BED

i wish I had stayed in.
this weather is officially retarded and is screwing up my schedule.
yet again i am considering focusing my "spare time" on different laser cut adventures.

GEO

GEO brooches. Laser cut onto natural bamboo.
2D at this stage, investigating possibility of 3D with different material, possibly silver.
Inspired by geography; each brooch is (loosely!) modeled on a country.
Featured here is Australia, New Zealand, Kazahkstan & Romania.

THIS

Nook posted these images of CatRabbit's new brooches.
Only trouble is that I cannot find where to buy them.
I really want the blue one!

If you know, please help me!
and in other not-so-subtle-early-christmas-gift-hints,
I WANT THIS FOR CHRISTMAS

i seriously love eggplant

My desk is a mess. Actually, my whole room is.

The chest of drawers I got when I first moved in is still sitting there, half-painted (purple!), with a scrap of fabric over the top of it.

I made a pair of curtains, red curtains, which make me moody and angry, so I took them down. (I also finally made something with the leaves Bailey & Lachlan collected for me when we went to the museum.)

This is my favourite part of my bedroom.
It's where I hang stuff.

MUSIC

y'all know how much music influences me.
without any reason, here is a list of the songs I cannot get enough of.

picture from flickr

Lime Tree - Bright Eyes

Father Brian Finn - Right Away, Great Captain!

Spirit of the Stairwell - Circa Survive

Roosevelt Room - Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band

Manana - Desparecidos

Times They Are A'Changing - Bob Dylan

The High Road - Broken Bells

Party Foul - Attack Attack!

Wait Up (Boots of Danger) - Tokyo Police Club

Casey's Song - City & Colour

Yankee Bayonet - The Decemberists

The Ocean - Tegan & Sara

You've Got The Love - Florence & The Machine

Shakeytown - I Heart Hiroshima

BEACH

YOUTH

I remember writing my name in the sky with a sparkler.
The sparkles I apparently flung off the stick went into a girl's eye.
She cried and cried and cried.
I just kept writing the rest of my name, in perfect cursive.

TEE

ALANA'S TEE AVAILABLE NOW

SAINTHOOD

I'm going to see Tegan & Sara this evening @ the Forum.

I am so excited I cut my hair to look extra-butch for them.

hohkyo wears:

Striped Tee, probably from jayjays.

Grey Long Beach Knit Hoodie, Dangerfield.

Geek glasses, Dangerfield.

Anchor Necklace, Diva or Equip or some girly place like those.

jeans (not shown in picture) are Cheap Monday.

(DO NOT BUY THEM. EVER. THEY LOSE SHAPE AFTER VERY FEW WASHES.)

lol. i went to all that effort to take pictures with my DSi (john has my camera!) and I didn't even upload one with my butch new haircut! XD

anywhoo, pics are on my facebook if you reeeeally wanted to see.

google

many people would know that i have a thing with google.
It's undergone a recent make-over and I'm sure you've already seen it, but I wanted to blog about it anyway. :)

google is so pretty now.

CHAMP

I have a feeling that this album will become the soundtrack to my life.

ponoko

okay, so ponoko hates me.
i have been able to upload a few .eps files with only a few hiccups but now it completely hates me - wont let me upload anything at all.
all i want to do is get some quotes for some brooches!!

I'm really enjoying going through this creative process all over again, it feels like it's been a year since I started a new project.
I mean, hohkyo has been an on-going project, but now I'm actually doing something productive - it's not just planning and preparation anymore.

The brooches will be a total surprise, I'm not going to upload and samples or anything until the first lot have been made.
I'm trying to go with current design trends, but I really want to do something different.
(this means no owl-anything or helvetica font necklaces)
Still obsessed with forest animals, and exotic birds, but we'll see where this takes me.

gloom

photo by timmacauley (deviantart)


I love the doom and gloom of melbourne during the winter/autumn months.
i've scrapped all of my summer ideas and will begin shortly on some fantastic (if i must so say myself) new art pieces.
(not artwork because i dont get paid for it.)

hohkyo now has over 50 fans.
not 39 billion, but it's better than 1. :)

my tattoo is really itchy and gross.
i love it, but the skin is peeling. eww.

progress report

*one term down and I am yet to complete a single unit of my TAFE course.
*two months since I got my nose pierced and only now is it starting to heal.
*three months past my deadline to get t-shirts printed with some of my designs on them.
*four months since I heard from my last client. (this isn't a good sign...)
*twelve months since I last cleaned my room. :-/

I took time away from blogging in order to do stuff worth blogging about.
Isn't it sad/interesting/disturbing that since I stopped blogging about my personal life, I haven't been able to accomplish anything?
So, back on track it's time to get. (must. stop. speaking. like. yoda.)
I'm going to blog your ears off until I can say, "wow. I actually did more than sleep in late, eat chocolate while watching the biggest loser, complain about everybody's lack of hygiene and make hissing noises at the dog every time it looked at me."

Hmm. So.
Still investigating my options for a range of jewellery.
The graphic design element to hohkyo is flourishing, especially since Alana joined the team.
It's just the part where I come in that's failing.
I need to fire myself. I'm letting the team down. lol.

If you spot me near Brunswick please smack me and tell me to go home.
I soak up far too much inspiration when I visit these places, only to have dripped dry by the time I get home.
(an alternative would be to live closer to the city, hint hint johnboy)
I spend too much time running back and forth trying to get these ideas penned down
(figuratively speaking, I literally mean "photoshopped")
and am far too stupid to simply bring a pencil and a notebook with me.

I had a picnic with Bronwyn at the Carlton gardens the other week.
We ate heaps of cheese then played frizbee (whilst sitting down ofcourse).

LENA

oh Sven Fristedt, why can't I seem to purchase your fabrics at IKEA anymore?

-sadface-

All I want are some curtains, but your lousy sales staff keep telling me porkies.
lol. porkies. what a stupid word.

oh wow, a rainbow

This makes me happy.
end of story.

farmville

FarmVille is taking over my life.



Damn you evil addictive game!

she&him

she&him.
is there anything better?

volume two; now repeating on my iTunes.

naughty nanna fabrics

LMAO.
I first seen this fabric made into some pillows at the Rose Street market (Fitzroy) but now it's popping up everywhere else.
(here and here to be precise)
This raunchy "softcore" fabric is made by Alexander Henry, a fabrics designer known for his "conversation-starting" designs.

work

hoorah! my first proper client in ages!
monroe makeup by toni alford.
models: lauren neaves and some other chick.
below are some draft images that i quickly threw together to see if our heads were in the same space.
Personally, I prefer the font in the second image to that in the third image, but I'm learning to distance myself from my work and to not become so emotionally attached.
The top image will be incorporated into the website that's in planning, and the third image will be used as one side of a business card.
feedback welcome!






right-click and "view image" for full-size.