Archive for January, 2006

Chav Doppelgangers

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

According to this slick-looking website, to which I sent the picture above, I look like a mixture of: Rosanna Arquette, Hrithik Roshan, Ralph Nader, Dave Mustaine, Pierce Brosnan, Hilary Swank, Doris Lessing, Neve Campbell, Nick Cave, and Arthur Rimbaud. Who’d have thought?
Of course, I tried a different photo, which proved conclusively that I am the [...]

Birds of Prey

Friday, January 27th, 2006

The Varsity doumentary is coming along. I shot interviews two weekends ago, and now I’m amassing documents. Above is an original lobby card for the first movie to play in the Varsity cinema on June 9th 1950. By all accounts, it was a bit of a B movie, albeit one presented in glorious Technicolor.
Update: 1st [...]

Quilty

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

This is a snap of the Central Valley taken by Courtney from the aeroplane that brought us back to California after Thanksgiving in New York. The original was very hazy and washed-out. I boosted the contrast and reduced the brightness until this image emerged. Then I forgot about it until today.

Mickey Mouse Degree

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

I thought that taking a year out before university was something you did to broaden your mind and get some experience of the real world. Perhaps no-one told this nutter, who has chosen to spend an entire year in Disneyworld, at a cost of about $100,000. That’s going to look really good on his university [...]