Lisa finds heaven at Springfield’s new Mapple Store.

Today, I caught Sydney’s dreaded rail transport from Central to North Sydney. Jammed in like sardines, I sat on a small ledge near the stairs. Unfortunately, some fool had left a disposable coffee cup with liquid still in it and I happened to knock it over with my butt and caused a two people to get splattered with coffee. Sorry.

At my coffee shop post-hellish train ride, one of the girls was trying to determine some answers for her university maths bridging course. No problem! It’s not everyday you can make someone’s day by solving trigonometric and Taylor series problems.

JPLS – Twilight 8
Charles Webster – I’m Falling
The Cinematic Orchestra – The Animated Tripod
Troy Pierce – Horse Nation (Heartthrob Rework)
The Cinematic Orchestra – The Awakening of a Woman (Burnout)
Gaiser vs Heartthrob – Nasty Girl
Kenny Larkin – Computer Rain
lindstrom and prins thomas – Claudja
Innerzone Orchestra – Programmed
lindstrom and prins thomas – Sykkelsesong
Aardvarck – Caramel

And Adidas are getting in on the action with a start to the 2009 advertising campaign that is believe to be a springboard for many other avenues of content in the new year.

…and FWIW, if I had a brand that said who I was when I wasn’t at work. This would be it.

Nice.. I forgot about this and it stayed draft for several months!

When you think of bustling cities for electronica, you think of the capitals in Europe. Outside of isolated incidents, L.A. has never been especially hospitable to thoughtful dance music, and by and large it still isn’t. But John Tejada has bucked that conventional wisdom for almost two decades.

The now-Van Nuys-based producer and DJ just released his 11th full-length album, “Where”, on his own Palette Recordings, and it’s an inviting, handmade musing on how a few finely honed moving parts can make idiosyncratic Detroit space-funk. We talked about the pleasures of a room full of tangled cables, the future of minimalism and the chance that L.A. can ever find its techno niche.

Here’s the full interview with John Tejada in the Los Angeles Times, featuring photography by yours truly.

All week. It’s November and it’s pouring with rain and in the low to mid 20s during the day, yet it’s 35 degrees in Los Angeles and they’re having massive forest fires. Go figure.

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Here’s the latest TVC for Toyota Corolla in Australia. Something different from Toyota that’s for sure!

Photo by Solpadeinee

In Flanders the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky
The Larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce hear amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up the quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders’ fields.

Brilliant collection of photos of Obama on the campaign trail through to the election night rally after being declared the winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign.

The world sighs with relief.