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Today's *really* green smoothie
1 small Granny Smith apple
1 green pear
1 banana
1 handful Chinese broccoli
200 mL milk
200 mL cold water
1 tsp honey
2 tsp spirulina
a pinch of nutmeg
This made 3-4 glasses of dark green, chunky, delicious smoothie. -
The making of things
Does anyone on my flist know much about the following:
1. Prop-making for films (or scavenging for free/cheap props)
2. Voice acting
3. Sound effects during filming and post-filming
4. Paper-making (especially from recycled materials - paper, cardboard, fabric, etc.)
5. Papier mache? -
Cheap/free Marilyn Manson tickets
I know it's really late notice, but I've got 2 tix to see Manson tonight at Hordern. I'm sick so I don't feel like dragging myself there and then sitting down for 3 hours when I'd rather be 1. well enough to jump around 2. home in bed if I can't do that ( Read more... ) -
Love Crash
"...the album title itself can be construed as a command, as a destructive kind of love, or as a desire for a relationship that's heading inevitably toward disaster or flameout. The lyrics of some songs trace an arc from adoration to the desire to tear down the object of affection. These songs are written from perspectives both sympathetic and ( Read more... ) -
We watch and burn and reign
Does anyone here know/like Bertie Blackman? I've been hearing Byrds of Prey on Triple J, and I really like it. Never heard of the artist before, even though she's a Sydneysider and has been around for a while. -
Vision lulz
S-cones: short-wave photoreceptor cells in the retina that go great with cream and jam.
Zonules of Zinn: ring of fibres connecting the ciliary body to the lens of the eye of Jupiter.
Blobs: thingamabobbies in layers 2 and 3 of the striatey cortexish stuff. -
(Untitled)
There is so much beauty in the world - at all levels. There is so much creativity in science, and so much precision and scientific application in art. It's all just one big continuum on which we impose our own limits and from which we create artificial sections in order to understand how some small part of the whole works. The Tralfamadorians would ( Read more... ) -
Coraline
Coraline is one of my favourite books. So, unsurprisingly, the movie was quite hit-and-miss. The visuals were gorgeous, but I suppose I was expecting a darker movie. Sombre colours, light and shade play, and a soundtrack to match that of American McGee's Alice. Instead, even though the animation was quirky and detailed and beautiful, to me the ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block
Here is an interesting quote by Patrick Dunleavy ( Read more... )
