Dream Haze

One Girl, One Imagination, Eternity of Dreams

Monday, April 30, 2007

When Stars Collide

Congratulations to the Celebrity Photographer of the Year 2007

Guy Sebastian has won this rather obscure photography comp (where was my invite people?), fair and square (i.e no obsessive fans with RSI from smsing involved), and now I’m an even bigger admirer! (from a fellow-photographers point of view only, promise!)

Music and Photography definately go hand in hand as my favourite forms of creative expression, and I couldn’t have picked a better mix O=) That doesn’t mean I’ll be releasing a single anytime soon, sorry to dissapoint. Sadly however, I thought he was gawking at me at a recent concert, however now I know he was just checking out my (sexy beast of a..) camera. KIDDING GUYS, quit GROANING at me!
Anyways…
In all seriousness..

I’m really hoping they do an expo up here, it’d be really interesting to view photos by people who are usually stuck at the wrong end of a lens.. so anyone with a spare exhibition room in Sydney reading this.. hint hint?

a side note:

Mr Greg Mc******, if you’re reading this, I’m onto you. This guy has been prank calling me for months, and you’re fiiiinally gonna gets whats coming to you. Nyer.


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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Time flies when..

A life full of daydreams and expectations is not always one full of dissapointments.

So I’ve been somewhat awol from the online life for a while, but my shiny new toy boy Vaio and a bit of bed-ridden time-off has inspired me to do a quick catchup post o=).

As the picture above may suggest, I went on a little photographic holiday - thats me on Heron Island, probably the only photo of me, thanks to Zoe and Chris, a fantastic photographing couple I met there who filled me with tips and showed me where to go a lot of the time! I could babble on forever about it, but it was basically a much needed break with a lot of snorkelling the great barrier reef, exploring, walking, more exploring, and rest.
Being dropped off by boat in the middle of the ocean with snorkel in one hand and underwater camera in the other was a little scary, and swimming with sharks for the second time was a lot less… controlled, but exhilerating to say the least! I was suprised by how un-scary it ended up being; floating around just off the reef feeling completely vulnerable to nature. The sunburn on the other hand.. ouch.
Whilst the holiday ended up in a bit of sun-stroke illness it is definately one I’d love to repeat some day with a bunch of friends. Wildlife there was stunning, and I fell in love with all the turtle hatchlings, watched them come out of the sand every evening at sunset. Cuuuuuuuuute!

Sadly, my old computer has suffered another lightning attack (who would have thought - it DOES strike the same place twice, grr), and a lot of my photos are unaccessible for now, but hopefully not forever.

The rest of life-before-Masters was jam packed with another queensland holiday, house-sitting, and pretending to redesign a room which I still havent moved into yet. Made a mirror Ill try put a pic up of later, it’s one of my better efforts if I do say so myself ;)

Finally and joyously I quit Kmart in a fit of quiet grumbles. Good riddance and no regrets there! I’m now a photographer’s assistant doing private potraits of kids 0-5ish travelling around childcare places. Its fun - not even the best of you imaginers could picture grumpy-me doing what I do. Call it silly-therapy. I am captain feathersword telling unfunny jokes and baby-talking 90% of the time. And im already sick from little-kiddy sniffly noses. But its rewarding, already learnt a lot of new stuff.

Soooo holiday-revived Kellie began new uni, new car (well parents recycled one), new laptop (woo! - boo for the excessively obsessively insanely security conscious vista tho), new job (phew), almost new room, what else…

Ok ok I get it, boring now, next post shall be livened up with political whinges (snort) and lively criminological debates (pfft)… Actually the new course is suprisingly and dauntingly politics-based so i’m getting a bit of a crash course at the moment. Most of the stuff we have done in class has been said on a ‘whats said in here stays here’ basis so i cant share much. I know I’ve found my place as a forensic psychologist though. I no longer roll my eyes at the ‘omg you must love csi/omg you psycho-analyse dead people?’ cracks and will happily launch into how I have to get my Hep B shots and get to visit Gaols in a matter of weeks - yay! Not so yay talking to the class on erectile dysfunction and paraphillias but thats a hurdle yet to be tackled.

Somebody give me an idea on what i should actually post on this thing, I forget why I made it again! :p
Adios!

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posted by fauxen at 8:35 am  

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Words that Stuck

We’ll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don’t need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget
the world?
- Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars

..”its actually a great way to leave, because it’s giving Gavin the message that we haven’t been defeated, we are up for it, we’re young, we’re in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence.”
- John Marsden, Circle of Flight

“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa contrictor digesting an elephant.”
- Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.”
- Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

“I’m not sure I’m an adult yet”
- Johnny Depp

“With the assistance of a couple of good mates we set upon digging an air-raid shelter in my backyard. My father took a lot of convincing that he was playing his part in Australia’s survival by giving up his much prized rhubarb patch.”
- John McGrath (My Great Uncle), Johnny’s War

“Attention customers, if there is a Guy in the store, could he please come to the register areas to meet his.. oops..”

- Myself, Kmart P.A

I could analyse each of these quotes as to why they’ve stuck in my mind over the summer, but maybe that’s best left to the imagination of the reader. Life and the way I choose to negotiate my way through it.. is greatly shaped by the words that float by day by day, yet we all interpret everything so differently.. No wonder some people just don’t fit in.

.. and my favourite photo (so far) of Summer 06/07


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