Astro Light

My astro light arrived on my door step today! It wasn't really that hard to assemble, and it works exactly how I expected it to. It's probably the most beautiful lamp I've ever seen in my life, and when it's turned on in the dark, it's so magical I can barely explain it. I just feel so peaceful and happy, and full of nostalgia. I love this lamp to bits:

Less than a month to go.

Only 19 days until Yves Klein Blue play in Cairns ♥

I think it's unhealthy, to be this excited, so far away from the actual date.

Oh Michael Tomlinson, you crooner:

Today, I went to Innisfail.

Drove down to Innisfail with mother bear today to check out the Feast of the Senses festival. Got to eat a lot of free fruit, and I got to see my beautiful friend Ellie, who I haven't seen for far too long. I also got to check out this adorable little antique shop, and I found this:

It was only $5 (it has a small crack on the side, very easily fixed) and I'm thinking I can put my bobby pins and hair bows into it! I also think I may have to re-paint the lid gold again.. I love it so much!

NESsongs'R'Us

You'd think that the world would've run out of amazing people making amazing things by now, right? Wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NESsongsrus

Making ordinary songs sound like they're being played on a NES, pure wizardry!

Favourites would have to be Mr. Blue Sky remix, Smells Like Teen Spirit remix, I Write Sins Not Tragedies remix, and Dammit remix. Some are real shit, but a couple are so good. 8-Bit music is ace!

LAZERTITS.

Kind of like crazy insane, futuristic porn.

http://www.lazertits.com

I need to set aside some time to blog.

I tend to do this. Go for a while without blogging, but end up doing all this really awesome stuff. Well, on Friday night I went to the Angus and Julia Stone show at The Tanks with Kayla, and I was disappointed. They definitely weren't the people I expected them to be, and I was really let down. Plus this disgusting pair of drunk women were standing behind us, and kept yelling out the wrong lyrics, bumping into me and basically grinding my leg. It was sick, and I wanted to maul their faces, but the security guard was right in front of me. Plus, I'm about 164cms tall, so the chances of me coming out better off in a fight are about one in a million. I'm a hobbit. Despite this, they did play one of my favourite songs in the world, and I cried a little bit.

  Above photo taken by Kayla: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kay_jay/

The support band Boy & Bear, on the other hand, were brilliant! 

 

Seriously, I can't believe they aren't signed, they're fantastic. I bought one of their cds and got them to sign it, and they're such friendly, sociable, down-to-earth guys. 

Oh yeah, and the lead singer, Dave Hosking, totally looks like Michael Tomlinson ♥ So I really hope they decide to come back to Cairns sometime soon.

Then on Saturday night, I went roller skating with Kayla, which was great! We both sucked at first, but after we asked the guy how we're supposed to stop, we gradually got better. I did stack it at one point though, but it was a pretty awesome combat army style roll, so I wasn't too fussed. Though I am now, seeing as the right side of my body is all blotchy bruised. But yeah, I'm going back in there tomorrow to buy some skates! So I can practice at home! Coz it costs $9 entry + $2 skate hire at that place, and I'm not that rich.

Such a nice weekend.

Ethan said Grant tooted.

Made me laugh for a while :)

Found on Jackie Young's flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackiepolaroids

Snape's on a Plane

This is probably the most boss thing anyone has ever made, ever:

I just had to share it.

My favourite necklace

 Noticed that the pressed flowers in my favourite necklace of all time have started fading in colour :'(

I got it from Tasmania and it cost me $40 and everything!

This is a sad happening.

Kaleidoscope Eyes launch!

Tonight was the launch night of Kaleidoscope Eyes, my first solo exhibition! It was amazing, so many people turned up, and people that I wouldn't have thought. My nan even came down from Kuranda to be there, which was really lovely.. though I think she had a few drinks and kept telling me to show my teeth when I smiled haha crazy. Everyone loved the tree! I have to make some more leaves for people to write on coz they all got used in the first half an hour! Mrs. Williams was all chuffed, and wanted a photo so she could put it in the school newspaper.

 

And this is my amazing (and to a degree, embarrassing) family.

But yeah, Chris came up to me and said that my name was on the door at the Women in Song show in the next Tank, and that I could take three guests with me. We went up and watched acappella girl band Aluka sing a few songs. Jess McAvoy and Clare Bowditch were playing later, but that was after the interval. During the interval I went back to my exhibition and stood around talking with Kayla, Teneille, Robert and Will, while people from the concert filed through a had a peeksie. Heaps of people were taking photos of my work, which is probably something I should be cautious about, but it just made me really happy :) Also, I got flowers!

And that's about it! It was a really nice night, thank you to all my friends who came. You're all so amazing, and I love you deeply.

Wizards

A few days ago I saw a flyer for this adrenaline film competition in Cairns and I really want to enter it. I told my friend Jahl (Skeg) about it and he's been helping me find some sweet inspiration, like this video. The concept and ideas and everything are just so mindblowingly brilliant. Oh yeah, and the first song is probably one of the best 60's songs ever ♥ I hope I can think of something even a fraction as cool as this video:

All I need now is a decent camera, some skaters of moderate or higher ability, and a really, really good idea. Anyone interested in being a part of it?

Oh yeah, and speaking of Skeg.. I got my shirt the other day :D

Back to the future!

I don't know what's happened to my mind lately, but I've fallen in love with bands like The Beatles, The Ramones and the Runaways. I watched The Beatles movie 'Help!' I hired out from the library yesterday, and it's fantastic. Sure, you don't know what's happening half the time, or why they're doing the things they are, but the script is so brilliant! Some of the things they say are just so.. they just seem beyond their time, and I wonder if people back then understood their humour. I've also developed a bit of a crush on the 60's version of George Harrison.. I know he's been dead for about 10 years, and that he started to resemble Jesus at some point in the 70's, but in the 60's he had this boyish charm that's kind of hard to resist:

 

 

 

Yeah, he's my favourite Beatle. Ringo Starr, despite having the best stage name ever, has a large and very distracting nose. John and Paul, well.. I dislike their taste in women.

So if you ever get the chance, hire out 'Help!' and rejoice the wonderful humour of The Beatles in the 60's ♥

Four days to go now.

Today was so wonderful, and with only four days to go till Kaleidoscope Eyes opens, I'm surprised I'm not as stressed as I thought I'd be/was last year when all my art for school was due. I had to go back into Fuji Reef Center this morning to get some more photos printed out, as well as get one re-printed as it came out horrible the first time around. While they were getting printed I went and checked out one of my favourite op shops. I ended up buying a cute doily (that I'll probably use as a spray-paint stencil) and this gorgeous old photo frame for only $2! I'm so amazed with it, it's so beautiful:

 

When I went to check if my photos were done, they were and they looked AWESOME. I'm so happy with how they turned out. They don't really look like art to me though, they just look like snapshots of my friends dressed up funny, and a nice reminder of a fun day. I really want to see how other people perceive it though, but I guess I'll have to wait till Saturday night. So I went into The Tanks to drop the prints off with Annaliese, and we sat down and semi-wrote up the artists statements.. Well, I talked gibberish and Annaliese put it into sentence form. After that she dropped me home, as the gallery assistants had to frame stuff up and etc, and said she'd pick me up at 4 so we could go back in to see how everything will be set out in the gallery space. I had to drop off my library books as well so I caught a bus to the Stratford library and hung out there for a bit with Angus, which was nice coz that kid always makes me laugh. PLUS I found The Beatles' movie 'HELP!' there, and that pretty much made my day. I have yet to watch it, but the plot line sounds pretty crazy:

At 4, Annaliese picked me up from the library so we could go back to my place and pick up the masks the Girl Guides made, and my two canvases. When we got back to The Tanks, all my work was set up around the gallery and it was just the most wonderful feeling, I really can't explain it. I can't wait till everything is hung up and the lighting is set up and all that. Anyway, now for the most awesome part of my day. The gallery assistant Kylie said she could give me a lift home coz she was going shopping at Redlynch Central, and so when we were walking to the parking lot, she led me to a car like this:

Well, her car was teal, but you get the idea. Anyway, I almost cried. It was probably the most beautiful car I'd ever been in, in my entire life. I loved it, from the no seat belts, to the fake tulips she had resting on the dashboard. I adored the crap out of that car, and the ride home was the best thing ever, I felt so damn cool. I do believe this could possibly be my dream car. I don't think I can fully illustrate how awesome this car was, but I might be able to get a picture of it on Thursday, so I'll post it on here if I succeed.

So now I'm sitting here, with paint on my hands and feeling very, very uninspired to continue working on my canvas works. I hope it rains, that always helps.