tell it like it is, give us what we want

i can't wait for winter, i'm looking forward to it immensely. even autumn will do, if only it would hurry up already; i'm sick of the sticky sunshine and warm weather.

when this tardy cold weather finally arrives i plan to be wearing lots of these with skirts, worn over 80 denier tights aswell, if it gets extra chilly, which i'm sure it will.

infact i'm in love with this whole knitwear collection from topshop this year. my favourites, ie: the ones i would buy if i had the money.

you can do whatever the hell you want to

i'm preoccupied with everything black and white. photographs in several stages of grey. film noir, heavy eye makeup, sleek bobs, edginess. playing in my ears.

i rediscovered one of my favourite photographers, miranda lehman. she has some beautiful things on her website. she also lives in portland, oregon, which just adds to her awesomeness.

that guy is many things, but he's definitely not cool

i watched this movie & loved it.

in other news, i can't wait till i can get my own house, sometime in the distant future. i plan to paint it all white and decorate it with vintage photo frames and the like...

throw all consequence aside

i love old buildings like these. outdated, ugly in their starkness, concrete and grey; grime oozing from their pores. beautiful and cold, quite masculine.

pinhole photography. aah, the antiquated simplicity of it... we had to make our own pinhole cameras in photography this week. i brought an old tea tin with ducks on it, it works well enough...

i little note on skirts. they are wonderful, the most feminine item i can think of, apart from dresses (which can get tiresome). so much more lovely to wear than trousers or jeans, so much more nostalgic and true, worn upon the waist. i've bought three this week infact, it's summer afterall; two floral, one black.

I recall the sunshine as you were melting

two of my favourites from today. we traipsed around town with our cameras in tow, taking hundreds of photos. we had to take some breaks for coffee & hot chocolate and ended up with very sore feet, but it was worth it. i also picked up a few cute things in the opshops we went to, but more on that later...

raindrops on windows

what a cold dreary day... five minutes of standing in the rain (my umbrella also decide to be uncooperative, which didn't make matters any better) for our rather late bus driver, who then arrived and parked with the doors right in front of a huge puddle. but anyway its friday, and two friends and me have planned to go and raid the opshops & hopefully find some nice places to take photos, hopefully i can find some nice cardigans and maybe a brooch or two...

first day

the first whole day back at school and i'm exhausted! i just want to sit and rest my sore feet, regulation school shoes aren't very comfortable, stupidly enough.

i got my first photography assignment today though: we have to take photos of architecture. i'm thinking old barns & rusty warehouses on the edge of town, and those strange buildings tucked away in little places that no one seems to notice.

today felt like a true summer day, sitting on the grass outside the english block with friends, dresses pulled up over knees because its so hot, swaying leaves leaving dappled shadows on the pavement between the classrooms.

hello there

yesterday i got my first ever dslr. i'm really happy with it so far, its way better than the rather buggered point and shoot i was using before (obviously).

it's back to school again tomorrow, i should really be making something motivational or vaguely inspiring to stick to my locker door right now. talking of lockers its a lot smaller than last year and right down on the floor, but i don't mind really.

writing on my laptop seems quite weird lately, after winning a beautiful grey typewriter (ribbon and all!) for only $1 (!!) at an auction in the weekend, i've been using that a lot lately and now i expect the apostrophe to be in a different place...

I've been listening to this band a lot lately, i really like them.