#Vivid Sydney 2018

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HIGHLIGHTS AND MAIN MEMORIES OF 2022 FOR ME

2022 had many memorable times for me, some great and some not so great but all together they are what made my year the year it was. How was 2022 for you? I recommend copying this format and making a post about 2022 for you.

JANUARY

Picked Up Gardening As A Hobby  My backyard garden was looking pretty sad so I began to tidy it up, before long I was obsessed with gardening and have since revived and added many new plants to the garden.

White Hydrangeas

Pink Hydrangeas

Pansies

Got Covid Nothing to say here other than UUUGGHHH!!!

FEBRUARY

Visited My Family On The Sunshine Coast hadn’t seen my Uncle, Aunty or Cousins up on the Sunshine Coast since 2018. I finally caught up with them all and met my eldest cousins new baby!!!! While up there I also visited the Sealife Aquarium and tried out some of the new great restaurants that have opened in the last years on the Mooloolaba wharf.

Polaroids

Fior Di Latte At Mooloolaba Wharf

Pub Mooloolaba

Dinner At Il Vento

Lionfish At Sealife Sunshine Coast

Octopus At Sealife Sunshine Coast

In The Famous Sealife Arch

A Cute Little Town Called Maleny

MARCH

Had A Trip Into The City With Aaron My boyfriend and I did a three day trip into Sydney city. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency and spent the three days eating lots of delicious food and having fun. Over the three days we visited - The Australian Museum - Taronga Zoo - Madame Tussaud’s - Sealife Aquarium

Lego Jurassic Park Exhibition At The Australian Museum

Gudetama Burger At Auvers Cafe

Taronga Zoo

Madame Tussaud’s

Sealife Sydney

Got A New Logo For “Makeup By Ruby Dolly” Made By My Friend Julia My friend Julia who is a Graphic Designer offered to create a new logo for my freelance makeup business “Makeup By Ruby Dolly”

My New Logo

APRIL

Harry Potter High Tea With My Friend Izzy My friend Izzy and I attended a Harry Potter High Tea at Sydney Uni.

Izzy And I At The Harry Potter High Tea

Me In Dumbledore’s Chair

Cousins Wedding My Cousin Mattew got married to his wife Natasha at the Lithgow Railway Museum.

Aaron And I At Matt And Tash’s Wedding

Got My First Job In A Salon Since Covid has killed the film and theatre industry, it has been impossible for me to find work as a Makeup Artist. I applied for a job in a beauty salon which I have never worked in before and I got the job.

Shellac Manicure Done At My Job

Opened Quirky And Kawaii In February, I began to experiment with making my own headbands and rings, one thing lead to another and eventually I opened my Etsy store “Quirky And Kawaii” I got my first sale around Christmas time and hope for many more in the new year.

Quirky And Kawaii Logo

Little Angel Headband

Unbearbly Cute Rings

Eat Me Cupcake Rings

I Scream Rings

MAY

Trip To Berry Mum and I drove down from Sydney to Berry for a night away. We spent the day checking out the cute little shops and then went and checked out the Shoalhaven zoo.

Berry

Shoalhaven Zoo

JUNE

Vivid Sydney Aaron and I went to Vivid Sydney.

Vivid

Aaron And I At Vivid

Supanova Aaron, Izzy and I attended Supanova in Sydney. I went as Harley Quinn (of course), Izzy went as River Tam and Aaron went as himself. I spent a ridiculous amount of money.

My Cosplay

Me As Harley Quinn, Izzy As River Tam

Me With No Face

River Tam, Harley Quinn And Aaron

AUGUST

Fed A Cassowary At Sydney Wildlife Park I went to the Sydney Wildlife Park and while I was there I spent quite alot of time admiring the beautiful Cassowary. The Keeper came around at the same time I was there and offered me to go backstage with her and feed the Cassowary. The Cassowary, a Male named Princess, was a little shy at first but he eventually came over to me and ate grapes straight out of my hands (Grapes had to be red and firm as he is fussy.)

Feeding Princess The Cassowary

Got My Nose Pierced I have been wanting my nose pierced since I was 14 and this year, at the age of 25 I finally did it.

My New Nose Piercing

Made A Feline Friend Named Mary New neighbours moved in next door to me with Their three cats. One of the Cats, a female named Mary strolled into my backyard one day and we have been friends ever since, she often comes over and sits in my lap for a pat.

Mary 

SEPTEMBER

Cousins Wedding My cousin Cameron got married to his wife Anna over in Ireland, however unfortunately alot of the family (myself included) were unable to make it so they held a second wedding here in Sydney for everyone who was unable to make it to Ireland.

Mum, Aaron And I With The Bride And Groom

Grandfather’s 90th Birthday My Grandfather turned 90 this year!!! family and friends both locally and out of state came to celebrate.

Post Birthday Celebration For My Grandad (Forgot To Take Pics Silly Me)

OCTOBER

Got My Tragus Pierced Getting my nose pierced made me develop the “piercing bug” and now I want quite a few. The other piercing I had wanted for a while besides Nostril was Tragus and this year I finally got that done as well as my Nose.

My Tragus Piercing

Moulin Rouge My Mum and I went and saw the Moulin Rouge stage show at The Capitol Theatre.

Me With A Program

The Stage

Photoshoot I did all of the makeup for a photoshoot by James of I Went Wandering.

Pictures From The Photoshoot

Halloween Party I had my annual Halloween party, the theme this year was “Freak Show” I went as the Tattooed Lady.

Izzy And I

Julia And I

Piñata Shenanigans 

NOVEMBER

Mary Had Kittens Mary the neighbours cat had five adorable little kittens.

Mary Feeding Her Kittens

The Kittens

Trip To Orange, Dubbo And Mudgee For my birthday, Mum bought me tickets to attend the Zoofari Lodge at the Dubbo Western Plains Zoo which was amazing. We decided to make a trip of it, we stopped off at Orange the first night and then spent two nights in Dubbo, then spent two nights in Mudgee.

The Oriana Motel 

Cocktail Hour

Mum And I Feeding A Giraffe

Elephant Having Its Morning Bath

On The “Savannah” Plains” In A Safari Bus

Mudgee Honey Haven

Gulgong The Cutest Little Town

My Birthday I turned 26 this year and Aaron took me out to one of my favourite places to eat Milky Lane and then we spent the day at the beach. When we arrived back at my place Mum had invited my family over and we all had dinner and cake.

Milky Lane

Cronulla Beach

DECEMBER

Got My Conch Pierced My Tragus finally finished healing and when it did I went straight to have the Labret downsized and also got my Conch pierced while I was at the studio. When my Conch heals in 6 months I plan to get two Flat piercings.

My Conch Piercing

Got Medusa Ever since I began gardening in January I have been on the hunt for a Pitcher plant. I finally found one at a Nursery and bought it of course. I have named it Medusa and she is already eating lots of flies.

Medusa

Medusa’s First Meal

Bathurst Christmas Party Mum and I travelled to Bathurst to see family for our annual Bathurst Christmas party. I may have made a few stops to my favourite ice cream parlour Annie’s while we were there.

Lunch At A Cafe

Shopping Before The Christmas Party

Me And My Cousins Adorable Baby Lillian

Christmas Eve Aaron and I went to his families annual Christmas Eve party. There was lots of good food and lots of new babies.

Dinner

Aaron And I

Aaron’s 30th Birthday So we haven’t actually celebrated it yet as he has been working ever since but we most defiently will be in the new year. Photos to come.

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How to survive a week without The 100? Go see the Vivid light festival with the one and only @bellarkes-hope 💕✨

[helennias]

Highlights from Vivid Sydney 2018

We didn’t manage to explore everything, but here are some of my favourites from the Botanic Gardens and Circular Quay area.

From top to bottom, left to right, I loved...

Lighting of the sails: Metamathemagical by Jonathan Zawada - hypnotic and beautiful

Light Houses by TAFE NSW Students

Parrot Party by Zara Pasfield - the parrots get louder the more people who sat with them

Harmony Valley - Rainbow Of Peace & Trees Of Friendship by Edison Chen - encouraging people to interact with strangers

Astral by Zara Pasfield and amigo + amigo (you can also see Ember by Snell Architects in the background of the shot)

Oasis by James Feng Design + MAGK Partners - very beautiful

Fragmented and also The Bloom, both by Mandylights

Focus by Lumiforms - it was a lot of fun to play this digital instrument by moving my hands through the air

1000 Cranes by Ambient & Co - dazzling

There was a lot more I enjoyed and I’m sad I didn’t get time to visit the other areas or get to any of the music events this year. Looking forward to the next one!

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Luminous Flight (Vivid Sydney 2018)

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Lily Maymac 🌸🍒💋🌸 Enjoying VIVID Sydney 2018 🎆✨

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yung queens

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Vivid 6 by Mal Booth

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Yellow by Jared Beaney

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My short walk through Vivid Sydney 2018.

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Sydney Opera House - Vivid Festival 2018

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Beautiful infectious agents, a personal piece I worked on in my spare time during the development of "Beautiful and Dangerous" for VIVID Sydney 2018 ✨

[anthonylister]

The Real Introduction Of Anthony Lister | All Achievements In 2021-2022 |Defining Artistic Vision

While walking down the main drag of any urban enclave in Australia, You would surely be hard-pressed not to come across at least one of Anthony Lister's irreverent and kinetic artworks.

Anthony Lister artworks are unmistakably his own; in a way, they are identity-defining. And, all of his aerosol-based artworks differ wildly in scale. Nonetheless, Anthony Lister's body of work is often dark, gestural in appearance still shot via vivid colour.

Anthony Lister has turned his focus back to the figure of a female and form of a human ever since his shows in Los Angeles and Milan

Anthony Lister's Artistic Vision for the World

Having been born in the year 1979, the industry experts describe Anthony Lister as a leading and one of a kind Australian contemporary street artist.

After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Queensland College of Art in 2001, Anthony Lister pioneered the street art and stencil movement in Brisbane. In 2003, he settled in New York City and worked under Max Gimblett, a New Zealand-born painter. 

Anthony Lister holds a tremendous interest in social value judgment on culture and cultural values at large. With an added interest in philosophical reflections and inclination to break art, Anthony Lister views the ballerinas in his artwork as a stripper who is never willing to take their clothes off.

Anthony Lister is known for employing a sophisticated, painterly style and fine art owing to his strong background in the street art genre. In Anthony Lister's drawings, paintings, and installations, Low and high cultures clash.

The content of these mediums ranges from boorish superheroes, bad-tempered old masters, and flirtatious ballet dancers to imperious vamps. These imaginative characters live and rapidly deteriorate inside Anthony Lister's head while raucously co-existing at the party.

Anthony Lister's Documentary: Have You Seen the Listers? 

As a prolific Australian street artist, Anthony Lister was the subject of a documentary, Have You Seen The Listers?, released in Australian cinemas on April 5, 2018, nationwide.  

Directed by Eddie Martin, the documentary provided the audiences with candid, previously unseen and new insights regarding the private and professional lives of Anthony Lister, a singular street artist. Furthermore, the documentary film presented his life as Australia's best known and was premiered at Melbourne Film Festival.

Just like the installation, the documentarily functions ostensibly and in a similar manner. Eddie Martin was given unprecedented access to Anthony Lister's, a father of three, personal archives.

The access provided Martin with all the details he needed about his trajectory in life. The trajectory ranged from his childhood in the suburbs of Brisbane to his first experiments with marriage and drugs to Anika, Anthony Lister's high school sweetheart.

While Anthony Lister was battling his demons, he suffered a lot from legislative and illicit issues. The documentary sheds light on these events that lead to the collapse of his relationships. Moreover, Anthony Lister has had well-documented troubles with the local authorities.

One such event involved Brisbane City Council taking him to court. The same council that once offered the encouragement he got to develop his now street art-based lucrative practice.

Anthony Lister's Identity Defining Exhibitions

Apart from regular global exhibitions, Anthony Lister was named by Art Collector Magazine, in 2010, as one of Australia's most collectable 50 artists.

With exhibitions in Newcastle and London in November of 2012, at the Outsiders/Lazarides Galleries, Anthony Lister was the first artist to occupy both Outsiders galleries simultaneously. It was the first of its kind feat ever since David Choe made his UK debut in the year 2008.

Anthony Lister has had solo exhibitions in New York City, Miami, Sydney, Los Angeles, and London since 2012.

In Melbourne, Anthony Lister made a record at Menzies' sale of Important Australian and International Fine Art in June of 2015. He broke his own auction record with the sale of 2014 work Supernatural Disorder 4 for a sum of $19,636.  

https://www.streetartbio.com/artists/about-anthony-lister-biography/

https://www.artsy.net/artist/anthony-lister

https://www.fireworksgallery.com.au/artist/anthony-lister

http://www.artnet.com/artists/anthony-lister/

https://mirusgallery.com/artists/anthony-lister/

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MAKING THE MYTH

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Why make a myth? I had that question reading David Dowsey’s Making the Cut, a history of the Australian tailoring firm John Cutler. By coincidence, I’d also finally got round to reading Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, his exploration of myth-making in the modern world, where pro wrestling is our morality play, the steak frites is a sort of French Eucharist, and soap flakes promise absolution to our flatware.

It is blessedly easy to mythologize bespoke tailoring: its vocabulary is arcane and ancient, its true practitioners rare and its initiates often exult in being part of the elect – men (generally) who have not only cash, but the time and the unnatural will to have sought out a legendarily disappearing craft. Tailors now hold themselves out to be – or are held out to be by credulous bards in the media –not only that modern Jedi, actual craftsmen, but practitioners of a sort of wizardry, who lay hands on cloth and thread to create garments that transform the wearer – supposedly slimming the fat, straightening the stooped – into the icon he dreams of being. And the price of that magic is also of another world.

In fact, it was the price of one Cutler garment that caused whatever global notoriety he enjoys, and which was the likely trigger for Making the Cut: in 2013, Meg Lukens Noonan came out with The Coat Route, an examination of all of the materials and crafts that went into the creation of a $50,000 custom coat Cutler made out of a length of vintage Dormeuil vicuña for a customer who had given him carte blanche. Noonan visited vicuña conservators in Peru, met with Cutler’s horn button suppliers and the smith who made the gold chain inside the coat, and interviewed Stefano Ricci, who supplied a length of his trademark garish silk for its lining, as well as, of course, Cutler in Sydney and his Canadian customer.

Noonan found that nearly all of her interviewees were endangered species (now humanely herded and sheared instead of killed for their wool, the vicuñas are an adorable exception). For seeking them out, customers of bespoke clothing can pride themselves on being connoisseurs, not least the coat’s owner, who I believe has now ordered a second one.

As it happens, Dowsey, the author of Making the Cut, first met Cutler (one of a long series of tailors of that name) on a Ricci-sponsored junket in Italy. Like its subject’s custom clothing, Making the Cut itself has been hard to obtain, exquisitely packaged and prohibitively priced: various special editions came with bottles of Scotch or lengths of vicuña cloth, all reminders of Cutler’s creating the most expensive coat known to popular imagination.

Making your vanity book so rare and expensive it itself is a luxury item seems a strange way to make a myth, to get the word out about your subject. Certain of the Savile Row tailors Making the Cut explicitly references sell their books on their websites and through online booksellers, and use their publication to do tie-in articles and pictorials in magazines like The Rake and Vanity Fair. Making the Cut definitely draws on those dutiful and dry tailors’ histories for inspiration. It repeats their narrative arc: heroic founder, struggle of heirs against unforeseen challenges, and eventual restoration to a secure footing, recounting the Cutler dynasty’s immigration to Australia and gradual development into a prestigious bespoke tailoring business making for the rather colorful Australian great and good – athletes, hotheaded sheep farmers, politicians and businessmen. Dowsey compares the Cutlers’ rise to that of another traditional bespoke craftsman who had emigrated to Australia, John Lobb, who became successful making boots during the gold rush there before returning to London and opening what is undoubtedly the most famous custom shoemaker in the world. The Lobb family’s own history, The Last Shall be First, came out 45 years ago. Making the Cut seems intended to set Cutler among these otherwise British legends of traditional craft.

But why? The reasons the British tailors and bootmakers whose stories set the pattern for Making the Cut came out with books were apparent: age-old houses, many under different, corporate ownership now, seeking to spread their reputations in an age of new accessibility. Their continuity was assured. In contrast, Making the Cut itself notes that the current John Cutler’s children are not likely to enter the business, and that most of the cutters and coatmakers instrumental to custom clothing have gradually left. So this book, for all its painstaking immigration details, vivid recitation of John Cutler’s romantic histories and dozens of pages of press cuttings and customer pictorials, attempts to create a myth without much commercial justification – the justification for so much of today’s myths. Cutler the man, Cutler the business may soon be names out of time.

Does recognizing the components of a modern myth collapse it? Both The Coat Route and Making the Cut approvingly inform the reader that no less an authority than Forbes magazine proclaimed that Cutler was one of the best tailors in the world. The reader must be expected to imagine that Steve Forbes (or Teve Torbes) himself announced this epiphany. Unfortunately, the article in question is a clickbait listicle from the Forbes website, which is better known for unhinged and unsupported op-eds that would make The Wall Street Journal opinion page blush. Its support for why Cutler is the best appears to be that a customer can also order a custom overcoat and a pair of shoes there. But any tailor who makes suits cam make an overcoat. As for being able to order shoes, if variety meant quality then the Chinese place near my house that also sells sushi and Thai food must be the best restaurant in the world. In any case, Cutler’s shoe offer was a special order service with the late Italian shoemaker Stefano Bemer, not a true bespoke service with a custom maker creating a wooden last for each customer and welting shoes by hand. For all I know, Cutler may be one of the best tailors in the world, but the Forbes list isn’t why. I have no personal experience with Cutler or any Australian tailors, but my friends and I have worn out the carpets at the good tailors of Paris, where the Forbes article recommends solely the bespoke section at the department store Galeries Lafayette, which is a bath-salts level of unreliable, crazy and stupid. None of us had ever heard anything memorable about this service, although my 2003 Paris sur mesure does mention, as an alternative to good full bespoke and cheaper made-to-measure tailors, a demi-mesure service at Galeries Lafayette, where customers could select cloth for a factory special order made to stock sizes, with the possibility of some alterations after the fact. But in no way could that compare with having someone who knows what he or she is doing measure, create a pattern for, fit and otherwise hand-tailor you.

With Making the Cut, Cutler no longer needs to found its myth on Forbes’ shoddy support. It has all the architecture (long history and heritage, glossy photos and testimonials and mildly entertaining anecdotes) for today’s mythmaking, craft trades edition. Even if it’s a final snapshot for a family album.

Quality content, like quality clothing, ages well. This post first appeared on the No Man blog in 2018.