“cause it’s a bitter sweet symphony this life.. trying to make ends meet you’re a slave to money then you diieee”

Sydney part two… Graffiti, homelessness, funny signs, street fashion, Mr bean car complete with Teddy, lovers, chocolate & a blurry Chinese New Year…

Coming up… Adelaide Big Day Out!!

“All in all it’s just another brick in the wall… All in all you’re just another brick in the wall”

Picture worth a thousand words…

…Best tie EVER!

“cause it’s a bittersweet symphony this life… trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die”

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It is my dream to do a flying semi-roll stage dive into a crowd of people.. that brief moment of will they, won’t they as your flying through the air, the pure adrenaline.. hey if you want it bad enough it might just happen. I think that is one of the coolest things about being a musician.. getting to stage dive magnificently

“Tell me why? I don’t like Mondays.. Tell me why? I don’t like Mondays”

“Hey! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I’m not sleepy and there ain’t no place I’m going to…”

“I wanna fuck you like an animal.. I wanna feel you from the inside.. I wanna fuck you like an animal.. My whole existence is flawed”

Raunchy, controversial, exciting.. ..

This is a shoot for Tom Ford by Carine Roitfeld, enhanced lighting to accentuate the wrinkles NO Photoshop and uses senior citizens to sell sex instead of prepubescents. Does it offend you? Are you repulsed?.. don’t judge.. this will soon be you, and that day is definitely going to come no matter how much you moisturise, suck, tuck, trim, slice, add-on and take-off. Deal with it, embrace it, love it.. sex isn’t just for the young, desire knows no boundaries and your libido isn’t going to just switch off the moment you’re over 50..

“For me, I believe this shoot is expressing that beauty shouldn’t be perceived in such a small scope, that sexuality isn’t just for the young and pretty and again it is a comment on the fantasy constructed around fashion to sell. I love that the images show wrinkles and accentuate the textures of the models skin. It’s about reality.” ~ Carine Roitfeld

“I take pictures.. photographic pictures, bright light, dark room.. bright light, dark room”

I entered the RayBan Photography contest a month or so back on a whim, they had four categories MUSIC, FASHION, SOCIAL and MOBILE I submitted a few of my treasured snaps.. and was super excited that a few got chosen! So from possible thousands or so I got whittled down to about hundred but then instead of having the judges.. (which included the infamous Tony Mott =D).. pick the best of the hundred it then turned into a popularity contest with “whoever gets the most ‘likes’ will get into the top five and then the esteemed judges will pick the winner”… Boooo!! Needless to say judging has finished and I’m preeeettty sure I didn’t win as all 170 of my “friends” didn’t all jump in with likes (thanks those who did =D) and even if they did I still wouldn’t have won. But looking at the calibre talent I’m stoked to have been chosen for the semi-finals.. hey glass half full! So this is the photo that got picked for the FASHION section I only submitted this one and it got in.. ..

I took it backstage at Fashion Palette when I was the junior stylist and head dresser.. this moment was while the local rag was there, putting the models and make-up artists into poses telling them to look natural while Ruby Rose stood in the middle and fake laughed.. the only time she was backstage amongst the chaos for the full weekend of fashion. And this photo made the cut!! I love the element of mayhem, camera blur from all the movement yet you focus on the face of the gorgeous model who is still and seems doll-like. The photo below is the same scene but to the right..

Obviously not as nice a picture.. you can see bits of the photographer now to my left standing on a chair taking a “candid” shot of Ruby surrounded by models backstage. So I now went through the RayBan FASHION page and I have chosen a few (many) photos of some of my fellow competitors pictures that are my personal favourites & you’ll see why I’m so flattered my picture actually got in.. be inspired ..

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My absolute favourite… of all of them! I love the tones, the aged hands to me are like maps of someone’s life you can tell what kind of life someone has had by their hands! And the rings are amazing..

“Prince Charming, prince charming, Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.. don’t you ever.. don’t you ever.. stop being dandy, showing me you’re handsome”

“Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys..always should be someone you really love”

Had to share this.. please watch it.. inspiring, real, moving.. and about time!

Eclectic collection today.. the above model Rick Genest otherwise known as Zombie Boy is breaking the mould having modelled for Thierry Mugler, Nicola Formichetti and appeared in Lady Gaga’s video for Born this way.. I think it is AMAZING that someone would do that to themselves… it is really confronting. Personally looking at him makes me feel a little nervous and I don’t like feeling that way it kind of shows the hold mainstream conservativeness still has on me. Maybe it is from all the horror movies I watch, or the realism in the fantastic tattoo work but he freaks me out slightly.. I’m not sure I could handle waking up next to him in the morning without getting a fright every.single.time. God that must get tiring coming out of the toilet stall, coming around the corner, entering a room and either scaring people or getting a million double-takes a day. Can you imagine what kind of prejudice he has to deal with on a daily basis? He will be judged worse than Blacks, Asians, White’s, Gay’s, Lesbian’s, transgender you name it.. everywhere he goes he will be bothered incessantly, stared at, pointed at,  talked about.. I’d love to interview him!! You know what I love it.. in a world that I feel is getting more and more conservative this gets people talking, gets people discussing and gets people learning, appreciating (hopefully) and maybe not so judgemental & prejudice..

I’m still working on my own photos ready for tomorrow..

“People try to put us down, just because we get around, things they do look awful cold.. I hope I die before I get old”

So before my post about the Dave Stewart & Stevie Nicks concert and that infamous backstage pass.. (as I left my camera at work with all relevant photos) thought I would share my latest inspiration and fellow Anglo-Brasilian….

I had an urge a year and a half ago to pop the cherry and get an undercut with my long never been chopped hair.. I let someone superficial and un-cool talk me out of it.. that urge has come back and before the summer is out I’m totally going for it.. .. Bowie-style