all said and done

Lazy

Rebecca Matheson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:26:45 +0000

I have been a remarkably lazy blogger over the last year…two.

I intend to redeem myself. AFTER we move house. What kind of stuff would you like to see, it’s been so long I can practically reinvent myself!

A little bit of news

Rebecca Matheson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:55:16 +0000

Uganda

Rebecca Matheson — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:50:29 +0000

A shout out to my inlaws who have been living in Uganda for the last year… you can read what they have been up to. Paragraph alert! They are back in 5 weeks, hooray!

Care Swear

Rebecca Matheson — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:34:57 +0000

If the response to swearing (where legitimate in regards to: describing ‘a truly shit experience) is that: “the word ‘shit’ let me know I’m still in the real world” then there is something remarkably wrong with people (and by people here I mean Christians) who get hung up on ‘saying the right thing because it’s SO important to be morally correct’.

My Christianity MUST be integrated into my life and not a box this up here, box this up there solution.It seems insane to me that we are still having these discussions which pin back to legalistic rules. And yes being different IS okay, context IS okay and you may never choose to swear and that’s okay… but when it starts to interfere with the root cause? Then it is not okay.

Can you care without swearing… uh yes. But should the stray descriptive word become the focal point where the conversation is nothing to do with your moral highground. No.

shitty shit shit.

(this is all pre-emptive naturally and probably more a wee vent about lots of the legalistic crap I have heard touted on gush through the years – which I still love dearly – and still frequent despite it sending me bonkers every few months or so)

you probably don’t have clue what I’m talking about. /rant.

Ode to Lightroom

Rebecca Matheson — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:02:40 +0000

I am enjoying doing a little more photography… and also LOVING Lightroom and RAW files. Made an vintagey action… So here’s the beautiful Anna with the ‘Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty’ action applied. The name is a hat tip to the Big Bang Theory (totally to amuse myself)

Something that REALLY annoys me is when photographers make black and white or colour edits and don’t supply the original in colour. You should always get the colour option (unless of course the photo cannot be saved any other way… in which case it probably shouldn’t be in the selection).

I am shooting my first solo wedding on Australia Day next year. Just a wee bit excited.

www.curiousephemera.com

A few design related thoughts

Rebecca Matheson — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:51:47 +0000

Branding yourself is ridiculous. I really need to sit down and hash out what/how I want to represent myself, look at how I design etc. I have redesigned and played around with the blog and my folio site SO many times and I’m still not happy with it, so it sits there very shabby with very little new work on display at all.

It’s nice actually I think in the last little while at work I’ve loosened my grip on how things should always be and it’s freeing me up. I’m also finally noticing some kind of ‘Rebecca’ishness’ to my work – which is oddly nice and weird at the same time. I’ve had a huge variety of different formats lately from billboards to toilet paper and soon an annual report. I like challenging formats. The freelance work continues to roll in, which is great because they’re often jobs I really enjoy however the whole work again after you’ve worked a full day is a bit much at times.

My ideal little design world would consist of: Branding, Websites (Coding), Invitations and Photography. No DL brochures here Jeeves.

7. Heaven

Rebecca Matheson — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:06:58 +0000

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground – Dante Alighieri

It’s totally naff that the ‘heaven’ theme is number 7. I hate cliches.

We do walk around with our eyes on the ground. Sometimes I think that my eyes aren’t anywhere at all, so easy to get lost inside your own brain and wrapped in your own internal world.

The Word became flesh, and here then is some kind of heaven mashed with earth. It’s beautiful. It’s here yet not. My awareness is poorer than I might yearn for. Daily I hope to ask to be woken up. Daily I hope to ask. Over and over and over.

Hold on, hold on to your old ways
Or put off, put off every old face.
And I know, I know you are changed out.
And I hope, I hope you’re arranged out.
But I’m still asleep
And you woke me up again.

- Sufjan Stevens

This post is part of the 100 Theme Challenge

Rebecca Matheson — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:50:15 +0000

I am disgustingly addicted to Pintrest. It’s so damn fun.

You can find mine here: pinterest.com/becmatheson

Tired of Winter

Rebecca Matheson — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:49:10 +0000

Sometimes the rain and the cold makes heroes of blankets and tea.

But the rest of the time it just makes you want Spring. Spring I am ready for you.

Post Vietnam

Rebecca Matheson — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:02:40 +0000

My great plan of blogging my Vietnam trip crashed with the intermittent internet and the exhaustion of engaging in work in lets face it (although I love humidity and the heat) less than helpful environment. It all happened excessively fast (as these things do). I found it a weird cross reference of Solmons climate to New Zealand beauty. It is still too early to put any photos up that I took in central Vietnam (the work related ones), which is where I invested most effort on the photographic front. Unfortunately my touristy days were a consumed with heavy rain and err… present shopping. I didn’t return with 32gig of just work photos though, although my favourites are most definitely some of the ones I took in the Villages.

Here is Hanoi in the rain.