Carabiner Love

In 2010 Ben and I started a photographic Project called Carabiner Love, inspired by Paul Octavious who photographed one hill, every day, for 2 years.  We got to Week 18 in our project though and stopped.  There was this weird promo car that stayed for far too long that we felt killed it.  Though we then made this video and were going to re-start the project in a new spot (that completely fizzled out :P) Anyway, the other day we were at our spot and decided to pose it up for old time sake :)  I then started going back over our pictures and thought it would be fun to do a re-cap post.  What was funny was our last ever pose, happened to be gangster too! We must not have that many ideas :P

week one

 week two

week three (in our Alice themed party get ups)

week four

week five

week six

week seven (we got in trouble with security for the sparklers!)

week eight

week nine...lolly teeth!

week ten

week eleven

week twelve, I'm being run over and Ben is wearing his robsessed home made tee to twilight, he isn't really obsessed but I am :)

week thirteen - toilet paper mummies!

week fourteen - blowing bubbles

week fifteen

week sixteen

week seventeen

Gangsters for life, obviously :P

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Behind the Scenes of Carabiner 24

Thought it would be fun to post some behind the scene shots.  I don't know if you've even watch it yet, if not click here :P but yes, there is a section a where a tarp goes up and goes down (thrilling huh?).  It actually started raining pretty heavily early on and we contemplated pulling the plug but stuck through it and got lovely sunshine for the rest of the day!

Thanks for all the video love!

Now to get back into making art, yay!!

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Carabiner 24

For the last two weeks, though it really has felt much longer, the majority of my time has been spent glued to my computer screen, doing some tideously painstaking video editing which often left me a grumpy, soul crushed beast!  I now have crazy super respect for those that do this sort of thing profesionally and full time, blah!  

So let's back track.  

We stopped doing Carabiner Love because in all of our shots was this annoying red promotional car.  Ben and I had many discussions and agreed that our initial spot, at the local plaza, wasn't that great a location, the red car coupled with security made it testly for us.  We decided to move location to Ben's backyard and its here Ben came up with the 24 hour time lapse project to celebrate the move.  We decided to take one shot every 10 minutes for 24 hours.  That idea sort of changed over the course of 24 hours, but I will say no more and just let you watch it,  so without further ado....

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Google hilarity

Does anyone else ever raise there eyebrow when they go to type in a question to google and get a list of suggested searches. I straight away had to search mochi coins, thinking they were a weird mix between the japanese sweet and chocolate playing money :P but alas I was sadly dissapointed.

I've been a bit absent on the creativity front, but I've actually been putting many many hours into a project that hopefully will be ready to show you guys in the next couple of weeks.    It wont seem that impressive but a lot of time and love has gone into it, so I'll be excited to share! It has to do with Carabiner Love, but has sort of become an entirely new project all on it's own...can't wait to share!!

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Carabiner Love Week 17

This week's Carabiner love we got to be joined by the ever so lovely Dan and Heather, we doing our best gangster posers!  In other exciting news the red car is gone! happy days!!

To see all the week's click here

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Carabiner Love Week 16

Ben and I have been all sorts of slack with our Carabiner Love art project, actually can I let you in on a little secret, we are so bummed about that red car! We initially picked the spot because it's always changing but for the last couple of months it's just been the red car. We have been deep in discussions though and Carabiner Love has some exciting changes coming up soon!!! woot

Anyway for this week we raided my costume box, haven't worn that hello kitty costume in ages, well actually if you're big hello kitty nerd, it's actually charmmy kitty and for the big big nerds out there, the costume is actually a type of pj refered to as Kigurumi. Ahem!

A while back Ben and I started a project called 'Carabiner Love' (for reasons which for now shall remain secret) inspired by an artist called Paul Octavious who photographed one hill, every day, for 2 years, http://www.pauloctavious.com/hill/

Any way that was a rad idea so Ben and I decided to take the idea to the Sunshine Coast, more specifically, Maroochydore Plaza, represent!

Week One: We've been ironing out some technical issues, aka, a billion white washed out shots, but I think we have perfected it, so without further ado here is our first shot...

Week 2: I look grumpy here but it's just me concerned about whether or not the camera has actually taken the picture :P

Week 3: We decided to get the most out of our Alice party costumes, mini mall celebrities. We even had one lady ask if we were professional children party hosts!

Week 4: decided to be a bit different this week :P

Week 5: Old people and fee's big head!

week 6 and a busy mall!

week 7: Ben's friend Lucy joins and we get in trouble from security for having sparklers!

week 8 and my pasty legs are in good view! he he he

Week 9 and some candy teeth later we were looking like fools, taken on a pleasant Sunday as the sun was almost about to set!

Week 10 and Ben and I find a promotional car in our spot!

Week 11 and another week with the red car, eek! We were on the way to see the movie predators, so just a quick shot with me dressed in a rather sailor moon inspired get up!

Week 12, fee is getting run over and Ben sports his "robsessed" home made singlet, before heading off to see Twilight :P

Week 13 and Ben and I decide to wrap ourselves up in toilet paper! MUMMIES!

Week 14, I bring my bubble blower and Ben dresses up in his gown and fez and brings his ceramic white bird to be his pipe!

Week 15, speech bubble love!

Week 16 and it's raiding the costume box time!

Week 17 we get to be joined by the ever so lovely Dan and Heather, we doing our best gangster posers!  In other exciting news the red car is gone! happy days!!

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