Nature Is Awesome

Now, this here is how to play with nature. And I love chipmunks!

Packing like a Pro

I swear I'm going to try this for Summer. Amazing!

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

This guy is pure inspiration. You may think it's a bit trying to sit and watch this entire lecture on-line, but you'd be surprised. Randy Pausch is an amazing speaker, and with two months left to live he has such a positive outlook on life. This is what a fulfilled life is all about- if you set out to achieve your childhood dreams, you basically will. As Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can do it", and what Randy shows is that if you do it, you're fully capable of being happy with your life even if it's cut dramatically short. I'm reading the accompanying book at the moment too, and strongly recommend it.

Seriously, I know it's an old message but live your life to the full. Don't have regrets. And it will be AMAZING

Sooo, my list? From what I remember, here we go;

• Be a published writer (hmm Tearaway doesn't count. Imma write a book!)
• Be a recognised artist (this may be hard...)
• Save peoples lives (yup, very vague. I'll be a surgeon...)
• Become a rock-star (may have to redefine this one!)
• Completely design my own outfit (hahaha yup, I was a weird little boy)

I'm sure there would have been more sooo work in progress yah!

Recycle Design

Isn't this suitcase chair just beautiful? It's certainly something I'd love in my place :)
There are so many creative options in the world we can choose for recycling old "stuff"- chairs like this should act as an inspiration to really try and give everything a second life. This has got me thinking about how I've recently been trying to get my wide-angle camera lens fixed (somehow I've jammed the autofocus). I find it really sad that it will cost me less to buy a whole new lens than to get my current one fixed- we're living in a terribly wasteful society and it's such a breath of fresh air to see people making things like this!

Childrens Drawings... Revisited

I've always loved the artwork of children because of its fascinating lack of boundaries- what kids draw is completely limitless. But sometimes it's really hard to actually picture what they're showing because it totally defies any laws of reality. Korean artist Yeondoo Jung is truly unique, setting out to turn the drawings of 5-7 year old children into reality in his photographic series "Wonderland". The results are amazing...

"Afternoon Nap"

"Fox's Magic Trick"

"He Didn't Sleep For Three Days"

"Rabbit Family Hopping Around"

"Three Brothers Riding The Rainbow Waves"

You can find more here on Yeondoo Jung's website. It's worth having a cruise around his other stuff too!

Keep cool people :)

Slash Still Rocks

When Slash released his self-titled solo album earlier this year, everyone sorta guessed the guest vocals list pretty well with the likes of Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper. But what people didn't guess- and were very quick to criticise- was an appearance by Fergie. And at the end of the day, everyone had to take a second listen because she has straight-up amazing rock vocals.

This here would be the new video clip for Beautiful Dangerous with Fergie.



It's a pretty cliche rock-star video clip to be honest, but it's still Slash. I'm allowing myself to post it simply because I'm celebrating that he called off the divorce with his wife.

The guy is frikkin AMAZING.

The Future Is In China

This time lapse shows the construction of a 15 storey hotel in under 4 days. Quite frankly, china is absolutely amazing and inspirational.