WHO SAID THERE'S NOTHING ORIGINAL ANYMORE?

Is anyone else noticing a pattern in latest release movie posters this summer....

   

Edit: Tiff has pointed out in the comments that I am not alone in noticing this sort of thing, holy crappy movie poster take a look at this...

MODERN ART

Modern Art = I Could Do That + Yeah, But You Didn't

Bigger and better version over at YeLPanorama, go check it ut....if you want to, I'm just sayin it's there, okay, no biggie pffffft whatever!

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO AMERICA

Just a quick funny moment and a snappy food review from the weekend. Sitting in the Tuck Shop on Sunday morning having breakfast with Waz and Gaz, we were finalising bits and pieces for our trip to the states in January. I had my new Sony Tablet out and Gaz and I were scratching our heads trying to work out how to unlock it - yeah there are instructions but they were at home because instructions are for pussies okay?! So whilst were working on that "guy task" Waz is on his laptop googling "genuine Native American experiences" or something like that...

Waz "I thought I'd almost found it" 

Me "What's that?" 

W "Trying to see if you can go and live with Native Americans and experience their culture, then I read this.."

Now I don't remember the exact wording but it went something like this

"Stay with real Native Americans and gamble at their casino. Sleep in one of the casino hotels or the Native American trailer park nearby"

Pretty sure that's not what we were kinda going for. 

The breakfast is pretty fine at Tuck Shop (cnr Money st and Newcastle in Northbridge) the freshly squeezed OJ was great, as were my soft poached eggs on sour dough. The only quibble was the bacon, maybe not the best bacon I've ever had. Gaz raved about his mushroom and fetta dish and the bit of it I tasted backed him to the hilt. Staff are really friendly and the service good. Oh and they make pies, real big flaky pastry home made pies which looked very very good. The table next to us was making very short work of one. I had a peek at the dessert cabinet and the vanilla bean/lemon curd tart will not evade me for long, I'll grab one of those next time I'm there for sure.

Almost every table was occupied for breakfast so hurry up and try it before everyone else gets in there, that said tables did turn over quite regularly 

Handy tip for you if you're eating there on a Sunday, park on the City of Perth side of Newcastle st if you can as it's free on a Sunday, the City of Vincent side charges.

Ps: Sony Tablet is easy to unlock...once you know how

TIME TO GO FOR A RIDE AGAIN

Inspired

Fresh out of Oslo and the song is Love Lost by The Temper Trap

THE HOOD # 139

A rose by any other name behind Sotos

and some Hyde Park colour

 

A SUN THAT SETS IS CALLED A SUNSET

Dontchaknow?

Tonight's sunset over Perth, mucho awesome

THE HOOD # 138

Creepy on Hobart st. New piece by Creepy on the side wall of the Hobart Deli.

YOU LIE RD?

Oh you lier! Well played. Spotted cnr of William and Vincent st, Highgate.

OSKAR THE AWESOME BLIND CAT

The first vid is uber cute

Oskar the kitten was born without full formed eyeballs so he's completely blind. Here he is, 1 day after he was adopted, playing with a ball with bells inside.

But this one is awesome

Epic Cat Battle

THE HOOD # 137

Cheshire Cat on Chelmsford

OH YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, WE WENT BOWLING

For my birthday, two weeks ago, some of the gang and I hit the Rosemount Bowl and threw down a couple of  games. Always love it here, I mean beer and bowling, how could you not have fun.

Gaz show's us his formidable style

A little help from the king

The gang

Then it's time for a few more beers

Gif make

VEGAN BLACK METAL CHEF

By far my favourite cooking show ever (careful, lil bit of swearing but the lyrics are awesome)

Episode 5 - Smoothie Alchemy

Q. CAN YOU GET A TSUNAMI OF SAND

A. Yes you can

Tonight is the last Sunday night of our swing and we always finish off those Sundays with a BBQ. So after we threw on some onions we added the sausages and chicken. I mentioned to a few people gathered around the BBQ that I was just chatting with a buddy (Kev) on Facebook about a massive storm that hit Newman minutes ago. "Kev says it's headed straight for us." Most people said "nah we'll be fine, wont hit us". (Note the clouds in the pic above) "Oh it be a comin" I said. But I was thinking rain storm, mother nature had other ideas....

A few minutes later we glanced towards the incoming storm and realised the sky had changed from ominous blue/grey to serious red/brown (Thanks be to Sam for the pic above). I think you'll agree that I'm not exaggerating when I say we had a tsunami sized wave of sand heading straight for us. It slammed into us within seconds, we had no time to react. Salads and drinks went first, straight off the table and then came the chairs and the table and the bins and the sand and everything else that wasn't nailed down. Everything food wise was destroyed. 

Never a dull moment up here in the Pilbara

THE ART OF BLACK AND WHITE # 13

Cars

TOO MANY PHOTOS

I was just reading this, somewhat surprised at how many photos are uploaded to flickr in a day, around a million? yowzah! Then I thought about it and a million seems low don't you think? I uploaded my first pic to Flickr on Jan 29th 2005 and so far I've managed 6801 pics, which is almost 1.5 pics a day. I'm just one of millions of peeps on Flickr so that total is easily achievable. But back to the story above and Erik Kessels has printed off 1 million photos uploaded to Flickr on a particular day (a good chance one of those is mine) and created an installation using all of them....

" I visualise the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples' experiences."

"Can there ever be too many images in the world?"

Can there? I think of my own photos and how for everyone I deem Flickr worthy there are possibly 5-10 others i've rejected. Is digital photography smothering the world with images? I don't think so, I mean the se photos aren't shoved in our face are they, we get to choose what we look at. One thing digital has done  is to allow the average person easier and cheaper access to what used to be an expensive past time. Remember the costs of a roll of film and then the development? I remember it taking months to get all of my photos developed from my first ever overseas trip. I do think digital photography allows for a lot of average photography but hopefully people with self edit.... we can only hope.

GODZILLA

Loving my new iPhone 4s and its' camera. Such a difference from my crappy 3G one. These from today

This soil is from the bottom spit of our excavation, it probably hasn't seen the light of day for over a thousand years....maybe.

The symmetry of the sieved soil and the sievers

even the zoom is better than the old version. 

Drill rigs slowly approach us Godzilla like across the landscape 

THIS GOES HERE AND THIS GOES THERE

Pretty sure they don't go there though....

Sitting in the cool air conditioning of our field car for lunch today, anything to avoid the 40+ degrees heat, when all of a sudden two large canopies fall out of the sky and land smack in front of our car. Seems a mini tornado decided our canopies were a nice juicy target....

They used to be here....

Back where they belong....

SAFE

I do love a good adrenaline-fueled cinematic thrill ride. Oh and most films that have Jason Statham in them.

ANDREAS GURSKY, RHEIN II

This picture taken by Andreas Gursky has just become the most expensive photograph in the world, selling at Christies for $4.3 million. I like the photo, it's quite compelling, but then I read this....

In fact the artist carefully digitally removed any intrusive features – dog walkers, cyclists, a factory building – until it was bleak enough to satisfy him.

So does that still make it a photograph? Or is now a piece of art using a photograph? I mean it's not a picture snapped at the perfect moment, one that can never be recreated again is it? Because I could probably create an extremely similar photo using programmes that alter digital pics. I in fact just entered 4 photographs into a photo competition and two of those were digitally altered but they had to be labelled as such. In fact they were entered into the digitally altered photograph section of that comp. If one of them should win it will be the "best digitally altered photograph" in that comp. So maybe this should be referred to from now on as the worlds most expensive digitally altered photograph and if that is the case, holy shit why the frack would you spend $4.3 million dollars on a digitally altered photograph? That is all

WORKING ON MARS

The landscape we're working in at the mo has a kind of Martian feel to it, well, one with trees....

Arden measures a rock shelter we'll be excavating over the next few days....

Josh scribes the measurements....

35 YEARS AGO TODAY

This is my dad, he passed away on this day 35 years ago, he was way too young. To add to the crapiness of that time it was two days before my birthday as well, which equals pretty much the worst birthday present a guy could ever get. I don't usually acknowledge this anniversary but I kept thinking about him today so I figured a post was in order....

CHET FAKER WELCOME TO MY LIFE

Damn I love hearing new music that really grabs me. Doing a bit of work pre tomorrows survey, so I flicked on triplej for some company and heard the most succulent song. Whipped out the Shazam app and hello Chet Faker. He be from Melbourne and this be the song ....

THE HOOD # 136

The ever changing wall. What once looked like this, now looks like this....