season's

there's something grand about the piss-take

Brett Whiteley - The 15 Great Dog Pisses of Paris - 1989
Oil, charcoal, plaster, collage, and resin on canvas, 154cm x 138.5cm

wishing everyone a merry piss-take

hot legs

i can't remember what set me off, but i decided one day that it would be wonderful to have a set of the beautiful rose-pink stockings worn by matadors.

a spot of canny research found a site that sells medias (stockings) for a mere € 76, which is roughly $125-$130.

by chance (and dumb luck) i was strolling passed (past??) the allanah hill shop in howey place and saw some delicously pink socks for sale. $15 i have some not quite silk matador medias ...! olé!

down among the dead men

when i was a kid there was a song called down among the dead men
a nautical tune, which made me think of pirates (the video, see below if you care to, courtesy of youtube tells me it's more titanic than pirate)
reason i thought of this was a cafe report on 3000 - dead man espresso, the review makes it sound a bit cowboy, but my association is still water & pirate
3000 also told me about this tattoo, in a book called home made tattoos rule
trying to find it, i came across another site which gave diy info on home made tatts, in case you're interested

i've included a playing card found object - i thought about playing cards the other day while crossing the street. how they're a good found object, easily tranferable (like cash), they can carry meanings or be aesthetic and of themselves...

rainbows on a cloudy day

because rainbows can pop up anywhere,

taking a thought for a spin

it all started with this picturetraditional wire fishing baskets, dubai - photo dan kitwood

which led me to these

of course, there's lots more that can be done with hoops
mechanise them
race them

words to
shift
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or build with them,

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the images
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this is a rather wonderful "hoop dome" playground
words to
shift the images
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or just swing em the old fashioned way

...

another hoop skirt!

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oh, you know life is grand! flipping through tate etc, issue 17 i came across a baldessari interview, and this image,

john baldessari

trying to

roll a hoop in a perfect circle (best sequence 216 frames)

another kind of circle work!

travelling north

i hate seeing those bumper stickers, magic happens, but i nevertheless believe it.
i saw some magic the other day.
i watched joanna lumley venturing toward the north pole on a quest to see the northern lights, inspired by a book she had a small child, ponny the penguin

it is a charming and winsome doco
no, not informative (as some reviewers have crossly pointed out)
it was an adventure born in a small child's mind, and joanna journeyed to fulfil her adventure with a small child's curiosity and wonder.
and it was marvellous.

i know how she felt because when i was small, we had a beautifully illustrated copy of the snow queen, and as gerda goes on her quest to find kay, she goes into the high north. one of the pages shows a tiny gerda running across the snow while the sky is big with dark and ominous northern lights (atoms flung by solar winds)
so strange.
i think i might try for the southern lights though ... maybe in tasmania