with an eight pack of Tropical Punch Fruit juice boxes sent over from one of our nearby projects by Jade and Tom. These sorts of things are awesome treats up here where the food is pretty ordinary. Also managed to catch up with Kate and Chani for the first time in almost a year and someone even bought me a beer. Good times.

SO THAT'S THAT THEN

365 Days ago, my last birthday in fact, I decided I would take a photo every day for a whole year. The first thing I realised was that 365 days later it would not be my birthday again, that would be in 366 days (tomorrow, see I did the maths for you). The second thing I realised is that this wouldn't be as easy as just snapping a pic a day. It kind of got hard to find a subject sometimes but somehow I always did. Even at 11.30pm when I found myself photo less I still managed to get one before midnight. And now it's all done and dusted.

I'm feeling a bit sad about it to be honest, bit chuffed as well, I'd never committed to anything like this before. At least 5 other friends were inspired to start around the same time as I did, sadly all but one dropped out, but that's cool, they're just doin their thing.

Well here it is, the last pic, it's nothing special, in fact I think there's a whole lot more special ones in the collection, but today I just figured I would simply look up at the clouds above me and snap a quick shot, not much thought to it, just a few clouds. Good times

if anyone is interested this is the complete set, best viewed in full screen mode

hmmm what to do now

365 DAYS WEEK 51

Week 51 of my 365 Day Challenge is the penultimate week. I'm a bit sad that it's coming to an end