SURF GOTH

Two months ago I realised I was transforming into a lazy, pasty, slightly overweight slob. To combat this i've been spending a lot more time in and around the ocean. I surfed for most of today, the conditions were great; first it was cloudy, then it rained, and finally the sun decided to shine. I shot this photo when I came in. My head hurts from dehydration.

CHESTER II

Chester was given to my house for a three month loan because he wouldn't stop urinating on my sister's roommate's clothes. However, three months quickly turned into three years, and nowadays he practically runs the show around here. My parents are convinced he isn't fat, I think they're blind with love.

ALPHABETISED

The main setback with alphabetising a vinyl collection is the foolish process of putting "some" albums aside with the intention of listening to them later. My bedroom floor was covered in scattered records before I decided on Simon and Garfunkel's double LP, 'The Concert In Central Park'.

BY KYLE

One of my best friends shot these photos of me when we were holidaying on the Gold Coast earlier in the year. Kjob (my buddy who shot the photos) and I were so wasted I can't remember at what time or on which day they were taken. Judging by the excess of grain, slow shutter speed, soft focus and empty bottles lining the table i'm guessing it was late in the evening, most likely a few days into the trip. 

BOLD NATIVE

A fictional feature film about the real life absurdity of the U.S. government labeling animal liberators as "domestic terrorists". Bold Native weaves an intricate tale of one of the most important issues facing America and the world morally and ecologically – the impact and consequences of industrialized animal use. And with a character who faces prosecution and potential lifetime imprisonment under the recently passed Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) for property crimes currently considered terrorism, the film also illuminates the danger of corporate interests influencing the law in a post-9/11 world.

NEW CAMPAIGN

I'd spent the past two weeks working on a new advertising campaign for SABRE. Today, after much deliberation, we finally made a decision about which ads were making the cut. This is a scrap heap of THOM PRINGLE images, a tiny insight into the amount of thought / work that goes into putting a campaign together. I'll post the campaign shots once an official press release is made (which should be in the next couple of days).

BLUE

ABICUS INSTORE - TOI ET MOI

The friendly folks at Abicus threw a Friday night instore for French inspired Australian label toi et moi. They asked me to come along and document the festivities. An impressive assortment of cheese, crackers and fresh fruit lined the stomachs of those who treated themselves to the constantly flowing champagne. Fun times!

CARL SAGAN

Excerpts from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In Space.

EVERYTHING & NOTHING WINTER 2010

As stated in a previous post; Trav and I have begun making playlists for one another. He spared no detail when turning a vintage copy of Treasure Island into an amazing custom cd package. Most of the bands I hadn't heard before, but I've had the mix on repeat for a couple of days and it's opened my ears to a bunch of new artists. Standouts include Ceremony, Dead Man's Bones, Cold Cave, Chad VanGaalen, Orchid, The Besnard Lakes and Timber Timbre.

Everything & Nothing Winter 2010 

1. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

2. Ceremony - The Doldrums (Friendly City)

3. Algernon Cadwallader - Serial Killer Status

4. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction

5. The Love Language - Lalita

6. Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power

7. Panthers - The Trick

8. Cold Cave - Life Magazine

9. Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha

10. This Town Needs Guns - 26 Is Dancier Than 4

11. Chad VanGaalen - Molten Light

12. Orchid - I Am Nietzche

13. Give Up The Ghost - Love American

14. Tigers Jaw - I Saw Water

15. The Besnard Lakes - Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent Pt.2: The Innocent

16. Timber Timbre - Demon Host

STRANGE / LIGHT

TIME TRAVEL

Einstein's Theory of Relativity says that time travel is perfectly possible - if you're going forward. Finding a way to travel backwards requires breaking the speed of light, which so far seems impossible. But now, strange-but-true phenomena such as quantum nonlocality, where particles instantly teleport across vast distances, may give us a way to make the dream of traveling back and forth through time a reality.

NIXTAPES, VOL. 1

Travis (one of my closest friends) and I decided to begin making playlists for one another. The idea is to exchange songs we think the other would like, there are no limitations on content, the simple goal is to provide each other with a bunch of new songs / bands.

After coming up with the genius idea of calling mine a nixtape, I decided to start posting them on my blog.

Here is the first installment >>>

nixtapes, vol. 1

1. Real Estate - Beach Comber
2. Best Coast - When I'm With You
3. Neon Indian - 6669 (I don't know if you know)
4. Toro Y Moi - Blessa
5. Wavves - Post Acid
6. Japandroids - Sovereignty
7. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies
8. Memory Tapes - Green Knight
9. Wild Nothing - Our Composition Book
10. School Of Seven Bells - Face To Face On High Places
11. Beach House - Walk In The Park
12. The Whispertown 2000 - Atlantis

FUCKYEAH ZINE

The Rad Store have compiled the first issue of their sixty page fuckyeah zine. They were nice enough to interview me, and even went to the effort of publishing an amazingly unflattering image of my double chin. 400 copies are available, drop in to the store and pick one up for free.

ROAD TRIP II

A selection of leftover images from my road trip shooting Chippa Wilson and Thom Pringle.