Do you ever go back into your archives mostly because you are procrastinating and think “I should make a post about this experience a decade later”? Well, it’s story time!
First off, we were invited to Australia to speak at a pretty big deal design conference called Semi-Permanent. I got instant anxiety thinking about speaking in front of a couple thousand people and almost said no until Claire stepped in and said “You really think we’re going to turn down a free trip to Australia because you don’t want to talk on a stage?” And on we went.
But i mean come on, this is nerve racking.
It all went fantastic and we gave out stickers and postcards of me in a bath in South Africa after.
We got a beer after and all was fine.
We got on a train after and visited our dear friend Lou who couldn’t even find us a kangaroo. But she did find us this…
This is how Claire dressed down under. After Lou’s we hopped on a plane to visit some new friends who invited us up to Sydney to show us around and that’s when we met the Monster Children.
Hollywood, Lucy, Campbell.
Hollywood.
Campbell.
Hollywood.
Those guys introduced us to Carby Tuckwell and his beautiful Porsche 964.
Carby is the founder of Deus ex Machina. This is the original and only location at the time and we fell in love (years before they opened the Venice store and all over globe).
And sightseeing.
It was really hard to travel anywhere in the world and not see the work we did for Converse at that time. It was so incredible to see our photos in person in Sydney, and Johannesburg, and Bangkok, and London, and Barcelona. It was so wild how global those campaigns were.
We also got to stay with another dear friend Vanessa while there (who by that time was the star of a Aussie TV show about private detectives on speed boats or something). Vanessa lived above us in a duplex in Silver Lake in the early 2000s and we’d have to remind her that you couldn’t drive around in the states with a beer and cigarette in your hand.
Till next time,
Jeremy