Disturbing Images

Beautiful and disturbing paintings by artist Samuel Bak at the Pucker Gallery in Boston.

Book Me

With the weather finally turning a little colder here it seems like a good time to curl up somewhere cozy with a book. A comfy chair, a crackling fire, and a cup of hot chocolate, mmmm. "Phaidon Design Classics" in three hefty volumes might not be everyone's first choice, but trashy novel or serious non-fiction, it's a great way to spend a chilly afternoon.

See more of my Book Me list at ThisNext.

Spoiled Rotten Kitty

What my cat (and yours) needs.

See more of my Spoiled Rotten Kitty list at ThisNext.

So, what have I been doing for the last month?

Pouring over the internet looking at cool stuff, that's what. Literally making a list, and checking it twice (at least).

It began as a birthday present search, then someone had a baby, someone else had two, Christmas is coming, and so I had many excuses to be trawling the internet looking for stuff. Still, after all the presents are brought, I keep going... somebody stop me... please...

If anyone has an idea of how I can put this obsessiveness to good use, I'd welcome the advice (ie make some money out of it - no start-up costs though, I'm skint).

See more of my I like... list at ThisNext.

Long Time, No Post

Long time indeed, but I have just put a new set of pictures on my other page and perhaps I'll even take some more tonight *gasp* I don't think I've taken one photo with my "real" camera since Mexico - in fact I have a part roll of film still in my camera from Mexico.

I'll try to get back in the habit of posting, but anyone who knows me knows what a slacker I am about these things.

Scanner!

Sweet! My flatmate has a scanner! Actually, he's had it the whole time he's been here, but I only just found out today. So here's a doodle. No doubt one of many to be digitized :)

Demolished for a motorway bypass.

I loved the house I lived in for six years while at uni, but I'll be the first to admit it was not pretty. So it was probably a good choice from a PR perspective to demolish it first. It made it look like they were doing the community a service rather than carving a community in two.

Construction on the motorway bypass that had been fought since the 60's was kicked off in late 2004 with the demolition of 323 Willis St.

A girl was there to chain herself to the bulldozer - I always said I'd lie in front of the bulldozers if the time came, but I'd been in Boston for 3 years by then.

Guess-the-Google

Good clean fun, but take note - this was made by a Kiwi, so spelling is English English, not American English (e.g. colour not color).


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I know there's only a couple more days...

but that pink was driving me batty. So here's a variant for the last few days of October.

Only 5 more days of pink!

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My eyes are excited.

Sprogs!

I've been away from home for so long that I have "cousin in-laws" who I have never even met and now not one, but two "junior cousins" (first cousins once removed is a little cumbersome to say)!

I don't normally get gooey over children, but not having siblings means no nieces or nephews (at least not by blood), so these little guys are the closest I've got.



Mikaela, who looked rather like Daniel last time I saw a photo & the man himself, Daniel - 1 day old!

Scrapblog

Think I might be cheating a little here - this is actually a post from the other blog I've been working on, but it was supposed to be just a test ground for templates etc.

I had an idea to find a wood finish background and plaster it with stickers, graffiti, & a blog title as part of a blog template. In my search to find the ingredients I found Scrapblog [beta] (of course it's beta, it might even be beta 2.0).

You're supposed to put pictures in it too, but I was so enamoured with the backgrounds & "stickers" that I didn't even get to the pictures. You can even embed them in your regular blog - but I found for my purposes (only displaying one page) that taking a screen shot & cropping it in Photoshop worked better.

I'm still here...

It has been a week, but I am still at it. Just "doing it" somewhere else. Honing my design skills (& therefore html & css skills - although I think both the words honing & skills give a false impression) in another location.

Check it out - ya know ya want to (it's not pink, I promise).

Fun with Fotos - Mexico, July 2006

More photos from my Mexico trip in July, tricked out with the help of fd's flickr toys. Will add titles once I get my files in order.


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In the Pink

Check it out - I'm Pink for October!