Tagged: art

LOVE MELBOURNE

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Langridge Street, Collingwood


I have a bit of a confession to make...I am not in love Melbourne. Alex calls me ungrateful and she is right. I don't not like it but well, I don;t love it like I am supposed to. Maybe I have travelling fatigue as I have lived in so many different places and I am hopelessly in love with Cape Town and London and even Perth to an extent because it holds my two greatest loves being my family and an incredible coastline.


The truth is, I have never given Melbs a chance. I came here depressed and was depressed for the last two years. Yawn! I know! Another depressed creative right? I hate to be a cliche but not even I can escape being generalised. I enjoy it here and I have made some incredible friends and I don't even hate the weather so it's not that. I literally have not made the effort because there is no reason why I shouldn't love this incredible city. The rest of Australia adore it! It is like everyone's sweetheart. As far as music, art, food, fashion and architecture go, Melbourne is the one.


Lately, I have been watching a lot of Woody Allen flicks and I have been inspired by the weird little twerp. No, I don't want to move to New York...I'm not that predictable. What I do want to do though, is have a love affair with my city just like he does. So today, instead of using my car or getting the tram back from the city I decided to walk. There was method to my madness because I had a brownie for breakfast and I could do with the exercise.


Now that everyone has an iPhone and instagram everyone is also a photographer...including myself. And I will be using these tools to document this burgeoning love affair. I urge you to try and find the silver linings in your own city if you can't travel. Trust me, they're everywhere! You just have to pay attention.




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So much green in Carlton


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Gertrude Street, Fitzroy


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I sent one


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CBD


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I liked the colours


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So 90s


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Hole in the wall


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Waiting for sushi


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Why the long face?


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Number 10


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All hype, no substance


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Stairs and carpet in a doorway


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Splat!


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The grass is always greener


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Red brick wall


 

Tonight in Perth!

My very good friend and talented artist Ryan Boserio has a show in Fremantle TONIGHT! Yes tonight. Hurry! It's at Hole in the Wall Gallery on Adelaide Street. Don't know where that is?  Google is your frieeeeeend.  Hey, I'm posting this mega late (there is a pattern here) but I actually just remembered whilst in the shower and was like 'SHIT!!!' so here you go, last minute hustle to Freo for all youWestern Australians.  It starts at 6! Sooooooo that's like in half an hour.

Watch Ryan in action...



Man that boy is talented.  It also happens that he was responsible for this piece of work...



 

Yes he saw my boobies and was the perfect gentleman.  Do you guys remember this photo?  Damn, this was like 18 months ago now! How time flies when you're having fun and freezing your ass off in Melbourne.

So yeah, Ryan. Art. Freo. Paint. Awesome. GO!

 

RYAN BOSERIO


 

Plastic Dolls.



So I'm a bit annoyed.  I know that this is a topic that most people originally from other third world countries would have an opinion on about a different object, but me being from Africa...this is mine.

The other day THIS popped up in my inbox.   I knew it was going to happen, I've seen these plastic girls pop up on various design and interior blogs and I've cringed every time.

The doll is made domestically in Africa. Girls play with these dolls they call by caring for them, dressing and feeding them, and sometimes tucking them into the waistbands of their skirts just as women carry infants in cloth wrappers wrapped around their waists. There are significant rituals associated with girls, including the belief that proper care for the doll can ensure fertility and survival of children.

These are sold for couple of Rands back home and the money (we hope) go to the kids in the townships.  Since I have lived in Australia I have visited Cape Town twice.  Each time I go back home I buy one of these in a different colour and hopefully plan oto go back and visit enough in my lifetime to collect all the colours.

 



 

God my dressing table needs a tidy.  Anyway. There is nothing one can do about them being bought in the masses with the first world economy dollar and then flogged at some wanky trade show to be sold on to housewives who read Home and Garden.  They're cute and they look great and of course they would be a hit, but I just wanted you all to know the back story before you just went in and consumed without thinking.

 

A chat with the girl that made my nearly edible iPhone case

Hey guys remember when I came home from London with THIS...



Yeah I know, there is a lot going on what with the nails and phone and err thang, but I'm sure you are all used to it by now. ANYWAY, I went in for my last mani at WAH before I left for home, and the girl that did my nails had the most amazing cover on her phone...now I think we over use the word 'amazing' but come on, I was amazed.  So I hit her up and she said she a) makes them and b) sells them.  So I gots her to make it so I could cops it.  And the icing on the cake is that she is also a sweet heart.

Meet Loui...


I'm going to ask the same question everyone who lives in London gets asked...what do you love about the city?


What I love most about London is the diverse culture, fashion, shopping and random little places you discover on your journey's.

 

You are so creative! (hello check out my nails for one thing) What gave you the idea for these phone cases?


Thanks Tammy! I come from a creative family and love designing and decorating things.  I first saw the phonecase on someone else , and decided I wanted to make one for my self. At first I never thought other people would want one aswell but they did so I started experimenting and making more :)

 

What's the inspiration? (other than candy!)


The inspiration for the phonecases is from Japan , they go all out when it comes to things like this !! Plus I love all things to bling, sparked, and look pretty.

 

What is your trademark?


My trademark.....is probably my phonecases and nail designs (can that be a trademark?)

 

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?


Oooh hard question , I'm a homegirl at heart but if I could still have my friends and family probably somewhere that's tropical, but still like a city ummm not sure lol . Maybe Jamaica or Miami!

 

If someone wanted one of these phone cases, how could they contact you?


If someone wants a case they can contact me on my email which is :
louloumarie80@googlemail.com

 

Will you ship worldwide?


Yes I will try and meet everyones needs and will defo ship worldwide!

 

Do you like OWLS?


Owls are cool ,I wish I could turn my head round like that. And there in fashion right now from jewelry to tattoos.

 



Loui's designs are all custom and hand made, so just tell homegirl your feel and she will try her best to accommodate. Prices range from 20 to 25 pounds depending on your demands! I miss these WAH girls and their multi talented hands! (not in that way)

xxx

ACCLAIM ISSUE 25 – TEASER VID



Today is a day of boobs it would appear...oh well, worse things have happened innit.  ACCLAIM MAGAZINE are about to drop their 25th issue (I miss being 25) and the theme for this one is...AUSTRALIA.  Funny that, because this year I cemented my love for this great country and I helped the guys at Acclaim with some styling on this issue...naw!  Don't expect some Southern cross covered, aus hip hop *super star* on the cover, these guys are a little more lateral thinking than that and they got Aussie iconic artist KEN DONE in on the game.   Here is a vid of the man in action shot by Trevor King. They're a talented bunch over here on this big ass island.

Mag is due to hit the stands December 1st...I think?  Subscribe if you want accuracy.



ACCLAIM x Ken Done: Issue 25 Cover Shoot from ACCLAIM Magazine on Vimeo.

The Obnoxious Owl Experience – LDN Edition

This is me in a hotel room in Korea. Yes, I purposely have my tits out. I wish I had a white dressing gown. I was so tempted to roll this from the hotel hey...but I'll be damned if I go to a Korean prison for a terry cloth robe.


*sigh* London gives me the same butterflies you get before a date with a boy you really like. But then hate the city the same way you hate the boy when you're waiting for his call. I didn't do much on this trip other than catch up with friends, eat Doritos Cool Original and buy jackets. I bought 4 jackets...who the fuck needs 4 jackets? Not me, that's who. Some girls like shoes, I'm a jacket girl. Saying that, how swaggy do my purple AM's look hey?


I styled the female grime mc LIONESS in Landan Town...look at her rocking the BUTCHDIVA! Hot damn I can't wait to show you the whole shoot. Pity photographers don't know what deadline means. Are you a photographer and offended? Don't care.


This is me after I got my first WAH mani and I got a fringe trim. I never in a million years thought I would be the kind of girl that takes photos of herself and put them on the internet...WELL I AM. Can you tell I'm grumpy? I just flew back into Aus this morning....I want to kill everyone.


Art on Brick Lane. Art Art Art Art Art Art .... it's everywhere.


And so is INSA


Me and my friend Kara, the designer of Y'OH. Check it out...it will make you excited. She was so fucking busy with the launch yet she found so much time to hang out and listen to all my boy trouble. LET'S KILL ALL THE BOYS! Haha, I kid. Anyway, Kara is a gem...one for the BFF book.


God I miss these already. I had like 27 packets while I was there. They are little light cheesy 'tings. I drank 4 quid wine and munched on these. Cheese and wine innit.


What do you want me to say about these exactly?


I took her photograph on the bus...her jacket is fucking baller!


This is Dalston, where I stayed for the full 3 weeks. I took this when I was on my way home from spending 24 hours with someone really special...well to me anyway. He actually isn't that special in general haha. I love East London...I think I left it like 3 times. I seriously need to get out more.


So after 3 weeks I'm back in Melbourne. I went to London to consider moving there again...and I think I will...but not just yet. It was weird, near the end I kind of couldn't wait to leave. It really IS weird because London is my most favorite place on earth. I don't know what it is though, recession, maybe post riot come down, I dunno...but there is an air of misery in the air over in England at the moment. My folk who are holding it down there at the moment have so much respect from me, it's hard city man. But when it's good, it's just magical. My love affair with that place is directly linked to my taste in men. I love to be treated mean and kept keen but its becoming exhausting as I get older. If anything came out of this trip, it's that I am going to get a hustle on the book I have been writing for the last 5 years. Thank you London for inspiring me yet again x

MORE PHOTO'S AND EXPERIENCES CAN BE FOUND ON THE OWL TUMBLR HERE - Follow, don't follow...whatever, I'm going to go and try and shake this jet lag xx


 

WAH WAH WAH WAH

I leave London this Tuesday and I have much to say about it, but that is for a different post. I just wanted to shout out the girls at WAH from the TopShop in Westfield, Stratford because they WELL looked after me on this trip.  I was a bit devo that the Dalston salon wasn't in nail operation about these babes made up for it. Go check them out, tell them I sent ya and look at THESE that they did for me.