so finally pyMac industries found 5 minutes to upload about 450 shots to Flickr and as previously posted Mac worked out how to blog directly from Flickr… so we can let you know there are any number of new shots of the little man doing his thing, plus some other stuff we’ve shot since last christmas. click the shot above to go directly to Flickr, enjoi

finally Mac has worked out how to blog directly from Flickr, so you can expect a few more image based updates over the next week or so.

first of these being news of the ‘project veggie garden’: py is now in the final stages of preparing the soil, in the raised beds. the reclaimed brick paving is 99% there. we have 2 year old potted lemon and lime trees (at the back in this shot) in place. so just some tidying up to do then py will be planting up the beds and getting the produce flowing.

see more image here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonestar/sets/72157605740086086/

well slowly slowly we progress with the vegie garden… getting the brick paving done and then it’ll be turning the soil and getting it ready to plant my first crop will add another photo when it’s finally finished!

well we don’t seem to be particularly good at keeping this blog up to date, but figured it was about time that we updated a few recent events. Noë is now six months old (boy hasn’t time flown!) and cut his two bottom teeth last Friday. Mac has also been busy screenprinting t-shirts for our little man to wear, one of which can be seen in this photo… more to come later!

Noë seemed very impressed with his new highchair yesterday.

meet the newest member of the pyMac family. we adopted him from the RSPCA shelter on new years eve. he’s a three year old Heeler cross and is lovely!

Noë’s Flickr collection has been updated. a few people have asked recently via email why there aren’t more shots on the blog. well cos they are mostly on the Flickr account, and cos we take so many we don’t get round to sort through them. at the moment we take at least three or four shots a day so over the last 4 months they have started to pile up!!

the one above is from a series of self portraits py has been doing of her and our little monkey. think he is trying to do his best daddy serious face there!

Mac entered a design for the Stories From The Field logo contest and he has been notified of his selection as a finalist. Stories From The Field is the annual United Nations Documentary Film Festival, and over 1,600 entries were received so he’s obviously chuffed to be selected. results should be posted on the 11th so will let you know how it goes. if you like his entry please show your approval and support below in the form of nice words.

I was a bit bored at lunch so checked out the latest theme for the Don’t Panic posters and threw this together - Don’t Panic / This Poster Is Free. Would love it if any visitors to the blog would click the link sign up and vote for me ; )

cheers Mac

so it’s staff have something to read in their lunch break. so it is that arcd_studio now has a subscription to Creative Review for the next three years. the cost of imported magazines here is so high that buying the mag 10 times a year would have cost as much as an overseas subscription for three years - crazeee.

having painted a cool mural for Noë, Mac had to add to that first creation by coming up with a cool design for his door. so he came up with a custom font based around Noë’s name and the unique e/umlaut combination. here is the result, where the ë becomes a cool little frog. this might just yet turn into a bit of a side project - we’ll keep you posted…

graffiti themed chocolate bars - fresh outta NYC comes this great range of chocolate bars. pyMac just love it when things you dig get brought together as one.

the 21st September is world peace day, if you have any way to get involved with supporting the idea of world peace the 21st would be as good a day as any to get involved. down under a couple of film makers have launched million votes 4 peace with a view to raising awareness and collating a name and postcode for Australians who support peace.

well they say that having a baby changes your life, but the funny thing is at the moment it really is hard to say exactly how much. I know a few of you will be going Mac loves his sleep so that is one obvious area, and py must be feeding every couple of hours which must be a big change. however when people make that statement I am sure they are referring to bigger things like the sense of responsibility, how this little thing has a complete dependency on you both as parents, how you don’t get five spare minutes to your self and how hard it is to say goodbye each morning when you head to work.

thing is we have had a couple of other things that, for Mac at least, have kept some of the enormity in check. the first is our tendency to do big things in twos and or threes - so having bought our first home so close to noë’s birth that has given us another responsibility to come to terms with. the second is the curve ball called life - a few of you know, but on the day noë came home for the first time Mac also got the news that he had been made redundant, his new employer having gone into receivership (that’s another story).

now a few people might start thinking house, newborn - no job ARGHHHHHHHH!! however as the title suggests Mac was actually far more philosophical about this extra responsibility. see as all the dads out there will know Mac wasn’t exactly looking forward to going back to work proper, that whole first experience of kissing mum and baby goodbye for the day not knowing if the studio might need him to work late… py I’m sure was wandering exactly how Mac was going to really react to this bombshell - indeed in over 8 years together the burden of money expectations has probably been the only thing that Mac can get overwhelmed by. but a few days down the line and Mac was quite firmly unfazed, barely a couple of emails and a posting to a design forum and connections and job offers were surfacing - including a couple of interesting contracts that could be completed from home.

And so it is after nearly 7 weeks (noë will be 7 weeks on sunday) Mac has had the chance to work from home and spend time with Noë and py for all but 4 days, has had a studio pay for flights back to the Adelaide for the whole family and has been on hand to help py out between Photoshop and InDesing files. for the meantime this is the way things are going to stay and who knows it might become a more permanent arrangement for the pyMac family if the contracts keep rolling in.

as they say everything happens for a reason and right now we are grateful for little curve ball life threw our way.

enjoy every moment while it is with us…

well py has just returned to Melbourne after a week or so in Adelaide showing Noë off to all our family and friends (Mac is to return on Thursday after he finishes work). we had a really great time catching up with everyone and look forward to sharing our photographs. look forward to seeing you all again soon xxx