HAPPY BIRTHDAY MINNIE MOUSE

I went running today...even in the storm.

would have been warmer to wear this

Deep, dark, delicious winter

Good winter fellow martians,

Winter brings forward more darker days and with this comes dark ideas for dark and eerie photoshoots.

The latest inspirations have come from graveyards and vampires, blood and lust.

Enjoy our delicious, new images. For all you dark minds out there.

Our amazing friends!

Kim and Adam;s underwater-shots are incredible! Can't get enough :)

More of the photos and Kim's illustrations and designs are on her blog...http://kimberleymarsden.blogspot.com/ 

cheeeck it 

Collaboration of the Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton and Romance was Born = magical textiles. I will work with them one day :)

Sometimes I take time out from being a martian. I be a gangsta instead x

hey, hello

Hey, hello,

We found these abstract martian shadows while soaking up the end of day's sun. With a dark storm on it's way the atmosphere was eerie and apprehensive. The martian shadows were fleeting as we captured them in their last moments. They didn't stay with us for very long.

Vidz for Kidz

Gaga

James - he gives us his quotes

Addiction, Love .. what's the difference?

Confidence is the key to every door.

Your not a martian. They look average. . Have you seen Men in Black2?

Cameron has an issue. And he doesn't even know it.

Everyone's looking for love, make sure it's what you want when you find it.

Petra has issues. She's in love with Cameron Lynskey and she does not even know it. Oh dear.

-Actually she does but she is too afraid to admit it. And she never will look at it dead in the face because (refer to quote 5) it's the love that she doesn't want. (He would cheat on her which is why)

Well we are trying to make quotes.

Life would be so much easier if everyone took responsibility for their own dramas.

No matter how much you try to influence others, some things just wont change.

Why are you cutting me down early. Let me fall on my own thank you.

The worlds dramas are our dramas. We are the world.

The ones who don't listen tend to be the ones that need to hear it most.

- James Hunt's contribution to life's big questions.

xx Love the lil martians

Little Gigs

Yours sincerely - Pots washer.

All the vampires walking through the valley.

And all the bad boys standing in the shadows, And the good girls hung with broken hearts.

Now I'm free. Free falling.

Love

Apparently it does not matter who it is but more about how you make it work.

Yes. I think this can.could.should be the case. Does not work though. They way you make it work does not work because boys just want to free fall out in to nothing and just leave your world for awhile. Free falling. Now he's free. Free falling falling.

Thank you very much. I'll see you in a few minutes.

Actually no sorry I'm lying. I'll be in the kitchen washing pots.

Actually no. F Love.

Pride Stump

Our backyard out in Awhitu. It's amazing how therapeutic it is to play like a child sometimes. Here is a reenactment of one of our favourite childhood movies the Lion King.

Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot. And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all... The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't. The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say, cheetahs never prosper...
- Zazu

Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.

Bubble and fizz, come take a squiz!

Love is a silly word.

It makes me bubble and twist

It makes me sizzle and fizz

It makes me exist

Love.

Why we love Wayne - Ask Drake yo

"I could never classify Wayne as victim. He's too strong to me. Wayne is who he wants to be. People don't understand. It's really not an act. Lil Wayne is a character you'll rarely run across, probably for the existence of human beings. He is that guy. He is Lil Wayne for a reason. He's a rock star, a visionary, a workaholic. He doesn't function like anybody I know. He's a rare breed."

Paws

We find these images of different hands really meaningful. Touch is one of the most important and beautiful forces in this world. . .

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:

not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

- Colin Wilson

Im only a day old, I dont know what I'm doing, but I know what love is

I need to speak something

Dear Martian Blog,

I need to write how I feel today. Today is how I feel and tomorrow I will feel differently. Everyday I have different thoughts and everyday I am different. We like to hold on to definitions. It gives us structure and a concrete way of explaining something. Personal identities are the same thing.

Our personal identities can be seen through the way we describe ourselves to others. The way we define ourselves on social networking pages or in job interviews. Identities are not bad but they can be limiting and often the cause of much personal pain and suffering. I have been a prisoner of my self-perceived identity for much of my life. I truly grew up with the assumption that we were all 'born to do something'. My something was running and I ingrained this belief so deeply in my mind that I structured my entire life around it.

When I became badly injured at 16 I was forced to choose between quitting running or having an operation on both legs which would leave big scars. I choose to have the operation and didn't care one bit about the scars telling myself that if I ever gave up running these scars would be there to remind me I had failed myself.

Thinking back now this is such a destructive soul destroying way to think and act! I so badly needed to be defined as someone to have any kind of confidence in myself, that I went as far as scaring my body to remind my self of this definition.

Definitions. They are dangerous things. By defining something you create division. You say what something is and at the same time say what it is not. It is through division that conflict arises. I defined myself as a runner and when I no longer was I strongly believed I was a failure. This poisonous belief leaked all through the rest of my being and into other avenues of my life.

Definitions do have a place in society. We all need to have a way to quickly communicate about common situations. For conversations to take place understandings need to be present and instant. However, so many people these days cling to definitions and don't trust in their own ability to think. They don't have their own points of view. It is far easier to take on anothers' opinion then to have your own. When we reveal ourselves to others we are putting ourselves out there to be criticized and this is scary. When we have strong opinions we will always have opposition. There will always be others who disagree. This is ok. Diversity is a powerful, beautiful and honest quality of this world.

I don't like to define myself anymore. I think my life should be my 'definition' not the words in my head or as I like to call it my lovely little internal dialogue. Everyday I have new dreams and things I would love to experience and achieve. All of these are real and I, along with the rest of the world, have the potential to do what ever it is we want. And, as long as it stems from a root of love and compassion, whatever you do will be amazing and will shine light and love on others empowering them to reach for and get to the places they dream of in their greatest of great dreams

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

- Marianne Williamson A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Ribbons of Light

What a wicked and wonderful weekend full of cupcakes, glow in the dark stars, hip hop beats, colours, pebbles, bright lights and dancing feet!

Jay and B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6HPJJjqvG0