The music video features simple, yet clever split screen-synchronized images, including a few cheeky skin shots so fair warning:
Directed by Alex Courtès / Produced by DIVISION™ for Ed Banger Records / Post by Home Digital Pictures
Nina Simone — “My Baby Just Cares For Me” [stop-motion animation] [♬]
•April 29, 2017 • Leave a CommentHeard this song in quite possibly the hippest bar in the city today while on a date, and it will never not cheer me up:
One of my favourite songs and animations of all time: ‘Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me’ a 1987 stop-motion claymation directed by Peter Lord, co-founder (1976) of Aardman Animations, famous for bringing the world Wallace & Gromit.
Field of NOPE: Spiderwebs, Everywhere
•April 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentAfter recent flooding in Papamoa, New Zealand, entire fields became the home of thousands of cobwebs:
This is the result of the spiders fleeing the floodplains. It’s a survival trait that spiders use their webs to parachute themselves from danger. As remarkable a sight as this is, it does beg the question; where the hecking heck are all the spiders now?!!
Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa — “Scared To Be Lonely” (Medasin Remix) [♬]
•April 12, 2017 • Leave a Comment“As You Like It” at the World’s First Pop-up Globe (NZ)
•April 11, 2017 • Leave a CommentLeading up to the date, I was expecting a great show while really not knowing what to expect. It was great. Me and Renée enjoyed it, and myself more-so noticing her little idiosyncrasies every time the actors came within vicinity of kissing each other (hehe her smile kills me). The entire cast for this particular play was comprised of men only, which made for some rambunctious sexualised comedy.
Shakespeare was a master of his craft, and experiencing that genius translated live among a crowded audience and with a friend no less was memorable to say the least.
Here are some quotes from the play which are quite profound beyond their intended comedic context:
My affection hath an unknown
bottom, like the bay of Portugal Plenty (this line was changed to describe a NZ coastline, and was a cleaver play on words in itself—plenty.
— Rosalind confides to Celia that her love for Orlando feels limitless.
We that are true lovers run into strange
capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature
in love mortal in folly.
— Touchstone is relating some of the follies he has committed in the name of love and concludes that love itself dictates mortal folly—silly acts which are bound to fail.
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion
— Orlando praises Adam as representative of the good old days, as contrasted with the present, when no one does anything except for reward or promotion.
If thou remember’st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not loved
— Silvius, the young shepherd, is advising an older shepherd in the ways of love. Silvius, full of the overweening assurance of youth, declares that if the older shepherd cannot remember every time he made a fool of himself for love, then he has not experienced true love.
If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it
— One of the gems of wisdom that Jaques takes away from Touchstone is that if ladies are young and attractive, they know it.
Pop-up Globe, an open-air amphitheatre, the world’s first full-scale temporary working replica of Shakespeare’s theatre, the second Globe, popped up for the first time in Auckland in February 2016 with a twice-extended debut season that sold over 100,000 tickets including 20,000 to school students.
For showings info and tickets visit, http://www.popupglobe.co.nz/tours I highly recommend “Much Ado About Nothing.” My personal favourite so far. And by recommend I mean see first, because you’re going to want to see all of them.
Writing
•April 9, 2017 • Leave a CommentWriting truth. I don’t usually reblog, but this was a delightful read 🙂
Sometimes I don’t really know what to write, and then I think oh, you shouldn’t write for the sake of writing, you should write because–because you’re trying to write something. Because you’re trying to convey something. Because there’s a story you have to tell, a thought to flesh out, a destination to get to. You’re driving your point home.
But I don’t always have a point or a story or destination. And then I remember how I used to squirrel away hours just stabbing down words, stringing together sentences, writing whatever I wanted just because. Because it was fun and it made me happy and I didn’t really care if people read it or loved it or hated it. It was like rubbing on unscented lotion. It’s therapeutic, no one really knows you’re wearing it, and it’s something you do for yourself. You’re not trying to leave behind little…
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Semisonic — “Closing Time” (1998) [throwback] [♬]
•April 7, 2017 • Leave a CommentI think I’ll hit ya with a 90’s throwback 😀
Near Miss at Mt Eden
•April 3, 2017 • Leave a CommentBe safe and alert around train crossings, people. I’ve seen first hand what the impact of a train will do to a person and it can be fatally devastating. #donteven
Talking Raven
•March 29, 2017 • Leave a Comment1. This bird can talk 2. this bird is huge 3. I want this bird to be my friend!!
And Mischief is this White-Necked Raven’s name. I once had a Magpie friend I named Mr. Maggles. He was a rescue, like the other four bird friends I had growing up. I love birds.
– Like all members of the Corvidae family, ravens are extremely intelligent. They use tools to get food if necessary, and can even mimic human speech!
– Since they are very social by nature, ravens are also some of the most playful of birds.
– Ravens display a strange behavior in the wild called “anting”. They roll around on anthills, let the ants crawl all over them, and then they chew up the ants and rub them through their feathers. Scientists are unsure why they do this.
My NICK FURY Cosplay [F]
•March 25, 2017 • Leave a CommentA friend invited me to her friend’s dress-up theme party last night — Superheroes vs Villains — so I found some black electrical tape and went to work on a lid to a tin can of tomatoes, brown boots and a pirate eye-patch. Pretty thrifty aye 😉
Sarah was Catwoman and Shin was Red Hood. Met Goku, Tomb Raider, Electra, Darth Vader and some guy in a banana suit. Hazukashī, seeing photos of myself is embarrassing!
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