I am very excited to announce that Jason Pietra is having his first solo show in London. Jason will be showing large format colour prints of the Insect collection. Curated by Magda Keaney, the private view is on 18th September at 7.30 and runs on till 5th October at The Print Space, 74 Kingsland Road. E2.

Beci Orpin and all her enterprises have recently been featured in Inside Out. She’s living the dream as far as I’m concerned.  Being shot looking incredibly THIN and GORGEOUS, in her beautiful home, surrounded by er beautiful things, talking about all the beautiful products she makes for the world to enjoy.  From her kids range Tiny Mammoth, stocked in Colette no less, to her new range of homewares.  If I wasn’t so proud I would be dead jealous.

So Jon Compson has been glistening of the UK Sunday Times Style magazine. This recent collaboration with make up artist Kakuyasu Uchiide who is one of the creative directors of the beauty range Shu Uemara. 

Jon has been busy and has sent through some great new personal pieces. 

Myer got the biggest shake up they’ve had since the Jethro Cave parade after-party incident.  Vice have art directed Myer’s new look book and they chose Chris Searl to help them with their image overhaul.
Here’s a behind the scenes video that will impress any of you who haven’t ever been on the set of a boring old fashion shoot. They sound glamourous but they’re just bloody hard work. Lucky there are pretty girls and boys involved and some nice folk like the team at Vice.

And here are a couple of shots from the campaign.

This is just a quick one to say that Create is now on my main site.  There’s a link there to donate if you’re feeling the urge to help Create something a bit more meaningful than another Toyota or Coke or Special K scamp.  Or email me if you want to use your creativity in a more practical way to help out.  Is there a cause more worthy of your time?  I hope you like the picture.  It looks like it could have been taken by one of my guys (it wasn’t).

Click here to go to the Create page on the main site

If you want to win some Beci Orpin goodness, sign up for Frankie-Mail.  You know you’ll only get sweetness and light in your inbox if you subscribe and you may even win something a bit more solid from Beci.  A special Beci Orpin gift pack with beautiful wooden laset cut brooches, greeting cards and all sorts of stuff packaged in a cute box.

Click here to enter the giveaway

At the risk of sounding embarrassingly new age, I have come to the realisation that the only way to bring good things into your life is to let go of some of the greed, and to support people who are really struggling.  Not being able to buy a new lap top or another pair of ballet flats is not struggling.

I was in the car and heard an interview on ABC Radio with Jacqui Reed of The Create Foundation who help kids leaving foster care by helping them with support, training, health, employment, rights and housing.  I heard one of the advocates, an ex foster kid himself, and I realised how little attention the issues around foster care get in the media, yet the issues lead to so many social problems.  You have to remember that these kids haven’t grown up with their own parents guiding them through life and some of them go from home to home, never really settling.  Create helps them find their independence and also works in advocacy for the improvement of foster care, giving a voice to the kids and young adults who have really been shafted – excuse the expression – by life.

So I am giving 2.5% of our income to Create, and though it isn’t a massive amount, I hope to be able to help Create in other ways, through the blog, through our promotions, and through a general awareness that our partnership will generate.  I love the idea that ‘creating’ can mean using the resources available to achieve independence, stability, a career.  The Create Foundation is trying to build a stable place so that the only limitations to creating a life are the limits of the imagination.

Just a quick post to announce what many of you will already know.  Jeremy at Jacky Winter and I are co-repping Beci and Jonathan.  That means that I will still be representing them but we will have the advantage of all of Jeremy’s amazing resources like Basecamp to help facilitate our work.  So if you’re a fan, call either one of us – practically speaking, if you’re in Sydney, call me, and if you’re a Melbourne client, call Jeremy.  But if you like talking to me, call me, and if you like talking to Jeremy, call Jeremy.