THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Weird shit was happening to the moon a few days ago, and when that happens it’s important to be ritualistic. New Zealand was the best place in the whole world to see the total lunar eclipse, and anything could happen. Would the internet crash and leave everyone stranded without social media?. I had planned to […]

The view from the top deck

One of my favourite places to take photos around town is from the top deck of a double decker bus Sitting in the front seat up top I feel like king of the road looking down on my subjects And despite the fact that I’m taking photos through glass windows and trying to avoid any […]

MY MERRY XMAS MASS MAILOUT

MERRY XMAS This is one of those mass emails where I just send something to everyone on my contacts list in the hope that it makes amends for ignoring most of you for the past year. I’m sure many of you will think “oh there goes another bloody spam email” and hit delete, but if […]

CYCLE SERVICES PHOTO GALLERY

Cycle Services was our awesome purple bike shop at 174 Cuba Street Wellington New Zealand,  from 1991 to 2000 The original website is all still online here, but it’s just an archive these days. Our camera gear was not as flash as our bikes back then, and some of these photos are pretty low res, […]

LATEST UPDATES TO MY SIFT IMAGE WEBSITE

I have set up a sifty website where I just post pictures in basic galleries. It is set up to look best on tablets or phones, with very minimalist galleries and as few words as possible. WWW.SIFT.CO.NZ Today I added some more new photo edits PHOTOS BY SIFT https://www.frot.co.nz/design/sift/photos/ https://peakd.com/photography/@sift666/latest-update-to-my-sift-image-website

MILK ALT ENERGY

A visit to the farm  Back before a new wave of government harassment of raw milk farms in late 2019 drove so many small farms to close, this is where we used to get our raw milk from. Alt Energy Farm Co-op Organic A2 Jersey cows, eating a full range of fresh feed including sunflowers, […]

HOW TO WASTE MORE TIME ON THE INTERNET

If you are reading my blog, you probably already have considerable skills in this area and don’t need advice from an amateur like me. You are probably too busy to read this post anyway so just stare at this picture for a few moments and relieve yourself. Now I’m going to blather on a bit, […]

FIVE THINGS I QUIT DOING WHEN I SWITCHED TO HIVE

Next month would have been my four year anniversary on Steemit. Except that I quit using it the day of the hardfork. We can choose to jump about in dog shit and then complain that our shoes stink, or we can look at stuff we like better than dog shit instead. Yesterday I was chilling […]

IN SEARCH OF KIWIS ON HIVE

Let’s get NZ back on the blockchain again like we did in the old days! Back in the glory days of Steemit (2017) there were lots of Kiwis posting. I had an account @mg-nz (Made Great – NZ) just for following Kiwis and curating NZ content. At one point there were 55 active Kiwi bloggers […]

CATS ARE CLEANER THAN WE ARE

Last time I was house sitting in Picton, I was looking after Puss, the furry little monkey who races around the place constantly looking for wild adventures. But she disappeared, and I was wondering where she had gone. Turned out I had locked her in the garage. For 18 hours! Rather than hating me for […]