Poladroid Day

I'm house sitting at the moment - beautiful garden and a cupboard full of biscuits!

Perth Upmarket - November

Yay! Its off to market I go this Sunday coming, for the October edition of Perth Upmarket. I'll be showing off some new stuffs, plus I'll try and have some of my classic designs that have had a rest for a year or two now, like my snowy owl design....

So to get you all excited, I thought I'd share some photos of Upmarkets in the past...

I'll be in a different spot than usual, so anyone who is a regular - come and find me in the FOYER. (usually I'm upstairs in Winthrop Hall)

xx Lauren

Looking Back - QLD holiday #2

Photos of the extra-ordinary. Sometimes I love taking photos of boring things, uninspiring scenes, and things that go beneath notice.

In the depths of my Hard Drive lives many fluffy bunnies and a half-eaten nutella sandwich

washington at bigdayout 2011

working on my skills of live-music photography is super fun and rewarding.

also gets me a lot of conversations with cute boys :)

i've been going through my whole 40GB of storage as it unsorted itself when I corrupted the files and had to get them restored and i'm not even a quarter way through sorting yet, even though i've been at it for a couple of weeks now - the good side of this is i get to re-discover all the things that never got airtime on the blog back when they were born :)

x Lauren

A letter from Acorn

Just uploaded this sweetie to my acorns vintage etsy store. $20.00. xx

I'm super happy with my photography this time around! :)

Looking Back - QLD holiday

I kind of lost momentum blogging about my trip to QLD during the last uni break. Unfortunately it meant that I didnt get to share a huge amount of really quite awesome photos (IMO).

We stayed at this super super dodgy motel one night (mum didnt realise its dodgyness until it was too late). EVERYTHING in the chalet (except the light bulbs i suspect) was at the latest probably mid 70s. It was pure gold photography wise, but it smelt bad, you sank in the bed (thankfully i made my own bed so i at least know the sheets were clean), and you could hear EVERYTHING through the paper thin walls. My mum is like THE champion snorer :P

But here a few of the interior shots done up in poladroid... enjoy!

Another late night, another blog.

Here's my latest non-contribution to the blog world; rollerskatingbooks

I think I have something like 10 blog addresses now, its getting rediculous.

Looking Back

I remember posting this image aaaaages ago.

But it's still as lovely to me and relevant as if I'd taken it yesterday. So here it is again.

Heart Holga Necklace

New necklace design by me. Have a looksie here.

Day 2 : Relatives and Food

So today we went on a mini-road trip to see some of my many many many relatives that live in QLD (my Mum comes from QLD so half my rellies are here, and half are home in Perf (there is a sweet romantic story involving playing entire Crowded House songs over the phone behind the cross-state thing but seeing as my parents are now divorced it's a tad moot) - plus one family in London - HAVE to go and stay with them sometime.

So I slept on the way to my great aunt and uncles in our HUGE MASSIVE BIG LARGE rental people mover and then ate lots of handmade tea-cake and bakery bought slice and store bought biscuits. Guess what tasted best.

And then took about 100 photos on the way back. I picked the ones of cool signs. I cant beleive there is actually a sign for dugongs.

Plus this house looks like its supposed to be in UP.
It would be even better if the fence was pickett.

xx Lauren

Day 1 : Hello from RADelaide

EDIT - i know its late but my photos wouldnt upload yesterday *blows rasberry*

So yeah. Got up at 6am for the plane/s. Right now I'm on the brother's laptop 'cause mine's flat (from watching Ghost in the Shell with the other brother) - and on hella slow internets. So we'll see if the pic upload actually works.

15 minutes later...

these boxed different hands depending on what button you pressed.
yay tourist shops in airports.

xx Lauren

p.s. my Mum wants a mention so here it is.

Born Together

This is the first video I've ever made. Pretty cool huh? I'm so proud of me :)

Its a stop motion film created from over 300 photos taken with my Nikon D5000 on an old vintage tripod (that I scored for $5 at an opshop) in 10 or 30 second self-timed intervals.

I then used a free program called JPGVideo to collate the images into a video by dividing the seconds in the song I wanted to use by the amount of images I had (plus some wiggle room for end credits) and then using that number to space the images.

I then dumped that into Windows Movie Maker, which I had never even opened before and was delighted with how easy it was to use - didn't have to use web-help once! Once it was in there I added the audio file and the end credit image which was made by layering text over the final image in photoshop and then saving as a jpg.

Then I exported the whole she-bang and uploaded to Vimeo. :)

If you want to buy the painting, it's not sold at the time of this post - chekkit here.

xx Lauren

In Progress

floral holga, originally uploaded by Osier!.

Just a little snippet of something I'm working on for this challenge.

Little Red - All Mine

Live @ The Astor Theatre 2nd October

Little Red are quickly stealing their way into the number one place in my heart. Which is an achievement, considering they've only got two albums and are toddlers as far as the music industry is concerned. usually I place my love with other more established bands...

I'm getting better at taking concert photos, but still have a long way to go. Practice makes perfect - take a look at all the other ones (there is an embarrassingly large amount) on my flickr.

xx Lauren

Dwellingup Residency

Decided I'm going to do more of a photo journal as I cant be sh*tted to tell you about all the sleepy towns, heritage buildings and cute baby moments (not mine, I can assure you - Ali's baby Eloise).

Basic Info : I've been in Dwellingup since Monday living with Ali while she does her 3 week artist residency. I've been creating my socks off and making a stop-motion animation of Ali creating one of her works... I'll show it to you once I'm done.

And now Niina's here too. Yay!

Note the Harry Potter reference (getting so excited it's rather embarrassing), the Little Red postcards (seeing their new show on Saturday night, triple excitement - they're such a great band) and the candy heart lollies from my friends 21st last Saturday that had treasure-lolly-bags when you went home (with parachute soldiers, bubble-mix and party poppers), so cute, reminded me of how awesome parties were when I was little.

So yeash, making lots of cards, going bonkers with paper doileys, having fun spelling things out with scrabble-tiles, and making fabric-covered buttons.

Oh. And drinking tea. Can't forget that.

Feets vs. Feats

Something you acheive vs. something you are born with.

Or rather, an abbreviation of "featuring" - often used by R&B'ers
vs.
Mine and Renee's!

Please excuse my apparently uneven knees.

Aperture

My Father's House can be quite photogenic at times.

Magazine Marvels : Antler Issue 3 February

Titled "vintage", its easy to guess what the theme of the mag was, and as I've come to expect it was filled with whimsical, washed out imagery. Which although is a little overdone now in the indie world, I ADORE IT!. And yes I know it was published way back in Feb, but I only just remembered to check my online mag list today (its down the bottom of the right hand column of this blog).

Sometimes I get bored of reading artist interviews, I guess they need to be pretty special to catch my interest nowadays, having read them all the time from Etsy and Frankie/Peppermint. Antler does ask some really cool questions, like "tell us a random thing about your work" - which gets some interesting replies! But there are a lot too many in there for my tastes (Antler doesnt have anything except interviews and photoshoots - so really thats to be expected), so I skipped over more than half of them, I can really only stomach about three in a row with my attention span, I might go back and read them later if I'm in the mood.

Photoshoots. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH MY HEART ACHES. Not just Antlers ones, but photoshoots in general make me very happy. Especially couple ones where there are a boy and girl model playing pretend, I don't know why it's enjoyable to watch two rediculously good looking people together but it is. There are two different styles of photoshoot in this issue - the washed out whimsical, and the black and white crisp coture style. I like both, and I really appreciate the mix. Good work Antler.

Plus one of them is named after a Fleetwood Mac song. Extra Points.

Travel. Well I think its travel. There's a cool photojournal titled "7 minutes of being a geisha" - kind of a fashion shoot, kind of a photography exhibition, kind of a travel log. I liked the photos of random Japanese things, as thats what I end up doing on all my holidays. I end up not having any sweeping panoramas, happy snaps or food photos, just weird micro-scale things like mailboxes and flowers.

I have many favorite pages, but this one took my breath away, literally. I sat there dumbfounded for at least 40 seconds, drinking it in. You need to click on it to see it in its full-size amasingness.



So spooky and beautiful and dreamy and symbolic... a perfect last page.


So there is my first magazine review. What do you think? Should I do more, or just link to things I like and leave you guys to figure it out for yourselves? If you read it, can you tell me what you think too?

xx lauren

EDIT :: duh. forgot to link to it.
http://issuu.com/antlermagazine/docs/vol3vintage

A Letter From Acorn

Just posted some lovely new vintage shoes over at my vintage shop! Take a look!

I'm a Sucker for Succulents

Yep. Pretty much.

I potted up a really kitsch awesome vintage swan container succulent for Made on the Left, as well as about 20 others, but I wanted to show it to you with its lovely owner!


I love this photo :)

Oh, and I just listed this cute lil'guy over at Acorns Vintage too!


xx