R U SERIOUS?

As we drove down to Mandurah to visit relatives for a belated Easter lunch we spotted a purple Ford Falcon with an interesting custom license plate.

R U 6TEEN

R U SERIOUS?

I assume his passenger seat was filled with mobile phone credit vouchers and Justin Bieber posters to attract teenagers to his awesome ride. I’ve seen some interesting license plates in the past, some funny while others a mix of stupidity and the letter ‘U’, but I’ve never seen a plate that clearly is not cool. Imagine being a father of a teenage daughter and ‘R U 6TEEN’ turns up on your door step?

Ding dong.
“Hey old man, I’m here to pick up your sixteen year old daughter in my awesome car of awesomeness.”
“OMGZ! Isn’t his car, like, sooooo coooool, Dad?”
“…”
Loads shotgun.

What’s the most offensive, funniest, stupidest or tackiest license plate you’ve seen?

One Movement 2010

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I managed to score a ticket to the One Movement festival in October, thanks to @lukecaporn and @KatBellaVanilla. Punters flocked to the music festival to dance like hipsters, drink sippy wine attached to lanyards, eat gourmet donuts and watch various bands perform over three days and nights. Sunday had a mellow feel, mainly due to the ‘sandwiches’ everyone was consuming, but also because it was a cold rainy day and everyone was too cold to be a douche bag. I spent my time hanging out with friends and taking photos with my bashed around pink bits (P&S Canon IXUS80 IS) while at the festival.

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Meanwhile, Antz found time to play Minecraft in the media tent in between shooting bands with Devar.

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Wheels & Dollbaby

I attended the Wheels & Dollbaby show during Perth Fashion Festival 2010, excited to see the latest collection from local designer Melanie Greensmith. The Wheels & Dollbaby fashion parade is one of the most popular events on the Perth Fashion Festival calendar and is always an instant sell-out. I wasn’t on media, so I decided to leave the 7D at home and take the G10 instead, but my inner photographer couldn’t resist taking a few quick shots while enjoying the sexy show.

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The section I was seated in was close to the band, we were given earplugs for protection, which gave the area a music-pit feeling. “Free earplugs?! That’s the strangest thing I’ve seen in the goodie bag so far!” remarked one confused lady seated a row behind me.

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Highlights include the gorgeous Tiah Delaney opening and closing the show in leopard print ensembles, the models wearing cute pink robes that everyone instantly wanted to sell a kidney for, girly gingham dresses, dastardly denim, hot leather shorts and the guest appearance of Leah Wood, the daughter of Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie, performing ‘Call Me’ with Mark McEntee. It was a perfect mix of fashion and rock and roll.

I’ll have one of everything, please.

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Popsicle Launch

I was invited to the Popsicle launch party on a very cold night at PICA during the Perth Fashion Festival 2010, I took some social shots of the fashionable crowd and designers while sipping on champagne and meeting photographers and bloggers.

Last year Popsicle popped up on a bus, this year it could be found OnWilliam in a duo of shipping containers packed with emerging fashion, jewellery, art & other goodies. The event featured work of various Western Australian designers – such as Lonely 8-Bit Heroes, Bad Hair Mountain, Peppermint Milk, Little Gracie, Kiss Me Quick, Prufrock, Leah Tarlo, Bo Ra, White Square, Lovers and Dreamers, Heart City Design, Ping Pong Diplomacy and Love is my Velocity – it reminded me of a very funky looking pastel tea party.

I wonder how Popsicle will pop-up next year? I vote for bouncy castle.

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Shiny New Design

It was an epic journey that spanned over the course of a few years – code was lost in the battle, people were stabbed for bringing up the subject, Kitta cringed because her old design was so very old. It was all worth the stabbings wait. I now present you with a shiny new design for my website!

New Bits

  • Popular Posts – For people who can’t be bothered reading the eight years worth of posts to find the best posts.
  • Webcam Archive – Moved in with archives so they can snuggle on cold hitless nights.
  • Contact – Broke up with Colophon and moved into the basement for some space.
  • Gallery – All my Flickr photos now available here in a handy gallery form for all your photo stalking needs.
  • Lifestream – You stream, I stream, we all stream for… Lifestream?
  • Links – Websites I adore, endorse, follow and abuse my credit card with.
  • Advertise – Because I’m tired of replying to email with basic information on the subject.

Formula

The image is a reference for years to come when I change the design again and someone reads this and ponders, “oh, wondered what that looked like?” Wonder no more, future person! I’m a forward thinker. That and I have a time machine and know you should totally stock up on towels for the year 2076, that’s they year they made them illegal.

And yes, the Little Red Monkey will return when I decide to code the little red bugger back in. Look for him on a street corner doing tricks and sobbing because he doesn’t think I love him.

Perth Fashion Festival 2010

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It’s that time of year in Perth when everyone on the train looks a bit more stylish than the usual commuters, Perth Fashion Festival 2010 is upon us, causing everyone in the fashion industry to run around like well dressed headless chickens. I was approved as media for a handful of Perth Fashion Festival events and shows, which should give me an opportunity to shoot creations by our talented Western Australian designers and socials of the stylish folk who frequent the shows and events.

The festival begins tomorrow, Thursday September 9th, and runs until Wednesday September 15th, the program includes both free and ticketed events to suit any fashionistas budget. The events and shows I’m looking forward to are…

Fifteen Minutes

Newborn event created for fashion bloggers, paying tribute to ‘The Rise Of The Fashion Blogger’ and acknowledging bloggers for discovering and influencing trends online, Fifteen Minutes is an original runway show inspired by fashion bloggers of Western Australia. Models will glide down the runway in street fashion inspired looks, styled by Emma Bergmeier and featuring garments from Billie & Rose, Zara Bryson, Merge, Planet and Pigeonhole. Cameras, phones, laptops, anything beginning with ‘iP’ that bares an Apple symbol, more cameras and any tech device possible of accessing the internet are allowed at this interesting runway event. I’m yet to confirm or deny wifi status for the show.

Where: Fashion Paramount
When: 14th September 2010 @ 6:30pm
Entry: Tickets still available from Mostix

Wheels & Dollbaby

It’s no secret that I adore Wheels & Dollbaby. I’m looking forward to this years show more than Christmas, because Melanie won’t make you clean up after you unwrap her creations with your eyes, she’ll just ask you to move on to the after party and have a good time. I’ve already hidden my credit card, I’ll literally want everything that walks down the runway that night.

Where: Fashion Paramount
When: 13th September 2010 @ 9pm
Entry: Tickets sold out.
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Supanova Perth 2010

I attended the 2010 Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Perth and had a chance to meet the stars and take some photos while doing media for the day.

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Stars in attendance were Summer Glau, Chaske Spencer, Dichen Lachman, Charisma Carpenter, Leah Gibson, Mark Lutz, Daniel Logan (who said “I’ll just call you beautiful”), Lou Ferrigno, Michael Winslow and Justin Randall. The only star I didn’t have a chance to meet was the gorgeous Eliza Dushku, I was late for her Q&A and she was busy doing VIP photos with fans for the rest of the day.

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Blogiversary 8.0

Eight years ago I registered the domain Kitta.net and created a blog that I assumed would only be read by a few friends and a random person from Sweden who was bored late one night and submitted ‘Australian girl’ in Google. My assumption was wrong.

Over the years I’ve amassed a decent amount of visitors and forged friendships with some amazing people. I’ve blogged about those who’ve helped and inspired me in previous entries, but I’ve never really thanked them. This is for you…

Thanks

I hope you all enjoy these cyber heart cupcakes I prepared earlier.

Red Dusk Photoshoot

I’ve spent the last week sorting through photos from a photoshoot I did with Red Dusk Jewellery, an online boutique based in Perth that specialises in vintage, classic, pin-up & burlesque inspired handmade head wear, jewellery, bustiers, corsets, masquerade masks & other accessories. I recently wore the black Encore top-hat to a friends Suit-Up themed birthday party.

Miss Yolie was our lovely pin-up model, she did a fantastic job modelling the sexy Red Dusk corsets and accessories. I used a basic set-up for lighting/backdrop and I’m quite happy with the results. I’m slowly sorting through the photos, but here are a few behind-the-scenes shots and a sneak preview of one of the photos featuring the divine My Little Show Pony corset.

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The F Word

I was hunting through Valleygirl recently looking for a bargain. I found a few dresses that I liked and headed towards the change room. I waited in line and tapped away at Zombie Farm on my iPhone. Grow, invade, grow, invade. In front of me was a young couple, the man waited patiently and tried to say the right things at the right moments.

“Is this cute?”

“Depends what you mean by cute,” he replied while rubbing the sheer material together to see if it was durable.

“Cute, like, good cute, not bad cute,” she said while trying to explain the definition of girl world cute.

“I guess it’s good cute, this part here, what do you call it?”

“The straps?”

“Yeah, they’re a bit, strappy,” he said with a serious stap talking look on his face.

“Strappy?”

“Umm, bad starappy?” he guessed.

“You’re right, it is bad strappy, but still cute.”

The man was confident with his girl translation achievement, he decided to wet his fashion palette more.

“This one is a bit small, you should get it in a bigger size for when you get fat.”

The entire store stopped and stared; jaws dropped, hangers crashed to the ground, a lady opened the change room door to visualise the guy who called his beloved fat…

Did he just say the F word?

“Pregnant fat! She’s pregnant! I’m buying her pregnant clothes, she’s not fat, she’s pretty and pregnant, good fat not bad fat!” he quickly explained to the entire store full of females hungrily waiting to defend their fellow vagina-card carrying sister.

Everyone laughed and put down pointed objects once the F word was explained in detail and awkwardness was averted. The sales girl wished them good luck as he proceeded to purchase a five bags of good cute clothing for his soon-to-be good fat beloved pregnant partner. It takes a brave man to patiently wait by while their significant other try on varies sizes, colours and types of the same dress to decide which is good cute and bad cute.