Monday, November 16

Youth

By Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Friday, July 17

Here's a video I made of me cleaning my room, it gets good so watch it till the end.

Cleaning the room from pablo andres on Vimeo.



THAT DAMN PENGUIN
Super great workout mix for Chay-Ya!

(First song is for setting up and getting started - Last song is for winding down!)

Monday, July 13

It's an Old Skool AUSSIE 90's Indy/Indie Alternative rock music Australian music flashback blog post!

Frenzal - Punch In The Face




Custard - New Apartment




Jebediah - Teflon




Suprjesus - Down Again (such a good song!)




Eskimo Joe - Sweater




The Porkers - Too Big For Your Boots




TISM - Greg The Stop Sign!




Gerling - Who's Ya Daddy




Nancy Vandal - Move Over Satan



Shihad - La La Land




Spiderbait - Fucking Awesome




Regurgitator - Freshmint!



And some more links! (universal music wont let me 'embed' these clips)

The Cruel Sea - Better get a lawyer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARJX4TtQBg

Grinspoon - Repeat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3R5yR4enJE

Spiderbait - Buy me a pony - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmWkgZ-b6sk

Got any others?!

Monday, July 6

In the 7th moon,
the chief turned into a swimming fish
and ate the head of his enemy by magic


Enjoy this truly excellent music, leave it playing as you get on with your day or work, this is the Kasai Allstars.

"Kasai Allstars is a collective revolving around 25 musicians from six bands, all from the Kasai region, but originating from five different ethnic groups, each with their own culture, their own language and their own musical traditions, which were always thought to be incompatible until these musicians decided to pool their resources and form this 'superband'."

http://www.myspace.com/kasaiallstars



Saturday, June 27

It's all over the everywhere but come on, MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD.

EVERYBODY, even the Taliban in Pakistan know he's dead, every.one. knows.

I got on the bus today and 'Blame it on the boogie' was playing while three black kids up the front gave each other fancy hi fives and combed their afros. It was like being in a brooklyn bus in the 80's. For me it was a fitting tribute.

So anyways, this is my take on Michael..

He was an angel that came to earth to share his voice, he inevitably got corrupted on earth and sold his soul to the devil (Quincy functioning as representative), in order to write the best pop music ever made, the pact/seal was the album Thriller (obviously). From which he never recovered.

The devil.. he said, 'Michael, give me your soul and in return youll write the best pop music the world has ever heard..'. Michael agreed, and lost himself, his sanity, his identity, replaced by plastic and artifice, he truly lost his soul, and he did it for the musical wellbeing of mankind.

What Im saying is.. Michael Jackson died for our sins, he sacrificed himself for all of us, he was like.. the musical Jebus.

Amen brother.

Now watch these vids, cuz they didnt come cheap, you owe it to yourself, Michael, and the Devil..





Wednesday, June 24


(I'll be writing a lot more about Love in the future, I feel Love these days is often used as a dirty word, one full of drama and suspicion. To have Love is the same as suffering they say. I disagree. I believe Love is inherently good, and easy and fun, it has been corrupted due to idiots and media, and it needs to be re-appreciated. Love is good. Love is great. As a briefer here is a link to an article from the now defunct Zine 'When Men Were Men' , written by my good friend and associate Rachel W. Link - > "Something very sad has happenned to love")
.. the idea that when you have someone you can have anyone.. that's a problem, people get greedy, if youre having sex every night with your partner and then you make eye contact with a cute girl at a cafe one morning, you think 'damn I could be having sex with her every night instead!' but ITS NOT TRUE!! Odds are that you would not be having any sex for a while, and even if you were, it wouldn't be someone you'd stick with for months, maybe even years!
You are NOT missing out on loads of hot sex, you are just missing out on some occassional and mostly disappointing flirty encounters. Ok girls can probably have sex with guys more easily than guys and that's why when you're a guy it really hurts, because its a fact, its easier for girls to have sex with people, they make the decision.. but I digress, point is, mostly youre not missing out on anything by being with someone, only very occassionally. But the question mark shows up sometimes when you make eye contact, and its very alluring! Let it go. Forget it. Enjoy who you have as much as you can for as long as you can. That doesn't mean don't pash anyone, don't flirt, don't play with your sexuality... it just means don't think youre being obligated or constrained by your partner, that's an illusion, its all you.
The key is Surrender. Give up. Give up the outcome. Give up and you'll get Slack.
If you have a fear, there is often a fear of fear, because you worry that by fearing something you will actually create it, hence there is this second level fear, a fear of being afraid. Which is even worse.

What can one do when we have those moments where we think the worst, then worry that by thinking the worst we may have given that outcome power, fueled this fear with our fear.. what can we do.. the only thing left to do is to fear more, not fear, blow it all out of proportion.

If you're worried about something, make it worse in your head, and worse, as bad as it can possible be and triple it. By this point it will be but a caricature a most unlikely event which will help you get over it. Like when you repeat a word too many times, it stops having any hold on you, it stops making sense. Blowing a fear out of proportion makes it loses its power on you due to its cartoonish impossibility.. and then you breathe, and you're much better again.
Wasting time.

Wasting time, much frowned upon in modern society is actually not that bad,

For when you waste something are you not asserting that you have so much of it that you can afford to throw it away?

I am proud and lucky to be so time rich that I can let it slip through my fingers as if nothing. This is a mind set, and why shouldn't we waste time?

First of all its a bit of a misnomer, 'waste' is the wrong word, but it helps to illustrate my previous economic example. I'm happy to 'waste' time if it involves making silly things, playing with cardboard, experimenting, discussing philosophies with friends, reading novels, forging bonds, making cookies etc..

But! They say..
Shouldn't you be making a living?

Yes, but what IS a living?
A living, is living to a degree you are comfortable with. The more you own, car, house, cable tv etc. The more of a living you have to make, the less time you can afford to waste. But essentially, you are making a living, so that when you're done you can go to the living you've made and enjoy your time, however it may be: play with it, chat, create, enjoy, all these things which a content and happy time waster is actually doing already anyway.

Michael Ende, John Lennon and I agree: Time enjoyed is never ever time wasted.

There will be plenty of time leftover to make a home, create things, sell them, study, forge a career etc etc, later, it happens, organically, but to force it, to feel guilty about not being productive, is bad for the spirit. Feel no shame when being idle! And always rest on the Sabbath!

Sunday, June 7

When you do things right, people wont be sure youve done anything at all.

Monday, June 1

Im making a new zine called 'God is laughing at us', its been in the works for ages, basically ramblings between me and my best friend Rachel. Im gonna post some of those on here every few days, you'll know they're for the zine cuz they'll be in italics and bold.

Friday, May 29

'You are travelling around a country and then you find a place you really like where you can do heaps of things and the people are cool and you can stay at this house for free, so you think youll stay a week, which turns into a forntight, which turns into three weeks and then a month, and every day you're like "i'll leave tomorrow for SURE"! but then another party, another joint, another gig later and you're back at square one. After a while you start doubting you're ever going to leave but you're running out of money and instead of doing all the cool things this city offers you find yourself on the couch all day smoking joints and hating yourself for not leaving and not doing anything. So then you finally are about to leave and someone wants to start a band with you. And the people at the house who you thought by now were sure to hate you, are so used to you being there and not ever leaving that they tell you not to leave as you are now part of the dynamic. Which turns you into this sort of anti-slack-hero who's popular for not doing anything and hating yourself. which is kinda cool.. but you really gotta leave. But this rut is just so comfortable, and you're too stoned to leave today.. thats it, you'll leave tomorrow for sure.'
I LOVE Garage Rock! Especially authentic old school Garage rock. It's the twang and jangle of the guitar, the suits, the fresh and timeless melodies and the absolute ruckus that does it for me. There are a few bands doing it well these days, like Thee Oh Sees and The Black Lips, but today I'm gonna post some of my fave youtube garage clips!



They're playing by a pool! Check out the fat guitarist and his solo!



The Neanderthals! Costumes? check. Caveman go-go girls? Check. Hunchback? Check. Perfect.



The 13th Floor Elevators are killer, this song has a classic melody and great vocals.



Bule Bule!!! True Mexican Garage by Los Rockin Devils!



MC5 are THE band. I love the intro with the girl and the balloons.

Wednesday, May 27

SO I thought I'd share some interesting links and gentle musings. I'm sick you see, and bedridden (have you heard The Bedridden? They're the best Aussi band ever) so sitting here and actually focusing on things for a change, thinking, well I should produce or create something.. and I worry you know, about this addiction to production and creativity.. yet I worry even more about my lack of production or creativity.. both bother me, the drive to create, when half the time I just want to interact and watch, and also the drive to be still and enjoy, with this constant undercurrent commanding me to produce, progress, share.

There's these bugs flying around in my room, they've been here for five days now, I feel like i'm in Africa, if one comes near me I'm gonna kill it.

Agh distracted, distraction, constant, relentless. I usually have 8 tabs open, and I am wondering if this is good or bad.. I kinda have been in a weird place lately where I can't tell between two days ago or two weeks ago, memories are just a big jumble, a mass of stuff that hapenned at some point.. How paradoxic that when my life is the most exciting I have trouble finding time to write it down, and when it's crap and slow I have all the time in the world to write down every single cup of tea and dull meander from bedroom to fridge..

I found this interesting article on The Benefits of Distraction - http://nymag.com/news/features/56793 - I liked the tone in which it spoke to me. Basically we all have ADHD, people think it's gonna fuck us up in the future, the writer thinks it's going to make our brains actually better multitasking information processing units and I tend to agree with him. (Our brains will always ADAPT).

Here's the recipe for the tea im drinking right now. (I got it off Ben).
  • Ginger slices
  • Garlic slices
  • Chili bits
  • Honey
  • Cinnammon
  • Lemon
  • Hot Water

BLAM. IT's good for what ails ya!

Now here's a bunch of links I've found interesting lately..

An Interview with Kareem Etouny (designer of the game Little Big Planet) - What is interesting is how he says that being original is the oldest most thin thing one can do. He sez creating something original for originalitys sake means its divorced from thousands of years of human imagination. I agree. The desire to be original can be stunting.

More New Math - A bunch of interesting, funny and true equations.

Tonematrix - A fun online synth very much like the Tenori-On, cool sounds and it's soothing.

Pikelet Clip - Pikelet is a Melbourne musician who I really enjoy. She use to drop by to colaborate with our old housemate and she's always super nice. Her music is made through melodic layered acoustic, electronic and vocal melodies. She reminds me a little of Juana Molina. I really dig it.

I have a lot more stuff to share but I think I'll theme it.
Enjoy this Bedridden playlist! They are awesome. Or were rather. They came from Canberra and moved to Adelaide, their singer Baterz was a Haemophiliac who contracted HIV through a contaminated bllod transfusion when he was young. Baterz died at 33. One of Australias least recognized and most deserving songwriters. Enjoi!

Tuesday, May 26



I painted this at Sketch City, an awesome place, they provide boards, paints, beers, hip hop and atmosphere at a a wicked warehouse with cool kids. It's fresh and unpretentious and fun, I really like going. It's on by High Street on the last Sunday of every month. Here's a hot link.



A couple of pictures I drew with poskas and textas on cardboard.

Monday, May 25

Im actually meant to be working today, and doing my tax. So I drew these pictures instead.





I love how two simple lines can bring a mundane object into a happy life.

Saturday, May 23



IM EXCITED ABOUT STICKERS!

I WANT LOTS OF STICKERS.

MAKE OUT OF ORDER STICKERS - PUT THEM EVERYWHERE.

MAKE STICKER PACKS!
SELL STICKER ZINES!

GET FRIENDS TO DRAW STICKERS, PRINT EM, CARRY THEM, STICK EM

JON BURGERMAN - STICKER BOMB

DONT FLUSH UNLESS NECESSARY.
Sesquipedalian -- Meaning long-winded, polysyllabic, or verbose. A word that describes itself!

Thursday, May 21

The Usual Suspects.













Authentic! Mexican day of the dead keyrings! Hand made by Pablo, stuffed with 100% recycled materials, each one has its own character, Get em now for $10 each + $2 P&H!

Leave a comment to buy one and i'll figure out the PayPal thing soon.
Rules to Life - By Pablo


1. Always carry a notebook and pen with you.

2. Always have a bottle of water by the side of your bed.

3. Always carry a camera in your bag.

4. When in doubt. quit your job.

5. Constantly seek new music to keep your brain fresh. (grooveshark.com, last.fm)

6. Keep a journal/diary for personal growth. Begin right away, even if you think it's too late.

6. Being too healthy is bad for your health.

7. Whatever it is. You're not going to remember it. Write it down.

8. Everybody wants their photo taken, they just don't want to know about it.

9. Own a good pen, it helps you write and think better.

10. Avoid traveling with a recent partner.

11. Don't expect a partner to stay faithful while you/they travel.

12. Avoid saying sorry unless you truly mean it. It's a sign of weakness.

13. Not all the signs mean something.

14. Never forget that magic is real.

15. Always be reading at least one book.

16. Try to remember that everything is in a constant state if perfection.

17. It's easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.

18. Nothing is sacred, even the sacred.

19. Finishing things helps you finish other things.

20. You are cooler than you think you are.

Wednesday, May 20



Here's a collage of some of the animations that mi querida Lisa makes.

Sunday, May 10



A short stop motion film about the friendship between my lamp and my mouse.

Friday, May 8



The Penguin Debacle -

Ok so I don't know if you know (you may not know) but I hate penguins. I've written about this previously (look here). Now a few odd things have happenned lately, and it comes off as some sort of cosmic joke. So for a bit of background.. people get really upset when I say I don't like penguins, as if there's something wrong with having an opinion on these animals. Personally I think they're lame and should have given up their boring existance a long time ago, many a long argument have risen from these views when expressed in public. Ha, ok thats it, funny joke, Pablo doesn't like Penguins, the end. But no, it seems the universe wants to have a say in this too.

I got some DMT from my friend in Tasmania, DMT is meant to be the 'spirit drug' it affects your pineal gland and is the active chemical in Ayuhasca. I decided to share it with my housemate Stewart, prior to taking it Stewart joked 'Hey what if you take it and you find out your spirit guide is a Penguin' 'Ha!' we laughed 'As if!', and took the drug.

It was amazing, within 5 seconds of inhaling my room became an ancient sacred cave and all the pictures on my wall became saturated geometrical patterns with ancient wise faces serenely looking at me with wisdom and patience. It started to flow and glow and as I sat there transfixed I couldn't help but smile, avoiding Stewarts eye contact (it's not a social drug).
I looked around and saw the picture of a Penguing on my wall that my friend Caroline tricked me into putting up one day (I drew a big X on it to be sure). Well here's this penguin STARING at me. Glowing gold making intense eye contact with me. I managed to blurt out 'HOLY SHIT! IT IS A PENGUIN!' before tripping some more and then euphorically coming back to reality to laugh about it with Stew. The trip lasted about 20 mins and I am sure we scratched only the surface of the experience. The point is tho, the penguin was there, staring at me. The weirdo.

Three days later after an amazing weekend with a friends and couch surfers I went for a walk along the streets of Brunswick. It's hard rubbish currently, so the front of every second house has piles of junk and artifacts, boxes full of trash and goodies which everyone can go through and take home a cupboard or chair or whatever. I found an ancient radio with built in record player this way. However on my way home I found a giant inflatable penguin! As soon as I looked at it a very cute girl appeared from nowhere and said to me 'Take it! I would'.
I knew this was too much coincidence to ignore. I had no choice. I took the giant penguin home and inflated it. Now he's in my house. 

What else can I say but the penguin is a creep. He stares at me and I don't like it. He's also very big. Not only that but he beats me up. I left my camera on in my room to catalogue this behavior.




As you can see he's a jerk. He's making me his bitch and there's no getting rid of him, it's cosmic.

So im thinking, holy shit.. what if my spirit guide is a Penguin.. and what if he hates me.. or maybe he's right in my face because he needs to be..

This reminded me of something.. my first ever acid trip, I didn't know I was on acid at the time, i'd been drunk also. At one point in the night I flipped out and punched my awesome friend Simo on the head. It was awful.

However the thing that started it all was Pingu! That ABC show of that hyperactive penguin screaming gibberish at everyone. That was on the television the moment I lost my shit. Pingu was ON THE SCREEN. there were rainbows shooting out its mouth. I thought i was crazy! I punched Simo!
Holy shit the penguin was there from the start! I even wrote about it on my blog! Look Here .

WTF.

I did some research on spirit guides and penguins, this is what I uncovered.

'Those who have Penguin as a guide are encouraged to become more polite
and attentive to how the social structure around them is holding together. Perhaps you are being called to pay honor to your mate or to your
friends.
Perhaps you need to appease someone where you have been harsh
with your words or actions.

Penguin also moves in straight lines when they are gathered in groups and moves with orderliness and a sense of purpose. They are determined and focused. If you lack determination and focus, ask Penguin to assist you in strengthening these areas.'


Determination and Focus! My mortal enemies!! Also I've been feeling like I've been letting my friends down and not giving them enough attention. SHIT. Now it's IN MY FACE, In my HOUSE and beating me up. OK I GET IT GET IT GET IT. But I really don't want to.

At least it's not all bad.

'Pay attention to Penguins color. Black and white, ying and yang, magic and mystery! The whiteness of the Penguin represents the awakening spirit and the light of all that is - as does the whiteness where it resides. The black represents the unknown, the density, and the different dimensions. The balance in Penguins color shows you how to balance and merge the darkness and the light, and to move between worlds as the Penguin moves between the sea and the land - two different worlds. Feel honored that Penguin is your guide for your journey of magic and mystery is moving in a new direction.'

We'll see about that.. PENGUIN.


I've been making stop motion animations with Lisa (Lisaaaaa) so i got inspired and did this one on my own with my built in mac camera and a program called 'istopmotion'. Its my first but i really like it! It makes me want to STOP MOTION THE WORLD!

Saturday, April 18

"This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse." -- Julian Simon

Friday, April 17

Last night I had the luck to watch Dweezil Zappa play Frank Zappas music at Zappa plays Zappa (whoa thats a lot of Zappas). They are probably the most proficient and skilled virtuoso musicians I have ever had the luck to see. The gig was awe inspiring. Here's a couple of bootleg videos I recorded.





Listen to him SHRED!!

Sunday, April 5



I didn't watch Animaniacs much but I always liked it. I just stumbled into this song which I think is brilliant, another reminder in perspective of our absolute puniness and grandeur in existance.

Related is this excellent Simpsons intro.

"Only suckers put hope on the future"
- Alan Watts


This video is super excellent, it defines my feeling about life perfectly, I realized I wasn't getting that kitten at around year 11 and got out. Sucks tho, because I sort of really wanted it, but I've had so much fun since!

I'm so glad I never got into university to study software design and development. God what was I thinking?

Thanks for the link Megan!

All you cat eat

So these days instead of going out I spend Saturday nights in my ball chair watching headfuck videos like these on youtube.



It's not the original, but it should be, these dudes put EFFORT in. Its SO horribly good.



That one above is an original clip, it's almost as good.

Thanks for the links Eliza!!
(we really could be doing something better with our sat nites.. but hey, who wants to do something better anyway?)

Oh my god did I mention Omegle.com..

Sunday, March 29

Why are you still here?
What with the oppression and everything!
Didn't they tell you.
Obviously not enough.
Here, rub your face with this,
It's clean like a cloud.
Now shut the blinds.
See that building over there?
It's a lighthouse.
Fly to it.


I love this song so much! It's so moving. I've learnt how to play it and will perform it this weekend with Nic Rachel and Louis.

How about some of the youtube comments on it,

'The lowercase n.
Bahh, Humbug.
Name one song about N.
I can stand for hours on a hill, and no rocketship comes.
But if I was a lowercase n, waiting is fruitful.
I have photos of me waiting on a hill. Do you want to see them?
I have a lowercase n costume, too.
You can have it. It doesn't seem to work.'


and

'The lowercase n finally gets a partner.
That's easy for the lowercase n to do. Especially in words such as running, grinning, etc.
But when you are fat, old and ugly, where do you find a partner?
In my next life I want to be a lowercase n.'


People are great.

Saturday, March 28

Dum

Penguins. Look how stupid they are.

The whatchamaloo has it like, in the matchbox, but wider.
We chose to live the way we did because we could.
As if it was something we could have predicted.
As if it was something we could have procured.
From the smell of the place they hadn't used a wipe of windex since the plaster was peeling and the roaches were feeding.
But it was liberty that we sought.
We got.
We took and the capes are bountiful.
The hats are good too!
Ahh the hats.
That shop keeps on not going out of business, they must be doing something right.
Something with the location of the preceding street, I think it's with the twinkle in the old mans eye.. it makes me feel, discreet, mildly perturbed, kinda horny.

Thursday, March 26

How do you make that rat flavored thing?
Rat bait cake?
I'm noble like that.
Maybe you should ask Dora
Dora?
The explorer
Dora the explorer?

Wednesday, March 25



Even cardboard robots are being hit hard by the recession.

Monday, March 23

I made this animation on my gameboy, detaling the three stages of love.



The song is 'Splendid Blood Stained Embrace Of Your Mischievious Shit Covered Cannibal Cunt Elixir' by Melbourne band Odiusembowel.


The other night I was tired and it was late and I was going home and I decided to skip part of the way. I do that sometimes you know, skip.

Now I'm a big proponent of skipping, it is a safe, efficient and enviromentally friendly method of transport. Not only that but it's quick! & uses little energy in comparison to running. In fact I'd go as far as to say that skipping is *the* most virtuous way of getting from point A to point B without some form of vehicular aid.
Except for one fact.. it looks super gay.

Why is this? Should we be blaming children for this? are children gay? they may look it, but Id find it highly discomforting if they actually were. Could this explain why boys and girls don't mix and mingle until pubescence? Could it be that prior to this moment of rapid hormonal acceleration children are all homosexuals? I sincerely hope not, and having been a child once myself, & never having had a steamy encounter with my best friend Nicolas while playing Sonic The Hedgehog im going to put this theory aside and assume that tho some may be, not all children are homos. Children do not make skipping gay.

So what can it be? the sound of music? there's lots of skipping in that movie, and it's pretty gay, but surely not enough gayness to shame men from partaking in this most exalted method of human expression.. so where does the culprit lie?

I say it lies with you dear reader.

Too long sullied by the deathly threat of the industrial world you have forgotten your roots, your god given right to skip, it is but your fault that I have been reduced to skipping home guarded by darkness, between patches of traffic & behind trees.

Who of you could bear the shame of being spotted gayly skipping at night, quite serious in your intent to shave off a few minutes off your journey and fear the repercussions of a loud guffaw, a pair of flashed hi beams, maybe even an empty milk carton to the head!

A man would be foolhardy to put himself in such peril. A peril even I cant bear.. so I point my unclipped accusatory finger at you and say, join me, repent! relinquish your inferior ways and help me create a revolution! A skip revolution. A new world order where skipping is not frowned upon but gleefuly partaken in by young and old alike, skip lanes next to your standard (and by now obsolete) walkpaths. Late to work? 'It's ok! I'll be there in a minute, i'm skipping' Late home to dinner? 'Don't worry honey! I'm skiping!' much to her or his delight! Oh what a world that would be... but we have a long way to go comrades.

Too long has a precious ability been taken from us by the man, the self governmental system of thought control and their scoundrel cronies! It's a sick world, but their time will come.

Skippers I call upon you to unite and brush this prejudiced blemish from our future and present!

Break off the shackles of pedestrian slavitude and bounce your head on high!

Skip or die.


*Sigh*

Saturday, March 21

Friday, March 20



I made a bee! For a friend named Bee.
Not awfully imaginative.
But it's my payment for a haircut I'm going to get.
More people should make and trade things!
How depressingly easy it is for dreams to be dashed and expectations disappointed. I'm a completely different person to who I was two weeks ago, hell, five days ago.
I wonder if change is always for the better, and I wonder of the merit in coping with unexpected change gracefully. . Is there an arbiter of circumstance noting the quality in which men move through life?
My thoughts often center on doing things 'right' or to the best of my ability, but in a context as subjective as life it is often hard to correctly settle on a decision or justification for what was or can be.
I like a degree of certainty, I like knowing my ground, at the very least I want to know where I'm standing so I know where to step next. It's odd that I so often don't know, or just think I don't.
Clarity is a wonderful thing, as are truth, dignity and grace.
Maybe that's all there is to be, dignified and graceful under the circumstances of a wonderfully/horribly absurd unfolding of life. I'd like to think these qualities make a man, & that I have and will retain these as my pendants, amulets, jewels through life.

Thursday, March 19



I don't like penguins. I think they're stupid. I see no reason for a species to exist whose sole aims are to freeze, starve, and look after an egg on the most unforgiving place on earth. Why would any species make the choice to evolve into such an awful existence? In a deeper level I guess it saddens me that the will to survive and pass on genes is is strong enough to create a whole species whose sole aim is suffering and procreating. Some cynics have said that the reason I don't like the birds is that this existence hits too close to home, but I doubt it. Humans are wild and free, creatures of pleasure and the occasional ultra violent genocidal outbreak. there's culture in that, epic books and great movies inspired.. certainly more exciting than shivering on top of an egg for six months while your friends freeze and die all around you, then spending the other 6 months walking and starving, just to do it again.
Penguins, you're cute, but for all your efforts you might as well have thrown in the towel a long time ago. I'm not impressed.

Wednesday, March 18

It's in the spirit of the strokes that the story comes to know itself.
Not the thought but the intent of the projection which comes to fill the gaps & creates a feeling, a movement.
A moment in time. A mo ment in ti me.

Monday, March 16

"A state of BEING balances DOING. Doing without BEING is numbness. Being without doing causes suffering. Whatever the moment gives you (...even in the midst of crisis) there is opportunity if you're present.

...What's the point in having dreams if you are not going to follow them?"

-Aaron Huey, Fire Mountain Programs

Friday, March 6

My friend Megan found these posters all over Sydney, they're great!
















I really like Craig. I like that he doesn't want to do cheese or kite related activities. And that he wants us to meet him with a frozen spatchcock ready! I think he's a total catch, time traveler, light cook, and dynamic salesman flying in the face of digital media. What a dude.


THIS is really great. Good music, excellent animation, fantastic concept.

From BB - "Chiptune scene regulars and "creators of loud, fast music with a hacked NES from 1985" Anamanaguchi have just released their latest EP, Dawn Metropolis, and -- thanks to this handy embed (why don't more bands do this?) -- you can listen to it in its entirety above by clicking each of the glitch-strips."

Thursday, March 5

"If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared – most of all – to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself….then truth will not be withheld from you."

- Elizabeth Gilbert on The Physics of The Quest.


Her book is 'Eat, Pray, Love' - Amazon

Wednesday, March 4



I made my first instructional video. LED Pushies.

Catchy name, easy to make, fun to play with, flash em constantly in your friends eyes!







AUSTRALIANA PERFECTION



GO NIGEL GO!



SONGWRITING PERFECTION

Tuesday, March 3



So if I have not been blogging much it's cuz i've been making these dudes..

Im really into mexican day of the dead skulls, the expressions and colors and how they fly in the face of a dark connection to death. I'll be hopefully making lots and lots of these for fun and proft. We'll see.

Monday, February 16

Dearest diary, i thought id write about this before i forget the exquisite details. BNeedless to say i met a girl and i actually really like her, in all respects that i can fathom, she';s funny and laughs, she's easy to talk to, fun to be around, she's a girl, she wears dresses and had a flower in her hair, she speaks spanish and loves to listen to me talk shit and get excited, she's hot, she has hair like juana molina, she wrote me a note before she left, all sorts of stuff and she says sweet things to me and kisses me on the neck. I actually really really like her and its a little exciting.
I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE BLOG

Ive just been busy making things in PHYSICAL LIFE!

Ive been painting and going out, playing guitar, makingf friends and living, increasing the randomness in my life and having fun. Perplexingly and paradoxically ive also been freaking out and stressing and getting depressed. Its usually in the mornings that im completely unhappy and at night that im completely fulfilled. The fires are INSANE, Melbourne is shrouded in a fog of smoke, the moon is blood red, resembling Mars even. Hundreds are dead and thousands are homeless.. I feel almost guilty for enjoying the weather of that Saturday so much, I felt perfect, like a wild outcast cowboy on his way to the ultimate showdown, I spent the day outside on the empty streets wearing a sombrero and smiling. I guess its my Mexican blood. I made lots of ZINES for the zine fair and sold 20! I made $30! Not bad for three days work im sure you'd agree. I also kissed a really pretty, fun and excellent girl! On Valentines night we kissed for the first time ever and my brain is full of good things, I'll see her again in two weeks when she gets back from making her art. I can't wait. Also I think im dying I have a strange lump in the middle of my chest, Im actually scared.. Id love to write more about these things but I will refrain.. I dont want to jinx anything.

Tuesday, February 10

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - HP Lovecraft

Thursday, January 29

I've been getting into some really good pop lately.

The video below is of Mathieu Chedid, he's an eccentric french star with a certain vampiric style who I just adore. The song is 'Machistador', if my French correspondent informs me properly, he's singing about how ugly he is, so ugly in fact that he makes his mother vomit. Yet the girls still love him. It must be the dance.



I first heard the Asteroids Galaxy Tour while working for a friend making leather goods and listening to Nova. Theirs was the only song that stood out amongst the saccharine monotonous melodies of the day. I spent two days searching for the name of the artist. I love the clip and its vintage style, as well as the melodies, and of course the singer Mette!



Thursday, January 22

Alright, so this Blog got a bit heavy with the politics but brazen injustice something I feel extremely strongly about.

I even got this letter printed on the newspaper.

"How many more UN schools and hospitals need to be shelled before Western leaders speak out against Israel's morally abhorrent actions in Gaza? We would not tolerate these actions from any other nation, so why from Israel? The attacks in Gaza are fostering anti-Western sentiment and creating the very resistance they are trying to suppress. It is time to tell Israel its actions are unacceptable.

Paul Alvarado Brunswick (Vic)"

Supposedly every letter printed in a paper speaks for a hundred others who just couldn't be fukt.

I REPRESENTATED A HUNDEDRED PEEOPL1!!!

Anyway, to break up the neg vibes and get this blog going again, I present some old photos of me doing my thing in a skirt.











Thursday, January 15

*Insert horrific picture here*

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent resistance inevitable" - JFK

I've seen enough videos now of children clutching their dead mummies while their own guts are spilled out onto the pavement to make up my mind.

Obama has one week to denounce Israeli actions. If he does not, regardless of his amazing book, his good looks, and his basketball skills. Regardless, he will become my sworn enemy. He will show himself for the coward and sell out that we all hoped he was not.

So far over 1000 Palestinians are dead. Two UN Schools have been bombed by Israel. The U.N, Red Cross, Amnesty International, etc have all denounced Israel as committing war crimes. Norwegian doctors have confirmed Ambulances are being deliberately targetted by Israeli forces. In contrast, 20 Israeli Soldiers have died in the conflict. 4 from friendly fire.

If Obama, who represents 'Hope' doesn't speak out... I will be against him.

I will be against him with every fibre of my being. I will hate him, and see him as a coward, a liar, and as an accomplice to untold suffering and the destruction of humanity and what it represents on earth..

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"

You have one week Obama.




http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/08/red-cross-israeli-behavior-in-gaza-shocking/








From Boing Boing comments -

'There can be no excuse for bombing mosques and schools. If you saw a gunman firing at you from near a school, would you destroy it with a rocket, knowing you would kill dozens of children? What kind of monsters make the choice to bomb the school?'   

'America's unwavering military and economic support of the Shah of Iran from 1953 to 1979 is what radicalized Iran and sparked the Iranian Revolution.

America's unwavering military and economic support of Saddam Hussein from 1982-1990 is what armed a madman with thousands of tons of WMD's.

America's unwavering support of Israel is what inspired Muhammed Atta to attack the US after the Israeli military committed the Qana Massacre in Lebanon, 1996.

America cannot afford another Shah of Iran, another Saddam Hussein, or another Israeli massacre.

The UN, the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and other groups have condemned Israels current bombardment and invasion of Gaza to be violations of internation laws, violations of human rights, and potential war crimes.

And it wouldn't be the first time that blind, unquestioning, support of a militant power in the middle east ended up biting us in the ass.'

'it is clear that Israel (and their backers) don't want peace, because if they did then Israel would not have broken the ceasefire on November 4th, (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/israelandthepalestinians-egypt) prompting Hamas to begin Quassam rocket attacks the next day.'

It's not just the numbers. It's the hypocrisy, the injustice.. and the western SILENCE.

"Israel is the self described Jewish state, but then Apartheid South Africa were convinced they represented white people world wide against the scourge of bloodthirsty blacks and communists.


In a similar way the Israeli army aren't oppressing and killing Palestinians because Jewish soldiers are bloodthirsty killers any more than South Africa's multiple wars against its black neighbours showed there was anything inherently violent about white people, those of Dutch extraction or those who like barbecues a lot.


The problem for Israel is that its a colonial state whose existence is predicated on the dispossession and expulsion of the people already living there - its a source of huge moral confusion for Israelis, after all if ethnically cleansing Palestinians and taking their land is bad now why wasn't it bad when Israel was founded? Its impossible for them to pull back from these constant punishment attacks and the settlements on the west bank without questioning the very nature of the state. So its easier for them to dismiss the criticism from around the world as being motivated by racism and bigotry or in a chilling echo of apartheid that people outside Israel just dont understand how brutish the Arabs are.

White South Africans eventually got over it (with much pressure), we can only hope that Israelis do too."