tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49844689538996751182024-03-19T13:20:16.676-07:00BecomingUrbanmardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-290097403011143222014-01-02T19:03:00.002-08:002014-01-02T19:03:21.404-08:00Mardy Bridges Events Photography and Video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, I haven't done a post in a long while, but I'm going to get back into it now. Well, my last post from early last year was about how I'd started offering cheap photography services at events, well that took off! I'm doing it part-time now as a freelancer on top of my studies. My favourite thing to do is wedding videos though. I'll do a second post on that later. <a href="http://www.mardybridges.com/" target="_blank">This is my website.</a> I designed it myself and am really happy with it for now. Check out some of my older photos, I have lots of new ones too and I'll keep this updated. This will still be a personal blog but I'll include a lot of my work on it from now on. I also went to India again late last year so expect some travel posts as well.</span></div>
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mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-27424774264382477602013-05-23T21:02:00.003-07:002013-05-23T21:02:55.385-07:00Events Photography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've left my blog for a long time because I've been extremely busy lately. With university, a new and strange job, glandular fever and The Mindy Project, I have barely had any spare time. But I'm going to try and make time to keep my blog going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've recently started offering cheap photography and videography for events. I've done a couple so far and have another on tonight, so it's been going well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've also done the videography for a wedding which turned out really well and I am just burning DVDs for the bride and groom now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm really enjoying it. Editing the movies is a tedious job but at least I'm getting paid to do something creative and something that I enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If there's anything that I think I'm good at in life, it's seeing beauty in things. With a little practice and a little luck you can capture that beauty with a camera and that's why I love photography. Particularly events photography, so many happy, funny and loving moments to share.</span></div>
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mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com0Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.814107 144.96327999999994-38.6164245 143.67238649999993 -37.0117895 146.25417349999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-16713563021471120072013-03-05T20:21:00.000-08:002013-03-05T20:22:11.478-08:00Adam Hills, Joan Rivers and Adele walk into a bar...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check out this video showing Adam Hills' response to Joan Rivers' disgusting jokes about Adele's weight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1) "Adele is one of the few women in pop music that I want my daughter to look up to."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes. Thank you. I am so glad that a celebrity made this comment about celebrities and made it personal. Media stars are praised less for their talent and more for how they look at the Oscars, what sort of a message does this send not only to children, but people of all ages, races and sizes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A great majority of the women that we see on the screen have thin, "perfect" bodies but the very concept that these bodies are perfect serves up everything that is wrong with he fame industry on a bright and shiny platter. The reality is that very few women look like those few who are constantly flaunted by the media. When someone like Joan Rivers calls Adele fat she also calls me fat, and every other women with a body similar to or larger than Adele's. What does this do to the self esteem of literally millions of women?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When we think of actresses we think of Cate Blanchett, Mila Kunis, Drew Barrymoore, Scarlett Johanassen, Demi Moore, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I think of popular female musicians we think of Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Delta Goodrem, Rihanna, Adele, Madonna, Taylor Swift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ALL THIN, EXCEPT ADELE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm not saying that the other women mentioned in these lists are lesser role models because they are thin and I don't think that they are all unhealthily skinny. I do think that the ratio of 'tall and thin' to 'every other body shape' is a complete reversal to that of the real world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We see size six, eight and ten women plastered over buildings, websites, magazines and the screen; and all of a sudden beauty has a size. According to the media, people who don't fit into that narrow size gap aren't beautiful and this absolutely affects men as well. It isn't true though, and women such as Adele, or men such as Jonah Hill, remind the public that beauty and talent come in all shapes and sizes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let's not take the very few celebrities with common body types and pick on them for being fat, please, Joan Rivers. Let's not even praise realistically shaped stars for being a normal size. Let's just acknowledge that the people that we see in magazines are beautiful regardless of their size, just like we should with people that we see in the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spending ridiculous amounts of money on make-up, gym memberships, meal replacement shakes, cosmetic surgery and alternative beauty treatments is a sign of low self esteem, even if the person splurging on such things is a celebrity and even if they are already naturally beautiful in the eyes of others. The very fact that they do those things tells us that they have low self confidence. Joan Rivers jokes about Adele's weight, but she isn't </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">even comfortable ageing naturally. I don't think Adele will give Rivers' comments a second thought; because if we stand Adele and Joan Rivers next to each other it will be easy to see which of the two has higher self esteem. And this is the reason that Adele is a wonderful role model for young women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my spare time I like to play with my camera. I love taking photos, particularly candid shots. Hopefully this year I'll get back into it a bit more. I just got a new job (only a trial) and if it goes well I'll treat myself to a new camera. But for now I'm using an old (it still uses AA batteries) Pentax DSLR that takes ok photos. Here are some shots of my stunning friend Shannon Komorr.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I live in Melbourne again! Today is the first day that I'm back in this wonderful city and I've already found some great bargains which I spotted on the way to the supermarket earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This awesome vintage sequin top was $7. It fits perfectly and looks great on. I mostly just love that I'm buying second hand things that looks great and create less waste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is why I love Melbourne, great things to be discovered on every block. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm spending Valentine's Day single this year. I don't mind because frankly I think today is just another day and that couples should treat each other on every day of the year. But I do love, love and we can never have enough of it. So here are some of my favourite on and off screen couples and a Happy Valentines to you.</span><div>
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I have had a monstrously unproductive week, and I can barely believe it's Friday already! A week has passed since I last had to work and I have nothing to show for it. I'm suffering from a major case of lazy-guilt. I get a case of the guilts at least once every couple of days and over time I've found that the best way to overcome it is to make something.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It doesn't matter what you make as long as at the end of your creative burst you have something to show for the time you spent. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you can imagine this was pretty easy, they took me about 30mins to finish. I used masking tape and newspaper to cover the main part of the boot-which I didn't want painted. Then I took it outside and went nuts with the gold acrylic spraypaint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Spent all day Monday op shopping in Bendigo and had a couple of great finds. My favourite is this vintage Conan the Barbarian tee which has an awesome print and was $10 from a junk shop. Then I bought a long floral skirt for $2 that I'll shorten and add funky buttons to. Last but not least I got this great pair of Wittner leather heels for $4. I thought they'd fit but they're a tiny bit too small, I'm devastated, I'll have to sell them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Six months ago if something at an op shop was pretty I'd buy it; even if it didn't fit, didn't look great on or wasn't something that realistically I'd ever wear. Now my room is so full of clothes that I've had to start using the floor and any other exposed surfaces to store clothes that I've probably never worn. My room looks like a grave yard for vintage clothes. I've got to start getting rid of them! I'm thinking I need to do a market somewhere in Melbourne and just get rid of everything cheapy cheap. I'm too disorganised to use etsy or eBay.</span></div>
mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-42918867781286149552013-02-02T21:54:00.000-08:002013-02-02T21:55:20.326-08:00Lusting over Free People<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've only discovered the <a href="http://www.freepeople.com.au/" target="_blank">Free People</a> website recently, but I've found that it's like porn for fashion enthusiasts. Here are some dresses that I'm dying for. They almost look DIYable but I know anything I attempted would never ever come out looking this absolutely delicious. Unfortunately I don't have the cash to buy any of the above beauties so I might have to give it a go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">PS I'm doing this blog post from my new Microsoft Surface and absolutely loving it! Such an awesome and easy machine to use.</span></div>
mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-79601925189268006232013-01-31T20:21:00.002-08:002013-01-31T20:21:47.107-08:00I went to India and came back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been a long time gone from this lil blog of mine. Sorry about that, I was in India having the time of my life. I lived and worked with incredible kids and my awesome partner Milli at the Varanasi Integrated Institute for the Disabled for almost five months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was smiles all round. These pictures are just from the institute where I was working, I'll post some general India travel pics later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now that I am back in the country and getting on top of things I'll try to keep my blog updated, as a kind of person diary, or "this is what you accomplished" type thing. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'll be back in Melbourne this year for uni, and hopefully having another amazing year. I'm hoping to start making things, drawing, photoing, sewing etc again, I might even set myself a "make something every day" challenge for some fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most of all I'm looking forward to the future and loving the now.</span><br />
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mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com1Casterton VIC 3311, Australia-37.584567799999988 141.4052329-37.784769799999985 141.0838829 -37.384365799999991 141.72658289999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-9850210137009088592012-07-17T16:46:00.001-07:002012-07-17T16:46:35.598-07:00In search of the perfect Birthday Dress<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's my birthday in just over a week! That means lots of presents, alcohol and the perfect outfit. I've been searching the internet for ideas on what I want to wear and thought I'd share some of my favourite picks with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">See that building in the background of the top photo, the one that if you look closely is labelled the "Majorca Building" ...well that's my building. Yes sir-ee, I now live in the centre of Melbourne, half a block from Flinders Street Station in the centre of the Melbourne arts hub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is my terrible excuse for not posting in such a long while. Moving is a pain and after doing it three times in the last four months, I'm more than wishing I could settle in this beyond marvelous location. But, alas, I am moving to India for four months come August, so it is just temporary. On other news, INDIA BABY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Maybe I'll use it as a zine cover? Yeah, I think I'll do that. Ok, now to write a zine and I'll do all the rest of that stuff later...</span>mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com5188 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9237451 -37.788658100000006 145.0023661tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-46736074051908645802012-06-18T17:09:00.001-07:002012-06-18T17:09:19.530-07:00DIY Lace Necklace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I made this super easy necklace by cutting a lace motif into a neat pattern, sewing ribbon to the ends to tie it back, and gluing a single earring to which I had lost the partner to the centre. I loved it! Unfortunately I wore it out the night that it was made and lost it. But it's so easy to make that I don't really mind.</span>mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-37967723923928033842012-06-10T22:52:00.002-07:002012-06-10T22:53:54.512-07:00Taco Clutch<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A while ago I spotted this novelty clutch at Dangerfield and fell in love with its quirkiness. I wasn't willing to fork out $30 for it, and set out to make it myself with a few pieces of felt and a zipper. The total thing cost me $8 to make and wasn't all that difficult. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I simply cut an oval from the brownish felt, traced it onto the green and cut a rippled oval for the lettuce, sewed some red tomato circles to the lettuce and sewed the zip onto the lettuce as well. Once the green was in the shape of a clutch I used double sided sticky-tape to attach the taco felt piece and there you go, one completed taco clutch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And there it is. The Dangerfield version is obviously a lot neater than mine, but I still love the result and can't wait to use it while I'm out just casually. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why not give it a go?</span>mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com2188 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-32114859675974362342012-06-01T02:15:00.001-07:002012-06-01T02:15:53.434-07:00Hello June<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have bought 2m of sheer black fabric and I'm hoping to create a dress in the same style as these two dresses in the sheer fabric with a black, bodycon strapless underneath. In my mind this is a stunning dress but who knows what will come out the other end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm also planning to make a belt, kind of like the ones we see here, with the large metal clasps, but I want to make the rest out of neon perspex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'll post on the outcomes soon.</span>mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com0Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-90738335959486117282012-05-20T18:12:00.000-07:002012-05-20T18:12:21.218-07:00The five minute dress<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I bought a lovely tiger print scarf a few weekends back that I have neglected to blog about. It was gorgeous, but as I don't use scarves and I've been crushing on scoop neck dresses for a while now I thought I'd try making one out of my lovely scarf. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was simple enough, I cut a piece of black fabric the same size as the scarf, sewed two top corners together and then half way up the two sides. Put a belt around it and this is what you get. I am super happy with the result! It really flattered my figure and was so damn easy to make!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am also wearing the necklace which I made (featured in the last post) and a belt I made. You can't really see it but I'll post about it soon as it as ah-ma-zing.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com7Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-70905938552451833322012-05-18T18:49:00.000-07:002012-05-18T18:49:08.017-07:00Honestly WTF DIY necklace<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was really inspired by <a href="http://honestlywtf.com/diy/diy-gretchen-jones-necklace-giveaway/">this DIY post on Honestly WTF</a> that I decided to give it a go myself. I wandered down to the local $2 shop and looked around for things that I could make do with. Unfortunately I didn't end up with neon cord or brass hoops, but in the end some leather cord and large (cheap) gold rings ended up doing a half decent job. I also made it smaller by using less circles because I'm not a fan of huge necklaces. It only ended up similar in concept to the one on HonestlyWTF but I'm 100% happy with the outcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have actually been DIYing a lot recently. I have also made another necklace, a dress and a sweet-arse belt. All of which I will post about soon in an all over DIYed outfit post. COMING SOON!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com6Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-44233896507336384672012-05-14T23:39:00.001-07:002012-05-14T23:39:58.560-07:00Train Parks and Hottie SharksThis is my friend Lesley. She is hot and I enjoy taking photos so we combined those traits to create some pretty pictures. These are from a while ago but I still really like them, and I miss this girl!<br />
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Toodle-oo.mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com5Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-79741546599968639022012-05-08T20:29:00.000-07:002012-05-08T20:29:04.092-07:00Gold MagnumFor the first time in a while I went out and bought new things from stores that make their own stock and don't give money to charity! This isn't exactly a morally or environmentally positive thing but it felt really refreshing; as much as I love op shopping good finds are hard to come by and it's much less difficult to find items you're going to love from normal stores.<br />
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So here are a couple of things I have bought recently, a necklace choker, cuff thing from Sportsgirl and a Tom Selleck t-shirt that was on sale at Dangerfield. My boyfriend frowned at me when he saw it, but then he ended up wearing it to uni yesterday and is now so much cooler for it.<br />
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Oh, and I have started watching Game of Thrones after listening to people talk about it for months. Holy crap. I finished a season in two days, enough said.mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com2Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-66227049548579579032012-05-05T03:29:00.001-07:002012-05-05T03:29:55.493-07:00Anti-capitalist Design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmP1t7x387AvuCDhBVjw_9FGYkIHylZw-Cu1ZKspONakdOzr7WEJ3tK20MAPfkCiaz76q7Obo65muScFq7dZJ2B3LJfGG_BmUFo2unM79FQWFGzVTyGAYauxWGaQaCLZGP9WwoCTEpvIig/s1600/SAM_0317.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="280" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmP1t7x387AvuCDhBVjw_9FGYkIHylZw-Cu1ZKspONakdOzr7WEJ3tK20MAPfkCiaz76q7Obo65muScFq7dZJ2B3LJfGG_BmUFo2unM79FQWFGzVTyGAYauxWGaQaCLZGP9WwoCTEpvIig/s400/SAM_0317.JPG" /></a></div><br />
A couple of days ago I was looking for a magazine to entertain me on a long train ride home. I was shopping at a big newsagents that had everything. I looked through the Vogues from pretty much every European country, and then I thought I might buy the current Frankie, which I (very sadly) think that I have outgrown. It's a little too cute and a little less edgy than I would prefer. I started looking through other magazines, Interview, Dazed and Confused, Cleo, Time, etc etc but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. Then I found a plain white cover with a picture of a big, fat greasy, triple triple-cheeseburger with the caption, "Are We Satisfied?" I flicked through, and bought it based on the brief visuals that I saw and I got out of there as quickly as I could-the staff were looking at me as if I was about to steal something.<br />
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When I started reading I realised that it was an anti-capitalist magazine, which was rather funny as I had just come back from a political meeting. It's a very interesting read, but still, I just can't get over the incredible design.<br />
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This is literally the best magazine design that I have seen in a long time, it's refreshing to see such perfect and minimalist design in a little known, politically aggressive magazine. It just shows how different interest areas can come together and work simultaneously for any cause. Design these days works with everything.<br />
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By the way, the magazine is called Ad Busters. Website is <a href="http://www.adbusters.org/">here</a>.<br />
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<br />mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com4188 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-14618341951685538012012-04-30T18:42:00.001-07:002012-04-30T18:42:38.326-07:00Rachel Gilbert, Yes Yes YesI am lusting after Rachel Gilbert's new line of evening and cocktail dresses. Other than the fact that I haven't got the body or occasion to wear a single one of these dresses, I want one so bad!<br />
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Dress lust!mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com10188 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-61702744960592988782012-04-29T22:58:00.000-07:002012-04-29T22:58:39.362-07:00The English PatientAfter a long and amazing weekend I came home today and woke up and watched The English Patient. I haven't done anything else, particularly none of the things on the long list of things I desperately need to do, but I don't care.<br />
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This movie is amazing. I haven't watched a movie that really made me feel anything for a very long time. And to be honest I never really appreciated and understood the devastation of war until I watched this movie, because although the movie focused on love and pain within the context of war without concentrating on it explicitly, I never really got it until now. Sorry for the sentimentality, I'm still caught up in that massive wave of euphoria that follows a really damn good movie. The emotions in The English Patient; love, pain, guilt, freedom and regret, were just so subtle and yet huge, really really huge. <br />
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The things that I really loved about this movie:<br />
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It was unpredictable, through the entire movie I kept imagining what would happen next, that it would follow the typical routine of two forbidden lovers running away together and that the tragic ending when they are found out and separated. But it didn’t. I was never shocked at the plot turns, but it was highly original and the fact that I didn’t expect anything was very enlightening.<br />
The characters were flawed, there were no heroes or bad guys; each character was stripped back to exactly what they are, human. There were so many in-depth characters and the audience is able to empathise and connect with even the minor ones while our connection with the major characters is huge.<br />
The timing, the movie cuts between past and present seamlessly, by connecting and juxtaposing moments of emotion; gradually unfolding the epic love story with patience and tenderness, like a parent reading a fairy tale to their small and eager, beloved child.<br />
Everything else.<br />
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Watching this movie today made finally certain that it is film and television that I want to be studying next year. It also made me desperate to read again, of course first beginning with The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje which I understand is quite different to the film but I’m sure will be equally brilliant.<br />
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Finally, I’m too young to know but am now eager to find out if a love exists like those explored and portrayed in The English Patient.mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com3Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136111 144.9630556-37.8385641 144.9235736 -37.788658100000006 145.00253759999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4984468953899675118.post-89528304981943034582012-04-25T04:54:00.001-07:002012-04-25T04:54:56.351-07:00Out of this worldShopping! I went shopping (new shopping not op shopping) for the first time in weeks a few days ago. It was amazing! Winter fashion is everywhere now and I'm definitely glad. I'm a huge fan of this season's new looks. Here I am wearing two of my favourite buys from the day.<br />
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And that's all for now. Loving my bargain buys!mardijanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994910408207737987noreply@blogger.com20323-337 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia-37.813187 144.96298-63.016474 104.53329249999999 -12.6099 -174.60733249999998