tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161080022012-02-17T04:43:16.122+11:00The home of Secret Envelope Productions and the increasingly amazing adventures of your best friend NicolaNxnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16108002.post-13861221271039186912011-08-17T18:43:00.001+10:002011-08-17T18:43:23.739+10:00

Ok so you have a fantastic idea but no money. Have you heard that there are people, all around the world who want to help you and have the spare cash to make your dreams come true? Crowd-funding is a way to make your ideas come to life. Ok so it helps if your idea is well thought-out, planned and a business plan also helps but once you have an idea, all this other stuff is relatively easy as long

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This is an excellent resource for bloggers who are searching for easy to use slideshows.

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Hey I am spending lots of time over here at my other blog, which is a 28 day drawing program for beginners, experts and people who have lost the motivation to draw.  Have a look. Your visits keep me motivated to continue!

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Making toys on Maxnormaltv

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Melbourne's new sky high licensing fees have forced the closure of the beloved Tote Hotel. No more sticky carpets. No more happy hour that's 3 hours long, no more playing pool in cramped conditions, no more watching amazing bands from Melbourne and the rest of the world play in the band room. It was one of those places where you could go by yourself and end up having a chat with a mate, old or

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The Design Cubicle is a great resource for graphic designers who need inspiration. Brian Hoff generously shares his tips, secrets and stunning design work in a easy to navigate page. Topics include advice on how to establish client needs and common P-Shop mistakes such as OVERUSE OF FILTERS!! I especially enjoyed his article and sample of vintage style poster design. Excellent tip for print

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1. glass in foot2. paper cuts3. treading on a beer bottle cap with bare feet4. accidental tongue bite5. a good old fashioned toe-stubbing

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ok buy a packet of chocolate ripple biscuits and some cream. Whip the cream with icing sugar until it's like whipped cream. Open the biscuits. Place cream onto the bottom of one biscuit and glue it to the next biscuit and put cream on the bottom of that biscuit and glue it to the next biscuit etc until all the biscuits are glued together with cream and they are laying on a plate in LOG formation.

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I've been contemplating the big existential issues such as "what happens when we die"... More specifically, I was just thinking, who will erase my Facebook account when I die? OK ok bear with me, I'm not being morbid, just realistic... Say, for example my status update was "Nicola is going out to play in the traffic LOL : )" then no more status updates for a few days, then people are like, "OMG

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Just got handed the new Vice and the striking cover made me want to read the article about Dash Snow; recently deceased graff 'golden boy', visual artist and all 'round hot dude. The cover photo and story came from Ryan McGinley, who, upon further investigation is a rad photographer - so check out his work, maybe you will like it as much as I do... but hey, I like anything with a hazy seventies

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Word cloud made from tweetz created here. (Click image to enlarge then make fun sentences and LOL).

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Yeah I know I said I was back then I kind of disappeared again. Anyway I am moving to a permanent-ish address for the next chapter. I'm really stoked because I get to replace all the furniture and belongings that (not so) mysteriously disappeared from my life. Things that I collected for years, things that I worked my ass off to buy, things I kind really need (like my bed and my fridge and

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Well things have been moving very fast since I returned to Melbourne in January. There were bushfires, earthquakes, heatwaves, breakdowns, accidental meetings, purgings, comings, goings, deadlines... everything. After a huge creative output there is always a time of reflection and preparation for the next thing; a time of quiet solitude. This didn't happen for me. It's been stress and drama the

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I was just checking out Tom Cho's blog and he had used this cool thing called Wordle to generate a word cloud. So I used it too and I can recommend it to everyone!

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Chill Phil Schöde and Nicola Hardy have transformed a pile of cardboard into a beautiful world - an island home for all the cool and amazing people and animals. This mythical fantastical place comes to life at firstdraft Gallery from December 10th until December 27, 2008. Come and visit, we would love to see you there."We have created an ideal environment where everyone has their own place and

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Me and every other graphic designer on earth loves this scene. So funny.

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Wow. This is awesome. Why haven't I heard this until now???

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I broke my wrist doing sick skate tricks in the mall 'cos I am so RAD. (Actually I was skating down hill a bit too fast and slipped on water, lost control and landed backwards on my hands). Yes it hurts, yes I will be in a cast for 6 weeks. yes it totally sucks...

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I just love him. I love him lots because he's awesome.

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see you in 2 weeks. SHHHHH!

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...the inspiration...

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Tim Danko has always been awesome and he just keeps getting better. This is not only a fantastic piece of art, but shows how the innernets SHOULD look when stuff gets made by professionals who know how to do stuff proper n' that. Here comes a new benchmark, peeps!

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Over the past 2 days I have been teaching workshops for schoolgirls in digital photography, zine making, comics and photoshop. I have introduced them to Ansel Adams, Annie Liebovitz, Cindy Sherman, Peter Dombrovskis, Tim Danko, clip art, multiply, option drag, rehab, Acme Novelty Library, William Burroughs, exquisite corpse and Sharpies. But I dunno if they get it. Anyway... Comic Book Rehab is

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Today in my (oops late) Comic Book Rehab upload, the Belgian milk maids fight the milk maids from Holland. Check out the action here.In other news, I am still looking for beard reference so if you have one and want to see yourself in a comic then get in touch with me via email.

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I have this group on Facebook and here are the latest updates, so you know what I am up to...My friend...do you have a beard?or a seventies dad?Do you know a beardy?or are you a bearded lady?or have you worn a fake beard at some point?If you answered yes to one or more of these questions that makes me happy 'cos I need reference material for a new comic I am drawing called "The Big Book of Beards

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so be nice to me... ~snif, cough, sniiiifff~~cough~

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As I keep telling you, I'm currently in Rehab and once again I will also remind you it ain't drug rehab it's comic book rehab. Basically myself and 3 other comic book kids upload 4 panels of a comic to the website every for days for 4 weeks. Here's my latest contribution in which Mikey finds himself suddenly in the company of joint smoking Dutch girls and a lovesick cow. What will happen next??

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Have you cast your vote in PETA's World's Sexiest Vegetarian contest yet? Go here and vote now. Currently in the lead are Natalie Portman, with Alyssa Milano following close behind and Jared Leto is leading the boy's team. I like Milo Ventimiglia, or as I like to call him "Rory's Boyfriend Jess".Actually the list of contenders is pretty interesting - I mean, did you know that the RZA is a vego?

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You know I love Tank Girl (comic - definitely not the movie). But no-one told me that none other than ASHLEY WOOD had drawn a series of the the best superhero comic chick ever doing stuff in the outback with her marsupial boyfriend!!! NO-ONE TOLD ME! So, now it's available as a trade paper back (hmmm trade paperback) and I am just waiting to get my hands on it. In the meantime I bought the newest

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yeah. Nice pix.

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but wabbits is purty...

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Flea market, Montgmery. It's just like ....(Shout out to his biggest fan, 24K for the recco's).

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Aussie hip-hop, Bell St Maccas - Scar non? (There's swearing in this). But it's rilly funny.

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Check it out hereThe first step is admitting you has a problem.

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So the zine fair is on tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art and I will have a stall selling my new writing zine 'Status Update' (Nicola Hardy is updating her status and dreaming of car accidents) and issues of Dann Lennard's Betty Paginated and Das Klein Büdchen Blättchen and the comics called Cubby House Stories and Die Hard 4.0. So yeah, a pretty mixed stall, and without my usual stuff

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Ohhhhh it's so amazing! I love Kate Winslet.

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From Romance and Cigarettes. Fantastic!

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Ok so i'll just let you know that I don't hate Jack Johnson as a person or even his music. As far as inoffensive whatever background noise goes, it's fine. And admittedly, that video clip with Ben Stiller was very funny. It's just that his first album has been so heavily and wholeheartedly embraced by the Australian public that it has become a soundtrack to everything all the time. Every shop,

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Have a look at this animation . It's a stop-motion graffiti extravaganza that will totally blow your mind. This link comes courtesy of one of the co-owners of the newest website on the block, Carl Boatcruise. Get the website working youse goise!!

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(I stole this photo from this website) I was in a phone box the other night talking to a certain cute Büdchen proprietor when I saw a giant grey furry friend running down the footpath towards me. At first I thought it was a giant rat, then I thought it was a quoll or a bilby but it was grey on top with a white belly and white socks so I knew that it was a long-nosed bandicoot (of furry friends

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You will know from an earlier post that I love David Attenborough. So I was watching on eof his docos about the life of birds (which I think is called 'The Life of Birds') and this footage of the Lyrebird totally blew my mind. I was impressed with the kookaburra impersonation, but the chainsaw!!! Yipes!

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... it's the best bar in Hamburg and possibly the whole wide world. (And the guy behind the bar is supercute)!Bambam Babylon Bajasch - kum in di jäng. Nice.

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The funniest thing about this is that when they play live, they is puppets. But the coolest thing is that they sound awesome! Puppetmastaz - Pet Sound

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Nice.o-flow feat. kurt hustle aka retrogott - Köln-Sued

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Dear AntonI hope you got though customs ok without having to have an anal probe or anything like that. Love, Nicola(Yeah I know this post really needs a visual, right).

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I just watched the Joy Division doco and while Control had that cute guy playing Ian Curtis and Corbijn is a visual master, this movie shat all over it. It has great footage from the time and interviews with all the relevant people - including Tony Wilson. And it had cool editing and visual effects that were like I dunno music moving kind of and lyrics on top and it looked ace. Sorry I think I

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You know I'm back in Oz, right? Well It has been nearly a month and I have been super busy. I have spent half my time in NSW which has been good, dealing with some kind of culture shock/feelings of wanting to go straight back to Europe/total bewilderment and wondering what to do next. But now, I think it's sort of ok. I had some things to arrange which I have now kind of arranged so I feel a

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Ok so today I got walked all over by a green parrot in between Little India and Arab St and then after chilli crab at the Fullerton I met Hong Kong rollerskating professional champions. I kid you not. They were pretty impressed to find out that I used to rollerskate in the eighties. But I also think that when I said "eighties" I might as well have said "the thirties". Anyway, I have new HK

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Ok so today I did Orchard Rd. I wanted a new pair of Haviannas which are like 15 bucks in Oz. Try $39 here! I mean wtf? So I spend $75 on a pair of lime green with pink trim and cartoon nudie girl Volcoms with artwork by Todd Bratrudinstead. I know, it's totally illogical, but they are really cool. Orchard Rd is a bit of a scare, I mean it's like massive buildings filled with shops, often with

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I am in Singapore at the New Majestic Hotel jetlagged and ich bin nicht glücklich und ich bin nicht gesund. Yesterday I was in the snow of Antwerpen and today I am swimming in 30 degree days. It's funny. I think my voice is slowly returning. I am thinking of ways to return to Hamburg asap. All I have come up with so far is hitching a ride on a shipping container, swabbing the decks in return for

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ok so I have still lost my voice and I am a teeny bit concerned that my eardrums are going to rupture on the plane between Brux and LHR due to the fact that my head is full of orange snot. Thinking positively though, all the time.

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So leaving Hamburg was totally horrible, I wish I was still there I love it and all it's inhabitants, (ok well maybe just the inhabitants of the Sankt Pauli area). The bus trip was satanically long and I also missed the first bus so that made it even worse. Plus I still have lost my voice. I know that sentence sounds wrong but don't know why. Anyway, I have no voice. And can't smell. But finally

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Oh I am leaving Hamburg today with such sadness. I have progressively been saying goodbye over the last week, taking down my exhibitions, packing my stuff and doing everything for the last time. It's so sad, I really like it here and I have met some truly ace people. Last night was my last night at work and I had a massive head cold and was kind of hallucinating at around 2am. When I left at 5am

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Yes I have read No Logo, thanks for asking. Doesn't stop me from wanting these little babies though.

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I know it's wrong but I have a secret crush on David Attenborough. I mean, it's not really what he looks like or even the things he does - I think it's his voice. I watched a Germanly dubbed version of the Blue Planet with a friend the other night and while the voiceover was earnest and softly spoken, like Dave's, it just wasn't the same. I especially like the way he says 'larvae'. Then I was

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BlackJune Originally uploaded by secretenvelope. I saw this exhibition called "The Helping Hounds of Hell" at Helium Cowboy Artspace in Hamburg recently. It was really cool, art on skateboards. These are my favourite. They are by Black June and are carved and totally beautiful. See more photos from the exhibition here.

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bananas coloured Originally uploaded by secretenvelope. I just finished adding coloured inks to all 100 drawings for the exhibition. it opens tomorrow night. I'm scared. Here are some of the drawings with just the bananas colored. I secretly like this better than the full colour versions, but it's ok.

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New photos up. Check 'em here.

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Yeah so apart from working on the drawings for my exhibition I have also become a badminton playing MC. Me and Benni Bo rocked the house the other morning with our mad skills on and off the court. And we had really good outfits - it's all about the outfits. At the weekend I went to the best bar in the whole entire world - Chill Phil's Budchen - and had a really fun time trading tattoos with all

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I just can't get enough of those crazy cats and their invisible stuff.

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Ok so just a reminder that I am in a country where I speak not the language, have no access to tv and the newspapers make no sense - so I am a little behind in the news. (Not to be confused with Behind The News or BTN as we like to call it). Apart from gathering all the news I need from the weather report, I get all my information from Facecrack posts.Anyway. Apparently America is having an

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FEDEX COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY 'S to nicolaAttention, Please be informed that I have Paid for the delivery fee for your Cheque Draft. But the manager of Intercontinental Bank Plc told me that before the check will get to you that it will expire. So i told him to cash $800,000.00. Dollars. all the necessary arrangement of delivering the $800,000.00. Dollars. in cash was made with FEDEX COURIER

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I'm having an exhibition of my recent work. It's 100 comic style drawings I am using for a stop motion animation plus a screening of tiny films, made from photos and drawings. The show is in Hamburg but I will also show it in Australia later in the year.Opening party 9pm, 4 March, 2008. Exhibition continues until 22 March. Bar 439, Vereinsstrasse 38, 20357 Hamburg. Come along!

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I am now living in my new apartment in the Wondrous House of Creation and Productivity (WHCP). All my inks are lined up on the windowsill, my paper is being flattened and pens are at the ready. And I did my washing - I know - it is unbelievable. So everything is great, except for a small financial crisis and the fact that I have been locked out of internet banking. I am just breathing really

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Gotta love Mandy Ord and Nikki Greenberg! And Jo Waite (no link sorry).

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If you haven't seen the film Juno, get thee to a cinema pronto! Watch interviews with writer Diablo Cody here. (Great hair BTW). SOOOO the film is cute as a bug's ear, has fast and crazy dialogue that is hugely quotable and a killer soundtrack with tracks from Sonic Youth, Kimya Dawson and others. Find out more about the soundtrack here. And the titles are really cool. This film got dissed by

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So I have been in Hamburg for nearly one week already - can you believe it? I am being hosted by the fabulous Thomas, who I am probably driving crazy with constant scribbling and late night skyping but he is far too sweet to say 'hey lady you are driving me crazy!'. It's been a magical whirlwind of different flavoured soups, weird medicines and YouTube. It's been pretty fun. Also myself and

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I know you are wondering how I can be so very old and yet so youthful in my appearance. Well, me and my mates used to drink this crap when we were growing up. Only we didn't buy it in fancy glass bottles, we got it from the corrugated iron tanks in our backyards. I'm slightly scared of this product.

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Oh dear, a week since my last post, that sux. Ok, so I was in lovely Paris for 5 days staying with the wonderfully talented and awesomely entertaining Gregory. While there I met the delightfully hilarious and super organic Stella. We had a great time, eating lots and listening to tunes, watching crazy crazy films and walking around. We visited Justin and played Mammary Memory with Eric and drank

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I had a pretty crappy week last week. My cat, Greybum Caralarm Furbanks, was bitten by a snake and died. She was a lovely friend and she was 13 years old. It was some extremely sad news. Anyway then on Saturday there was the chaos of moving out of the Berlin WG. Then I went to catch my plane to Paris from Schoenenfeld, waited 4 hours because of delays, then the delays became so delayed that I

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As part of my tourist marathon, tonight Steffi and I went to Badeschiff, which means swimming barge. Situated on the Spree in Berlin, it's a swimming pool and sauna complex with a bar and other relaxation areas. The architecture is amazing, it's kind of like inflatable bubble stuff that covers the whole exterior. In summer they remove this bit, but I think it is a big selling point so I am glad

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Sooooo, I am preparing for my imminent departure from the wide streeted environs of Berlin for the tropical atmosphere of Paris. In the meantime I am packing my stuff and I hold H+M personally responsible for the overweightness of my suitcase!! Damn fancy clothes with their easy-on-the-pocket preis! Also I am being a total tourist - visiting all the place I really wanted to see but never had the

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Sponge Cake!!

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Record of the year:AKRON / FAMILY: Love is simple (Spunk / Young God)New York hippy dudes tripping (quite literally) to the outer reaches of whatever it is that we define as modern "folk" or "popular" music.Without question the most inspiring and imaginatively melodic record I've heard this year. And the runners up, in alphabetical order: AESOP ROCK: None shall pass (Definitive Jux)On previous

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Xmas is like this: hang out with Steffi, Skype with friends in Australia, watch Californication and movies, eat lots of food including roast vegetables and weird heavy desserts, put coal on the fire, wonder when the shops will open again, marvel at the lack of cars on the streets, listen to hip hop and xmas tunes, drink wine, step and repeat for 5 days. Tonight we receive visitors - my Austrian

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Yeah! So today me, Carole and Joe went to visit Checkpoint Charlie and it was cool but then Carole ran off and we were walking around the block, worried SICK because we couldn't find her. We didn't know what to do and asking the fake guards seemed pretty futile. And we had gypsy stress which included street fighting, telephone coin scams and baby throwing. Ok there was no baby throwing. So after

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I really want my old blog back.

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Well things have been superhectic here in Berlin since I got back. I got off the 9 hour bus trip from Antwerpen and was greeted by the lovely Steffi, beer and the promise of breakfast. We made it home to find a lumberjack, a 19 y-o Canadian 'punk' and a Martin in the house, but no Rainer, so we were mystified. Simon cooked breakfast then it was a cleaning frenzy in preparation for my sister and

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Best. Band Name. Ever.Listen.

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So halfway through my Antwerpen trip I went to the UK. I stayed in Bethnall Green with Milan and it was cool. We went to 4 art openings on Vyner St and met lots of English people. We saw some really awesome short films and paintings and I loved it. Next day I went to the Natural HIstory Museum to meet a friend and it all went a little pear shaped, but was still ok. It was really really cold. Then

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blending techniques Originally uploaded by secretenvelope. Well I guess because you are reading this I didn't die from toxic overload from being covered in felt tip marker tattoos, courtesy of Steffi and Garry. Long story, but let's just say that after 4 days I still have the remains of a dugong and a harlequin outfit texta-ed on me and they don't seem to be coming off. Now I am in

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Ok so basically I'm on day 5 of my 10 day Bikram hot yoga course. Day 1 was like, totally so hot I thought I was going to die, plus I was still a bit with the flu so it was pretty intense. Day 2 was like when I looked at the clock I thought 1 hour had gone and only 20 minutes had passed. Day 3 my thigh muscles were so tight I could barely walk, but I went anyway. Day 4, I don't remember, but I

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YAY!

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Tomorrow, here in Berlin, the sun is going to set at 4.05pm. If I could capitalise numbers, I would, because that's how amazed I am. I mean, that's early, yeah? Humidity for tomorrow will be 87%. Sometimes it is 99%. That's heaps!I gotta stop staying up late thinking about the weather.

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Guess what? I feel way better, thanks to a winning combination of ginger/lemon/honey teas, tomato soup in a can, ice cream and positive thinking. (And a shitload of painkillers and sleep). I am gonna embrace the day by listening to the Wu-Tang Clan and maybe, just maybe I will leave the house today.

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