Some unaffordable material objects I've been eyeing off:


^ Sharpening Necklace (red) from Victoria Mason AU$198


^ Your Toast, Speech Bubble and Paper Plane earrings from Victoria Mason (all AU$55)


^ Cardboard Buck Jr Trophy from Fred Flare, US$32


^ Composition Notebook Duffel from Fred Flare, US$24


^ Vetements Polka Dot Bow Necklace, from Paraphernalia, US$30


Vetements Bow Tie Necklace from Paraphernalia, US$30


^ Braid Back Tee, by Species By The Thousands,US$38


^ Custom Leaf Silhouette Portrait, by Jenny Lee Fowler, US$65


^ Zumreed Lime Headphones, from Fred Flare, US$65


^ Seascape Stamp Set, from Yellow Owl Workshop, US$30


^ Stripy Book Belt, from Present & Correct, £7

I've spent the last day or two watching Season 3 of Skins, which the lovely Miss Sophie sent to me this week. I was fairly critical of the plot flaws and character development in the first two seasons, but still enjoyed it, and was apprehensive how a cast of new characters would turn out, but I had a really good time watching it. I basically have a big crush on Lily Loveless (and a little on Kathryn Prescott and Ollie Barbieri):


^ Naomi (Lily Loveless) and Emily (Kathryn Prescott)


^ JJ (Ollie Barbieri)

Yesterday was the last day for the internet month and we had 7MB of interwebz left, so we had to turn it off for a whole day! It was a loooooong day, haha. I'd like to do it more often actually. C and I went for a laksa today at our favourite place to eat Al-Oi Thai in Beaumont Street. That laksa is incredible. We get the same thing every time we go there and it never disappoints. It's a good idea when you feel the onset of a cold, it frightens the germs away. Tonight C's brother came over for dinner (and desert) and as we have three computers in the loungeroom at the moment we were quite the antisocialites and spent most of the night communally internetting.

I was thinking earlier about how I don't like weekends because there's no mail. Then I thought, wow I'm weird sometimes. And obviously unemployed and not studying.

Ps. This article made me smile today; 'Cat catches same bus every day'.

These are the cats in my house:


^ This is Chorus, asleep in the in-tray. His usual sleeping spot (on top of the computer monitor with legs hanging over) has been replaced by a laptop, so he's found somewhere new. Once I almost killed him accidentally with a balloon on a string. He's not too bright, but he's very friendly. He belongs to our housemate Dave. Chorus likes finding strange places to sleep, playing with pegs and pistachio shells and annoying the other cats. (As I was writing he was crying in his sleep, I think he must be having a nightmare)


^ This is Rigby. We mind her (permanently) for a friend of C's. We think she might have cat autism. Rigby likes occasional affection and RUINING MY MACBOOK SCREEN WITH HOT CHOCOLATE. I'm starting to get to know her a bit better and I don't feel like killing her any more.


^ This is Mesca sitting on the printer, she is like C's daughter. She's the oldest and smartest cat (and Rigby's mother). Her eyes look like she knows too much and sometimes she seems like a human. She enjoys beating up Chrous, sitting in the sun, curling up under blankets in bed and eating dried fish skeleton treats.

Currently rewatching Diablo Cody/Steven Spielberg's wonderful 'United States of Tara', which is showing on ABC at 9.30 Wednesdays. If you haven't seen it, you should.



I made a rather sizeable, short term life altering decision today. I'm no longer studying this semester. This wasn't the decision I initially set out to make, but I'm going to make it work for me. I'm going to have to wrangle Centrelink and look for some mindless work and I'm going to generally use it as a creative break.

I got two Postcrossing postcards in the mail today, one from Holland and one from Finland.





I am so obsessed with this website.

Not too much to update today. Doug and I went to Bunnings this evening at the last moment so that I could steal legally acquire more paint charts and Doug could look at some wood for some bed/desk/loft contraption that he's building. Needless to say, I think it's going to be a disaster and Doug isn't a 'real man' who can build things. And because he never reads my blogs, because 'blogs are boring', I can say whatever I like. I picked up a bundle more paint charts and priced some cherry red enamel paint with which to paint the top of my desk. Here are some of my favourite paint chart colours I picked up today:




Also, Doug said "I like to touch things to see what they're made of" as he fondled a fake terracotta pot and it made me laugh.

The internet stole me tonight:

• Here is the sweet new promotional postcard for Newcastle's annual This Is Not Art festival, designed by the very talented Studio Racket. I'll be having some of these please.
  
  

• One of the most amazing things I've seen on the internet: Soytuaire. You basically just move your mouse around and it makes these amazing pictures, to music (a bit bandwidth heavy and you have to wait a moment or two for it to load, but you'll be glad you did).
  
  
• Photos of amazing drawings on dirty cars. My particular favourite is:
  
  
  
  
• Uncannily similar photos of Kermit the Frog and Christian Bale.
  
  
• This strange animation called Pills.
  
  
• I would love love love a copy of this book when it comes out!;
  
  
  ^ link.
  
  
• I love the work of BLU, here is one of his wall painting animations.
  
  
• This video basically sums up the uses of the internet; Lipdubbing, genious.
  
  
• It's likely that you wouldn't buy or wear this shirt or condone anyone else doing so...
  
  Now read the 100+ reviews of it on Amazon, e.g. "When I put this T-shirt on for the first time, my wife left me! Thank you, Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt". I'm unsure whether it is currently, but this was the number one selling apparel item on Amazon.
  
  
• The 'Internet Meme Database'.
  
  
• We Feel Fine, is a program that searches for blog posts about how people are feeling. Woah.
  
  
• C showed me WWOOF, which stands for Willing Workers On Organic Farms, where you basically exchange some farm work for a place to stay and food for as long as you like, and you can do it in various parts of the globe, or similarly Meet Up, Air B'n'B or CouchSurfing. I'd love to travel that way.
  
  
• Did you know that during his campaign, Barack Obama raised half a billion dollars online?
  
  
• How about this diagram of 'The Spectrum Of Online Friendship'.
  
  
• Further into my internet travels I came across this website called Kickstarter, which exists as a funding platform for artists, designers, film makers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers, etc. Cool, huh? At the moment it's done on an invite only basis and you have to be a US resident, but they're still expanding. I'll definitely be checking this out a bit more.
  
  Similarly, there is a website called Kiva, where you loan a person in need as much or as little as you can afford towards their entrepreneurial need, to lift themselves out of poverty, and they repay you once they make it back. Interesting, I wonder if it works.
  
  
• An interesting article about 'Digital Natives' (people born after 1980) vs 'Digital Immigrants' (those born before 1980).
  
  
• I have no idea where this is from, and I'd like to find out:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This video made with Post-Its:
  
  
  
  

• Several of these links were nabbed from the amazing Jessica from Something Changed, so I just wanted to give her due credit.
  

Phew! That took a long time. I was so swamped by the internet tonight. I got home from the movies tonight and the internet just claimed me.

This is one of those days for me where you realise that the internet is fucked up and amazing and creepy and intense and voyeuristic and useful and strange and ever evolving and impossible to understand.

Sorry for the link heavy blog, I'll write something of substance later in the week.