JCU Creative Arts Day.

Wasn't as art related as I thought. We were forced to do a Performing Arts exercise as well.. I dropped out of Drama for a reason. Well two reasons. I can't act, and I hate trying to act. Made me angry. But we did this cool photography exercise outside where one person wore a blindfold and the other person had to steer them away from dangers as they walked blindly, while taking photos at the same time. It was supposed to heighten your sense of hearing and touch, which I thought was a really good approach to changing your perspective of taking photos. After we did that, we got into teams of four. Three people were blindfolded and held onto a thin piece of cotton to stay together, and the aim was to not let the cotton break. The fourth person steered the other three and took photos. Some of them turned out really lovely and warm:



Photo taken by Kayla. I love how bright my hair looks against all that green :)



Photo taken by Thuraya I think.. Kayla was misleading me with her string! When we were in pairs, Kayla was too busy framing up her shot at one point, and let me wander into the bushes. Thanks, friend!



I love this photo, and I'm not sure why.. Maybe it's because they're both facing different ways, but manage to be looking at each other while they're blindfolded. Or the fact that Kayla's hair is so white. Liv and Kayla, photo taken by me.



I think this was taken by Liv? I like how my hair is flicky.



Robert fell over! Ha! It was raining all day and the ground was very muddy and slippery. Photo by Kaity, I think. Not quite sure.

a present from Kayla.

once again, Kayla brought in a whole new batch of lomo photos to scan today, and one of them was the photo she took of us at the REACH Arts workshop about 3 weeks ago. Oh yeah, we're wearing party hats:



cute!

since Friday.

Friday afternoon, my weekend was off to a pretty fantastic start! Along with my family and my lovely boyfriend Josh, I went to the opening of the Energy Art Exhibition at the Tanks Arts Center, where I had two of my photos on display.



I went there hoping to get into Creative Generations for Visual Art, but I ended up getting 3 awards; the Ergon Energy Encouragement Award, the Peninsula Arts Encouragement Award and.. The Curators Award! Only ONE person wins the Curators Award and that means that next year I get to hold my own exhibition at The Tanks, about whatever I want, and I get $300 to spend on materials and such. I prefer that award so so much more! My mother cried when they announced my name, and my dad was off eating the free food so he missed the whole thing. Typical of my family, right? Anyway, this photographer lad wanted a tonne of photos of me and my artwork, and then some photos with our political member for our area Steve Wettenhall, who was wearing a tux! Spiffy! Oh yeah, and Kayla re-dressed-up as the dinosaur from the photos :D





Afterwards we bought Chinese food to celebrate, and went home to watch Scrubs, so the night was just unbelievably amazing. I could not have been any better than it was, and I'm so thankful for every single person who has supported and encouraged me. I personally don't think my work is too good, but thankyou for all my friends who see potential in me, I love you more than anything.

On Saturday morning I took a Trip to Taterine! Trip to Taterine is this brilliant installation piece created by Liz Dunn and Kylie Burke, inspired by the mind of one of their mentally handicapped students Mitchell Cole, who dreamed up this entire alternate world called Taterine.





They decked out a whole room in the Cairns Regional Gallery with this massive cardboard cave and crazy hallucinogenic lights.



You could write on the walls with chalk, so I draw a sweetfaced unicorn.



Inside the cave they projected this continuous film of Mitchell dressed as characters out of Taterine, dancing and doing some groovy little moves.



After the artist's talks ended, I met up with my lovely friend Arruna, who wanted to film me wearing a Rubix Cube he had made, on my head, and stand around places in town. It was so hot to wear! but also very cool, I really can't wait to see the film when it's done!



Laura wanted to go out that night, so we went to The Medics gig at the Smithfield YMCA. After various thumb wars, crayon fights and group singings of the Power Rangers, Transformers and Pokemon theme songs, we left. Here's some photos that I can't be bothered explaining:



My weekend was g-reat.

I have in my possession

a Holga 120 CFN!



only for the duration these school holidays but I've been reading various online snippets about it and its versatility and I'm SO EXCITED to start using it! I need to clean it a little bit, and stick batteries in it, and I'm sort of scared that I won't have enough $$ for film, but I really need to visit my best friend again and I'd love to get some photos up there and I'll hopefully be going to the Atherton Show, so.. hmm. I need another job.

Went out last night with Laura and Ellie, had fun, and don't feel hungover or sickly at all! I. am. happy.

Kayla and myself are planning a secret charade, I can't wait to get into it. SNEAKY CHILDREN!

I don't blog much anymore, but I haven't really been up to much. I'll try and be more interesting these holidays.

Speaking of which, have a lovely and safe holiday, my dear readers, and don't get yourself into too much trouble!

xx.