IFM: Musings of Art and Life

Update 21/10/13: Huh, The links broken now. It used to go to my issuu account, so check out my library page for other issuu type stuff I've done. I guess we'll never know what my musings are, cause I honestly can't remember. Guess it wasn't that important.

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Well it seems as though that ol' rascal Brian Tamaki is at it again. Him and his cults. Well Boys will be boys. Especially ones who have power trips.

Now first off I was informed the other day that "blogs gave people the idea that their opinion actually matters." Now I would like to kindly point out that this w

as said over the internet, thus making his opinion more than just a little ironic. Be more self concious next time fish face. Any way! Back to MY OPINION >=( .

Today while driving all over Auckland I have been seeing billboards of Tamaki looking very sinister, grim faced, emerging from the murky depths of the black background. Along with that is the words "A super city needs a super church." I would beg to differ.

I think a super city needs a super hero. It should be the only way you can label Auckland a super city. Or perhaps Tamaki should dub himself the "super bishop" before making a "super church" for "the" "super" City. Shit. I went a bit nuts with the "things" "there".

Wow, isn't this blog becoming a veritable pumping house of current affairs! Makes a change from the fringe culture of graffiti and getting picked up by random druggies in the middle of the night. Speaking of which (Not druggies)!

A bunch of buses in the inner city are painted up by the cut collective. I saw this one randomly and was able to grab a shot. There's meant to be prizes if you can get a photo of five of them.

Well, I thought that this was the 100th post. But I might be wrong since I got a bunch of unfinished drafts from over the last (almost) two years. So if your feeling board, heres a scrap book of them all here today, unfinished for one reason or another.

2/14/08

Vampires day

I went dumpster diving on valentines day and found this old tatty board and decided to deck it out in true holiday spirit. "Happy Vampires day", Thats what I presume it is. Walking around the streets all I can presume is that its vampires day. All that neck biting going on between happy couples and the sharing of body fluids.

Everyone did valentines cards for everyone. Fun fun. Woop woop.

We leave this camp tomorrow. Thank goodness. I havent wanted to wash any of these clothes by hand. and I'm in short supply... I think thats why I'm not getting as many hugs as before. -_-

I also seem to be catching Jo's cold. DARN YOU. Darn you to HECK!

So yea, Happy Vampires day girls. I know at least one reads this. ha ha, Hanna.

3/22/08

Splash planet

Well it was rather a dissapointment really. Well the bumper boats were awesome when we went waiting in line. And smacking into Zac all the time on the Go Karts was amusing. Its just that the rides don't seem to have the speed or excitement of Waiwera. Maybe I'm just getting old and patriotic or something. Also they don't have any hot pools, apart from one pool which feels as though it is heated with the combined effort of all the small children peeing into it at once. I never realized how much I take hot pools for granted till now.
At one point I went to push Frank down the slide, His matt stayed where it was as he went shooting down. At another point Peaky tried going down the slide without a matt, it was rather pitiful watching him pushing himself down.
Last night we watched Jurrasic Park, me and zac stayed up talking and occasionally got freaked out by Frank and Peaky sleep talking. Our conversation summed up is "Blah blah blah WOA are you awake? he's not awake, hahahaha. blah blah blah."
Oh yea, the other day Frank sent in an irish joke to a radio station and won some gift cards to KFC, lol, so we got to use em today.
Jess gave me chocolate this morning! Yay, turns out I did get chocolate for easter after all! Our paintings are starting to be sold now at riverbend. It'l be interesting to see how they go. Emmily and Hahays are awesome as.
Classic conversation between me and the Caltex girl. I try to strike up a conversation. "Oh hi, wassup, its nice to see someone new." "Oh I'm not new, I have worked here two months." "Oh, ok, I usually come in here when the night shift are working." "I am the night shift." "Oh.. Well in that case.. Did you replace someone?" "Yea, Kelvin." "Oh aight, was he the fat one all the tall one?" "the fat one about this high?" "Yea yea!" "That was my UNCLE, Hes working the day shift now." ".... Thanks for the coke."

5/8/09

well its 3:30 in the morning. Im currently listening to the second proper release cd by greenday, "dookie." I listened to their first album "Kerplunk" and for the most part the songs were throw away forgetable.

Best song on the dookie album is "welcome to paradise" and maybe "basket case" because its so true.

Why am I doing this? because they got a new album coming out next week. and I think it might be decent. Before now I only listened to the songs that we have been fed like "wake me up when september ends" "Holiday" "american idiot" that sorta thing..

3:50 am. Finished that album. Now onto the "insomniac" album. ha ha. How Ironic. "no pride" The first songs pretty good... "brain stew" is a good change of pace..

4:23 woops. missed an album. their first ep "1039 smoothed out slappy hours".. The first song "16" is cool.

10/22/09

My eyes are tired. I should sleep. Finished my essay and handed it in this afternoon. Things are winding down. But this is only our world. On the dark side of the sun a world is being birthed.

Oh I think I figured out why I didn't post these before.. BECAUSE THEY SUCK.. Yes believe it or not my posts go through quality control. We usually ignore spelling errors though.

americans having paddys

Well lately it seems America has been throwing a bit of a paddy with itself. So they're probably even more self absorbed than they were before. Somewhere in your day to day life you may have heard about Joe Wilson, the guy who shouted "You Lie!" at Obama during a speech. This has prompted a rather vement attack back at ol' Joe. People are calling it outlandish and immature. This got me thinking, what would Americans think of our politicians? If you have ever heard the parliament in session on the radio you might know what I mean. I swear our people spend more time calling each other dorks (And then spending the next half hour complaining at Mr speaker to make the bully apologise.)How would they react if two of their politicians went and had a fist fight outside the white house?

Food for thought.

Wow. Only two more frickin weeks till uni is over and done with. My first year as a student designer is almost over! I don't feel magically any better at anything.. I guess that happens when they give me the degree or something..
I shall leave you with a few more photos from my museum excursion.

All the visuals

Yesterday I went to the museum to do some research for my propoganda paper. Instead of taking photos in the museum I just took photos of the graff down K road. Unfortunatly I put my camera away before I got any pics of the cut collectives new stickers. Why do Graphic designers need to take a paper about waitangi anyway? Why do nurses have to? Why do programmers need to do a course on political correctness? Just don't be a dick. Jeeze, cracka.

Rabbit Fusion

A god encounter (a short comic)

Climate Change 4 Realzies!

Ok so this is a personal accounting. I saw a sudden shift in climate! It was like a catastrophy I swear! One moment I'm baskin' in the sun, and next moment clouds come along and start raining! If this wasn't climate change then I don't know what is! Something should be done about this!

Oh I know. Lets make a new tax to pay, but lets think of it as a donation to the planet. Oh hang on were already gonna do that? Ok.. So where's the money going? You dunno? Me neither. I'm sure all the governments will get together, put their money in one big box and then throw it into that volcano on Hawaii where the Scientologist Aliens were genocided. Then We'll offer up a prayer to mother nature to save us and get rid of our sinful CO2.

Hang on. Wasn't the CO2 Levels higher in the last ice age? I thought we were gonna burn. I guess thats why we renamed it from global warming to climate change. Someone fucked up there I guess. Wow. the advertising was brilliant, I barely even noticed the shift in wording.

In other news I totally won the first cycle of Keirs Photo thingy. The theme was "A slice of heaven" the place where you go to have a bit of peace and be happy. So I chose my own head, or more specifically Drawing. So this is a physical Recreation of the inside of my head. Hectic images crashing together. The postit notes that are stuck to me are to help me blend with the background, or to show that I'm a part of it.

Breaking headline! From last night. Fun story, so I'll tell it. If for nothing more than to catalogue odd experiences.

So I'm hanging out with my favourite married couple Matt and Keir. Were hanging out for a lot of the evening. And its about 1am or so and I'm thinking about leaving, but these two nutters are like, "God I'm hungry, Lets go to Wendies." To the sadness of many we had to go to MCd's instead. Matt's not happy with them.

Were sitting at the drive through. Keir freaks out at all the sleeping birds in the tree's above us. 20 minutes later we get to the window and their like, "We only take cash." Were surprised by this "Wtf, You know we live in a cashless society now! Jeeze."

Those weren't Keirs exact words, but she voiced our reaction of "Why didn't you have a sign up or something!"

So we go get cash, come back, get our food and shoot off to find a place to eat it. Now consequencly we park at the same carpark that the Creepy drug/sex crazed gay guy was from a few posts ago.

Matt likes this idea as much as he likes McDonalds. But were eating, steaming up those windows, when Keir suddenly freezes "Omg, theres someone coming towards the car!"

We see this big Maori boy out there. Matt winds his window down and the exchange words.

APPARENTLY his car broke down and he needs jumper leads. He also mentions casually that one of the windows is smashed in. He gets really insistent about us having jumper leads. He's not a very good listener, and he has trouble understanding our most basic statements of "No unless someone magicaly snuck jumper leads into my boot, there's nothing there." We look anyway. And he doesnt understand that "YES. WE will go to gull and get you some leads if they let us."

So we drive past where he's parked his car. Its parked around in a particularly dark spot, with lots of bush in front and beside it. We get to gull.. And keep going. SCREW that. were not gonna be the next unwitting owners of a blunt object in the head. We go home. With our night ruined.

a few weeks later we read this post, and laughed.. Crazily.

Hey hold up. How can they tell us that the end is nigh because of global warming? They have trouble enough as it is predicting weather next week. Let alone twenty or thirty years from now.