DYNASTI- 贰零肆陆 by Rose NG

When I was in Melbourne early last year; I had the pleasure of staying with Rose Ng and Ice Cheung - of Dynasti. After I came home in a food coma to a frozen house due to the malfunctioning heating system, to my dismay, we setup a makeshift studio space in the living room and shot this amazing series and video. There were no complains as we shot into the early hours of the morning because we knew we were merely vessels materialising Rose's stylised vision, a re imagining of Wong Kar Wai's movie 2046. The whole experience has really got me proud of my roots; looking into Chinese culture and tradition and just being inspired by Chinese aesthetics, a philosophy that drives Dynasti. 

Full spread and video after the break!

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!

Raven

Images by Jessica Shipard of Colony

While I was in Melbourne a few friends and I were hooked up with new hair courtesy of Prophecy in Fitzroy! You may not know this, but I dread visiting the hair dressers, I HATE getting my hair cut and more so, sitting in the chair for hours while I get my roots done. Being at Prophecy though was just like hanging out with friends (+good music and wine), add to that you're guaranteed walking out of there loving your new look, or in my case, I grew to adore my dark raven locks. It has even changed my style a bit, I have observed my tendency to 'witch' it up again. Funny how your hair can do that to you...

For years, I never imagined having, let alone liking my natural dark hair, but they made me realize a new way to work with it, the black semi permanent 'veil' was genius for the roots situation (that was getting out of control), whilst keeping the bright green and layering electric blue over it. The more I wash it, the more colours come through and continues looking salon fresh and more importantly, healthy. See, they don't try hard, they're quietly cool and they totally know what they are doing. 

All you lucky ducks residing in Melbourne should pop down on a Tuesday for 20% off all services (until the 14th of August), you may still even see my cheeky (literally :S) toosh in the window!

Let me know what you think? Perhaps major hair plans for the future, ones you have always wanted but unsure?

Downunder Facehunter

ew...sounds suss..

even though Brisbane missed out (you seriously don't know what you've missed yvan!), Sydney and Melbourne, do us proud!

xwen