Friday Finds

I kind of wish this was real and on my television all the time ever. Hermione! Katniss! Michonne!


- Everyone should check out this amazing initiative presented at TedX by Arthur Attwell on On-demand publishing in rural Africa. Awesome, awesome stuff.

- These beautiful vintage covers for Vogue Magazine.

- These Tim Burton-style Pokemon, which are pretty great. The Charmander evolution is the most awesome.

My weekend is going to be spent moving house(!) which is exciting, but an oddly harrowing experience. My goal is to not pack my cats into a box (a more difficult feat than you might expect). 

Your Mid-Week Art Break: Scott Campbell

Immensely talented and darkly whimsical, I'm a little in love with Scott Campbell. His artwork is just so damn charming.

Uttu

This look book from Istanbul label, Uttu, is sublimely beautiful, both in terms of the clothes, the models and the photography. It lends itself to storytelling too, which is one of my favourite parts of any look book. (via The Clothes Horse)

QPF + LipMag

I had a ball at the close of the Queensland Poetry Festival last night, aptly named Evening Draws Back the Sun. The poet performances were all pretty stellar, with LE Scott, Geoff Lemon, Darkwing Dubs, angela rawlings and the wonderful singer-songwriter, Tylea. She has a Myspace page for her music, and I recommend having a listen.

In other exciting news, my second column for Lip Magazine is up today on their website. You can check it out here.

Sunday Short: The People You Will Fall in Love With in Your 20s by R

This isn't exactly a short story, but it's kind of lovely all the same, particularly this bit:

You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends.

Read the whole thing over at ThoughtCatalogue.

Friday Finds

Because I'm a huge weirdo with a partiality for creatures feeling included and loved, this comic by the immensely talented Natalya Lobanova made me tear up horribly. (Also, God, the detail on that toad is impeccable).

- The Mary Sue has compiled a list of 10 characters whose genders were swapped in production. I can't even imagine most of these as the opposite sex, particularly Ripley from Alien.

- On a similarly feministing note, Jessica Barlow over at Lip Mag Online posted a cool article thinking about books for budding feminists and asking for recs in the comments. What's emerged is a pretty great little canon of feminist non-fiction and fiction, and it's definitely helping me flesh out my feminist library.

- These pictures of a baby armadillo, which melt my cold, blackhole of a heart.

I've got a big weekend coming up, full of house inspections, parties and The Queensland Poetry Festival. If you're in the area, you should check it out. It's going to be pretty great. :)

Monster Mulberry

Every now and then I like a shoot more than the collection, and that's totally the case in Mulberry's Autumn/Winter 2012 collection and their monster photo spread.

I mean, how great is that? Plus, the launch at London Fashion Week looked like awesome fun.