photo scavenger hunt

Back when i was living in Korea, one of my talented photography friends, Dom decided to create a Photo scavenger hunt all around Seoul. There were about 5 teams of four members each who took part in the photo hunt missions which lasted an entire fun-filled jam-packed day. Each team was given a mission sheet which listed a variety of "photo-missions" which we had to snap. Each mission was worth a different number of points and the team with the most points at the end of the day won the grand prize which was handed out at a prize giving dinner that we had in Seoul. Each team had a name and dress-code and we all rushed around Seoul trying to snap as many of the photo missions as we could. It was a RIDICULOUSLY fun day.

Our Team: Blake Swan and the Bacardi Ninjas. We decked ourselves in black-stealth and stopped off for a margarita-lunch at the starting-line to get things rolling...



The target list included some of the following photo-missions:

• Entire team in a human pyramid (extra points for including strangers)
• Entire team with the strangest dressed stranger
• One Team member doing a cartwheel
• Entire team outside an ice-cream shop (extra points for getting an employee to sing, dance or do something funny)
• Entire team in a bathroom stall
• A "street performance"
• Entire team carrying a stranger
• Entire team in a shopping cart
• Photo titled "I can't believe we fit in there"
• One team member eating silkworm larvae (it's a korean thing and NO, we didn't do it.)
• Entire team with coloured tongues
• Entire team with spoons hanging off their noses
• A sidewalk tragedy
• A contradiction
• One team member "subway sleeping"
•  Team member with a stranger with 'interesting hair'
• Challenge a stranger to a running race
• Team member chugging a beer
• At least two team members being chased by another team
• A fortune teller
• Entire team posing like mannequins from inside a store window
• At least one team member not doing what the sign says
• An accident waiting to happen
• A sign of spring

that's four people in a bucket.

(oh yes, midway through proceedings, Blake and I decided to get our ears pierced. 

Cause we're ninjas and all.)

Entire team with a wild animal. ha

One Team member doing a cartwheel. Yeah, that'd be me.

I would have loved to include a few more videos and pics from this day but unfortunately most of them include too much swearing, beer chugging, profanity, drinking, guffawing, hysterics, wild cackling laughter are inappropriate. haha if only you knew... ;)

EPIC DAY OF AWESOME.

ombre

There is a trend overtaking the internet currently for "Ombre hair" - which is that style which is usually darker on top/roots and slightly lighter (or multi) coloured at the ends. I'm a fan. If you're still not sure - Ombre-ala-pinterest:

and

FYI, I was rocking the ombre look way before it was cool. 

I call it "re-growth"

(also, rocking a giant bowl-glass of wine.)

Anywhoo, contrary to popular belief "ombre" doesn't mean "cool hair" it is actually a french word which is used to describe a variation in colour tone - mainly shaded or graduated. So jumping on the ombre band-wagon I've been playing around with a few different gradient fill techniques in photoshop:




If you'd like to give them a go - there is a very quick and easy tutorial up on Pugly Pixel. Otherwise you can just wing it - new fill layer > gradient fill layer and then smash up some different colours to replace the default black gradient until you get something you fancy. Easy? Easy.

The pics I used -
1. From our recent backpacking trip through Cambodia - some of the temples at Angkor Watt.
2. A model shoot I did for a Korean photographer. A whole bunch of lols. Read here.
3. From a market in uBud, Bali taken about two years ago.

The lyrics in the pics come from Milo Greene - 1957.

your house that sits behind me 
is covered in ivy green 
the windows that we watch from 
are old and chipping at the beam 

it takes me away 
takes me away 
takes me away 

the scent you wear moves in lines 
from your apartment into mine 
you act like you don't know me 
my god you tempt my anxious mind 

it takes me away 
takes me away 
takes me away 

Would it be much better if I knew nothing about you 
Would it be much better if I knew nothing about you 

I'll go, I'll go, I'll go I... 
I'll go, I'll go, I'll go I... 

it takes me away 
takes me away 
takes me away

heart type

These pics were part of the Visual Art Journal that I created as part of our final year Design Course (way back when). It's not often that you create something so long ago and still really like it years on. In this case I really do, so I thought it deserved it's own post.

That awkward moment when...

If you follow my twitter life, you will know i love a good that-awkward-moment-when hashtag. Here are a few of my own:

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7 things

7 random things from this week:

• F1 driver's have such sexy names.
• I ran a 15km race this morning. Now I'm a cripple for two days.
• Break-up day at school is still fun, even if you're the teacher. (especially if you're the teacher)
• Clothing wars are not for the faint-hearted
• Kids building race-boats can be quite inventive
• Tea, thunderstorms and good books are the perfect little trio
• Leaving your sunglasses at home on the sunniest day in history is not ideal

Chinese Day

Today was "Chinese day" at the school where I am doing my prac teaching. All the kids (and teachers) donned their Chinese gear and we celebrated Chinese culture (which has been a main theme in one of the English books they have been reading). The girls' had been practicing a Chinese Fan-dance and the boys had been getting wild practicing a fire dragon procession. All the teacher's and class mothers watched their Chinese dances as well as the poems, raps and skits they had prepared based on the book they have just finished.





"Miss Kershaw!! YOH! Your chopstick skills are so good! YOH! YOH! YOH!!"
"Yes, well I lived in Korea for almost four years."
"But YOH Miss Kershaw, it's SO difficult, but eish. you are good."

I am now the hero of every-ten year old in the area.

High five self.

excellent.