TET.Life (The Extraordinary Tourist Life)

Unisex T-shirt Skateboard Monkey. More info . Redbubble is an Australian, Print On Demand website that was founded in Melbourne, back in 2006, and has become a global choice for independent artists worldwide to sell prints of their work. I've had an online store with Redbubble pretty much since they launched. For the most part I limited the art I posted on Redbubble to my, popular for a second, whimsical, cat artworks. It has been quite a few years since I've painted any cats, and the followers I had for them have certainly thinned out. I was going to shut down my Redbubble account to focus on my Cafepress online store but Redbubble just has better quality prints all round at very affordable prices.

First look at SpaceX Spacesuit. Photo: Elon Musk . Elon Musk gave the world a second sneak peak at the new SpaceX space suits they've been developing. According to him the suit is a fully tested working model. Whilst Mashable noted that the suits have a certain cool factor about them with their sleek, body fitting design, and black and white styling, I can't help but think there's a safety issue here.

At age 47 I'm really starting to feel the aches and pains of a body that not only doesn't recover from injuries as fast as it used to but also is much easier to injure than it has been in the past. This is not a good thing for someone who still feels young at heart and still enjoys getting out and about on a skateboard as much as possible. Recently my skateboarding has been the cause of several arm and shoulder injuries. Not from falling but just from the very act of skateboarding. Specifically the action of swinging my arms around to maintain balance when performing even simple tricks.

Hampstead , starring Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson, is a pleasant movie. It's an enjoyable tale that never gets too challenging emotionally, never gets too deep into any of its characters, and manages to have just enough quirky humor to provide a few decent smiles, making it a worthwhile way to spend just over 90 minutes at the movies. Inspired by, and based upon a true story, Diane plays widower, Emily Walters, who discovers a homeless man, Donald (Brendan) living in a shack on an abandoned hospital estate, opposite her apartment building. When the estate is earmarked for development she takes it upon herself to help save Donald's home.

I never imagined I'd be reviewing the Tom Cruise, Sci-fi action movie, Edge of Tomorrow (2014), three years after its debut but, after seeing it on Netflix, the film is so good I now wish I had seen it in a cinema back when it was released. Perhaps this film didn't do so well in the USA (it fared better internationally) because of the mixed reactions to the previous Tom Cruise Sci-fi movie, Oblivion (2013), which I did see in a cinema and also thought was exceptional. If I was to compare the two films, Oblivion is more visually interesting, conceptually, with its production design, but Edge of Tomorrow has a more engaging story that keeps you thinking about every choice the lead character is making.

I was excited to see Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets for the sole reason that, based on the trailers, it was writer/director, Luc Besson's return to his visionary best since The Fifth Element  (1997). Beyond that I'm not familiar with the comic series, Valerian and Laureline , that the movie is based upon. The comparison to The Fifth Element is very easy to make as the visual style of Valerian is very similar. So much so that it could easily be another story set in a different part of the same universe.

I do buy and ride my own boards purchased through my Boardpusher skateboard store, etourist Skateboards . (Boardpusher handle everything so I can focus on creating sick custom graphics to enhance your unique style) Recently I decided to purchase an Alvin Owl Longboard complete because a) I've never tried longboarding and b) I thought it would be great for you to see pictures of an actual complete deck purchased through etourist Skateboards . When buying a complete you can choose from a small range of branded trucks and wheels. I chose the cheapest options because, whilst I get to buy my own decks at wholesale prices, that discount is dwarfed by the postage cost from the USA to Australia. It's not prohibitively expensive but, it would be significantly cheaper if I just bought the deck and then sourced everything else from an Australian based Skate shop on ebay. Here's what arrived in my box: 1x Alvin Owl, 7 ply, 100% Canadian Maple wood grain longboard deck 8x ...