Mike Brown

@diymikerb

Traditional timber boat-builder by trade. I like to draw,bass guitarist,novice voice artist,sometimes actor.Living on Turrbal/Jagera country.Collector of stuff such as vinyl records.Punk,glam,cameras,super8mm.

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Mike Brown@diymikerb· 17d

Baby Animals - Marseilles. Double A side single with The Angels. 2019. The Angels covered Baby Animals One Word on the other side.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Jul 5

This is Splodge. He is being very helpful, assisting me with our camping preparations. He's as mad as a cut snake!

My black and white cat getting involved in my camping preparations.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· May 20

Windows screensaver vibes.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Apr 18

For her pleasure.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Apr 3

I'm collecting my yearly invites, kindly left for me in my letter box by the JW's, after being told not to bother coming through the front gate, the same as last year. Have a good one Graham.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Mar 13

I saw this coffee table on the side of the road on a kerbside clean-up. It had kids drawings in red, green and black pen all over it, and after a week of sanding and varnishing I'm using it brand new.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Mar 4

Pic from the S50. Part of the Carina Nebula from my front yard. 30mins and post in Lightroom. #astrophotography

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Mar 3

Good old Moon. Getting out of the sun for a bit. #Moon

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Mar 2

I have a VCR, except I'm in Australia. I guess we will both stay un-wealthy respectively.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Feb 22

I'm a traditional timber boat builder and I can say a Louisiana river boat should not be taken out of the river. Hence the name. I'd be keen to watch what would happen, out of interest for my trade, to see what it would take before it broke up in a big sub-arctic sea, if it made it out the Ol' Miss

A rear-wheel paddle steamer "The City of New Orleans" travelling down a river.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Feb 18

I took this photo last night of Comet Wierzchoś last night with a ZWO Seestar S50.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Jan 10

So on Fascbook. This in the comments. It's Saturday morning still and I don't know if my brain is in third gear even, but I keep hitting a brick wall trying to wrap my head around the term "fake hypocrisy". Would that mean I was actually sincere? Have I lost intelligence suddenly?

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Jan 2

Hooray!

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Dec 3

M42. The Orion Nebula. Taken half an hour ago, with the #Seestar50 from my backyard in Queensland, Australia. #stargazing #nebula

M42. The Orion Nebula. Taken tonight with the Seestar 50 from my backyard in Australia.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Nov 28

The Sun and The Moon not much earlier, in Southern Queensland, Australia. #star #Queensland #Moon #Sun

The nearby star we call Sun, as of Friday afternoon Australian Eastern Standard Time. My photo.

The Moon as it appears Friday afternoon Australian Eastern Standard Time. My photo.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Nov 23

A lesson for a local cafe about leaving your sandwich board out at night in our area.

A sandwich board outside a cafe which someone has rearranged the magnetic letters to be quite vulgar in a childish display the OP thought was funny.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Nov 22

My daughter took these pictures of a Red Velvet Mite in a national park near Toowoomba. I call it the Captain Sensible Chigger. How incredible to have these critters just getting around doing their thing. They like aphids apparently. #bugsky #punk #Queensland #gardensky

A Red Velvet Mite in it's natural environment, which is rainforest and bush mulch.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Oct 10

With a beer and a billy, playing on the HMV, Voyager(UK)-Halfway Hotel. 1979. Vertigo Records. 1979. Only had the one hit, but a good album. #vinyl #33rpm #prog

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Oct 5

On the HMV Mercury. Nancy and Lee. #vinyl #33rpm

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Sep 20

I feel so fortunate to have come across some Grease memorabilia today to buy, for a few dollars. A couple of original movie souvenir programmes, a magazine page with Olivia's autograph, and a couple of posters. Of interest is a small programme from Iceland. The translation is grand. #cinema

Memorabilia from the movie Grease. Posters and movie souvenir programmes.

A magazine page with Olivia Newton-John's autograph.

A page from the Grease movie souvenir programme from Iceland.

A page from the Grease movie souvenir programme from Iceland translated using Google.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Sep 19

A cyanotype print of myself about 12 years ago, with my still alive cat. She only sits on you when you are trying to do something like record music. Otherwise, she never does any other time. #cats #print

The poster as a younger chap with his cat on his lap. How about that!

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Sep 19

Experimenting with different paper with cyanotype printing. I know watercolour paper is the go, but looking at cheaper options for making bill posters, handbills, etc. Probably not the thing if you need 1000's but great for making some info flyers for utility poles in your area. #print #resist

An A5 size cyanotype print on orange paper.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Sep 9

Matthew Alec & The Soul Electric. Cleveland Time album. Cleveland Time Records. 2020. Featuring Tom "Bones" Malone and Minus The Alien. Ohio jazz fusion. On the HMV Mercury. #album #jazz #vinyl

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Sep 9

5th Dimension - Greatest hits on Earth. Bell Records. 1972. On the HMV Mercury. #album #vinyl

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Sep 5

On the HMV Mercury, The Globetrotters. #vinyl #album #33rpm

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Sep 5

1st Friday night album on. Warumpi Band - Big Name, No Blankets. 1985. Powderworks Records. #vinyl #album #33rpm

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Aug 22

My first massive band crush. My okder brother is to blame, and then @4zzzradio.bsky.social , and then I got to interview them live in the studio in 1990. Still one of my all times.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Aug 22

Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John with ELO. 1980. Debuted on the Australian charts, August 18.

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Aug 22

Marseilles - Baby Animals. Double A side. B/W One Word - The Angels. 2019. #singles #45rpm

Mike Brown@diymikerb· Aug 22

Battledress - 1313 Mockingbird Lane. From the 1986 @4zzzradio.bsky.social compilation "State Of Emergence". Nearly 40 years ago. Long live 4ZZZ!