Arty Farty: Finished Product

...Ground control to Major Tom!

I'm back, baby!

My internet went totally AWOL for a while there so sorry I've been away so long.

(you forgive me? Good.) 

As promised, here is the finished product (YAY!) of my art final! 

It's done entirely in pointillism. 

Hope you like it!

Stay tuned and stay classy, 

Miranda

x 

Arty Farty: I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar

I have quite a love of digging through oooold photographs.

I found this one in a family album.

This is my great grandma, and she was a pretty special lady.

In this picture she is in her nursing uniform.

I love finding out the stories of these women of the 'olden days',

having to make a path for themselves in a world dominated by men. 

I did a little art series juxtaposing the beautiful oldness of the photographs with typography showing 

my favourite feminism quotes. 

'I Am Woman' is one of my all time favourite songs

and pretty much the feminism anthem. 

It rocks... just like you.

Roar like a lion today. 

Arty Farty: A Decade Of Change

Hey guys, 

I thought you might appreciate a little peek into what my life is revolving around 

right now. 

This is the first piece in a series of ten,

focusing on the 1960's in Australia. 

I've been using pointillism as it's representative of pixels,

like the events would be portrayed on television 

to families at the time. 

I wanted to explore Australian events of major change because 

I feel like significant events happened here too,

that are relatively unknown to the rest of the world.

This picture is of Frank McFarlane, 

known as the father of immunology 

for his work in the bodies immune response, 

specifically around clonal expansion and deletion. 

Because science. Anyway, he was 

awarded the Nobel Prize. 

(interesting side note: Alfred Nobel

decided to invent the Nobel prize to deflect attention 

from the fact that he also invented dynamite...

there were a lot of people not too pleased with him at the time!) 

So, 

this is my first image in the works :) 

(Please excuse my just-showered hair, I told my dad not to take it with flash haha) 

Hope you like it! 

I'll post the finished product soon...

once I finish it ;) 

x 

Arty Farty: This is possibly the best thing I've ever seen

 Art History + High Street fashion trends = a totally new hybridisation of brilliance.

How darling are these appropriations?!? 

The Frida Kahlo one is currently my lock screen because I love it so...

it even replaced my previous Rocky Horror one!
(shock, I know... something earthly can actually compete with Tim Curry) 

Enjoy.

x

Arty Farty: Embroidery

I've been doing these embroidery on photograph pieces.

I love it because it's very methodical and breathes new life into a previously overlooked or old photograph.

All of these photographs are mine from some point or another. 

This is the Catholic church in my home town.

This was taken at Mt Hotham, Victoria. 

I think this was taken when my little sisters and I were playing dinosaurs when we were younger at our holiday shack. 

I hope you like these! 

x 

Arty Farty: 31/7/14

This is some of my own art that I've messing around with; taking inspiration from pop culture :)

I hope you like them!

'Is this the real life

Or is this just fantasy?' 

This is from my Queen record that lives on my wall, 

depicting Freddie Mercury after he fell ill- and 

he's such a shell of his former self that you can't quite conceive

if this really is just fantasy. 

I recently saw Titanic for the first time 

(I know right)

and, consequently, 

developed a fairly large crush on Jack,

played by a young (heart breaking) 

Leonardo Di Caprio. 

So I drew a picture about it. 

Some introductory words

...It is a truth universally acknowledged that every blogger in possession of a blog must be in want of followers.

And I do!

My name is Miranda, like from Picnic At Hanging Rock:




 Have you seen it? Read it? Both are beautifully eerie. The film, though, is multi-layered in 1970's dreaminess. Peter Weir shot many scenes with a veil over the lens to create that smoky fog sort of vibe. How cool is that!

Speaking of the 70's, I was born in the wrong era. Some say this is tragic. I really am a tragic. But I think this is actually a good thing because I can spread a little of the glimmer that is from a former time into the grey today.
I recently saw an article 'the golden age is now', I can't remember where it was... but it made me think about how everyone has a different golden age, and maybe we just have to make now ours. Like in that film Midnight in Paris, where Owen Wilson discovers this like, time vortex or something when he gets transported to his favourite time, 1920's Paris. But he meets a girl from this time who wishes SHE was born in a different time. And he's just like, 'seriously? Look around you!'  Mostly I was interested in it because VAN GOGH and PARIS, (yes, I judged the cover... vanity, not love, has been my folly... haha. Enough Jane Austen references.)




So this blog is just going to feature STUFF I like, because I don't know anyone except my dad who likes the same STUFF I like. I hope that I find people here who like my STUFF, and maybe other who aren't familiar with it can appreciate it and be like, 'hey. That is some pretty ace STUFF. And then consequently spread the word. Hee!

Okay, Miranda. Breeeeeeathe. Cool your jets.

So, this is how this is gonna go down:
I think I shall like to have a structure to this. I like organised chaos. Like my bedroom. Haha. I'd like to do weekly posts at least, in one of the following 'areas'. And then I'll just have some random posts too :)

1. My current top 10: 
Just a compilation of stuff that I am currently obsessed with... it changes often! Feel free to comment your own :) It will be fun, I promise!

2. Flashback Friday 
I LOVE music, especially the oldies. My local radio station does a 'Flashback Friday' so I thought I'd do my own!

3. What the What! 
In honor of the ever wise Liz Lemon (Tina Fey). Wise like an owl. I mean, what kind of GENIUS writes Mean Girls and 30 Rock!! This section will be something I find cool beans/weird/wonderful/ all of these things all at once. I am an avid finder-outerer-  I like finding out interesting facts. You know the random page finder on Wikipedia? Yeah, I use that all the time just for fun. I know.

4. Arty Farty 
Art is cool. Art is your friend. No? Oh, well it's time I introduce you. Here I'll post my own creations (I said that in a French-ish accent) and also other people's art, new and old, which I have taken a fancy too.

5. Kleidung 
This is German for clothes. I learn German at school, and I just like the sound of this word. Kl-eye-doong. It's fun and rather satisfying to say. Go on, try it. I won't judge. Anyway, I like fashion. I may post some of my own outfits and clothes that I find to be savvy or funky. 

6. Literature 
I like books. I like to find out about other books. So I'll share mine and you can share yours!
We'll have our own little book club!

That's all I can come up with for now, but if I want to add anymore I'll let you know :)

P.S. You may be wondering what 'She'll be apples' means... *in a mystical voice* whatever you want it to mean.  Haha. Not really. It's a good ol' Aussie saying, basically meaning 'it will all be ok.' I say it all the time. Trust me, it grows on you. And apples are ace. Keeping the doctor away and all that. Oh, you need further proof? Here:


 Geoffrey Rush endorses apples. Kay?

Happy Reading!

-Miranda