I heart WOTD
yeh, totally apt WOTD : )
(those sweet semitone-clashes in seeds' and jelly's posts on the religion thread put me in mind of Estonian magician Arvo Pärt's 1989 'Magnificat'. This is the best version I've found, doesn't languish self-indulgently, keeps the momentum.
But stare at the WOTD, and think on people in the midst of war and be immensely grateful we aren't, rather than watching the weird choir-clip. Headphones a must - Pärt does soft-loud 100 times more dynamically than Pixies and Nirvana combined.)
Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel is one of my top 5 zen pieces.
Now I have another. Thanks b6
basesix wrote:
yeh, totally apt WOTD : )
(those sweet semitone-clashes in seeds' and jelly's posts on the religion thread put me in mind of Estonian magician Arvo Pärt's 1989 'Magnificat'. This is the best version I've found, doesn't languish self-indulgently, keeps the momentum.
But stare at the WOTD, and think on people in the midst of war and be immensely grateful we aren't, rather than watching the weird choir-clip. Headphones a must - Pärt does soft-loud 100 times more dynamically than Pixies and Nirvana combined.)
Are you a music teacher basesix?
The WOTD is beautiful. It’s been years since I’ve paddled out in the dark. I’ve been denying myself that energising feeling for no reason.
seeds wrote:
The WOTD is beautiful. It’s been years since I’ve paddled out in the dark. I’ve been denying myself that energising feeling for no reason.
Got in first light Thursday, moon shining to the west, and beautiful light between clouds and sunrise to east. Stunning. Even a few glassy little waves on offer. Had it to myself for 15 minutes before the hordes. :)
Nice Andy- 15 minutes of contemplation time before reality sets in.
Todays WOTD, April 26th- textbook bottom turn. Love it!
Is today's from the photog's local spot? Looks like it but I'm not 100% and I know he's been travelling a bit.
Bnkref wrote:
Is today's from the photog's local spot? Looks like it but I'm not 100% and I know he's been travelling a bit.
Honestly don't know. Could only guess.
seeds wrote:
yeh, totally apt WOTD : )(those sweet semitone-clashes in seeds' and jelly's posts on the religion thread put me in mind of Estonian magician Arvo Pärt's 1989 'Magnificat'. This is the best version I've found, doesn't languish self-indulgently, keeps the momentum.
But stare at the WOTD, and think on people in the midst of war and be immensely grateful we aren't, rather than watching the weird choir-clip. Headphones a must - Pärt does soft-loud 100 times more dynamically than Pixies and Nirvana combined.)
Are you a music teacher basesix?
Seeds. Hi. My opinion.
Basesix is our finest composer of all things oral and written and a fine national and international music historian.
It’s undeniable.
He’s Swellnet’s Leonard Cohen and Jann Wenger all wrapped up like a ‘rolling stone’ being pulled by gravity back to the waterline. AW
You may well be right Alfred.
It twigged in my brain yesterday why he doesn’t like 12 bar blues haha. Joking
stunet wrote:
Is today's from the photog's local spot? Looks like it but I'm not 100% and I know he's been travelling a bit.Honestly don't know. Could only guess.
Well there you go! No dramas. Good to have some mystique about it.
nice one Steve, I’ve shared your “Behind the Shot’ article with a few photographers outside of surfing, they loved it.
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2024/03/20/behind-the-s…
{that’s exceedingly generous and kind of you Alfred, I’ve written a thing for you and seeds about living my best career:
I work for a big Australian biscuit company (Australia’s 32nd largest food company). I’m a second-year apprentice biscuit designer. It’s not as glamorous as it sounds, it’s mostly quality-control and ingredient-sourcing for head-designers and master-bakers.
I’m extremely fortunate in that this year I have Gary Granita as a mentor/supervisor.
I did my first year supervised by the asshole Brice Vovo IV, who chairs the board of directors. He’s an entitled prick, his great-grandfather co-founded the company, and his Dad invented our most successful dessert biscuit after losing his first-born twins Timothy and Tamara in tragic circumstances. Brice Vovo IV thinks he’s a visionary, but all he does design-wise is put a chocolate layer on popular biscuits like our ‘teddy bear’ biscuit, the resulting products never sell particularly well.
Gary and Vovo III were good pals, they used to sit in the corner of a local pub and share ideas, like a biscuity CS Lewis and Tolkien at the Eagle and Child. The direction the company has taken since Vovo IV took over is heartbreaking, and Gary has been treated like absolute shit.
Gary has been an inspiration; he has very funny obsessions that lead to inimitable design. For example, he abhors the act of ‘dunking’ biscuits and in the 1960s he designed our Granita; an afternoon biscuit with a 3-pronged ‘dunk-discouragement’ design:
1) Its diameter is larger than most coffee cups
2) It uses 3 types of low-gluten whole-flour and minimal bonding agent
3) the design of the biscuit, though it looks random, each Granita is identical and has carefully engineered ‘crumble faultlines’ to ensure maximum liquid-absorption and disintegration.
Unfortunately, this is Gary’s last year before retiring, (he’s had a really hard time of it at work the last few years, zero respect from management). So I’ll have to wait and see who my final-year supervisor is, fingers crossed it’s not Brice. Brice plays old blues records in his office and wears a fedora he bought at a BB King estate auction, thus my lack of enthusiasm for the 12-bar.
As you can prolly tell, I have the day off today and am a bit bored. Love Lanky’s Friday film night idea.}
Ps- unfortunately I can't tell you about Marie, the Gingernut and Scotch Finger.
NSFW
basesix wrote:
nice one Steve, I’ve shared your “Behind the Shot’ article with a few photographers outside of surfing, they loved it.
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2024/03/20/behind-the-s…
{that’s exceedingly generous and kind of you Alfred, I’ve written a thing for you and seeds about living my best career:
I work for a big Australian biscuit company (Australia’s 32nd largest food company). I’m a second-year apprentice biscuit designer. It’s not as glamorous as it sounds, it’s mostly quality-control and ingredient-sourcing for head-designers and master-bakers.
I’m extremely fortunate in that this year I have Gary Granita as a mentor/supervisor.
I did my first year supervised by the asshole Brice Vovo IV, who chairs the board of directors. He’s an entitled prick, his great-grandfather co-founded the company, and his Dad invented our most successful dessert biscuit after losing his first-born twins Timothy and Tamara in tragic circumstances. Brice Vovo IV thinks he’s a visionary, but all he does design-wise is put a chocolate layer on popular biscuits like our ‘teddy bear’ biscuit, the resulting products never sell particularly well.
Gary and Vovo III were good pals, they used to sit in the corner of a local pub and share ideas, like a biscuity CS Lewis and Tolkien at the Eagle and Child. The direction the company has taken since Vovo IV took over is heartbreaking, and Gary has been treated like absolute shit.
Gary has been an inspiration; he has very funny obsessions that lead to inimitable design. For example, he abhors the act of ‘dunking’ biscuits and in the 1960s he designed our Granita; an afternoon biscuit with a 3-pronged ‘dunk-discouragement’ design:
1) Its diameter is larger than most coffee cups
2) It uses 3 types of low-gluten whole-flour and minimal bonding agent
3) the design of the biscuit, though it looks random, each Granita is identical and has carefully engineered ‘crumble faultlines’ to ensure maximum liquid-absorption and disintegration.
Unfortunately, this is Gary’s last year before retiring, (he’s had a really hard time of it at work the last few years, zero respect from management). So I’ll have to wait and see who my final-year supervisor is, fingers crossed it’s not Brice. Brice plays old blues records in his office and wears a fedora he bought at a BB King estate auction, thus my lack of enthusiasm for the 12-bar.
As you can prolly tell, I have the day off today and am a bit bored. Love Lanky’s Friday film night idea.}
Basesix. That was so good, enlightening insight into biscuit manufacturing, definitely no crumby story.
I’m going to look at every biscuit I eat in the future with more detail than previously.
So glad you’ve got a happy job, many people work at places all their lives and hate it, they rock up daily because it pays the bills.
You have to be happy and content in your workplace, after all , a third of your working life is spent there daily.
It appears as though it’s a good job for you, I can read the happiness in your written expression. All the best. AW
Wow quite the story basesix. Music teacher to biscuit designer (apprentice). How’d you ever get into that? I agree with AW it sounds like you enjoy it.
well, it's a long story @seeds, it all started when I was eating a few teddy bear biscuits with an afternoon coffee today, and dunking their heads in..
have you seen Supa's bike? I like the blue, but the rat-roddy patina was also great.
basesix wrote:
well, it's a long story @seeds, it all started when I was eating a few teddy bear biscuits with an afternoon coffee today, and dunking their heads in..
Murderer!!!!!. I still can’t believe there’s a guy named Gary Granita, initially I thought you were taking the piss, so good.AW
actually, this ain't a bad thread for guff, we're not really interrupting anything.. did you get AW's parcel seeds? I haven' been to the PO sorry, AW, but have a parcel I'll send to you ASAP.
AlfredWallace wrote:
well, it's a long story @seeds, it all started when I was eating a few teddy bear biscuits with an afternoon coffee today, and dunking their heads in..Murderer!!!!!. I still can’t believe there’s a guy named Gary Granita, initially I thought you were taking the piss, so good.AW
He is isn't he?!?
AlfredWallace wrote:
well, it's a long story @seeds, it all started when I was eating a few teddy bear biscuits with an afternoon coffee today, and dunking their heads in..Murderer!!!!!. I still can’t believe there’s a guy named Gary Granita, initially I thought you were taking the piss, so good.AW
I was thinking he’s really a writer. Of the creative persuasion.
seeds wrote:
Not yet. It’s still doing a lap of the country.
Seeds. Fuck knows what’s going on. I’ve spoken to the woman at Torquay Post Office, I remember her she remembered me , because she sticky nose asked what the contents were, I said books, then forty minutes later we are still talking books, chasing it up Monday, apparently.
Basesix, yours would’ve arrived well by now, no drama, books wait for all kind of man.
I have to say, it’s a bit cheeky, the surf, it’s relentless here, day after day, offshore, I’m already in bed, car park at light tomorrow and Sunday, more sizeable stuff next Tuesday onwards, very spoilt at present, will get two in tomorrow and Sunday. Life’s, so, good. AW
That is the absolute best, AW. When life feels good, tell someone. Awesome, mate.
goofyfoot wrote:
well, it's a long story @seeds, it all started when I was eating a few teddy bear biscuits with an afternoon coffee today, and dunking their heads in..Murderer!!!!!. I still can’t believe there’s a guy named Gary Granita, initially I thought you were taking the piss, so good.AW
He is isn't he?!?
Goofyfoot. Hi mate.
I’m not sure, he’s very clever, I’m probably so daft I couldn’t even work it out myself.
Either, either, bit of fun, clever wordsmith , nothing Basesix about him at all, quite the contrary.AW
p.s. getting a wave over your side ?
FYI AW and your Aust Post contact, my moniker is set (now) as my preferred name attached to that parcel locker as is my real name, residential address etc. Initially seeds wasn’t listed at my end.
AlfredWallace wrote:
well, it's a long story @seeds, it all started when I was eating a few teddy bear biscuits with an afternoon coffee today, and dunking their heads in..Murderer!!!!!. I still can’t believe there’s a guy named Gary Granita, initially I thought you were taking the piss, so good.AW
He is isn't he?!?
Goofyfoot. Hi mate.
I’m not sure, he’s very clever, I’m probably so daft I couldn’t even work it out myself.
Either, either, bit of fun, clever wordsmith , nothing Basesix about him at all, quite the contrary.AWp.s. getting a wave over your side ?
I’d have thought that Brice Vovo would’ve been another not-so-subtle clue amongst an entire biscuit tin’s worth of clues that it’s a bit of Friday arvo fairy dust?
WOTD, I remember when bottom turns were a thing.
@ Base6, I've often wondered if wagon wheels used to be much bigger or like the waves on the mid coast it's just my perspectives that have changed.
Btw I was dunking some yo-yo's last week and the wife told me the best before date was March 1998.
Slackjawedyokel wrote:
well, it's a long story @seeds, it all started when I was eating a few teddy bear biscuits with an afternoon coffee today, and dunking their heads in..Murderer!!!!!. I still can’t believe there’s a guy named Gary Granita, initially I thought you were taking the piss, so good.AW
He is isn't he?!?
Goofyfoot. Hi mate.
I’m not sure, he’s very clever, I’m probably so daft I couldn’t even work it out myself.
Either, either, bit of fun, clever wordsmith , nothing Basesix about him at all, quite the contrary.AWp.s. getting a wave over your side ?
I’d have thought that Brice Vovo would’ve been another not-so-subtle clue amongst an entire biscuit tin’s worth of clues that it’s a bit of Friday arvo fairy dust?
SJY. You’re obviously way more intelligent than myself.
Out of curiosity. You use to have a farm in SW Oz. Is that correct?
I use to live somewhere in that region a long time ago.
Sheep and crop, or just sheep or just crop ? AW
seeds wrote:
I especially liked the Timothy and Tamara tragic end bit.
Well, we’re definitely a couple of Yo Yo’s, he fooled the both of us.
He should be engaged/employed in writing , he’s very clever.AW
seeds wrote:
I especially liked the Timothy and Tamara tragic end bit.
Well, we’re definitely a couple of Yo Yo’s, he fooled the both of us.
He should be engaged/employed in writing , he’s very clever.AW
seeds wrote:
Wow quite the story basesix. Music teacher to biscuit designer (apprentice). How’d you ever get into that? I agree with AW it sounds like you enjoy it.
I was coaxing him out Alfred. At first I went wow that’s how the biscuit names originated but a quick look shows George Zoghbi as Arnott CEO
He’s a cheeky boy. Quite the laugh
Choc coated scotch is so good but now I know Brice the IV invented it I’m having second thoughts.
Nah it's just B6 playing mind games with you. Go with it. If not choc coated digestives will do the trick.
The wave of the day does it for me big time. Nice work Steen Barnes , Shaun Anderson and Swellnet.
In one photo you've encompassed everything nice about surfing. If I was a wanker I'd say that it was perfect except for the fact he is in a wetsuit. Which it is , it's perfect .....except for the fact he's in a wetsuit.