Melbourne Loft

Santa Claus came early this year!   Well I have been talking about doing this forever!   And a lot of people have been telling me I would be better off moving to Mac computers to make all my editing and publishing work easier.   I have a steep learning curve ahead of me now as last week I went into the My Mac store near the Loft and bought the Macbook Pro laptop and Mac Pro desktop.   I needed both because I am travelling so much now.   I can’t wait to start using the new software and redevelop my websites.   I will post a little more about the machines I have bought later.  In the meantime I need to clean up my desk to make some space!

I just learnt today that my mum bought herself an iTouch for Christmas.   Well if she thinks she has bought herself the coolest present for Christmas just wait till she gets a load of what I just bought myself!   I can’t actually say what it is yet until it gets delivered because it’s just not the same without a photo of me holding it.    But I can say this…  it’s the most expensive thing I’ve bought since that house thing a couple of years ago.
My mum also has a better laptop computer, better mobile phone and digital SLR camera than me….  not that we’re competitive.

This one of my first summer shoots.  Taking in the brilliant warm sunny days we are having right now.  I met French student Luc a few months ago when he first came round and modelled for the houseboy series of shoots for the Private Room.   Unfortunately his studies here are complete and he’s about to head home to France.   I’m surprised he came back after he suffered a nasty gash to the face during the last shoot.  Now check out where the gear came from…

Converse gym shoes – Sports Basement San Francisco
Adidas Socks – Adidis Store Cleveland Ohio
Papi jocks – Injeanious San Francisco
Arm Band – Adidas Seattle
Helmet Lang tank top - Century 21 New York
Cap – Bang Clothing Vancouver
Rayban Sunglasses – Macys San Francisco
Luc – Paris France

Sexpo is in town!  And today I headed down to the exhibition centre to see what it was all about.   Firstly you have to notice the kind of people heading a sex expo.   Fantastic suburban trash!   It was great!   Lots of husbands and wives, girls dressed as hookers (maybe they always dress that way)  and teenage boys….  thousands of them!!!  
Firstly we spotted a large man on a couch on a stage with a young porn actress straddling his lap for photos, and then there were the sex stores selling dildos, videos, underwear and showbags.   It was actually more fun watching how the suburban visitors reacted to the different scenes.   For 10 bucks you could climb up on a bed with a topless blond bimbo and have your photo taken with her.  For 2 bucks you could walk through a peep show.   But my favourite Sexpo stall had to be the guy painting people’s portraits with his penis!  Nice!  I came away with a couple of pairs of Colt undies and an R Rated video thrown in for free.  Sexpo closes at the end of Sunday (tomorrow) at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre…  entry is $20 which includes an all inclusive freakshow.

On the way back from gym this morning I caught the end of the Myer Santa Claus Parade.  It marks the arrival of Santa Claus to the department store Myer.   On the other side of the road at department store David Jones, Santa Claus was already holding court in Santa’s Magic Cave.  The David Jones Santa arrived in a another parade a week ago.   I guess you can never have too many Santas.   The vehicle above is Santa’s sleigh after Santa had already gotten out.  I guess I was at the wrong end of the street.

It’s just one week now till we all go to vote for the new governing party of Australia.   I’m hoping the coalition party and John Howard will be kicked out in favour of the Labor Party.   But they have to take over 16 seats from the Coalition to make this possible…  which would be quite a huge feat.   So we should know in a little over a week who the next Prime Minister of Australia will be….   and our future for the next 3 years.

Movember is BIG this year!  Just today on my way to work I saw so many guys sporting nice big handlebar moustaches.   I am also taking part in Movember along with thousands of other Aussie guys to raise money for male depression and prostate cancer.   And all I need to do is grow a nice moustache throughout November.   It’s a good cause and a lot of fun too!   There’s not enough men in Melbourne sporting furry faces.   I plan on growing a nice big moustache from here to arsehole!   (I think I just stole my sister’s saying).   If you would like to help me raise money just click here:  http://www.movember.com/au/donate/?action=sponsorlink&rego=166556  and enter my registration number 166556.

 The money raised by Movember is donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue – the national depression initiative, which will use the funds to create awareness, fund research and increase support networks for those men who suffer from prostate cancer and male depression.

I came home to Melbourne this weekend to some terrible news.   Something terrible had happened to Miss Gertie (my friend’s whippet)  during the week and she passed away on the weekend.   It’s an awful loss for the boys.   Miss Gertie was a larger than life character with her own blog on the internet and guest appearances all over Melbourne.   There she is pictured above with Cade at the Loft Radio 2nd Birthday party.   She will be missed.

I do wonder why I pay rent on the Loft when I’m hardly ever there lately.   I’m still in Sydney and still moving round hotels.   I started at the Marriott a couple of weeks ago, then moved to the Hilton, now I’m at Fraser Suites and on Monday I move back to the Marriott.  Why you ask?   Well my work location keeps changing.  But hopefully later this week my work committments in Sydney will slow down and I can get back to Melbourne.   The nicest room had to be at the Hilton in the Sydney CBD.   Apart from the auto debit minibar when you lift any items from the fridge, I really liked this room.  It had the deepest bathtub I’ve ever seen in a hotel room.  And the staff will come fill it, place candles around it…  and throw in some rose petals!!   I really should start reviewing hotel rooms.   I’ve seen some shockers!

As you can see my photo shoots lately are all about light and colour.   The model’s not bad either.   Again this shoot was on the rooftop of the Best Western hotel in SOMA…  San Francisco.   The palm tree and the pink walls made me think of a retirement village in Florida….  not that I have ever seen one.

Socks – Sports Basement SF
Sunglasses – Macys
Star Jocks – H&M
Adidas wrist band and cap – Body Shop Castro Street SF
Bonds t-shirt – Big W Melbourne
Trainers – supplied by the model

The rest of the shoot is now posted in the Private Room.