factory girl

skimmed from hello sandwich visits harvest studio blog


so girly.

27 august

my dad loved hans heysen

i'm not sure which heysen in particular, which style

i quite like this one.  happy birthday dad

road trip

¡hello Mexico!

I've been hankering to go to Mexico for years.
It won't happen for a few years yet, but in the meantime... here are some cliches

amusing skeletons all fffound

it's not brain surgery (or maybe it is ...)

two packets of brain surgery in fact
i stumbled across this today, and i love the drawings
here's a few faves, i'm tempted to reblog the whole thing, very ace

some of the works remind me of david shrigley, whose stuff i love

others

remind me of the drawings of George Grosz,

This one 

reminded me of Matisse, not his dancers (thematic) but his musicians (stylistic)

What a Krakouer!

Listening to the Marngrook footy show on the radio [by proxy - I was told about it later],

there was an interview with Jimmy Krakouer (or perhaps it was Phil)


He was asked about the origins of his name,  Krakouer   - an unusual name apparently.

And he said it was because, way back when, one of his progenitors (a great great great (or more) grandfather, was from here:

Kraków 

maybe one of those heroic Poles that roamed Australia a few centuries ago ... naming mountains as they went

 

except neither Kosciuszko or Strzelecki were from Kraków ...




also there's not that much family resemblence!
 

Recent biography of the Krakouer brothers,
'Brotherboys: The Story of Jim and Phil Krakouer' by Sean Gorman
 (review in The Monthly by Paul Daffey)

me & social media

i am uneasy with social media
i truly hate defacebook (why is it so ugly?)
i can't concentrate long enough for tweets