sixteen candles

finally I've added sixteen candles to my Molly Ringwald dvd collection. It's definitely a classic, I especially love the taffeta and her hats.

thinking spiritual thoughts...

Happy Holidays!

Here is the 'Indie Christmas Playlist'

1. The Raveonettes – The Christmas Song
2. Dismemberment Plan – This Christmas
3. Death Cab For Cutie – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
4. The Polyphonic Spree – Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
5. Sufjan Stevens – We Three Kings Of Orient Are
6. The Flaming Lips – A Change at Christmas
7. The Walkmen – No Christmas While I’m Talking
8. Mogwai – Christmas Song
9. Sufjan Stevens – O Holy Night
10. Yo La Tengo – It’s Christmas Time
11. The Flaming Lips – Christmas At The Zoo
12. Eels – Christmas Is Going To The Dogs
13. Coldplay – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
14. Low – Just Like Christmas
15. Copeland – Do You Hear What I Hear
16. Ron Sexsmith – Maybe This Christmas
17. Sufjan Stevens – What Child Is This Anyway

While I like the idea of some songs in this list, to be honest I'm listening to Sufjan Stevens' christmas cds - of which I own 6.  They are amazing. I want the boy to come home from Bathurst and sing with me and drink eggnogg! now!

 

Don't tell any of my friends stranded in the northern hemisphere... but I wish I was having a white christmas!  Maybe next year...

our bodies are a strange place

I want to find my spirograph!

isn't this a lovely idea?!

somewhere

 

I am very much looking forward to seeing sofia coppola's film 'somewhere'!  Above is her inspiration board for the film.  It looks so beautiful.

I was thinking today that I should make an inspiration board for myself... then I realised maybe my whole study is maybe an extended inspiration board! It's such a good idea to do for projects of all kinds, I should get into the habit of doing this regularly for my architectural and design projects.

Good Gosh it's Gehry!

Last Friday Frank Gehry unveiled the design for his first ever Australian building to be built at UTS. He has nicknamed it the 'Treehouse'.  He said that his vision for the building was embedded in the streetscape. Its power would pulsate through the crowded inner city, offering people passing by ''fascinating vignettes''.  The folds of the facade that are a signature of his are inspired by folds in the sculptures of Michelangelo and da Vinci. The other facade, a collection of angled sheets of glass, presents a fractured view of the urban sandstone and brick existing on the site.

Despite not being his biggest fan, I am very excited about having a Gehry in Sydney, and am looking forward to seeing how the build and the reactions to the building unfold!

$150m Total value
16,000 Total floor area in square metres across 11 floors
2012 Construction starts, to be completed by 2014 academic year

new frankie is out! love it.

 

 

The Mayne Event

For a very many years now 'starchitect' Thom Mayne has been on my crush list.  On Tuesday night Angela and I went to see him speak as part of the AIA talk series. 
I found it very surprising how many empty seats there were in the audience - afterwards we chatted about the shame of Sydney's lack of creative networks and interest in the promotion and production of architectural events within the industry itself as well as stretching outside into the design community as a whole.
Anyway, back to my starchitect rush on Thom...

 "Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972. As design director and thought leader of Morphosis, Mayne provides overall vision, project leadership and direction to the firm. With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, 75 American Institute of Architecture Awards and numerous other design recognitions." (http://morphopedia.com/people/thom-mayne)

His architecture, obviously, is and has been a huge influence for me.  However, it was his processes and method of designing that really intrigues me at the moment.  As he spoke on Tuesday I madly scribbled notes into my sketchbook, his words verbatim and adding my own thoughts and observations along the way.  It was a symphony of instant inspiration.

1992
Montage
32 x 36 inches (81.3 x 91.4 cm)

I'm very much looking forward to his new book about his investigations into urban landscapes.  He mentioned that this will also include some of his visual experiments/artworks that he has been developing in studio, exploring space and space making within given parameters.

a whole year of bunnies!

Next year is the year of the rabbit! My front garden is always full of rabbits when I go out in the morning, they make me so happy.

Apricot

APRICOT — A Short Film by Ben Briand from Moonwalk Films on Vimeo.

This is a beautiful short film by Ben Briand which I stumbled across on the frankie blog

Hello! G'day! Ohayo! Bonjour!

 

(Image credit - http://renee-anne.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/01_Suitcases-500x367.jpg)

I had the most exciting surprise when I saw that I can check statistics on this blog - that despite my very inconsistent updating it is regularly checked up upon by people all over the world, not just in australia but largely from canada, the states, france, poland, japan and some places in the middle east too! 

I feel a little awkward about it actually, but it is motivation to put more things up on here 

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sorry

I'm totally exhausted from this last semester at uni and have been crazy busy with all kinds of ridiculous things! I am off to get inspired and will be BACK with a vengeance and full of wonderful inspiration!