Hobbies
Jun/091
I’ve been contemplating taking up some kind of new hobby. I’ve found myself wanting to create a video game or a cartoon lately. I’ve also been thinking of practicing drawing again. But every project I think of is just too large and overwhelming that give up before I even start. I guess I focus a lot on the end result rather than the journey of learning the craft. Making a cartoon is a huge undertaking and I’m not even good at drawing (not anymore anyway). And creating a video game would take a very long time and I’m not sure if anyone would play it. So I think the whole thinking process just brought me back to the fact that I’m not playing with the things I have right in front of me. Mainly, my video and photo cameras. Hopefully I’ll start taking more photos and video again. I quite enjoy it when I get to doing it. For now, I’ve been playing with this cartoon filter…I’ve been thinking of doing a short film with the effect or a series of photos.
Michelle is leaving
Jun/090
Michelle is leaving for Europe on Monday. She’s planinng on travelling around, finding some work and not coming back for a couple of years. We went out last night for one final hurray and farewell. This morning/afternoon, I thought I’d upload the photos I’d taken last night to my photo album and write about the night. But I started looking through some older photos on my computer and decided a little photo tribute would be appropriate. Photos from last night can be seen here. A gallery of memories and photos of Michelle are below…have fun Michelle, take care of yourself and do come back.
Shaye’s Birthday
Jun/090
Went out to ‘Showchef Teppanyaki Restaurant’ last night. It’s April’s mums birthday today and last year we went to The Rocks Teppanyaki and the chefs didn’t throw anything in the air or have any fun at all. I was so annoyed and kind of ruined the night with my cranky mood. So I had promised to take her out to a ‘real’ teppanyaki resturant and yesterday was my chance. We had a real good time and the chefs at the resturant were real fun and entertaining. Afterwards, we invited Shaye and Glen over to our place for some xbox. I got them to play ‘Fight Night 3′ with Shaye playing Oscar de la Hoya and Glen playing Manny Pacquiao, the results of which can be seen here. We watched a film and hung out for a bit until they had to go home.
April trying to catch some flying egg
Chilli/Broccoli Spaghetti
Jun/090
April has started cooking this chilli/broccoli spaghetti since we’ve moved into our new place and since I had never heard about it before, wanted to share some info about it to you all and hopefully inspire you to cook/eat it yourselves. It’s very easy to make (although I’ve never made it myself). You just cut up some chillis, fry them in a pan with some oil, separately, boil some pasta and broccoli together until the pasta is cooked and until the broccoli is very soft. After the broccoli has become soft, mush it up so that it breaks into small pieces. Throw the chilli/oil into the pasta/broccoli and stir. That’s it! It’s simple, it’s light and it’s delicious. You can add a bit of extra olive oil after straining.
Terry Richardson
Jun/090
I discovered Terry Richardson’s photos when a bit of controvery arose in Australia regarding a ‘Lee’ ad he photographed for. People raised their hands in the air and screamed the regular hoo haha, it was reported in local news and I took one look at the shots and thought to myself, I want to see more of his stuff, that’s sexy.
I then scoured the net for more photos of his and found some pretty cool ones, now that I’m aware of who he is, I notice his name popping up when celebrity women pose for different magazine shoots. I particulary remember the ones he did of Linsday Lohan, Jessica Alba and Megan Fox (looking for links for those just now, I’ve realized their all for GQ).
Anyway, I really like his photos, some aren’t that great and hold nothing special (I really wasn’t the biggest fan of the shoot of Megan Fox he did for GQ). I remember it because everyone on the net was saying how sexy they were but I much prefered FHM’s shots of her. But it’s not his famous celebrity photos that I really like, I really like the tone of his ‘Sisley’ photos as well as the random ones that I’ve found around the net, probably not belonging to any project or commercial job. They show him more creatively free and dirtier.
Besides my admiration for his photos, in his interviews he just comes across as a real chilled out guy who enjoys his life. So yeah, I think I’d be kinda cool to hang out with hot models and take funky creative and sexy shots of them. If you aren’t sold on his photos, you’ve got to at least enjoy his sense of humor, “Sisley was a great job for a long time because they were really just letting me be me, doing whatever the hell I wanted to do. It was all about sex pictures. I’ve always been able to walk that fine line, to balance myself, to do fashion and also do my naughty pictures. Why do I get away with it? I’m a genius. With a capital J.”
For some more pictures and info on Terry, see the below links…
Sisley Campaign’s 1999-2001 – http://jozworld.club.fr/sisley_1999-2001.html
Sisley Campaign’s 2002-2004 – http://jozworld.club.fr/sisley_2002-04.html
Sisley Campaign’s 2005 – http://jozworld.club.fr/sisley_2005.html
Sisley Campaign’s 2006 - http://jozworld.club.fr/sisley_2006.html
Terry Richardson’s website – http://www.terryrichardson.com/
Article on Terry – Welcome to TerryWorld
Terminator Salvation
Jun/090
I watched Terminator Salvation last night. I enjoyed it, the action and fx were really well done but it did feel like it was missing something. Part of me feels that if it wasn’t a ‘Terminator’ film, they probably could have pushed the story in a totally different direction and explored more interesting things. It basically follows John Connor saving his father as a young boy so that he can send him back in time, thus saving his mum and get himself concieved. There are other parts of the story, mainly involving the charcter played by Sam Worthington. But although I felt Sam did a great job in the film, I wish they had explored his character more. It’s kind of unsaid but I got the feeling that his primary motivation throughout the film was that of redeeming himself from past sins but it still would have been more interesting (in my opinion) if they explored his character more or at least the idea of the protector figure again. Maybe it’s treading old ground but I believe the heart of what the past Terminator films were, was the idea of a protective figure. Kyle will do whatever it takes to save Sarah Connor because he knows how important her son will be (even though Sarah doesn’t understand this yet). The T-800 will do anything to protect John in T2 and again in T3 (although the third didn’t have as much of the father/protective figure). I believe that’s what makes the films great. Especially the second one, as you can see even if as the Terminator gets smashed and hurt, it will stop at nothing to protect somebody, just as the opposing one will stop at nothing to kill him. This was lightly touched on in the fourth but I believe if they had focused more on that theme of sacrifice and stopping at nothing, I would have gotten more emotionally involved in the film. Either way, it was fun…just not as great emotionaly involing as the first two.
Top ten reasons to move to the Kings Cross
May/090
10. It takes five minutes to walk to the city.
9. Coles super market is across the road and open until 12pm
8. When on the balcony, you can smell the sweet aroma of the near by pizza shop.
7. Free entertainment and music from your balcony.
6. While walking around on the weekend, you get to listen to the bouncers yell out ‘Come in, nice girls, you want some Choolala’ (while grabbing their crotch).
5. On the way home from my late shifts, you can watch as hookers fight for clientele.
4. Two minute walk to MacDonalds for late night snacks.
3. No taxi cab needed after a night out.
2. You can take a stroll around the strip for five minutes, then get into bed and feel like you’ve had a big night out…without paying any entrance fees or having a hangover.
1. Chk chk Boom! There’s always something exciting happening
What’s In the Box?
Apr/090
Found this clip online and wanted to share it. From what I’ve read so far, it was done by some Dutch film-makers. All I know is it’s great stuff, reminded me of Escape from City 17 (for the Halflife2 references only) but I enjoyed ‘What’s In the Box?’ more as it was based more on a fictional storyline. I like the cool gun type thing that causes his enemies to vomit. Although sounds were lifted from Lost and Half-life2, the film felt like it had a bit of it’s own universe and one that I wouldn’t mind finding out more about. I liked the tension of it all and enjoyed that fact that it was all done in the first person point of view. Hope they do more stuff. I believe their official site is whatsinthebox.nl.
Twisted Princess art work
Apr/090
Below are some examples of artwork of twisted Disney Princesses created by jeftoon. He’s posted them over at his deviantart page along with some of his other work. I really liked his style and wanted to share the work with anyone that comes upon my site – http://jeftoon01.deviantart.com/
