Pimpin' it

Over the last couple of nights I've been working on a design for *stuff* with the plan of setting up an online store to peddle my wares. Well, it looks like this has been successful. You can visit my fledgling online empire if you like.... Go on, you know you want to.
....And at least one of us wants you to buy something (if you really love it).

I decided to go with CafePress rather than my first choice of Spreadshirt, as I couldn't see a way of setting up Spreadshirt from outside of the US or Europe. I'm going to be adding more designs over the next 'while', so stay tuned....

...Other than the above, my day was pretty good. Busy as always, a few giggles and guffaws with the gang I work with... today we were trying to come up with a corporate slogan for our company, which I handily neglected to send home to myself... no worries... check back 2moro and I'll have them added.

Dinner tonight is a nice oven-baked fish with mash potato, steamed broccoli and mushrooms. I've already got my stockpiled lunch for 2moro, a surprisingly pleasant (considering the time of night on Sunday that I jumped up and said "oh shit! I haven't made lunch yet") curried lamb with zuchini, chickpeas and (who would have thought - rice).

I'm currently listening to my new favourite band - 'broken social scene' ... I heard 'Fire Eye'd Boy' late the other night on TripleJ, I'm completely hooked.

...In true form, I appear to have missed them playing the Metro by 3 days.
bugger!

A great pair of images from Married to the Sea...

...I think they go really well together ;)

Has anyone seen my weekend?

Hey punks, how's it going?
... aah, that grim sense of foreboding that comes part and parcel with the end of the weekend. It's so cruel that the working week seems to drag on, yet the weekend is over in a blink.

Friday night we went out in the city for Joeys farewell... and as is often the case, it turned into a much larger event than I expected. We initially started at the Arthouse Hotel

...and then a few of us went down the road to my semi-regular, the underground bar of the Criterion Hotel.
We finally got out of there after much laughter and drinks, and some of the worlds worst games of pool, at 5am.


Saturday morning Alex (who crashed on our couch) and I went over to Sams, for nothing in particular. The initial plan had been to go and see the "City of Shadows" exhibition at the Police and Justice Museum, but we were all in more of a relax and sit around state of mind. There's plenty of time to see the exhibition anyway, it's on until October sometime.



Saturday night was Mick and Brians housewarming, which was a pretty low key affair, but nice enough. Today I spent some time outdoors, went for a walk and watched my new Tropfest dvd. Really enjoyed it. The quality gets better each year.

Also (perhaps) worth mentioning that I've started working on a new painting... here it is so far, I'm quite happy with it, but of course, there is much work to do. I've started working on some designs for t-shirts that I intend to put up on spreadshirt.com, ...more on that soon enough.

Hello Hello. It's been an fairly busy few weeks since I've written here.

I've started painting on Sundays around at a Sam and Phils place, which has been really great, a really cool way to start the week. A few glasses of wine, some good music and everyone kicking back and painting together. I've found that I've been painting more during the week as a result too. I'm just putting the finishing touches on my second painting at the moment, I'll make sure that I'll post a pic up here when it's done.

Sam and I went up to the beach last Saturday and on the way the diff in my car died, so I nursed it home and it's been in the garage ever since. It's going to cost me a couple of grand to get it back on the road i reckon. Damn! oh well. It's weird the little things that you take for granted when you have a car.... grocery shopping is the big one I notice... having to budget what you're buying so its manageable to carry home. It's a complete pain in the ass when you overestimate what you can carry, trust me ;)

Mick and Brian moved to Epping last weekend, so last night I wandered over to their new place (hey, afterall, it's only half an hours walk), had a few drinks and watched some Arrested Development. I ended up crashing over and walking back a bit before 7am. Tonight I think Matt and I (and maybe Mick) are going to go and check out a band in Balmain, and 2moro Sam and I are going into the city to check out the Viking exhibition and the Museum of contemporary Art.

Not too much else to report really... it's a hot sweaty day today so pretty much sitting around watching downloaded tv shows.

More soon. Till then, take care.

Stone Age tribe kills fishermen

ONE of the world's last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean.

The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range.

They are believed to be the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world to remain isolated and appear to have survived the 2004 Asian tsunami.

The men killed, Sunder Raj, 48, and Pandit Tiwari, 52, were fishing illegally for mud crabs off North Sentinel Island, a speck of land in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands archipelago.

Fellow fishermen said they dropped anchor for the night on January 25 but fell into a deep sleep, probably helped by large amounts of alcohol. During the night their anchor, a rock tied to a rope, failed to hold their open-topped boat against the currents and they drifted towards the island.

"As day broke, fellow fishermen say they tried to shout at the men and warn them they were in danger," said Samir Acharya, the head of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, an environmental organisation. "However they did not respond - they were probably drunk - and the boat drifted into the shallows where they were attacked and killed."

The Indian coast guard tried to recover the bodies using a helicopter but was met by a hail of arrows.

Photographs shot from the helicopter show the near-naked tribesmen rushing to fire. But the downdraught from its rotors exposed the two fishermen buried in shallow graves and not roasted and eaten, as local rumour suggested.

Attempts to recover the bodies have been suspended, although the Andaman Islands police chief, Dharmendra Kumar, said an operation might be mounted later.

Environmental groups urged the authorities to leave the bodies and respect the five-kilometre exclusion zone thrown around the island. In the 1980s and early 1990s many Sentinelese were killed in skirmishes with armed salvage operators who visited the island after a shipwreck. Since then the tribesmen have remained virtually undisturbed.

from smh