ADA Iwagumi

Posted on 21 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


Beautiful Fig Tree.


At the base there’s glosso, hair grass and java moss.


It’s so bonsai like. I love it!


Fig tree sitting in the hang on back filter.


Iwagumi scape.

Today Christina and I dropped in to Aquaristic, an aquarium shop on Botany Road I’ve been wanting to visit for some time. The shop was super impressive. So clean, so neat and everything was just presented so well.

I walked out with a few rocks to begin my Iwagumi (Japanese rock garden) scape for the ADA Mini-L Nano tank and also scored a lovely fig tree which I’ve put in the hang on back filter.

I’ve got a lot more work to do. Cleaning up the wires, the background and also changing the light to a more natural yellow bulb but I’m pretty happy with the scape I ended up with. Looking forward to getting some micro-leaved plants in there soon.

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Body piercing goodness

Posted on 21 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


Christina.


Jess.

I got up early yesterday to see Byron off and after that I went back to bed until 4pm to catch up on some much needed sleep. Whilst I was out Christina and her younger sister Jess went into the city and got some piercings! Christina got her belly done and Jess got her nose done. Later that night we went over to the Locks for diner, took Mumma Lock a LONG time to realise the nose piercing and the reaction after seeing Christina’s belly piercing was gold. Poor mumma!

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Friday daze

Posted on 20 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


New Westfield Centrepoint.

I had 2 bad night sleeps in a row, way too much beer and smokes and the car show absolutely killed my legs (strange!) somehow I managed to (just) keep on rolling. Yesterday we planned to hit the beach but it was a crap day so Jess, Byron, Christina and I hit the city to check out the new Westfield Centrepoint.

Parts of the centre reminded me of some big Asian malls, maybe Hong Kong and Singapore. My mum ran a fashion business in Centrepoint for many years so as kids my sister and I practically grew up in the heart of the city. I didn’t at all recognise any of the old Centrepoint though, they’ve really gone all out on the new centre. It’s still dark like the old but each store front has it’s own concept (unlike the old centre having generic shop designs on the outside), some of the shop designs are pretty rad too.


New fixie shop at the Galleries Victoria.


Later that afternoon Christina and I hit the refurbished Strawberry Hills Hotel. I was feeling pretty tired until they served me this cool bottle of Asahi. Made in Japan unlike the made in Thailand Asahi everyone else seems to be stocking. Makes me so happy.


We then hit Jazushi, a small Japanese fusion restaurant in Surry Hills. We’ve walked past before and wondered if it was any good, turns out the food was awesome, we’ll definitely be back for more. We were there for Michael’s B’day, Michael and his partner Kerri run fashion label Amar. Really nice people and they’ve got some really interesting friends which made for a great night.

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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit On Tour

Posted on 19 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


Up early, wash cars. Byza drove all the way from QLD to represent!


Tiffany coloured Volks, some punk stole his gold grenade valve caps at a servo on the way to Sydney, luckily I had these purples ones off my BMX!


Filling up as a full tank of fuel was an OH&S requirement.


1.30PM. All house lights on, no music, killer cars and conversations with car owners. The perfect meet!!!


So many people I spoke to said Fonzy’s Celica was their fave car at the show.


Hard S14.


& I.


The Lock promo girls!


Pakula!


Papz: I’ve come to clean ze pool!

Yesterday Suga and I both had our cars displayed at the Need for Speed Hot Pursuit On Tour event at the Entertainment Quarter. The cars on show were selected by Charles (very much the reason why we were up for it!) and later that night Big Boi from OUTKAST was performing at the Hordern Pavillion.

Setting the cars up early was awesome. once we were done we grabbed a few beers and some lunch, when we came back the bright white lights were off, disco lights were on and music was pumping. The show had started but to me it had ended. The music was so loud I couldn’t talk to anyone and the lighting was so dark I couldn’t take photos any more!

Having a car in a car show makes for a very very long day (with getting there early to set up and staying till show close to get your car out). Great car show though. Charles did well with choosing a great mix of cars and it was awesome catching up with the old crew as well as finally meeting some long standing JDMST members I hadn’t yet met face to face. The Big Boi concert in the opposite hall wasn’t my cup of tea but hey, people were into it and he seemed super into it too.

Many many more photos are up here: http://forum.jdmstyletuning.com/showthread.php?29945-NSW-NOV-EOMM-Need-for-Speed-Hot-Pursuit-On-Tour

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VWGolf.net.au Pizza Night

Posted on 18 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


Nath gave Christina and I this poster which he had a UK based illustrator design for us. The generosity of the VWG members never ceases to surprise me.


The meat came out quick and fast (!), maybe the fact that the big boss was sitting on our table had something to do with it?!


Group shot.


Lots of laughs as usual!

We had our monthly VWG “Pizza Night” at Churrasco in Coogee this month, a Brazilian style BBQ restaurant owned and run by one of our forum members. Byron had driven down from QLD for this weekend’s Need For Speed event, we’d been hanging out talking shit and drinking beers all day so loads of meat and good company turned out to be a great way to end the day.

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ADA Cube Garden Mini L

Posted on 18 November, 2010 by Justin Fox

I sold Mr. Mantis Shrimp 2 weeks ago (he made for a very boring pet as he never came out of his cave) and I’ve torn down the tank to get ready for a planted C02 set-up (what I should have done all along).


Gearing up!


Working with this kinda gear always scares the shit out of me.


Laying down the ADA fertilisers.


9kg’s worth of ADA aquasoil.


150W metal halide.


It’s way too blue (marine tank light) so I’ll have to change the bulb out for something more natural (yellow).

Also got delivery of most of Tony’s gear for his Namatjira inspired tank. You can view the updates here.

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Cleaner Wrasse

Posted on 16 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


Yesterday I bought a fish I’ve always wanted.

He adds a lot of difference to the tank in the way he swims (love how he glides through the water). He’s not gotten close to cleaning the long standing tank mates. Blue Tang is now king of the tank and last night he was giving the new guy some attitude, so too my flame angel but today they’re all getting along a lot better.

I’ve been worried about keeping one of these fish as I’ve read that they often starve once there’s no more parasites to clean off other fishes. I’ve also read that they tend to harass other fishes once there’s no more parasites left to eat too (due to starving and desperately seeking more food). I had 3 to choose from in the shop (a small shop in Bondi Junction) and I chose the most colourful one as well as the most aggressive (he seemed very insanely happy to greet me up against the glass).

This morning I fed a little flake and he’s eating it at the surface. I just tried a block of mysid and he’s gobbling that up too (phew!). I also just did a water change and he bit my arm! Looks like he’ll be just fine :)

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Modern Pet Shop is live!

Posted on 15 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


W00t! We’re live!

Some say you should never work with family, but with all 4 of us being animal lovers and graphic designers we couldn’t resist! It’s been hard work but our online designer pet accessories shop is finally live so please check it out and spread the word to all your animal loving friends, we’d really appreciate it!

Visit: http://modernpetshop.com

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Modern Pet goes live tomorrow morning!

Posted on 15 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


Modern Pet business cards.


Cards, swing tags for all the products in our shop, stickers and bags too.

It’s been a hard road but our online pet accessories shop (family business between Christina and I + Jamie and Richie) launches tomorrow! We’re relieved, excited, nervous and anxious! More new tomorrow :)

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Big girl now

Posted on 15 November, 2010 by Justin Fox


Mia’s a big girl now (well…almost!).


Her adult teeth are poking through!

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