Will be touring in Europe (Germany, Czech, Austria) and playing in an orchestra at the Summa Cum Laude Festival from the 1st-14th July. So much excitement!
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Busking on Pitt
I work in Town Hall, Sydney and one of the best things I enjoy doing is checking out the busking on Pitt st during my break or after work. The classical guitar to me is the most alluring instrument out there. There's a particular guy, Tom Ward who regularly busks and he's pretty amazing.
Yoko
BCBGMAXAZRIA - Plate Waist Belt
Cheap Monday - Anette Black Belt
Not too sure what to say about belts. They're an understated piece in the accessories apartment. But ever since I saw Maria van Nguyen from vanillascented styling this metal plated belt in her photos, it's been on my wishlist.
Another Burberry Acoustic video...
Wardrobe
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image via cremdelakreme
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Outerwear (4)
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Uniqlo – Black Blazer
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Vintage Anna Middleton – Quilted Silk Jacket
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Vintage Black Wool Coat
Jeans (3)
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Jeanswest – Dark Blue Skinny Jeans
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Jeanswest – Black Skinny Jeans
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Ksubi – Black Skinny Jeans
Pants (2)
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Saba – Black Silk Trousers
T-shirts and Tanks (3)
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Kookai – Black Scalloped Neck Tank
Dresses and Jumpsuits (8)
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Ginger & Smart – Rough & Tumble Dress
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Gyegi – Black Cotton Dress
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Don’t Ask Amanda – Striped Dress
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Bettina Liano – Black Formal Jumpsuit
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Ruffled Bottom LBD
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Sportsgirl – Navy
and White Shapes dress
Skirts
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Shirts and Blouses (6)
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A.P.C – Marine Boyfriend Shirt
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Vintage Sheer Gold Shirt
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Vanessa
Bruno – Crepe de Chine Blouse
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Vintage Ralph Lauren – Maroon Short Sleeved
Shirt
Long Sleeved Tops (3)
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Uniqlo – Off White Boatneck Striped T
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Vintage Navy Breton Shirt
Knits (2)
Shoes (6)
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Acne – Pistol Short Boots
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Ziera – Blue Suede Wedged Boots
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Le Coq – Black Tie Up
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Nude – Black Buckled High Heel Boots
Bags and Clutches (3)
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Coach – Ocean Blue Satchel
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Atticus – Black Backpack
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Vintage Navy Clutch/Wallet
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Old Piece Having doubts but don't want to chuck Purchased/Given in the last 3 months
(Doing a Dead Fleurette styled analysis)
To be quite frank, only 8 out of the 32 pieces of clothing were bought before August 2011. Everything else has been purchased this year or the last. It just goes to show how ridiculously drastic my wardrobe has changed within less than a year. I'm feeling alright about the state at which it's at, and I could most certainly live with it during the strangely cool 2011-12 spring/summer despite my lack of shorts and skirts. I have completely eliminated the prospect of shorts from my mind, judging from my body proportions shorts and I could never work out. Skirts however I have yet to find one that I'm happy with. We're finally moving into Autumn and Winter, so I'll see how my wardrobe lives up to it.
There has been a serious influx in new additions these past 3 months and including everything else purchased in 2011, it's time to slow down because my poor bank account has taken a beating. I really have to hold back and have the self control over the urge to recklessly buy more staple pieces. Even though I don't think I'm done perfecting my wardrobe, it's at a stage I can contently manage with.
I feel as if I I've failed to capture all this change on my blog which is disappointing. Oops. I'll try to do my best from now on. I've also just realised that I've forgotten to add scarves into the above list.
On to the music side of things, I've just discovered Burberry Acoustic a Youtube channel run by Burberry showcasing British bands/singers in Burberry trenchcoats. Absolutely digging it at the moment, good music and style, Burberry is ingenious using music as a selling point.
Rae Morris - Back to Front
plain gold ring ring on his finger he wore
Kimbra - Plain Gold Ring (Nina Simone cover)
First and foremost, to the One from whom all creativity and beauty flows, the source of all true love and lasting peace. Without You this record is just loud gongs and clanging cymbals. Selah.
- Kimbra Vows CD booklet
I wouldn't mind recieving...
House: Rhythmdesign - House in Iizuka
Shirt: Ann Demeulemeester - Classic Shirt
Watch: Uniform Wares - 250 Series
Necklace: Petitor - Sideways Cross Necklace
Shoes: Via Spiga - Christina
Skirt: Ann Demeulemeester - Asymmetric Skirt with gathered front
Birthday tomorrow. Yay for having lived 20 years. Tomorrow marks the day I enter into the limboland of ages created by the tension between the oldness of hitting the second decade and the youngness of being younger than 21.
There are many things i've spotted that could have some serious wearing action over the past couple of weeks. Since I don't have a white shirt in my wardrobe yet, I recently purchased the Ann Demeulemeester Classic Shirt on sale even though my love is for the Wrapover Front Shirt. The Wrapover Front Shirt is definantly an admire from afar piece for me, I admire the way it looks on the model, but it would definantly not suit my larger physique, and moreso because it's white! I'll see how the shirt fits when it arrives.
I've also been on the hunt for a simple black sandal, not too high with a larger heel so it's wearable to work and also out. The heel issue is quite an important factor since I find it close to impossible to not look like the pitiful women who hobble, a well learnt lesson being that very girl at my Year 12 formal. It's proving to be a tough task! but the Via Spiga - Christina is the best candidate at the moment with the See by Chloe - Leather Sandal following close behind.
The watch pictured above is sold from Dezeen, an epic architecture and design website which is very enjoyable to browse through.
The guy sitting on the garbage bin would make an excellent cartoon character me thinks...
on edge
I went to check out Matt Corby at the Oxford Art Factory the other night, a little hesitant but hopeful that he was better live than recorded sound through my headphones and speaker. And oh boy, his cd doesn't come close to how raw and passionate his voice and music is. There's only so much a cd can replicate. It can't make your heart thump and clothes vibrate to the drums the way it does live, and the sheer whisper of the voice isn't as delicate as it is intended to be.
Writing about this concert has made me think of a quote in Music and Lyrics:
Writing about this concert has made me think of a quote in Music and Lyrics:
"A melody is like seeing someone for the first time. The physical attraction...But then, as you get to know that person, that's the lyrics. Their story. Who they are underneath. It's the combination of the two that makes it magical"
I think there are two types of people, one more attracted to music and the other to lyrics. I find it tough using words to explain myself, so i'm most definantly a music person, judging the story by how sounds are put together. Matt Corby's songs hits the spot for me, apart from the occasional profanity, musicality wise it makes me shiver at how beautifully his emotions are expressed.
we are a dime in a well
The tune to this song is so heartbreakingly beautiful.
Flying Wardrobe.
Shirt - Saba
T-Shirt - Sass and Bide
Dress - Don't Ask Amanda
Jacket - Ginger and Smart
Jeans - Jeanswest
Pants - Morrisey
Jeans - Jeanswest
Scarf - Good & Co.
Loafers - Vintage
Boots - Acne
A record of the clothes that decided to fly and stay with me in Melbourne for a very few days.
A little on the post song...To be honest I didn't fancy Foster the People when the crowd had Pumped Up Kicks on repeat. But with a little reluctance last year I agreed to see them live with a friend at the Gaelic Hotel and I'm glad I did. If I had the chance to see them again, I would. The lead singer with his unusual voice is quite the charmer in singing a song as if it were a story. His pores like to cry sweat aswell :) The Gaelic is a sweet venue with a nice and intimate space.
PS. Happy New Year
Foster the People - Helena Beat
Hungry Badger.
Coming home from Melbourne, the question now to ask is: What are your doing New Years Eve? So here to ask you that question in a very lovely way is Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
On a side note, New Girl, a new tv show featuring Zooey has been very well recieved in the States and just from the trailer it looks like this will be one of my favourites along side Offspring.
Any day is a day before me
I present to you Puggy, another french band. These guys and this song screams for some major swooning.
And from this band we see the three different personas depending on their role:
- Drummer: Loves to do their thing. They live in a world of just them and their drums.
- Lead Singer: The Emotional One. Tells the story.
- Bassist: The one who chills in the backseat and does the chicken head bopping.
or you'll die!
Vier Minuten
It's such a treat when an interesting foreign film is showing on sbs! It must have been piano movie night because the movie after was The Beat my Heart Skipped about a french guy who goes from rent collector to pianist. Four Minutes is about Jenny, a convicted murderer who's taught by Frau Krueger for a piano competition. Both have experienced/experience painful things and use the piano as a medium of expression, however in completely different ways.
Clair de Lune et Soleil Levant
Moonlight
Your soul is a select landscape
Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of victorious love and the opportune life,
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
That sets the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall slender fountains among marble statues.
Paul Verlaine
Debussy - Clair de Lune (played by Alexander Lubyantsev)
I was watching a television show about a pianist and the three composers he most related to: Rachmaninov, Ravel and Debussy, and found out that Clair de Lune was written inspired by a poem by Verlaine. The piece compliments it and is such a perfect translation of words into music. The main tune has such a heart ache to it and the second prominent tune with the cascading bubbling fountain in the background. Debussy was labelled an Impressionist, and I don't see why not, looking at the score and listening to the piece, it's seamless as if bar lines don't exist. And I'm going to use the analogy, that Debussy paints a picture with his music, makes a film even!
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If I recall correctly from my high school art lessons, the Soleil Levant painted by Claude Monet (other famous paintings include the water lilies) was the first Impressionist painting. And it is, just an impression, not realisitic, rather capturing moreso the mood that go with the scene. I think the Arts go hand in hand together, they all serve to make an impression on the reader/viewer/listener, take you away from where you physically are at that particular moment in time. Art, music, etc, they're all intertwined. In year 5 during music, there was a particular lesson where we listened to some famous pieces and used colours and lines to describe it. I remember the Ride of the Valkyries came on, and I got my red and black pencils and just went nuts with the crazy angry lines :)
Even with food this happens, now that I'm writing about this...
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