A Tumblr, by Tim Swan

Where I talk about things I do, and post about things that I like.
The Beach Now I don’t need to find a picture from ‘The Beach’ on the internet, because I went to where it was filmed and took a picture myself. My sister Sam walking through the waters of Maya Bay. You’d be hard pressed to find a beach as incredible as this one…

The Beach

Now I don’t need to find a picture from ‘The Beach’ on the internet, because I went to where it was filmed and took a picture myself.

My sister Sam walking through the waters of Maya Bay. You’d be hard pressed to find a beach as incredible as this one…

Parks & Recreation This is fast becoming one of my favourite shows to watch on T.V. Every time Aziz Ansari drops a ‘Watch The Throne’ reference I get stoked. “Bowl so hard…”

Parks & Recreation

This is fast becoming one of my favourite shows to watch on T.V. Every time Aziz Ansari drops a ‘Watch The Throne’ reference I get stoked.

“Bowl so hard…”

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Home, Sweet Home! After a delayed flight from Phuket, short stop-over in Bangkok & almost 2 hour airport shuttle, I am home. More photos will be coming…

Home, Sweet Home!

After a delayed flight from Phuket, short stop-over in Bangkok & almost 2 hour airport shuttle, I am home.

More photos will be coming…

Valentine’s Day, Thai-style. For Valentine’s Day this year, Rox & I happened to be in Thailand. Epic! We jumped in a Taxi, not a Tuk-Tuk (because for a 45 minute drive I wanted to be in A/C), down to South Phuket. Nai Harn beach to be more precise… It was an incredible place. A little bay with clear blue waters, white sand and plenty of umbrella shade & lounge chairs. Beers for less than $3, authentic Thai food (with a bit of chilli that kicks) and a view that can probably only be described as breath-taking. Valentine’s Day for 2012, win. Massively.

Valentine’s Day, Thai-style.

For Valentine’s Day this year, Rox & I happened to be in Thailand. Epic!

We jumped in a Taxi, not a Tuk-Tuk (because for a 45 minute drive I wanted to be in A/C), down to South Phuket. Nai Harn beach to be more precise… It was an incredible place.

A little bay with clear blue waters, white sand and plenty of umbrella shade & lounge chairs. Beers for less than $3, authentic Thai food (with a bit of chilli that kicks) and a view that can probably only be described as breath-taking. Valentine’s Day for 2012, win. Massively.

It’s bloody hard to find an image of Leo jumping off the waterfall in ‘The Beach’, which is surprising. I thought it’d be a piece of cake…

It’s bloody hard to find an image of Leo jumping off the waterfall in ‘The Beach’, which is surprising. I thought it’d be a piece of cake…

A Work in Progress

I’ve just launched a new website & a new blog, but there’s a kicker!

The kicker is, they aren’t 100% complete (It won’t take a long, hard look at the blog to realise this…). While for client work it definitely isn’t best practice to do this, for myself, it’s pretty much perfect. And here are some reasons why:

  1. I change my mind about designs for these sites more than I put petrol in my car, so it gives me a chance to tweak and change things as I go, instead of a whole redesign. For example, since initial concept I have tweaked the homepage and stripped it back quite a bit.
  2. I can change with the times. E.g. New typeface comes out that I love, BAM! *insert new typeface on site and change font heirarchy* and just like that… almost new site!
  3. It’s almost like an experiment site. A testing ground for new things to try out before implementing them on anything else…

So there you have it. You catch my drift. Not only will this blog feature new posts regularly, and the portfolio site feature new work (not-so)-regularly, but the sites themselves will evolve and change. How exciting!? Don’t you think?

The Illustration Work of Rogie King I’ve only recently been exposed to this guy, and I love his work… It takes me back to the days of yonder when 3D animation & movies like Toy Story hadn’t broken through yet and I would watch Dick Dastardly & Muttley trying to catch that pigeon over & over & over again. He & Tim Boelars are having an extremely entertaining battle via Dribbble.com, where they are creating quite the collection of guns, knives & launchers! Check out some of Rogie’s weapons here.

The Illustration Work of Rogie King

I’ve only recently been exposed to this guy, and I love his work… It takes me back to the days of yonder when 3D animation & movies like Toy Story hadn’t broken through yet and I would watch Dick Dastardly & Muttley trying to catch that pigeon over & over & over again.

He & Tim Boelars are having an extremely entertaining battle via Dribbble.com, where they are creating quite the collection of guns, knives & launchers! Check out some of Rogie’s weapons here.

The Drums + Cults There aren’t really many new bands that I really enjoy listening to over & over. I’m not close-minded, but I guess I just stick to what I know/like. Sometimes I’ll give something another listen and get stoked on it, but it takes that extra rotation or two… Cults are not one of those “relisten” bands. I liked them from the moment I heard them… and now I get to catch them live at the Metro Theatre tomorrow night. I hope they drop some of their hip-hop remixes in their set. I might get a bit wild. The hat might go backwards, if you know what I’m sayin’

The Drums + Cults

There aren’t really many new bands that I really enjoy listening to over & over. I’m not close-minded, but I guess I just stick to what I know/like. Sometimes I’ll give something another listen and get stoked on it, but it takes that extra rotation or two…

Cults are not one of those “relisten” bands. I liked them from the moment I heard them… and now I get to catch them live at the Metro Theatre tomorrow night.

I hope they drop some of their hip-hop remixes in their set. I might get a bit wild. The hat might go backwards, if you know what I’m sayin’