What More Could A Man Want?
Channel Nine’s new factual lifestyle TV show “Money For Jam” premiered last night, and featured an Aussie invention that was just so much fun, it deserved a mention here.
One of the segments featured a guy who turned his love of beer (a great Aussie pasttime) into a fully fledged business!
Tanked Drinkwear is a new clothing product range designed for the drinking enthusiast 
The clothing incorporates a built-in twist top bottle opener into the mens and womens tops and shorts.
The hats also have a twist top/ pop top bottle opener built into them.
And the shorts even include a tear-off stubbie cooler cleverly disguised as a pocket!
Really… What more could a man want? and almost in time for Father’s day this weekend…
Money For Jam also features some “easy” ways to make and/or save money… Last night, the amount of money they showed that can be saved on lunches was astronomical, and great food for thought!
Watch it, Wednesday nights at 8.00pm
Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos… Next Aussie Brand?
A couple of years ago the Australian Government announced it was offering Advertising agencies a “prize” of twenty million dollars to come up with a new “brand” to sell Australia overseas… and not just for tourism!
The new “Brand Australia” advertising campaign is designed to ensure continued interest in Australia not only as a tourist destination, but as a place to live, a place to invest in, etc… pretty “big picture” stuff.
Some of the interesting campaigns we’ve had:
- football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars. Remember THAT campaign? If you do, then you must be starting to show your age
- Paul Hogan and his “put another shrimp on the barbie”,
- Kylie Minogue – our Queen of music and still a great ambassador O/S,
- and more recently Lara Bingle… the “Where the bloody hell are ya?” campaign was apparently a huge flop and even banned in a few overseas countries
So waddyareckon is gonna help sell Australia overseas?
Coincidence or not??? One thing I’ve noticed a lot more in the last few days has been this new Qantas “I still call Australia home” commercial!
Remember… it’s NOT just about people and places… you’ve got to include education, investment and trade to keep the Government happy and secure your $20million.
Let us know below…
Update…
Here’s the end result of the campaign… for Australia Unlimited
with an excellent commentary on this here.
(you’ll need to watch this movie in slow-mo to see all the pics lol)
Curtain Fading Time Again – Daylight Savings Is BACK!
It’s the time of year that Queenslander’s dread (sorry) when us southerners adjust our clocks and have an extra hour of daylight up our sleeves.
And to make it worse (for them), it’s starting earlier and finishing later than ever before!
In the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, daylight savings begins this coming weekend, at 2.00am EST on Sunday October 5th. And this time, it goes right through to 3.00am on Sunday 5 April 2009.
In Western Australia, they begin their 3rd and final “trial” year of daylight savings on 26th October, and it ends for them at 3.00am on Sunday 29th March 2009.
If, like me, you have difficulty remembering whether the clocks go forward or back, then just remember this little gem!
Spring forward… (clocks go forward)
Fall (as in Autumn) back. (clocks go back)
And you’ll never be lost for time again!
That is… unless you live in Queensland or the Northern Territory… but you guys get enough sun up there, so you really don’t want any more!!!
Mark Whitty IS Doctor Jazz!
Mark Whitty’s latest CD is a fun filled, 50 year tribute to the Australian / Melbourne jazz pioneers who helped Mark and his sons, Patrick, Richard and Mark — a.k.a. Doctor Jazz & Sons — so much during the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
It’s a 30s-50s Retro Jazz twin CD-book set, with a PDF book supplying sheet music with chords you can print out.
This is the full story of Mark Whitty’s 50 years in Jazz in OZ.
Where Do Ya Get It?
The Fine Tunes (twin) CD-Book set and the rest of Mark’s best work is available from CD Baby
The Doctor is IN!
Please enjoy this short sample of Doctor Jazz…