11/04

Last night at the opening of Sam Octigan's "What You Can't Forget" art show in Prahran. If had a whole bunch o' money to just spend on shit, I would love to own an original piece. I'd also love a New York style loft apartment to hang in it, but in the mean time I'll just hang it in the apartment in my mind... Anyway, Sam is definitely one of my new favourite artists, his use of color is beeeautiful. Check out his show at Just Another Project Space in Greville Street this month.

I love this city! 

07/04

This blog should more accurately be named "photos I've taken of my boyfriend". Girl can't help herself, he is ridiculously good looking.

I took this with my pentax k1000 and an expired roll of portra 400. I actually really love the graininess of it, I think I enjoy film more when the photos turn out kinda shitty looking. The first roll of film I shot was Kodak ektar, and the photo quality was perfect and I sorta hated it.

I have a huuuuge week looming ahead, please keep all your fingers and toes crossed that these major changes in my life work out for the best.

06/05

A bit of hometown love for ya.

x

05/04

What's uppp internet friends!

Trist and I took some practice snaps of each other today with his Canon 6D. (I tried my best to keep my derp at a minimum; I think the ray bans helped.)
I was pretty keen on getting out my pentax k1000 to play with- you know, just in case the sunglasses didn't make me quite hipster enough (some days I want to punch myself right in the face), but discovered my light meter has shit itself and I'm nowhere near camera-literate enough to navigate a 35mm SLR without it. I have a separate light meter I can play with to get a good reading, but I think you must have to be some kind of scientist to use it because it's a complicated looking contraption.

Though, I guess there's no better way to learn new skills than by throwing yourself right into the deep end.

Anyway, camera talk. Disinterested persons can look at the pretty pictures below instead.

04/04

Here's another photo I took yesterday. 

I adore Melbourne City, the hidden lane ways and alleys, the art, the music, the quirkiness. You can shoot a photo of some crummy buildings and it all just looks so beautifully urban. 

In about a month or so I'll finally be calling this city home, and I'm excited to live in a place so inspiring, endless, and awake; a place where I can really pursue my creative endeavors.

03/04

Photo of the day: creepin' behind the scenes for Fatlip Apparel's blog
(www.fatlipapparel.com/blog)
Trist & Mike, two kindred spirits.

02/04

So, as my eternal struggle to maintain a blog for longer than a month rages on, I've decided that a bit of forward planning might help unclog my stubborn writers blog that plagues me every time I click that terrifying 'new post' button. (I don't know, man, that white screen? Sitting there, judging me...) For once, in the battle between posi-me: "BLOGGING IS THE BEST IDEA IVE EVER HAD" and negi-me: "what am I even doing, blogging is the worst idea I've ever had", I would like the former team to reign victorious.

One of my grand plans to slay the ol 'block is in two parts, both photography related. 1: to post a photo a day "journal" type dealy. That means, specifically, that I need to take a new photo every day to post to the blog, whether it be digital, film, instant or a sneaky (/lazy/shitty) phone photo. And 2: I want to start a 52 week "self portrait" challenge. The conditions: selfies don't count, and if I get slack and miss a day/week, then the devil will eat my soul.

Ideally, I would have loved to start this whole shindig on April 1st, but I've had CONJUNCTIVITUS in one of my eyeballs this week (am I six?!) and, as well as looking like a lazy-eyed weirdo who keeps half winking at everybody, an eyeful of goop just didn't inspire much of the photographer in me. (by the way, the cure? God damn, salt water. Salt. And water. The internet told me steroid drops and antibiotics. I said, fuck you: salt and water.)

Anyway, all tangents aside, this has been a really long winded way of telling you that I'm going to take some photos for my blog. Ta da! The end.

Ps: this can be day 1: photo of my boyfriend being nonchalantly badass. Shot with my Canon 60d.