Iwatani toont original sketch for Pac-Man (via Kottke)
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Second Edition - Recycled Books & Cafe
Check out our new store in Malvern! Quality recycled books/mags and vinyl. Drop by for a coffee and a browse soon..
(215 Glenferrie Road Malvern)
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
New Sensation
Record Club: INXS "New Sensation" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Dennis Hopper
tangled devious your solidity distracting
snapshots of autumn orange oblige–professing wit
glossed moments happen, like smooth sunshine
the sluts story mirrors solitary possessed acts
exuded, swallowed static prelude
mishaps, imagining twisted maleness
oversexed systems process dissatisfied understanding
sheer sky and clicking heat
software torture slow solid nibble below
cynical daylight raced and crazed
damned poetry
bloody transcendence instilled
encouragement starts with the belt
lessons spill poppycock–intermittently dead and embarrassed
bared girls increase ridiculous questions
psychotic animal dissipates– soaked and stiff
reboot–trace realization destroyed handfuls of sound vibrations
reaching for time
Sea Creature Videos by MORPHOLOGIC
'Transparency' from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.
'The Florist' from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.
'The Lynx Nudibranch' from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.
'Transmission' from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Survival In The City
Survival in the City (1974) is pitched as a guidebook to urban self-preservation, an encyclopedia of tips and tricks for the everyman on a visit to a big city. It covers everything: transport, accommodation, going out and (most terrifyingly of all) other people. What makes it fantastic is that Greenbank has clearly watched Taxi Driver* one too many times during his research and the resulting book is one big paranoid rave about muggers, card-sharks and drag queens.
The best chapters are the ones focused on nightlife or the ‘trials and temptations of CITY BRIGHT LIGHTS’ as Greenbank puts it. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to properly buy a drink, safely handle a drug-dealer or survive a bar-brawl then worry no longer, instructions are at hand. In Greenbank’s city, you’re doing pretty well if you’ve not had your wallet stolen by a drink-spiking transvestite after mistakenly walking into a poorly signposted “gay” bar. Even the text itself is funny, a mind-boggling barrage of panicky capitals, footnotes and back-referencing that is almost unreadable.
If you can get hold of Survival in the City, I’d really recommend it. It’s brills. Here’s a few little paragraphs as a taster with a selection of Colin Harrington’s illustrations thrown in:
The best chapters are the ones focused on nightlife or the ‘trials and temptations of CITY BRIGHT LIGHTS’ as Greenbank puts it. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to properly buy a drink, safely handle a drug-dealer or survive a bar-brawl then worry no longer, instructions are at hand. In Greenbank’s city, you’re doing pretty well if you’ve not had your wallet stolen by a drink-spiking transvestite after mistakenly walking into a poorly signposted “gay” bar. Even the text itself is funny, a mind-boggling barrage of panicky capitals, footnotes and back-referencing that is almost unreadable.
If you can get hold of Survival in the City, I’d really recommend it. It’s brills. Here’s a few little paragraphs as a taster with a selection of Colin Harrington’s illustrations thrown in:
SHAKE OFF FEAR PHYSICALLY
Place the fingertips on your stomach just below the solar plexus. Breathe in deeply, press hard with the fingers and bend over forwards. Hold this position and count one-two-three. Now let the breath come out slowly and stand upright. Repeat this effective measure until you feel calmer.
This will reduce the tension in your head and allow you to concentrate.
Place the fingertips on your stomach just below the solar plexus. Breathe in deeply, press hard with the fingers and bend over forwards. Hold this position and count one-two-three. Now let the breath come out slowly and stand upright. Repeat this effective measure until you feel calmer.
This will reduce the tension in your head and allow you to concentrate.
AVOID BABY SNATCHING
Use fluids to keep you awake when pram pushing (see also THE SHEEP: p. 31). Know the danger of falling asleep if troubled/tired/hot on warm grass; your infant could be stolen (possibly by other children).
SIDETRACK SEX
Quell sexual urges when elderly/male/lonely before joining crowds in summer dress – tennis tournaments etc. It is far safer to masturbate first than yield to sudden temptation to brush/stroke/fondle female spectators in scanty attire when hot-weather atmosphere becomes too heady.
Use fluids to keep you awake when pram pushing (see also THE SHEEP: p. 31). Know the danger of falling asleep if troubled/tired/hot on warm grass; your infant could be stolen (possibly by other children).
SIDETRACK SEX
Quell sexual urges when elderly/male/lonely before joining crowds in summer dress – tennis tournaments etc. It is far safer to masturbate first than yield to sudden temptation to brush/stroke/fondle female spectators in scanty attire when hot-weather atmosphere becomes too heady.
TOLERATE TRANSVESTITES
Expect men-dressed-up-as-eye-pulling-women in dancehalls, ballrooms, speakeasies, discos, restaurants, cinemas, night clubs and bars. Reasons: a bar/club/café may be a hangout for homosexual prostitutes – some or all in drag; a straight bar could have been infiltrated by freelance drag queens prepared to be picked up by the unsuspecting (You) – or they may take it for granted you know (when you don’t); or they may be bag snatchers dressed as women.
NEVER get uptight when you discover your companion is of the same sex as you. Hetrosexuals – pass it off. Don’t recoil in horror, or become violent when not normally given to scrapping.
Transvestites can be vicious – they have fewer inhibitions than normal men and rejection antagonizes them for they think they are beautiful; they also keep together and gang up; some have all-men minders too. So be careful if you encounter any.
Expect men-dressed-up-as-eye-pulling-women in dancehalls, ballrooms, speakeasies, discos, restaurants, cinemas, night clubs and bars. Reasons: a bar/club/café may be a hangout for homosexual prostitutes – some or all in drag; a straight bar could have been infiltrated by freelance drag queens prepared to be picked up by the unsuspecting (You) – or they may take it for granted you know (when you don’t); or they may be bag snatchers dressed as women.
NEVER get uptight when you discover your companion is of the same sex as you. Hetrosexuals – pass it off. Don’t recoil in horror, or become violent when not normally given to scrapping.
Transvestites can be vicious – they have fewer inhibitions than normal men and rejection antagonizes them for they think they are beautiful; they also keep together and gang up; some have all-men minders too. So be careful if you encounter any.
KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON DANCING
Don’t get rattled – or rattle others – on a crowded dance floor when a spinning couple knock into you, a balloon-pricking maniac bursts your balloon, your partner abandons you or a stranger accuses you of treading on his shoes.
Follow the dance style of the particular establishment: ballroom-tea-dance/disco/night club. Don’t dance differently for the sake of being different.
Remember: a male may “dance” by resting his crotch on a stair rail or banister and squirming his pelvis – don’t react. If that’s this particular night club scene, go along with it.
Don’t get rattled – or rattle others – on a crowded dance floor when a spinning couple knock into you, a balloon-pricking maniac bursts your balloon, your partner abandons you or a stranger accuses you of treading on his shoes.
Follow the dance style of the particular establishment: ballroom-tea-dance/disco/night club. Don’t dance differently for the sake of being different.
Remember: a male may “dance” by resting his crotch on a stair rail or banister and squirming his pelvis – don’t react. If that’s this particular night club scene, go along with it.
STRIPPED NAKED
Improvise clothing when yours is stolen by a female working from a “trick pad” – a room in a sleazy hotel or cheap apartment building (see also THE WINNER: p. 304).
A PILLOWCASE can become a tee shirt when slit across the end for your head and down each side for your arms; start the slits with broken mirror/wooden splinter/burst bedspring, then rip the fabric slowly.
A PIECE OF SHEET 2 ft. SQUARE will make “shorts”; tear the sheet as for the pillowcase; wrap the cloth round your loins diaper-style; knot the corners.
Face the building superintendent without blustering. Ask to borrow trousers/shirt/shoes. It is not an occasion for threatening police action.
Improvise clothing when yours is stolen by a female working from a “trick pad” – a room in a sleazy hotel or cheap apartment building (see also THE WINNER: p. 304).
A PILLOWCASE can become a tee shirt when slit across the end for your head and down each side for your arms; start the slits with broken mirror/wooden splinter/burst bedspring, then rip the fabric slowly.
A PIECE OF SHEET 2 ft. SQUARE will make “shorts”; tear the sheet as for the pillowcase; wrap the cloth round your loins diaper-style; knot the corners.
Face the building superintendent without blustering. Ask to borrow trousers/shirt/shoes. It is not an occasion for threatening police action.
Jack
'Jack The Hard Worker'. You can't beat a guy who'll paint himself blue and do some ironing in front of a crowd.
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