Wednesday, July 5, 2006how I walked the grand canyon in a minuteIf anyone else wants to throw in any comments to the last post you are more than welcome. I'm typing to the sound of the Big O just so you can imagine the general ambience. I am definitely getting in the vibe for travelling. As I walked home from the bus stop I had Billy Joel singing in my head... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, July 4, 2006childlike yearning to see inflatable thingsThis afternoon I was sitting in my office, counting down the minutes til my liberation from the quagmire of administrative banalities, and I was trying to work out when the bext autumn (aka Fall) colours happen in New York and New England. Seems to be mid-November, somebody let me know. Anyway then... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, July 3, 2006motown mondayThe day started in the seething ocean of a nasty night's sleep. Yes dear reader, I had another one of those dreams. I was riding a bike and trying to go along a muddy path but I started to sink and went down through the thick mud and then found myself sinking through the brown water that was... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, July 1, 2006visited upon by rob future and rob pastInteresting exercise in the Artist's Way today: imagine yourself at the age of 80 and write a letter to yourself at your present age.... and then rememember what you were like as at 8 and write a letter to yourself at your present age. It's an interesting exercise and opens up the domain of... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, June 30, 2006jazzing youI have only one thing to say: all hail Dave Brubeck smoothly playing Take Five at the end of a somewhat bizarre week. It doesn't get any smoother than this baby, it couldn't be more in the groove daddyo, so why don't you let your hips wriggle to the audio pearls of mellow poetic passion that is west... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, June 28, 2006bob marley and my cannibal dreamThe TV deprivation continues and tonight Bob Marley is on mon, yeah, could you be looooove and be loooooved yeah! Break out the coloured beanies people, dreadlock your imagination and try to ignite your herbal tea bags! I'm dancing with my head as I type! Yeah! could you be... could you be...could... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, June 27, 2006just a suspect man with a barbeque chicken and a dodgy signatureIt's been a strange, disconnected day. I've just felt out of it, drifting on the periphery of everything that was going on around me but nevertheless feeling susceptible to aggravation. Maybe I'm going through some kind of news and current affairs withdrawal. Australia lost in the soccer by the way... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, June 26, 2006the sound of whale sexIt's been a strange day which began with news of the unexpected death of a work colleague. A moment like that brings out the sense of connection that exists even with people you only know from brief moments of encounter. She had a kind face and heart. Meanwhile I'm going through a week of... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, June 25, 2006waking up in the presentThere's something transformative about photography. When you're in a photographic frame of mind everything but the present moment falls away. The fall of shadows and the play of light matters, the calligraphy of lines in people's faces matter, the momentary sculpture of clouds matter. The physical... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, June 23, 2006beauty stirred by mortalitySign in to see full entry. |
