Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby officially launch my ‘up and coming’ publication….
TOILET SIGNS.
Once I have 100 toilet signs I promise that I will publish a 200 page book of arty toilet signs.
In the meantime, I will start with these at Fingal Head.
I arrived at a meeting an hour early, thanks to daylight saving and my dim witedness today.
I went for a walk and traversed the river via the Kurilpa Bridge.
It’s beautiful, as is your own back yard when you find yourself looking into it unexpectedly.
I was reading Inside Out magazine; ripping out pages for my ‘buy or build’ scrapbook, when I came across Martin Steininger and his concrete kitchens.
Yet another chunky, heavy piece of ‘I will get it one day’ that adds to the need for me to go to Europe with lots of money and return with a container load of unnecessary necessities.
I am one of those people that fall under a category with no name.
“ordered chaos” is not for me, but sadly “chaotic order” speaks of one with an ordered mind that fails only when it comes to placing the shit in one pile.
I have scrapbooks, a beautiful leather-bound ideas journal, post-it notes, foolscap sheets taped to walls, a kitchen cabinet whose back door has whiteboard pens attached to it alongside a myriad of obsolete reminders, to do lists on my mac, scraps of hastily jotted ‘groundbreaking’ ideas clammering for attention at the bottom of my super sized handbag……etc, etc……
and so PENULTIMATE could be for me.
You get as many virtual notebooks as you want to create; you scribble onto a page and then you can email that scribble to staff (instead of digging in the paper bin for the brief that you wrote up in the meeting the day before and forgot to stick onto their monitor) or to yourself.
Unfortunately, I am still heavy handed with my iPad and so my scribbles are large.
I would also like to be able to add an image or a link.
Writing this has made me think…..is there something like PENULTIMATE that lets a page be scrawled and typed and contain links and images.
There is NEUNOTES and MENTALNOTE.
MENTALNOTE let’s you scribble and add images but the photos land at a size of their liking and all has to sit around that decision.
NEUNOTES lets you import images and scribble around the edges but the format is dull and the interface us very base.
My ask is that PENULTIMATE let’s you import images and resize them as you can in neunotes; let’s you type or cut and paste text from emails or websites, lets you zoom in so as to rule more neatly, and then it would be perfect
Pics below show PENULTIMATE, then MENTALNOTE then NEUNOTES
The Tender Centre is a cross between a car boot sale, a garage sale and an op shop…but you tender.
Last week I got some great old shipping floats for the garden.
This week I put a big old $4 on this painting (amateur art but what a great viewpoint and composition) and a whacking $11 (always add a $1 to what you’d be happy to pay to round up over the rounder uppers….) for the Host A Murder set! If I win that I’ll let you know how the dinner part goes!
Pick a word; pick a font; pick a background and then draw delicately with your finger.
I sketched an eyeball, using the word eyeball, in 5 seconds and it looks like I spent a long time with Adobe Illustrator being a typographic legend!
It is not often (enough) that a ‘drop in shop’ exceeds expectations…but this florist on Musgrave Hill did just that.
I had pulled over, on a whim, to buy my mother-in-law an impromptu bunch of flowers.
I had $20 cash and was expecting a ‘supermerket-esque’ badly multicoloured bunch.
I ended up with orchids and banksia (lots or orchids because the lady thought the bunch should be fatter despite my $20 bill already on the counter). They were then wrapped in a back paper with a thick tissue part to offset the flowers – the lady explained that she had a heap of colours to choose from.
On the wall was a set of some 18 or so ribbons; again she chose them to offset the overall wrapping….this time a pink to match the tissue and a lovely orange.
I ended up with the most considered looking bunch of flowers that I have grabbed in a long time.
Wooloongabba Antiques is not just a big bulging marketplace; it’s also a fantastically curated hive of inspiration.
Fabrics and maps and vintage ads and art….typographic ideas and colour swatches on every corner.
I, surprise surprise, had to take a few things with me – the oil painting of the sailing boat (for only $75) would have seen me committing a crime, had I left it there!
I met a woman who makes the most lovely bespoke Jewellery that I have come across in a long time.
www.annaleyshon.com.au
La China is an oriental restaurant next door to Bar Lobo.
I only walked past but tried to get a photo of the amazing light sculpture inside.
This paper dragon is about 10m long and runs the length of the restaurant facade…if you look closely, you can see a lady on the left to help understand the beauty in the sheer scale.
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