oh nuts

peanut butter cookies from vespa food. i have tried every recipe in vespa, now i feel complete.

xx

Two lovely ladies

Salut is French for hi!

Firstly, I am obsessed with interested in the photo sharing website Flickr and now when I walk around I can't stop seeing everything as a photo I wish I could take...alas the difficulty is that I don't in fact have a camera. But the imagination is good for a bit! Anyway, on Flickr I can go hours by hopping from one person's album from Australia, then to America and back to New Zealand etc. It's this world wide adventure that is unbelievably exciting (for me) and inspiring. I keep remembering that I don't need to stick to the 'square' creativity wise because who is to tell me that I can't break free and go berserk like a true artist does? Who is to tell me that being controlled and totally elaborate with my style is wrong either? So I was browsing good old Flickr and then BAM! I was hit by a giant thunderbolt. But not really. Actually I came across one of my favourite sketch artists called Sarah McNeil and oh-my-gosh she is adorable and there is absolutely no way you couldn't like her drawings! You've probably seen some of her stuff in Frankie Magazine? Yeeah! She's that person! Also I commented on her photo and boy-oh-boy I'm A class Lame.


This is Sarah!



This is Fafi!

D'accord (that's French for OK)
So Sarah was cute artist numero uno and my next lady I shall invite to the table of admiration is called Fafi. I discovered her work many years ago whilst reading this loooovely book/magazine called Curvy (which was a gift from one of the leading women behind the New Zealand fashion brand Max). She does quite a bit of graffiti stunts and what not...plus she's French! I'd classify the majority of her work as cutexy (cute and sexy combined). Check out her (sub) blog for more info!

So there you have it! Two adorable/cool/cutexy ladies adding to my world of creativity. Hmm they could make a potentially interesting duo? Who are two artists that you would love to see working together?

XX

Lou

the vogue sixties

inspirational colours and photography from pages of american vogue 1967 with beautiful women of the sixties; mia farrow, marisa berenson, candice bergen. its truly amazing how fashion is cyclic- the fashions seen in the photos are still so relevant. but maybe not the red fishnets.

aps
xo

from here

VESPA GOES GLOBAL!

One of our gorgeous friends is visiting his home country at the moment and guess what! ...Actually it's rather obvious but anyway... he took Vespa to the freaken Stonehenge! It would seem that our magazine is going places. Hehehe. Tom, you're the sweetest <3

XX

Lou

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china

eeeee i forgot how it felt to be jetlagged and hyper.

actual taste test

sometimes i feel all out of words and i have a terrible time figuring out what to write when blogging. i get all excited to blog, then i get here to this wee bloggy box, and suddenly all words and rules of grammar escape me. 'tis why i have a camera:

 

since its the holidays, i finally have time do to the things on my to-do list. working on vespa i always glimpsed past the recipes in the food section as they stared back at me awaiting some sort of resurrection (do my metaphors even make sense today?) and so finally i got to it and baked eleanor's lemon sour cream cake.

and its amazing.

and absolutely fool-proof. lou - even you could make it.

i'm kidding. but actually, you could.

...but in all seriousness i say it is fool-proof because i made it, and my baking never tastes this great.

eleanor: genius.

aps xx

general feelings

  

aps xx

much love monday

G'day friends! I nearly forgot to do our 'much love monday' post today but thank goodness aps reminded me (in a very cryptic way might I add). So. Today, what do I want to appreciate? Making the practical into an adventure. The idea of living in your imagination (or close to it) kinda is a concept that children practice every 2 minutes but it can often be forgotten once you grow up. The wonderful Zane sent me a link to this absolutely exquisite website where a man called Tim MacPherson has posted pictures of kids in their re-created worlds around the house:

Aren't these pictures adorable? Maybe if you are too old to be making forts and the like (I know I'm not) maybe you can make little sculptures/artworks of made-up worlds inside your home and photograph them? Send them to us even!

XX

Lou

P.S. SHOCK NEWS: The world is NOT flat but it's NOT round either...It's heart shaped. Also this post was pretty much a guest post from Zane P. Thank you pretty maaan!

vespa: issue one

 its officially term break and finally i've had time to blog about our school's market day on last wednesday when we released the first vespa for 2010. after so many of the things that could go wrong in the days up leading up to releasing vespa went wrong, the weather was ironically nice for us, albiet windy as wellington is.

the junior economics students sold made their own little stalls and sold the cutest things. lou and i went around promoting vespa in a little basket that made me feel like little bo peep, red riding hood and all the bedtime story characters rolled up into one sweet dressed up bundle of sharing. 

  

 

it was a really inspiring day seeing how enthusiastic some people were about vespa! i still have 20 copies, and our people we recruited to sell them should even have 10 left each too -  if you would like one, email us at apsandlou@gmail.com. we could probably arrange something for our blog readers :)

also if anyone out there is interested in submitting anything for the next two vespa issues we *hope* to pop out next term, email us!

xx

taste test

Several things are on my mind but I'm not going to explode at you all today. Instead I'll just list...

1) The Australian film, 'Animal Kingdom' was killer frightening esp. due to the fact that it was based on a crime family in Melbourne. The incredible depth of the characters and twist of events will shock you. But seriously it'll leave you in quite a painful mood so only reccommended if you can handle terrifying and realistic.

2) I love icecreams from Kaffee Eis. They're the closest you can get to 'real icecream' in Wellington.

3) The Round About exhibition on at Wellington City Gallery. It's awfully inspiring and also v. diverse which is always wonderful. Amongst the triple cool artists whose works are currently being displayed are Peter Trevelyan (the guy who did the mirror sculputres that are outside Te Papa) and Chiho Aoshima, who does stuff like this:

4) The television series True Blood. I don't watch much television but this is an utterly addictive series and it's actually brilliant for its social commentary.

List 5 things on your mind. Do it.

XX

Lou