ABANDONED STAR WARS SETS IN THE DESERT

New York-based visual artist and filmmaker Rä di Martino has taken a series of eerie and beautiful photos that capture scenes of abandoned Hollywood film sets. Martino spent over a year traveling throughout the desert towns of Morocco and Tunisia hunting down the old Star Wars sets.

TOASTFACE GRILLAH

Apart from being possibly the best name for an eatery that I've seen in Perth for ages, this place is located in a pretty cool spot too, down the end of Grand Lane in the city. Haven't had a chance to eat there yet but it's on my list. Lovin the artwork too... 

COMPARING PERTH - THEN AND NOW

Received a cool pic yesterday, from someone who knows what I like, it shows Perth in 1981/82,



natch I did one of these...

Perth in the 1940's then 1981/82 and 2012

yep we lost a big chunk of the river along the way

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Girl

THIS IS GROUND CONTROL TO COMMANDER HADFIELD Pt 2

Over the past few years I've followed a few astronauts on twitter whilst they lived on the International Space Station. None have been as awesome or as cool as Commander Chris Hadfield. He has taken some incredible pictures of Earth, I posted some he took whilst he travelled above  my country and my hometown back in January of this year. The title I gave to that post now fits extremely well with the Commanders latest offering, this fantastic video of him singing David Bowie's Space Oddity...

This is fantastic

Sadly he is departing the space station sometime in the next 24 hours, I'll miss his photos, some examples below...

The Black Sea, Crimea

More of the Black Sea, Crimea

Florida, USA

Lake Ontario, Canada

Safe travels 

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Googly eyes has fallen

GAME OF THRONESESQUE

Continuing with today's apparent theme of architecture, this church in Copenhagen, Denmark has a few features that instantly draws me to comparisons with some of the buildings in the TV show Game of Thrones. An incredible structure, now added to my list of places to visit.

Grundtvig's Church

Inaugurated in 1927

Completed in 1940

The architectural style is known as expressionism

It is named after the Danish philosopher and hymn writer Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig

HERE I COULD LIVE

Fulfilling major boyhood fantasies and just imagine the incredible dinner parties you could have...

Clever use of brick, wood, and cement has turned the ruined Astley Castle, destroyed by fire in 1978, into a contemporary home.  

by WWM Architects

TWO MEN

Fantastic short film

Two Men from Dominic Allen on Vimeo.

Award winning Australian short film, Two Men, directed by Dominic Allen and shot in the Kimberly town of Fitzroy Crossing by Joel Betts, features a robust and dynamic cast of indigenous Australian non actors. With an original soundtrack by Melbourne artist Felix Riebl, Based on Kafka's short story, Two Men Running, Allen's short film has been screened internationally at film festivals including New York, Prague, London, Melbourne and Sydney and in 2009 was a Dendy Australian Short Film of the Year finalist.

The film was instrumental in supporting director Dominic Allen's Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the 2009 Inside Film Rising Talent Award.
2009 MIFF Jury member Deb Verhoeven remarked "Two Men proves that the simplest scenario can provide the perfect premise for conveying the most profound insights. But (Allen's) key achievement is to understand that even the largest ideas are best told with brevity and the most serious with humour."

Two Men was made with the support of Yiriman, a community initiated and community driven project supported by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre which aims to build stories, strength and resilience in the Kimberley's youth.

INVADER WARS

New piece by Invader somewhere in East London

We have an Invader piece here in Perth dontchaknow

RANDOM IMAGES # 72

I know nothing of this image other than it intrigues me and has a certain mesmerizing component

Is he falling or is he lying?

click image to embiggen

LONDON 1927 IN COLOUR

"It's like a beautifully dusty old postcard you'd find in a junk store, but moving."

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with.

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Down an alley somewhere near that place over there...

THE HISTORY OF TYPOGRAPHY

Check this out, you might learn something, I sure did. Very cool short animation on the history of typography..

SPOCK VERSUS SPOCK

OMG this is awesome, my day has started off perfectly

What happens when old school goes head to head with new school in a battle of speed and wits? Leonard Nimoy takes on newbie Zachary Quinto and his all-new Audi S7.

I mean it's got Leonard Nimoy singing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.... to himself... in his car and so so much more win...

RANDOM IMAGES # 71

Foyer

click image to embiggen

March 3, 1946. "Foyer, Eversharp Inc., Empire State Building, New York. Raymond Loewy Associates, client."
 Luxe showroom of the pencil and pen maker. Large-format acetate negative by Samuel H. Gottscho

via Shorpy

THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

New clip from Armin Van Buuren, it's a bit corny but that it was shot along Route 66 and at the Bagdad Cafe is what made me pay attention as I was there in January last year...

This old caravan appears in a fair few shots

This is the cafe Ron Jeremy kicks them out of

This is where they fuel up

TATTOO YOU

Vintage tattoos

70's biker chicks

no words

SOON MY LOVELIES SOON

and while you're waiting you can watch Peter Serafinowicz's awesome Daft Punk vid

Daft Punk - Get Lucky from Torvakian on Vimeo.
Pre-order the album here: iTunes.com/DaftPunk

Directed by Peter Serafinowicz twitter.com/serafinowicz
Produced by Tamsin Glasson at Colonel Blimp
VFX by Chris Bristow at Munky
Cinematography by Jamie Cairney
Suit tailored by Sir Tom Baker
Choreography by Gemma Whelan
Makeup by Candy Alderson

May 17th

RANDOM IMAGES # 70

A boy between two mounted lobsters caught off the New Jersey coast 1915

Insanely large, surely they don't catch them this size anymore. Besides they would be completely inedible - tough as boots

Edit: Well it turns out they do still get em. Wow (thanks Jeff)

GOD IS IN THE HOUSE

Lately for some reason I've been snapping pics of churches, fairly certain it's just an architectural thing and not a religious epiphany...

maybe Nick can explain it all

Goose-stepping twelve-stepping Tetotalitarianists

IT'S A SOLDIERS LIFE # 2

Chronicling the miniature invasion of my home...

Caught on the wire

Man down!

Foxhole buddies

TRUE STORY

I was in the states a few years back with a couple of mates and we were in a hotel lift (I'm not sure which city - maybe Vegas) and we started talking to a dude who after realising we were from Australia asked us about guns, not sure how we got there so quickly but that was the topic. It went something like this...

Dude "You don't carry guns in Australia?"

Us "We don't even own them"

D "You can't own guns?"

U "Well you can, but most don't and we've banned most of them"

D "You don't even have a shotgun in your house to protect yourself?"

U "Nup"

D "Far :expletive: out"

Now that's not verbatim but close enough. That's the culture there, sadly I think it will take many more Newtowns before anything substantially changes. I give you parts 1 to 3 of the John Oliver series on gun control. It's mind :expletive: blowing

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Percy Penguin down at the Corner Store, Hay st Subiaco

By Robert Jenkins

Edit: This by Martin E wills (Cheers Desp).

SAY IT ISN'T SO

I really hope the reason this box is empty is because someone stole the contents. That would be extremely poor form. All of the artists displaying their work on these walls are contactable via the web and I'm fairly certain they sell their wares, it's what most artists do. Don't be an arsehat and steal somebodies livelihood. 

the original piece

IT'S A SOLDIERS LIFE # 1

Chronicling the miniature invasion of my home...

Camouflage

Conquering the beast "Hold up, I think I see the head!"

"Jenkins! Good god man, we're at war, this is no time to be losing your head"