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Hold Music – Architecture in Helsinki

My week & a bit in a snap shot:

1. Woke up this morning, went to Chrystal’s place looking like this.
2. Tried to re-dye blonde to be less yellow, but remained yellow.
3. Tried toner… went grey.
4. Decided on a “mahogany”
5. A sketch I did some point last week
6. Pile of textbooks/notes/whatever that have been living on my printer
7. Decided to change my environment and write a few essays in the park – worked well until the rain
8. New jumper!
9. The greatest apple juice you’ll ever have – yes its a triangular bottle
10. Two new art books (which I use for study, but love anyway); one on Ron Mueck and Teach Yourself Art History

I promise to get back to comments/whatever when trial exams end. I have two more this week, the others have been going well. Hope you guys have been well too !

Mercy Me (Acoustic) – Alkaline Trio

My trial HSC exams start in 3 days, excluding this afternoon. There is no doubt that these weeks have been the biggest stress out.

The photos above showcase my greatest achievement this year. That, my friends, is my Visual Arts Major Work. Its probably the most important thing to me this year. I’ve been working on it since November of last year, so it feels amazing to have completed it. You can see details of it below, but I’ll let my statement of intent explain;

These studies aim to capture those forgotten design elements and confront audiences of the unconsidered typographical devices seen daily, visually drawing audiences in to understand the manipulative strengths of each typeface choice, proving that type has the ability to change everything, while bringing new life and relevance to the magazine editorial form.

Its very art-wankery, but y’know. It feels so amazing to have it done and completed, even though now when it comes to the final stages I keep getting these amazing ideas for other concepts or ideas I could have done. The standard of the work from everyone this year has been so high, and the exhibition night from which these photos are from went incredibly well. It was incredible because all my friends turned up, from Tiffany and Sophia to Clinton and Vincent, it was so great.

Also, the second photo is me with the modeling I did for my friend a while back, pretty impressed with how that turned out (yeah, I was “suffocating”).

In other noticeable and not-noticeable news; accidentally dyed my hair yellow (it will be fixed sometime within the next two weeks, until then feel free to call me Sunshine or Goldie Locks or whatever tickles your fancy), and got a Blackberry which I love excessively.

Its been a hecktic few days. Will only get better for the next two weeks with trial exams. Love senior year.

Half a Life – Bayside

First week of the holidays? Oh yes.

End of term could not have come sooner. Rung in the holidays at dinner with Tiffany and Sophia (woodfire pizza ♥), and spent the weekend either sleeping or studying. Studying does not stop if you’re a senior, regardless of break, had to find that out the hard way. Monday I even had to go back into school to work on my art major work, but thats done now and all I need to do it print it off. Should be good at the exhibition in 4 weeks.

The past few days have been great, though. Tuesday was spent with Luke and then with Clinton and Samantha, Wednesday went to the city with Chrystal and Harriet (and ran into about 10 000 people), Thursday had a cute movie date with Chrystal (watched Ghost House and Across the Universe) and Friday had a cute library & lunch date with Victoria (and a bit of Clinton and Samantha in there).

Friday night had a bit of a gathering at Chrystals. Was really nice because it was full of the old friends that I did mention spending time with before, but seeing as it was the second time around these guys it was a little less awkward and a really fun night. Got to see Luke and the boys too, so that was good fun. Although I did get my face bruised, which was a bummer. Luckily nothing too bad because the next night was Belle’s 18th, which was just a girls version of the night before, and was rather nice.

So yeah, busy. But balanced between school and stuff. I like this routine, I wish I had longer than another week remaining. Woe.

Hawaiin Air – Friendly Fires

I am currently some way through the last week of the second term of school. The rest of this week, then break for 2. You have no idea how much I am looking forward to it.

Its been kind of exciting lately. Friday night was fun, Tiffany came over for a while, then we went out. All the uni exams are done so I get to see those guys (Tiffany, Luke, etc) more. Saturday had a cute little session at Samantha’s, and Sunday had a cute date with Chrystal. We went to these abandoned tram yards which (as you can see) have been trashed and graffiti-ed and such. I had to get her to model for my art major work, so got a lot of great shots and such. Its such a scenic place. Afterwards we went to a cute cafe and went to see X-Men First Class (which is the most exciting film I’ve seen for such a long time).

The rest of my time lately has been governed by assessments (which are all done for the term, so cheerin’), downloading new music (Manchester Orchestra, Friendly Fires, The Dodos, Cat Power, Florence & the Machine, Arctic Monkeys (♥), and Frank Turner all now hold new or updates places in my life), and sorting out life. Should be getting a new phone soon, so hopes up for that.

I just need holidays nowwww !

Waiting for My Chance to Come – Noah and the Whale

Yeah, I know, its been ages. I could pin it down to being really busy – because that is not a lie – but I could also pin it down to coming to most Sunday nights and just not being in the mood (even as I was in the middle of this I got distracted by charlieissocoollike). So I guess I’ll summarise my past 3 weeks in a bunch of dot points.

• Had a lot of exams. I have completed all assessments for Art (I came first in the year), Software Design (including a major work) and maths, which is pretty big. Next up trials and then final exams and then out of high school.
• One more assessment left for this term. Holidays are in two weeks.
• Visited the Rose Seidler House for art on the 7th. Its basically a modernist house designed in 1948 and preserved in 1950′s modernism (current art case study).
• My friend Lilli’s 18th was on the 11th. Kind of a weird party, a bit like being back in year 9 because all the ‘old’ friends I don’t really talk to any more were there. But it was alright.
• A lot of time spent lately with my two old friends Tiffany and Sophia.
• Father and brother went to Taiwan the other week for a business thing, brought me back some stuff, including a beautiful watch and some industrial boots that – whenever I find time – I’ll modify with studs and stuff.
• Dyed my hair impulsively last week. I don’t believe that photo does the colour justice; it was intended to be a royal blonde kind of colour, though now its more caramel – my hair cannot be anything other than ginger, its official.

Naturally so much more has been going on, but its a bit… unnecessary to blog about. I think things’ll be ok though. Final year is stressful and its kind of building up and my body has been taking it out on me a bit but yeah. Something cool will happen soon, though, I hope. And if, in the miraculous chance, anything does happen, I’ll try to blog about it on time.