shy

a great song

error

and this means error in sephamore

zzz

i slept all day today. until 4pm. weird. i'll probably be a bit jetlagged.

dinofuck orgy

yeh!

dinofuck

travl

i dont know what i want to do.
i am not goign to burma i think. everyone i have asked has fallen through, and i'm quite... upset that no-one wants to go. there are always people with their own plans or who would prefer to travel with someone else.
anyway, i was going to try and do some volunteer conservation work in fiji, though it would cost about $1500 including flights. it was suggested to me that i work for tsunami rehabilitation for 4 weeks,and it will cost about the same, or more, but i'd be helping using skills i already partially have (i.e. i have no conservatione xperience, and from what i understnad, fijians think that australians who are sent over there know whats going on).
truthfully, i dont know if i want to pay money to volunteer, be it in a foriegn country, in my relax time. would it be more enjoyable to go somewhere by myself.
i have no conviction about anything relating to this travel shit anymore, its like i'm smitten with every new plan.

just this

my latest post secret post made me really depressed. no reason why, just so many unhappy people.

WN

I went ot white noise again with someone special. she didn’t enjoy it. I don’t know if it was just her not liking it because it wasn’t her thing, or whether, she didn’t like it cos I wanted her too, or I talked it up, or .. whatever.
It was really disappointing for me, not in her, but in myself, because I’d built up my expectations that she’d like it as well. My time there with braden and raph for the first time was fantastic. There was nothing we didn’t have a comment on, and nothing we didn’t appreciate in some way – is it just us who liked it, because we’ve been taught to like ti before we judge it.
It’s a bit like the small independent/student theatre, where everyone sees everyone elses shows and then afterwards congratulates them whether its good or not. Have we lost the ability to judge whether we enjoy something or not?

In other news, I wish this special someone would support my enthusiasm for everything, I think she’s making me more mellow. And I don’t like that.

hermes

incase you havent heard, we're doing playgroup thursday 12;30 on hermes, i'll bring the email, and limited criteria we have recieved. and i'll email soumitri to see if we can get some more.

old bag

heres the bag i made this morning. i got bored after finding out that box comp was over, missed the boat. so i went down to my spare materials warehouse upstairs (thee attic) and picked a nice 80s print, resulting in a loud and huge (literally, its too big, oh well, i'll be able to carry more stuff) bag.

time

i've got quite a bit of time on my hands. i'm cleaning up after the musical, doing some uni stuff and some theatre stuff, but nothing too taxing. so i think i'm goign to submit something into the colour in canberra competition. its basically a competition to design artwork to cover a traffic controller box. in by end of october.
oh whoops - end of september.... damn.

by the way

then why shouldnt i have a klu klux lamp. i don;t know who would buy these (maybe young liberals?), but it'd be funa nd political to make them.
also, just for interest, check out more polical incorrect people at good things and bad things, here they say that out fo the 50th best things, blacks are the 50th best, while whites are 34th.

abu gharib lamp

thumbs up!

lamp7

i hope my lamp never looked like this
it might be cool to make one like this and show it next to the crucifix chair. political correctness side by side.

white noise102

this is my favourite section at white noise. it is shapes and lines generated by computer programs, similar to fractals. this section is by Keiko Kimoto

caption competition

add your caption, either as a dino voice, other text, or the voice of god.
winners will receive a fictional wally boat.

white noise100

went to see white noise at acmi, definitely worthwhile.
and this is my 100th post. worthy of a good sleep.
goodnight - its 830

procrastination

what if there was a class in procrastination. if you did your homework in procrastination, then the only way you could do it would be to procrastinate, never gettign the work done. but by procrastination, you would also be doing the work. sounds like a follow on from the corporation game to me!
seriously, do good ideas come out of procrastination? is the drive to avoid doing actual work so high that it makes us perform well when we need to do non-work. perhaps procrastination is actually very productive,and we just don't see it because it diverges from the road we intend to travel down.

tsb2

i went to talk to paul in the workshop today, and i proposed the idea of trying to make the tsb in the next month or so. he didn't like it, wasnt particularly friendly or apologetic and so i dont thik i'll do it. fair enough considernig all the grads have their furniture etc to make.
sorry soumitri

monday

i have written what i plan to read out on monday - it was hard to think deeply about what i've really learnt, but in the end it kinda all gushed out, like a sewage pipe bursting all over your toilet floor. only my thoughts didnt contain any shit.
oh, and it begins - let me tell you a story.

i think this is important

not ben said...
thanks, i wasn't being negative, just a response to the neurocam disclaimer. :)i hate the idea that we're all in the game now, and its cushy,a nd everyone loves each other. i wish we could all argue and mean it for once, and forget this shit about swimming pools, even thoguh some times it is a nice metaphor. but most of the time, i doubt most people have any idea what the swimming pool is let alone what water is. if we cant put into words and list what we've actually learnt then how can we actually say we've learnt anything at all?
9:43 PM

not ben said...
sorry that was a bit of a rant on your blog - a bit unfair. i'm attacking you! just sayign that i doubt we've all grown as much as we think we have..? i dunno. maybe this magazine will show how naive we are/how learned we are.i cant help thinking that i'll be the same as i was before, the start of next year. just like its hard to remember all the functions of the cad programs, for this cad semester, it might eb impossible ot remember all the corporation game exercises and lessons from this semester.i mean - if its a swimming pool, how much water can we swallow?
9:46 PM

not ben said...
now i'm just speaking shit.
9:46 PM

Raph said...
mmmm i see what you mean about "i doubt we've all grown as much as we think we have" i was attempting to question my growth in earlier posts - but everyone is so positive and nice, arrrgg its the smae in studies, comon guys be a bit more harsh when it comes to giving critisism - if we don't know we have made a mistake then how are we supposed to fix it or learn anything from it."i cant help thinking that i'll be the same as i was before, the start of next year. "with this comment i fear the same thing, i worry that as soon as i am no longer at uni doing mondays that it will all disappear and won't mean anything anymore. i have more doubt now than at teh start of the semester. maybe we are just being to negative. meh at least if your pessimistci all the time you'll never be disappointed.----Inventors Whack Xerox: How Rancid
10:03 PM

FINISHED

I KNOW THE PROCESS IS IMPORTANT, BUT SOMETIMES ITS NICE TO FINISH. FLASH AND NICK AND SID ARE OUT FO THE WAY WHOOPEE! oops i was in caps the whole time. are we going out next week?

procrastination

what to do in the holidays:
tsb
skirt lamp
work experience somewhere in canberra
glassblowing
travel....

disclaimer

the corporation game is not always fun
the corporation game is not easy
the corporation game is not competitive
the corporation game is not predictable
the corporation game is not what you think it is
the corporation game is not your average class
the corporation game is not about designing a cafe
the corporation game is not to teach you about life
the corporation game is not self-explanatory
the corporation game is not restrictive on your imagination
the corporation game is not always likeable
the corporation game is not an individual effort
the corporation game is not everyone’s forte
the corporation game is not the answer
the corporation game is not your worst nightmare
the corporation game is not your saving grace
the corporation game is not a figment of your dreams
the corporation game is not easy to forget
the corporation game is not torture
the corporation game is not what you thought uni would be like
the corporation game is not illegal
the corporation game is not a corporation
the corporation game is not a game
the corporation game is not for sissies

the corporation game is not definable

skirtlamp2

clothed and naked... would completely change the look about the lamp depending on what skirt/material etc.

skirt lamp

why not make a stand which has a band that is adjustable - designed to hold skirts. put a light underneath and you have the perfect coathanger/ lamp/ method of showing off your own style.

neurocam

to join or not to join
to trust or not to trust
to scam or not to scam

steven segal is still alive!

fcuk

its wrong that they can put this on t-shirts. can i make a cnut one? canberra network of urology talkers - aml? help?

origins

According to common folklore, "lagom" is a contraction of "laget om" ("around the team"), a phrase used in Viking times to specify how much mead one should drink from the horn as it was passed around in order for everyone to receive a fair share
wikipedia

bucky

i had a bit of a look into buckminster fuller, and found his biography quite interesting. most interestingly, ifound his invention - 'the world game'. its basically a game where people propose strategies to make humanity enduringly successful. by this he means finding solutions to poverty, hunger, energy etc.
i think this is an important inclusion in the corporation game because it is an example of a game and also solving a tough problem. it could also be a stage to demonstrate enlightened and free thinking.
i'm writing the summary of what could be improved about the course, and i think that if i'd know about the world game on that day i would have suggested that it should be included in the program.

i thought we could alos have a day at the start of next year which would bring the whole community together. we could throw welly, drink eat - but the central activity would be to build a geodesic dome. seeing as soumitri has experience in this field then perhaps we could ask for his hel. its just an idea that i'm throwing out there.

my mum

hi soumitri,
thanks to your insistence, i have asked my mum for some cash to buy some drugs because you set it as homework. cheers for a great assignment!
ben

anagram

in a similar vein to the other post earlier this month, i am now challenging anyone to ise the word verification word, and scramble it up if need be, and then make a definition, scroll down and see braden's one - its great!

sometiems

things just pass us by, and sometimes, these things are teh corporation game. today, the cg is like the water in a river, flowing over the rocks, making lots of change in time, but not much noticable today.