What I would have given to direct this big budget shoot, or even just to be there when Grace Coddington and Mario Testino were working their magic with Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanon for the Gatsby Vogue shoot. On shelf April 23rd 2013. If the sneak peaks are anything to go by - the spread should be stunning, the set ...

I have to be a world class procrastinator, I'm actually just amazing - I have so many tests and assingments due this week and yet I still manage to watch all of these and more on youtube - and write blog posts about it too it seems, urgh what is wrong with me. If they were to offer it as ...

What it's like a day in the life of a summer intern at The Pah Homestead Art Gallery managed by the Wallace Trust through my crappy camera phone, and yes I am complying with the photography policy. Some days are quite as I do my rounds checking the art work. In all honesty I am not a huge fan of ...

So here's a fun idea to ponder, all those times you were stuck in awkward group projects at school, they were really training you to survive adult life post-school. I somewhat dreaded group projects at school, but it's ironic because now I'm a big believer in it and very much dependent on it for my creative projects outside of uni, ...

Technically last day of summer was 4 days ago but my vacation ends today officially and I couldn't be happier. Long vacations are overrated. What a (mostly) shitty summer, and I really mean it. On the plus side I did go off on two wonderful trips to Perth and Sydney which kept me sane and bought a wonderful historic engraving ...

"productive use of break time" This is what happens when actual studying gets too much, I resort to online shopping or make thank you cards. These didn't take long, just took a while for the ink from the woodblocks to dry. But aren't they cute. The pre-made envelopes and placards were from Gordon Harris in stone shade and the ...

Okay so this morning I had a really odd, really exhausting dream and I literally felt I was in some weird twisted sci-fi modernist thing that I really have no idea how to explain. But if Erik Beck or some other talented Indymoguler was in charge of making it into a short film I have a feeling they'd nail it. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/opinion/a-chinese-threat-to-afghan-buddhas.html?smid=fb-shareNew York Times Op-Doc: "A Chinese Threat to Afghan Buddhas ". When I read the paper this morning, (for anyone who knows me knows I skip right to the opinion section_, it really pierced something in my heart. Everytime I hear of art and ancient monuments being neglected or destroyed, it does not bode well with me. I can't help ...

"...that's why we do this, that's what politics can be, that's why elections matter. It's not small it's big. It's important. Democracy in a nation of three hundred million can be noisy and messy and complicated, we have our own opinions, each of us has deeply held beliefs, and when we go through tough times when we make big ...

I'm reading Mansfield Park for the zillionth time, slowly and savouring every delicious moment of it, when all of a sudden I remembered this passage from P&P, it's always been one of my favourites and any Jane Austen aficionados will be able to appreciate this. Mr Bennet Treated the matter differently. 'So, Lizzy,' said he one day, 'your sister is ...

Why are us humans so bloody stupid in love? Why are we so selectively blind to what's in front of us and get so mesmerized by the shiny new toy. This is not just about a single situation, this is sadly reflective of so many of us, but the thing is that relationships are not about filling up a temporary ...

Aphrodite by Brenda Burke First of all I'm not paid to advertise for spa's, I just happen to be a complete spa whore, especially when I'm stressed or on holiday or both in the case of family reunions. And since my first exam is next week and my back was killing me, and my results so far were pretty ...

I have so many shortcomings, usually I'm quite poised but I've come to the realisation that social awkwardness and babbling like a baboon about things that have no relevance when I'm really, really nervous should be added to that already long list. Felt like an extremely uncomfortable out of body experience. Urgh. But the biggest shortfall of all is my ...

So this came up on the recommended videos on youtube, ahem...but it's one of the best fan made videos out there celebrating the amazing, amazing men of Jane Austen, my favourite being the two Mr Darcy's and Captain Wentworth of course, naturally. Duh. I was born in the wrong era...

I never talk about my personal life in great detail but here goes, I went to Sydney last week for a few days to see Alex and had a blast. Best date ever, very few men could ever possibly compare. Perhpaps the fact that he was dead had something to do with it. Let me introduce Alex, you know ...

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.” ― Edith Wharton Edith Wharton First of all happy 151st birthday to Edith Wharton's for the 24th of January as the Dead Beats Literary ...

Most of the time I don't live on this planet, I live in a fantasy world inside my head. Sometimes I like to think of day to day life as a bewitched, mysterious Cecil Beaton or Annie Leibovitz photograph that leaves much to the imagination that is reminicent yet vaguely familiar, which is why sometimes I turn up to work ...

I think the titles kind of tells all. Don't me wrong I find confusing scenario's rather charming actually, it's like biting into a sour lemon and finding out it's actually strawberry flavoured. Today at the bus stop right after my lecture I was having one of those great moments inside my head again (wondering what life as a Bauhaus student ...

Good morning! Saw this on my facebook newsfeed today and thought I would share it, its so cute and inspirational, have a great day! xx I don't to whom this instagram belongs anymore to credit it, I think it's gone viral too long to find out...but thank you whoever took it :)

Guess who's on the Summer 2012/13 Australia and New Zealand Coke Ad Campaign???? Our BILLIE Holland of course! Gooo Billie!!! Check it out and show Bills some love and hit that like button on youtube! xx