I want a tree bed and a flower garden…..

I found this tree bed and I want one… it is sooooo beautiful and unique….

I saw a fantastic exhibition at the “Greenwood” gallery in South Melboune….  The artist was Michelle Seelig and the show was called “Someone’s been sleeping in my bed” beautiful simple pieces with great feel….

Spiegeltent and the drivein….

I got to finally see a friends band over the weekend and they where playing in teh fantastic Spiegeltent in the city…..

“Me and the grown ups” where fantastic and suited the venue to a tee…

I also finally got to do something else I had been waiting to do and that is go to the drivein…. yep my first trip as an adult…. the only other time I can remember is when i was a very young girl and we saw “The dark crystal” and an indiana Jones… I was young enough to be snuck in under a blanket soI thinkit is well past my time to return…  We set ourselves up int eh back of hte hatch and watched “Australia” under the stars…. the drivein experience was fantastic but hte move was TOTALLY TERRRRRIBLE….. what a waste of money and yet another movieto make Australians look stupid….

Visitin the folks and lots of wine…..

Over the weekend Shane and I went to Chiltern to visit his folks… Chiltern is a very small country town in a huge wine region so I got not only the tour of Shanes old high school and kinda but I got to sample teh awesome wines of the region…

we visited… “Campbells” and tried there fantastic bobby burns shiraz…mm  We had a fantastic lunch at AllSaints and sampled there fortifieds… more mmm’s…   Buller had great ports and muscats and we got to try 6 vintages of there port (2004 was much better than there 1996)  and there was a few more….  The next day we went and had award winning pies and then found my favorite of all the “Scion Vinyard” it was a very small boutique vinyard with awesome very modern fortifieds… mmm mmm mmm

The or Teh, P22 Cezanne is taking over and Juxtapoz tattoos…

I have found that the more I type the more I get wrong…. My mind goes far to quickly for my hands and therefore i type VERY VERY VERY VERY badly ( as you may have noticed, and lets not talk about my TERRIBLE spelling) but I have found that im not the only one when it comes to “the”…. I am always getting “the” wrong… I seem to type “the” as “teh” more often than not now days and I thought this is crazy and as we do with all things that need an answer I goggled it…. well it seems im not the only one who does it and there is a whole wikipedia page about it…. TEH it seems Im not daft i just have an Overcompensating right hand…”PHEW”

“Teh is one of the words in the auto-correct lists of spellcheckers in word processing applications such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, and Corel WordPerfect. T and E are typed by the left hand on adjacent fingers in Qwerty, while the H is typed by the right, and in rapid typing, the T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two. Overcompensating with the right hand can result in the misspelling hte, which is also found in auto-correct lists.”

I have also started to crazy by the overuse of what used to be my favorite font….. “P22 Cezanne” It is a beautiful font which is based on Paul Cezannes handwriting…. stunning and you may notice it on my bannerhead, This is the only font that I have ever purchased costing me a whole $29.95 but I thought it would be perfect for my website and business card…. I thought that it being a font you have to buy that it would be a bit more special and less common…. I was very very wrong it seems that P22 Cezanne is taking over teh text world … it is appearing on everything… I saw it so many time on my OS trip and even took photos so I could prove its world domination….

its used in film titles..

(ok they are both beer labels but we did drink alot of beer)

One more fantastic design thing I have recently procured is the Juxtapoz Tattoo book…. it is from the publishers of the Juxtapoz magazine and it is wonderful… Im always blown away by awesome designers but to see such fantastic designs tattooed onto skin is another level of skill i just cant imagine…. It is getting me and Shane very excited about more tattoos for ourselves and you will have to see what happens in the future for our skin….

I fell in love with this artist in particular….. “Scott Campbell” His work is so beautiful and detailed and he is a softy too….

Art Walks and Pikelet

I was lucky enough to be able to do a special “walk to art” organized by Jo Obrien at RedBubble. It was hosted by the fantastic Bernadette who took us around melbourne showing us fantastic little hidden galleries and telling us all about wht we should do when we are ready to exhibit our work.  We saw some of the laneway commissions , a breathing building and stairways to nowhere…. it is fantastic to see what people do with public space…

As part of the Melbourne Arts festival I was lucky enough to see Shane’s friend as the drummer in Pikelet at the fantastic Spiegeltent

Pens and Pencils are not dead

I totally love these sites……

AWESOME text…(its a site from the Ukraine, I think, but its still fantastic)

http://www.sgr.kiev.ua/

Si Scott is an amasing illustrator….. hand drawing is not dead….

Also I watch ed theis fantastic doco on the font Helvetica… I know I know but it was fantastic and so interesting and insperational…

And for a bit of mac vs pc geeky font fun checkout Helvetica VS Arial

Weddings, hammocks and Thai buckets

The view from bungalow 17

After our HUGe trip earlier int eh year we didnt think we would get more fun in  the sun overseas but I will say a big THANK YOU to Marc and Laura for getting married in Thailand… the ceremony was at the fantastic Rockys resort on koh samui and we took over the place with 30 of us lounging around the pool and drinking cocktails in coconuts at the bar….

After the wedding we went back to the beautiful Island of Koh Phangan to where Shane and I got engaged.  we went back to our beautiful bungalow 17 and it was just as fantastic as before and this time we got to go with 8 great friends…..  we swam in brilliant blue warm waters and drank Thai buckets (thanks to Marc and Laura) and ate fantastic Thai food (Lee did eat 2 of the smallest hotist looking chillies i have ever seen and when he regained his site and could swallow again he was boasting) ….

Cos Play fun finally…..

A pic from my fun Cos Play shoot with Helen

They are coming to take me away

I was lucky enough to be able to go and take photographs at the abandoned asylum Aradale in Ararat with my redbubble Melbourne group….  Aradale has been closed since 1993 and was opened in 1860 so it has a long history…  it was a cold 11degree day with misty rain and with it being up on a hill the wind wailed through the broken empty windows making us freeze, but adding to the creap factor of the place….  I went with my buddy Jenny .  We both bought props not knowing what to expect and jenny bought a beautiful red kimono (actually the under kimono because they are so heavily layered) we saw a fantastic tree in the grounds jenny got all forest princess in the cold amongst the trees…..

japanese Forest Princess

There where 80 photographers and friends there on the day but with 600 rooms it was not so common to bump into anyone….

I was photographed 3 times on the day… once by Jenny with an idea I had that morfed into something else…

I was then lucky enough to be asked by Paul Louis Villani to be part of his”Born of this earth” series check it out here….. Born of this earth into isolation and from out of the blue.  I also had my eye shot by John Robb but am yet to “see” them (pun intended)

Plastic Camera & Cos Play Fun….

I had the fun time of going over to Helens place to do a new shoot in her studio and dress up in the cosplay costume i got in Japan on my recent trip…..

Im still working through the shots so only one little one for now but many more to come…..

Another fun photographic thing i did was to get a few redbubblers together and have a bit of fun in The Botanical gardens with plastic cameras…
Jo Obrien, James Price, PurelyDecorative, Jenny Hall met me and we divied up the cameras….

There was alot to choose from, Jenny was playing with the Lomo action sampler ,Purelydecorative was playing with her own Holga,   Jo was playing with her 600 Polaroid and her shots are great, digital may have a small screen to view the images instantly but holding a Polaroid and watching the image come out is magic… James played with my Lensbaby and I had a play with everything else….  I played with the 35mm pinhole that I got in Japan, my hubbies lomo fisheye and I even tried a bit of  TTV with my brownie reflex, PHEW thats alot of different cameras….

TTV pic of James, Jo, PD, and Jenny….  I still hevnet played too much witht he images but that is what weekends are for….. a preview..