Pic of the day July 29, 2006 Front Hallway

Pic of the day July 28, 2006

Pic of the day July 27, 2006

Pic of the day July 26, 2006

Pic of the day July 25, 2006

Watching the sun set over the city.

Pic of the day July 24, 2006

Do you find this composition a bit anal or is it just me?

Pic of the day July 23, 2006

Pic of the day July 22, 2006

Friday Night Videos-Melbourne Buskers

Pic of the day July 20, 2006

The reading of the Rukhnama.

In Turkmenistan there resides a revolving gold statue and the giant statue of his book, the Rukhnama. It apparently can open up on special occasions and spew forth a lazer show that writes pages of the book into the fog which it also spews forth. Apparently it is quite impressive.

Pic of the day July 19, 2006

One of the coolest starters I've eaten.
From top: Betel leaves, lime, toasted almonds, dried shrimp, ginger pieces,
peanuts, shallot, chilli and peanut sauce!

Betel Bliss Bombs @
COOKIE

Pic of the day July 18, 2006

Check out the plates.
"I don't care what kind of car you drive bro,
you're still a tool."

Pic of the day July 17, 2006

Pic of the day July 16, 2006

Pic of the day July 15, 2006

Friday Night Videos! -The Specials

Neville Staple's reformed Specials live at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne. The sound and video quality are very rough but as you can see the guy still gives a quality performance and he's one of the most gracious musicians I've ever witnessed.

See the 15 April post for more adventures from this night.

Pic of the day July 13, 2006

Pic of the day July 12, 2006

Taking up the old floor in the new house. 22 hours of this and we're still not ready for to call in the sander.

Pic of the day July 11, 2006

Pic of the day July 10, 2006

Pic of the day July 9, 2006

This is some more amazing Melbourne stencil art. Dont know who this is but he/she's done a laneway full of these figures. The different stencils (arms, legs, torsos and heads) can be mixed and matched. Here are two of the coolest

Pic of the day July 8, 2006

The iron-on is back!!!

Wadda'ya want...Hasselhoff? KISS? Vanilla Ice??? or the all-time classic, I'm With Stupid!

Friday Night Videos!!! the White Stripes

As a kid I loved Friday Night Videos!
Just for Kicks I thought I might recreate a bit of my mid-youth (excluding the daily beatings and humiliations) and post my own Video taken at some recent concert.

This is footage from Big Day Out 2006, a portion of Jack and Meg singing Cold, Cold Night. The images are from the side-stage video screens as I was way the hell back (I'm too old for this 10,000 crowd fesival shit) still, their performance was quite sensual.

The live audio was horrible so the audio on the video is from the Elephant album. The shitty edits toward the end are mine as the live version was a bit slower and I had to extend it with a couple of audio edits.

Oddly enough, the different audio and video synch quite uniquely.

Pic of the day July 6, 2006

Another winter harvest

Pic of the day July 5, 2006

I'm not sure how the US press covered this little photo-op at Graceland...it came across on most news channels as a pretty silly event.

Fortunately, one of the more independently thinking stations aired a snippet of video footage of Koizumi directly facing Bush as he sang, "Wise man say...Only fools rush in".

It was CLASSIC!

I've been looking for a direct link to the footage and will hopefully post it soon.

Fourth of July, 2006

Check out the fireworks we arranged for Matt's farewell.
Thanks for visiting Matt!
WE MISS YOU!!!

Pic of the day July 3, 2006

Pic of the day July 2, 2006

Pic of the day July 1, 2006

More competition for Borders.