I did what i normally do with random objects and too much time on my hands.

Located at a random furniture joint. you can find antique reproduction model phones on ebay depending on your price range. This one was cheaper than what i’ve seen on there tho, and i figured its so ridiculously lary, I had to have it.

I actually picked up this little ditty in a Maverick servo (GAS STATION. WTF-EVER. JESUS.) last september during my last States trip, and did it up a little today while i was procrastinating for my next trip to the US in which i leave on wednesday. Figured I’d update prior to my departure.

best part? three freaking dollars for the lot. total win. needless to say Talisa and I cleared the shop out of the buggers and now there are only sheets of brass dinosaurs left. you snooze, you lose.

I will post another update in the next few days of the other piece of supreme SFOTD AWESOME we found on the way home in an alley, which happens to be a very old (albeit empty) dining set case constructed entirely of very heavy, very gorgeous wood. I have a rather intensive plan for that thing which will be getting much coverage on fuckimgreatjustaskme.com over the coming months.

EXCITING finds for the weekend indeed.

Watermelons are currently out of season which meant i could only score the quarter bits- slightly annoying but hey i worked it.

Ended up being a delicious edible piece of abstract art that tantalised the tastebuds. Even the slices wound up being awesome.

I am already planning my next endeavour with this, for my other housemate’s birthday in september. There are concept sketches.

For this delicious sculpting, it features;
-Watermelon for the main body
-Mango slices serving as a border
-Pineapple slices for garnishes
-Lychees for sweet sweet bite
-Honeydew melon for a topper and triangles
-Strawberries for added colour and deliciousness

The “icing” consisted of various citris and tropical pulps and juices for an all out flavour EXTRAVAGANZA.

So if you’re a happy little member of the forums over on Neoapocalyptica you probably have already seen this. But if not, then hooray for all, aren’t you in for a treat.

so i’m doing up my guitar, the love of my life. a Monterey Dreadnought MW-181CES.

No fucking idea how to deal with the tan lines from a previous era of stickers HOWEVER that is a work in progress, hence why its an IN PROGRESS UPDATE.

H’ok.

So I opted in for a brass saddle vs a plastic one, which you can kinda see in the below image;

actually here’s a better one with brass bridge pins added also;

Also replaced the machine heads from rusted steel to gold plated (which was surprisingly fucking expensive because apparently the machine heads aren’t made the way my guitar has them anymore..)

A crafty soundhole mod from a feeback buster and a steel sieve i found on the side of the road;

its been a while since i did any sort of mod on an instrument, previous works involved my classical guitar;

As well as being completely unable to resist a tribal design on my ukelele after a silver sharpie exploded and i didn’t want to waste the ink.

i’m still in the progress of trying to figure out something to do with the surface that will either remove or hide the tan lines, but yeah. something that doesn’t cost the earth and a half naturally. It’ll get there, and i’ll naturally be showing the completed project once done. or done more of. whatever. Have I mentioned i have a new ps3 console that doesn’t suck? Extended warranties. they pay for themselves really.

So at the end of January 2008, I spent a severe amount of money on a 2nd gen Playstation 3 console. it set me back almost a grand. on the weekend, after just a smidge over 2yrs of owning it, it died.

Yep. Died. I put a disc in, loaded it up, and it died. it died, and will never be resurrected. Google gave me many hints to attempt to save it, but alas, it was unsuccessful.

And of course, this happened four days before the release of Final Fantasy XIII, a game I have been waiting the better part of FOUR FUCKING YEARS to come out.

So here’s my beef. I spent close to a grand on a piece of equipment that dies a bee’s dick outside of my warranty. I don’t have this kind of money just lying around, and when I pay that kind of cash for something I want it to LAST. Further to this, the thieving bastards at Sony want to CHARGE me $250 just to fix it. This piece of shit console has a trade-in value of a hundred bucks, and Sony wants to charge me more than its worth to fix it? Fuck you people.

Why is it that technology is never built to last anymore? Its a rhetorical question of course, because its all about consumerism and things are only built to last until the next generation model of whatever comes out and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah fucking blah. but seriously. When I was in school I had one of those old Nokia 8210 phones, that fell out of my bag, down three stories onto concrete, and it still worked. all I needed was a new case. A Sony Ericsson phone I bought about 3yrs ago lasted 12mths before it fell out of my pocket onto vinyl floors and died. what the fuck? I also own a Playstation2, which I have had for 8yrs now with no problems, no errors, just machine behaving game playing. and yet its descendant is a weak motherfucker who couldn’t even last the distance.

And the arrogance of Sony, which is somewhat unsurprising, that they build an inferior product, and I am the one who wore the cost in the first place (FUCK RETAIL SALES IN AUSTRALIA MARKING UP EVERYTHING TO THE POINT OF RIDICULOUSNESS). And when they mentioned it’d be $50 on top of the $250 for shipping, I told them to get fucked, because for a hundred bucks more I can get a brand new console that is ten times better than the current oversized paperweight i currently own.

But then again, that’s your plan all along isn’t it Sony?

Belligerent pack of pricks with a piece of shit product that I shelled out more money than I should have in the first place, and then force my hand to purchase a new model that will likely do the same thing in 2yrs time. So now I have to go to a local store that’s thankfully doing me a good deal because they think I’ve been rather ripped off, and am picking up a new system for a third of the cost of what I initially paid for. Which, because its still a fair hike of cash to fork out, I’m going to have to pay off before I can pick it up over the next few months.

So thanks Sony, for giving me a game release I’ve been anticipating for years now, that will serve a good purpose as a fucking coaster.

Right, so, finally got the chair done tonight.

I’m not  entirely certain as to who won out between myself and the adhesive. But whatever.

And they all have individual teeny mods to them. Almost reminds me of a steampunk terminator thingy which is kinda weird.

Ok. So you may recall an earlier post wherein i Scored some intriguing crap from the house across the road, including this chair;

Well, I’ve been busy and decided to give it a bit of a lift. Currently just finished a new paint job and reupholstered the cushion.

Pretty chuffed with it thus far.

Found this little contraption in a junk pile next door… the corner thing is spring loaded and old. so the thing doubles as both a lovely corner shelf (once shelves are re-added) and a fucking bear trap.

This’ll go nice with that chair I picked up over the road a few months back. which reminds me, i’ll need to post photos of the finished product shortly.