Where The Party At: NEUW Carnivale Freak Show Service Store Opening
The NEUW crew know how to throw a good party. In a similar fashion to the ‘Sharp’ Denim launch last year, no detail was overlooked in celebrating the opening of their new Service store on Brunswick St, Fitzroy.
The theme was ‘Carnivale Freak Show’ and drinks were lavishly provided by Stolen Rum, Schweppes, Asahi and Dcider. Thanks again to Phoebe for asking me take photos. Here’s a small selection from seven rolls I burned through on the night. For more please go to NEUW’s Facebook.
You can visit the amazing new store or check out their stylish wears here.
( El Guincho - Bombay )
Taken on my Olympus OM10.
It Was A Good Day: Eat, Drink & Be Married
The first of my closest school friends was married in a beautiful ceremony on the Mornington Peninsula last month. Congratulations to new wifey Louise and her awesome husband Nick! I hope you’re both having an amazing honeymoon.
( The Proclaimers - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) )
Taken with my Olympus OM10 using Kodak Portra.
It Was A Good Day: Grampians Champions
I hate camping. At least I thought I did until Jessie convinced me to join her, Emily and Andy on a long weekend trip to Halls Gap in Victoria’s Grampians. Now I don’t hate it as much but I can only handle a maximum of two nights sleeping in a tent.
( Gold Fields - Treehouse )
Sunset at Balconies Lookout. I’ve taken a lot of photos of Emily but the photo above is my favourite.
Camp coffee
McKenzie Falls
Andy and Jessie’s matching Miso tattoos
This is the position they were in so that their tattoos would be close enough together in the photo…
Hollows Mountain hike
Taken with my Olympus OM10 using Kodak Portra.
It Will Only Bring You Happiness: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave, The Bad Seeds, Warren most-entertaining-performer Ellis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Gardenvale Primary School children’s choir. Incredible. Saturday 2 March, Sidney Myer Music Bowl. I think this photo was during Deanna but Jubilee Street was my personal highlight.
( Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street )
Taken with my Olympus OM10 using Kodak Portra.
In Print: Paper Sea Quarterly - I Choose My Friends For Their Good Looks
The Paper Sea boys asked me to photograph my favourite subject matter for their third issue: my beautiful friends.
I’m not really superficial - the title ‘I Choose My Friends For Their Good Looks’ is taken from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde which I had recently finished reading. But you can’t deny how beautiful these ladies are. Even Three Thousand deemed them “six of the most smoking ladies this side of the equator”. Thank you Adelaide, Sarah-Jane, Anna, Felicity, Sunni and Steph for your friendship and for letting me shoot you doing something you love.
Paper Sea Quarterly Volume One, Issue Three, Summer 2013 is available at all good Australian newsagents, selected stockists and online here.
( LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends )
Issue Two, featuring my photo essay Watery, Domestic, sold out so make sure to grab a copy before they’re all gone.
Did You Sell Me To Wanderlust: A European Whirlwind
In 2011, I travelled to twelve different countries in just over two months: Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Iceland, England, The Netherlands, France, Croatia, Hungary, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. It was the most fun I have had on any of my travels thus far and I cannot wait to revisit each country again in the future.
This post is long overdue as I was planning to do posts on each city I visited but didn’t take enough decent photos - even though I shot 24 rolls of film. This is a selection of some of the better ones (some have already featured on my blog in my Cursive Clusters), although my absolute favourite photos from the trip are the candid ones on my iPhone.
Taken with my Olympus OM10.
( Nas - The World Is Yours )
1. Mid-air: In-flight magazine on a British Airways flight somewhere between London and Helsinki
2. Finland: Natalie at our hotel’s breakfast, Helsinki
3. Finland: A building in the streets of Helsinki
4. Estonia: Statues in the KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
5. Sweden: Docked boats in one of my favourite cities, Stockholm
6. Iceland: Solfar abstract Viking ship, Reykjavik
7. Iceland: The Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa drained all the moisture from my body and made my hair so dry and knotted it took 3 days to untangle
8. England: Felicity inside an installation at the Saatchi Gallery, London
9. England: Abbey Road Studios, after Emily and I took photos at the crossing for our dads, London
10. England: A token photo after a token visit to Harrods, London
11. The Netherlands: Bikes and canals of Amsterdam
12. France: The view from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
13. France: The gardens of Château de Versailles, Versailles
14. Croatia: Felicity testing the waters at a beach in Bol
15. Hungary: St. Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest
16. Spain: The view from La Sagrada Familia’s church tower, Barcelona
17. Spain: The entrance to Park Guell, Barcelona
18. Spain: Fresh produce at St. Josep’s Market, Barcelona
19. Spain: Beautiful white buildings of Granada
20. Spain: Intricate details of the Alhambra, Granada
21. Morocco: El Badi Palace, Marrakech
22. Morocco: Cacti in the Le Jardin Majorelle (Majorelle Gardens), Marrakech
23. Morocco: A gallery of Yves Saint Laurent’s artwork in Majorelle Gardens, Marrakech
24. Portugal: The beautiful beach in the happiest place on earth, Lagos
25. Portugal: City gate, Lisbon
26. Portugal: Entrance tiling at the home of Portugal’s tastiest custard tarts, Pasteis de Belem, Belem
It Was A Good Day: Apollo & Sarah-Jane
I originally planned to use a photo of Sarah-Jane and her beautiful horse Apollo in my Paper Sea Quarterly photo essay I Choose My Friends For Their Good Looks. However, the editors and I loved the photo of her with the gelati cone so much that we went with that one instead.
As it is not possible to take a bad photo of Sarah-Jane, I had to share some of the other photos I loved from the shoot featuring Apollo. It was a lovely, sunny Monday afternoon in October and even though I am so retarded around animals, Sarah-Jane was trusting enough to let me take him for a short ride.
( Bat For Lashes - Horse & I )
My personal favourite.
Taken with my Olympus OM10 using Kodak Portra 400.
It Will Only Bring You Happiness: Summer
I recently completed another photo essay. It features my beautiful friends, Oscar Wilde and this gelati cone.
( The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun )
Taken with my Olympus OM10.
