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The martians are landing

September 13, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

I’ve blogged about her before, but Beck Wheeler is just ace. Check out this great little comic strip…

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art, Australia, general brilliantness, interweb, Uncategorized
milk crate chandelier

For those of us Aussies that have a soft spot for the milk crate…

July 28, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

Milk crates. I love them, and they certainly hold a place in my heart and a certain amount of nostalgia for me. My student furniture consisted of a whole range […]

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Australia, design, ideas and inventions, interiors

The Bumblebeez Dr Love

July 1, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

A wonderful video for the Aussie band The Bumblebeez. Just shows what you can do with a little bit of imagination, and without the usual 5-figure music video budget…

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general brilliantness, tunes

GTV 9 Get the Feeling promo ID 1972

May 28, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

Can you believe someone has found this and posted it on YouTube? Featuring every true-blue Aussie x-gen’s favourite mute bear – Humphrey B…

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Australia, nostalgia

Whos a pretty boy, then?

May 14, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

A pic of Nitin and I, taken in his local bar, on the waterfront in Manly…

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Australia, mates
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If I told you that I loved you… would you scratch me on the ear?

May 13, 2007by laurajb 1 Comment

Bought this piece from the amazing Australian artist Beck Wheeler, about 2 years ago. Gotta love those rabbits… Buy her stuff here.

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art, Australia, general brilliantness, shopping

A great idea for teaching design from the heads of the JBs

May 12, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

Chatting with Brad and Dan at the flat tonight, and the issue of teaching design came up.Dan had a wonderful point – that more and more the designers role is […]

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design, theory

upside down Miss Jane!

May 1, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

I’ve been waiting since YouTube kicked off for someone to post a snippet of Mr Squiggle up there, so that I can finally explain to everyone in the UK what […]

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Australia, life outside work, nostalgia

3 cheers for mum and dad! And Kip and Doug!

April 25, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

I don’t know if I congratulated my family back home enough for taking part in this momentus event! I was at a conference today listening to a talk by the […]

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