So many miles - almost home

Dear bloggers,

Thank you for all your lovely messages and kind words whilst i have been away. I packed more into the past five weeks than I have into the last year! And as I limp my way through Singapore airport I think of the thousands of kilometers Francesco and I did on Australian roads inhaling the raw beauty of the landscape and committing it to memory forever.

I took my (new) Italian husband on a road trip and he too fell in love with the wild Australian aesthetic, open spaces and endless skies. We saw kangaroos and wild pigs, giant lizards and pink and grey galahs and red roads that stretched on forever.

My darling even requested vegemite in the mornings..

As we said good by to my parents and friends at the airport I couldn't hold back the tears. I sobbed the whole way to Singapore feeling as though I have been torn in two. Tired and emotional would be an understatement!

I look forward to returning to blogland shortly when the haze lifts and I sleep for a couple of days. For now a couple of warm croissants and a big coffee.

I missed you all..Carla xx

Polixeni Papapetrou: " Between Worlds "

It was in discovering a work of Diane Arbus that Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou felt her first great emotion in photography. Inspired by childhood and by her own childhood in Melbourne where she was born and lives now, Papapetrou draws us into a poetic world, surreal and dreamlike. A world where the influence of literature, with the inclusion of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, reinforces her contentions in the matter of childhood. Childhood, adolescence, the passage between the world of childhood to maturity is at the heart of her photographs. It reminds us that children and adults do not live in the same imaginary worlds.

In her 2009 series " Between Worlds," Polixeni Papapetrou has photographed children acting as animals in the landscape. The children wear animal masks, allowing them to inhabit an intermediary position that separates them from adults and human from animal. In performances dramatized by costumes and masks, and in breathtaking landscapes, the children as animals dance upon their own liminal world between fantasy and theatre, mythology and reality, archetype and free play, male and female, child and adult, and last animal and human.

The Debutants

The Ambassadors

The Harvesters

The Pastoralists

The Players

The Reader

The Loners

The Wanderer

The Caretaker

The Provider

The Watcher

The Digger

Courtesy Polixeni Papapetrou
"Between Worlds" is currently on view at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney

This post is also featured on The Daily Beast

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Team Uncool Agrees with: Sports Girl Australia

Just figured out while going through our stats that we get a ton of hits on the blog from a website in Australia called Sportsgirl. They rated us one of their top worldwide fashion blogs.

Why, Thanks Sportsgirl Australia thats awfully nice of you!

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Australia in a Jump

Whilst in Australia I snapped this photo of an over exuberant cattle dog who loved nothing better than jumping the cattle grids in one leap. He makes me smile. Carla x

Berlei Type Indicator

In 1926, Berlei Ltd. of Australia embarked on the ambitious project of measuring 6000 women. 23 individual measurements were recorded for each subject. The purpose of this historic anthropometric study? None other than to achieve proper fit for the corsets they manufactured. It seems that in the years between lace-up corsets and advances in stretch textiles, foundation garments contained only small strips of elastic for give. With little room for error, construction for proper fit was a tricky business. The study resulted in a classification system of five basic body types and a patented nomogram—a calculating device, with which to identify the body type of any woman’s figure.


The Powerhouse Museum archive explains: “The chart featured a moveable disc for indicating bust measurement and a moveable pointer for indicating waist measurement. Hip measurement sizes were printed on the border surrounding the moveable disc. An instruction sheet with illustrations was pasted onto the back of the chart…”

The exact body types and the colors of the device varied slightly over the years, but the Berlei fitting system set a standard for the industry and remained in use for some 30 years.

Baz Lurhmann's Australia

Being a good Aussie gal I have long awaited the premiere of Baz Lurhmann's news film Australia. The biggest budget film ever to be made in Australia was released last night in Sydney, Darwin, Bowen and Kununurra. I saw a sneak preview on the plane on the way back to Oz in November and there was a wonderful interview with the director of photography Mandy Walker who looks like she has done a stunning job with the images. Australia looks beautiful! Reports say Jackman and Kidman are fantastic but the young Aboriginal newcomer Brandon Walter is the best bet for an Oscar. Here's the plot. A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II. Australia centers on an English aristocrat played by Nicole Kidman who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctanctly joins forces with a rough hewn cattle driver the gorgeous Hugh Jackman. to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's unforgiving land only to face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbour only months earlier.

I am so bummed out that we have to wait till the 24th of December to see Australia in France. In the meantime I am stocking up on Vegemite and Iced Vo Vo's for the big day. Well done Baz!

Carla Loves........ her nieces to pieces

I was looking through my old negs the other day and loved these mad photos of my nieces. One of my photographic obsessions has been my Nikonos V underwater camera and over the past five summers whenever I was home in Australia we would head to beach or the pool and I would go mad with the camera. I lovethe game as much as the kids. These are some shots of my nieces Isabella and Eliza, I love them (the photos and my nieces).....