MONSTER TRUCK JUMP MANIA

monster truck jump mania – just another weekend for me, really.
the highlight of the night was when the freestyle motorcross guy got down on his knees and proposed to his woman (who was wearing a white mini dress and black stilettos) in front of the crowd at rod laver arena. another rider then proceeded to spray a bottle [...]

graphic gatsby

  
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men
 since joining the public libraries posse I’ve become a kind of convert to the graphic novel. not [...]

elude your stalker

 Deftly, Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers [...]

i heart origami

   
as if its not obvious already, but origami is my current obsession.  yesterday when I was flicking through magazines at the athenaeum library (aka working) I came across the same excellent emerald green Dior dress with origami pleating in both the latest Vogue, and a New Yorker edition from last month.
i checked out the slideshow of the [...]

spelling bee-atch

some staff at the ath were bitching about a poster i made for an origami christmas workshop, which Im running in december. i made a typo in the header section of the flier – where the library name appears in a swirling gothic typeface. there is an ‘a’ missing, apparently.
however, because I’m hardly there they all [...]

cocktail builder

this cocktail builder takes what liquids you have around the place and tells you what cocktail you can whip up. i found it on the web 2.0 awards site, where it won first place in the ‘fun’ section. and deservedly so. 
however, one small flaw that i noticed in this 2.0 application  was that it only accepted legitimate beverages into the cocktail equation. [...]

my new facebook ‘friend’

is the mebourne athenaeum library.  if you need to boost your fb friend stats then i suggest you befriend him/her/it – it’s not really selective so fear ofbeing ignored is out of the question. 

communism – a love story

following up from a post a while back, the communist love story had a happy ending. amanda got her autographed book and the 70 something geriatric crowd got to relive the ‘glory days’ of the cp in australia, told by a guy who at that time was not born let alone a thought. he’s jeff sparrow – [...]

hokusai makes it to the rice paddy

i love this. look at the picture carefully and you can see people in a rice field. Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.  this year’s theme was woodblock master [...]

war of words in wiki world

i read an article in the age newspaper today which talked about the two camps which have emerged in the1000 strong wikipedia administrator field, namely the ‘deletionists’ and the ‘inclusionists’. having recently watched the lord of the rings and also being in the middle of a david gemmell saga the thought of two waring factions [...]