Lists of things

I'm always surrounded by lists of things. Sometimes they're grocery lists,

more often they're things I need to get done, sometimes labelled in order of

importance, or difficulty, or the order in which i should do them.

Just a few lists I'd like to share with you:

Things i've been eating lately:

everything bagels

muesli with grated apple

jelly cake

cupcakes

hot chocolate

cheese pizza (hey, it's cheap in billyburg)

Oasis falafel sandwhich with extra beets and cucumber salad..no onions.

smoothie with mini marshmallows. (try it it's great.)

Things I'm looking forward to:

my trip to london/barcelona/japan.

nz summer weather

Things that are minorly annoying right now.

people not understanding my accent, hence

repeating myself constantly

ice on the footpath

cold weather in general

having to wear so many layers look like michelin man

$5 US for a coke at galapagos.  Daylight robbery!

Tipping. It sucks..

stinky subways

having dreams about rats quite often. (there's one living in our

cupboard but it can't get out into the house cos we taped it shut.)

Things I'm planning when I get back to nz:

Lots of secret plans i cannot disclose right now

Things that scare me right now:

travelling with a trillion kgs of luggage to japan..

imagine one person carrying a cello on back, two suitcases in hands,

hand bag and guitar? just not enough limbs.

Portishead. Actually it's always freaked me out.

Things that are cool in new york right now:

rainboots (these are what we call gumboots)

hot apple cider

uniqlo heattech! so cheap, so necessary.

Cool songs to check out:

'Beast for thee' Bonnie Prince Billy

'Faded from the winter' Iron and Wine

'Each Coming Night' Iron and Wine

'Hang Gliding' Maria Schneider

'Gobbledigook' Sigur Ros

'Ragged Wood' Fleet foxes

'River man' Nick Drake

Bye for now.. 

Rhondah in NYC

Horse Cakes

In honour of Philip the horseman, I baked these vanilla/chocolate cupcakes.

Philip will make an appearance on this blog very shortly, after his new york debut.

Merry Christmas from Rhondah

Twas the night before Christmas,

and all through the flat,

not a creature was stirring,

not even a rat.

The stockings were hung up, tattered and torn
in hope that the soggy toes'll dry before morn.

the children (rory and leonard) are snug in their beds,
while visions of pavlovas danced in their heads.

And Rhondah in her pudding hat,
and John in his Pjs
play sitar and cello
to the noise of the freeway.

The christmas tree sits
in the corner aglow
with cardboard limbs
and fake silver snow

This christmas is colder
than ever before
Snow, ice and rain,
no sun and seashore.

Parcels from home
lie under the tree
wherever we roam
we can still be

ONE BIG HAPPY
AFL FAMILY

Love from Rhondah, John, Rory, Leonard, and Claire.

And I'm not joking about the cardboard tree. This may just be the only one of it's kind in the world.
We love brown cardboard, and cheery UPS delivery people who provide us with most of it.

Bright lights and cupcakes of a big city

Today I was walking down bedford ave past one of my favourite stores, Pennylicks.
It's a vegan/vegetarian bakery and icecream parlour. You can get tiny miniature icecream
cones for $1. They don't have many flavours but they do have some very good ones, like
choco-hazelnut and chocomint.

Today I walked past with my roommate Sena, and we saw a sign:
TODAY IS CUPCAKE DAY! So of course, I went in.

We enquired about the sign and were introduced to a range of delicacies flavoured with various holiday and christmas flavours. We went for the red/green velvet cake with peperment ball and sprinkles. SOO good.


Sena got one too.

Vegan food has never looked so good..

I have printed a few 'knit me a dream' tshirts and other designs, but screenprinting is proving extremely tricky to get right every time, especially with the large amount of detail I have in my sketches.. But anyway, on a recent trip to MoMA I found this in the window display. All the neon lights and wool of your dreams!


The wool is really thick, like rope, if you can imagine.

with neon lights flashing through it..





So, I tried to make some gnocchi, with purple potatoes. It turned out pretty average, slightly edible but I chucked most of it out. It took me 3 hours.

Goopy, gluggy sticky potatoes..


I found these life size anti-fashion models at Moma.




Some of my favourite MoMa art:

Chair on wall.

cornered man.
people city..still from video animation about new york from 1970s.

view from my bedroom window, at sunset in williamsburg. Beautiful brickwork.


Williamsburg street art.
My brother sent me 50 crayola washable markers for my birthday..doodles ensued..and now
is taped to the fridge.
Happy birthday to meee...Rhondah's birthday was a great affair, with two kiwi pavs and many new
american pavlova fans!

Byeee now.

8 most underrated muppets

Hi peeps. 

Well as most of you know who survived the 80s, Jim Hensons muppets originated in new york city. Before the insanely annoying Elmo, there were muppets with substance, with real personality. Here, you can explore the 8 Most Underrated Muppets and view videos and pictures of them.

Tonight I am puppeteering in a work in progress showing of David Michael Friend's EGO. Check it out here.

Bye for now..and don't forget to check out our vice-president's blog here. It gets updated much more regularly...

~Rhondah

Ok, So like, NEW YORK!

Punters, I am so sorry I have neglected thee over the past few months.
You see, I have moved to the big dirty old USA. I will be based here for the next 6 months,
and so, when I left in september, I had a lot of settling in and music shiz to deal with, but now,
I have quite a few posts to fill you in on anti-fashion league happenings in brooklyn and new york.

Firstly, I have to be slightly undercover, as my flat mate is a fashion designer who works in midtown
manhattan..I think she suspects something..


I now live here, in williamsburg, brooklyn.


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The people in williamsburg:
1. Hipsters (kind of like emos but with pointier shoes, less black, and MUST HAVE oversized glasses and a macbook of some sort with them at all times.



hipster A



Hipster B



Hipster C


Now, in williamsburg, hipsters are everywhere, so it confuses me why people are so negative towards them..they are trying to be different, so they are all the same, if you know what I mean.. I think they make it a colourful place, and a lot of them wear second hand clothes, which is nice and green and friendly..

This is the subway stop closest to my house. Some unfriendly person has tagged it..

So anyway, the Anti-fashion league is slowly starting to come to fruition in williamsburg. I have decided to do all the printing myself, and after several failed attempts to expose using the sun, and a squeegee to apply the emulsion, I forked out for some essential tools of the trade, -and emulsion scoop coater $23, a fabric squeegee $7, a 250w light bulb $8, rubber gloves $2 and lots of second hand silk screens and ink, sellotape, emulsion, screen cleaner, activator, photocopies, mylar copies, masking tape, pieces of glass.. the list goes on and on and on..

It's finally working properly now, and I've got the exposure time down to 25minutes. This is pretty cool. The only problem I have now is I stained the bathtub black with ink the first time I washed out my screen. So I need to figure out a cleaner way to wash out my screens. I could do it outside with the hose possibly, but it'll be snowing here soon and not so pleasant to be hosing outside. Big plastic tub methinks.

So, some new designs and improvements on old designs are in the making.

The Cornsuit, new and improved.

Knit me a dream. The new knitting enthusiast tee.


Gnomey... societial outcast - where does he belong?


The new poppyseed bikini (and the heads that didn't make it.Still up for comments on which head might be the best model..


''wrinkles are cool?" Ok so I just want an elephant print, so I drew one.

The new designs will be available soon in a variety of colours on tees AND sweatshirts, in the new etsy shop. News and a link to that soon when it's well stocked.

~Rhondah

Down with fashion

I am wanting to create my own version of this, as a poster, with the words 'down with fashion' accompanying..
but it's proving hard to find a photography space that looks like a runway, but isn't a runway.. I shall keep trying though.
this is pretty entertaining, cringe-worthy.. but it certainly shows you the stupidness and HAZARDS of silly footwear the poor models have to wear.