Amanda | April 9, 2010
Go Do lyrics by Jónsi Earlier in the week I was lucky enough to be at the opening show of the Jónsi world tour. Jónsi, lead singer of Icelandic band Sigur Rós, started his first solo tour in Vancouver and it was phenomenal. Anyone who knows Sigur Rós knows that their music is incredibly uplifting, [...]
Amanda | April 5, 2010
Image by tae**co Just when you thought you had little ole Mocking Bird pegged, I’m throwing you a curve ball and am going to write about something I never write about. Today I will not be writing about anything to do with photography or cameras or Polaroids! Try to take your jaw from the floor, [...]
Amanda | April 2, 2010
Dreamy, soft, whimsical, magical…all words which describe photographs that many of us are attracted to and want to hang on our walls. I see these pictures in blogs on a daily basis and receive questions about how I get the dreamy tones and colours in my own photography. Chantelle of Fat Mum Slim shared some [...]
Amanda | April 1, 2010
With the advent of the new Impossible Project film upon us, I have Polaroid on the brain even more than usual at the moment and it just so happens that I’m not the only one. Andrew Faris is a Polaroid photographer who has recently launched a new site dedicated to a project he has been [...]
Amanda | March 31, 2010
Are you trying hard to improve your photography by shooting as much as you can? Do you sometimes get stuck in a place where you are unsure which way to go next? When photography found me (yes it found me, I didn’t find it) I was consumed by wanting to shoot until my shutter finger [...]
Amanda | March 30, 2010
Do you like my pile of polas and letters? Today I love… letters from home, camelia petals, Small Magazine, book packages from Amazon, kind emails from Mocking Bird readers, Marry Me Peonies from Emerson Made, Nikki the cat who has decided our computer/TV room is her new sleeping room, Girl of All Work stationery, a [...]
Amanda | March 26, 2010
Way back in the early 00′s, my first endeavours online were scattered between building dodgy geocities sites about my travels to chase U2 all over the UK and Ireland and starting up my first ever photoblog. I came across photoblogs by people like Alison, Myla, Dawn, Lynn and Lorissa and figured it was a great [...]
Amanda | March 24, 2010
I want you to buy film from The Impossible Project on Thursday. I want you to take bundles of Polaroids so that you have piles of them stacked on your shelves. I want you to watch this. I want you to look at this and this and this and this. And this one too. I [...]
Amanda | March 15, 2010
Sit myself down, tap my pen and fall into a lost afternoon… Lately I’ve been thinking back to the days where I would spend my afternoons on our back verandah, sunning my legs while I scribbled and scratched out words in a diary. Well actually, it wasn’t a diary at all, often it was an [...]
Amanda | March 9, 2010
Just as I started to get excited about blossoms and leaving the house without a coat, The Canadian and I have decided to take a road trip into the deep, still wintry woods of British Columbia. Polaroid SX70/SLR680 for snowy Polaroid love Yashica FX3/Nikon FM3A because I can’t just take one camera Compact digital for [...]
