Strange wednesday ebb

I have a feeling of impending doom and not sure why.


I feel like I'm walking on eggshells around myself. I'm waiting for some unknown disaster to fall in my lap and explode everywhere.


I am angry with myself and don't know why.


Today i feel tangled up in sticky thread.

February

I'm scared of February.

Wish List!

Hmmm if I had lots of moolah I'd own all these things. I assume the inka masks would cost a few million - lay by?


1. Opal/precious stone/metal covered Inka masks

2. An Audrey Kawasaki original

3. A Tree Bed (this reminds me of where the wild things are)

4. An Audrey Kawasaki kokeshi doll

5. This brooch by Julia DeVille

6. The Little Wanderer doll by Yoshitomo Nara

7. Philippe Starck Gnome

My immediate horizon

Things at my desk:

A koosh ball

A giant ball of rubber bands

A miniature plastic chicken occompanied with miniature plastic boombox

A slinky

Various stationary strewn about

A lucky coin

A giant bowl of lollies

15 post it note pads

Many (bad) small drawings of mushrooms and blob creatures, trees and ladies.

Documents

My "Diamond Digital" monitor

My "Aria" telephone

2 empty cups

and me.

Wunderkammer

Wunderkammer translates to cabinet of curiosities.

The wunderkammer was an early way of ordering and cataloguing objects and artifacts prior to, and during the renaissance period.

Perhaps one of the goals of collecting in this manner was a form of controlling nature, as the collections are housed in rigid, square, clinical spaces.

Sunfish

This is a Mola-Mola also known as a Sunfish.

There used to be a taxidermied one at the Dunediun museum and was my favorite thing there.
When I went back a few years ago, the Sunfish had gone.

KODAMA

The Kodama are a japanese tree spirit that live in particular types of trees/flora. They act as guardians to these trees and to the forest areas in which the they grow.

Cutting down a tree that houses Kodama will bring bad luck.

Man bitten by snake 9 times

My friend Joel first showed this article to me about 5 years ago.
It could be the best thing I've ever read.

I'm sorry if the font is too small. If you cant read it, the jist of the story is that a Darwin based man was so drunk he picked up a King Brown snake which bit him 9 times.

Rant

You know what?

Yes I am the receptionist and one of my tasks is to tidy the kitchen and stack/unstack the dishwasher. HOWEVER - I do not drink plunger coffee and I dont think I need to clean out your manky coffee dreg sludged up coffee plunger every day beacuse you cannot be bothered doing it yourself. You could even take the dregs home and throw them on the garden (if you have one) because apparently plants love coffee...

Okay???!!! Right. I'm glad you see where I'm coming from. I hope you don't realise this is a personal attack or anything *cough*

Awful or awesome???

I was pottering around on the net looking for directions on making soft toys and came across this image:

I just want to know how someone gets this shit published???

I'm not sure, but does it look like he is crying?

Hong Kong dragons

In Hong Kong they put holes in their buildings so dragons can fly through them.

Sebastien Tellier and The King

....Are the shit!

By the way, happy birthday Elvis. Say hi to Klaatu and E.T for me.

Thoughts about you

Were you a seed that grew in the dark?

Were you a fish that turned into a man?

Did you grow out of the ground
or wash up from the sea?

Are you beast or tree, or human like me?

Watching Jaques Cousteau

When I was little and living in the Phillipines, I used to watch these three VHS tapes of Jaques Cousteau's adventures through Papua New Guinea. They were given to my parents by family friends who had escorted Cousteau around the islands, reefs and rainforests of PNG.

Prior to the stint in the Phillipines, I briefly lived in Port Moresby. Most memories are of the beaches. Of looking at sea-cucumbers in rock pools, digging for pippies, and making peanut butter at my kindergarten. I also remember throwing my sister's cat down the stairs (sorry Juliet).

I remember on one of the tapes, footage of a beautiful Cus - cus that had climbed up a tree and then got trapped as water levels rose. They ended up saving it and keeping the Cus-cus as a pet on their boat.














My sister met Jaques Cousteau once and said he was actually quite boring...

Appreciating the Kokeshi

Very lovely. They aren't cheap but I hope to have a full cabinet of kokeshi dolls one day...

Stay inside (yourself)

TwinPeaks

4 images by Bill Henson

Tackling the Finn Family Moomintroll

It took me about 3 days to say 'Finn-family-moomintroll' without running out of breath half way through and/or just saying something completely wrong (suchas: FinnMan-familyman)

New Years Resolutions

Learn to drive

Stop punctuating sentences with swear words

Make more art

Learn to sew - this is so I can make a soft bigfoot/yeti/tree spirit creature thing.

I'd curl up and fall asleep on this guy's belly...my own Totoro

Banksia Man (who reminds me of Jermaine Clement)

Old man sans inner monologue

Walking home post grocery shopping from my local Woolworths I made the mistake of making eye contact with some kind of vagrant man on Malvern Road. I was toting a skateboard which freaked the old man out so much he felt the need to rant about it:

"SKATE RIDER! A FEMALE SKATE RIDER?? I NEVER. WHAT AN ANIMAL!"

That was about all he had to say.

Maybe if I told him I didn't actually know how to skate it would've reassured him.