Author: Davey Dreamnation

  • erm … Saturday. I shouldn’t even be here, doing this, on a glorious Saturday afternoon in Melbourne. But hey, I’m obsessed. I think it’s essential to be obsessive if you’re going to write a blog. Or at least, maybe it’s only the obsessive people who manage to maintain a blog of any substance. Not that…

  • We are operational at last! No more shall ye be forced to endure the boring details of my tech wanks [question: has anybody published a blog about bloggers obsessed with posting details of coding and/or formatting changes made during the previous twenty four hours?] … Whatever. This picture was taken in a carpark above the…

  • Or so they say … while I love HTML and everything it has done for me, the most frustrating (or, depending on your outloook, the most fascinating) part of learning code is this: it may take you days to figure out something that’s a massive problem onscreen but that is in fact a simple matter…

  • After some massive overhauling, I think I’m just about ready to start telling some stories, making some links work and generally producing for the benefit of all mankind. I’ll be trying to make text wrap around photos, which means that I’ll have to actually put in more text. Thus I’ll also be revising some of…

  • Now we’re really cooking with gas. It’s amazing just how much time it can take to straighten out a few tables. So, onto some serious content-creation.

  • Formatting issues are a bit of a problem, as is trying to adapt a blog template that’s been used by someone esle for your own purposes. oh well, I will get there in the end. I will also get around to telling the stories behind some of my photos soon.

  • About a year and a half ago, I spent a weekend at the Warrnnambool Hotel, as you do. It was a Jack Kerouac kind of experience. When Monday rolled around, I left town at about 2am, in the middle of a rainshower and some fog. I took this photo about two hours later, after nearly…

  • These images are based on a photo of a pink (salt) lake as seen through a car window on the road from Port Augusta to Adelaide, South Australia. Me and my girlfriend were coming back from a reconnaisance mission to Woomera, which was once a rocket town but more recently (and perhaps infamously) the location…

  • So what if this page looks like a car crash at the moment. Luckily nobody’s particularly interested in my blog just yet, so I can for now get away with this really bad design. By the way, this photo of me was taken by my friend Quinton at an Internet cafe in Melbourne, where we…

  • hello!—i am so happy to be a farang in your country relieved to discover this word that describes me & pleased to be here spending all my money on trinkets & going to the toilet—hooray! now even my shit is farang! a foreign body yearning to be assimilated! get out of thailand i say to…

  • she loved me for a matter of seconds but her affair with the monks promises to be a lifelong obsession hey that hurts— right there doc can you lance jab pop it cut it out? look at this it’s a postcard she sent me—monks! you think that’s trivial? wait till you see the photos! monks…

  • timpani crash /tuk-tuk caged verandah /air-con little bells /squid vendor fecund waterway /chao phraya police helmet /city intersection pollution viaduct /sky train hardware section /chinatown pirate tape stand /thanon khao san shining stupa /urban wat

  • the choice of sunglasses is impor-tant but on the maple leaf? ray-bans are out too miami vice … beatle specs no dead giveaway (tint in sunlight) chem-mart? anonymous average ok collared shirt i’d prefer a gaudy hunter s. thompson hawaiian no. but beige is a city colour camouflage same with pants & as for loafers?…

  • it is the year 2542 BE – in bangkok the streets are flooded with people 543 years in advance of the western world but only 7 hours ahead of GMT – in the meantime football grips the nation & entropy invades every available thanon & soi art flourishes in the city moving slowly north towards…

  • Tuk-tuk

    life – cough-cough go-go fast-fast slow-slow break-break flow-flow honk-honk hel-lo where-you go-go tuk-tuk hi-ho same-same no-no thao-rai cheap-cheap silk-silk wat-wat guess-so o-kay go-go gem-shop strip-show no-no go-slow wait-wait oh-ho go-go bang-kok tuk-tuk cough-cough stop-go one-two i-know left-left no-no go-go tuk-tuk cough-cough khao-san face-mask whiz-whiz cough-cough poi-son cough-cough tuk-tuk cough-cough go-go same-same don’t-stop cough-cough car-fume tuk-tuk…