Around the house

Circles

I feel that the crop circles are rather lame, the ice circle is formed naturally by the movement or currents. Mushrooms are good.

Art and Music

The Four Seasons




Man Ray




Len Lye



Celeste Boursier-Mougenot

81/2

I really like this film

Mountains

My friend John was really thoughtful and generous and gifted me two framed photos of the Himalayas taken in the 1930's. They have a wonderful script in pencil beneath each photo, describing the images taken. I will post pictures of them soon.

John is a collector and dealer of old photographs (mostly from the 19th century) - he gave the photos to me because I draw and paint mountains a lot. And I just really like the look of them - something about them captivates me.
I like volcanos a lot too, I am working on a small painting of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines) at the moment for a forth coming exhibition.

Can

I love Kraut rock x

This keeps happening!

I keep waking up in the middle of the night from sleep to see a strange object on the side of my wall to my left.

I have no idea what it is but it disappears after about one or two seconds.

I don't know I think it must be me being mental because its not shaped like a ghost or anything really recognizable. This is very awkward to admit but I feel that what ever it is has a consciousness.

About two years ago when I lived in Prahran a similar thing used to happen, in which I would wake up at 4am every morning and I would see a strange purple (sometimes green) shape in my room. Every morning! It was kind of a diamond shape.

I read in the paper recently about a man's theory that aliens could be standing right in front of us and we wouldn't even register because they take on forms that our brains cannot process in any way. I really hope these mystical shapes are something to do with my being crazy and not weird aliens watching me sleep.

Animals that have attacked me

(Bitten, scratched or stung)

Wasp (stung - on the shin)

Dog (bite - various dogs have bit me on the arse, hand and middle finger)

Cat (bite, scratch)

Grasshopper (bite)

Caterpillar (stung)

Jellyfish (stung - awful)

Scorpion (stung - also unfun)

Human (bite, scratch - mostly fun)

Mosquito (bite - this was the worst I got malaria)

Bee (stung)

That's all I can think of right now but I have a feeling there have been more...

LAS POZAS

Lots of times I imagine how excellent it would be if I had the ability to teleport.
If I could teleport the first place I would go (after robbing a bank vault) would be Las Pozas in Mexico. There is an incredible gigantic garden of surrealist sculptures hiding behind the ferns and palms and vines and cacti and giant poisonous flowers. These sculptures were created by a man named Edward James, the world's biggest collector of surrealist art. He came from an aristocratic family in Britain, running away to Mexico to build his own world.

For some reason thinking about Las Pozas reminds me of a documentary I watched once about a man who lived in a Brazilian slum and had spend years building his house up into an incredible curving, organic castle/ sculpture of a thing. Although his building techniques and ideas were scarily similar to the Spanish architect/sculptor Gaudi, this man had never heard of nor seen anything to do with Gaudi in his life. He said God told him how to build and which part to work on next. Many parts of the house were covered in worn glass and shells. I really wish I could remember the man's name on which the documentary was centered around (or the documentary's title for that matter). At the end of the documentary the film-makers took this man to see Gaudi's work in Barcelona. It was really great.

Dream

I had a dream yesterday morning in which I was collecting many long sticks into a bundle. When I looked down at what I had collected I saw that one of the sticks was sky blue.

This Town

Pomegranates

I picked them out of a tree in the neighbourhood last night. Is picking fruit from somebody else's tree theft?

Last Sunday

I found a tiger mask at work. It wasn't long before things spiraled out of control: We ended up making a shrine out of my friend Joel.

Are Cacti bad Feng shui?

When I moved into my current abode my flatmate said the one thing I couldn't do was bring a cactus plant into the house. He said he hated them! He is convinced they are bad Feng shui. I like Cacti. They are so alien looking and also you only have to water them about 5 times a year. How can something from nature disrupt the laws of Feng Shui? Is it the spikes? I really want to start a cactus garden but I think I will get evicted if I try.