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Some good recent pairings from this/or/that

Local Ladies

Three clever Melbourne-based ladies who have caught my eye this week. All the Melbourne ladies (put your hands up).

After reading this post I had to find out more about sweet label Frances Baker. These photographs from their summer lookbook were shot around Brunswick and Coburg - pretty near my own neck of the woods! So nostalgic and familiar, designer Josephine Frances and photographer Hannah Kelly have totally nailed the feeling of a hot summer in the suburbs.

'Broga' is a new venture undertaken by my pal pikkujen. After training in Thailand last year she returned to Melbourne full of yogic energy, and started her blog aswell as giving private lessons. Aimed at the dudes, but ladies are welcome, which means I've partaken in a class or two. Afterwards I feel relaxed, clearheaded and have the best sleeps ever - so important. Her enthusiasm for yoga is contagious and her blog is hilarious. You heard right - it may be about yoga, but it is an hilarious and entertaining read. It always has me LOL-ing it up! Bromaste Bishes!

Another Melbourne lady doing amazing things is Kristy Barber, with her label Kuwaii. These behind the scenes stills shot by Lizzie Hollins are from their upcoming film which is screening at the No Home Film Festival, as part of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

"Our director Tim White captured a feeling of a haziness; something’s not quite right. There’s a notion of just off-ness which perfectly embodies our clothing and footwear, and portrays the Kuwaii woman as having a tough and irreverent femininity."

I'm bummed that I'll be out of town when the film is being screened, but  I'll be keeping an eye out for any news of it popping up online. If you are based in Melbourne you can find out more about the screenings here.

Final Image

Via this post on A Glimpse of Glamour, I was led to spend many hours trawling through the Final Image.  As the name suggests, it's a huge collection of last scene stills from a number of films.

The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001 (dir. Wes Anderson) // Trading Places, 1983 (dir. John Landis) // Lost in Translation, 2003 (dir. Sofia Coppola) // 9 to 5, 1980 (dir. Colin Higgins) // National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983 (dir. Harold Ramis) // Office Space, 1999 (dir. Mike Judge) // Teen Wolf (1985, Rod Daniel) // Leon: The Professional, 1994 (dir. Luc Besson) // This is Spinal Tap, 1983 (dir. Rob Reiner) // Easy Rider, 1969 (dir. Dennis Hopper) // Heathers, 1988 (dir. Michael Lehmann) // Wet Hot American Summer, 2001 (dir. Davin Wain) // Rosemary’s Baby, 1968 (dir. Roman Polanski) // Napoleon Dynamite, 2004 (Dir. Jared Hess) // One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975 (dir. Milos Forman)

All pics from The Final Image

Keke

All photos from Keke, seen via thedesignfiles.

Keke is a beautiful food blog created by Kirra Jameson (who also happens to be an incredible artist). There's a lovely 'unfussiness' about the photographs and personal stories accompanying each recipe. I'd like to try my hand at this one: Chèvre Soufflés.

Calendars (already)

Two new and pretty calendars, both produced in Melbourne.

The Design Files 2012 calendar. I got last years Neighbourhood's calendar and will probably be getting this one too, seeing as some of my favourite artists such as Dawn Tan and Becky Orpin are involved. This years Creative Clutter calendar comes out next week, but you can pre order here.

Trotski & Ash's 2012 calendar has recipes for seasonal yummies for every month. Last years calendar sold out within a week! Get in quick with ordering here.

Times Square

Reasons why blogging is awesome: After I wrote about the Times Square soundtrack a while ago, and the fact that none of the dvd stores round these parts have the film, I heard from Jess who offered to send me copy!

I'm a huge fan of eighties teen films, and I absolutely love seeing anything that's set in eighties New York - it just looks so dirty and exciting! So this film ticked a lot of boxes for me. Plus, I am counting down the days until my own trip to New York, though I realise Times Square looks nothing like this anymore…

Thanks so much Jess for the Times Square hook up!