Ahh … how to while away those hours of staring vacantly out the window of your parent's station wagon on a family holiday to Lazy Crab Hotel, Dawesville WA circa 1983. When another game of eye-spy may force you to choke yourself with your own 5 year old fist, perhaps a battery operated game of physical skill that tests players hand-eye co-ordination with a silly jingle is just what the doctor ordered. That's right Operation.
Remember Cavity Sam, your dumpy patient with noticeably nothing to speak of down below, a bright red light bulb for a nose and a body riddled with ailments to be removed such as a broken heart, spare ribs, butterflies in the stomach, brain freeze (an ice cream cone in the head of course!?), writer’s cramp (a pencil in the forearm) ... feeling familiar?
The aim of the game - remove the tiny ailments with a pair of tweezers avoiding touching the sides of the cavity and setting off a buzzer, turning poor Sam’s nose bright red and losing a turn. Truly, hours of entertainment and still available 49 years on in normal form, travel form and key ring form … We thank you Milton Bradley.
Couldn't help but be drawn to this Message in a Bottle kit. Yes it may be childish but fucking hell can you imagine someone discovering your witty, passionate letter off the coast of Costa Rica?!
The fact this item is marked as a Best Seller makes me wonder how many of these things are out there. Forget the water pollution aspect and cling on to the inner pirate in you.
Learning an instrument is hard. Your fingers hurt on the bastard guitar strings and you can't get your foot to work on the kick pedal. If you've begun this frustrating process recently, I urge you not to view the following.
Jeremy Boyle doubles as a sound artist and an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts (show off). He has an amazing collection of music projects, ranging from ambient film soundtracks to environmental soundscapes. Perhaps the most impressive of all is his 2007 experiment: a pnuematic self-playing guitar and drum robot machine! Not only does this look really cool, but the song ain't half bad either.
So, the moral of this story is if this guy can get puffs of air to create music, surely you can use your brain power and the gift of an opposable thumb to create an A Major. Right?
Sean Morris is a Perth Illustrator with a knack for the quirky. He describes his work as "delicate, intensely rendered fine line drawings of fat hairy dudes holding guns, or 80’s girls in Bon Jovi t-shirts".
There are so many drawings we love of Sean's but we couldn't go past his 'Hair Metal Kids' series, which celebrates a time of harisprayed fringes, bomber jackets and deliberately ripped off T-shirt sleeves.
You can buy a set of prints from this series at his Etsy store Bad Hair Mountain.
Woyzeck is the stunning adaptation of Georg Buchner’s timeless 1837 exploration of sexual jealousy and paranoia, in which a fragile minded man is slowly stripped of his self-possession by the military machine he cannot escape..
This modern adaptation is set to a soundtrack of blood curdling blues and haunting lyrics, care of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Keep your eyes peeled for the chorus of villainous angels – led by rock n roller and angel of death, Tim Rogers (You Am I).
Couldn't help but be drawn to this 
Learning an instrument is hard. Your fingers hurt on the bastard guitar strings and you can't get your foot to work on the kick pedal. If you've begun this frustrating process recently, I urge you not to view the following.
Woyzeck is the stunning adaptation of 
