29 Ways to Stay Creative
Being creative is hard. It’s unpredictable, and difficult to control. Sometimes it just flows (for me, it’s usually when I’m in that in-between state of consciousness, about to fall asleep- which is both wonderful and incredibly annoying), other times you feel like there’s an empty void where all your ideas should be. But there’s nothing [...]
Covering Lolita
“Lo-li-ta.” One of the most incredible, beguiling, mesmerising books in the history of English literature. Also one of the most controversial- which perhaps adds to its inherent allure. On the one hand, it’s a beautiful, deeply painful love story. Then you remember the creepy underbelly, and it hits you all over again. Descriptions of such [...]
Katy Grannan: Poet of the down-and-out
There’s something disarming about Katy Grannan’s sun-bleached, strangely melancholy portraits. Taken against white stucco walls under the strong, unforgiving midday light of Hollywood Boulevard and San Fransisco’s Tenderloin District, Grannan’s images capture the strange and familiar, nakedly exposing their subjects as they have chosen to be seen. It’s a narrative of a first encounter, imbued [...]
For Japan: Wish on paper cranes
Watching the horrifying aftermath of the earthquake in Japan, all most of us can do is send our wishes. It’s overwhelming, perplexing. It’s easier to just hide away and shut it out. But if you’re feeling too defeated by it all to even send hope out into the universe, this lovely drawing by Kelly Smith [...]
The Curve of Forgotten Things
Fashion films are the new lookbook- and this one for Rodarte is particularly lovely. The Curve of Forgotten Things is a dreamy introduction to design duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s spring collection, capturing a nostalgic and somewhat eerie atmosphere that may just make you want to grow your hair long and skip through dusty oilfields. [...]
Frocks, feathers and fashionistas
If you’re fond of elegant, quirky fashion drawings, you’ll love Charlotte Brunskill. Her stylised images of stretched out, leggy girls, all draped in luxurious frocks and creative haute couture, are both effortlessly chic and unapologetically fun, showing a joyful appreciation for the play and imagination of fashion. Charlotte’s experience as a makeup artist puts her [...]
Women and cake: A love-hate story
You know you shouldn’t. You really shouldn’t. You’ll spend the whole time loudly berating yourself for being such a pig, or adding a defense about how you haven’t eaten all day, or how you never do this. You’ll hate yourself afterwards, feel guilty for being weak. You’ve broken a promise with yourself to be good. [...]
What Does a Feminist Look Like?
The brand of feminism has suffered considerably over the years. I’m not sure when exactly it happened, but somewhere along the line, being a feminist became a really ugly label, one that apparently means you’re an angry, humourless, hairy-legged man-hater. No one wants to be associated with that image. Girls and women are always careful [...]
The quiet loveliness of Li Hui
Soft, still and silent… these photographs are so pretty they almost break my heart. That happens to me sometimes- I’ll see or read or hear something that’s just so divine and delightful and surprisingly… perfect that I just don’t know what to do with myself. Li Hui’s enchanting, evocative images stir up just that feeling [...]
art beneath the city
Somewhere beneath the streets of New York City, 100 artists, including 8 Australians, are working on something secret. The Underbelly Project is a gallery that exists outside of the art world, far beneath the world of critics, dealers and even the general public. It is a trove of urban art on an enormous scale, entombed [...]
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