This is a blog of things.

More Farm times, different camera.

2011-10-03T18:34:00.000-07:00

Notice how I capitalised 'Farm' in the title of this post? Is this an accident? Or do I think The Farm is so awesome it deserves capitalisation all of the time? Only time and my ever decreasing sense of proper English grammar will tell. LOOK, A FARMHOUSE! :D

"Maybe you could play this on ur radio show!"
".... no, Dad"
"That's cool, I found some cassettes that look good though"
" :-/ "

Abandoned Christmas tinsel. Is there anything prettier/uglier than the glittery remnants of awkward family Christmases?
Yes! This handsome coat!

So this bike belonged to my crazy Great-Uncle Rupert who apparently everyone thought was a homeless old vagrant. He used to cycle kilometres every day into town, the only other vehicle he had was an enormous tractor, which he would also occasionally drive into town. He wrote poetry, criticised modern literature, fixed things, made moonshine out of pumpkins and one time he assaulted a police officer and when being tried in court for this act he was more interested in entertaining everyone in the court by accusing the police officer of having a moustache 'that looks like a bum!'. He sounds like the kind of guy who liked to lol. He's pretty much my favourite relative ever. He died under a tree, while having a sleep. What a guy. I miss u, Rupert. I think we would have been friends.

Car. There are heaps of abandoned cars in the country. There are heaps of abandoned everythings. Sometimes it's like going through the ruins of a society long past. Except that society is only from about 30 years ago. Life moves pretty fast.

Holy shit, I got the Praktica to work. (+countryside times)

2011-08-31T19:15:00.000-07:00

I DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE THE PRAKTICA WORK. I read the manual ! YEAH! Turns out this was a wise idea. See above photo of me finally learning how to not overexposure every shot. :D

Then I went to the country and took photos of wattle and trees and things. Woot?

This is my much younger cousin with his much better and much more expensive camera. Jerk.

Wattle! Shadows! Praktica!

Remember what I said about learning not to overexpose photos.... "It's a process" - Kanye West one time
This is my Grandma's kitchen table. It has had lollies and biscuits on it ever since they were invented. Not the same ones obvs. My Grandma takes being a Grandma v.seriously. Because she has a large amount of grandkids and she understands the value of the sugar flavoured bribe.

Grandma. Taking being a Grandma v.seriously.

She collects ceramic animals. In pairs. Like Noah. She'll build a whole new ceramic world! It will be mostly filled with cats.

Truck. Overexposed photo. Weeds that put spiky shit in your socks.

One more for luck!

Experimenting with light.

2011-07-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

When I get a new camera sometimes (usually always) I am so overexcited by it that I just stick a roll of film in it and don't really bother to learn how to use it properly. :D This produces photos such as the above which is terribly over exposed. That said, I really like the washed out feel that these photos have. I feel like this new Nikkomat is going to be a very good camera indeed. And that I will spend this week learning how to use it properly.

Enjoy the pastels of what was actually an extremely bright and cold day in the country!

Enjoy the fuzzy background! And the faces of people with whom I am acquainted!

Enjoy this frenzied moment before this young child rips the camera from me and then takes a load of lovely blurry pictures of his parents and is dismayed when he cannot view them straight away. :/

Election times! (finding it hard not to make bad puns)

2011-01-24T19:48:00.000-08:00

Camera times are all broken at the moment. 3 vintage cameras. 3 broken cameras. You get what you pay for. Move with the times. Get a digital. etc and so on. NO.

I got this roll of film developed that was shot with a very broken and very unreliable Pentax on the date of the Victorian State Election. I was holding the camera and the state together with pieces of electrical tape. :-D I really enjoy electrical tape, I use it to wrap my presents. It's sturdy. I may be straying from the topic. HERES A PHOTO!

We had to vote at RMIT which was SUCH BULLSHIT because we wanted to vote at the Town Hall which was closed for some play or something. You should be allowed to vote at the Town Hall for the Election. It's my right as a human. Bet it was a rubbish play anyways. BITTERNESS. Although RMIT is pretty good I guess.

This reminds me of that bit in the original Buffy movie where Buffy says to Luke Perry "Pike's not a name, it's a fish". It's a good bit.

Suspect it was either freezing or very warm that day. One of these guys has got it right.

Distressing moments at Town Hall when we realise we can't vote there. :(

Pink and Purple are the best of friends. They are going to go vote together and have a good time enjoying each others company and the wonder of democracy.

The End.

Humans I know.

2010-11-15T21:06:00.000-08:00

Hey y'all! What's up? I broke my finger. It was not a good time, I didn't have a good time when it happened but we won basketball so that makes it all ok I guess? Poor finger. I also took some photos and stuff. WITH A BROKEN FINGER. That's impressive. Be impressed.

These are photos of some people that I know and even a couple of people that I am related to. They all happen to be boys for some reason... I have no explanation for this? I know a lot of boys? um...?

Here's a guy! He's a guy I know!

Here is another guy! I know this guy too! He looks like my Dad but he isn't. I know this because this guy has a Scottish accent. My Dad does not, this is an important distinction.

I know this guy too! I've known him since he was born. He's a cool guy. He's been a cool guy since he was born.

This guy is my bro. In pretty much all senses of the word. He's a cool guy.

This guy is one of the most influential humans in my life. He's a pretty cool guy too. :)

Till next time! Photos are going badly at the moment... I do not know why. I hope to change this very soon and to make them go very well. This would be a good time. PEACE LATER

oh... hey...

2010-10-18T19:55:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted for a whole month! Woo! Check me out! Exactly one month since my last post, I'm the best! :D

The truth is I've been having a pretty disasterous time with the film cameras and I ended up thinking I had shot a whole roll of film in lovely Newcastle a few weeks back when the truth was that I hadn't wound the film on properly. Argh! And then I proceeded to roll the entire roll back into the cannister. sigh/lolz.

SO here are some photos from the phone to tide people (mainly myself and my own sense of guilty abandonment in relation to this blog) over.

Photo times:

On Saturday morning a friend dragged me out of bed at a ridiculous hour to go and get breakfast and then traipse around the city in the pouring rain and icy winds to buy bike shorts. I was very belligerent and resentful (much to his amusement) until we found this CAVE OF WARMTH down by the Yarra. There I happily took my shoes off, drank tea and took a photo of a seagull. ^_^

I also creepily took a photo of this dude reading his book and drinking his tea. Mainly because I'd be wondering earlier as we dashed around the rainy streets how many tourist photos I would have been in incidentally, not even noticing that the person was photographing the scene and I wanted to try this out. So the answer for this particular guy in that case is: at least 1. Thanks, guy!

Possibly took this photo excited that it was a 42 and therefore the answer to life the universe and everything but it's not. So.... yeah. Yep.

Old school signs of happy radio times that we found at work and then risked electrocution to try and see if they worked. I enjoy how 'handmade' a lot of things are at my work. I enjoy, and am afraid of at the same time.

NEXT TIME: look I don't know to be honest. If Melbourne doesn't stop being winter, I'm gonna throw a very enthusiastic tantrum and move to some sort of place that actually appreciates the structure of the seasons. This is unrelated to my photography but I'm just really annoyed about it.

Thank you for your time.

The Digital Camera Is My Friend (part 1)

2010-09-19T04:42:00.000-07:00

The Digital Camera Is My Friend.

We take photos in the dark.

And then we edit them in photoshop later on when we are sleepy and trying to force ourselves to stay awake till midnight.

The Digital Camera and I take photos in Sepia -tone.

We hope that this will make the photos more interesting and beautiful.

We think this might be 'artistic'. :-/

The Digital Camera hates the flash.

It only likes natural light and street lights.

I like squinting at the photos I take in the dark and wondering if I'll be able to change the contrast later on.
This photo is blurry for no particular reason at all.

This is the Digital Camera's fault.

I've been attempting to take the Digital Camera around with me everywhere to capture images much like the ones above of random things that capture my eye whilst I'm wandering about. [The above is a shell of where a building was recently destroyed, it's spooky and wonderful]. Unfortunately it's not working as well as I would like. And I'm becoming more hesitant to take photos with my phone as it grows increasingly slow and cumbersome and I find myself running out of enthusiasm for the different camera apps available.

GUESS WE ALL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS:

stay tuned for a very ill thought-out ebay purchase of a new camera, coming soon....

:D

Glassminute attempts to take photos of the moon

2010-08-31T19:30:00.000-07:00

Fails.

Hung up on politics.

2010-08-26T06:28:00.000-07:00

So I've been busy recently frantically refreshing the ABC News website to check if my country has formed a government yet. So far no luck. :-/ I was going to make this post about the election as I took my digital cam down and took some photos on the day (voting day) but I feel like if we talk about it anymore I will expire from pure exasperation. So instead lets look at BLACK AND WHITE NIGHTTIME SHOTS. Alright! Yeah!

Trying to work with the digital camera instead of against it but I still dislike it. I dunno, maybe I need a new one. If you are reading this and happen to be ridiculously wealthy and unable to decide what to do with your wads of cashmoney perhaps you should consider buying me a new digital camera! (or y'know donating it to charity... probably a better idea really)

ONWARDS:

Tea. I have actually been drinking a ridiculous amount of green tea recently to try and kick my coffee habit. I have been told/read that it's very healthy for you etc. :-/ Yeah... look at the little white cups, aren't they nice!

Tin of randomness! It's on the ground, there for you cigarette butts! Or for your coffee cups if you are feeling belligerent which most people in Melbourne often are. Yay home! :-/

This, I actually like, though I kind of wish it had a bit more of a flash of light somewhere in it. NOT BAD THOUGH. Digital camera and I still fighting. Developments (lol photography joke) to come.

Here's a couple of bonus old Pentax shots basically because I pine for warm weather when I'll be able to sit happily outside in gardens again.

Ladder! As seen in "Angel Headed Hipster/Drunk with ladder" photo. It's a nice ladder despite being ridiculously unstable and slightly dangerous. But then again, all the best things are.

Dog, plastic chicken, blurriness etc.

I can't even talk about the Praktica at the moment. :-/ Another disaster. I think I may have figured out some way of getting some usable prints out of it. PLEASE LET IT BE SO. I am looking forward to the day I start one of these posts with PRAKTICA TAKES PHOTOS. What a fine day it will be, what a sense of real, tangible achievement I will have. Ok I gotta sleep now. Take care, interwebs.

Music

2010-08-18T23:27:00.000-07:00

You know when you forget about something and then you remember it and you're like HEY THAT WAS A THING THAT I DID. No, I don't either. It worries me.

Today I was looking at the photos on my phone to show someone something and it turns out I took a load of photos while I was drunk at a gig the other night! I'm astonished at my productivity whilst inebriated and impressed at my inability to remember this the next day. I'm also kind of embarassed. ANYWAYS...

Here's some hipster hipstamatic prints from the iPhones:

Digital Love

2010-08-12T16:01:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends, how is it going? That's cool, I don't actually care. It's the last day of the week and we had a new Moon in Leo this week so you know EVERYTHING IS ALL GOOD.

Last night while destroying my study in order to make it a functional room in the future and to give me more room for impromptu dance parties, I came across the connecting cord for my digital camera. HOORAY!

This cord has been missing for almost 12 months now and I had mistakenly thought that my old housemate had lost it. BUT IT WAS ME! I lost it! Dear me, you are a douchebag. Dear ex-housemate, you are completely blameless.

ONWARDS TO PHOTOS!

These photos are Japan photos cos that was the last time I used this camera. Envisage this: Me tiny digital camera, film camera and iPhone camera at the ready to capture every shot three times. I WAS LONELY, OK? (oh and this is a picture of barrels of Sake)

This was taken on a freezing cold night in Kyoto when I got lost but everything was so pretty I didn't really care. Also I'd been drinking Sake with the crazy Japanese/American guy. What a cool dude.

BOAT! This was on Miyajima Island. I think this river does actually fill when the tide is high. People don't just put boats on the ground and tie them to railings just for the hell of it. Or maybe they do, I choose not to judge.

I can't remember where this is? Somewhere very touristy that I could probably look up the name of very quickly. But you know what, navigating away from this screen right now would break up the flow of my brain and I wouldn't want to interrupt my creative process and actually I just don't care enough to be bothered going to google and typing in the beginnings of what I think this place is called and I probably couldn't spell it and I really want to go make a cup of tea so I'm just not going to. err.. what?

I don't usually like pictures I take on my digital camera, I've been frustratingly unable to figure out how to use it to take interesting photos. I've found that being able to delete things immediately generally leads to me deleting things immediately in a fit of pique if the picture isn't all I've envisioned in my head. But I like this photo. I like it a lot. There may be hope for you yet, young digital camera.

Double Post! It's sooo beautiful! WOAH.

2010-08-09T22:02:00.003-07:00

OH YEAH! SUPRISE DOUBLE POST! Bet you didn't see that coming, internets! Surprised you all!

Actually I just had a whole bunch of photos of street art that didn't really go with my post about cars and moss. Street art is one of my great loves, along with lemsip and dancing around my bedroom with my headphones on to Swedish Synthpop.

This is some fading pasted art that is near my place of work, in a few days it will probably be all gone, especially with todays rain. SUCH IS ART ON THE STREET. It's hard knock life.

On Sunday, while I was wandering about in a cold-induced, lemsip-soothed brain haze I came across a whole bunch of street artists repainting an alley in Melbs. Brain said to me: ok lady, see that camera around your neck, see that stuff going on there? Perhaps you should do something about these two seemingly unrelated events.

OK! I take a photo of the ladies! I was slightly concerned at all times that these peeps were gonna turn around and kick my ass for taking their photo. I don't actually know why, I don't think of street artists as particularly threatening people.

If you look at this old school Boombox closely you will see it has an iPod plugged into it. This made me very happy. Like this-------> :D

I've always wished I could draw/paint. Only so I too, could paint green vampire ladies in purple dresses on walls of Melbourne's alleyways. (also: boobs)

They had torn down all the old posters that had adorned the walls of the alley for probably quite some time. They were quite satisfying to walk over, and I wanted to walk over them a few more times but I thought people might think I was a bit odd..... possibly like you do now. '

And that's all she wrote! Tune in next week for another Praktica related disaster. "The Camera That Does Not Take Photos: part 3"

Making a blog post!

2010-08-09T21:03:00.000-07:00

I've been having some loltastic disasters with cameras recently firstly by taking a lovely roll of what obviously would have been the most beautiful photos of all time with the new Praktica and then of course opening the back without winding the film, ruining the whole lot. Hooray! :-/

So I pulled out the old trusty Pentax again and took some photos of things. I do have plans to use the Praktica again, if it wants me to... which it doesn't seem to right now. WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME, PRAKTICA? WHY? *SOBS ON THE INTERNETS*

Er, yeah, so photos!

On my lovely street there are a couple of lovely abandoned old cars. I decided to photograph them. Good for me.

They are covered in moss. It's gross/awesome. Things that are gross and awesome at the same time are very rare. You should appreciate this.

There are two of them, parked ridiculously close to one another. Cobwebs on the steering wheel... remind me baby, of you! (no they don't, I don't even drive, I also don't know you)

Rust on the windshield! She's cries on every... you know what I might stop that know. I've already ruined the rest of my day by putting that song in my head. No need to ruin yours too, move along.

I feel like these are the sorts of cars that I would be happy driving. I probably need to learn to appreciate and look after nice things. Nice things, that don't grow lichen on them.

Carts and Rafts

2010-07-15T00:43:00.001-07:00

Momentous Moments

2010-07-08T20:54:00.000-07:00

I've actually been pretty lax with taking photos and my grand experiment with the Practika recently resulted in a lot of overexposed photos. But I've fixed that now and I'm hoping to try again this weekend.

In the meantime here are some shots that I kind of classify as 'in the moment' shots as cheesy as it sounds. I've got a fondness for phone camera pics because they can capture moments that might not have the patience for a normal camera. It's easy to whip out your phone and take a shot of there here and now without thinking about the subject or composition very much.

View from my bed. I've got this pretty rubbish old school stereo that my parents gave me for Christmas a few years back, I keep it for sentimental reasons and because it has a tape player and I feel like that could come in handy.

This guy is one of my favourite humans. He's pretty amazing. So is she.

This picture is either self-explanatory or inexplicable.

Cairns airport. All I remember about Cairns is it being very hot and humid and being very very tired while I was there.

I truly pine for summer. With all my heart.

View from the top of a Ferris Wheel at dusk.

One of my favourite things about living in a big city is that people are pretty sure (and are usually right) that they can get away with being pretty dumb/crazy/silly in the main street.

I hadn't even realised I had this photo until today and I can't even remember where I took it. It's pretty nice though!

Blurry camera handiwork.

Standoff.

Early Pentax Shots

2010-07-01T00:19:00.000-07:00

HEY! I don't really know why I'm uploading these. They are a couple of shots I took with the very first roll of film I put in the Pentax. I might just be feeling guilty that there is a full roll of film in my new Practika that I haven't taken yet. There isn't much daylight these days ok? I'm busy! No, YOU'RE not an excuse!

So here are a couple of pics from my traipsing around the city late last year:

State Library: Now I never use this library. I've been in it maybe twice in my whole life. But I do adore it. Mostly for the outside. Back when I was trying to get over my depressive Sunday's phase I would walk into the city every Sunday, get myself some delicious Japanese takeaway for lunch and eat it sitting on the lawn here and generally read a snippet of whatever story I was into at the time. I still do this occassionally, but it feels like I don't need to as much anymore. NICE STORY. Look at the birdies! Ok moving on...

This is one of those reasonably famous alleyways in Melbourne. It's between the Forum Theatre and Movida and it's mostly familiar to me from dashing through it in the rain heading towards Flinders St. It's absolutely full of awesome street art, and I took a few more photos of the stuff down there but none of them worked out as well as this photo I think. Every time I look at this photo, I have the intense desire to leap that fence and run up the stairs. I just like how they are all zig-zag. YEAH! WOO! Zig Zag!

And that's all she wrote!

Up close.

2010-06-24T19:47:00.000-07:00

Circusable Talents.

2010-06-17T18:00:00.000-07:00

Light.

2010-06-15T19:47:00.000-07:00

Random Pentax Shots.

2010-06-09T23:35:00.000-07:00

Just got these shots developed today, a bit of an odd roll of film that I took all over the place.

Bear's Grand Adventure.

2010-06-06T19:21:00.000-07:00

Possibly the dorkiest and most obscure post I've ever (and will ever) put on this blog. And only about 3 people in the world will understand what the hell it means (if anything) but here it goes!

This is Bear:

He likes adventures.
He also likes Stevie Wonder.

And fucking with your sound system.

And tiny bottles of gin.

And playing Atari.

And being on the televisions.

And constructing Moon Landings

There's a... Oh no it's just too obvious.

HOORAY!

Mood swings

2010-06-06T06:18:00.000-07:00

Autumn Night-times.

2010-05-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

Today is a very tiring day.

2010-05-20T23:40:00.000-07:00

Hello Internet.

Today I feel like this. (yep even the giant people staring at me interested/judging)

So I want to remember some things:

I love these humans. They are messy and yelly and they throw Transformers at me and immediately follow it up with hugs. They are the best.

This place was amazing. Heart wrenchingly beautiful and amazing. I miss it.

This was a good day.

This is a good human. She makes me feel better about this world and the people in it.

Autumn is really awesome.

No order, no reason. V.v.V

2010-05-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

SOOOO I haven't updated this for a long while. One reason being I haven't really found anything spectacularly appealing to photograph recently. Which seems kind of dumb cos it's Autumn here and even looking at trees right now is interesting but I've been mostly looking at them with blank stares of wonder rather than through a lens. Also, I want a new camera.

To keep up with things though here are some shots of random things I've been doing/seeing/talking to recently.

I went to the football recently, having been (lovingly) dragged by my housemates to play impartial bystander as their respective teams battled it out. There was a rainbow! :D (I don't care much for live sporting events)

I maintained that I was going to cheer for the umpires because they were "the underdogs". But I kind of ended up just cheering for everything. This did not seem to go down very well with the rabid Collingwood supporters we were sitting with. "GOOD WORK GUY!"

Tiny dog. Tiny scruffy dog. :D

Monkey! I remember my friends getting very excited about this monkey and explaining in very rushed and excitable tones how awesome and important he is. I can't really remember any of the details though. But look how cute my friend is! I<3 her face.

For some reason I really really like this photo. I just like how the dudes are all like: *chillin'* when really they are stupendously drunk.

This dude made them drunk. He's a bad dude.

I went to see the Ron Mueck exhibition when it was in town. It was pretty amazing but this piece in particular was kind of compelling. It was this giant woman in bed, seemingly ill. I love the expression on the viewers face and the contrast between their sizes.

Expired Times

2010-04-26T23:57:00.000-07:00

More Pentax shots. When I first bought this camera on a whim from ebay, the guy who sold it to me included some film 'to get me started'. He was a pretty sweet dude. One of the rolls of film he gave me was an expired black and white roll which kind of only took about 8 good shots but I like them cos they are all grainy and odd and stuff. I took these shots at a friends birthday and managed to get everyone in the middle of eating. WINNER! This was the second roll of film I ever shot with this camera. you can tell right? :D

MID EAT.
hahahahaha. me.

I like how muddled the background is in this shot, like it's fading away.

Everybody eating! Everybody drinking!

I remember gathering up all our outside chairs and everybody being like OH WE JUST GONNA SIT ON THE GROUND K? Eh, I guess they look nice all stacked up like that.

Most likely lecturing everybody on something very firmly. Most likely everbody nodding their head very seriously in response. Mmmmhmmm.

CITY! I kind of like how everybody just sits around at Fed Square. It works as a city centre. During the weekends I often like to sit there and people watch and get harassed by pigeons.

Handsome Friends.

2010-04-19T22:35:00.000-07:00

More photos with the Pentax. Hooray! A little while ago I was interested in taking photos of peoples faces. As a person who hates her own face being photographed I thought this would be a fun and entertaining exercise. :D

Here are some photos of people I know doing things that they like. With their face.

Yeah I just like this messy photograph. I know that it's not a face... :-/

Home again...

2010-04-11T21:56:00.000-07:00

I don't really go home very much any more. Mainly due to complicated emotional reasons (hooray!) and the fact that it takes 3 and a half hours to get there and the trains are infrequent and expensive.
But goddamn it's nice up there. It's always a lot warmer and the air is cleaner. It's so quiet sometimes it's almost eerie.

Markets in the country are so different to markets in the city. Full of home cooked preserves and wooden furniture, cheap sunglasses and old bits of crockery and crystal. It's nice.

VEGETABLES! sidenote: the woman who ran this stall was a vegetarian and quizzed us in depth about what we would be making with our purchased produce. She was a tiny little woman and I think she terrified my brother into assuring her he wouldn't be cooking meat that night.

It really is a pretty town. This market is right down near the river, actually on what would be the flood plains (if it ever flooded in Victoria again...) and it's quite lush and green there. The trees are ancient and tall and it smells nice and fresh.

Tea Towels! City life has a great under-appreciation for tea towels. Except this lovely place: http://thirddrawerdown.com/shop

We went to a place that serves beer with breakfast. For reals. Oh country life!

Fishies on the wall. Oh country life!

You get stuck in the middle of country town with nothing to do for an hour? You go play three games of pool! Now that's fresh!

Japan times: SWITCHING CAMERAS oh yeah!

2010-03-29T23:01:00.000-07:00

I haven't been posting in any other format other than camera phone pics recently (mostly because of laziness I guess) but I got some of my Pentax shots back today. Pictures, let me show you them :D

Google Street View! Or I took this. Probably the second one.

Yeah I don't really know what is going on here either...

DEER! (please see previous post about deer, ZOMG etc)

VENDING MACHINES (please see previous posts re: vending machines. life giving etc)

YAY! I am so happy today.

...because there are green taxis?

um... stairs!

um...not stairs!

HI! This was at a lovely bar in Kyoto where I drank far too much sake and totally fell in love with this young chef. We attempted to talk to each other several times, both of us miserably failing because of a lack of each others language. OH MYSTERY GUY, WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN. (sidenote: got really drunk with the dude sitting in the corner later on. :D )

Silver Temple is not silver. WHO KNEW?

V.v.V

Hi blurry dude!

Good Luck to You.

2010-03-28T22:14:00.001-07:00

And to you too, window.

Did you know cat's dream? I saw this documentary about it one time. They dream about doing their favourite shit, chasing things, eating things sleeping (? do you think you can dream about sleeping? I like the idea of it)

I wonder how many people actually paid attention to Earth Hour. I kind of felt sad that I was out at a (admittedly very lovely) gig. Wish I had been at home with all the lights off looking out the window watching the city switch off.

Candles on a milk crate. Potential melting hazard? Indeed! :D

Hi!

Hi hi!

Er White King says hi too?

Weekend!

2010-03-22T03:47:00.001-07:00

This is my friend in what I have decided is the "Angel Headed Hipster" pose. Also known as the "Drunk with Ladder" pose.

So I went to lawn bowls on Friday afternoon and it was super lovely and awesome and I took lots of photos of the same thing over and over again. I am now very proud to present them to you. :D Sidenote: this night ended with me having a fight with a Scotsman about the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. Good times!

OMG GRASS!

OMGWTFBBQ!

Ahh happy times. Happy times with bread.

Don't really know what this dude is picking up... may be doing pre-lawn bowls yoga? Hooray yoga!

Weird day of sun + grey skies which always look retarded and awesome and always happen in Melbourne.

Pensive about sun + grey skies. Why is the earth so mysterious? Need to think about life. Need to know about the mysteries of the world. Need more beer.

SUNSHINE ON MY LAWN BOWLS, MAKES ME HAPPY, LIKE I SHOULD BE.

Yeah I got nothing. :D

Japan Times #4: Hiroshima and Miyajima

2010-03-16T04:34:00.001-07:00

It's almost weird to talk about Hiroshima, there isn't much I could really say that could sum the place up. The way that you feel when you walk around, the way that the Peace Park makes you feel about being a human. I didn't really take many photos there, was kind of surreal in a way. So I guess I kind of don't want to narrate this post. But if you know me you should probably ask me to tell you about the white horse.

Japan Times #3: Nara (otherwise known as OMFG DEER!)

2010-03-10T16:53:00.000-08:00

This is a pretty epic post as for some reason I took loads of photos in Nara, it might have been because half of the main part of the city was a gigantic park FULL OF DEER. So as we begin please remember these photos are taken by someone who has never seen deer before in her life and was ridiculously excited by them.

Check them out! Scaring childrens!

Irritating Businessmen! (sidenote: that tall young grim looking businessman totally turned around about five seconds after this pic was taken and patting and cuddling this deer, I was totally charmed)

Sitting around ignoring you!

Stealing your wallet!

Being imitated in cheap plastic toys your kids can charmingly drag around with them!

Judging you while you climb steep hills to temples!

Whoa this is not a deer. Where have we moved onto now?

Oh yeah Giant Buddha Hall. Hey, what's up?

Traditional Japanese house of awesome! Which was right next to Sake Brewing House of awesome!

Very stylish hooray!

Sidenote: I was far too tall for this house (like in a genuine embarrassing way) and had to ask my host if it was ok for me to crawl about the house on my knees. She laughed and told me it was totally fine. Every other visitor proceeded to thoroughly enjoy pointing out the stupidity of my height. Good times!

I could totally stand up in the garden though.

Afternoon Sake times. This was at a tiny bar that was kind of down a little alleyway that I accidentally w It had a big sign that said in English 'WELCOME TO NARA. HOW ABOUT A DRINK?' and I was like 'OH THANKS. OK THEN'

Dinner times.

Ladder Puppet!

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Local Band Bum Creek in a performance that attendees of the evening have entitled 'Ladder Puppet'. haha what a rad night.

Randoms

2010-03-03T20:53:00.000-08:00

I'm feeling mildly bored of posting pictures/talking about Japan so I thought I'd take a short break and post some pictures that have nothing to do with each other or really anything at all. :D

like this! LOL WHUT? ( I feel like if I explained what this actually was it would probably mildly creep people out like it did when I first realised...)

This however is a birthday/valentines day cake my neighbour brought over for me as a SURPRISE. I really love surprises especially when they are filled with Mulberry Jam. In fact only when they are filled with Mulberry Jam. I've just made that a rule.

^_^

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This is a thoughtful time. We are very thoughtful at this moment.

For relaxing times make it Suntory times. Or some other times. Make it a times.

Brunswick St times! (don't make it these times)

Japan Time: Kyoto DAY 2

2010-03-01T22:02:00.000-08:00

Oh hello, hi, good morning Kyoto, I am very hungover thank you. Let's go walk around temples for 7 hours. hooray!

Rabbit. Man with Hammer. Not Looney Tunes.

Rad.

Lady and Man engaging in a very tradition social ceremony of something or other.

Water falls down!

Coins fall down!

Temple goes up!

Japan times # 2: Kyoto.

2010-02-27T02:50:00.000-08:00

I should just start this post by saying this is where shit got awesome. I love Kyoto with all my heart. I felt immediately comfortable and happy there and I was really sad to leave. When I go back to Japan I'm gonna stay in Kyoto for a long time.

Jazz and Whisky Bar! Yay! Jazz and Whisky! Both things I feel like I will probably quite like when I am old because I have mild leanings towards them in my youth. Err what? oh yes Kyoto, it's awesome.

Pretty! I saw fake Geisha just after this bridge and she posed for a photo for me which is how apparently you can tell they are fake. I was bummed about this until real ones wander past the bar I was getting drunk in later and I was like YAY! SAKE! GEISHA! YAY!

Temple in Gion, can't remember it's name. I only remember it was icy cold and quite late when I went there and I was struggling to take photos without removing my gloves.

It was totally pretty and awesome though. Cold and bright.

I could look up the name on the interwebs right now really. But I feel like I'm retaining some sort of mystery by not. MYSTERY! \o/

I don't even know what this is. I feel like I may have been mildly to moderately drunk at this point.

This is a river. I know this much.

Ponto Cho! This was the first place I decided I really wanted to go to after consulting the guide books and everyones advice and getting quite distressed and confused. After all that I decided I wanted to go to a STREET. I'm very adventurous. ( it was awesome)

Awesome I tell you!
I really did like it a lot. I met several lovely and handsome people down this street. It will always remain a source of goodness to me.

Japan Times: Tokyo

2010-02-27T02:34:00.001-08:00

Incredibly bewildered first night.

Incredibly life giving vending machines, oh how I shall pine for them.

VENDING MACHINES. OH I LOVE THEE, COME BACK TO ME.

Peoples, amazing lovely peoples. Although at this moment I hated them along with everything else. OH INSOMNIA INDUCE MISERY. so much fun.

Yeah buildings, this is kind of a throwaway filler picture, I'm sure you'll deal with it.

Harajuku!

Full of weird shit! (side note: bunnies were everywhere and seemed like some ominous sign for my trip, I've yet to investigate/care about what this might mean)

Torii Gate outside of Meiji Jingu. Now it's possible that I was extremely sleep deprived and lonely and quite mentally unstable when I visited this shrine but to me it seemed to fix everything. It was incredibly beautiful and amazing and I think its a magical place. SO yeah! Take that Catholic guilt!

Bookstore quiet times on Friday night.

2010-02-05T15:06:00.000-08:00

Nightime in Parkville

2010-02-05T05:11:00.000-08:00

Random Things

2010-02-03T20:55:00.000-08:00

There is no point to this post really, and these photos don't even make sense chronologically. I don't care, this is my internet, I'll do what I like.

Drunken night at a friends gig. Coles is pretty when you've had 8 beers.

Best friend in my lounge room. Fairy Lights. Vodka. Good times.

Flyscreen obscured view. I don't even know why I like this.

Press button if you are irate.

I feel like this may have been the view from the train when I was travelling to visit my brother. Or aliens put it on my phone. One of those things.

Australia vs Some other team what they beat. I find myself increasing unable to concentrate for long stretches of time on sport and therefore entertain myself by singing pop music to my brother. I am not allowed to go to games anymore.

Brass Band playing on the street. I refuse to give backstory to this.

My co-workers sister has spirit animals and rocks that she carries around in a little pouch around her neck, no bullshit. People are ridiculously awesome.

Raggamuffin Festival 31/01/2010

2010-02-01T22:43:00.001-08:00

Laneway 2010 MOAR!!

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Laneway Festival 2010

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/iPhone pics of The Horrors at the Corner 27/01/2010

2010-01-27T15:27:00.000-08:00

FASHION!

ERR LIGHTS AND THINGS!

HORRORS FROM FAR AWAY!

(because I am very tall and not allowed to be up the front. rules.)

City Adventures

2010-01-26T15:40:00.000-08:00

iPhone photos of musics!

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