Recent Ink.

Iv been putting alot of ink to paper recently writing travel tales, life stories, short stories, tall stories and interviews of inspiring folk. Some of my writings you may come across in an online publication Sea Stoke others are hidden very deeply in volumes of old books some with lines, some with sketches. Some I know they exist but I cant for the life of me find them... I hate it when that happens. Anyway I just put together some words about a friend of mine who is an epic screenprinter, here are some accompany images that I found from a while back.
Stay Adrift.
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Processed Film Taken To By A Tip Rat.

B. Inspired

 

 

Just b.

I learnt a bit more about that this morning in my meditation class.

I dont often post other peoples goodies on my blog much these days but I thought I'd share a few little pearls of inspirational wisdoms. Everyone inspires someone. To see more of what makes me tick click here

 

 

 

 

i do like colour... i pinky swear.

New Seas.

Cant wait to get some material ready for the next installment of Sea Stoke. The newest issue has just dropped.... right down into the depths of the sea.... Check it out here

S e a S t o k e

Issue 2 is coming soon....

Sea Issue One Here

Chasing White Horses.

Where do I begin?

So... as I write this to you I am in Torquay, Victoria, its 12:56pm and im due to jump on a plane in Tullamarine heading to W.A in approximately 4 hours. This is only the beginning. 

I just had a brief chat with good mate Gaz Parker and I think I now have to add Mexico onto this list of adventures in the search for inspiration and wild white horses. 

I have been down this part of the country now for the last few days sharing epic stories with legend and now good friend Craig "Gonzo" Baird... im just about to take my singo and quaddy out of the car after surfing epic Bells and pack my 6'3 coffin to get me to the next leg of this fine journey. 

Gonzo... I cant begin to tell you how rad this bloke is... I love painting surfboards.. this guy got paid for 25 years to paint them for Ripcurl, boy he has a story or two and plenty of art to froth over. An amazing human who would give the shirt off his back and the boards from his garage (theres a few). Legend.

When asking me if I have ever surfed with Ozzy I thought he meant Wright and im like "yeah at the pass once with all the kids" he comes out in a long black wig and blue tinted round sunnies saying lets get these logs in the car and head up the coast.. then after il take you down to Lorne for lunch and Johanna to suss out those waves you were frothing on.. (iv been watching endless movies on Wayne Lynch the last few days) Hahaha im hardly suprised by this Ozzy Osbourne get up cos until now I have yet to find a human as stoked on Led Zeppelin as I... but Gonzo has nailed it and then some... you should see this dudes music collection. What about board collection?

The man has a few... not to mention the Museum he curates... you should see the boards in there!!!!! 

Im frothing.

So stoked that this has been the beginning of the journey. I started off by dumping a load of my art, photos and 6'6 painted stubby in a glass cabinet of the museum. What an honour...My life in its simplest expressive form is now on display in the Surf World Museum in Torquay... Surfers and their Stories, of the last 7 exhibitions I have been in over the last 2 years this one definately takes the cake! 

Seriously honoured... Iv seen so much incredible surfing history in the last few days... The orginal plastic machine, THE Bells contest trophy, Rell Sun's Quaddy, Wayne Lynch's Keyo Singo which I drooled over for sooo long, Simon Andersons Bells winning thruster, MP's Bells trophy (i didnt ring it i swear) and his winning shirt he surfed in. I could go on for hours... and believe me I was in that place for hours, perched up next to an old combi (in doors) watching Lynch surfing somewhere near the 12 Apostles... the vicco winds howling outside bringing in swell for the days to follow... Iv been so blessed. 

And to have just surfed cranking Bells... I could feel the legends out there and the real open ocean under my feet. 

My life is a dream.

Next stop W.A

Home.

Family & friends

Swell!!!! 

Weeks on end I'll hang at home, pulling together articles, photos and various material before heading off to Indonesia for a while... after that time will only tell...

Il keep you in the loop...... im running out of space on this blog but il figure it out... 

There is also a book in the pipeline :) 

Keep chasing white horses... I know I will be

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FallenBrokenStreet

Cosmos... I found these shots today when I was collating some images for a new project I'm working on.. silently under the radar in the confines of my bedroom, I have the company of sunflowers so its all good. 

Anyway.

These were taken in the fall, somewhere between the cold of winter and the sunshine of summer.. Somewhere between beanies and wide brims, cold enough for hobo gloves to keep your hands warm between a cold beer just before splendour in the grass. How handy you can smoke a ciggy in them? Fall has passed but summer has come and filled its place. 

Anyway.

Fallenbrokenstreet. 

Have a look at what these cosmic kids are doing they covered you for winter.. now see what they have for summer. 

Dont steal my skateboard photo jobs again or I swear I'll steal your girlfriend. 

You should read this.

"Anger, pride, competitiveness and so forth are our real enemies. So, since there isnt anybody who hasnt gotten angry at sometime, we can on the basis of our own experience understand that no one can be happy with an attitude of anger" - The Dalai lama

and just so you know the wise man also said this....

" I think when tragic things happen it is on the surface. It's like the ocean. On the surface a wave comes and sometimes the wave is very serious and strong. But when it comes and goes, comes and goes, underneath the ocean always remains calm."

xxx

i must admit i thought i had been keeping up with things.. i was wrong. my washing is still in the washing machine. oops. but your not really interested in that.

there is a list far too long to be bothered reading of things im not entirely keeping up with.

it sucks.

if time was a person id say i would have stabbed them. but then you would think i was a weirdo. so i wont.

yes it is late.

deadline or time?

time.

oh yeah.

nice one.

nar its not really that bad.

i always leave things to the last minute.

i was talking with a friend as to why this might be over a cigarette i had after a 10 and a half hour day at work.

the other work.

maybe its a good thing. maybe it makes you more spontaneous with decisions. maybe it is truth. maybe it is unplanned, more expressive, maybe it is to be present. 

what comes out, comes out whether it is over 5 days or 10 years.

ok i just read that and maybe it makes sense maybe it doesnt.

its my blog and i will cry if i want to.

i realised tonight that i wasnt the only person that wasnt keeping up.

sometimes when your passionate about something you will do anything to keep it alive. keep it from going out. keep at it until it is all you ever do. but it never leaves you. the passion will never die, if its what you truely love. sometimes passion can consume us. take us from our loved ones and drag us into its cave where time doesnt exist, where you definitely dont keep up with the jones' and where.. when its just you and passion.. the whole world seems to disappear.

and everyone in it.

i think i am starting to keep up with myself. im growing all the time and i definitely think iv wised up to more shit now than when i was younger. i feel these days are the days to keep up with yourself. know what you want and what makes you happy. dont keep up to time. time killed his brother patients and thats not a good role model. dont keep up with the so and so's... who the hell are they anyway and why are they staring at me? dont keep up with the trends cos they always die young. dont keep up with the postman. i dont know about you but mine keeps sending me bills.

so thats why i have some catching up to do.

work is for jerks

art is for fun.

or maybe its passion.

i think its both.

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build me a house with a roof you can sit on and watch the sunset everyday x

Baby, Darling, Dollface, Honey x

i want to see you in the morning

i want to see you when the breaking day is dawning

you gotta go 

you gotta go

its alright

but i want to see you in the light of the morning...

Obsession with the Velvet.

I M  B E G I N N I N G  T O  S E E  T H E  L I G H T .......
for the love of underground.

So you think you can dance?

everything takes dedication. 

everything in moderation.

This page was left black intentionally.

"Everyones an Artist, cos its so honest.. to reflect? Society. Well its a cup of tea..."

SEA STOKE x

can ya dig it?
Stoked to be apart of this new publication and the launch Art show/party in Melbourne 13th April if you live in the big smoke come down for a bevy and a peak at some random mess iv been throwing out.. its for a good cause too.. even better.. more details check out this space

Life and Found

I found these images on my desktop, sometimes i drag things i like that i find on the international creative space that is the world wide web and leave them to linger and clog up the arteries of my mac. they are however also inspirations, images that invoke something in me that i would like to pass on through images i may capture along the way. the moments in time. that is how epic photography really is... capturing that moment in time that may never be caught again. surreal hey?
i fucking love it.

Killing it slowly on the Krackbook.

so i started a Facebook page.. its pretty much a blog on wheels.. i think more peeps suss it out that this but yeah i thought id do it to mix things up. did i mention i got a business card now.. yep. stepping up.
head over to my Facebook page
Kat Charles Illustrator/Photographer
and see all the weird shit im throwing down and the suspect crew that creep infront of my camera from time to time.
The girls are going to bali so im finally gonna get some work done around here.

Heading to Melbourne soon for a group show.. il tell you all more as the story unfolds.

Arrivederci!

Now.

Hello people of the sun.
I sit alone in my studio partly hungover, drained of inspiration, tired as fuck.. editing, listening to Youth Lagoon and wishing I could sleep but I tried that and it didn't work.
Iv been pretty busy of late so its hard to get on blogger and think of something to post that
a. doesn't give away too much
b. is somewhat entertaining
c. is somewhat inspiring
d. is some insight into my movements and patterns

what do you want to see?

il tell you a bit of what im doing and hopefully the ball with roll from there.

So. I have recently been shooting look books, catalogues, websites and that jazz... a far cry from the kids i used to shoot in my backyard pulling bindies out of the grass. Models with pretty faces, versatile, nice rigs, some bad facials, beautiful pieces of silk and hand painted patterns... all translating into things you can buy so that you can maybe look that good? I love it all the same..
girls are really nice to look at and not too difficult to edit.. its the lighting part that drives me up the wall and forces me to smoke copeous quantities of rolling tobacco.

In between these shooting antics I have been cooking at an Organic Kitchen in Byron Bay tucked away somewhere between the yoga centre and centrelink.. or centreline.. i don't know cos i haven't been into one for fucken ever.
and I wont.. inspire of the fact sometimes my cat eats better than I do. yes I do own a cat.. something you may not have known about me.

Thank god im doing this right now it is seriously distracting me from the deadline I have looming.
Lykke Li just ticked over. Love that little sexy voice.

Where was I?
oh yeah what Im doing...
in between the cracks of sanity, working to earn a crust, designing and editing and pointing my sandy lens all over the shop I have also been preparing for 2 shows. One is at the Kommune hotel on the Goldie this weekend coming... deadline thursday and the other is my own.

Yep im doing a solo...
the sole purpose behind this was purely experimental. I work pretty tightly with a guy called Rafe, he has a company called Adrift and he screenprints anything from t-shirts to stickers to skateboards and does a fucking epic job of it too... anywhooo he just bought a black and white printer and needed to calibrate the thing so.. thats where I come in. I compile a whole lot of dusty old and shiny new images from the archives, greyscale em, preset em, bee and double u them, lift the blacks, threshold, whatever it takes to bring the image to life.
Then oldmate burns them onto paper and bobs your uncle. well maybe not but he tweaks it susses the colours and were in business...

so at the end of all of this test printing and calibrating im left with a compilation of images to share with you.

You see a good friend of mine Matty "Bone Machine" Atkins just opened an exciting new skateshop last night full of epic woods some handshaped some collected some vintage some recycled some new, no borrowed, no blue just the marriage of epic and awesome.
Bone Machine... yeah I got a boner too when I saw them all slung up on the walls.
And then some.
My little solo is a tribute to Two Tone... not just the colour scheme but the old school skating co. that killed it back in the day. Sew. you can come view this madness in a couple of weeks...
until then you can catch more of my work in a little chinese grocery store in Coolangatta on the Goldie for the last of the Bleach* surfing the fringe festival. And more at Kommune this weekend...

Blah Blah Blah.

The End.

Iv been away with the Fairies in a field of mushrooms.

Dear people from the outskirts of awesome,
thankyou for your visits....
i have noticed.

as my blog remains in a pit of stagnant filth I cant help but feel slightly guilty...
guilty pleasures

You have heard that lame busy bee excuse one too many times before and I am almost afraid to use it again... il just give it a little spin add in some adjectives and as the Cure ticks over on my Grooveshark I am attempting to formulate an excuse for my lateness...

I have been up the Goldie no babies...
super cute boys, a fuck load of epic art.
NOTE: "epic" is now my work for EVERYTHING. yeah sorry about that

soooo everything has been wonderfully wonderfully pretty
we should have each other with tea... we should have each other with cream
make mine with mushrooms.

sorry kids im going to start flinging shit at you like a monkey at the zoo

check out my Facebook page im in the process of buffing myself
EPIC
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