← 2020August 2020
”The (US) debt isn’t going to be repaid; it’s going to be refunded.” - Warren Buffett
📷 In the Northern Territory of Australia termites have been exiled from the urban areas and forced to make their own homes in the bush.
Abandoned by humans and the government the termite people gather dust from their surrounds and build cathedrals, sacred mounds that these vermin call home.
I thought I'd take the time to tell you an old story from the first time I ever thought about a wedding, it was actually 25 years ago this month.
So on this one faithful August night in 1995, I was about to propose to my girlfriend when my roommate Joseph barged onto the verandah out of nowhere, tripped and fell over, breaking a glass outdoor table with his face.
Totally ruined the mood.
Now, I didn't know Joseph that well, I can't even remember where he was from, but I'm sure you could imagine I put my plans on hold to help get him to the hospital.
Joseph had gotten big glass shard in his eye leaving him completely blind in that eye. He was walking around with one of those cotton pads on his eye for a couple of months. Then suddenly, he disappeared, along with my girlfriend!
Apparently they'd bonded during the time after his injuries, and they eloped together, leaving me behind without as much as a note. I tried to track them down, but never could.
As happy as I am today, if it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe, I'd have been married a long time ago.
Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, cotton eye Joe?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 31 📷 Love
Humble brag photo post about travelling somewhere
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted an Android device as much as this one
So I hire a car from Avis for the night because that’s the easiest and most simple way to get to Brisbane Airport early tomorrow morning, and only $10 more than an Uber and the Airtrain.
Now someone’s crashed into the hired car.
My life is so exciting.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 30 📷 Discovery
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 29 📷 Flake
“People pay money to see others believe in themselves” — Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 28 📷 Emotion(s)
“Out there things can happen And frequently do To people as brainy And footsy as you.”
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 27 📷 Overcome - as the Australian burnt bush fights its way back to green after a bushfire
Hey guys I would like to invite you all to join my multi level marketing scheme for beer. If you can convince 10 of your friends to drink beer, and they can convince their 10 of friends to drink beer, then I think we’ll be rich.
If Google was really committed to not being evil, they would remove pre-roll ads on Rick Rolls
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 25 📷 Relentless
Fill ‘er up, mate
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 25 📷 Hope
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 24 📷 Frosty
This is so awkward, I misunderstood. I’ve been preying for you, not praying for you. I don’t know what I’m going to do with these dead animals.
Never forget the day ScoMo became PM
Anyone else find themselves trying to lead a really exiting life so when the COVID contact tracers release the list of places you’ve been, everyone would think you’re cool?
Just me?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 23 📷 Graceful
The year is 2020.
Some have died from a pandemic, millions others are economically and mentally affected.
Meanwhile young and attractive humans are dancing for free to pop hit songs in 15 second segments on an advertising and government propaganda network.
Helping my friend Tatiana Neumuller with a new website tonight :)
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 22 📷 Home
The best part about Luna learning the word ‘no’ is that when she says ‘no’ loudly to my face in no way does that trigger any deep-rooted rejection trauma and I’m totally ok with it. Parenting is so easy.
A lady has just taken a photo of me and obviously thought I couldn’t hear her speaking. She thought it was beautiful and sad that I was the only person on the whole beach, sitting by myself, reading.
In case you see me go viral, I want to state that I’m quite happy.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 21 📷 Crunch 🦈
One of the best things about colonialism and white people is that sometimes you can just have sharks swim next to you at breakfast without any fear of harm.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 20 📷 Change (of scenery for a day)
Are islands called islands because they “is land”?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 19 📷 Ribbon (of islands I just flew over)
Thinking about rejigging all my marketing to just pictures of me shirtless, grinning, holding up fish. It seems to work for guys on Tinder.
This wasn’t a collaboration with Bechtel with a contract and payment; it was Apple doing a favour under the table for the Department of Energy. But access for that favour went only so far.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 18 📷 Grid
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 17 📷 Cuddly
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 16 📷 Stationary
Nick Cave on Cancel Culture, and mercy.
”Mercy is a value that should be at the heart of any functioning and tolerant society. Mercy ultimately acknowledges that we are all imperfect and in doing so allows us the oxygen to breathe — to feel protected within a society, through our mutual fallibility. Without mercy a society loses its soul, and devours itself."
“Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort” – Clive ‘Papa Roach’ Palmer, looking at Palmer Coolum Resort.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 15 📷 Silhouette, from the last time we were in Bali, for our babymoon with Luna
What’s the etiquette around putting handcuffs on toddlers?
Asking for a friend.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 14 📷 Among
Microsoft Flight Simultor is a 11 months younger than I am as a human, so this montage is a crazy and fantastic display of how computing power has changed in my lifetime.
Did you know that if you bury a flatearther when they die, they actually pop out the other side of the disc because the earth actually rejects them, like when you get a little splinter in your finger, your body pushes it out.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 14 📷 Among
You wouldn’t know this about me, because I don’t like to boast, but I once stopped eating a tin of Pringles.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 13 📷 Filter
In 2011 Redfoo proclaimed “now stop ... hatin' is bad” in the middle of LMFAO's breathrough banger, Party Rock Anthem, and I can't help but wonder why people still hatin’.
"Very little art arose out of the Spanish flu" a guest on a podcast recently commented.
Have we seen any great art come out of COVID-19? Has a great podcast, movie, TV show, photo, painting, song, sprung out of the depths of 2020's pestilence?
Can we talk about indoctrination?
What’s everyone’s thoughts on indoctrinating your toddler with The Muppets?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 12 📷 Sound // photo from me operating sound for a jam sesh
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 12 📷 Sound (love this sound)
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 11 📷 Transport, take two. I just flw past this on my drone.
📷 The song of the marmoset
The Peggy character in Hamilton is such a Peggy, saying responsible things like “Daddy said to be home by sundown,” reminding the sisters to not go downtown, and just popping in to remind everyone are exists “and Peggy!”
I think Luna needs a Peggy as a sibling.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 11 📷 Transport
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
- Helen Keller
How much of our understanding of reality is shaped by algorithmically-curated, ad-funded digital for-profit products?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 10 📷 Windows
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 9 📷 Black and white
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 8 📷 View
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 7 📷 Daytripping
🚲 Cherub takes up cycling 📷
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 6 📷 Bisect (maybe? probably not?)
Just got out of the car and for the first time in over a decade I thought about having cigarette.
This is the level of stress I’m living at through all this, that my brain thought a cigarette might help.
August photo blogging challenge day 4 📷 Peace (at Coolangatta Beach)
August photo blogging challenge day 3 📷 Bug, but probably not the bug they’re expecting
Saint Valentine of Rome was martyred on February 14 in AD 269 after he continued marrying people when marriage was banned.
Weddings are banned in Melbourne from Thursday.
Will there be a Saint of Batmania?
