Grandpa

I think it’s beautiful that guys with crazy eyes who only wear gym shorts find love.

Who had Louis Theroux being the most popular rapper of 2022 on their 2022 bingo card?

I, for one, welcome our new sunny and shining overlord

David Thorne was doing NFTs well before everyone else

One of the best things about the internet is how you are distincitly awards how few people are listening to you.

For a decade I worked in an industry where we broadcast from soundproof rooms playing music and talking excitedly under the guise of everyone listening to us.

Here on the internet we have verifiable proof that most people aren’t listening.

So if you feel alone here, you’re not. But then you weirdly, kind of, really are.

When a wedding vendor emails you prices and you don’t reply

Talking to a celebrant friend this morning and they have a funeral this afternoon where there's only one family member attending because the deceased pissed off everyone she ever knew.

The celebrant has a reading that's "good for people who pissed everyone off."

Apple Photos’ memories feature can detect when I’m at a Foo Fighters concert but categorises the photos from the hospital at Southport where both our daughters first appear in the library as “Southport over the years”.

As an Australian who consumes far too much American content in the form of podcasts and emails, let me echo Douglas Adams:

"American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US"

When I'm not marrying people, or shitposting on social, I write a weekly email for the southern end of the Gold Coast called The Tugun Pause. In [today's issue I wonder if a monorail would be better than the light rail everyone takes issue with](Do you think a monorail would be better than light rail? https://www.tugunpause.com/p/its-a-bit-wet-innit?s=w).

Whenever I hear people talk about the Christian/Catholic vote I always wonder why it has nothing to do with Matthew 25.

I reckon if Jesus was a registered Australian voter today he’d probably vote the Greens first based on Matthew 25.

Staff member of the 24/7 convenience store next to nightclubs in Fortitude Valley tells me that the clothes and footwear are how they make bank. The drinks and food are for the daytime crowd.

Playing with motion in Fortitude Valley tonight

Filed under "odd anniversaries" today is the 13th anniversary of the first time I saw a Newton in real life and also the Robina Apple Store opened.

It’s funny that the term “PC” aka personal computer has been essentially been burned describing Wintel computers when the truest and most-personal computers today do not run Windows nor do they run Intel chips.

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So, like, this wasn’t a thing before?

Currumbin

At first I was stridently against the idea of combining a hen’s party and a marriage ceremony, but honestly, it worked out fine. A++ would recommend.

Elyse & Jon #marriedbyjosh in Byron Bay.

OOL

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Moon. No editing or filtering. Just the boring old moon standing there looking glorious tonight. As seen from Byron Bay.

A new issue of the Tugun Pause is in inboxes with my proudest headline yet: 416 crimes and a beach ain't one.

A friend just reminded me of that time I was on Sunrise for a Star Wars wedding on ... May the fourth. God bless the internets, may you always archive my weird business endeavours.

Tintenbar garden

"Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."

– Erica Jong

"To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip, have a bag of their favourite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave."

– Kevin Kelly

I love a sunburnt country

SYD

Photography from space was an afterthought. Astronaut John Glenn bought a Minolta 35mm from a drugstore.

“At the beginning of the space program hardly anyone thought of photographs from space as anything more than a branch of industrial photography.”

329km driving. 807km flying. 11km hike. All to create a marriage ceremony on a Monday afternoon.

12 French submarines < 255 French-ish aircraft

That’s not a Qantas flight … that’s a Qantas flight.

An Airbus A350-1000 in Hangar 96, Sydney Airport, for the announcement of Project Sunrise.

That face when the situation is not escalating

Back at my Ryan Bingham impersonation this morning.

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Rich people need it. Poor people have it. If you eat it, you die. And when you die, you take it with you. What is it?

Hastings Point this afternoon 📷 playing with a 45 year old 35mm manual focus Canon FD lens on my Canon EOS R5.

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My three year old loves making photos, has a Micro.Blog! Her username is @lunawithers, her blog is here, and this is the kids camera she’s using.

Tom Cruise #notshotoniphone

Is love of aviation photography a hereditary thing? I guess we’ll never know.

6:42am this morning // Brunswick Heads // Susara & Jake

Set an alarm to get up for sunrise this morning ….

What’s the story with hot air balloons carrying advertising? Is it a layover from former deals? Do the advertisers pay once, or a regular rate? It seems odd today.

Here’s some hot air balloonists over Brunswick Heads this morning.

Sunrise elopement at Brunswick Heads this morning

Wategos Beach this afternoon