http://grooveshark.com/widget.swf March has been such a weird month for me, scaffolded by family tragedies and traumas. It's not that it hasn't had its upsides. I've finished editing my manuscript, been shortlist for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction and had a piece published and another one teed up for publication. It's pretty exciting professionally, it's… Continue reading I’m so Fancy
Month: March 2014
Sunday Short: The Weather Inside by Mireille Juchau
In the months after Pip’s funeral your mother started carrying the umbrella. Sometimes the sky was tremendously clear. Blue as a borage, threatening nothing. You didn’t like to see her in the town this way, her face so deeply shaded that it looked as if the umbrella was walking on its own. Sometimes she arrived… Continue reading Sunday Short: The Weather Inside by Mireille Juchau
Friday Finds
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/GinJuHGnPkw&source=uds Darwin Deez is kind of my jam at the moment, and this video clip is both hilarious and turning the creep factor up a notch. - These photographs by Madame Peripetie may be the best things I've seen all week. Or maybe these ones are. - These photos of exotic dancers from the 1890s… Continue reading Friday Finds
Family Affairs FW 2014
Ah! I am close to obsessed with Family Affairs FW 2014 collection! It totally reminds me of Regency-era dresses and the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. The dresses are particularly fabulous, and I may or may not (totally may) be fantasising about the blue maxi below. It is divine. You can check out… Continue reading Family Affairs FW 2014
Sunday Short: 3.5 by Betsy Turcot
I imagine her peel the corners free,turn the image over,savor pen scratch, smile that smile that will bend meto the place I dream of going back to being.Betsy Turcot is one of my favourite poets around at the moment. Her ability to twist moments of perfect domesticity into moments of perfect prose is almost unparalleled. I… Continue reading Sunday Short: 3.5 by Betsy Turcot
Friday Finds
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/ar6D5uQcC7E&source=uds You know when you discover a new singer and then immediately descent into a blackhole until you've listened to their entire catalogue a gazillion times? That was my week with Basia Bulat. She's glorious. Her cover of Robyn's Dancing on My Own is pretty close to perfect too. - Needless to say, I am… Continue reading Friday Finds
YEVU
I am completely obsessed with YEVU right now, a collection designed by Australian, Anna Robertson after a trip to Ghana. She utilises colour and mismatched prints in a way that's beyond perfect. Plus, styling the beautiful, bright colours on such gorgeous models against such sepia-toned backdrops is stunning and makes the whole thing pop. You… Continue reading YEVU
A Book a Week in 2014: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green (11/52)
Hazel is sixteen years old, philosophical, whip smart and an avid reader. She also has stage 4 thyroid cancer and metastasis forming in her lungs. During a group therapy session, she meets Augustus Waters, an amputee, cancer-patient currently in remission. Their meeting becomes a catalyst for friendship, romance, comings of age, enlightenments and disillusionments, and,… Continue reading A Book a Week in 2014: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green (11/52)
Beauforts
My grandfather passed away yesterday. He'd been unwell for a while, battling dementia, pneumonia and fluid in the brain, so it was a far cry from unexpected. That said, it's hit me harder than I expected, clenched its fist around my heart and sat heavy and unpleasantly in me. That's probably not all that… Continue reading Beauforts
Sunday Short: High Tide by Kristin Kemper
High Tide from Kristin Kemper on Vimeo. Ah! How sweet is this short film by Kristin Kemper? She mentions on her channel that she'd filled it with things she loved - merpeople, school kids with magical secrets and hermit crabs and, well, I'm pretty damn on board with all of those things. This is an… Continue reading Sunday Short: High Tide by Kristin Kemper
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