Another saweet thing about Bandra is these parties. The second edition of Grime Riot Disco is this Friday, March 25th at Bollywood Mischief, Hill Road and features DJ Ruskin and Bandish Projekt who will be spinning disco, electro funk, techno. Grimy venue in walking distance, cheap bar, beer cart, hookah lounge. Hell yes. Entry is Rs. 300, and covers one drink. Down with the current repetitive, pretentious, bourgeois scene. Music is for everybody.
I love you, Bandra. I love your Portuguese influence, I love your villages and your Goan grannies who get their skirt suits “stitched” and your tiny stalls set up in verandahs selling homemade pickle and potato chops, I love your promenades and pink sunsets and shwarmas, I love your games nights and communal youtubing and burrito bars and theme parties.
I love your farmers markets, and your supper clubs and Sunday brunches and rooftop dancing. (I don’t like your rickshaw strikes and when they say they won’t go some place) I love that Janata and Jimme’s Kitchen deliver. I love your lively backdrops to impromptu photo shoots. I love your bookshops in garages and artist studios and production offices and chocolate shops and Manju dosa and Bombay sandwiches guy on Hill Road and Saroj sev puri.
I love your things to do on Mondays and Thursdays and other days. (I don’t like when your venues shut before I’m ready to stop moving) I love your street stalls and junk jewels and best fifty rupee finds. I love photos from your skywalks and the shops who sold me furniture underneath. I love your host of interesting characters, your beautiful women and sometimes men and my wonderful, wonderful friends.
Bandra, I’m in love.
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Tagged Bombay, India, Inspiration, Photography, Sheena, Street
Please throw rocks at me if I do not finish the five books I have started by the end of April. This is a public appeal to save what little literacy skills I have before I turn into a poorly read, bumbling nincompoop. Slippery slope. You’re welcome to shame me in any way (within reason) if I have not read them.
To think I was once a girl who started a bookclub? Sigh.
Hibernated with my favourite person and watched this feature film yesterday. Sita Sings the Blues is an animated retelling of the Ramayana by the extra-talented-and-I-am-now-in-awe-of Nina Paley who wrote, directed, produced and animated it. Narration of the Ramayana, punctuated with irreverent shadow puppet commentary and scenes from the director’s own life, with perfectly sychronised musical interludes with 1920s jazz musician Annette Hanshaw’s songs. The animations are beautifully rendered and alternate between different styles. It’s a brilliant film, a delightful interpretation of this ancient epic.
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Tagged Artists, Comics, Films, India, Inspiration, Music, Nina Paley, Ramayana, Video
My girl Amrita’s work is now on the cover of Time Out magazine. A detailed and fantastically bizarre illustration adorns the Mumbai edition this month, and the Delhi edition last.
And she’s not just an illustrator. Artist, graphic designer, experimental filmmaker, photographer. The girl paints murals, she sings, she cooks, she exhibits. Her current exhibition runs till 18th March at Studio 21, in Calcutta.
Her blogs showcase a thoughtful and vivid collection of commercial and personal work. Graphic design and illustration can be found here, and her photography here. The Mahishadal Palace slideshows are especially wonderful.
Hire her please, so she won’t have to go to an office and can play with me all day instead.
*Studio 21, 17L Dover Terrace, Kolkata
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Tagged Artists, Bombay, Colour, Design, India, Mumbai, Photography
Talented Rhett Dashwood at Melbourne’s Wade Studios which produces some fantastic creative work made a weird little mirror music video for kicks. I’m in it at some point. Whee. So much fun.
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Tagged Art faggotry, Design, Melbourne, Music, Rhett Dashwood, studio, Video
I had been waiting so long for the new Deck of Secrets to be released and it’s out, it’s out! Not only is it out, I have my own copy! My photograph of a messy plate is the cover of the brand spanking new Dining Secrets Melbourne, a city restaurant guide that includes a selection of the best places to feed yourself in an adorable 52 card format, one for each week.
So if you live in the best city in the world or you’re visiting, pick up the pack of the new Eat Melbourne, or download it to your iPhone/smartphone. It’s a fantastic guide, the eateries so well picked and researched, I’m delighted to be a part of it.
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