Bottled History

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May 212013
 

Pour yourself a cup of coffee, sit back and relax.

Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. This short film, by Smith Journal and Melbourne-based production studio Commoner, picks through the wood chips to tell the story of a craft honed over 60 years, and the man behind it. A step-by-step account of the process was featured in Smith Journal volume six.

 

Random Riddle: 5-21-2013

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May 212013
 

The morning dew!

Hold your mouse over for the answer.

I welcome the day with a show of light, I steathily came here in the night.
I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, But by the noon, alas! I’m gone.

What am I?

 

 

Joke Of The Day: Hit With A Maple Leaf

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May 212013
 

Rubber ChickenA little old man was escorted into the witness box. He was sworn in and asked by the lawyer to explain what happened.

After a lengthy discussion of the events leading up to the incident he finally got around to the meat of the case: ‘And then she hit me with a maple leaf.’

‘A maple leaf? Surely that couldn’t have caused you any serious injury,’ said the lawyer.

‘Are you kidding?’ exclaimed the old man. ‘It was the leaf from the center of our dining room table.’

 

 

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