lofi self portrait
Three audio clips:
- My parents cooking dinner – This is a sound I’ll come home to most days, I love spending time with my family and I think this sound is the best way I could represent this without embarrassing any member of my family.
- Me typing on my laptop – I spend way too much time on my computer so this is a sound I hear for many hours a day most days.
- Cafe ambiance – I get coffee once a fortnight with my friend Jacob, I thought I’d record it today cause I think your friends shape who you are, I also go to cafes very often so I guess that’s part of my identity. The little giggle in middle is more of my identity coming through, it was very hard for us to sit in silence for twenty seconds to record this.
Three Videos
- I took this at the International Women’s Day rally on Tuesday. Feminism is a huge part of my life and I thought this video was a good way to encapsulate this.
IMG_0365 from Holly Karas on Vimeo.
- This was at a David Bowie tribute night. Bowie had a huge impact on me growing up and his music is so so important to me.
IMG_0286 from Holly Karas on Vimeo.
- This is the walk from my house to the train station. It’s technically not edited cause I didn’t do it in post! I do this walk at least once a day so it’s a pretty big part of my life, at least until I get my licence.
IMG_0328 from Holly Karas on Vimeo.
Six photos:
- I spend most of my time at home in my bedroom. I think a persons bedroom is really representative of their personality. I’ve moved heaps of times in my life, this is my most permanent house so far and the bedroom I’ve personalized the most and I’m really happy with it. I’ve got stills from my favourite films that inspire me to want to go into film-making on the wall beside my bed kind of as ongoing motivation, I know this is kind of lame. My bed is the most comfortable bed in the world I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
- This is my dog Taffy, although we’ve only had her for six months we love her enough to make up for lost time (she’s eight). I think I feel the same way about Taffy as a parent feels about their new born baby. This photo represents not only my love of dogs, my love of Taffy in particular, but also my love of animals wearing not animal clothes. All three of these things are super important parts of my personality.
- I go to the Workers Club every Monday. I love having a beer or two (or several) with friends and this is one of my favourite places to go. I didn’t take the photo but I’m in it being super candid, the photo is representative of my aesthetic.
- I go out once a week for breakfast, although my bank account begs me not to, I always get eggs benedict. I could literally drown in hollandaise and I would be so happy.
- These girls are so important to me and have helped shape the person I’ve become, I’m super sad three of them don’t live in Melbourne anymore. This photo also shows a bit of my terrible terrible sense of humour, the pose we’re doing is “woman laughing with salad”
- My family is a huge part of my life at the moment and I love them so much. This is my dad and my grandpa, I’m very close with both of them and so happy to have them in my life.
50 words:
- “Put some skates on, be your own hero” – Maggie Mayhem, Whip It (2009)
- “It’s all happening” – Penny Lane, Almost Famous (2000)
- “I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All be Feminists
These are all quotes with significance to me. I chose to use quotes for my 50 words as I think as a writer I haven’t really found my voice yet so for the moment I can share others to express myself. The first two are from movies that inspired me to pursue film-making, but the lines themselves really resonate with me. The quote from Whip It is so simple but I find it so empowering. The quote from “We Should All be Feminists” kind of symbolizes a milestone in my life as I didn’t identify as a feminist until I read this essay so it was instrumental in the way I view the world today.