Open Your Ears Wk 42

Boy and Bear - Rabbit Song

Revisiting the awesomeness of Triple j unearthed, these guys have shot to the forefront of new Aussie indie. Another song which you might know from advertising rather then radio play

Rabbit Song YT

they have been likened to Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons so if thats your cup of tea then check out other tracks like

Blood to Gold

Son of Daw Jnr

Today is Cam's 6 month birthday and while I realise we're the only people that care, I couldn't help doing a posting on the #1 little dude!

In general these last 6 months have flown by (apart from the occasional minutes that seem like hours!) and we still cant believe we get to take him home everyday. He has his moments but he's such a super baby really. He's sleeping from 8ish to 7.30ish and on the odd time he wakes himself he has just started putting himself back to sleep...... with us hanging just on the other side of the door!

Stat Central
- In the last 10 days he has gone from not being interested in holding a bottle to grabbing it out of our hands as we walk past!
- He HAS rolled but we think he generally chooses not to as it still doesn't happen very often.
- He is eating Farex and other mushed snot stuff and growing taller and fatter by the day.
- He only really cries for a reason which is great. Hungry and tired are the duo - in that order!
- He loves baths and would happily lay there playing with ducks/books/himself for ages if we let him. Next stop - beach.
- His favourite toy at the moment is the plastic mobile phone that hangs off the car thing from Aunty Janet and Uncle John.

Its pretty obvious but the pic was taken in Bunnings which he LOVES going to (yay!). He just hangs off the Bjorn laughing and swinging his appendages all over the place whenever we go............ altho so do I : ). Never seen anyone so excited by hardware - maybe its cos he keeps going with someone elses wallet?

Anyway I've gone on enough for now. Happy 1/2 Birthday Cam you're a champ!

Bi-Weekly WTF: Thats-a-pricey-pizza!

my local Pizza Hut folded and what do we get to replace it?

GEE'S PIZZA

why not try one of their specials....

Weekly WTF: Holy Body

LCD on the front, camera in the back - no friends.

Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday to General Squidring himself, 31 golden years of comedy, geekdom and all round good mateyness. CHEERS BRO!

hope you get what you always wanted

Open Your Ears Wk 41

Papa Vs Pretty - Heavy Harm

quite simply the best song i have heard in a while, will be in my top 10 of the year fo shizzle

produced by none other then Paul Dempsey

2:40 of awesome

myspazzy

Congrats Mila (.....Adele!)

Back on 30/7 I posted a throw away comment about Mila's Daydreams.

If you didn't click the link, its was a site that twice a week, posted a photo of a real sleeping baby in a creative scene depicting what she might be dreaming about. Hard to describe but imagine a coloured cardboard mountain scene on the ground and a sleeping baby carefully placed on it named "The Sound Of Music" - or something much better!

It pulled my creative thread enough to add it to my favourites and check it every now and then for updates.

Today after visiting the site I'm both pleased and disappointed! The pictures were so good that they have all been removed and a publisher has picked them up for a book deal. Mila's mum has put a final posting up saying 'thanks for watching, but that's that'.

So congratulations Adele I've enjoyed seeing what Mila was up to over the last few months and I sure will miss your creative streak gracing my monitor every now and then. I'll keep an eye out for the book for sure.
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Tri-Weekly WTF: Gramophone iPhone Case

Thursday Wiki - Council House

Built in a modernist style, the building has been the subject of vigorous public debate about its heritage value. Some consider the building to be an important example of modernist architecture, whilst others consider it ugly. These conflicting views led to animosity in the 1990s, when the State Government refused to heritage list the property and recommended its demolition. Despite this, the City of Perth opted to renovate and keep it as its headquarters. Following this, the building WAS admitted to the State's Heritage Register.

Some Stats:
Completed: 1963
Cost: £1.5million
13 Storeys

With the news that Perth would be hosting the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Perth City Council in 1959 launched an international competition to design its new building. The brief in the competition was to design a "creative building that marked where Perth was at the time" and have the building ready in time for the opening of the Commonwealth Games.

The building was not completely finished by the time Perth hosted the Commonwealth Games in November 1962, however the builders rushed to finish the ground, eighth and 10th floors in time so that foreign dignitaries could be entertained in the reception areas. Following the Games, the fit-out of the building was finished in March 1963, and on 25 March 1963 Queen Elizabeth II officially opened Council House, unveiling a 2.4-metre tall ceremonial plaque set in granite from the original 1817 Waterloo Bridge in London.

The building continued to serve as the headquarters for the Perth City Council from its completion until 1994, when it was vacated to allow for the removal of asbestos. Significant public debate ensued about whether the building should be kept. Despite the recommendation for demolition, in late 1995 the Councillors of the newly-formed City of Perth had a feasibility study carried out into whether Council House could be refurbished. The study indicated that the building could be economically refurbished, and in December 1996 the Council unanimously agreed to press ahead with refurbishment plans, removing its asbestos and building an underground car park at the rear of the site. The decision to refurbish was helped by the fact that interest rates at the time were so low that it was cheaper to service a loan than to pay rent.

The new 95-bay car park at the rear of the building required the removal of a New Zealand Kauri Pine estimated to be up to 150 years old, and was described as a "disgrace" which would undermine the heritage value of the precinct. The building was "stripped back to bare bones" and the tiny tiles coating the building's distinctive "T"-shaped fins were removed, repaired and re-glued to the surface. The refurbishment also involved the construction of a new "Lord Mayoral space and reception area" on the eleventh floor (formerly a plant level), the full enclosure of the ground floor (which had previously been partially open to the elements) and the replacement of gold Venetian blinds which had been a feature of the building in the past.

The building has divided the public over the years, with some branding the building an "eyesore" and a "hideous folly", whereas others considered it a "classic example of 1960s architecture and an important reminder of Perth's past" and a "unique building".

More recently, the outside of the building was fitted with over 22,000 LED lights which was officially turned on on 7 April 2010. The LEDs located on the roof, "T" window structures and bulkheads are able to be individually computer controlled and coloured. The lights were installed at a cost of $1.08 million.
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Bi-Weekly WTF: Silent Music

Courtesy of Smads and news.com.au

RADIOHEAD Singer Thom Yorke teamed up with British Prime Minister David Cameron, tennis ace Andy Murray and others to record a single that consists of two minutes of silence.

The single, titled 2 Minute Silence, goes on sale on November 7 to commemorate Remembrance Day on November 11 honouring fallen soldiers, Stereogum reported.

Music producer Mark Ronson and actor Bob Hoskins are also featured on the track - being completely silent.

"Rather than record a song, we felt the UK public would recognise the poignancy of silence and its clear association with remembrance," said Royal British Legion Director General Chris Simpkins in a statement.
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Weekly WTF: OoOTie

Seriously WTF is this!

A bow tie store in Boston with an iPhone app that you hold up to your neck to 'try before you buy' each tie.

A great idea for all bow tie store proprietors - both of them
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Blog-o-rific

this hilarious little blog appeared in my bookmarks courtesy of the mrs, i think courtesy of her sister so good word basically.

you wont get a new entry every day or week but whenever the next story is ready.

what makes this blog extra interesting is the MS paint pictures which go along with the stories, an added hilarious bonus

Hyperbole and a Half

Open Your Ears Wk 40

U + Me = - Dan Black

i know zero about this guy and i'm not even going to wiki him for your benefit!

I dont even know another track by him for you to enjoy

so listen to this one a few times insted CLICK!

apparently its the theme music for "the cut" and I have equally no idea what that is

Faecesbook Strikes Again

What seemed like a rite of passage with every hugely successful Internet phenomenon is just getting ridiculous. Yet another security breach has been revealed about Facebook and this time there's evidence even you can see.

Facebook engineers have come under fire regarding how pictures are stored or rather NOT stored in the not so pretty server level. Say a user, lets call them Sheepy, uploads all their latest holiday snaps to their new Facebook album, but oops, they accidentally included that one of you know, with the you know shoved up their you know.

Does anyone know what actually happens now? Sure Sheepy can 'delete' the pic but is it gone? Remember when you created the album you uploaded all your pics to their servers, yeah? That took a few seconds per pic didn't it? Deleting on the other hand seems VERY efficient, click - GONE. There's a simple explanation for that, you see, its NOT deleted.

When you click delete, all that happens is the link is severed between your account and the picture including tags etc but, if you know the full web address to it (eg: www.fb.com/sheepy/images/farmerfuck.jpg) then you and everyone else can still see it clear as day.

Sheepy isn't alone, users all over the world have sprung up saying they have noticed this and emailed Facebook over and over to have their pics actually deleted off their servers. 2.5 years later and the pics are still there. FAIL

Facebook are standing behind one big 'if': You will only know the URL if you opened the pic when it was linked to a user.

To that I say "thwpppt" if I accidentally upload something it is immediately posted to my wall - viewable to all my friends. EVERYone has at least one of those friends who will click stuff straight away. As soon as they see something a little odd, they may save that URL for later use. Now all they need is some sort of electronic mailing media for sending that address to everyone they know, then everyone THEY know - oh yeah EMAIL

Yes I do have a Facebook account and I don't think this will have me diving for the Close Account link but it does send alot of alarm bells up. In light of this I have however deleted all of my pics and will be staying with Picasa for Cam pics from now on.

Happy Facebooking
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Weekly WTF: Penguin Club....by Disney

Open Your Ears Wk 39

Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) - Deftones

In light of the lacklustre BDO lineup here is a decent heavy band you might not know much about

youtube vid

if you dig the nu-metal sounds then check out other cracka toons like

Minerva

Hole in the Earth

go forth and bang your head

Is Big Day Out Out?

Tickets went on sale for the Perth BDO at the stroke of midnight and in a whirlwind of tumbleweeds and crickets - nothing happened.

Have just checked again and there are STILL tickets available. Why?

1. BDO hype fluff is wearing off? Maybe its not cool to go this year.... maybe the EMO kids and goths are boycotting for some reason. The 30 somethings are spending their $150 on something else.... no
2. The lineup isn't very good yet? TOOL are great but outdoors at a festival - Pass. Surely more acts will follow and it hasn't slowed sales in previous years so perhaps but no.
3. People forgot?
4. Everyones on the edge of their seats, checking squidring for the next TAF11 update? Clearly the only credible reason for it!

So help me out. Why the indifference surrounding BDO 2011?
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Weekly WTF: Donkey Speakers

Are You The Last Pic?

During the morning scan of the tributary blogs that I cast my eye over, I've stumbled on yet another site I'm late to the party on.

http://www.lastpicstanding.com/

The concept is simple, the site contains 1 picture which anyone in the world can change to whatever they want.

Now a warning by use of propaganda ANYONE IN THE WORLD CAN CHANGE IT TO WHATEVER THEY WANT! So be warned, you have a pic of a puppy up there so you call over your work colleague "Hey check this site out!", hit refresh and its a closeup of a horses apendage inserted into an uncomfortable orrifice. The proprieters of this blog accept no responsibility for the content of the site and consequences of viewing it at your place of work. *phew*

Having said all that, I'm on it now and its only shown 1 titty pic in 50+ pics so its fairly safe. Click away if you wanna check it out, hit refresh every 30 secs to see what the world has chosen for you.

Ciao
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