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Featurette ~ Monster Children Gallery ~ by Cardboard Kids Collective

Monster Children Gallery – The Mirror Stage from Monster Children

If your in sydney, swing past and check out Monster Children Gallery.

A gallery that is fighting the good fight; promoting upcoming modern artists.

This entry was written by Maximilian Guy McNair MacEwan, posted on September 22, 2009 at 10:32 am, filed under Art, australia, design., travel. and tagged , , , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

empty space – no more!

I have been a little lazy lately… I’m not sure whether its the cold weather, the long work hours or the release of a whole bunch of geeky gaming goodness – but I have seriously neglected my blog!

That is all about to change !

In fact I have bought myself a domain to make this little wall of scribblings official. I still have a few kinks to work out but watch this space – or more accurately, watch out for kindofpretty.com – coming soon!

21 now.

Aside from that, there are heaps of things for me to catch up on – blog-wise – My twenty first birthday has been and gone. It was grrrrrreat, one of the best nights of my life. Its semi self-centered, but it was very moving to hear all the stories people had to tell and touching, sometimes embarrassing thoughts they had about me. I don’t think moments like that happen very often and it couldn’t have gone better.

Very cool venue too – the Monte Cristo Room is definitely recommended to anyone looking to add a little class to an event. There were a couple of hiccups through organizing the party, and it is quite a steep price but I wouldn’t have had it anywhere else.

small passions.

Everyone has different interests, of course! And if your lucky, then you get to earn your money doing something that interests you deeply, but the chances are your NEVER going to cover every one of your own passions in your professional life. You got to make good on your hobbies on your own time!! That is what I am trying to do more of… Some things I really have had a gaining interst in are as follows:

  1. Visual effects in film – Creating that movie magic with AfterEffects, Final Cut and PhotoShop.
  2. Architecture – Looking at the great cities of the world and finding out a little about their history and distinctive buildings – and how their put together!
  3. Illustrations – Drawing, making pictures and just being able to pick up a pencil or pen and put something on paper that your happy with. Its a good skill for birthday cards.
  4. Fabric – Getting to grips with the basics of making my own shirts, pants and cardies. Saves money and its always good to do something practical.
  5. Japanese!! 日本語を話すことができますので、私は日本にいるときに学ぶ !!

Those are my top five for the moment. I am excited about learning about all of them – I also want to know what everyone else in interested in.

What are your top five interests you want more time to pursue?

expect more.

and finally, Kindofpretty will be updated DAILY from now on. At least 1 quality post!

Hold me to it!

Ciao!


This entry was written by Maximilian Guy McNair MacEwan, posted on June 19, 2009 at 9:33 am, filed under Architecture, General, Japan, blog and tagged , , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

simple stationary.

Catchalot stationary is fantastic.

Catchalot Postcard

Catchalot Postcard

Its simple, colourful and cool Japanese stationary with nice ideals. Playful enough for kids to enjoy scribbling in, but eligant enough to use in the office, Plus! A lot of their items are hand made!

Nice huh!?

Catchalot cover

Catchalot book cover

catchalot book cover

catchalot book cover

Translation might be a little off – but I think the title says “Lets go out!”

Click to visit their half-english half-japanese site!

Click to visit their half-english half-japanese site!

This entry was written by Maximilian Guy McNair MacEwan, posted on March 24, 2009 at 12:56 pm, filed under Art, Japan, stationary and tagged , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

japan is my fav

uploaded by echo^∆^.

This entry was written by Maximilian Guy McNair MacEwan, posted on March 16, 2009 at 4:03 am, filed under Japan. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

photos of japan coming…

This entry was written by Maximilian Guy McNair MacEwan, posted on February 28, 2009 at 7:26 am, filed under Japan, travel. and tagged , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Shinmo-kitazawa

fran and i have found the perfect place to live in japan.

peace.

This entry was written by Maximilian Guy McNair MacEwan, posted on February 23, 2009 at 1:49 am, filed under Japan, travel. and tagged , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Hustlers Grab Your Guns – Shadow Weighs a Ton

Hello!

Photos are finally here! None of our infamous travels on this guy:

 The Shinkansen

Nup, I’ve loaded up a bunch of what we have been up to over the last four or five days in San Francisco.

Were we involved with the Nazi’s?? Really?

After coming through the rather strange customs process, we hit San Fran:

We have been pretty busy walking all around San Anselmo, the area that my uncles Inn is in. We also took the ferry to the city a couple of times and yesterday went on a drive over to Berkley. Great place! Its full with activism and character, I could even tell that from the small afternoon spent there.

Here are a couple of pictures from our second evening in San Fran, when we went up to headlands above the bridge.

Amazingly clear sunset up there…

Franny and the Harbour

The Gang up on the hill, Peter and Kate wern’t around

Long way from Japan

 

 

And then there was the city…

 

Finally in the city, it took me a few days to get out of bed.

On Pier 1. Nice.

Definitly in California now…

Seals at Fishermans Wharf

 

ChinaTown

 

San Fran Architechture

Chinatown

 

Dangerous.

 

And thats us in the big city over the last week. Its been cool to see such a contrast of Japan. More on both those places sooooooooooonaaaaaaaaaasssssss!!!

The Taxi we caught home yesterday was the taxi used in Friends (Pheobes Taxi) STARSTRUCK!

And Finally Birkleys Drug Free Zone

This entry was written by Maximilian Guy McNair MacEwan, posted on February 20, 2008 at 12:10 am, filed under San Francisco, USA, Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

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