This
versus this
Clearly the second one is the winner. Infact i think in this case the internet is the winner. It just became a much richer place thanks to that second video.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Sunday, 14 June 2009
3D graffitti and home surgery
Home surgery
It takes days of scrubbing with scented soaps and lotions to get that dead skin smell off your body. As soon as I'd cut the plaster off I realised that my arm was still NQR. After a couple of visits to a doctor to be called an idiot, then an xray clinic, also to be called an idiot, they determined that my arm was fine. So who is really the idiot now? The guy who removed his plaster with a hand saw or two qualified doctors? No so smart now are they? In your face doctors.
It's not often that I eat KFC but when i do its good to go there with a pro. Al Wilson knows all that is worth knowing about The Colonel's menu. I just told him to order two of everything that he got so I too could eat like an expert. He even took me to a park to enjoy the sunshine. What a banquet.
Al and Kirby also hooked me up with a job to paint a mural in the foyer at the Melbourne Vans office. Al suggested a pirate theme. I asked Mavie to give me his best pirate pose for me to draw from and this is what he came up with.
I made what I could out of it
I've been working on it for 2 or three weeks now. Here's some progress shots.
I should mention that Mavie, Nate Dog and Terry my step dad have been a massive help while i've been working on this thing.
Stepped in the paint of course
One day I had a pretty bad head ache and asked Al if he could get me a panadol and he came back with a band aid and a glass of water. Thanks Al, real helpful.
Me and Mavie had to give Al a hand loading a bike into his car, which meant removing the head rests form the seats. Before we knew what was happening Al was asleep on the job.
Then I decided that I didn't like bits of it so it currently looks like this
More graffitti
Speaking of vandalism, Mavie (amongst other people) built a new unauthorised skate spot. Here is his work truck
And here is our Mum proudly standing in front of the finished product. She took me out there at about 9am on a freezing cold morning and forced me to skate. It was pretty funny.
I was riding past a place where Mavie and Thomsy (and me kind of) built a couple of wall rides under punt road a few years ago. They got jack hammered out by the council but some one else built this there afterwards. I'm guessing not too many dudes ride this one.
Last week I went to the Zoo York video premier. There's an hour of my life that I wont get back. Luckily there was free booze and pizza and these dudes.
Here's two young dudes with lots of beer and hair
This erection is nearly complete
It takes days of scrubbing with scented soaps and lotions to get that dead skin smell off your body. As soon as I'd cut the plaster off I realised that my arm was still NQR. After a couple of visits to a doctor to be called an idiot, then an xray clinic, also to be called an idiot, they determined that my arm was fine. So who is really the idiot now? The guy who removed his plaster with a hand saw or two qualified doctors? No so smart now are they? In your face doctors.
It's not often that I eat KFC but when i do its good to go there with a pro. Al Wilson knows all that is worth knowing about The Colonel's menu. I just told him to order two of everything that he got so I too could eat like an expert. He even took me to a park to enjoy the sunshine. What a banquet.
Al and Kirby also hooked me up with a job to paint a mural in the foyer at the Melbourne Vans office. Al suggested a pirate theme. I asked Mavie to give me his best pirate pose for me to draw from and this is what he came up with.
I made what I could out of it
I've been working on it for 2 or three weeks now. Here's some progress shots.
I should mention that Mavie, Nate Dog and Terry my step dad have been a massive help while i've been working on this thing.
Stepped in the paint of course
One day I had a pretty bad head ache and asked Al if he could get me a panadol and he came back with a band aid and a glass of water. Thanks Al, real helpful.
Me and Mavie had to give Al a hand loading a bike into his car, which meant removing the head rests form the seats. Before we knew what was happening Al was asleep on the job.
Then I decided that I didn't like bits of it so it currently looks like this
More graffitti
Speaking of vandalism, Mavie (amongst other people) built a new unauthorised skate spot. Here is his work truck
And here is our Mum proudly standing in front of the finished product. She took me out there at about 9am on a freezing cold morning and forced me to skate. It was pretty funny.
I was riding past a place where Mavie and Thomsy (and me kind of) built a couple of wall rides under punt road a few years ago. They got jack hammered out by the council but some one else built this there afterwards. I'm guessing not too many dudes ride this one.
Last week I went to the Zoo York video premier. There's an hour of my life that I wont get back. Luckily there was free booze and pizza and these dudes.
Here's two young dudes with lots of beer and hair
This erection is nearly complete
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Kicks and old flicks
I spent all of the non hung over parts of last week end painting these shoes
Me and Nate were holding hands at the midweek private art fag convention in his lounge room so I got him to paint a pair too and they turned out awesome.
These are some old Vans that I painted a few years ago
Speaking of shoes, here's those ones that I painted for honorable Glen Scott while he was working at Dunlop, when they appeared on the illustrious pages of Dolly Magazine.
And here's some other old photos that I came across
Sydney coffee
Sydney bottle shop
Sydney surf board
Ruth's cousin, Louey's old gallery in Sydney.
Louey chatting to awesome art guy, French, while he muralises the Monster Children Gallery
Tom Jeppe woke up with this tattooed on him after a hard night on the booze. Yep he did it himself.
A few years ago I spent a couple of days teaching a bunch of naughty kids in the country how to do grip tape art. This little girl was the youngest and one of the smartest too. I think she was 11 and was having a real hard life due to having shit parents but she was so happy and enthusiastic. She ended up helping out some of the other, much older and dumber delinquents. This was the board she made which she'd tried to copy off this surf board that I painted a while ago. I think the one next to her's was her 13 year old brother's which is also pretty awesome.
In the spirit of even older photos than these (such as ramp in the Mindsnare loungeroom circa 1994 I think) check out Mike Kearney's awesome blog www.incaseyoudontremember.blogspot.com
And here are some pics that i forgot to put on the last post about the cricket (I stole them from skateboard.com.au - I hope I don't get sent to internet jail)
The Melbourne 11
The Canberra 11
The real winner on the day was cricket. Actually no wait, it was skateboarding. Any day where a bunch arse clowns like this stay off their boards is a victory for skating.
Sometimes I see things that are so awesome that I get angry with myself for not having come up with it first. Actually its happening a lot more as I get older. When i saw this picture it was one of those times.
Me and Nate were holding hands at the midweek private art fag convention in his lounge room so I got him to paint a pair too and they turned out awesome.
These are some old Vans that I painted a few years ago
Speaking of shoes, here's those ones that I painted for honorable Glen Scott while he was working at Dunlop, when they appeared on the illustrious pages of Dolly Magazine.
And here's some other old photos that I came across
Sydney coffee
Sydney bottle shop
Sydney surf board
Ruth's cousin, Louey's old gallery in Sydney.
Louey chatting to awesome art guy, French, while he muralises the Monster Children Gallery
Tom Jeppe woke up with this tattooed on him after a hard night on the booze. Yep he did it himself.
A few years ago I spent a couple of days teaching a bunch of naughty kids in the country how to do grip tape art. This little girl was the youngest and one of the smartest too. I think she was 11 and was having a real hard life due to having shit parents but she was so happy and enthusiastic. She ended up helping out some of the other, much older and dumber delinquents. This was the board she made which she'd tried to copy off this surf board that I painted a while ago. I think the one next to her's was her 13 year old brother's which is also pretty awesome.
In the spirit of even older photos than these (such as ramp in the Mindsnare loungeroom circa 1994 I think) check out Mike Kearney's awesome blog www.incaseyoudontremember.blogspot.com
And here are some pics that i forgot to put on the last post about the cricket (I stole them from skateboard.com.au - I hope I don't get sent to internet jail)
The Melbourne 11
The Canberra 11
The real winner on the day was cricket. Actually no wait, it was skateboarding. Any day where a bunch arse clowns like this stay off their boards is a victory for skating.
Sometimes I see things that are so awesome that I get angry with myself for not having come up with it first. Actually its happening a lot more as I get older. When i saw this picture it was one of those times.
Monday, 18 May 2009
Broken wrist = writing like a 5 year old
Its been a while since i updated this blog because I had to go over seas to break my arm. Here's some stuff that happened before I left (I'll be posting the travel photos when I get my camera sorted out - meanwhile here's some pics from my phone.)
Actually this was way before I left, I'm guessing about 26 years ago at Lorne (I think)
These two young Beatles fans grew up to become these two professional responsibility avoiders. That person in the middle with the gleaming white teeth is our Aunty Bernie. She rules.
I'm not sure i know anyone who'd queue up for a ride in this car. Sweet number plate though
Despite all their praying to our father who art in heaven, it turns out the economic crisis has even touched some of the blessed cashed up Christians with brilliant taste and a passion for going fast.
The not so cashed up Satanists who only ever pray for forgiveness have found different ways to flex their need for ridiculous brand names. I've never understood why they named their company after a blow job.
Speaking of blow jobs, Karen had to blow the candles out on this cock cake that Jo Jo made for her.
Bread and skateboarding have always gone hand in hand.... unless by bread you mean money.
According to this article skateboarders are now known as toy vehicle users. I still refer to my skateboard as girl repellent but that hasn't really caught on just yet. Girl repellent jockey doesn't really have the same ring to it as toy vehicle user.
Okay onto more important matters.... The Shitfield Shield. The Shitfield Shield is a very important event on Australia's sporting calendar involving a cricket match, held in Albury, between a bunch of washed up skateboarders from Melbourne and hoard of toy vehicle users from Canberra. I was a last minute inclusion in the Melbourne side due to some professional Sri Lankan ring in not turning up.
I didn't realise that everyone on our side had bought whites to play in so when we stopped in Orbost for liquid supplies I ran into the local op shop and bought these white womens 3/4 pants.... they were 25 percent off. Obviously they needed some tailoring and decoration which I took care of during the rest of the drive.
We arrived late at the oval to find their team practicing in the nets. By "team" i mean a bunch of big dudes wearing all black and mostly covered in tattoos. I had not met many of them before and to me they looked more like outlaw bikers than skateboarders. I realised later that we probably looked the same only we were all in white which gave us a more angelic image. Our late arrival was part of Captain Nikeem's cunning plan, which was to keep the other side waiting which would mean that they would be drunk by the time we got the game started. These devious techniques didn't help at all.
Here's Nikeem enjoying his only chance at touching the trophy before the match.
Cons tattooed his "safe hands."
Yes this is a real tattoo. What a champion.
I dont remember much about the game (except that Junior and Nick both went out for ducks) but I do remember it was awesome fun and we didn't get beaten by as much as I thought we would. I think I made 6 runs or something but I stayed in for a long time while Hamish kept the scoreboard ticking over.
The Canberra team turned out to be awesome fun to hang out with. Definitely a good bunch of dudes, as you can tell by their stubby holders.
This is the hotel room that 11 of us slept in. Sketchy times indeed. You can see Cranimal in the background gearing up for some epic late night gymnastics which can be seen in the latest issue of Fuknoath.
The trophy presentation at the local pub. Some of the locals were stoked so we played another, way more hungover, game with them the next day. Junior still didn't manage to score. Way more stuff happened but I cant remember it that well because it was ages ago.
Here's some more pics of other stuff
Crafty smith grinding the new mini ramp at Coburg
James' inflatable deer head
Some poor fella's taco wheeled bike
At Nikeem's request we measured Captain Manouvers using industry standard cat measuring technology.
Nate Dog came over one day to hang out and be an art fag in the lane way and show off his owl tattoo.
Jo Jo declared a holy war on the ants of Fitzroy and surrounding suburbs.
The week before I left to go to America i was in an art show called the Clan MacLeod which Tom Gerrard had organised.
Because I leave everything to the last minute I had to take one painting in with me on the tram on the way to the show. How good was my packaging.
Life imitating art? No its just Roopa imitating Ned Kelly.
My boss Nicole came and bought her little dog Sassy.
On my way out I walked past this hair farm
Actually this was way before I left, I'm guessing about 26 years ago at Lorne (I think)
These two young Beatles fans grew up to become these two professional responsibility avoiders. That person in the middle with the gleaming white teeth is our Aunty Bernie. She rules.
I'm not sure i know anyone who'd queue up for a ride in this car. Sweet number plate though
Despite all their praying to our father who art in heaven, it turns out the economic crisis has even touched some of the blessed cashed up Christians with brilliant taste and a passion for going fast.
The not so cashed up Satanists who only ever pray for forgiveness have found different ways to flex their need for ridiculous brand names. I've never understood why they named their company after a blow job.
Speaking of blow jobs, Karen had to blow the candles out on this cock cake that Jo Jo made for her.
Bread and skateboarding have always gone hand in hand.... unless by bread you mean money.
According to this article skateboarders are now known as toy vehicle users. I still refer to my skateboard as girl repellent but that hasn't really caught on just yet. Girl repellent jockey doesn't really have the same ring to it as toy vehicle user.
Okay onto more important matters.... The Shitfield Shield. The Shitfield Shield is a very important event on Australia's sporting calendar involving a cricket match, held in Albury, between a bunch of washed up skateboarders from Melbourne and hoard of toy vehicle users from Canberra. I was a last minute inclusion in the Melbourne side due to some professional Sri Lankan ring in not turning up.
I didn't realise that everyone on our side had bought whites to play in so when we stopped in Orbost for liquid supplies I ran into the local op shop and bought these white womens 3/4 pants.... they were 25 percent off. Obviously they needed some tailoring and decoration which I took care of during the rest of the drive.
We arrived late at the oval to find their team practicing in the nets. By "team" i mean a bunch of big dudes wearing all black and mostly covered in tattoos. I had not met many of them before and to me they looked more like outlaw bikers than skateboarders. I realised later that we probably looked the same only we were all in white which gave us a more angelic image. Our late arrival was part of Captain Nikeem's cunning plan, which was to keep the other side waiting which would mean that they would be drunk by the time we got the game started. These devious techniques didn't help at all.
Here's Nikeem enjoying his only chance at touching the trophy before the match.
Cons tattooed his "safe hands."
Yes this is a real tattoo. What a champion.
I dont remember much about the game (except that Junior and Nick both went out for ducks) but I do remember it was awesome fun and we didn't get beaten by as much as I thought we would. I think I made 6 runs or something but I stayed in for a long time while Hamish kept the scoreboard ticking over.
The Canberra team turned out to be awesome fun to hang out with. Definitely a good bunch of dudes, as you can tell by their stubby holders.
This is the hotel room that 11 of us slept in. Sketchy times indeed. You can see Cranimal in the background gearing up for some epic late night gymnastics which can be seen in the latest issue of Fuknoath.
The trophy presentation at the local pub. Some of the locals were stoked so we played another, way more hungover, game with them the next day. Junior still didn't manage to score. Way more stuff happened but I cant remember it that well because it was ages ago.
Here's some more pics of other stuff
Crafty smith grinding the new mini ramp at Coburg
James' inflatable deer head
Some poor fella's taco wheeled bike
At Nikeem's request we measured Captain Manouvers using industry standard cat measuring technology.
Nate Dog came over one day to hang out and be an art fag in the lane way and show off his owl tattoo.
Jo Jo declared a holy war on the ants of Fitzroy and surrounding suburbs.
The week before I left to go to America i was in an art show called the Clan MacLeod which Tom Gerrard had organised.
Because I leave everything to the last minute I had to take one painting in with me on the tram on the way to the show. How good was my packaging.
Life imitating art? No its just Roopa imitating Ned Kelly.
My boss Nicole came and bought her little dog Sassy.
On my way out I walked past this hair farm
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Lets have a warm welcome for Colonel Harland Sanders on the 6 string manjo
Thank you, thank you very much.
Thursday, 26 February 2009
I'll give you a stimulus package
I'll start this off with a picture of some beer I saw the other day. I'm sorely disappointed at the lack of rafting this summer. We'll have to fix that problem very soon. I didn't buy any of this because it was $33 for a six pack and it looks like it'd taste like all other expensive Euro beer.... shit. Good label though. I just noticed it say's there is whisky in it. French whisky. Of course there is, what self respecting raftman doesn't mix whiskey in his beer.
Okay onto the softbrawl. This year's game was a little different to every other year. Half the crew were in Sydney for the Bondi Bowl-a-rama and Beard-o-rama. Tim didn't have enough fun tickets to go to Sydney but he was repping the T that Al asked me to draw anyway. Please note Al's use of puffy ink. Good thinking Al.
Jim bought his ghetto balster. Him and some of the other dadolescents bought their children too. There was less tears this year and way more smiles. They're all growning up quick. They'll be old enough to play soon. Infact if Jim and Bec keep going the way they are they'll have their own team in about 6 years.
This is what life in the outfield looked like
I was looking for shade to keep my beer cool then i noticed this magic shadow that followed me where ever I went so I made good use of it.
For some reason we did team photos half way through the game. Here's us, the Westside Kings. Who comes up with these names. Westside versus Eastside??? Please. We all basically live in the same area. I wanted it to be the Biggies versus the Tupacs but Sebastian is racist so we weren't allowed to use those names.
Here's the Eastside..... I cant remember what they were. Queens maybe? Going by this picture it looks like they all from the Eastside sign language school.
Here's a picture of Matt, the winning captain, trying to squash Lily's bike
It wasn't working so Ella and Kai had a go on it. I think this is the bike that Jim told me he'd spent $600 on.
This is the post match team photo of the winning side. It was actually a draw and they won in the extra innings despite James' best efforts at wildly throwing the ball into the outfield for no reason and letting two of our runners get home. In his defence I think he hit 4 or 5 home runs so it all balances out. James is good at smacking the crap out things, carefully guiding them to a prescribed target... not so much.
Along with making her bike into a cross between a '63 Chevy Impala and something the Mods were riding in Quadrophenia, Jim has also been teaching Lily how to do graffiti. Last year it was break dancing, this year its graff. Next year she'll be racking paint and doing top to bottom whole cars.
This bag was originally my mask of shame for the post match team photo. I didn't bother getting anyone to take a picture of that with my camera. Lily decided to add a few improvements.
Amazing
Hilarious bike - check.
Bag on head - check.
Austin up front to do the pedalling - check.
Potato chips for energy - check.
Lets fucking roll.
Here is Anibal being sports dad with his soccerball and Kai taking a screamer over his shoulders and Austin doing some kind of wrestling move that I dont know about.
Mavie is not allowed to play because he's too argumentative or noisy or something. This is Lily tagging his new tshirt. Nice work Lily, you'll be all city before you know it.
We thought the hole in the bottom of this tree was probably inhabited by possums. On such a hot day we thought they'd appreciate a good cool down. Ice to see you.
Jim's girls thought we were trying to hurt the "squirrels" so we had to move the ice. Jim, on the list of things you need to teach your children (apart from how to break into the Hurstbridge rail yards and which Wu Tang albums to avoid) there's no squirrels in Australia and ice melts...in Australia. If there is anything else you need to know about Australia or raising children just ask, I'm your guy.
We filled the bin. What an achievement. I can go home satisfied now. Maybe call the folks, give them the good news.
Me and Mavie saw this fold up steed on the way home. It is pretty small, not small enough to be anymore convenient than a normal bike though. I mean its still chained to a pole out side. What's the point?
Okay I'm tired. Wait one more photo. Possibly the best photo in the history of imagery. It's a photo of a photo so you'll just have to take my word on how good the original looks stuck up on Dave's fridge door with a magnet.
I give you Dave Snow's dad dressed as Dame Edna Everidge, hanging out with Dame Edna Everidge. I'm speechless
Okay onto the softbrawl. This year's game was a little different to every other year. Half the crew were in Sydney for the Bondi Bowl-a-rama and Beard-o-rama. Tim didn't have enough fun tickets to go to Sydney but he was repping the T that Al asked me to draw anyway. Please note Al's use of puffy ink. Good thinking Al.
Jim bought his ghetto balster. Him and some of the other dadolescents bought their children too. There was less tears this year and way more smiles. They're all growning up quick. They'll be old enough to play soon. Infact if Jim and Bec keep going the way they are they'll have their own team in about 6 years.
This is what life in the outfield looked like
I was looking for shade to keep my beer cool then i noticed this magic shadow that followed me where ever I went so I made good use of it.
For some reason we did team photos half way through the game. Here's us, the Westside Kings. Who comes up with these names. Westside versus Eastside??? Please. We all basically live in the same area. I wanted it to be the Biggies versus the Tupacs but Sebastian is racist so we weren't allowed to use those names.
Here's the Eastside..... I cant remember what they were. Queens maybe? Going by this picture it looks like they all from the Eastside sign language school.
Here's a picture of Matt, the winning captain, trying to squash Lily's bike
It wasn't working so Ella and Kai had a go on it. I think this is the bike that Jim told me he'd spent $600 on.
This is the post match team photo of the winning side. It was actually a draw and they won in the extra innings despite James' best efforts at wildly throwing the ball into the outfield for no reason and letting two of our runners get home. In his defence I think he hit 4 or 5 home runs so it all balances out. James is good at smacking the crap out things, carefully guiding them to a prescribed target... not so much.
Along with making her bike into a cross between a '63 Chevy Impala and something the Mods were riding in Quadrophenia, Jim has also been teaching Lily how to do graffiti. Last year it was break dancing, this year its graff. Next year she'll be racking paint and doing top to bottom whole cars.
This bag was originally my mask of shame for the post match team photo. I didn't bother getting anyone to take a picture of that with my camera. Lily decided to add a few improvements.
Amazing
Hilarious bike - check.
Bag on head - check.
Austin up front to do the pedalling - check.
Potato chips for energy - check.
Lets fucking roll.
Here is Anibal being sports dad with his soccerball and Kai taking a screamer over his shoulders and Austin doing some kind of wrestling move that I dont know about.
Mavie is not allowed to play because he's too argumentative or noisy or something. This is Lily tagging his new tshirt. Nice work Lily, you'll be all city before you know it.
We thought the hole in the bottom of this tree was probably inhabited by possums. On such a hot day we thought they'd appreciate a good cool down. Ice to see you.
Jim's girls thought we were trying to hurt the "squirrels" so we had to move the ice. Jim, on the list of things you need to teach your children (apart from how to break into the Hurstbridge rail yards and which Wu Tang albums to avoid) there's no squirrels in Australia and ice melts...in Australia. If there is anything else you need to know about Australia or raising children just ask, I'm your guy.
We filled the bin. What an achievement. I can go home satisfied now. Maybe call the folks, give them the good news.
Me and Mavie saw this fold up steed on the way home. It is pretty small, not small enough to be anymore convenient than a normal bike though. I mean its still chained to a pole out side. What's the point?
Okay I'm tired. Wait one more photo. Possibly the best photo in the history of imagery. It's a photo of a photo so you'll just have to take my word on how good the original looks stuck up on Dave's fridge door with a magnet.
I give you Dave Snow's dad dressed as Dame Edna Everidge, hanging out with Dame Edna Everidge. I'm speechless
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Mushroom Cup's new puppy
Cathy Mushroom Cup has a new puppy called Miro. He's as small as a shoe and friendlier than thirsty drunk girl with no money.
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Is the pay packet half empty or half full?
Left over photos from summer, prior to the temperature getting too hot to go outside and half the state burning down
Anyone need a gardener?
Turn's out he is really good at laying bricks too. I payed Mavie to fix the fence that I destroyed whilst trying to jump start my bike a few months ago. Turns out smashing it into a wall doesn't really help to get the engine running. Who knew? He did an amazing job and saved me a fortune AND to top it all off got really sun burnt because his head is so big that Tshirts don't fit over it anymore.
Swedish bikie gangs are no where near as intimidating as our ones
We went to the zoo. First time I've been there since i was a kid.
100+ year old turtles.... not the blonde one though
When we were in the aviary 2 birds swooped Helen, then later this guy jumped off the fence at her. They just let him wander around trying to hook up with girls all day.
I didn't get to see the seals which was the main reason I went. Thats because they are building them a new enclosure which, for some reason, has a huge Oregon style skate park in it?
Poppy's babushka's in Scotty's nutcracker
Mixa and Benny at their dress up party. Benny is the angry neighbour. I forgot what Mixa was meant to be but he looks pretty special in the pink shirt.
Mixa's new pad rules. Palm trees and a mini ramp. I didn't even bother going inside
New Year's Eve
Silent Yeff got a pigeon in his pit, then Nikeem laughed a little bit while Emilie tried to lick her.....?
I showed this photo of Scotty trying to get into Keifer Sutherland's sleeping position in The Lostboys, to Nikeem and he asked me how the hell he got up there.
This photo of the Nick Kilderry pro model step ladder seemed to clear things up for him though.
James bought this white sauce from Japan to Cam's BBQ. It's either gayonaise or brogurt, I cant remember which.
I drew up this dogtown tribute logo for him to get tattooed, he wasn't too interested though.
What's uff?
Hunter S. Gourlay
Some one was having a shocker
Due to her Viking heritage, Helen is awesome at rowing
Jo freaked out when she found this little lizard so I took care of him. Not in the Mafia way, just in the take him outside and put him out of reach of the cat way.
Beard-o-rama sneak preview
Cheese's birthday at Yellowbird. He bought a huge round of Tip Rats costing about $160 then tried to pick them all up at once and surprisingly dropped a few...along with his pants
The pants dropping was contagious
James is immune though.
Angie sent me these photos of the Stussy store in Chadstone, the fashion capital. These are Tshirts that I designed for them in their own display. Weird. They're retailling for $100 each. Weirder. Economic crisis be damned. Oh speaking of which I got half retrenched so if any one needs some freelance illustration done I'll have lots of spare time to it. Seriously I'm your guy. Please...
Anyone need a gardener?
Turn's out he is really good at laying bricks too. I payed Mavie to fix the fence that I destroyed whilst trying to jump start my bike a few months ago. Turns out smashing it into a wall doesn't really help to get the engine running. Who knew? He did an amazing job and saved me a fortune AND to top it all off got really sun burnt because his head is so big that Tshirts don't fit over it anymore.
Swedish bikie gangs are no where near as intimidating as our ones
We went to the zoo. First time I've been there since i was a kid.
100+ year old turtles.... not the blonde one though
When we were in the aviary 2 birds swooped Helen, then later this guy jumped off the fence at her. They just let him wander around trying to hook up with girls all day.
I didn't get to see the seals which was the main reason I went. Thats because they are building them a new enclosure which, for some reason, has a huge Oregon style skate park in it?
Poppy's babushka's in Scotty's nutcracker
Mixa and Benny at their dress up party. Benny is the angry neighbour. I forgot what Mixa was meant to be but he looks pretty special in the pink shirt.
Mixa's new pad rules. Palm trees and a mini ramp. I didn't even bother going inside
New Year's Eve
Silent Yeff got a pigeon in his pit, then Nikeem laughed a little bit while Emilie tried to lick her.....?
I showed this photo of Scotty trying to get into Keifer Sutherland's sleeping position in The Lostboys, to Nikeem and he asked me how the hell he got up there.
This photo of the Nick Kilderry pro model step ladder seemed to clear things up for him though.
James bought this white sauce from Japan to Cam's BBQ. It's either gayonaise or brogurt, I cant remember which.
I drew up this dogtown tribute logo for him to get tattooed, he wasn't too interested though.
What's uff?
Hunter S. Gourlay
Some one was having a shocker
Due to her Viking heritage, Helen is awesome at rowing
Jo freaked out when she found this little lizard so I took care of him. Not in the Mafia way, just in the take him outside and put him out of reach of the cat way.
Beard-o-rama sneak preview
Cheese's birthday at Yellowbird. He bought a huge round of Tip Rats costing about $160 then tried to pick them all up at once and surprisingly dropped a few...along with his pants
The pants dropping was contagious
James is immune though.
Angie sent me these photos of the Stussy store in Chadstone, the fashion capital. These are Tshirts that I designed for them in their own display. Weird. They're retailling for $100 each. Weirder. Economic crisis be damned. Oh speaking of which I got half retrenched so if any one needs some freelance illustration done I'll have lots of spare time to it. Seriously I'm your guy. Please...
Friday, 6 February 2009
Its been a while
Since my last up date I've moved house, been to hospital, had my first ever yard sale, booked a plane ticket to North America and seen Helen off to Sweden. Here's some pictures of the early part of summer.
Dad is one of those people who has a real shed (please note the remote control glider and hover craft. We never had this kind of stuff when i was a kid)
and for some reason with in that shed he has a vibrosaun. I have no idea what a vibrosaun is but it looked like the lid of it would be excellent for trapping people in a bath.... if that's what you're into.
The Dangerfield christmas party was its usual awesome self.
I got busted being bad by my boss and Brado (inventor of the holiday letterbox - it involves installing a paper shredder to your fence) got busted being awesome
The funky deck bolt got funky
So did Helen
The cool kid in the flannel and the Thrasher shirt below is Luke and Colleen's little fella. I'm an idiot which means I've forgotten his name. I'll probably be the angry old dude at the skate park telling him to piss off in a few years. I hope not.
Mafyew Wyweeeeeeeeeeeee got married to Anita. Pretty awesome wedding, although Nikeem was very disappointed that, due to weather issues, it was not held at the dolphin fountain as was originally planned. Anything that neglects the use of dolphins usually disappoints Nick.
Risky business photo shoot at Yellow Bird on the way to the wedding reception.
Something funny occurred at the reception, and, like usual, these two enjoyed the fuck out of it
Apparently Ben Michel told Matt he'd wear all white to the wedding when he was wasted one night. I'm pretty stoked that he kept his word.
Sarah, the puppet master, is having a marionette game of mortal combat against Niddy.
Niddy's marionette is using it's invisiblity power, while Sarah's marionette tries to confuse the opposition by using aggressive freestyle and popping/locking. Anita is in the back ground celebrating her earlier victory.
Kai with my board and a sweet hat/shirt combo. He's only about 5 and he's already twice as cool as most of our friends
Al is trying to stay in fashion so he got some new jeans
Unfortunately Silent Yeff went back to Canadia. I miss that $3 Aldi wine
Along with Yeff these three also moved away. End of an era. The house had bad carpet but definate good times, especially Nikeem, Scotty and me commentating CSI Miami.
I sold most of the stuff that I've been lugging around for the last 15 years for $300. It felt weird.
Dad is one of those people who has a real shed (please note the remote control glider and hover craft. We never had this kind of stuff when i was a kid)
and for some reason with in that shed he has a vibrosaun. I have no idea what a vibrosaun is but it looked like the lid of it would be excellent for trapping people in a bath.... if that's what you're into.
The Dangerfield christmas party was its usual awesome self.
I got busted being bad by my boss and Brado (inventor of the holiday letterbox - it involves installing a paper shredder to your fence) got busted being awesome
The funky deck bolt got funky
So did Helen
The cool kid in the flannel and the Thrasher shirt below is Luke and Colleen's little fella. I'm an idiot which means I've forgotten his name. I'll probably be the angry old dude at the skate park telling him to piss off in a few years. I hope not.
Mafyew Wyweeeeeeeeeeeee got married to Anita. Pretty awesome wedding, although Nikeem was very disappointed that, due to weather issues, it was not held at the dolphin fountain as was originally planned. Anything that neglects the use of dolphins usually disappoints Nick.
Risky business photo shoot at Yellow Bird on the way to the wedding reception.
Something funny occurred at the reception, and, like usual, these two enjoyed the fuck out of it
Apparently Ben Michel told Matt he'd wear all white to the wedding when he was wasted one night. I'm pretty stoked that he kept his word.
Sarah, the puppet master, is having a marionette game of mortal combat against Niddy.
Niddy's marionette is using it's invisiblity power, while Sarah's marionette tries to confuse the opposition by using aggressive freestyle and popping/locking. Anita is in the back ground celebrating her earlier victory.
Kai with my board and a sweet hat/shirt combo. He's only about 5 and he's already twice as cool as most of our friends
Al is trying to stay in fashion so he got some new jeans
Unfortunately Silent Yeff went back to Canadia. I miss that $3 Aldi wine
Along with Yeff these three also moved away. End of an era. The house had bad carpet but definate good times, especially Nikeem, Scotty and me commentating CSI Miami.
I sold most of the stuff that I've been lugging around for the last 15 years for $300. It felt weird.
Friday, 23 January 2009
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