Te puedo pedir un favor? The nice ladies at Cleo Magazine have nominated me in the blogger section of the CLEO Wonder Women Campaign. The campaign celebrates talented Kiwis doing amazing things. Our 12 finalists will be featured in the August issue and the winner gets $5,000 towards her work – but we need your votes to find her! Other women getting kudos include musicians, actresses, athletes, change makers and creatives. It’s an impressive list.
If you like CFS, vote for me! Email cleo@acpmagazines.co.nz with a vote for Amber Parkin / Blogger. Put WONDER WOMEN in the subject line and include your name and contact details. As a reward for your effort, you can win some fab bath goodies (you’ve already got the boobie prize of my unwavering love).
What would I do if I won? Bring to life the idea of a book of travel essays/photography I have floating around in my head, enlisting all the brilliant people I know.
Here are the other nominees in the blog category, no surprises here that they’re all resplendent sites – run by amazing women – most of which I have mentioned on CFS before: Hungry and Frozen / Front Row Diary / Aych Blog / So Much To Tell You / The Girl With The Kaleidescope Eyes / Shahlin @ CDM / Rag-Pony ♥
May I introduce you to frankie magazine’s the photo album volume one? It’s a delightful little volume due to be released mid October, featuring the work of over 100 amateur and professional photographers that share the aesthetics that both frankie and CFS delight in!
While at first glance it may look like a lemony cupcake with raspberry frosting (that’s Michigan photographer Jasmine Rubio’s divine photo on the cover), the book is all substance. The photographers and images featured come from all corners of the world; from Sweden’s Sandra Juto to Susannah Conway in Bath, United Kingdom (look at her beautiful image below).
In fact, frankie herself is a international girl of sorts. Published in Australia, the magazine shares its smart, funny, sarcastic, friendly, cute, rude, arty, curious and caring stories with readers all over the globe.
Every photo in the album has been selected to inspire you; whether you’re a dab hand with a camera, just starting out or are the type of person who just likes looking at pretty pictures. You’ll be able to pick up your own copy at www.frankie.com.au, or find it in selected boutiques and bookstores.
GIVEAWAY! Code For Something has a copy of Frankie’s new photo album to give to one lovely reader. All you have to do is email me – amber@codeforsomething.com – and tell me what issue of frankie magazine is currently sitting pretty on the shelves (the answer is on their site) .
Entries close October 7th, and I’ll randomly select a winner! Yay, good luck!
Hello friends! I know a fair few of you live on the fair and exotic isle of Britain. I also know that there’s many a talented kid out there, hence I thought I would this competition with you (aka share the lurve).
Don’t Panic and Cutty Sark Whisky are offering you the chance to win MONEY, a CASE of whisky and get your art PUBLISHED in Time Out magazine. All you need to do is make a piece of art based around ‘The Independent London Whisky’. Easy, innit?
Amazing fashion factoid you may not know (and will appreciate): the whisky is named after the Cutty Sark – the fastest sailing ship of her time, herself named after a character in Robert Burns’ poem “Tam O’Shanter”: a young witch dressed in a ‘cutty sark’ or ‘short shirt’, who could run as fast as the wind. Just think, in today’s time we could be seeing the good ship Crop Top…
Anyway, I digress, to get all the details/check out the competition/enter, head right on over to Don’t Panic and read the design brief. Go!
