February 27, 2013 – 5:46 am
For Ida’s last days in Melbourne we went to the Moonlight Cinema in the Royal Gardens to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show under the stars, with our Drummond St friends.
I’ve never seen Rocky Horror before, and was thoroughly facinated, especially as we had a group of crazy americans behind us who knew all the songs and the comments. It became quite the experience.
People go there early and go crazy with picnics, it’s the best, then the movie commences at nightfall. If you plan it well with blankets, pillows and lots of nice food, you’re in for a great night.
(My posture was not blog appropriate.) All photos stolen from Germaine.
February 21, 2013 – 1:59 am
I’m a total instagram fiend, I’m addicted. Like the rest of my house. Some of the poor guys who aren’t into it are getting totally stressed out, having their every movement surveilled, photographed, and uploaded for the world to see.
This is what’s been going on lately;
We’ve made a lot of nice food together, where the housemates chips in, chef housemate Rune cooks and housemate Shaun goes downstairs into his cafe Juddy Roller and makes us all HQ coffee. It’s the bomb. You simply must go to Juddy Roller if you’re in the city!
It’s been really hot, so we’ve been passing out and spending a lot of time at the beach. This is artist Blo and cat Benji having a shared nap, and my boys AC, Joel & Ed on our spontaneous drive to Mordialloc beach. It’s one of the better beaches, so if you got your own car, or time to make the long trek with a bus, you have to check it out.
I’ve been hanging out at cafes, diners and bars, cooling down with beers and taking advantage of their air conditioning, enjoying lunch time coffee and reading papers, or going for dinners to catch up with a cold cider in hand. Like above, check out Gorski and Jones on Smith st, or the lovely courtyard of Sentido Funf for a pint of Bulmers and delicious eggplant fries like I did with AC, Charlotte & Kelly last night.
February 19, 2013 – 2:28 am
Valentines day was celebrated in the best way possible; with friends. We hung out at the Collingwood people’s market (which you should totally check out btw, it’s done for the summer liek this week) for ciders in the heat, followed by a late, quiet night at the warehouse.
The 14th was also my two year anniversary in Melbourne! Can you believe time’s gone by so quickly? I also got my final, official acceptance into RMIT university for the Master of Communication Design program, which I’ll be attending here for the next 2 years. So I celebrated by buying gold fish for my bowl.
And it’s all on Instagram!
We scrawl on our kitchen table, and it’s all kinds of lovely.
February 18, 2013 – 3:44 am
Last week I went for a stroll and hung out at the roof of restaurant Palookaville on Brunswick st for a little while, where my housemates Choq and Adrien had just started their project of painting the outside facade.
Brothel across the street! I was sneaking on it for a while, but didn’t see anyone go inside.
View of the city in the background.
Dirty pants, dirty shoes.
Plan sketches.
Then Naomi got some pretty cool photos later on;
February 12, 2013 – 4:49 am
Ill-Logic was such an amazing crazy extravagant night, I’m so happy to have been a part of it. About a 1000 people came to our little street, and all of them had a blasting night. Us girls at the bar (which was freee booze all night) got blisters from trying to serve fast enough, we ran out half an hour before the end even though we had thousands of bottles of beer and ciders, the bottle shop down the road had their best night since new years eve, the clubs in the city were empty, 200 people came upstairs for the after party, it was written about in blogs and newspapers far and wide. Juddy Roller & co can be proud.
Photos by Naomi & Aline Deschamps.
ILL-Logic 2013 from Daniel Dunn on Vimeo.
Live painting by Adnate.
Live painting by Choq.
& live painting by Blo.
Written on Melbourne Arts Club‘s blog;
“Quintessential Melbourne was displayed last week at ILL-LOGIC’s exhibition in Fitzroy. Part of Juddy Roller cafe, owner and operator Shaun Hossack put together, for the third year in a row, a live-art-show-DJ-jam-everyone-gets-free-alcohol-until-we-run-out kinda gig. I’m always really fascinated by an artists process. I love watching things evolve from the very beginning, but so rarely can you really get inside the head of an artist and understand their thoughts for each piece. I find myself badgering artists to get it out of them, but when it comes down to it, it really is hard to explain in words. Watching the process is understanding. Adnate (AWOL) and BLO (DMV) showed me a side of graffiti that was completely unknown. The notion of creating such fluid and clean lines with a can of spray paint is a completely foreign idea to me, so watching these guys create such riveting pieces was awe-inspiring. Not to mention the half dozen other talents submerging from the crowds: think massive fisherman creature by Alastair Mooney and surrealist videomapping.
There was admiration in the air. The people were genuinely excited to be there, to hear those classic hip hop beats, watch the guys create permanent (and massive) pieces of work and to be immersed in the culture that is Melbourne, (and I’m sure the free grog didn’t hurt either.)”
You should have been there.
February 11, 2013 – 6:08 am
I’m gonna try to blog more often. About more stuff. Basically because I just read a lot of interesting blogs by really cool girls, and I know that, in theory, my life is just as interesting as theirs. If I can only capture it in pictures and words.
So I made a new category, and called it “When in Melbourne.” It’s about shit to do in Melbourne, in case you’re gonna travel here, live here, or just want to see what an incredible place it is!
When in Melbourne you should go to Fitzroy Fruit & Veg on Smith st, or similar cheap genuine food shops, like the Victoria Market. Buy nice fruit, like strawberries, pomegranate & blackberries. Eat them in a bowl with healthy natural splenda.
January 11, 2013 – 1:26 am
I just love having photographer housemates like Naomi, means I can steal their photos and make my blog prettier.
These last weeks have been busy around the warehouse, my housemate Shaun and his downstairs cafe Juddy Roller is hosting a totally rad street art streetparty on our street, Ill-Logic, and we’re all helping out.
Most of the street art on the street has been painted over with new cool stuff, the art board pieces on our wall have been taken down and replaced, a thousand bottles of sponsored drinks have arrived, cans upon cans of sponsored paint, and many drops of sweat have been shed in this recent boiling summer weather.
There’s a lot to prepare, permits & signatures to get, things to secure, when you’re expecting 500-1000 people, but so far everything’s going smoothly. It’s going to be the sickest night, I can’t wait!
December 3, 2012 – 2:02 pm
This week my beautiful housemates and I went on a little adventure over to Abbotsford to eat at Lentils, walking through our neighborhood like the bosses we are, wreaking havoc and fear. Along the way we picked up cool stuff, like this office chair, and a tent which we assembled in our living room. Simple fun for simple people. Naomi took some really nice pics of it all, see;
Don’t we all just look like a bunch of happy healthy nice kids (and not the drunken thugs that we really are)?
November 30, 2012 – 6:45 am
The warehouse all went out to an electronic gig that was part of Melbourne Music Week last thursday, at the Where?House Argus building. It’s a massive old place where only the facade’s left standing, with no floors inside, and it was simply sick.
Lightshow on the outside of the building.
The two pics above are stolen from housemate Ed.
A look straight up at the stars.
Had to close my eyes at some point to deal with all the awesomeness. Or something like that.
