Weekend Adventures

This weekend has been my first weekend off in a few weeks!

I'm feeling a bit sick today and I'm not happy with any of the artwork that I've come up with... so I will just need to work on some things for next weekend!

In the mean time... I had an adventure this weekend (probably why I'm feeling run down today! haha) and have taken lots of photos during my adventures.

Here is what I've been up to:

On Friday I went to the Strutten Exhibition at Bleeding Heart Gallery that was organised by a few of my good friends.


A detail of Dominique Falla's amazing tactile typography work:

My friend Erin was in love with these prawns by: Sue-Ching Lascelles

But we weren't allowed to take photos of the artwork... so I haven't included any of my favourite works!


Me hangin out with my good ol' buddy Liam!

Check out the artists from the Exhibit:
Sue-Ching Lascelles
Dominique Falla
Emily Devers
Fee Harding
Joanne Thies
Katelyn Hankinson
Kitty Horton
Julia Scott Green
Max Tynan
Steven Rhodes
Joel Birch

Then I went to the Hi-Fi bar in west end to see the Barksdale Brass band


It was a great night filled with friends, many beers, gypsy dancing, photographin, a delicious and well overdue dinner at Indian Kitchen and a heavy nights sleep!

Yesterday Shane had a gig in Buderim, so we went up early to visit Mooloolabah beach at lunch time.
We had a delicious lunch!!! Mine was barramundi on a roast pumpkin salad...

and Shane had a Portugese chicken club sandwich...


Then we went for a walk and a swim on the beach!



And I saw lots of jelly fish on the beach...






But I went for a swim any way... It was a nice refreshing dip! And then we layed in the grass by the sand and relaxed in the shade.



and took more photos of my feet... Have you seen this sweet project by photographer Tom Robinson?



Until it was time to go to the gig in Buderim... Here is the view from the top!


I read this other blog on adventures today: http://notetoselfmax.blogspot.com.au/

Underwater Love

I got my underwater pictures from my Stradbroke Island holiday developed today. It has inspired an underwater themed post!

1. Start off by listening to Underwater Love by Smoke City to get you in the underwater mood:


2. I would love to visit the Enoshima Aquarium one day for a sleep over and relaxation treatment with the jellyfish.




3. Beautiful pictures of Russian scientist Natalia Avseenko swimming naked with the beluga whales in the freezing arctic!

4. I'm dying to get one of the new Nikon CoolPix AW100 Cameras! They are waterproof up to 10m, freeze-proof up to -10degrees and shock-proof up to 1.5m! They also have an inbuilt GPS and map, HD Video, image stabilisation etc... etc... It seems like an indestructible camera to me - I would love one as I'm sick of being so precious with my good lens on my Cannon EOS 500D and yet a lot more pro than an underwater disposable camera used on my Stradbroke Island holiday! (AND I love the camouflage design).


5. This is one of my favourite photos taken by my wonderful and talented friend Alex Grigg. I love it so much, that he gave me a print and I have framed it on my bookshelf.

6. Remember this? One of my favourite animation's, by Lois van Baarle.

7. Here are a few of my photos from Stradbroke Island taken with a disposable underwater camera. I love the surprise when the film is developed and so many interesting photos come out of it!

8. I would like to leave you with the beautiful Esther Williams - doing an underwater ballet... I think she is an actual live mermaid. AND this funny underwater clip I came across whilst watching lots of Esther Williams footage.