The Horticulturalist

"Calculating, intuitive and slightly unhinged, she dresses in clinical white and her chunky heels are strictly for soil aeration purposes. Her neighbours often peer over the back fence, catching strange glimpses of shear wielding and poison brewing. The psychotropic weed assassin digs in the garden all day but somehow her fingernails are always clean.

Our greenhouse girl has more knowledge than a shelf full of botany books, a scientific approach to growth patterns and soil acidity and an unnatural attachment to the fruits of her labour. Her long locks turned green from chlorophyll exposure and she kills time pressing native flowers and herbs. If she planted her own hands, they’d probably sprout tulips." (Bianca Blades and Kellie Pembroke).

I thought I'd share some out takes from a shoot I did with the Sargasso Sea girls, a few months ago. You can see the full story here at Haunt Mag which has become my recent favorite source of visual inspiration.

Brisbane babes Bianca Blades and Kellie Pembroke are the duo behind the impeccable visual diary of fashion and media culture. Full of well informed and witty articles on fashion and consumptions as well a plethora of perfectly curated glossy fashion images it's no wonder Sargasso Sea won the 2012 Ultrabook Pedestrian.tv Blogster Awards (where they scored an internship with Vogue Australia in Sydney). It's meeting such motivated creatives that truly make me want to get off my ass and do MORE STUFF!

So when Bianca approached me to be in their next styling and fashion direction project, I was over the moon to be involved. This was a Spring story without the expected aspect of floral overkill, where a fictional fashion character was invented so you could only imaging how much I was loved the concept! We spent a lovely afternoon dressing up in Emily Mcguire's dreamy creations, digging around the West End community gardens!

Hope you liked the images and check out more of their work on Sargasso Sea.

Slow Down

A while back in Melbourne I was lucky enough to hang out and get shot by Winter's Children! The lovely duo consisting of Alicia Maybir and Josie Gelling are all about a certain heartfelt process involving film photography, (sometimes mixing digital) then playing with mixed media and a nostalgic way of 'waiting things to dry.'

No doubt these girls are onto something here! Part 1 and part 2 are up but still waiting in anticipation for many more posts to come from our shoot, still being cooked up as we speak! In the mean time, here's a little more about them...

How did it all begin/how did you guys meet?
So we met this one time in grade 7 primary school in Cairns and then we went through a faze of emailing each other from our primitive hotmail accounts every single day for about 3 weeks. We used to get really into it, changing all the colours, fonts and sizes it was like windows 95 multicolour, lucida sans vomit, pretty great. And so here we are 9 years later. As far as the blog goes after high school we were living in different cities and both had shitty personal blogs, so then we decided to combine them and make one big shitty blog thus the birthing of Winter's Children.

3 words that describe winters children?
toxic diabetes banana

What/who inspires you to create?
rubbish, music, culture, film, friends, drop kicks, books, posters, nostalgia, food, freaks, bad dreams, good dreams, cheap wine, lack of sleep.

What's next for winters children (any exciting projects coming up)?
At the moment we're collaborating with a bunch of really cool people, It's all pretty up in the air at the moment but we'll be keeping y'all updated on our facebook and all the other social networking crap we have out there.

If you guys had to eat one type of food for the rest of your life what would it be?
Avocamato

Top 3 movies of all time?
The next 3 movies Alicia makes...

The perfect soundtrack to your life?



Something you're looking forward to?
Continuing to travel the world with our imaginary money!

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Evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M (long and medium wavelength) cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S (short-wavelength) cone cells.

Please excuse this visually heavy explosion of a post after a week of absence; hope the updates on Facebook have kept things moving!

I used to think that yellow cars should be put down but was always tempted to lick this creamy, (mango pancakes) coloured, lamb skin bag my grandma use to own. I don't own ANYTHING yellow except my house shirt from school but I'm starting to think that I should. What's better than ghosting people's peripheries like a speck of glitter!?