Small Stories

Cameras and Bikes are great friends. Lomo cameras, like our Holgas (K-star's Holgagarde and my Holgalina), especially like to hang out with bikes, documenting the various adventures we get up to with their 120 film lovely-ness. When we head out for a ride, you can be assured that we'll have a large handful of cameras with us.

You may understand then, why we were so excited when we heard about Small Stories-Big Picture, an event for Sydney Design 2010 which combined these two loves of ours.

The tag line for the event is "A Bike Tour with a Difference". You could BYO bike and camera, or borrow one of the lovely Gofa bikes provided by Clarence Street Cyclery and one of the various types of Lomos available. We turned up at Cloth Fabric Store to collect our little guide books of Surry Hills the first weekend of the event. The guide featured a map for some lovely little stores, boutiques and cafes. The idea is to ride slow, visit the recommended stores along the route, and snap shots of lovely scenic, atmospheric Surry Hills.

Some of the best recommended stops were Cloth Fabric, where the ride started (the girls there were so nice and really enthusiastic), Bird Textile, I Ran the Wrong Way (both were so excited about the bike event), Reverse Garbage Taylor Square, Sparkle Cupcake (yum), Icarus Store, Metalab (inspiring stuff) and we finished the day with a glass of wine and olives at Vini. Perfect!

This Wednesday (the 18th Aug), the Beresford Hotel, another stop recommended in the tour, is hosting the closing night drinks for the Small Stories exhibit. The photos developed by the borrowed cameras and those uploaded by those with their own cameras will be on display and the Lomo cameras used in the event will be up for raffle (Oh me, oh my... i want the 9 shot, or the 360 camera, or the shiny chrome 35mm... or- all of them). I highly recommend turning up and having a drink, checking out the photos and hanging with the cool people who organized and took part in the bike tour.

Here's some of ours (some have been 'polarized', but it's all in the spirit of the thing...)

I highly recommend cycling and taking photos around Surry Hills, bike tour or no bike tour...

j.xoxo

MISSING

FOUND!

We taped a few of these posters up around Glebe today after K-star found an old copy of "Miffy's Bicycle" (one of the truly great literary masterpieces of our generation)

If you've come to the site because you were cool/weird enough to note down the address at the bottom of the page, then you're cool/weird enough to join our bike gang and participate in fancy dress picnics. Send us an email- we promise not to eat your brains!

(Also, there's nothing wrong with a bit of self promotion.)

j.xoxo

Getting There, Slow Sundays Style

So, I've become a little behind in the ride updates. Thankfully K-star has picked up the slack and posted her lovely photos from the weekend.

I've decided to travel back in time to post some pictures from the weekend before. We had an epic ride from Glebe, and followed the waterfront all the way around Pyrmont, Circular Quay, King Street wharf, Barangaroo, Walsh Bay and Darling Harbour to get to the Botanic Gardens.

We discovered two things on that ride: when we tell people we're going to meet them at Midday for a picnic, we really mean an hour or two later. The other, is that we should really check to see what's on at Darling Harbour, and if the International Boat Show is on, it means we're in for a long slow walk through massive crowds... not the most fun, but after there is always the long open stretch of King Street and Barangaroo to look forward to.

It was another lovely, sunny winter day. We picniced and drinked and danced in the Gardens.

Next sunny weekend I encourage everyone to hop on their bikes are have a picnic with friends and lovers :)

j.xoxo

The Weekend's Adventures!

Well the weekend was beautiful with warm weather, sunshine and full of strong colours that only crisp winter days produce! Here is some things that made up my weekend.. !
This graffiti is off Cowper St in Glebe. We found it after leaving the treasured $5 stall run by the beautiful Jackie! As always when Florence can not come out to play she was sorely missed...

A tisket, a tasket, a boy carrying a basket.

A visit to the Cat Protection Society in Enmore resulted in me finding this cute knitting basket for $6. Coincidentally I also found the rainbow strap about 5 min previously at a dollar shop and the red flowers with feathers! Aaah it was meant to be, meant to be..

After a most delicious breakfast enjoyed at Scrambled on Enmore Rd, we headed to Camperdown park to read the paper in the sun. I was so chuffed with the add ons to my bike that it deserved the 6 shots of glory!!
In keeping with this theme; check out the cute puppy that came to play....

Some more pics... Check out my lovely Holga. I call it Holgagard!

I learnt to create double exposure shots on my iphone! Lots of potential for some creative layering to take place!

And as I sat there reading my book I did not feel lonely... Not with Hildegard and Holgagard by my side! Yawn and sigh... why does the weekend need to end?

I can't think of a title... lousy blogstuff/things!

Today I learnt about the colour grey and the letter J. Today's post is brought to you also by the number 3. The number 3 because there is now officially 3 people with bikes in the bike gang, not just 1. The wait for bikes is over... But I've been too busy riding to post anything before now. So here it is... the first 'official' photo. So join, because 3 is a crowd and I am aiming for the masses!

Oooga Booga
The K-Star!