It’s not in production, but this art piece/concept table from John Nouanesing would look great in my sleek, minimalist, high-rise apartment. If I were a vampire.

Link to Nouanesing’s portfolio.

Via Neatorama.

You have probably seen this already, but here it is just in case. It’s one of the greatest joys of YouTube. What do you do when a whale washes up on your beach and starts to smell bad?

Oh my dog, talking cats are funny, irrationally so! It’s Tom Waits in a parallel universe.

I’ve always been fascinated by UFOs. I’m not going to put it on the record that I am necessarily a Believer. I’d just say that I’m more of a skeptic of the skeptics.

So I’ve been following this story with interest. A few weeks ago, retired Apollo astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell told Kerrang! Radio that, basically, it’s all true: Roswell, aliens, the shadowy government cover-ups – it’s all true. You can listen to that interview here.

Then, to lend the story a little bit more credibility, Discovery Channel online did this follow-up interview, which goes a bit more in-depth.

EM: Yup, in other words. There was a UFO crash. There was an alien spacecraft. This gentleman tried his damndest to get me in and like so many others in the administration over the last 60 years, since JFK’s time, was unable to. He was told ‘Admiral, you don’t have a need to know, and therefore go get lost,’ essentially.

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So he formed a committee, a very high-level military and academic and intelligent people — politically powerful people — and said ‘You guys work on this.’ And that was called … the MAJIC 12. And they did pass a National Security Act, or so I’m told, under highly classified auspices, that gave this committee virtually unlimited power to deal with this issue, which they have done for the last 60 years, slowly excluding everybody — including presidents.

It all sounds very convincing, but then again, I Want To Believe. Hang on? Where have I heard all this before? I know, it’s the entire first four seasons of the X-Files!

If this is some kind of marketing shtick for the just-released X-Files movie it both evil and genius. If it isn’t, then it is infinitely, infinitely cooler.

Cephelopods are far and away my favorite sea-creatures. They are fiendishly smart, can squeeze their body through a hole the size of a 50 cent piece and sometimes, sometimes, they come in crazy mutations like the one above, from Pink Tentacle:

The preserved octopus actually has the normal number of 8 appendages attached to its body, but each one branches out to form the multitude of extra tentacles. Apparently there is no theory that fully explains the surplus tentacles, but they are believed to be the result of abnormal regeneration that occurred after the octopus suffered some sort of injury.

Wordpress has a fun little feature wherein you can see what search terms people typed into google before they clicked on your site. Here are some of my favorites from people who ended up at this blog:

the bottom half of nude women
construction workers nude
nude ping pong
mohair jumper moult
nude pearls
nude on the train
nude roller derby

NUDE ROLLER DERBY??!

and Platform Gallery presents Tell it to Yourself at Majorca Building windows

Exhibition dates: August 01 – 31, 2008

‘Don’t eat fruit or anything else in the public streets. A gentleman on the sidewalk engaged in munching an apple or pear presents a more amusing than edifying picture’

Spit & Polish, a collaborative arts project, will be delivering a rotating set of etiquette lessons to the pedestrians of Centreplace, via the Majorca House exhibition windows, during the month of August.

Two large-scale profile cameos (those of Spit & Polish), both furnished with speech bubbles, will be the vehicle for the text of the etiquette ‘advice’. The lessons provided are extracted from an early 20th century guide, DON”T! Directions for Avoiding Improprieties of Conduct & Common Errors in Speech. Don’t! was published by E.W. Cole – a respected philanthropist and publisher of the times – on Little Collins Street, a mere block away from Majorca House.

It’s likely that many people may have actually followed these suggestions, making both the literary and historical references integral to this project especially pertinent to the location. The purpose of ‘Tell It To Yourself’ is to amuse (and instruct) passers-by, but primarily to illustrate the changes in social behaviour that have occurred over the twentieth century, almost the span of time since the erection of the Majorca Building and Flinders Lane.

The quotes reference the hospitality-laden precinct, the highly social nature of Centreplace, and its function as a meeting place embedded with behavioural cues, idiocies and expectations

Opening Night: Friday 1st August, 6-8pm

Platform Gallery, Degraves Street underpass

Underground Ping Pong at the GB is back on! Thursday the 31st of July will again see the basement of amazement will pulsate with the ping and with the pong. We’re getting in early with reminding and emailing this time, giving you, the loyal punter, more of a chance to sharpen up your skills for the thrills and spills that are Underground Ping Pong at the GB.

Underground Ping Pong at The Great Britain Hotel
Church St, Richmond
Thursday 31st July
7pm signup!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6880260086

A kinda gentleman friend gave me these specs yesterday. They are wild are they not? They are Jonathan Sceats, Australian glasses designer who framed himself on the international fashion circuit in the eighties. His designs are still good, and I will wear them.

http://www.jonathansceats.com/

My parents are about to move and are desperately looking for a new home for their cat.

From my mother:

We are trying to find a home for Coco and here is what people need to know

1. Name:Coco (short for Coconut, she’s white) She’s a 6 year old moggie.
2. She is desexed, vaccinated, wormed and totally runs the house.
3.Personality: A scaredy cat! Terrified of strangers and doorbells but quite a conversationalist, talks to us all the time. Loves sleeping on our bed or on the mohair rug on the sofa at night but is basically an outdoor cat during the day. We think she’d be particularly suited to a single person household as too much noise and movement might scare her (mind you, we used to have four adult people living in this house and she was OK with that). She would need to be kept indoors for a while to get used to a new owner and new surroundings.
4. No vetinary problems that we know about
5. In the near future, we will be moving to a town in the middle of a National Park and, understandably, cats are not welcome there. Unfortunately, in the the type of house we are moving to, it would be very difficult to keep her inside. Also we anticipate moving around a quite a lot and that wouldn’t be fair on her.
6. We currently live in Caulfield South.

If you’re interested, please get in contact with my mum, her name is Sue. Email here.