hawaii!

Hey guys! Well the day has finally arrived where i jet off to Hawaii for two whole weeks! eepppp!! currently nervous (but from excitement!!!) I've never been overseas before and I'm sure this experience will be freaking amazeballs!! Anyway, I'll try update this blog with photos and such whilst I'm away, but none the less, when I return/get all the photos developed, there will be a massive post! See y'all in two weeks! peace ex oh

falls yeah

Hey guys! been a while since i've been bothered to write a post on here, so here's my little falls adventure in one post! 

after a grooling 5 days stuck in Tasmania over Christmas, i hoped on a plane (alone) and made my way back to Melbourne for my most anticipated weekend since 2012! luckily for some reason, dad lent me his 19 year old car to get Caitlin and i to Lorne.

on the 29th of Dec, i made my way to Caitlin's house, only to crash the car when reversing out of her street.... but other than that, no other accidents! we then shook out heads, laughed a bit, and made tracks for falls, no incidents the second time!

after we set up everything and got our festival gear on, we went exploring a bit around the festival area. the first day always has the strange acts on, and none of the bands on the advertised lineup. we then spotted Jules and Alex and followed them back to their tent to hang out a bit with the others. also, on the first night is a party known as "boogie nights", apparently every year there is a theme, and this years was intergalactic. essentially everyone dressed themselves in foil and went to go have a dance in the grand theatre. i decided to go as a spacey gal and wore my cousins American apparel ice skater dress, topped with piggy tail buns wrapped in foil, lots of glitter, and a boggle eye glued to my head! it was fab!! 

me, joolz and giuls

yes, my undies are over my dress

the next morning (the 28th) was when all the bands started performing and when Maddy, Tess and Emma arrived!!! whilst waiting for them to arrive, Geri, Caitlin, Abbie, Will and i hung around the festival to listen to the new and up coming bands, i however was just itching to see owl eyes! (she was amazing by the way).

me and will

Cait and i then got very drunk (me a bit quicker than her) and i got lost, but during this time, i saw Solange in the front row, and then flight facilities w/ owl eyes singing and MGMT! surprisingly, MGMT were actually so good! i forgot how much a loved their first album! Sparky and i screamed the lyrics to each other the whole show until i had no voice. after MGMT, Sparky, Jono Seb and i watched the roots, but i started dozing off during their massive jam at the end.  

on Monday (the 30th) i mostly spent the day with my other friends (non school ones)! however i was feeling ill from the night before so didn't get to rowdy :( but everyone else did which was fun to watch! i don't really remember who played during the day, but at night Crystal Fighters played and they were awesome and so much fun to dance to! and then The Wombats played, yet another one of my young adolescent loves that were so much fun! I also had a guy hit on me sober for the first time ever (that i know of), which was interesting! but i was far too excited dancing to The Wombats to even see if he was cute or not, silly boys!

emma, cait, maddy, me and tess 

 me judging jim ft cait and geri

blurry cait jim and i waiting for the wombats

me and maddy

then came NYE (the 31st obvs)! since i was driving, i told myself i wouldn't drink and go to bed early, that didn't happen, so i took my chances and drank myself silly!! during the day, i was mostly with Geri, Abbie, Cait and Maddy, but i kept getting lost and finding new people all day (not drunk at this point). we sat on the hill and watched heaps of bands, i don't really remember who at this point, but they were all fantastic none the less. then in the afternoon, a few of us went to see Johnny Marr, who was so good! it seemed like watching a Smiths cover band, but i didn't care! we then went back to their camp site to have some more drinks and to get all nicely dressed up for the New Year!! 

maddy and i being coot

me rolling down a hill like a sausage

before we all disappeared on each other, we all made sure to have a meeting spot right before Vampire Weekend, so no one would be alone during the count down. but before that, The Cat Empire were on! and even though it's all a bit hazy, i'm pretty sure i boogied during the entire set! then after a stressful ordeal wondering if everyone was going to make it to the meeting place in time, we found everyone and in a drunken cheery mood, we all found a spot together for Vampire Weekend. this was definitely the highlight of my falls! they did the best set list ever! (i've seen them 3 times now)! all the songs were perfect and fun! what more could you ask for! then came the count down (which Ezra stuffed up!) and we all gave/got out NYE kisses (heh) and then about five seconds later, they finished their set, and Sparky put me on his shoulders during Walcott, it was all so perfect!! 

geri, abbie and i w/ new fronds

chilling with the pillows

even though i knew i had a long drive ahead of me the next day, and hadn't eaten dinner and was absolutely exhausted, i then soldiered on and followed the rest of the gang for some more New Years shenanigans! in the Falls Village we went to this thing called the 10 minute rave, which essentially is a small room with rave music where a few people enter at a time and you just dance your ass off for ten minutes! after that work out, the few left standing went for a lie down on all the rugs and pillows under the bar tent and reminisced about everything. the perfect way to end a great trip!!

the pack up/drive home was uneventful and boring so not going to write about it!! 

but, here's some more photos! 

 

me ft guy posing in background

me and geri

intergalactic queen

me bein all coot

me and geri waiting for chet faker

maddy and me chilling at the camp site

jim caitlin and i

me and cait

gals hanging out

me and geri drunk

jono sleeping, danny chillin and jim being a nag

gals chillin

out teeny tiny tent

cidars before 12

me and sebby sob

jim and will ft beaut face paint by me

me and geri

cait me and geri

more cidar shots

water or gin?

alex just chillin

quick boogie before chet faker

Music Gal 101

So I've been extremely lazy of late and haven't written any of my "Music Gal 101" posts, when I actually have so much new music on offer!!! Sorry guizzzz!

Anyway, considering this is most likely my last music post of 2013 I thought I would do a quick recap of my favourite songs of 2013!

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know

Jake Bugg - Slumville Sunrise

Vance Joy - Riptide

Bombay Bicycle Club - Carry Me

Rufus - Tonight

Trying To Be Cool - Phoenix

Foals - My Number

Snakatdaktal - Fall Underneath

Stand Still - Flight Facilities

Mac Demarco - Cooking Up Something Good

Haim - The Wire (Favourite music video of 2013!)

Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

Solange Knowles - Losing You

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

Cat Empire - Steal The Light

Owl Eyes - Closure

Argh don't know how I'm going to narrow this down to 10 for my hottest 100 vote!

Enjoy!

shangri la

Hey there!!

So today was a day I've been waiting for for a long time, the release of the beautiful Jake Bugg's second studio album "Shangri La" and all expectations were met (thank god). With this thought in mind, I realised how many of my favourite bands/artists have released new successful albums (with the exception of the strokes), so with that in mind, I've chosen the best few albums and the best songs off each album (or two if the album is realllllly good!)

Jake Bugg - Slumville Sunrise - Shangri La

Jake Bugg - Me and You - Shangri La

Vampire Weekend - Diane Young - Modern Vampires of the City

Wavves - Demond to Lean on - Afraid of Heights

Arctic Monkeys - Knee Socks - AM

Snakadaktal - Too Soon - Sleep in the Water

Phoenix - Trying to Be Cool - Bankrupt

Owl Eyes - Closure - Night Swim

The National - Graceless - Trouble Will Find Me

Foals - Bad Habit - Holy Fire

Daft Punk - Get Lucky - Random Access Memories

Seriously, it's been a great year for music! Everyone should go out and buy all these albums, you won't regret it !!!!!!

Peace 

ex oh

Fortress of Solitude

Hey guys,

My first set of photos for my exhibition got developed today, and I'm pretty happy with them! these are the scanned images of the photos

emily

seb

anne

alice

alex (crocked :( ) 

nonna

lou

emily

john

george

mrs solano

i'm actaully so happy with them all! i have got the first four printed 12 x 12 inches and they look great! i've also mounted the first four and i'm so happy with them all! can't wait for the exhibition 

The Portrait Series Complete

So, for all you blog regulars, you would have realised that for the past few months I have been taking images of some of the people in my life in order to create my final art piece for my first year at uni. Well I have finally finished these images and am currently creating my hardcover book to which I will be presenting the images in.

So finally, here are all the images together

Nonna Rosa

Nonno Franco

Mitchell Wood

Mrs Salano

Cathy Salano

Georgia Dandolo (myself)

Anne Wight

Alex Zammit

Nonna Theresa 

Don't know why some of the images turned out with a sepia tinge, on the actual prints the are pure black and white.