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Published April 29, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Young Art

The other day Geoff and I went and had a look at Top Arts 2007. Top Arts is a Victorian collection of the best VCE Artwork. I find the exhibition (I’ve been several years in a row now) pretty inspiring – and in a small way kind of freaky, most of the art is done by those younger than me. I am a huge fan of ‘Chad’ (featured left) by Sophie McPike.

See the rest of the exhibition here.

My little sister is doing VCE and does some fairly amazing stuff with charcoal/pencil. She’s been looking at portraiture, nudes etc. Perhaps she will make it into Top Arts next year.

This week in the news was the controversial Annie Leibovitz – a photographer I do admire – for her photographs of Miley Cirus. I personally think it’s a absolutely beautiful portrait… It is art.

It does however draw attention to the line between appropriate and not. Miley Cirus afterall is only 15. I wonder though, would it be looked at differently if it were a painting? How much does the subject influence the finished piece? Once we freeze the frame can we ever disassociate the actual subject from the art? But then… I guess it’s portraiture, so it’s entirely the point NOT to seperate the two.

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Annie Leibovitz Miley Cirus Top Arts

Published April 29, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Chair lust and the DIY

I was so close the other week to buying an old op-shop chair and doing something with it.

I confess when I was younger and maybe even now, I had a small fascination with things being re-done or made-over. Tonight I found this chair that has been made over. I am a) jealous b) inspired. I shall have to go find myself a chair and I’ll also have to see if I can squeeze some kind of half nice material out of Spotlight (craft-store) – the last time I looked, all they had was boring as cack.

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chair Design diy makeover opshop

Published April 29, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Mac bag

Today I bought myself a sleeve for my macbook, this is so I don’t have to buy an extra bag, my current laptop bag is broken and huge. I’d seen these ones in a Bookstore in Glenferrie a while back. Yes, it was a little expensive… I like it a lot.

It’s made by Mozi, who also make very nice wrapping paper. I can’t vouch for the other things they make as I haven’t really bought them before, but hey it all looks rather lovely.

(For some reason I cannot upload images into my blog at the moment, this is driving me slightly insane, I hate link stealing but this post really wouldn’t work without it)

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bag mac macbook mozi pattern sleeve

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