PHOENIX + TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB

I always get a bit of a high coming out of a gig. Last night, for my fabulous housemate/ami Mimi's birthday we went to see Phoenix and Two Door Cinema Club. It was phenomenal. I made a couple short videos on my crappy camera (too hard to keep sneaking in the chunky DSLR). Happy times.

In Love... with a camera

Now that we're on easter break at Uni, and been given a new photo brief (yay!), I am desperate to shoot when I go back to Canada. It breaks my heart I can't borrow my favourite camera for this assignment... so I've been seriously on the hunt for one of these bad boys - although they are far FAR out of my current financial capabilities. If anyone finds one of these somewhere on the sidewalk, or knows of one that is sitting somewhere unloved, I would be happy to give it a proper home.

Screenprinting!

Finally picked up my prints from the screenprinting induction I did last week. The process is basically choosing what you want to print/making it and printing it on transparency film. Next is coating your screen, exposing the transparency film onto the screen, giving it a wash, drying it in the oven and then you're ready to print! Choose your paint colours/materials (you can print on just about anything - the wall, wood, fabric.. sky is the limit).

I really fell in love with the whole idea of the Arts + Crafts movement so I thought I would print the motto for the society of designers which embodied the principles that hooked me.

Life + Times Update

I haven't really been posting much work as of late. We have been manic preparing for the end of term - I have my term assessment presentation tomorrow. I haven't had too many adventures to share. But this is a glimpse of what has been going down in my life.

Sony competition - Emilia and I didn't make the shortlist. Our idea was to have an interactive installation of life surrounded by music - lyrics embedded in daily activities.


The weather has been slowly sneaking in more gorgeous days. Antonia, Aaron and I went down to the park to take advantage of one particular doozy.


The Frightened Rabbit gig on the 10th was incredible!

Because the sun...

I think I will post this cheerful song by She & Him that I can't get out of my head and find myself singing as I skip along in the sunshine. And because Zooey Deschanel is the raddest broad in the universe.

Baked goods!

I think it's pretty much globally known how much I adore baking.
This year I've been doing my best to test out new recipes and expand my culinary repertoire.
I made some cupcakes this eve for our uni party on Thursday and I was rather proud of the outcome, so I thought I would post a couple of successes!

The "fauxstess" cupcakes, so worth the effort. Plus it gave me an excuse to buy an icing piping kit!



These "mookies" (muffin-cookie hybrid) were a complete experiment using some delicious muesli.. I called them crackookies.

I Don't Draw!

Last night I got inspired by listening to one of my old favourite Canadian bands - the Weakerthans. Bless John K. Samson for being bequeathed with such an extraordinary gift for music. I randomly began drawing John K. Samson and then the lovely bearded Jim James. I was quite proud that it didn't look awful, so I thought I would post it!

This is one of the beautiful songs I had on my rotation.

No excuses, no more monotonous conversing!

For the latest project, we have been asked to rewrite/redesign a previous brief we worked on. I chose the "R-Kive your music" brief because I wanted to use music in the next graphic outcome. My idea comes from my own disappointment in having really lame conversations with people who either a) are dull or b) can't be bothered to make an effort. Particularly because those who know me, know I love to ask (mostly unmethodical) questions. I decided to make it easy for people to engage in thought-provoking dialogue by throwing a bunch of random questions generated by various artists lyrics.

I combed through my music library and wrote down and questions that popped up that would be relevant to inciting a verbal exchange. I generally make little notes on my hand to remind myself of things.. and I know this is pretty common.. so I thought why not use that technique in the outcome. I jotted down the quotes on my hand/arm, in different coloured ink (artists were colour coded) and photographed the lyrics on my blackberry. The concept would be to either download these questions from a website.. or text "lyrics" to a number as many times as number of lyric images you would like sent in return. This would make it very accessible in transit and also on the sly, no one would know where you were generating such stimulating material.

It was something I just sort of threw myself into, out of idea desperation. But you can see the images of lyrics below.






I've since photographed a proper final outcome:


My other idea for this project was to create a newspaper insert so you could pretend you were reading the paper whilst you scanned a fake newspaper page loaded with questions at your disposal. It sort of sprung from an article I read about a BBC research study that discovered London has been rated as the loneliest city in the UK consistently for the past 40 years. So here is my somewhat hideous phony newspaper spread below:

iScream!

So because I love food so much and food experiments... and miss that Coconut milk ice cream that we had at health food shop I worked at this past summer + the recent spring like weather... I tried to make my own. Craving vanquished!
It was a bit too coconut-y so I think I will use more almond milk next time and give it a bit more sweetener. : )