That month of December!

Well that time of year has rolled around again…

I just want to wish all you lads a great Xmas!
I’m not sure if I’ll get to chat to you all as I’ll be away, but have a great time and send my best wishes to your families.
You won’t have Amon crashing them this year and eating and drinking all the good stuff

Also, Happy Bday Al and Craig!
This will be the first year that the 4 of us haven’t shared a notoriuos weekend together for quite sometime….
Pete and I will be having a shroom for each of you and toasting a bunga to your good health!
Have a great day lads and keep it real as always…

I will be back online before NYE and will chat to you then for sure.
Have fun and say hi to the  big red fat man for me

Amon

wasted

I’m sitting in the office looking out the window. There must be at least six helicopters hovering within a 500m radius of my building. Out on the harbour I can count 4 blokes on jet-skis, more than 10 patrol boats and probably another couple of submarines that I can’t see. We are walled in by a three meter steel barricade that runs for five city blocks and is manned by three to four coppers at 20 meters intervals. Every few minutes a siren wails and a motorcade of 15-20 vehicles tears past.

 Surely there is a better way to spend the $300 million plus it is costing Sydney to host the event.

$300 million would buy you

- 50,000 kilos of chronic 

- more than a tonne of “Joeys”

- a line of charlie that would wrap around the globe twice

- 10 million cases of XXXX

Loose.

Update – Wiki link explaining more of the story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit 

Check out this link, relating to Chris Benoit….

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21988443-2,00.html

Incredible if this is true.  It could be just a loose statement that got lucky, but it does introduce an interesting topic.  Wikipedia updates quite quickly for an encyclopaedia.  Its amazing how quickly that reality is turned into information history as fast as it is.  Whether its true or not is debateable, as we’ve all seen some wikipedia posts that are blatant advertisements cough*Amway/Network 21*cough., but the fact is there is somone out there who is writing history as it is happening.

In the case of Benoit, it appears that his wife’s death (not the fact it was a murder suicide) was reported on wikipedia a full 14 hours before police even entered the house.  Assuming this was written by a person with knowledge of the situation, this is an astounding reflection of what the information age has become, not to mention an additional person-of-interest in an ongoing investigation.  Maybe Benoit was a closet wiki-fanatic??

Still here?

Hello all, can I get some indication from you if you still check here and if you are still keen to keep it going?

With Amon in London, Pete off to Switzerland, and Leigh having been in Sydney for some time, I still think this is a good place to keep in touch and allow us to argue with each other in different countries.

Anyway, let me know if you are still here.

The Line “Too Loose” Has Moved?

I had an interesting thought last night as I drove home from dropping Al at home. Car trips are always refelective time

‘It is increasingly becoming more difficult to get loose’

It seems that from year to year we keep pushing the boundaries of experiential substances and due to this it is moving the distance that needs to be crossed to get loose. This to me is one of two things:

1: Adaption – our bodies are becoming seasoned to the extra curricular activities and more immune maybe to the affects. I notice that even with booze it takes a very hard drinking session to really ramp up things. I think this is why we have been switching to Rum more recently as the old ways no longer work. The idea of doing it essentially is to get loose and let go of the ‘normal’ barriers that govern our lives. I’m not too interested in sitting around and drinking as a lifestyle, rather I want to go out and booze and get loose in a very simplified explanation. With other substances it is the same, excluding Sid as this is in a class of its own. I am beginning to think then that maybe they have the same affect but it is the next point that is more important.

2: Environment – We have been in the same environment for quite a while now. Our external stimulus hasn’t changed and therefore our interaction with it is diminishing. We all know it is hard to recreate the stimulus you get from an environment after the first few times you are in it. It is also important to note that new environments renew the adrenalin and therefore our interaction with extra curricular substances can also be renewed. I’m sure we can all remember back to New Years, Perth, Homebake etc etc. I think this issue of environment is very central to many of our actions, needs and unsatisfaction with curricular activities.

I believe then that maybe the line is still roughly where it was and it is us who are stepping slowly backwards from it and creating the distance. Our experiences are our own to govern…

Waves

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR664.loop.shtml

Irony, looks like a tsunami is approaching the coast fro the inland.

Checking this post past the next half hour probably will mean the storm has passed, but those of you who will check it should have some fun with it.

Anyone for hailstorm golf???

How to post

To post on this new blog you click on “admin” under the “meta” section and it should take you to your “dashboard”.

If you want to post a pic or file you need to upload it then click on the file and “send it to editor”

Also, remember to put your post in a category. If it doesn’t fit any then create an appropriate one. Only use one category as well.

If you have any problems or questions just post them here.

Air force fuck you

I remember mentioning this to someone a while back when it actually happened but now the wonder of the blog-o-matic means we can all have a browse. Hopefully the video should just appear in the blog but if not i’ll post a link later.

This is a video that circulated around the net earlier this year. It was done for a man named Mark Ecko. He is a fashion designer from the states but also an activist for graffiti art. The video is for his site stillfree.com. What better way to fight for graffiti rights than to tag the most heavily guarded plane in the world – Air Force One.

Obviously now everyone knows this was a hoax. Ecko hired an ad agency called Droga 5 to do the film. It’s run by a man named Dave Droga, an Aussie expat who is regarded one of the most talented creatives in the industry today. They got an old jet, painted it to look like Air Force One and the rest you can see for yourself.

This is probably the best example of viral advertising you are likely to see. Viral (or cyber) advertising is the latest craze for two reasons. Firstly, everybody is accessible and two there is no media cost (ie like paying for TV spots). Further more as it is distributed through peer networks (friends, collegues, family etc) the viewer believes they are getting it from a more credible source. Plus viral films aren’t subject to regulation; they can include nudity, colourful language, blood ‘n’ guts and a whole lot more.

It is estimated that this videa has been seen by a unique audience of over 115 million people. The site recorded 23 million unique visitors in its first two weeks making it the most viewed commercial viral of all time. It made news around the world and generated three public dislaimers from The Pentagon denying that the plane in the film was the actual Air Force One. I don’t know how much it cost to make but it was only shot with a handheld camera so i’m guessing the bulk of the cost lay with hiring and painting the plane. Which when you compare it to how many poeple saw this and the publicity generated by it, it’s a minimal cost.

So next time someone sends you a video and tells you to check it out, have a look and see what it’s really selling.

If it is at all. Sometimes emails are just funny.

Edit: Sorry matty; had to replace the video with a link so it doesnt keep playing everytime you check the blog.

See Video Here