Dear Jimmy

I have had such a busy/lazy weekend. I was working all weekend at hugo's but didn't really achieve anything. I've got heaps of work to do for the all ages tour we are doing at work and am kind of switching between that and deciding whether I should buy a new pair of swimmers or not. This is the extent of my life - although the swimmers are pretty cool they come from a collaboration between Oscar & Elvis and People like Us. I know this doesn't mean anything to you, they are Australian designers, but look how cool the swimmers are. The label is called wearehandsome.

 

Anyway I really spent most of my time this weekend on this blog that Gemma sent me, which is a nice little sidewind into the Photographer of the Week. So this guy in Chiacago went to an auction of a deceased estate and found hundreds of thousands of negatives and unprocessed film. He pretty much discovered our photographer of the week a Vivian Maier. This blog is a jounral of finding out who Vivian Maier is, if you read through you'll find out that she was a photographer in Chicago from the 50s till the 90s, street photography her forté. An immigrant from France she learnt to speak english by going to the movies, spent most of her life as a nanny and passed away days after this guy bought her photos in April last year. 

Looking through alot of her pictures they are almost bittersweet. They are a perfect representation of life in the 50s and 60s in the states but looking at them you don't feel like you can connect with the subject or the life that is being depicted. I wonder if this reflected how Vivian Maier felt during her life, she lived in their world but maybe she didn't feel she existed in it.

In other news, I went to the premier of Game On. It was a hit there were so many people there and everyone pissed themselves laughing. I think the boot was the funniest moment for everyone. Pheebs and Emma got up and said a few words - people kind of talked about you like you were dead, which I'm glad your not!!! -but I guess I hope you know that you are missed and loved, but everyone is so proud of you. especially Tim and Emma they miss you the most I think.

I'm shooting for girlfriend mag tomorrow - going to get my teen on. So I'll post some pics of that up and let you know how that goes.

Love you HEAPS!
Mxx

p.s Bob says hello.