I think I Can

I may or may not have indulged in a few wee projects over the last few months, squeezed into the brief happy space between work and sleep. Some of these have gone on to great things, particularly one I may or may not know anything about which might have fallen into the hands of someone far more mischieveous than I.

On a perhaps unrelated note, it was very cool to see tins of Don Brash brand Baloney and Corned Beef appear on supermarket shelves in the greater Auckland region this week, grace the pages of the Herald, get discussed on TV and radio. Check out the action shots, including the guerilla installation mission here.

A sign

Work stood still for 3 minutes this afternoon, which made for a nice change.
Sunlight from yet another stunning day outside was casting long shadows across the state of emergency that is my desk. I drew a picture of this in illustrator.
I hope it's not a sign...

It's all about the people

As I delve deeper into blog-life, I discover a whole bundh of firends have super-cool blogs, including Wanda Harland and the Bambino Espresso team. One day I'll suss out how to include links on the right hand side, and link to them all and sundry, but sadly we're not quite there yet.

Work. Life.

I've been at work for a couple of hours, and done so little it's not funny.
I blame the fact that it's a rather stunning day out, and I'm just so excited about the sun being available. Time to go roll about on the lawn in front of work I think.
We'll try again tomorrow.

Rediscovering books

On a roundabout sort of amble in the sun on the way to work (on a saturday, arse) I popped into capital books, and managed to spend waay too much money. This used to happen with a degree of regularity in record stores, magazine stores, clothes stores, and more recently bike stores, but i've been pretty good lately.

I spent an hour or so immersed in the design and architecture series, variably speccing the interior of some house or other dreamt up in the dopey still hours of the morning between waking and going to work, or appropriating graphic design ideas for some inevitably successful business empire I might get round to building one day.

Then detroured through the car section, trying to find out what the insanely cool old-school looking super car parked outside was (a Morgan Aero. Hot), then hit the travel section.

A quick stab of excitement about impending visit to europoe later, and I have a learn Italian kit, a very kitsch popup map of London (with heaps of galleries listed) and finally a decent street map of Wellington with which to find a house to buy.

I love credit cards.

Diversity. Maharvellous.

At the top right of your screen is a little button that says Next Blog. I've taken to clicking it occasionally of late, from any one of the handful of blogs I monitor healfheartedly. It's a great way to kill a few minutes, and a brief insight to the massive diversity of the information superhighway.
Go there now...

Invest in artists.

I'm going to develop a tiered art work pricing structure, so it can be traded on the commodity market as a non-emotional investment.

Works will be graded on 3 criteria: size ($ per square/cubic meter), execution (reflection of material costs) and artist stature (a national grading system will be established to grade artsts at early/mid/late career).

This will ensure that all artists are able to be paid fairly, that the value of art can be truly appreciated and fairly measured, and that the purchase of art can be better taxed, providing money for tax cuts for other sectors of the market.

This concept aligns perfectly with the Arts Policies of 3 of our smaller political parties, as outlined on FrontSeat last weekend. And I'm not even going to get started on the National Party's 5-point plan for the arts.

Fly my pretties, fly

Yeah - got tickets to the second round of Fly My Pretties from Pet. Mildly excited - the last concert I went to at the Paramount was Kristen Hersch, and that still ranks as one of my all time favourites. Top 5 concert list of the moment as follows:

1. Kristen Hirsch, Paramount, Wellington, c. 1994
2. Blur, Auckland, c. 1998
3. Beastie Boys & Helmet, Wellington Town Hall,
4. WOMAD, Taranaki, 2003
5. Tie between: Billy Bragg, wellington, 1992/Dana Eclair and Virgil, Bodega, c. 1998/Polly, Palmerston, c. 1996/Pavement, Vic Uni, c. 1995/ Irish Rovers, Palmerston North, c. 1988 (yes, really).