You Must Be From Away

>Here we go again

Posted on 24 April, 2008 by jb

This is becoming a little too regular for my living……

University Clinic last year, Vincenz Klinik this year.

Checked all the aural appendages which apppear to intact, so they appear to have had a go at my leg instead….

Tagged bionic leg | Leave a comment

They really DO write on the leg that’s about to be amputated (or whatever it is they plan to do today) with Magic Marker.
So I didn’t need to have ‘Not this one’ tatooed on the other leg after all.
Wish they’d told me before…..

Tagged bionic leg | 1 Comment

>HYmini – Must have

Posted on 22 April, 2008 by jb

Wired Magazine is fatal for we Early Adopters/Gadget Boys predisposed to terminal geekness.

The HYmini will charge up its 5v battery in a 9 mph/15 kmh wind and can then be milked via USB 2.0.
50 bucks at hymini.net.

The line starts behind me……..

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Uncategorized | Leave a comment

>Fused

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by jb

>
This is a gem.

MCASD at La Jolla’s Soundwaves exhibition is a stunner and Sean Duffy’s installation of 2 fused turntables, with 2 tone arms offsetting the same record, is the pick of the litter.

It’s dead easy to simulate the effect – here’s Bob Dylan’s “I am a lonesome hobo” virtually fused in Audacity – but the joy of the live experience is in the infinite variation that you get every time the process is restarted.

By some lucky gallery staff member….

Posted in Music | Tagged This I need | Leave a comment

>Roll with it

Posted on 19 April, 2008 by jb

>This is how Tim Bavington sees Oasis’s Roll with it .

Each note has a colour, the length of the note defines the width and the bass line runs along the bottom.

Part of the excellent SoundWaves exhibition at the La Jolla location of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

And here’s Little by little for good measure

Posted in Music | Leave a comment

>Calisthenics

Posted on 15 April, 2008 by jb

Steve Fullmer is explaining his sleep-inducing calisthenics.

“You stretch your legs waaaay out so they touch the door, but you have to keep your bottom on the bed”

I do a doubletake and shoot a quick look across the room.

Yep, LOOKS like Steve.

And it SOUNDS like him,too.

But “bottom”?

This is Steve Fullmer, the iconic ceramic artist who makes peeing dogs.

And a new line in farting dogs.

With a removable fart.

“And then you stick your ass WAAAY up in the air”

Ah, THAT’s Steve.

Had me worried for a minute…..

Posted in Ceramics, This is Nelson | Leave a comment

>Don’t ask me…(about cosmetics)

Posted on 14 April, 2008 by jb

>I claim to know little (if anything) about these things, but anyway…

There’s a new cosmetic product on the market and the womenfolk around here tend to prick up their shell-likes when “new” is involved.

Luckily, this Snowberry outfit has a limited number of outlets.

Unluckily, they have one in Auckland.

So off we toddle to Smith and Caughey’s, the closest thing you’ll get to Harrods in this part of the world, to do some research.

After I’d recovered from shock, I started working out what this really means in $ and c.

I’m used to the silly prices that the womenfolk sling out of the window for fashion and hairdos and similar, but this is a paradigm shift, as they say.

$225 for 50ml of the stuff!

That’s $4500 a litre.

“But you only need a few drops” said the salesperson, as she wafted smelling salts under my nose to bring me around

Clinique appears to be the favoured brand at our place, so I did an unobtrusive comparison.

A mere $704 a litre.

A deal.

But I think I’ll stick to my favoured brand at an eminently affordable $0.0029 a litre.

Tap water

Posted in Don't ask me | 1 Comment

Shave for a cure

Posted on 12 April, 2008 by jb

A year or so back, I got involved in Bloggers For A Cure, raising money for cystic fibrosis research.

Jeff Giles over at Popdose kicked it off to support Scott Malchus, a fellow blogger whose son Jacob is living with CF, and together with a bunch of other people we raised a couple of thousand bucks.

Now there’s Shave for a Cure, a week long fund-raiser run by the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation of New Zealand.

Just got back from inspecting the gorse on the farm (bloody hell, don’t it grow quick…) and saw this on TV:

Pure goose bumps/lump-in-the-throat/blink-back-the-tears brilliance.

No actors – just Ryan (9 years old with leukaemia), his Dad and a bunch of friends

The website‘s even better.

They’ve got Fidelity Life to pop a buck into the bag for every time someone clicks on the ad on the website.

They’re up to about $2000 and Fidelity’s going to go all the way up to $10,000.

So get over there and make them put their hands deep into their corporate pockets.

And see if you can work out out who the music’s by.

Coldplay with Edge from U2?

Update: It’s “The Great Unknown” [listen] by Evermore from Real Life.

Linda from the LBF has this neat story:

They paid for the rights to the music, the band saw the ad and said “Money? We don’t want any money” and gave them the song for free.

Only in New Zealand

Posted in This is important | 1 Comment

>True Story

Posted on 11 April, 2008 by jb

>French Customs officer goes into a patisserie and asks

“Have you got anything to d’eclair?”

Posted in I'm very sorry about this | Leave a comment

>East meets West

Posted on 10 April, 2008 by jb

>
A wheat beer (nominally from Germany) and a Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc (guaranteed from New Zealand) rub shoulders on the patio at Moonshadows overlooking the Pacific in Malibu.

If it just wasn’t for the bloody song.

Couldn’t get it out of my head all day….

Posted in Music | Tagged Aren't we lucky people | Leave a comment