Youth in Revolt

Seen via Andrea Inspired, how amazing are these LIFE magazine photos titled: Teenage Wasteland: Japanese Youth in Revolt, 1964. (such a good title, I'm itching to add an exclamation mark after it, but that would be wrong)

"Kako, languid from sleeping pills she takes, is lost in a world of her own in a jazz shop in Tokyo."

"The teen in the center is the 17-year-old leader of a pill-popping crew of jazz fans"

"They find violent release in homegrown Japanese Beatles."
 

"[Yoko] often ends her long nights sprawled on a futon in a friend's room."

Photography Lessons #3 (Zoo Edition)

Mr Meet-Cute and I went on a photography excursion to Melbourne Zoo a while ago. This was one of the first days of post-Winter sun and it seemed like everyone in the city had decided to make the most of it by heading to the zoo. Not pictured above are the crowds of families and crying children - at one point after watching the elephants I turned round to find myself hemmed in by pushchairs. Eek!

Photography Lessons #2

From top: jasmine on my street // hangover breakfast // Melbourne laneway // Smith Street // Collingwood Children's Farm // goat! // Abbotsford Convent // Abbotsford Convent Slow Food Farmers Market

The photography lessons continue! These were all taken using a Fujica camera with a Super Takumar Lens.

Photography Lessons

Mr Meet-Cute has become obsessed lately with buying old cameras online, and I really want to learn more about photography, so he has been teaching me all about F stops, shutter speeds, and getting that needle thingy you see through the lens to line up in the middle. These photos are the results of one of our 'photography class' excursions, taken on a gloomy Winter afternoon at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens using a 1970s era Praktica camera.

I got a bit snap-happy and finished my roll of film within 20 minutes! Luckily we also had a digital camera with us - no film required for that.