I’m only posting today because, quite frankly, I am sick to the back 9 of that stupid bee on the post below. I really have nothing to say. Nada. Zip. Diddly squat. Absolutamentally sweet Fanny Adams. There is no thing that is more like nothing than the thing that is not a thing that is [...]
The Graffiti bee (Latin name – Apis Banksius)
This is a very rare photograph of the renegade wall tagging nuisance caught defacing a national monument in the historical City of London. Having recently gained popularity with the masses this tiny airborne vandal has become a sort of peeny weeny ‘Robin Hood’ for the 21st century – [...]
Every now and then I sift through my statcounter and see why or how people arrive at Papersurfer. One search that brings this blog to the very top of Google is the commonly used term ‘wooden breast’.
Having inadvertently tagged a post with this a while back I am now attracting many fans of the carbon [...]
It’s a bit groovy and a bit funky with a cool, deep undertone to help you through these hot summer days. Take off some clothes, turn up the stereo and upset your neighbours by jiggling around on your patio. I am. Oh yes indeedy and it feels very nice…
Playlist is as follows (MP3 on digital [...]
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If you ask a German any more than a few years younger than myself about world conflicts in the 20th century you’ll mostly be met with a blank face. If you ask them specifically about the year 1966 they might ask if Elvis was born around that time (for anybody non-English 1966 was the last [...]
I demand freedom. Society has smeared its smog covered and weighty hand across the canvas of surfing and created a brutal corporate image for us to adhere to. It was the last bastion of the open mind and the free will to express ourselves in a physical and raw moment of integration with the universe. [...]
I was going to write a post introducing a list of the best micro novels currently in progress on the internet. These are works of fiction presented in tiny chunks of text via a micro-blogging platform such as Twitter or Facebook. A seemingly brilliant notion that panders to the world’s attention deficit disorder. No rambling [...]
Living in the foothills of the Serra de Estrella in central Portugal is supposed to be an idyllic existence – stunning picture postcard scenery, perfect weather all enhanced by friendly and convivial neighbours. Aging donkeys retiring peacefully by the river, toothless old crones carrying bags of washing on their heads. Just the sound of birds [...]
Another creation from the Papersurfer-Pixar workshops. It’s a new technique recently developed called ‘dynamic retrographical inversion’.
This is achieved by painting a lovely picture, then rubbing it out again very carefully (whilst filming it with a camcorder) and then playing the footage backwards on a television whilst recording the screen with another camera.
There are are a [...]
I bought a shortboard about three years ago – at the time I was surfing most weeks – I was in good shape and the purchase seemed to make sense. I used it a few times that summer – on bigger, hollower days. But on the whole it’s just been gathering dust in my bedroom [...]
