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Apr 28, 2010

In the midst of Bieber Fever hitting New Zealand I was so caught up on watching TV to catch a glimpse of him and follow him on twitter that I forgot that today I was supposed to post an entry. (But that’s ok, it’s still wednesday—and even tuesday in some parts of the world!)

What’s weird is that I didn’t really care about this kid until a few weeks ago—I don’t know why. He’s got the angelic face and voice, but he’s still what, 16 and not that much different from other hip hop/pop singers out there. He’s captivating. You either love him or hate him.

Frankly, I think I like him because he looks like my favourite character from my brother’s book (which he did confirm—”yes, justin bieber is boron”—not that anyone has read it yet and knows who the hell Boron is.
127 days until The 4 Powers of Daren Saner is released in NZ and Australia!! (international orders CAN be made online!) The world doesn’t even know what’s hit it yet!

Anyway.

LOISH!. I love this girls work, seriously. It’s not particularly my style anymore—I used to get inspiration from her (see my old illustration work)—but it still deserves a mention.

What I particularly like about Loish’s work is the colours and the textures and forms. Everything is just so soft and pleasant. Her work is very Disney-esque but she’s made the style her own.

Lois Van Baarle is an illustrator from the Netherlands, who has done some animation work aswell. Her trichrome blue short was beautiful. I thoroughly suggest everyone goes and checks out her work. It’s nothing short of wonderful. Check out her website here.

Samantha

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Feb 3, 2010

Parachute

On Saturday I went to the biggest Christian music festival in the southern hemisphere, Parachute with some of my friends from Wanganui. It happens to be held in my city so they came up and stayed at my place before tenting out at the festival. All I can say is that it was amazing. I managed to see Switchfoot, Family Force 5, Lee Land, Rapture Ruckus and Nathan King and they were all fantastic!

Here’s my day pass band, they used white ink on metallic material, [which happens to be quite expensive] and note the new Parachute logo rockin’ that Helvetica!

Funnily enough I didn’t buy any Christian-related merchandise (although I intended to). Instead, I bumped into an old school peer who was helping out at a stall (and who had played with her band at Parachute the night before), and I spotted a series of handmade necklaces based on the Robinson Crusoe Series. They were simply divine so I had to share the one I bought with you:

I’m loving the label design

They are all hand made completely and each were based on a certain chapter from the book. I would supply her email (or website if I knew), however the one I got didn’t work, which is a shame. I’ll definitely post it up once I find out.

Anyway, so today I got a ~~ridiculously over-priced~~ haircut, which is terrible unless GHD straightened (note: I courageously wear no makeup!)

And bought myself a new belt!

Unfortunately, the belt is too big and doesn’t look so great on me (though neither does Obama on my t-shirt :P)

Exciting times! Hope you have a lovely February dear readers!

Samantha

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Apr 9, 2009

Beatle’s guitar!

Yes, George and John signed too!

My dad’s friend/solicitor (and v. awesome person) has a very large collection of signed photos (of all varieties of celebrities) including a signed guitar collection.

I had the honour of holding an old guitar signed by the Fab Four themselves! Authentic too! Zomigosh!! The photo was taken on a cell, so sorry for the poor quality!!

Samantha