The very cool Paper Rain Project are running a t-shirt competition and one of my designs is up for public vote HERE.
Please vote for me by hitting LIKE if you support my entry, and share the link amongst your friends ^=^
Competition and vote counting is only until 15th of February.
If my design gets enough votes, it goes into production and I am paid a percentage for each t-shirt that is sold- this would be great while I am overseas ;)
My design 'Suspension'. CLICK this image to go vote :)
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer.
It's three posts in three days- I just learnt there is a schedule button lol- so I'll space them out from now on. It's hitting you real time as my brain is just fizzing atm. The combination of art projects, sorting out the move to Japan and Canada, and having a more fluid schedule to do so with finishing up at Workshop has meant I'm just turned ON.
Plus I just hooked up with an epic adventure/ yoga team hitting Niseko in March. Check out dem apples at Flowstate YEEahh!
These two videos are really in the grounding of where I am heading with this trip and the life spaces I am investigating through this.
The events I have been through and overcome have given me skills and techniques in reprogramming thought patterns and behaviour; I really want to create something that shares this is a damn funky good way. These abilities are supported by the activities I am passionate about.
I am sometimes questioned about how the Art, snowboarding, motorbiking, yoga can all fit together & what relevance they have in helping others. The answer for me is that they feed me intellectually, spiritually and in a neurological format. They're integral to how I have nutted out the more esoteric nobbly ideas. The physical movement is a bonus- but the golden nugget lies for me in what they make my brain do. This in turn allows me to calm, reflect, open up to the environment and then absorb more information- and this means I am healthy and happy and able to impart what I have figured out!
I am a little luke warm on the social media options for the moment... "you have a blog though" you may say. Yes, it's nice to share isn't it. You have decided to come here and read this- a conscious decision on your part to interact.
I am intently curious about EVERYTHING- which has gotten me into all sorts of knots- but equally taught me how to get OUT of them as well. I am very concerned that we are becoming normalised to repeating seemingly passive behaviours. Clicking through Facebook, refreshing our email inbox, flicking the screen on the iPhone to see if there is a text, you do one of these once every 10 minutes, thats 66 times in a day if your awake for 11. It doesn't seem that bad- but what it reinforces in our brain, I believe, is going to have significant neurological impacts on our ability to change behaviour. I get crumpled when people say "look, you've just got to get over it, it's the way the world works these days- you won't be able to work successfully if you don't start doing this". Firstly: we have survived for thousands of years without this and been very successful prior to social media. Secondly: Why the hell should we all want to be the same, when being different is a draw card? Thirdly: This blog is my world not owned by another company. Fourth: I search to be actively informed not passivley fed information. But, watch this space as I figure out what I want to buy into, because there are wonderful merits to having a social media presence too :D
Electronic media lacks a little lustre in elemental social aspects. We have subtle nuonces of communication; body language and natural sensory inflictions that work for particular reasons. Smell, movement, vocal infliction... these senses keep us safe but also rationalise situations and relationships. This is why feeding ourselves with music, art, BREATH, movement, feels so bloody good!
To overcome reinforced negative habits, thoughts, pre-dispositions or biases, like Miss Myers says, we must be able to rebel against our deference and primal reactions.
We are pack animals; we all want to be in the sandpit together- the problem with that though is that we take comfort in conformity. We put value on ambition and novel expression, but when faced with the reality of difference, we shoot down, sabotage and undermine. We can be quick to criticise and critique and conclude judgement without factoring the bigger picture; that creativity is a process- a dynamic evolving strategy of test/ play/ re-evaluate/ modify/ repeat...
When I learnt how to ride a motorbike I practised skills over and over, in different conditions (pleasant and un-pleasant), to make sure that those habits became my instinctive reactions. I take pleasure from making myself uncomfortable, in some ways, in order to learn and achieve higher. As much as our rational brains may not want to do something- when under pressure our primal and instinctive reactions will override these urges. Addiction regardless of what physical manifestation it takes, has the same underlying mental pattern of repetition. If we have a society which is becoming more conformist, we are dumbing down our ability to rebel against these concepts and forge new habits through adverse reaction. If you loose this ability to question, be comfortably awkward and rebel against the general bais, we are going to loose our edge in being able to make sure we can change.
Bloody Brilliant: The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s.
A wee foodie blog delivery this evening after I was nattering on at dinner about the sugar free treats I had made today. Super easy stuff- and this combo uses up ingredients over multiple tasty treats.
Roast Cashew Butter, Raw Chocolate Cashew Reeces Pieces, Coconut & Strawberry Popsicles... oOOoo and the salad to rule them all Grainy Goat (I can't face calling it "Superfood-something-something" soz), and the all time favourite- Watercress Soup ta-daaaa!
This post goes out to the amazing yogi lady-babes in my life and highlights a very special one- who not only is an incredible teacher, intellect and person but is also a hellova expertise in vino (wine to ya'll)- drum rollllllllll!- Elissa Jordan ^=^
Elissa Jordan Yoga
Winey Little Bitch
You can catch Elissa's yoga class schedule and share her passion for imparting the gift of a 'little bit o' quiet' here at Elissa Jordan and her wine website here at Winey Little Bitch.
raw cashews
flakey sea salt
Pics Peanut Oil
Choose a flat-bottomed container, such as a quiche dish — ceramic is best (the sides of the nuts in contact with metal may darken faster than the rest). Heat the oven to 165° C (325° F) oven, and then place the container in the oven to heat for a few minutes. Then fill it with a single layer of nuts, so they will roast more evenly.
Roast the nuts on a middle rack, away from bottom heat, for about 20 minutes, taking the dish from the oven every 5 mins to shake (rattle & roll) — until they reach a pale golden color. (Taken much further, the roast flavors hide the cashew ones.)
Cool the nuts at least 15 minutes. If you don’t wait, the interiors of the hot nuts, particularly if you hurry the roast in a hot oven, will be strangely soft.
Blitz the c%$p out of them in a blender with a drizzle of Pics Peanut Oil (teeny tiny at a time) and pinches of sea salt until you reach your favorite consistency and saltiness.
Set aside for the Reeces Pieces if you can keep away...!
1/2 cup raw cacao butter
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/3 cup raw cacao powder
really small pinch of stevia powder or 1 tsp malt syrup
2 Tbsp coconut cream
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp cinnamon
flakey sea salt
1 greased (with coconut oil) flexi chocolate mould/ tray
Gently melt the cacao butter in a small pot, take off heat and add the coconut oil, stevia (or sweetener) & cacao powder. Spoon enough into the bottoms of the mould cups to fill 2mm or so. Pop in the freezer for 5 mins till set.
Spoon teaspoon dollops of Cashew Butter on top of the set chocolate.
Add the cayenne pepper, cinnamon & coconut cream to the remaining raw chocolate. Mix and then spoon over the butter to just below the top of the moulds. Sprinkle with sea salt and set in freezer for 15 mins.
Pop out of moulds and keep in the fridge as they melt at room temperature. YUM!
400ml can Coconut Cream (-2 Tbsp if you did the previous recipe)
small pinch of stevia powder or 1 tsp malt syrup
1/3 cup chunky thread coconut
1/2 cup frech strawberries, chopped
ice-block moulds
Blitz the coconut cream, stevia and the thread coconut in the blender for a blast till combined.
Pour into the moulds 1/2 way. Freeze for 1/2 an hour.
Plop the strawberries into the remaining coconut cream mixture and give a quick blast.
Pour on top of the cream to top of mould- slot in the sticks and wait to set.
Go get hot and bothered and come back and enjoy a little of all the above.
1 cup brown rice/ quinoa mix
1/2 cup israeli couscous
1/2 tsp olive oil
coloured ground peppercorns
1 lemon- zested and squeezed
flakey sea salt
1/2 cup shelled edamame soy beans
2 1/2 cup mixed snow peas, broccoli, beans, peas (can be frozen)
good handful of baby rocket and/or chopped iceberg lettuce
chopped itallian or curly parsley
2 stalks of celery- chopped
1/2 cup roasted unsalted almonds roughly smashed
1/4 cup Craisins (raisin/ cranberry hybrid goodies with 50% less sugar!)
a slug of Hemp Seed oil &/or Pics Peanut Oil
a decent crumble of goats feta
more ground pepper/ lemon juice to taste
Cook rice/ quinoa to packet instructions- while absorbing stick the frozen veggies in with lid on top.
Heat oil, ground pepper and pinch of salt with the israeli couscous- gently colour couscous- add cold water until 3cm above top, simmer 5 mins or until nearly double in size and mostly absorbed. Turn off heat and let expand/ soak remaining liquid.
In a big bowl add grains and all the other ingredients minus the goat.
I divide heaped cups into zip locks and freeze for other meals- should get at least 4 servings from above.
To serve crumble goatie on top, squeeze extra lemon and crack dem peppers!
1 Tbsp Ghee
1 onion, finely chopped
1/2 medium fennel bulb
Celery top (I chop the top part off the bunch so it fits in the fridge & stick it in the freezer for this wee recipe)
1L fresh Chook (chicken) stock
1.5L water
2-3 bags/ bunches/ small plants of watercress- chopped and big stems taken out
salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
dollop of unsweetened yoggie for serving
(Big ups to Miss Sarah Wilson of I Quit Sugar for this number. Check it OUT- there are soon many goodies on this site, including more fantastic recipes)
Heat the ghee in a BIG saucepan over a low heat. Saute the onion until soft, add the celery and the fennel- cook until glassy. Add the stock and the water. Bring to the boil, turn down and simmer 10 mins.
Add the watercress, season with salt and pepper, add the cumin and cayenne and stir for 3 mins.
Remove from the heat and puree using a wand blender.
Fill sink with cold water and ice (or I drop in freezer blocks) and sit the pot in there until soup cools. This keeps the bright green colour- and well hell, we need pretty soup in our lives!
I ladle portions into zip locks and freeze. Can be eaten hot or cold. Super tasty with fresh rice paper rolls ^+^
I loooooved these- but I do warn you, I am giant geek- hear me roar.. some old favs and some newbies.
#1... in the Way Back category hehe
I never tire of this movie- costume by Gautier. Mirren at her best and set design to die for.
Great even if you don't ride just for the retro shots!
"Only intelligent, cool, good looking people ride motorbikes- and evolution takes care of the rest" lol
Ghibli Museum Tokyo here I come 9th March! Click to go to site ^=^
Today is a very special day for me, as 4 years ago I stopped smoking and drinking. Since the 2nd of Feb 2011 I have replaced old habits with more positive and rewarding ones. Today I filled my hours with creative pursuits, giving thanks; to my Mother, to my Father and to myself & a little bit of relaxing luxury.
I put good and healthy things into my body, think positive and productive things with my mind and make things with my hands that help others and myself.
Above is a very pertinent wee video by Mr Botton- given to me today by a great friend- I think you may like it also.
In the world we live in, I believe it is so important to buy into the right ideas to keep ourselves well, and learn how to block out the other 'white noise'. Moderate social media, put down the device, stop fiddling with whatever and tune in to our habitat, relationships and ourselves. Try not to compare, judge and summarise- rather be engaged; participate and observe; allow ourselves to learn and preconceptions to be challenged. Goof off!- it's ok to giggle when you fuck up.
It really is ok not to know about other people shniz unless they tell you in real time. Friendships last through distance, only other women want women to be thin, and a smile is the most attractive thing you will ever wear- especially when its the only thing.
Breathe, listen, smell, see..... turn to the person next to you and share.
On Wednesday I was up in Auckland to receive my USA visa and decided to pop over to Waiheke to meet galleries and take some time to appreciate and enjoy NZ Summer at it's best.
I was three days to early for this amazing event- but as I was on the ferry I decided to be cheeky and attend early ;) I'm very glad I did so, as I had the pleasure to meet the artists in person and take my time meandering around the artworks. Mighty inspiring!
Click to enlarge to see the artists featured
Jeff Tomson
Jane & Mario Downes
I LOVE NZ
Paul Radford
Sueng Yul Oh - This was BRILLIANT and very effective especially from a distance. What you experienced up close, was this cool stretchy synthetic sound that went with the movement!
I loved this work by Suji Park.
Up close the detail was so striking and like a archaeological site from an LSD tripped alien.
Click to see more detail in the photos ;)
Anah Dunsheath
Meeting Brydee Rood was a treat. Her installation had a very oriental feel with the wheelie bins slammed up with gold and silver foil. Her work talked about the desecration of native fauna by domestic land clearance. We have all seen the wheelie bins pilled high with garden waste on a Monday morning after 'doing the gardening' on the weekend- but are we considering the implications of our good intentioned actions?
Audrey Boyle
Veronica Herber's piece was stunning from afar and up close. I climbed the big pohutakawa and viewed from above this engaging piece which from the ferry looked like a target on the hillside.
#8 Wire mentality...
Virginia King
Elin & Keino
I was spoilt to meet Robert Jahnke & Joshua Campbell by their latest sculpture. I have always loved Spinning Top that resides in Woodward St, Wellington so it was pretty special to have the opportunity to talk with both Robert and Joshua in person.
Robert Jahnke & Joshua Campbell
Scott Eady
I'm sorry- it had to be done... tehehe
Nigel Jamieson & Imersia Ltd
There are so many exciting things fizzing and popping around I thought I would share a few!...
My Dad has been doing some SERIOUSLY epic day trips in and around the Wairarapa. It's our favourite stomping ground to ride and he is turfing big time, running in his new BMW GS.
To the left are the routes he has knocked off and above, a gallery of cool photos he has taken on these adventures.
It's genetic. xx ^=^
Moto-racer Guy Martin took the NZ born Britten motorbike for a blast on the 23rd of December at Manfield. When I meet with him he said it was a "magic carpet ride"- have a wee squiz for yourself... One hell of a bike, one hellova story about how it got made..... one AWESOME paint job!
Getting ready for Wings Over Wairarapa this weekend I came accross this fabbo vid about Guy getting in on making a replica of the Spitfire MK.1..... so.cool.
Yvonne Todd- Creamy Phycology
Currently running at City Gallery Wellington and it is just sooo so good. It's kooky, disarming and subconsciously armed towards those chunky topics of identity, body image and the complexity of feminism.
VID: This Doco on the incredible Annie Leibovitz is superb. BOOK: I loved Ozeki's latest offering. A tale entwined in Japan and British Colombia.. how appropriate!! ;D
Indigo and Wills have an amazing wee baby they are nurturing, and I'm a little ticked pink to be asked to be a part of this upcoming 2015 expose!
Check to these amazing cats and their limited edition artist t-shirts & skateboards at Paper Rain Project
No only do they run a rad t-shirt competition and art collection but they make custom etched skateboards :)
Summer is so good- more daylight hours and sunshine to see new things in!
A3TZC accompanied me to Wilton where I hiked up via yellow route to the Skyline for a few hours and relaxed in the sun for lunch. This is such an amazing spot full of native birds and different tracks to follow- well worth a wee visit. I'll be back for more!!
Ahhhh-- NZ Buuuuushhh! LOVE.
Looking back over Wilton to the city o-O
Nomnom nom in the buttercups and dandelions yUUUss.
To all the following names, a very special big THANK YOU for your support on my indiegogo project : 'MOXIE .:':. JAPAN', your endorsement and encouragement means the world to me, I am honoured and grateful.
Wanga-vegas
A stunning wee spot off the beaten track...
My Da and Number 1 favourite riding buddy ^=^
The beautiful Britten Motorbike- which Guy said was a 'magic carpet ride'
'Aving an ice-cream with Mr Martin-- and NO I was not grumpy- I was LISTENING! hehe
Guy Martin on his Suzuiki GSXR1000
The UBER cool (and my favourite) Manx Norton
...and in action
Da with his new baby; the white BMW GS and my lovely Triumph Street Triple-- ahh family shot lol
Moena Moxham art is now for sale through this website at the SHOP tab ^=*
Nom nom goodies for ze eyeballs!
After going for a blast up to Kapiti on the motorbike, and baking goodies and myself on the roof, I was off to get some fresh air, and to see really what was up behind my apartment building. I wanted to nosey investigate a very beautiful new house that I have been watching being built on the Mt Victoria ridgeline too. So, the Mt Victoria walkway got a good tramp over in a beautiful summers day.
Ain't this the truth!
These little things have been given to me over the last few weeks and I think they are worth a good ol' share..
“When up looks up, up is down.
When down looks down, down is up.
Not-one, not-two. Not same. Not different
Now do you see?”
“Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience...
I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked...
You’re not as fat as you Imagine.
Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind.
The kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
Sing.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don’t waste your time on jealousy;
Sometimes you’re ahead,
Sometimes You’re behind.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults;
If you Succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
S t r e tch.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
Life.
The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don’t Congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body, Use it every way you can... Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people Think of it,
It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own...
Dance... even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Brother and sister together we’ll make it through
Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you’ve been hurting, but I’ve been waiting to be there
For you.
And I’ll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can.
Everybody’s free.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings;
They are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will Philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund, Maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you’re 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen...”
Tilda Swinton is the epitome of cool. She reigns supreme as my numero uno idol.
'Only Lovers Left Alive' by Jim Jarmusch is the coolest film I have seen in months. It has enviable music, unique aesthetic, the timing and the pace right on the nose and swaaaager. I'm a little in love.
'Dream Fucking BIG' - guash, ink, felt & GLITTER. It's now hanging in 5 Boroughs on the Corner of Roxburgh & Majoribanks, Mt. Victoria.
Elie from 5 Boroughs brought back maps from New York and gave one to me to go nuts on as he wanted something colour PoPPin
This is what I brought back to him ^=^
Djauni aka Kakap❍ was the first up of the Red Bull Sound Select musicians to get the Workshop style over and photoshoot with Anna Jamieson Photography and Workshop.
Photography Assistant Darren & Stylist Miss Moxie
Otari Wilton Bush Reserve- the birdsong was insaaaaane!
A world without whales is not what we want. We need to protect the sea and our environment. A World With Wales is making this happen- get behind it!
A BIGGG Thank you to my amazing employer WORKSHOP who has posted Moena Moxham glass works up on their Facebook, Blog and Instagram pages. Weeeooopp!
Click on the images below or pop into Wellington Workshop at 98 Customhouse Quay and have a looksee up close and personal like ;)
'Out of the Dog Box'
'Keep Your Head in the Clouds'
Poneke is Martin Bosely and Mojo's restaurant collaboration and it's off the richer!
Located at the new Clyde Quay Wharf it's the mix of all the best things: superb atmosphere & service and delectable food in a fantastic environment... Y.E.S.
The Salmon was next level and wood smoked on the plinth it was served on & the oysters... welllll Oronga Bay- there is a Triumph coming your way VERY soon!
Ok I know terrariums are hip as but they are sooo purdy ^+^
And here 'Helix' is with the etching 'Duel Integrity'. Check it out in the BRONZE part of my Projects to read more about it :)
'Helix'
Yeaaaah baby!
'Helix' is neeaaaarly finished- just the etching to go... but I had to share cos it's so damn cool!
Glass collaboration with the amazing Artist Lyndsay Patterson of Chronicle Glass
NEW Moena Moxham art!
These pieces are for the upcoming event at the Academy of Fine Arts on the 28th of November.
I have another bronze/ glass work which is not too far off from being finished toooo...
'Gratification' Bronze, 245 x 50mm
'Bedlam' Embossed paper, ink and guash with wax seal, 488 x 330mm each
Bronze cast with Jonathan Campbell at Created and Cast Bronze
Photography Sean Aickin Photography & Blog
