Some random cool stuff, just because:

Art Vend

An installation called Art Vend will be running as part of Melbourne’s Big West Festival. Pitched as a ‘mobile gallary’, Art Vend will comprise a modded vending machine that sells miniature works of art (including some of my stories, oh you lucky people). It’ll be placed at Footscray station, and no doubt will confuse morning commuters when they find themselves staring at a poem or charcoal sketch instead of a Twix. Google tells me that the project is probably inspired by Artomat and Hayvend.

Splitterbot

ThinkGeek’s headphone sharing robot keychain acts like a splitter so that you can share your earphones (its eyes double as jacks points). It’s times like this that I love having a computer nerd boyfriend–oh, the silly purchases I can justify!

Currently reading:
(for book club) (a birthday pressie)

Recently watched:
Departures
(fabulous film, and yay for free tickets courtesy of Nova) and
2012: Doomsday
(oh dear, I knew this one was bad, but I thought it would be bad in a good way. I also didn’t realise that it was a Christian epic, or that every line of dialogue would essentially be ‘I know this doesn’t make sense to the plot, but it’s God’s will!) and
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(did anyone else think this film was especially awful? Turgid and meandering, with an awkward framing device that didn’t really work in The Notebook, and didn’t work here.)