10 things I love

1. This picture…

Thanks Justin!

2. Seeing The Middle East live. So beautiful – I really recommend that you listen to them RIGHT NOW!

3. How winter is still going even though we are 1 and a half months into spring. :)

4. Wigs!

5. Emiliana Torrini is playing at the Forum on the 2nd of Jan. Tickets go on sale 23 Oct. I hope I get some!

6. B0000000m! So lovely.

7. Skins Night!

8. This picture…

9. Colour coordinated bookshelves. Don’t worry Kyla. I won’t do it…yet.

10.  My friend Lizy’s art. So good!

Boooooom

Look at this NOW!

It’s an art website, that posts projects that everyone can do.

The most recent was “Build your own fort”, and people sent in submissions of theirs.

So lovely. I think I’m going to do the next challenge.

Sigh.

10 things I love

number one
My little sisters 11th birthday!

number two
The Pixies are coming to Melbourne next March!

number three
I love Bollywood.

number four
N.E.E.T. magazine (it’s a lovely webzine).

number five
Picnic weather.

number six
Ravens (nevermore).

number seven
Zooey Deschanel’s fake band ‘Munchausen By Proxy’ (from the movie ‘Yes Man’). I wish they were real!

number eight
Getting Blueprint Festival tickets in the mail.

number nine
Fake wood paper

number ten
Power Pig’s photography (thanks Justin!)

       

Max Dalton

Beautiful beautiful beautiful!
I am in love with Max Dalton. How can anyone be bad if they draw things like this?

10 things I love friday

Maybe I’ll do this on a fortnightly basis. ha.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I am in love with Willow and Xander.

2. Bell Jars with pretty things in them.

3. Having the internet at home!

4. The new movie of Persuasion. I love Captain Wentworth!

5. Poppies for Grace. A beautiful stationary company.

6. Op shopping.

7. Florence and the Machine.

8. The first Falls Festival Line up. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Grizzly Bear, Liam Finn, Emiliana Torrini and so many more!

9. Red Paint.

10. American Teen. A brilliant documentary on 5 American teenagers in their senior year.

10 things I Love Friday

Ok, yes, I am stealing this idea from Elsie. But what’s new? I love her.

1. Hearing Dusk from Tear talk about Fairtrade and what we can do. (Also, how cool is this pic!) 

2. Interpol. Listen to ‘Untitled’ and ‘Roland’. Love.

3. Poppies. My favourite flower.

4. Rainy days in Melbourne

5. Nylon magazine

6. Soup in winter is the best. As is Andy Warhol.

7. The Lost and Found market on Smith St

    

8. These book cover redesigns by M. S. Corely. In fact, I love him so much that I made a page of his art.

9. While we’re on the subject of books, I also love the new Penguin Classics range.

 
10. Sonic Youth. Lovely and Loud.

Artists Only

I went and saw the Salvador Dali exhibition yesterday at the NGV with Em and Bec and it absolutely screwed with my mind.

You’ll have to forgive me, I may sound like a bit of a pretentious tosser here but this is art after all*.

The whole exhibition was fascinating. Dali was a genius. There were paintings displayed that he had done when he was 15! It was so interesting to see Dali find his own style. As he grew up, he went through periods of being heavily influenced by certain artists, such as Pablo Picasso.

After what I’m going to call the ‘Soul Survivor incident’, I have started to think about art differently. About the subject of paintings. About the meaning of paintings and how that reflects upon the artist.

What is going on inside his head???

This is a visual representation of  Salvador Dali’s beliefs and understanding of the world. This the essence** of him on a canvas.

What does this mean for me? Whenever I hear people talk about the meaning or message of a painting I always think of a big political statement. But it doesn’t always have to be that way.

I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly. – Salvador Dali

 Dali was doing what he loved.  This was him expressing himself through painting. No matter how weird/disturbing/brilliant.

 Wow. I never really fully got the connection between art and artist. Creating means putting yourself out there. Your beliefs, your personality, your character. Being completely honest with the world.

Sorry if this is a bit of an odd post. This is just something I’ve been mulling over for a while. It seems like I’m always doing this, but over the last 6 months I have really just been sorting myself out. Finding out who I am as a follower of Jesus, as a 20yr old girl living out of home in Australia, as an artist and as a human being. Another big question is am I ok with what I find? Sorry. Lol.

Any thoughts?

* I miss Marita.
** Oh wow. I told you this would be wanky.

Rifle

These are amazing wedding invites.

I found this on A Beautiful Mess but it’s actually a design by Rifle aka, Anna Bond.

These make me want to cry. I wish I could do that.

Where two oceans meet

Ok, so yeah, my post Unlock the Door was a bit dramatic…ok more than a bit.

The thing I love about God is that He is extremely creative. He can use the most rubbish experience and turn it into something beautiful. Since Soul Survivor I haven’t really made anything. I’ve done the odd scribble in my journal, but overall I’ve sort of been squashing my creative impulses. This doesn’t sound like a good thing but I think it is part of a process. I have sort have been limiting my creativity to cute & crafty. I put myself into an Elsie Flannigan box. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Elsie Flannigan, but it’s not all I am.

It’s like, I took a piece of clay and moulded it into what I wanted it to look like. The whole Soul Survivor experience was like God squashing it flat and now, he’s slowly remoulding it into what it should be. I’m experimenting with my creativity and attempting things I haven’t tried before. God has given me passion for music, beauty, movies, books and particularly morbid things  for a reason. I’m trying to see how I can use all of those things for him. Making things makes me happy.

When I was at Soul Survivor, I went and saw the lovely Dusk speak about vocation and she used this quote.

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness & the world’s deep hunger meet” – Frederic Buechner

I’ve found my deep gladness, now I just have to find where it meets with the world’s deep hunger.

Baby’s got the bends…

I saw this on Flickr a few days ago and then lost it. I have spent the last couple of days searching for it madly.

It’s beautiful.