A Very Merry Christmas...

Strange to be somewhere so warm for Christmas this year, and so far away from home and family. Tim Minchin's 'White Wine in the Sun' is lyrically and melodically lovely...and about just this kind of Christmas...

(via Yogi)

Songs for December...

Songs for November got missed and December is flying by at a startling rate so I thought I should post some music before it's the new year. I've been making a non-Christmasy Christmas mix for my brother and sister this week - it's dug up some excellent material for this post!

Das Pop - Never Get Enough (buy it)
'Butterfly belly aches, keep me up night and day. You radiate sunshine and make it reverberate' It's such a very happy little ditty that it had to go on.

Speech Debelle - Spinnin' (buy it)
Just about hip-hop, this combines tonnes of optimism and hope with the odd self deprecating lyric to keep it grounded, and fun little drum bits with cute piano loops. Tres bien.

Owl City - Fireflies
I've been pining for a new Postal Service album for far too long and this starts to fill the hole. It's almost too cheesy but it will have to do for now...

The Doodle Bug...

The always intriguing Doodlers Anonymous have brought out a kick ass new colouring-in book filled with great illustrations. I would dearly love to do as they say and 'get your hands on it and fill it in with every ounce of ink you have lying around.' Unfortunately I have recently run into a rather terminal visa related issue with New Zealand Immigration and money is now more precious than ever. (Lame). It's officially on my to buy list though...and it's only 12 bucks. Hmmm...

Here are two of my favourite pages...

Left: Abigail Daker Right: uberkraaft

Left: Bony Bünz Right: Simon Mills

Chiharu Shiota sculpture...

I'm not really sure what to make of the installations by Chiharu Shiota but there is definitely something about them that gets under my skin. Maybe its the scale or the level of intricacy, or both, or maybe something else entirely that I can't put my finger on. Whatever it is though, it makes me tilt my head, raise my eyebrows and go ooooh.

Oedipus Rex...stage design, Dresden, Germany

Flowing Water...at Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan

(through of paper and things)

Paper cut outs; no seriously...

So, there's this guy called Pablo Lehmann, and for the last few years he has been making just unbelievably detailed paper cut outs. I'm pretty sure he has missed his calling as a surgeon but instead of operating on humans he could operate on tiny, tiny animals with miniature organs...which is effectively a vet. That sounded more glamorous and complimentary in my head.



All in all pretty mind blowing stuff; well worth having a look around his website. I wish I had the patience for work like this...and also skill.

(through moon river)

It's been a while...

OK so the last post was October 20th...2 months without an update. Granted for 5 weeks of that I was away on a journey but for the rest of the time I have no excuse other than laziness. It's a good thing no one reads this or some one might feel like they have missed out.

On a side note, I can't say the word 'while' now without thinking about 'cool whip'



This is not the clip I wanted to be honest. I wanted the bit where Meg kidnaps Brian...and they're going to be there for a while, and Brian is acting all wheird. Either way, you get the idea...