Some cute Japanese ads.

To farewell my friends off to Japan today, on the first leg of their around-the-world trip, I present thee with some cute Japanese ads. Enjoy. Hai!

Bananas! Mario! Girls! Err... Construction company?

Some further good news from the US.

After some leadership from the US (see yesterday), we finally have some equality...

CONCLUSION : Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that oppositesex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because Californiahas no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

Back for the moment.

Woah, it's been a while.

Here are some awesome pictures.

And here is an awesome clip.

And this guy is just damn inspirational.

A new philosophy

This seems to speak volumes to me.

This doesn't.

Dvorak, Everyman and the Devil's eve

To start with a quote :-

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices.

San Francisco Examiner, John C. Dvorak, 19 February 1984

A completely different Dvorak came up with a completely different input device for computers, which I'm experimenting with now. For now, it's slow going, but I'm picking up speed exponentially.

I just finished Everyman, by Philip Roth, and my god was it good. More about that later, when I can type faster.

And I seemed to have picked up a north American habit of carving pumpkins on the devil's eve.

At first we're good mates and all chummy...

but by the next day relations had become sour,

Is it just me, or does he even look a little sadder?

Time travel: it's happening.

I've decided I'm going to utilise my current research to travel into the future; to be precise, the weekend. It will take some time, perhaps a few days to complete the process, but at the end of it, I will no longer be in the present: I will be .... in the future!

Keep an eye out for me. I'll be wearing odd-looking clothes from the past, they'll seem very old. Perhaps I'll be able to pull them off as retro.

And who knows, if all goes well, by this time next week I'll be well on my way to next Wednesday.

Another array of additions.

More photos. I'm really warming up to Federation Square. It's an eclectic mish-mash of ideas, much like the National Australian Museum. And much like the idea of federation, I think. And it has free wireless and a great bar to take in the view of the `mighty' Yarra of the evening.

Then there are the random installations of street art. Like this one out front of the State Library of Victoria, right where I usually park my bike.

Then there's the wide array of fresh and exceptionally cheap sea-food.

Dammit, trumped by Frenchies again!

I've been playing a game with a friend of mine; swapping film clips on YouTube.

I thought I'd won when I shared up this little beauty, but she trumped me dragging up this eclectic visual tune.

What a *@#$%.

Up to your arses in maths jokes...

"Isn't statistics wonderful?"
"How so?"
"Well, according to statistics, there are 42 million alligator eggs laid every year. Of those, only about half get hatched. Of those that hatch, three fourths of them get eaten by predators in the first 36 days. And of the rest, only 5 percent get to be a year old for one reason or another. Isn't statistics wonderful?"
"What's so wonderful about all that?"
"If it weren't for statistics, we'd be up to our asses in alligators!"

Some things I like

These days I get more than a little excited about small design details, whether it be computer/web, cinema or purchasable stuff.

I also recall some really good films I've seen; Samson and Deliah, and District 9. I should write down what I though. I just finished John Irvings The Hotel New Hampshire, which was almost as addictive as some of the T.V. series I've recently seen, like The Wire, Pushing Daisies, and The Lost Room. Although that last one may require a little explaining.

That all being said, yet not fleshed out, I merely add some photos, and will now bow out.

I is back.

I'm back.

And to start things off, I'd like to put up a little picture I took today of a gorgeous building.

I've been seeing a lot of them around recently. They've started to capture my eye more and more often. Regularly my eye is draw up, above the heads of the on-lookers, and towards the towering structures that surround us every day. We live in them. We work in them. We turn to them for shelter, warmth, relief from heat (I hate the word "coolth"), an escape from everything. The Gruen transfer, Le Corbusier, home.... we all relate to buildings.

And so here's my first instalment of what will no doubt become a long series of building pictures. I call this one "Watch out Church, there's something sinister growing inside you"

Ok, perhaps I show a few more shots of the same building. It's times like this that I wish I had some of those great CanBerran artsy folk around, to get some good feedback on my pictures, composition, etc. Criticism, please! Constructive or not.

This was what I saw as I was riding up the street in East Melbourne. I was thinking "wow, the front of that church looks flimsy".

And then I decided to try and frame the building with the beautifully stark trees surrounding it, without success.

And when I finally got past it, I fell in love with the ominous talk dark structure inside, and how it reflects, or mocks, the pastel exterior. And I tried to get the cute lamp in the picture. Sharp eyes might catch a glimpse of the MCG at the end of the street.

If you want to know about the building I'm living in, just Google "Frank Cassar".

Adios.

Woah!

This just needs to be added.

Will be back to regularly scheduled updates shortly.