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Aaliyah Kamal

Sheena — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:25:02 +0000

Happened upon a photography exhibition by a visually impaired artist named Aaliyah Kamal at Zenzi this weekend and found her stuff just stunning. Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything about the photographer or work online, which is a real pity but I’m going to keep my eyes open. The exhibition ends tomorrow.

Akshat Ghiya

Sheena — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:38:39 +0000

When I first met Akshat in Goa over New Years, I had no shoes (from partying too much), when I left he had no shirt (from partying too much). So naturally I thought he was a total dreamboat straightaway and then I discovered that he’s a brilliant photographer as well. Lots of street art, architecture, amusing and pretty things from basically everywhere, I’m betting I’d be completely jealous of his passport. Hmph.

Recite me

Sheena — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:52:17 +0000

This is one of my favourite photographs I’ve ever taken and this is one of my favourite poems, which I rediscovered the other day while surfing this lovely blog. I’ve recited it aloud probably fifteen times since. E. E. Cummings is magical.

Editorial

Sheena — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:35:18 +0000

So like I’m styling now! Strangers have been like ‘Are you a stylist?’ (I think it’s cos I wear MC Hammer pants) and now I flip my hair and I’m like ‘Why yes I am, how’d you know?’ It’s like, brilliant. Speaking of which I love these editorials – Vogue China, etc. Much needed inspiration today.

Diya’s House

Sheena — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:01:10 +0000

Diya Sarker is a beautiful girl and talented art director I just met. She lives in Bombay in a one bedroom studio, which Neville and I visited inebriated post midnight last Friday. I was in awe. Beautifully lit with fairy lights and Robot Chicken on her macbook, she has art and her own prints everywhere, a blue mural in her kitchen, lots of lovely possessions and a great selection of reading material. Two very cute street cats keep her company when they please.

Wayne Tippetts

Sheena — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:12:09 +0000

I love Wayne Tippetts’ photography blog. As far as street style blogs go, I shan’t be bothered with ones that feature only middle aged men in bespoke Italian suits with pocket squares. Pssh. Wayne’s on the other hand is full of lovely, light, creative styling and good looking guys and girls. And he’s a very talented photographer.

Reasons to Plant a Tree

Sheena — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:59:05 +0000

So you don’t have to wear this in the future.

Although I secretly love it. Bio-Accessories was on display at Melbourne City Library (my library!) and was the brainchild of designers Ben Landau and Brittany Veitch. Described as ‘an effort on the wearers behalf to green their own personal space’, this collection was part couture, part social commentary.

My own space

Sheena — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:12:24 +0000

Feeling particularly uninspired in my grandparent’s home. Not that I don’t love the proximity to them, but I miss my freedom (and sanity). I want to have my own place and my room without their ugly, ancient PC and even uglier and older cupboards in it. I want to hang baubles and blu-tack pictures and drink red wine in my underwear at 2 pm, things I became accustomed to having lived alone for a million years. I miss having a billion pretty editorials on my walls, coming and going as I please, entertaining people. I just want a space to call my own again, something like these would be nice.

Mosquito nets are oddly romantic. I think this is Naomi Campbell’s room in her house in the Caribbean.

South Indian film posters. Fuck yes! They are so kitsch. I like Katie’s comic book wallpaper also.

Lovely egg-yolk lamp and magazine stack desk. I think the desk would be fairly easy to make if you punched a big hole in the center through the mags and inserted the actual legs. Maybe?

Love this. The wall, the colours and the suede seat.

This room looks expensive. But it needn’t be really. I like the contrast of the artwork against the starkness of the white.

What a beautiful nook. I could sleep here.

Bread story

Sheena — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:33:41 +0000

I’m really fascinated with methods of cooking that I can’t do (i.e. most). I love alternative ovens for instance. Wood fired pizza from ovens like this and this is the most phenomenal thing. Anywho, so in Leh when I lost my friends (Vodafone has no cellphone coverage in Ladakh), I wandered the bazaar finding all these great little alleys with shops selling dried apricots and butchers and grocers. And then I stumbled upon this tiny bread workshop. The three owners were so polite and friendly when explaining to me the bread making process as I stood outside and watched. Which was nice, grumpy bakers don’t really do it for me. They make big batches of dough, rolling them into balls, finger pressing and flattening them. The dough is pressed with a poker against the walls of the coal fired oven which is a literally a hole in the floor. The dough sticks to the sides and when it is ready, slides off easily, freshly baked and ready for sale.

Apartment love

Sheena — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:52:47 +0000

Last week, I managed to sort out my paperwork in order to live and work in India and I had to go to Bombay again to do so. Again I had a lovely time. I stayed with my friend Sohrab in his adorable apartment. I think I’ve mentioned him before on the blog, he was my first ever crush and he’s a beautiful pianist with an incredible voice. We ate gnocchi and sushi, watched Love Actually and stayed up all night London apartment hunting, smoking and talking in his wrought iron window sill which he turns into a magical nook with oversized cushions and pot plants and candles. His pad has the nicest lighting, lamps and low lighting from below and he has Freddie Mercury artwork hanging above his piano. I was a little mesmerised.