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Butterfly Creek
Today's little adventure saw me take the Triumph for a hoon over to Eastborne and for a hike to Butterfly Creek for lunch. Was a stunning windy Spring Welly day, with butterflies and birds a plenty; nestled away from the gusts in the bush was the perfect escape ^+^
Looking from Muritai/ Eastborne back to Wellington
Xtending the Barre just a little further...
Recently I was encouraged to try Xtend Barre Pilates- a mix of Pilates, dance and resistance training and I am HOOKED! It's athletic, fun and seriously challenging!!
I have a pre existing back injury from fracturing vertebrae and my tailbone and initially began practising yoga & Pilates to manage this. Yoga became so much more than just the activity for me, but I hadn't quite gelled with Pilates... until I found Xtend. There are locations around the world- but I gotta say, the ladies and gentleman at the Wellington studio are fannnntastic!
Spoek Mathambo's - 'Future Sound of Mzansi'
I was sparking tonight after having the pleasure to see Spoek Mathambo's Future Sound of Mzansi; a documentary film addressing the changing cultural landscape of South Africa through its electronic-music scene.
Directors Lebogang Rasethaba and rapper Spoek Mathambo travelled around South Africa to explore and capture the rich electronic music scene and the strong movement of producers, instrumentalists, vocalists and party goers.
Seriously inspirational stuff!
DOPE and most definitely worth having a geez!
Comedic Relief..
Not long now until my Indiegogo project launches Amigos!... But in the mean time- just to get you prepared South Park gives us a lesson on crowd-funding...
& just cos aint this the truth!! LOL... (Eddie Izzard for President please)...
Mt Kaukau
Wellington's highest point was the lunch stop for today. Perfect spot for plotting future plans, spring cleansing and getting the hair blown back and the worries away.
After only taking 32mins up, I decided to keep goin further into Makara.
Soo next?.....Tararuas?
The bronze sundial at the summit is pretty cool- it gives your directions and distances to nearby landmarks.
Left to the South Island and right, back to Mt Kaukau ^=^
...and back over Wellington City
Hany Armanious - 'Selflok'
I have some seeeeerious art crush going down! Check this out!....
Hany Armanious
Hany Armanious (born 1962) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings.
Armanious was born in Egypt in 1962. In 1993, his work was chosen for the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale, and, in 1995, he participated in the Johannesburg Biennale. In 1998, he was awarded the Moet and Chandon Australian Art Fellowship. His exhibition Morphic Resonance was at City Gallery in 2007. Armanious' showThe Golden Thread was Australia’s contribution to the 2011 Venice Biennale. Selflok is in the collection of New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
'Selflok'
In the 1990s, Sydney artist Hany Armanious had a eureka moment, discovering images of elves and dwarves in the swirling textures of cheap wallpaper. This experience inspired the creation of his installation, Selflok. In it, a rig of cauldrons, alembics, and beer steins rest on a makeshift platform of fake-wood polyester shelving, crowned with a pergola. Littered with bits-and-bobs, like a giant mantlepiece, Selflok is a whimsical evocation of a pre-industrial artisanal past. It has been described as Santa’s workshop, a hobbit foundry, an elven distillery, and a Middle Earth drug lab. Armanious looks behind the scenes, into the artist’s studio, or rather his fantasy of it. ‘It is almost as if we were witness to a primal scene in the life of the work’, wrote Australian art reviewer Eve Sullivan, at the time.
Selflok is largely made from hotmelt, an easily melted and shaped syntetic latex. Armanious first experimented with this material during a residency at the 18th Street Arts Complex in LA. He presentedSelflok in his first US solo exhibition at LA's UCLA Hammer Museumin 2001.
Currently showing at the City Gallery Wellington which also has the PHENOMINAL: William Kentridge; The Refusal of Time.
S.T.U.N.N.I.N.G ^o^
Summit(s) on my mind...
MT RUAPEHU | Turoa and Whakapapa Summits
I had the pleasure to be joined by my great friend Timon for the climb to the summit of Mount Ruapehu from the Turoa side. Two days later I decided to do a solo summit mission from Whakapapa to make the box set.
On the back of a year of personal achievements and some heavy milestones these accomplishments made me one fizzy ball of furr... not to mention the spectacular rides down!
Anyone keen for Mt Kaukau this Sunday... ?!
TUROA
SUMMIT! MT RUAPEHU from Turoa, looking over the crater lake
WHAKAPAPA
Start of #2; top of Knoll Ridge T Bar at Whakapapa
Morning Tea stop. Looking back down to Knoll Ridge T Bar. There is nothing quite like chillin out alone above the clouds ^-^
SUMMIT 2! Looking over to Turoa summit on the left
Next stop.......
“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop!”
Ubud, Bali
Maya Ubud
In August I wanted to travel somewhere completely different from my normal winter snow missions, and where I could explore opportunities and new techniques for my art. For the merging of spirit, mind and body it's a wondrous place in the world. It has a fizz much different than what I expected and in some ways it is as sad a place as it is happy.
I meditated, met with local craftsmen and women, yogied, hiked, biked, and absorbed different music, art and culture. A country and people of so much love, colour and openness it was truly exceptional to have this opportunity, but it is also an area consumed with commerce, tourist jaunts and an infrastructure which is nowhere close to coping with the changes being inflicted upon it. Attending a traditional cremation ceremony and local orphanage was mind and heart opening and being able to wander and talk with locals gave me an insight and deeper perspective below the presented exterior.
In Ubud I closed chapters and made space for dreams to become reality. I forgave the past, came to terms with the present and learned a few more life lessons in the process.
As my yogi informed me "You can lie to your friends; your family but you cannot lie to yourself"; when you know you have to change some things only you can get that ball rolling.
This little leopard feels like tweaking a few spots... ^-^
Cremation Ceremony decorations
'Departmentalise'
Life and the journey it is is full of bumps, lumps, knots and tangles. Some self made, some given to us. In my opinion, un-knotting these conundrums is the merit of self identity.
Here is the first look at a white on white embossed triptych I have been working on.
As a group it is called 'Departmentalise'
'Departmentalise'
'Twisted Sista'
'Traction'
'Intellitangle'
Now Or Never
Emma Lodge and Olivia Lacey are the amazing ladies behind the stunning new Wellington lingerie label 'Now or Never'.
I was spoilt to be invited to view their collection of chic, elegant and refined pieces this morning...
Now or Never
Emma & Olivia
^=^
Universe Awesomeness
Came across this marvellous gentleman yesterday morning on the way to work. Was a sublime treat to the start of the day! My apologies the photos and video don't do the colours in the bubbles justice... I go a bit jiggly on things like this- looooove it!
Wellington City Gallery- Seung Yul Oh: MOAMOA, A Decade
One COOL artist and one seriously COOOOOL exhibition!
Check THIS little dude out!
Sneaky Peaky...
I've been beavering away on a few things and thought I would share some tid-bits of works in progress...
'Thank You' - wax maquette for bronze
'Thank You' encompasses concepts of opposition; push/ pull, life paths, choices, action and reaction, fluidity and etiquette. Its conception and creation has paralleled a significant period of growth, change and reflection. Initial inspiration came from Chinese finger traps- although in my version there are helping hands protruding from the ends rather than trapping.
Moxham printed and embossed 'Thank you' cards for life and the upcoming indiegogo crowd funding proposal.
Mind, Heart, Tummy and Soul
Coming up to four years ago I stopped drinking- when I did so I had a niggle that it might not just be the alcohol that my body wasn't happy with.
Two months ago I had enough of the sugar highs and lows, cravings and craziness that this stuff sent me on. I had thought that I was eating much less sugar than in the past but thought I could reduce it even further and was intrigued on how this would make me feel; both mentally and physically.
Then I randomly came across the 'I Quit Sugar' books by Sarah Wilson.
GAME CHANGER.
Seriously! Sarah's experiences mirrored my own.
These books are beautiful editions of recipes, information and techniques. This isn't dieting stuff- it's small changes with massive payout.
Cutting down my sugar intake left a bit of a void in the ol' muesli department. I love making my own, but sometimes life doesn't leave room for doing eeeeverything you want to! Then I came accross The Muesli Hub. With all different sorts of bases and ingredient options, you can make muesli to your hearts content without the supermarket and messy fuss- bliss.
Jono and Lucy's business is just NEAT! Awesome concept, website, cool packaging, NZ made and the PRODUCT- YUMMM! Nom NOOM big time.
Sarah Wilson- 'I Quit Sugar'
I Quit Sugar.com
Recipes
The Muesli Hub
Hehe-- otherwise know as HANGRY ^=^
Chronicle Glass
Chronicle Glass
Perfect weather on Sunday instigated me jumping on the bike and travelling to Wanganui to meet with Lyndsay Patterson and Katie Brown of Chronicle Glass.
Seeing glass being worked first hand was a unique sensory experience. The heat, the vivid lucid and changing colours, the fluid choreography of movements required between the artists to create a work; their movements in unison and simpatico. I wasn't expecting the mesmerising effect of seeing this first hand!
Chronicle Glasses location was previously a printing press. It's subterranean layout works perfectly as a glass studio allowing adequate room for furnaces, movement and for visitors to view the process from seating above.
Lyndsay Patterson and some of his stunning artworks
Watch this space for a Moxham/ Chronicle collaboration!
Indiegogo Snap Happy
Mega Image Guru- Nic Larsen and I shot video and stills for my upcoming Indiegogo proposal this past Sunday. Here are a few of the shots!
Maria Morris and Moena Moxham; M&M's!
Moto- Martinborough
I spent some yummy, sunny relaxing autumn hours yesterday in the Wairarapa, running in my new Triumph with my favourite riding buddy- me Da! We came accross these mighty fine machines along our travels...
The lineup..
This 1982 Chevrolet Corvette was SOOooo HOOOTTT.... would have been keen beans to take that for a little hoon hehe
...my new machine taking front centre... ^=*
The Grand Budapest Hotel- Wes Anderson Mastery
Following 'Moonrise Kingdom' into the decadent visual portal of Anderson's storytelling comes 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'. Funny, optically spectacular and with a particular off-beat kookiness all of it's own- this motion picture is sublime.
OPIUO
I had the pleasure of seeing this dude & live band on Thursday night and it was the dopest, fattest, sweatiest (urg- the roof was raining :S) most awesome gig I have attended in a year and a half. Seriously epic stuff. Cant wait to hit the snow with this in my headphones!
...Take me to the music...
𝒞𝓊𝓇𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓁𝓎 𝓁𝑜𝒸𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃:
𝓙𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓷 | 2014
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