Decrypting the Secrets to the Perfect Flatlay

 As an alternative fashion enthusist, I often come across various flatlays and yet I feel despite my efforts I can't seem to grasp the concept of making good ones of my own. Not to say that I think mine are completely shite but they do seem to lack that certain...crispness.


 I guess a better background would help, and better lighting but making do with what I have at my disposal, my house and natural lighting, I'm not quite sure how I'd achieve the results I'm after.


Anyway, here's a few of the better ones I've done;




Jaded

Gilded Wine

 

This Dress has a Mass Effect 

 

That's all for now,


Over and out!

The Green Fairy
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I...can't...breathe...going...to...meet....G.D. Falksen...next...year...*gasps*

The Righteous Bison

Our tale today takes place over a year ago whilst I was in my second year of uni at ANU in Canberra. Whilst shopping for textbooks in the on campus Co-Op, I happened across a charming book by the name of Dr. Grordbort Presents Victory: Scientific Adventure Violence for Young Men and Literate Women. It might be wise to note that although I have been interested in the steampunk scene for quite an amount of time, and elements of it well before I knew what steampunk was, it wasn't for quite a while after that I decided to start actively participating as a member of the subculture.

Stumbling upon this was my first exposure to the collections of Doctor Grordbort and thus began an insatiable lust towards the brand's ray guns. I um'd and ahh'd about whether or not to buy the book as cool as it was because as you can understand, a uni student's budget doesn't exactly allow for such luxuries. However I soon discovered something that made up my mind for me. It just so happened that there was a competition going on at the shop that month, that for each copy of 'Victory' sold the buyer got an entry into a draw for one of aforementioned ray guns. So naturally I had to enter.

I'm fairly sure that the model that was up for grabs was The Righteous Bison Indivisible Particle Smasher.



It turned out that only about 3 people, or some ridiculously low number around there entered the competition including myself and a friend of mine, Mitch. Naturally it was fate I would win right?

Wrong.

:P

Sorry to disappoint. Mitch won however, and he definitely was my second choice! :P However I'm writing this post today mainly to remind myself to buy one of these in August when they come back in stock in their New Zealand warehouse. (Thing is though, I would buy from the UK one but the postage would cost two and a half times what the actual ray gun itself costs! Bitch, please. I ain't payin' that!) That and to make everyone out there who isn't already aware of the existence of the magnificent feats of creativity!

So what else is new in the life of the Green Fairy? Well The Steampunk NSW Australia crew have been busy organising a big event for November going by the name of Drifting in Time: A Paddlewheel Adventure. It's going to be a Steampunk sci-fi themed ball! Anyway, I've been doing quite a bit of research for my costume over the last few days as I'm planning to go as my own take on some kind of steampunk'd borg drone. (If you don't know what a borg drone is kindly GTFO :P just kidding, but seriously...google that shit man.) Anyway so I'm planning on commissioning a custom version of one of Dominic Elvin Design's cybernetic head systems for my costume as well as wearing my Black Milk new liquids tights and adorning a crap load of corrugated tubing.


Head piece by Dominic Elvin Designs



I'll be sure to keep you updated on my progress right here.

Well that's about all for tonight, otherwise all I have to say is look out for the next instalment of Interview With a Goth in the very near future as well as some posts regarding Rococo fashion, as it's my current obsession!

Over and out my lovelies!


The Green Fairy

It's a Kind of Magic

On the weekend just gone whilst still recovering from the plague I headed up to the Blue Mountains for the Winter Magic Festival. A bunch of us from the New South Wales Steampunk crew marched in the parade up through the main street of Katoomba along with a fair few other groups of people. What can I say? What a blast! I met a lot of interesting people both on the day of the festival and then later in the evening at the Peasant's Ball at the Carrington.

I took my camera with me and took a couple of pics. Sorry if they're not that great technically, the lighting was quite horrible. I've done my best to fix them in photoshop.




























In other news, my poll is just about over and it looks as though the majority of people would like to see 'Interview With a Goth' once a week. This may not always be possible but I'll try my best to keep it up that often. Belinda! You're the next victim so please gimme your email address! :P

Over and Out


The Green Fairy

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There's a Zombie in Your Immune System

Sorry for my lack of posting lately my fellow bloggers and blog-readers (all 73 of you, eeep!). After spending the long weekend in Canberra, I got myself a nice case of bronchitis. So yesterday after seeing the doctor and toddling off to the pharmacy to get m'drugs (Oh and I had to have a blood test because my doctor thinks I'm anaemic again AND vitamin D deficient - I'm SOOO Gawth :P) I headed home and pretty much slept the whole day, only stirring from my slumber every now and then to hack up a lung or two. This really couldn't have come at a worse time what with Winter Magic up in Katoomba this weekend of which I was (am?) very much looking forward to attending. In fact the Steampunk Parade and then later in the evening, ball was my only solace after reading in a few of the blogs I follow that yesterday (or was it the day before?) was International Steampunk Day. Sigh, hopefully I'll be well enough to crawl out of this cesspool of mucus, tissues and germs that currently is my room and enjoy the festival (making up for my severe lack of Steampunkedness this week).

So! If you have any astounding home remedies for speedy recoveries from sickness, pleeease let me know.

Oh and I picked up my new 50mm lens whilst waiting for my script at the chemist yesterday and it feels so good to have one again. Felt naked without it.

Over and out lovelies

p.s. Please vote in my poll regarding interviews and if you select 'Other' be sure to lemme know what you mean by it :P Comment or email me at sydneysomething@hotmail.com

I've got you under my skin

So I decided, although it's not specifically goth or alternative or anything, to talk about Gelaskins in this post. Reason being is that I finally got around to putting my laptop skin on after receiving it over 8 months ago. This is probably because I was an idiot and bought the wrong size and I was too lazy to get it out, and cut it to size before applying it.

So I got my first gelaskin several years ago for my ipod show here:

And the back...

The design is by an Australian artist living in Ballarat by the name of Colin Thompson. The original artwork is shown here:



Anyway, after finding this design, I searched for some more and found this little beauty; a nice treat for all you little steampunk lovers out there.



So here's a lil' pic of my new improved laptop! All steam-pimped!



So anyway I thought I'd share some of the other designs I found on their websites today, seeing as I haven't been there for months. I love these ones:




(Especially this one because I'm obsessed with octopi at the moment :P )





Yeah that's about all, check it out if you're interested. I leave you now with a picture of my home made goon sunrise I made last weekend. I was so proud of it! Tsk, tsk, us students and out goon :P
Steffles
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