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onlinelightings · 10 months ago

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How Can Industrial Pendants Lighting Create a Special Business Ambiance?

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sleep-pup-sleep · 1 year ago

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🧼 Typo Motion Lamp

idek if these are still legal in my country sooooo

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star-sailor-tales · 2 years ago

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New Design dropped in the shop!

Check it out if you'd like to support the blog! Ty!

#the adventures of humans in space #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #earth is space australia #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #digital art #space #moon #galaxies #Stars #planets #earth #lava lamp #lamp #lava #art #redbubble

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flavzfarms · 4 months ago

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groovy 🧡🍃

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boltedgarlic · 6 months ago

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taglist~

you’ll have to use the search function unfortunately :( i am no longer linking all my tags. if you’re on desktop, my theme should have a search bar!

dated by year

1980 | - | 1994 | - | 1997 | - | 1999 | - | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | - | 2039

dated by month

holidays/seasons

locations

alabama / alaska / arkansas / california / connecticut / idaho / illinois / indiana / iowa / kansas / kentucky / louisiana / maryland / missouri / new mexico / new york / north carolina / ohio / oregon / pennsylvania / tennessee / texas / utah / west virgina / wisconsin

animals

pets

art/mediums

artists

Ween

colors

food & drink

characters/licenses/media

interior

exterior/outside

miscellaneous tags

my tags

updated: 09/13/2024

#taglist #long post #my favorite tags are bolded #and will be hyperlinked when i get around to it

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mossycobblestcnes · 2 years ago

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oversized button downs with garish patterns. loud echoing laughter. writing essays a couple of hours before they're due. trainers squeaking on a freshly polished auditorium floor. not remembering where you got half the stuff in your miscellaneous knit knack box

BASIC INFORMATION

NAME: brodie lachlan hatton

NICKNAMES:None at Essex but he did semi-ironically get called deedee by his high school basketball team

BIRTHDAY:

AGE:19 cheeky little age change so it makes more sense for him to not be a frat bro yet sorry tia

HOMETOWN:brisbane , australia (yes i know this is a boring as fuck choice but it made the most sense and he deserves to be from the same city as bluey)

BIRTHPLACE:brisbane , australia

RELIGION: agnostic

ETHNICITY:kamilaroi

NATIONALITY:australia

EDUCATION/MAJOR:production design

JOB/EXTRACURRICULARS: temporary employee of essex maintanence because if he wasn’t he’d just fix things for his own enjoyment so he might as well get money out of it. for extracurriculars he does basketball and origami

RELATIONSHIP STATUS:single

SOCIAL CLASS: working

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

HEIGHT: 6ft1

EYES:brown

HAIR: black and he likes letting it grow out because he thinks it looks cooler and it’s less maintance

BUILD: athletic

DISTINGUISHING MARKS: he’s constantly getting various small cuts on his hands because of the practical elements of his degree

NOTABLE FEATURES:cheeky grin and floppy late 00s boyband hair

PHYSICAL DISABILITIES:n/a

ALLERGIES:n/a

PERSONALITY & BEHAVIOR

HOBBIES: litterally anything that can capture his attention for 5 seconds, going to the gym, going on adventures (getting maccas at 3am)

LIKES: extremely niche youtube tutorials (he can't knit or arrange flowers but he's had plenty of floristry or knitting tutorials on in the background when he's done other things) lava lamps, garish shirts, pokemon and trainers with bright patterns

DISLIKES: being assigned classes that aren’t related to his major, deadlines, quiet places, sitting still, legally not being allowed to chill in the smoking areas of clubs and bars and people he thinks are uptight

QUIRKS:leg bouncing

POSITIVE TRAITS: daring , sanguine and resourful

NEGATIVE TRAITS:scattered , selfish and impulsive

SHARE 5 FUN FACTS ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:

growing up he spent a lot of time in the salon his mum worked at both because it was easier than getting a baby sitter and also because middle aged women thought he was delightful

he has zero respect for the american education system but he thought going to uni in the states would be a fun adventure he could tell his mates about and it could potentially help inspire a script (if he can ever get around to finishing one)

got broken up with when he was 17 because he forgot he had a girlfriend when he was focused on tech for a high school drama show and a basketball competition

he doesn’t have one particular fave music genre. he likes anything with a pulsing beat

thinks the invention of cricket is a war crime because matches should not take literal days to finish and sports shouldn’t be that structured. he thinks sports should have a bit of risk, unpredictability and whimsy (that’s also his outlook on life #manicpixienightmareboy)

WHERE DOES YOUR CHARACTER LIVE:

dorms but is going to rush for a frat because he loves committing to the bit and bad life choices

#tslocg:into

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ari-thylascene · 5 months ago

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Hi! I'm Ari! I'm a furry artist from Australia and a collector of all things thylacine :3 I love neon colours, Lava lamps, THYLACINES, fish, Stars, dinosaurs and emo/scenecore everything! You can find my social medias on my linktree!

Here I am hoping to share each of my thylacine plush and maybe some other thylacine items I have :3 I hoping for my page to act like an archive for the more rare and hard to find plush in my collection! I will be tagging each plush with their brand and name so you can view their tags! You can view my full thylacine collection right now over on my trello! @PiineMarten is helping me run this blog because I am very new to tumblr and they r old and know how to. So please excuse any mistakes I may make when posting, this is all confusing x3

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bitchapalooza · 3 years ago

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Random hetalia headcanons

• Latvia counts his steps and watches the ground when he spaces out while walking. A habit he developed when he felt lonely and had nothing on his mind.

• Russia's ringtone for America is "What's New Pussycat?" by Tom Jones purely because after playing it on repeat for 48 hours, it now annoys America.

• England grew his hair out into a mullet in the 70s, not learning his lesson when he was a kid.

• North Italy always gets to meetings early but he slacks off playing phone games in his car so he can get in late to avoid presenting before the lunch break.

• Hong Kong has a lava lamp in his room.

• Estonia probably has a vitamin D deficiency because he's always inside working/programing.

• Australia puts elmers glue on his hand, lets it dry, and then peels it.(icky gross)

• Germany accidentally ordered a Miku body pillow cover instead of a plain cover. He has no idea what to do with it.

• Netherlands has a soft spot for kids. Can't say no to em.

• South Italy can name every constellation off the top of his head.

• Finland sleeps in the weirdest, back aching positions. By morning he complains about his back but chalks it up to old age.

• Perfectly cut screams are probably Iceland's favorite videos to watch.

• Hutt River wont stop referencing vines.

• North Italy's cat, Gino, will bring him dead mice or strings of yarn every morning without fail.

• China will fake a coma just to get out of paperwork for a week or two.

• Belarus is banned from Dollywood after camping out in Mystery Mine trying to prove the park was haunted. This is thanks to America.

• New Zealand wears a mood ring because he thinks they're neat!

• Sealand has in fact killed a man. I will not elaborate.

• Despite being lactose intolerant, Czech will sacrifice her well being for some good ice cream.

• Singapore's idea of organizating papers and books is based on what's not borning and what's borning.

#hetalia #hetalia headcanons #im not tagging em all

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borathae · 2 years ago

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Hey sweet Sibi 🐝

Glad you enjoyed the hobbies edition! And I wish I had jokes up my sleeve to cheer you up, but I have none — so I will give you a list instead 💜

Also — I will say I am falling in love with the fallen for you OC without even knowing her yet lol 🤍

Okay today’s list is the specific /obscure object edition! I am going to name an obscure object/possession and you can decide who is most likely to own said object (couples or individuals):

1. Photo frame made from various shapes of unboiled pasta

2. Their school uniforms from every school they went to

3. An under the sea themed lava lamp

4. A handprint from when they were a child

5. An egg shaped chair (apparently they are called pod chairs, I just looked them up lol)

6. A box for their collection of cards and letters they have gotten across their lifespan

7. A homemade, patchwork pride flag

8. An antique €50 note

9. Australian native animal themed table cloth

10. A fake book with a secret compartment inside

11. Transport models of some kind

12. A light up keyboard

13. A little ‘Periodic Table of Elements’ poster

14. A Bob the Builder themed toolkit

15. A really cringe bumper sticker

P.S. part 2 of hobbies is still coming soon ❤️

Okay okay let's get started ohoho 👀

tct as a joke and it includes one of their seflies

fjdsjf this whole concept is so foreign to me as an Austrian fajdsjf maybe aaol!JK's parents?

tct, Songs of Ocean!Tae (it's still a wip)

aaol!JK, tct!OC from her grandma

aaol, Seeing Red, ihyily, SA!Hobi

SA!Tae, SA!Kook, tct, ihyily, oy, Sonata Cantabile

tct!Yoonmin

is this a thing people collect? hahah you can still use the old 50€ here in Austria so it's pretty normal to own, SA!Tae from his travels to Paris, Shutter Sounds maybe?

tct 100% from their travels to Australia

SA!Yoongi, actually I think the SA estate is generally filled with secret books, tct, oy!OC it's where she keeps her handcuffs :-), aaol

tct!Hoseok, tct with miniature bikes, i feel like SA!Tae once made miniature models of stuff?

tct!JK, roommate!Tae, CBT!Yoongi, Sense of Innocence

tct!JK he needs it for tattoos, roommate!Tae

tct, maybe Sense of Innocence because it was cheap?

tct!Hoseok bruh even more than one hahaha

Now this was fun heheh I hope you liked the answers 👀💜💜

#asks #anon #character lists

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saltrockpk · 5 years ago

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#salt lamps australia #sea salt rock lamp #salt lava lamp

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onlinelightings · 11 months ago

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Want Lantern Lighting for Living Area? Buy Online!

LED lantern lighting can create a special ambience in any residential or commercial place. People are encouraged to switch to LED lanterns for a slew of advantages.

LED lanterns are energy efficient, economically beneficial, and versatile.

This is an excellent choice for illuminating living spaces with a variety of lighting designs with their soft and warm glow.

Designer lighting with LED provides a cosy and inviting atmosphere, ideal for leisure and socialising.

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They can deliver authentic lava lamps that are gentle with the flowing motion of wax blobs suspended in liquid creating a calming visual display. These lamps can make a unique blend with interior aesthetics, used as subtle night lights to create a relaxed ambience in bedrooms, living spaces, and recreational areas for a retro charm and contemporary appeal.

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Firstly, through online brochures, customers can see over sixty thousand lighting products to choose from.

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Thirdly, people can find a comprehensive range of designer lighting pieces pendant lights, chandeliers, downlights, lamps, and outside lights.

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Check whether these suppliers use easy and secured payment gateways and rapid delivery across Australia and internationally.

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Finally, contact their customer service executives to know their warranty and policies, and check their response towards their customers regardless of purchase amount.

After being satisfied with all the given points, anyone can buy their desired lighting pieces from their collection to create a special ambience at their premises.

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#lantern lighting #lava lamps Australia

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mst3kproject · 4 years ago

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The Navy vs the Night Monsters

Of course, it’s not like bad things stop happening now that 2020 is finally over… we just get to start counting again from zero. Kind of like how I’ve started counting thirty-six Episodes that Never Were per year, beginning with this one. It was co-directed by Wyott Ordung from Robot Monster and features familiar faces like Russ Bender and Mamie Van Doren, the latter for once not playing a teenage delinquent. It also has one really obscure MST3K connection: it was based on a story by Murray Leinster, which the sharp-eyed will remember as the name of the ship attacked by Evil Count Zarth Arn’s lava lamp weapon at the beginning of Starcrash!

A plane carrying specimens of Antarctic flora and fauna makes a rather rough and unexpected landing at a naval base on remote Gow Island in the south Pacific. There appears to be nobody on board except the pilot and a few penguins – the former is in a catatonic state, and the latter are... well, penguins... so what happened to the rest of the passengers and crew is a complete mystery. Did the pilot go mad and kill them? Did the penguins? Or did it have something to do with those mysterious ancient trees discovered growing around a geothermal spring in the heart of the frozen continent?

The first ten minutes of this movie are spent trying to be a comedy. Before we get anywhere near the plot, we first have to listen to the guys on the plane try to be funny about their lunch and their tastes in women. Then on the island, we watch a guy who can’t seem to figure out how to inflate a balloon, followed by a dude talking to his dog, and then a really icky bit where two women convince a man he had sex with both of them, which he buys because he was too drunk to remember. Only then do we finally establish what’s actually going on. The impression one gets from this beginning is that The Navy vs the Night Monsters is going to be peopled entirely by Jackass Comic Relief characters, and I actually turned the film off and sat on it for a couple of days to psych myself up to watch the rest.

When I finally turned it back on, to my relief the movie turned out not to be quite that bad, but it’s still pretty damned bad. The dull and unfunny opening is followed by an abrupt shift of tone, as a man maddened by terror jumps from the plane to his death! The only thing set up by the opening that turns out to be relevant is Spaulding the meteorologist’s crush on Nora the nurse, when she’s in love with the base’s second in command, Lieutenant Brown.

I complain frequently about useless love triangles in movies. This one is very useless, and all the more so because the script totally forgets to resolve it. Spaulding hates Gow Island but stays because he’s in love with Nora – he wants her to go back to Miami with him and marry him. When he puts this idea to her, however, it becomes obvious that Nora can’t stand him, and it’s clear enough why: Spaulding is an asshole and he treats Nora not as a partner but as a possession. Never does he show any sort of tenderness towards her. Every time they speak to each other, he seems to end up shouting, and his jealousy of Brown repeatedly leads to violence.

Brown, on the other hand, treats Nora with respect and actually shows vulnerability around her. He’s been left in charge while the base’s commander is on the mainland attending an important meeting, and he’s really feeling the pressure as the base is surrounded by tree monsters in the dark. He talks about his anxiety and Nora comforts him, and the audience rolls their eyes because it’s perfectly obvious which of these guys she’s going to pick. And sure enough, at the end she’s in Brown’s arms… but nothing about the whole situation is exactly resolved.

Brown and Spaulding did get in a fist fight, though it wasn’t explicitly over Nora, but nobody ever talks about the problem. Spaulding never realizes that he’s treated Nora badly, and it never seems to even occur to him that she might prefer Brown over him, or even that she has emotions or preferences at all. He definitely never seems to understand that he’s lost. Brown and Nora seem to feel a need to hide their love affair from the other base staff, but we’re never given a reason why (although I guess ‘Spaulding’s a dick’ is reason enough). Nora never tells Spaulding that she prefers Brown… maybe she’s afraid he’ll assault her? I hate everything about this situation, but nothing more than the fact that as the movie progresses we get hints that Nora may be warming up to Spaulding, as if she’s supposed to consider these two guys equal contenders for her affections! Fuck everybody who wrote this, seriously.

It’s kind of sad to see Mamie Van Doren in a role like this after meeting her in things like Untamed Youth and Girls Town. Those movies were gross and exploitative, but Mamie’s characters were central to their plots and she filled those shoes reasonably well. She wasn’t Oscar material but for what the films were, she was enough to carry them. The Navy vs the Night Monsters is a little closer to being a ‘real movie’, but in this respect it represents a step down for her, as she is relegated to being something for two men to fight over. Furthermore, Silver from Girls Town and Penny from Untamed Youth were both characters who required some range – Nora the nurse mainly spends the whole movie being annoyed with the men in her life. Van Doren could have done much more if anyone had bothered asking it of her.

Let’s see… what else do I hate about this movie? I hate Private Chandler, the guy who stays a Jackass Comic Relief character once that opening is over. Shockingly, The Navy vs the Night Monsters actually kills him off, but he’s not nearly as annoying as Dropo or the guy from Outlaw, so his death merely feels mean rather than having any entertainment value. The guy was just about to actually get laid by one of the women who’d made fun of him earlier – though she, like Spaulding, showed no sign of being sorry for past jerkitude.

I hate the monsters. Normally I have a soft spot for plant monsters. They’re a cliché in their own way, I guess, but they’re a fun idea. The ones in The Navy vs the Night Monsters kill and digest people with acidic sap, and a character theorizes about how and why such a thing would evolve, which is cool. The execution, however, sucks. While the poster for the film shows us a humanoid Treebeard-looking thing, the actual monsters in the film are dumb-looking stumps that waddle along like a couple of guys trying to move a piece of furniture corner-by-corner because it’s too heavy to lift. The result reminds me of The Creeping Terror, in that you have to want to get eaten by these things. At one point a guy walks right up to one, inspects it, and escapes its clutches merely by backing away slowly!

The trees reproduce using insect-like larvae that are, themselves, lethally venomous. This is also a neat idea which is, once again, ruined by the execution. The tiny ones are being pulled along the floor by a sometimes-visible string, and then they grow into stumps that look like they should be stools around a boy scout campfire, which move even slower than the adult trees! There’s a scene where the characters are holed up in the base under an onslaught of these, with planes arriving to napalm them just in time, and it is ludicrous in its attempt to feel threatening.

I do like that Gow Island is a bleak middle-of-nowhere rather than a tropical paradise. The landscapes kind of remind me of the Falkland Islands, though the weather on Gow is evidently better. You can see why some of the characters hate it here, surrounded by barren scrub inhabited mostly by ten thousand smelly, raucous seabirds. Unfortunately this backdrop makes the ‘comedy’ opening seem even more out of place, though it’s also kind of nice that they didn’t give us any stereotyped ‘natives’ as either comedy or monster fodder.

As for a theme… well, The Navy vs the Night Monsters is clearly about an invasive species. The biologist, in suggesting how the tree monsters evolved, points out that they are suited to the hostile environment of Antarctica in ways that make them nearly unstoppable anywhere else. We’re told that they devoured all the penguins the scientists were bringing back for study, and as well as eating the people, they wreak havoc among the Gow Island seabirds and reproduce out of control. The parallels to things like cane toads in Australia, or housecats just about anywhere, are obvious.

This isn’t something the characters care about, though, even the ones who profess to be scientists. At the end, enough of the trees are destroyed that the humans can safely evacuate, and what happens after that is clearly Gow Island’s problem, not humanity’s. I really would have liked to see the script go into this a little more, but then, The Navy vs the Night Monsters is not a movie that wants to go into anything, even stuff it sets up in some detail.

At the end, The Navy vs the Night Monsters feels pretty half-assed. Somebody wanted to make a movie, and then put in the bare minimum effort possible to have all the parts present. They clearly understood how movies work, but they didn’t have the money and didn’t want to go to the trouble. The result is deeply mediocre. There’s a few laughs out of the dumb stump creatures, but mostly it’s just bad.

#mst3k #reviews #episodes that never were #the navy vs the night monsters #tw: abuse #humanitarian vegetables #60s

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star-sailor-tales · 2 years ago

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Second update

#the adventures of humans in space #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #earth is space australia #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #digital art #space #Lava lamp

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meholt · 4 years ago

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“.....deploy the lava lamp!” . #lavalamp #scruff #daddy #selfie #gay #instagay #bear #beard #gayswhohashtagforattention (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHt6pd1D5r5/?igshid=1nxndu8aced0v

#lavalamp #scruff #daddy #selfie #gay #instagay #bear #beard #gayswhohashtagforattention

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prorevenge · 5 years ago

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I fought the Law, and the Law won. ..a Sparkies Tale.

One Wednesday in Rural Australia, I was doing work in The Police Station, running dedicated essential power circuits for some new fancy gear they had coming. No-one else at my work had the clearance yet to work in this room, so I was solo this day. This Station was a Combined Regional Command, and quite big. Uniform, Patrol, Detectives, Crime Scene, K9.. the whole show.

I’d been doing work here for a few years, and gotten to know a lot of the members (also did some after hours non-electrical work in their social club for drinks). Around 11am, a Patrol Officer came in to see the Shift Sergeant. A minute later, they go outside. A minute after that four more Police go outside. A few minutes later, one of the Detectives I know says to me, “you gotta see this..”, so I go outside.

One of the new Patrol members, fresh from academy, had run a car into the Station carpark main exit gate. There was now quite the crowd of mixed Police gathered around the vandal and car. Station OIC (Officer in Charge - long title and good bloke) was there as well. I hang back a bit, amazed. I’d only finished doing all the power and controls for this new sliding gate a few months earlier.

This gate was 5m/16’ long, ran along a roller track set into concrete, had toothed racking along it for the motor cog to drive. I’d put in the power, set-up the motor and controls, the exit induction loop (like at traffic lights, a car goes over the loop, it detects the car. I fucking love electromagnetism.), the swipe card access, the new cameras..everything. It was a lovely gate. (the best part is taking a big petrol powered saw, and cutting the grooves in the road for the coil. Have a go with one of those saws. I dare you to not ‘Tim Allen’ while you do.)

Looking at the damage, the cars bull-bar has hit the gates frame at an angle, while the gate was opening. Broken teeth on some racking, scratched up gate, and god only knows what to the motor. I pretend I’m invisible, and turn to go back inside.. only to be face-to-face with OIC.

OIC (smiling) - “Nice warm day, huh. I expect you’re about..” (he gets cut off by my phone ringing)

He looks at me, nods his head to my shirt pocket. (He’s smiling because it’s ~11am and already 38C/100F. It’s forecasted to get to 44C/111F in the shade today. And this gate is in full sun.) The call is from my office.. “Damaged gate at The Police Station. Gov’t Works Dept has said that OIC has asked personally that you do the job, since you are already on-site.” During my conversation with the office, OIC pats me on the shoulder and walks away. I think he’s enjoying making me work on it, because I’d put some electrical tape over the laser on his mouse a week earlier. On a dare from one of the Sergeants.

I tidy up the work I was doing, grab the keys to the motor/controls box, and have a look. Broken welds on two of the motor mounts. Well, this day is fucked. The gate is still working, but is not happy. It could stop working altogether if the other two welds break. It’s the designated exit for operational reasons, and they want it fixed now.

Calling the supplier, they act surprised and want the damaged base plate for testing. I leave to go get a new a new one. The work will involve taking out the motor and controls, changing the base plate, then putting it all back together. As well as replacing the damaged sections of racking, and realigning everything. While kneeling/sitting/laying on the bitumen. In the full sun.

Let me tell you about a couple of things that piss me off at work - on a hot day, while you’re on a roof/in a ceiling etc, ‘comedians’ saying “Warm enough for ya?” - while you have tools out and are obviously still working, ‘comedians’ saying “You finished yet?” I’ve learned that the best response is to ignore them. Because other responses lead to paperwork.

10 mins after I start the repairs, I get my first “Warm enough for ya?” from Detectives coming in the entrance gate nearby. 5 mins after that I get the first “You finished yet?” from Crime Scene leaving through the open exit gate. These comments and more, and a few vehicles coming up behind me and sounding the siren. Police outside having a smoke also wander over to give me shit. All this goes on constantly for the whole time I’m there. I’m so pissed off, they can all tell. But seriously, it would be madness to lose your shit at the Police, so I fume in silence. Until..

At ~2.30pm, it’s about 50C/120F on the bitumen, I have cuts and blood on my knuckles, am royally pissed off, am laying down doing the final alignment of the racking, get a shoe nudge in my back and hear..

Gruff Voice - “You finished yet?”

Well. I’m not sure if I decide to lose my shit, or it’s just involuntary Hulk-rage. As I’m getting up I’m saying..

Me (controlled anger, but a bit loud) - “For fucks’ sake, will..” (I stop, because I’m now standing, and face-to-face with OIC.

OIC (smiling, handing me a sports drink) - “Here you go. Just remember next time you go to prank me, I have so many ways I can mess with you.”

He pats me on the shoulder and turns to walk away. He stops to ask “Seriously though, is it fixed?”. I just nod. He walks off back to his aircon.

I found out later that he had “made a suggestion” (basically an order) to his whole command, to annoy the shit out of me while I was working at the gate. He must have seen all the available pieces for his fuckery while looking at the car earlier, and put them into play. The whole local Police Force. I never messed with him again.

It’s not often I get got, but he got me good. Fair play.

Thank you for reading.

Glossary

Bitumen - road surface/black top. When it’s really hot weather for a while, the tar in it will melt and stick to your car. Car Detailers like the hot weather.

Essential Circuits - are for equipment that must continue to work through a power outage. They are powered by an industrial UPS and/or generator. The batteries for this particular industrial UPSs are big and heavy. Taller people get to replace the ones on the top shelf. Every. Fucking. Time.

UPS - Uninterrupted Power Supply. The regular domestic/commercial ones are the black box that beeps under your desk, that you try to ignore, then complain about. After having unplugged it to plug in your stupid desk sized lava lamp. No-one thinks your lava lamp is cool Dennis.

Tape over a Mouse Laser - is fucking hilarious to watch. I like to think it helps pass the time of bored techs at helps desks.

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SKETCHY BEHAVIORS | INTERVIEW WITH LAUREN YS

From large scale murals to multi-layered works on canvas, LA based artist Lauren YS’s art captures everything from the female experience, addressing topics like sexuality, death, aliens, monsters, and the occult. Her works are complex much like her own experiences, so we’re super stoked to find out more about what drives her, who and what inspires her, and what challenges and advice she has for our readers in this awesome Sketchy Behaviors interview..

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Photographs courtesy of the artist.

Introduce yourself. Hey! I’m Lauren YS - Hmm, something you might not know … I used to play ice hockey and my favorite candy are Peach O’s. I am a really good listener, but that also means I hate being interrupted. I dream, often, about being underwater.

Tell folks a little about your artwork and what do you love to make works about? I make work about the female experience, sexuality, identity, space, aliens, heritage, death, monsters, nature, emotions, natural phenomena, the occult and whatever else I might be obsessing about. I like slimy creatures, kitsch, psychedelia, sex and Halloween, and mixing repulsion with attraction. I want the viewer to feel unsettled as much as engaged. I make things in an effort to try to process the beautiful shit rocket that is the world around me.

When did art become something you were aware you could do for a living or as a career you wanted to pursue? I have always been making art, but I never thought it was possible to support oneself as an artist: It seemed really out of reach or surreal. It wasn’t until I had already been fully freelance for a year before I realized I was actually doing it. I think it’s just something that comes out of necessity, it’s like – if I want to keep making art as much as possible at the rate I am living, then damn, I’m going to learn how to make money off of it.

What’s a typical studio day for you like? I tend to work nocturnally. I’ll paint through the night and sleep through the day and watch horror movies, listen to podcasts about art, serial killers and cults, and eat anywhere from 1-2 sacks of tangerines every day. I like to really plow through paintings as well, it’s hard for me to stop working on something once I start. After about three weeks in the studio like this, your mind starts to wander off into deep strange places, and that’s when the really good stuff comes out.

What’s your studio or creative space like? What do you keep around to constantly motivate or inspire you? I have always worked best in a bit of “artistic chaos”–I like to fill my space with odds and ends, knick-knacks, items from my travels, talismans. I believe in the power of objects. I love my lava lamp and need to buy seven more. I also have this drawing I made of an Asian grandma screaming “DRAW, MOTHERFUCKER” which I plan to make into a screen print and give to all my artist friends.

When working on a body of paintings and works for a show, what is your process like? How long does it typically take you to complete a painting from start to finish? Depending on the size of the gallery, it can take anywhere from 2-6-10 months to create a show, given that it is often punctuated by mural tours and big projects to pay the bills. I like to work on lots of pieces at the same time, so generally it’ll take a few days to a week or two to finish a piece. I am trying to get better at reworking pieces rather than just pushing through them one by one. Workflow is still sorting itself out. I also make a ton of pieces that end up being nixed from the final show. I am very prolific but also very psychotic.

Not only do you work on canvas, but you are also known for some of your amazing murals! When did you start going from painting on a regular scale to large scale works? What’s your process like for mapping out these large works? Well shucks, thank you! I started painting murals around 2013, which was a sort of natural transition because I wanted to work bigger and bigger, I wanted to travel and be in the sun and use giant machines to make my art. I actually started learning color from using spray paint. I freehand everything because I like to feel independent of projectors or machines, especially if I’m in a foreign country or don’t have time or resources.

It makes me feel empowered to be able to make big things on my own. Maybe that comes from growing up under the common experience girls have, especially asian girls, where you’re expected to be small and quiet and obedient. I have always worked in active aggression against that stereotype.

Is there a medium you’d love to get your hands on, but yet to have the chance too? And what are your go-to materials? I’d really love to learn how to use an airbrush, a la Sorayama. Outside of 2D I am dying to get back into stop motion animation. My favorite brand of spray paint is Montana Black (high pressure forever!), and I use a wide variety of acrylics and gouache in my paintings, specifically the Holbein gouaches from Japan.

What do you love about where you live, and what is the art community like in your area? I never thought I’d move to LA, but I’ve been really enjoying it here. I’m a communal living person (been in and out of communities for about 9 years) and I am lucky to have found somewhere that fits with my work ethic (intense) and social vibe (weird). I like to be able to work alone while still having people bustling around and making things all the time. It helps me to feel like I’m not dead or a total solipsist.

I’ve also found that the artists in LA–especially the female artists–have proven to be really kind, generous and welcoming. There’s a lot of room for weirdos here; it might take a while to find them, but they’re here. We also have a one-eyed cat, did I mention that?

Who are some artists you’re inspired by and have influenced you throughout the years? I’m a big fan of dark/psychedelic/erotic artists like Keiichi Tanaami, Suehiro Maruo, Sorayama and the whole Ero Guro movement. I also love Goya’s dark paintings and the sculpture work of Bernini. Some contemporary artists I’ve been into lately are Christian Rex Van Minnen, David Altmejd, Robin Francesca Williams and the fabric sculptures of Do Ho-Suh. Jamie Hewlett, Swoon, Andrew Hem, Aryz. I find that my taste changes constantly and I am always thirsty for different influences.

What’s been the most challenging part of your art career? What’s been the most rewarding? What do you do to keep the balance? Something really challenging has been learning how to trust myself while growing in the industry and balancing business, work and travel. It’s a really solid test: moving to a new city, providing for yourself, going on tour, shifting from place to place, managing gallery work and mural work, all while protecting and nurturing your own ambition and positivity, and not feed into the shitstorm of capitalism and social media past what is required of you.

The muralist life is not for the faint of heart. I would hardly say that I keep any type of “balance”–art is my life and there isn’t much room for anything else, and that’s how I like it. It is the most rewarding thing to look around and feel like you’ve created something new and good and powerful, all on your own terms. It is similarly rewarding to feel the need to level up - I enjoy feeling stressed arguably more than I enjoy feeling accomplished.

What would your dream collaboration be? What do you enjoy most about collaborations with other artists or clients? I would love to do something with Takashi Murakami and/or his gallery (Kaikai Kiki Gallery). There’s also this amazing Australian animator named Felix Colgrave whose work I’ve been obsessed with lately, I’d love to find a way to make an animated short with him! I love collaborating - especially on mural work - because it’s such a cool experience to be able to intermingle your visual world with someone else’s. Working with ONEQ in Hawaii this year was really great, she had so many suggestions and ideas from out of left field that made me rethink my own work as well. It also forces you to relinquish some control on the way you work, and reflect on the basic joys of making shit in the first place.

If you could paint a portrait of anyone living or dead, who would you choose and why? I really want to do a tripped out portrait of Yayoi Kusama or Bjork or maybe Steve Buscemi—all heroes of mine.

What’s your advice to folks who see what you do and want to pursue art as a career? I would say, go at it as hard as you possibly can! Make sure you really enjoy doing it! Not all parts of painting murals are glamorous (actually, few are) and it’s important to truly love every part of it if you’re going to commit your life to it.

This means: hustling walls, handling machinery, travel, people, logistics, finding somewhere to pee, dealing with unexpected bullshit, not complaining, being comfortable handling yourself in dangerous situations, being independent and resourceful, etc. I have reservations about artists who genuinely don’t seem to enjoy all the elements of mural painting going too deep into it. But if it’s something you love, there’s nothing better.

What are your FAVORITE Vans? I’ve been rocking the classic authentic Vans in black/burgundy as paint shoes for years now. But I also love the Sk8-Hi boys in burgundy… I never wear them because I’m too scared to get paint on them, haha!

What other artists would you love to see interviewed for Sketchy Behaviors? I’m currently really into Andrea Wan, Louise Zhang and Caratoes. It would also be really cool if you covered a GNC or trans artist, like Nomi Chi or Laughing Loone!

What’s next for you that you can share? My first book is coming out this year with Von Zos, and I’m also going to be designing a tarot deck with them. April is my first mural tour in several months; I’ll be hopping from Australia - Guam - Peru, and then moving around South America for a while, trying to practice my spanish. After that, I’ll be starting work on my next big show, scheduled for a city in Asia, which I’m really, really excited about - keep an eye out!

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