ROY X CONE contest, 1.1.11 - 2.1.12

[roy6]

Brunch

Damn you to hell, man.

edit- because I'm jealous, of course. I never made it to Roscoes.

[rnrswitch]

A little Hungry Hungy Hippo match with the little one. He lets me win sometimes.

Then I washed my Rising Sun ranch hand jacket:

[not too tight]

Happy 4th to all you fellow patriots and a happy Monday to the rest of the contestants!

Great stuff everyone. Thanks for the rep and comments. I picked the buttons up this past April when we had a dollar sale and I bought a RRL skirt that had the buttons as well as cinch back. I am kicking myself for not taking the cinch too but I just snipped off the buttons and tossed the skirt. They were originally black but after a night of soaking in stripper, they easily turned back to the original metal.

[robbie]

had a get together w/family

got lucky and we were able to find bottle rockets, for the longest time they've been illegal in OK.

I need more practice taking pictures of fireworks. Shot a ton, but nothing really turned out.

[mikecch]

Handsome jacket there rnrswitch!

Happy Independence day to my fellow American contestants!

Today was cold, wet & windy here in Victoria, 100 km/h winds overnight, slow day, no celebrations, I went grocery shopping...

[Farhad]

Doc- I'm glad you're doing OK

Awesome last few pages.

tg and paul t, this sunday, and robbie- nice posts

Fresco- you're putting some good wear on these jeans.

riff- your photography is getting better and better

[tg76]

more pics from the launch

the line up

wasting champagne, audoin de dampierre or something like that

my first tentative stroke

and paddling off into the distance

[Dr_Heech]

....and paddling off into the distance

It's been great to see the development/building of these Kayaks, but this last pic does it for me! I'd love the chance to go back to NZ.

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[pepper davies]

Hi guys! I finally found some internet so here are some pictures from the first 2 weeks of my time at the Brevard Music Festival. Only 5 weeks left.

Some more coming in a second!

[pepper davies]

[pepper davies]

And some fits!

I've been working hard. Nap time.

I miss all you guys. Can't wait until I can be more active on the board. Send me a message if anything important is happening. It'll go to my email which is easier to manage!

[almostnice]

Hi guys! I finally found some internet so here are some pictures from the first 2 weeks of my time at the Brevard Music Festival. Only 5 weeks left.

Some more coming in a second!

female prompter looks pretty uncomfortable.

[entertainment!]

The theme this week at my daughter's day camp is holidays. Today the kid's in her group made drawings of holidays from October, all of them obscure. One of the ones she chose was Denim Day. I'm not even sure what day that is. Here is her drawing. The figure at the bottom is me in my RxC, and I am saying "I love denim."

My daughter is always telling my friends that I waste all our money on jeans.

[mikecch]

Congratz on the kayak tg76!

ADH92, welcome back, thanks for sharing your trip!

Nice & cold in Melbourne these couple of days. Gf had a day off, so we went walking.

Melbourne Central, nothing like the massive central stations elsewhere, but we do have 5 train stations within the CBD, so it's alright...

Inside we have what was once Melbourne's tallest building - I forget the details.

And Melbourne's biggest watch.

They've also got a small community garden; herbs free for picking!

Not a garden as much as a hang-out place for young people.

Candy store, got myself some Jelly Belly's:

[mikecch]

Went to my favourite Malaysian eatery:

BBQ chicken with chicken rice:

Mince pork ban mee:

Denim:

Zoomed out:

Have to stop wearing the jeans to dry after a wash - getting some serious knee bags.

[Dr_Heech]

The theme this week at my daughter's day camp is holidays. Today the kid's in her group made drawings of holidays from October, all of them obscure. One of the ones she chose was Denim Day. I'm not even sure what day that is. Here is her drawing. The figure at the bottom is me in my RxC, and I am saying "I love denim."

My daughter is always telling my friends that I waste all our money on jeans.

Hahahaha John - Cute and hilarious all at the same time!

Funny (and scary) how our kids point out the obvious. It's almost as she's saying 'you need help daddy'

(note to self: curb spending on jeans and flight jackets before the nipper notices)

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[beatle]

that is one awesome piece of art work...

[Shorty Long]

Here are some post-wash pics of my ROYs from a few weeks ago:

My Independence Day weekend...hot rods and fireworks...

[grooveholmes]

HELL yes. Great evo and pics, SL.

[Maynard Friedman]

female prompter looks pretty uncomfortable.

Has an unfortunate air of the 'glory hole' to it! :eek:

[morkra]

Inside we have what was once Melbourne's tallest building - I forget the details.

From what I remember from last being in melbourne that tower was used for the creation of Shot many years ago. Pretty amazing building, but sadly not possible to get up the top. Awesome photos of it!

[mikecch]

^ Yep, lead pipes and shot!

[entertainment!]

Look what arrived in the mail today.

I discovered after I ordered it that my local library had also ordered a copy, but I decided not to cancel so I could help to enable Paul's denim habit.

[pepper davies]

Has an unfortunate air of the 'glory hole' to it! :eek:

One of my buddies got a box in the mail, because he forgot all his dress clothes back in Cleveland. His mom shipped them in an orange box and she sealed all the holes with newspaper. That woman's face poked through one of the holes. Super creepy. Thanks for all the rep guys. I'll try to update as much as I can while I'm here, but internet is super spotty.

[Paul T]

Look what arrived in the mail today.

Ha, thanks John, I haven't seen that edition yet... hope they got all the right pics in the right order...

[entertainment!]

Ha, thanks John, I haven't seen that edition yet... hope they got all the right pics in the right order...

The pictures seem like they are in the right order, but I just took a quick look.

My favorite sentence so far: "In the admittedly narrow niche of pseudopsychedelic cockney music-hall children's songs, it reigns supreme."

[Denton]

what in the world? what song does that sentence refer to

[devilish]

Laughing Gnome would be my guess.

[Paul T]

End of last week and beginning of this I wanted to get some work done around the house. And now my knees and knuckles are killing me but I think it was worth it.

I went over every inch, laboriously, of these floorboards, with cleaning fluid and steel wool…

These floorboards are mostly from the 1820s - I relaid them all when we moved in, throwing out the worm-infested ones and replacing them with reclaimed boards, sawn from Victorian beams, so it was a lot of work to try and match the two sets up. But it worked. The 'new' boards are at the front, the old ones behind. Finally, five minutes before we're due to go out, a last coat of varnish. Done!

We were headed for a launch of work by a friend of mine, Alan Baker. I first met him maybe 15 years ago when we commissioned an illustration from him for MOJO; around seven yeards ago he had a sale of art at his house, when we bought a lovely painting from him that we gave to my best mate as a wedding present. Now, he's big time…

The bronze busts are all cast from children we know (his kids are at the same school as the nipper). I love the image of these angelic girls and boys, warped by the masks that look sinister, with mythological resonance… his paintings also have very rude words scratched into them, which the nipper and his friends obviously lloved.

[Paul T]

The opening was a massive success. It followed one in NYC last year, where his work was snapped up by Robert de Niro, Damien Hirst and others. Now there was a red dot on every single painting. Their prices were all around £60k. SO he's finally hit the big time - knowing this is someone who's been grafting at it, hard, for nearly two decades, this is fantastic.

There was a great selection of arty and media types, I spotted the editor of Marie Claiire, and others, and this cadaverous apparition: Ronnie Wood. It was great, that Ronnie added to the sense of event, and I restrained myself from shouting at him, "are you into art, Ronnie?" (His paintings are terrible.. and the guy himself is a bit of a wallie, not even a good guitarist these days.)

Sadly, we can't afford his paintings any more! Luckily we do have two small ones, and today we blew some cash on a screenprint we couldn't really afford, just to participate. But you could also screenprint and take home a poster if you asked nicely. Which the nipper did.

After elbowing Ronnie out of the way, we and the nipper were off into town, with the nipper's own signed artwork…

We were headed towards a restaurant by Carnaby Street, past these lovely old shopfronts.

When we arrived at the restaurant, my cellphone rang. By now I was pissed (in the englsih sense) and had, er, forgotten I was doing a phone interview with the NY POst about my book. I know I talked a right load of wank. oops. ah well, all in a good cause. THe meal was pretty good tho' mine was cold when I got back to the table.

We alked back to the train station via Leicester Square - where the Harry Potter premier was taking place.

It was heaving, masses of kids, mostly European, around everyblock, including Great Newport Street, just behind the square.

We thought we'd have to be very lucky for the nipper to get to see any stars. We were! Out of the back door came Lord Voldemort himself! (Lady t is always the best person to be around on nights like this, she can spot fh most famous, or obscure, ENglish thespian at 200 yards).

Lord Voldemort - Ralph Fiennes - is on the left, turned away from us. I think the mrs has held a torch for him ever since Schindler's list, where he plays a nasty SS camp commandant. Girls love a nazi uniform…

Voldemort being whisked away (back seat, far side). Why can't he just fly home? Faker!