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• Yay I was in the paper
  by Jo O'Brien

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  I Helped Mel Meet Cool Artists
  by Melissa Vowell

  Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this! / Before I move to England in April, I would like to get to Sydney to meet awesome Redbubblers and to Melbourne again to see the awesome Redbubblers I did meet while I was there for Lorne07= one more time! This is probably the only way I’m going to do it – with your help. Jo O’Brien and I have been talking about how I can do this, without it eating into my moving money. We’ve decided the best way to achieve this would be to appeal to you, the community. I have had a chat to the incredibly wonderful, beautiful and talented JustSixties who has come up with an awesome t shirt design featuring Jo and I grooving to some Pulp Fiction beats (see below) for me to make available for sale via my portfolio. All the profits from the sale of this t-shirt will go into my Melbourne and Sydney fund AND you’ll get an awesome t-shirt!! If you don’t like the t-shirt, or would prefer to make a direct donation, have any other awesome fundraising ideas, or just think I’m a cheeky bugger for giving this a whirl, please feel free to bubblemail me! I’m thanking you all in advance Melissa x

• masturbation
  by Jo O'Brien

  NSFW

• Tales of the GGB # 24 - her lips
  by Jo O'Brien

  all I could think about was her scent. And how much better she would smell, closer to me

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• I'm a dot com
  by Jo O'Brien

  I’ve filled it up, stripped it back, fretted, freaked out. Started again, hmm… 8 or 9 times. I decided sweet and simple was the way to …

  I’ve filled it up, stripped it back, fretted, freaked out. Started again, hmm… 8 or 9 times. I decided sweet and simple was the way to go. Naturally I will be tweaking it for the next 20 Billion years but it’s a good place to start. I’m still working on private galleries for my “not bubble appropriate” stuff. For now, it’s nothing you haven’t seen already. But I’m still excited. my new website

• Rant: Throw enough mud and some of it will stick
  by Jo O'Brien

  Throw enough mud and some of it will stick. A mantra of sorts that I live by. My art is not for everyone, or even for most people. Someti…

  Throw enough mud and some of it will stick. A mantra of sorts that I live by. My art is not for everyone, or even for most people. Sometimes it offends, shocks, upsets, arouses, inspires or invades the senses. I don’t consider that a flaw. I consider that an achievement. And I’ll put it all out there and see what happens. It sounds tacky but if it reaches only one person in a hundred, I’ve succeeded. I don’t care what the other ninety-nine people think about it. I just don’t. My concentration is fixed squarely on the person who ‘gets it.’ I’m happy to keep making art for that one person if it means I get to create the ideas and images in my head. To do anything else would be to sell myself short. If you are offended. Good.

• Be Inspired
  by Jo O'Brien

  Just some websites that I found inspiring that I thought you might like too. Cosmin Bumbut / Russell Rutherford..

  Just some websites that I found inspiring that I thought you might like too. Cosmin Bumbut / Russell Rutherford / Oswald Yves / mimstyle / Eugenio Recuenco / George Lange / Inspriational Portrait Photography Techniques / Daniel Pinheiro / Daryl Banks / Alexandra Carr

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  O'Brien's Anchor
  by Stephen Maxwell

  The anchor of the Liberty Ship, S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien.

• Tasmanian Photo Journal (lots of photos!)
  by Jo O'Brien

  As you might remember, for my birthday James gave me a trip to Tasmania, which makes me tot…

  As you might remember, for my birthday James gave me a trip to Tasmania, which makes me totally and utterly spoiled rotten. (and very happy, tee hee) So how does one have a Tasmanian Holiday? / Start by getting on the Spirit Of Tasmania. There was this crazy guy doing all the announcements and he kept giggling and then trailing off at the end of each one…. strange. / Have a “Final Destination Moment” on the way from the ship. If you don’t get that, you’re not cool enough. / Prepare for self portraits by testing all the furniture for it’s climbability… result? Low climbability options, proceed with care and a cup of tea. / Visit some cows, lots of cows. Black cows, spotty cows, even cows with flies on their ears. / Learn how to do landscape photography without even looking at what you are doing. James calls this “Landscape photography 101.” I call it silly. / Take embarrassing tourist photos of unwashed hair in front of a vaguely attractive looking landscape from a lookout that takes ages to get to and isn’t worth the effort. / Visit sheep… / Many sheep… It’s at about this point that I should confess that the highlight of my trip to Tasmania was sheep. I love sheep, and wool, and it was so sheepy and so woolly. ah, love the sheep…. baaaaaaa! / Stay in dodgy accommodation (not that it matters, we were sleepy by this point) / Have many many toilet stops. So James can take many embarrassing photos of said stops. / Eat awesome food and take Hien-style photos of the food while telling James he has to wait until I get a good shot. He was hungry. Sorry hon. / Take photos under fences of grass and pretty trees and stuff that I never take photos of. / Drive up and down nine mile beach until Jo chucks a tantrum and makes James go back to the first look out we saw and then insist it was another one and then realise she is wrong and chucks another tantrum. / Have RedBubble meet ups with the Tasmanian Locals. Of course in Tasmania, five minutes down the road is a ‘long distance’ so they might not consider themselves as local as we did. “Are you local?” (If you get that joke, I love you and you are a huge geek) / Stop several times and stay on the alert for “the tree” for many hours before James can swerve off the road to take a photo with power lines in it. / Find crazy camping grounds where they are obviously killing all their naughty visitors and warning off other naughty people by hanging their victims’ shoes out the front. / Be majorly big tourists and carry heavy cameras around busy markets and buy nice photography books which have nothing to do with Tasmania as souvenirs / What was that? Jo is into sheep and wool? Yes I actually dragged him into the wool centre so that I could touch and feel all the different types of wool and re-educate myself on the production process from sheep to suit. Um…. / Say hi to Rambo / James says that this was his ‘careful planning of schedules.’ I say it is technology dependency. / Have an unplanned and surprisingly good last stop to kill time before getting back on the ship. The guy who owned the place was going around offering to take people’s photos which we saw right through- he just wanted to play with people’s cameras. / This has nothing to do with Tasmania… James made me add it

• Fake Memoirs III
  by Jo O'Brien

  Let me introduce myself. I’m that girl the boys would take home to their Mum and then ravish at the drive in. That kid who worked har…

• Trash The Dress Shoot
  by Jo O'Brien

  Hien is one of those wedding photographers you tell all your engaged friends about. I know that o…

  Hien is one of those wedding photographers you tell all your engaged friends about. I know that one day when someone makes an honest woman out of me, I’ll be a-knocking at his door. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when he invited me to come along to a ‘Trash the Dress’ shoot and spread my creative vibes and help with art direction. And like I could pass up the chance to watch a couple of lovely normal individual’s run amok with paint and scissors? It all started off fairly normal and wedding like… Then we had a change of scenery… There was some pleading… But it was futile. The idea of getting covered in paint and ripping apart a perfectly good wedding dress was just too delicious to pass up :) Twas a big bunch of fun Hien. Thanks for inviting me along for the ride.

• Cyber Stalking and Bullying
  by Jo O'Brien

  ^My usual disclaimer: This is just my opinion folks. I’m not legal advice, a psychologist or even particularly well read on the topic. Al…

  My usual disclaimer: This is just my opinion folks. I’m not legal advice, a psychologist or even particularly well read on the topic. All this stems from personal experience and keen observation. It’s unfortunate, but some people see the internet as their chance to behave like complete idiots, total sleazes or to rocket off their opinions to people who just don’t care. And some people seem to think hiding behind an alias and making rude comments online is actually a ‘good’ way to pick up chicks. These people can seem completely childish or stalker-ish or predatory. But they only have as much power as you give them. Jo’s Golden Rules for dealing with creepy, irritating, clingy or irrational people Rule One: Take the log out of your eye first / Did you just write a provocative political rant and now people are giving you a piece of their mind? Did you call someone a nasty name, or make an inflammatory comment? Did you ask for a critique and didn’t like what someone said? While freedom of expression is one thing, consequences to your actions is another. You may not want to admit this, but if you give people the irrits, or flaunt your saucy bits all over the place, some people will want to exercise their freedom of expression too. Yes, there is a line where it becomes unreasonable or wrong, but consider where this line is as a first step. Rule Two: Ignore them / If they bubblemail you, don’t reply, if they comment on your stuff, ignore it or delete it without a mention. Nothing drives an attention seeking person to boredom faster than when they can’t get a rise out of you. It’s like what we say to little kids at school “If Jimmy is calling you names, you just walk away from Jimmy and don’t look back” Childish behavior calls for childish measures. Rule Three: Report Them (but keep ignoring them) / The only thing less fun for these sorts of characters is when they are not only getting zero attention from you, but also have the authorities on their back. Bullying & harassment is against RedBubble’s user agreement and can be reported to admin using the links provided around the site. In fact, most sites with a social aspect have similar policies and reporting procedures. Don’t be afraid to use them. Ongoing serious stalking or threats to harm you are matters for your local police. If anyone indicates that they know where you live or are coming to get you, the local police will be much better equipped to protect or advise you than a website administrator on the other side of the planet. Rule Four: Prevention is better than cure / Use websites for what they are intended. In this case RedBubble is a place to share your creativity and connect with other artists. It’s not a dating site, reality TV experience or personal ranting blog. Behave online like you would face to face. And be aware of what personal details your are making available to the whole world. Useful Links / How can I protect myself against cyber stalking? / Risks on the Internet / How to Ignore People

• Yummy Braaaaiiiiinnnnss
  by Jo O'Brien

  So today we decided it would be fun to join the annual Melbourne Zombie Shuffle...

  So today we decided it would be fun to join the annual Melbourne Zombie Shuffle Basically, a bunch of people meet up dressed as various zombies and shuffle through Melbourne city moaning “braaaaiiiiiinnnnns.” I was hugely impressed with how well people managed to stay in character. Zombie Challenge

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  Spoiling him
  by Pauline O'Brien

  A hum ours cartoon about a pregnant mother spoiling her unborn child

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  The Devils elbow
  by Pomgonwalkabout

  O’Brien Gemfields / Far North Queensland

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  Blanc- 21
  by Kimothy

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  Dieu, sauvez-moi- 24
  by Kimothy

• Maria Gonzales & Rogue Artists test shoot
  by Jo O'Brien

  We recently did a test shoot for Maria Gonzales and “R…

  We recently did a test shoot for Maria Gonzales and Rogue Artists With very bad rain forecast, we abandoned our location scouting and set about using any available space in her store, including the tea room, out the back and yes, even in the toilet. James was set up in the main shop room with studio lights so hopefully we got a mix of my random roaming around and some nice clear polished shots. I haven’t even made it half way through my shots yet, but here are a few if you’re interested.

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  couture series 1
  by James Price

  See more from this shoot here Designer: Maria Gonzales / MUA & Hair: Rogue Artists / Model: Kathryn www.vividphotography.net

• Ring flash test shoot (beware, stupid face pulling within)
  by Jo O'Brien

  So bringing my new toy home for the first time resulted in …

  So bringing my new toy home for the first time resulted in lots of random and fairly uninteresting shots. While the guys worried about F stops and technical stuff, I proceeded to poke stupid faces shouting “take one of me! take one of me!!!” This is my now encyclopedic knowledge of taking photos with a ring flash, for your enjoyment, and my embarrassment. / Plucking your eyebrows is a must with a ring flash. In fact, if you have any skin insecurities, probably best to stay on the other side of it. (The photographer side that is) You’ll also notice that it gives you a crazy circle light in your eyes, kind of like you are possessed. I thought that was ace. / Because the light goes in a big circle around the lens, you can pretty much cover the whole thing with hair, or possibly other things, and it still manages to light everything up. I thought that was ace too. / In fact, lack of shadows is probably my favourite thing about it. You can flash someone straight on, even if they are having a girly hissy fit backed up against a wall, and there are no severe shadows behind them. / And you can take photos through blinds, bars and fabric without casting shadows on your subject. John’s a good sport and let us trap him between the blinds and the door to test out this theory. I reckon John is a bit ace too. / This whole “no shadows” business means it’s also great for taking photos inside things, which is also ace. / even inside your nose / And James thought that was ace. Just see how happy he is!

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  red and the big bad wolf
  by khelltic

  this was taken outside halls gap. jo was such a great Wolf. she plays the part so well. we had lots of fun, a lot of laughs. thank you to both girls for their help! Red: madie(madz05) / Wolf: Jo O’Brien

• Pin Up Nicole
  by Jo O'Brien

  I recently had the pleasure of working with a ridiculously fun model, Nicole, on a retro pin up shoot. It’s funny how some shoots I w…

  I recently had the pleasure of working with a ridiculously fun model, Nicole, on a retro pin up shoot. It’s funny how some shoots I walk away from shaking my head and praying for some decent results, and then others I freak out of the way home about how much space it’s going to eat up on my hard drive. This shoot falls into the latter category. Nicole was so easy to work with and everyone involved was relaxed and up for a laugh. We were working outside after some heavy rain which ruled out many of the ‘usual’ pin up poses which require getting down on the ground, but the energy of the shoot was such fun we hardly noticed the restriction. It’s been a while since I’ve shot anything in this genre, but there is something about the ridiculousness and humor of it which I really genuinely love. Here are a few more images from the shoot: There’s a handful more over here if you’re interested.

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  Rock Face
  by Pomgonwalkabout

  O’Briens Gemfields, Mount Surprise. / Obviously someone was a little bored or had a good eye and a few cans of paint going spare!

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  Matt O'Brien - 1972 Holden HQ Monaro
  by WantedImages

  Matt O’Brien driving his 1972 Holden HQ Monaro GTS in the Biante Touring Car Masters at Queensland Raceway Aug 2009.