Day in the Country

We had a successful music video shoot last week and I look forward to seeing the final edit complete with animation in the next month or so. Here are a couple of stills from the day. I found this amazing quilt along with two others which also feature in the video in a clean cardboard box on the side of the road in Silver Lake L.A they are so beautiful, made of wool remnants and silk and I am guessing from the 1930's but I could be wrong. Now I have to get cracking on some extreme origami for a project for the Museum, I'll keep you posted how that comes along. I tied myself in a knot doing the paper crane so it could take some mind control to create the frill necked lizard or the pouncing bear!!

Maisy Brown Interview

My friend at Maisy Brown Retro has interviewed me for her blog, It's my first craft interview which is very exciting, you can click on the link and have a read and a look at her lovely site.

Northcote Night Market

I have been interstate on a holiday and to my friends Open Garden at Palerang in the New South Wales countryside, it was so beautiful Ill put up some photos soon, and then came down with the flu. This week I am a music video producer, hilarious, It seems to be going well we are almost organised for the shoot tomorrow and then on Thursday I am sharing a stall at the Northcote Night Market with Bridget, so come on down if you are in Melbourne and I can meet you in the flesh.

Rubiks cube finale

Cloud Busting Reversible Skirt

Down in the Orchard Pinafore Dress

Well my sewing has evolved from complicated calico knots and now the first of my new children's clothes starting to appear on my shop, I am quite happy with how they worked out here are a few pictures. You may notice some of my fancy string being used.

Upside Down Doll

I finally finished my rag doll I have been working away on, I am quite happy with how it turned out but it sure took a long time, I had one of these when I was little and just loved it, I remember if you sucked its hair it tasted strange.

How Long is A piece of String?

I love String. It's probably not a usual thing to have a strong affinity with but there you go. My favourite is white cotton twine, the sort that comes in a neat ball and is easy to bite through. It unravels endlessly and has a thousand uses. Tie up your tomatoes, do some cats cradle, use it for a shoelace, tie a mattress on the roof of your car and drive down the highway. But today I hit the coloured string bonanza. I went down a tiny one way street to do my taxes and found this beautiful cotton cord in a huge range of colours in a shop opposite. I am so excited I’m going to use it in everything. Who thought doing your tax would give you such an instant feeling of happiness.

Calico Rubik's cube

I am teaching myself to sew, it is the first time in my life I am actually managing to get somewhere with it without getting so frustrated I throw the machine out the window. I can't believe it's all going well and I am really enjoying it, well most of it. I am almost ready to put my series of panorama dresses on Etsy to sell. Anyway, one of the problems I ran in to was how the hell to make a reversible dress. It seems easy. Two pieces sew them together turn inside out and there you go. But each time I ended up with the front of the dress inside the back like stuffing in a pillow. It was mind bending. Finally I called my friends who run a fantastic fashion label called Alpha 60 and rode over with my calico Rubik's cube and the wonderful Adam showed me what to do. Here is a before and after.

Finished "Muppets"

I handed the four Alien/Rock star Muppet's over today and am now looking forward to seeing them in all their animated glory when the film clip is finished in a few weeks. I tried to give them all different personalities. They are loosely based on Slash, Joni Mitchell, Sid Vicious and a slug. See if you can work out which is what, its pretty easy.

"Muppets"

I thought I'd start documenting my prop making work.
This week I am working on a series of four "Muppet" style puppets for a film clip for Qua. I haven't made puppets before so its been fun learning how the process works. I got some great free on line tutorials at Project Puppets which helped me learn to do the articulated fingers. Then I just kind of made it up. The brief is to make four psychedelic alien/rock star Muppet. Here is the work in progress and I'll put up photos of the finished product tomorrow.

Temper Trap Sweet Disposition

Here is a music video for a song called Sweet Disposition that I directed recently for a band called The Temper Trap. It is a very beautiful song. You can also see it to the left of this posting as well as another Video that I Art Directed for a band called The Getaway Plan.