Win Love Freo Postcards

We’re super proud of Izzy at Love Freo for winning Corbis’ Creatives Behind the Lens competition with her fantasitc photo of South Beach. To celebrate we’re giving away a set of our postcards Colour Freo and Breathe Freo which feature more beautiful examples of Izzy’s work.

To win, just email us at info@lovefreo.com with Postcard Competition in the subject field by 26th of November and we’ll put all the names in a hat.

Izzy will draw the winner

Blackboard Fuse Box

I’m posting this for two reasons:

1. It’s an inspired use of a knackered looking fuse box.
2. It’s advertising a Staff Creative exhibition at The Sandcastle Organic Restaurant South Terrace. Work is by the staff and crew, might be interesting, might not.

Blackboard Fuse Box

Fly Away Home

I’ve seen posters around like this for dogs and cats but never birds, it’s kind of sweet.

Lost Bird

Hymen Complete Grooming

Every time I walk past Numen Barbers on the corner of Leake and Market Street I look at their sign and I read hymen. Maybe it’s because they’ve used a v instead of a u I’m not really sure why it reads that way.

Update 23/11/09: OK I’m a tool I’ve been told it reads N V Men, envy Men, ahhhh ok, all this time I’ve been calling it Numen. However it still reads hymen

Hymen Complete Grooming

Actually…

…tons of cool music about this weekend.  Why don’t all the muso places of Freo keep their sites updated? I’ve noticed a lot of great looking gig flyers and posters around town this week but can’t find much online. Ho hum.

So Tijuana Cartel on Sunday at Mojo’s will no doubt be brilliant (they are also on tonight at Fly By Night), but also worth checking out tonight are Shooting from the Hip, and tomorrow night Boom Bam Pow, to raise awareness of domestic violence.

There’s also live music every night this w/e at Creatures Loft and the CD launch of the DomNicks at Clancy’s. Unfortunately I’ll be somewhere between City Beach and the city taking my sister’s clan to the aeroport. Oh, in another scoop for Metropolis Fremantle, Jarivs Cocker is coming here in December: he is the chap who famously (perhaps) ran up on stage and bared his arse to Michael Jackson. But he’s also a great singer/songwriter and once front man of 90s indie(ish) band Pulp. Get tickets now, you won’t be disappointed.

MJ wasn't impressed by his butt.

Tijuana Cartel in Freo

Love these guys! Check them out at the Fly tonight or at Mojo’s on Sunday.

Graffiti: Gramophone, Fernando and Flag

Essex Street down by the Luna is starting to look like a bit of an art gallery…

Previously I had mourned the loss of The Gramophone on High Street but I saw its bastard child today.

Gramophone II: The Return

Small child having none of it.

Remember Fernando Pessoa? Well there’s five of him floating on the Luna’s wall:

How many is he?

Last but not least: thoughtful and iconic…

Harold Thomas' flag on the power box next to the cinema.

South, not Bondi

Love Freo is pleased about being a winner in Corbis’ Creatives Behind the Lens competition, which originated in Europe three years ago and has been held in Australia for the first time. The winning photograph (‘South Beach’) was taken at a hazy early morning down at South Beach last autumn. While the Melbourne Man went for a swim a rainbow appeared in the haze and I was just so glad I had brought my camera. Together with the very few other early morning dog walkers I marveled at this beautiful performance of nature.

The 47 national winners were invited to Sydney, where our work was unveiled at a private view at the Museum of Contemporary Arts last week, followed by a party at one of the best locations in Australia – MCA’s rooftop balcony right at Circular Quay with stunning views over the harbour, Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

Corbis is planning to bring the exhibition to Perth early next year and is looking for interesting locations. I suggested Creatures Loft and Fremantle Arts Centre, but if you have other ideas, please let me know and I’ll forward them.

View all winners here or read an article about the event here.
For prints of the winning photo, please contact us.

Freo Festival Faces

At the Festival Parade and Freo Shuffle

Café 55 – Pukka Food

I’m kicking myself that I haven’t been to this wonderful little eatery sooner: I was put off once by their specials board declaring some dish with peanuts, and peanuts have me running for the hills (a severe nut allergy rather than a legume phobia), and I didn’t make it back to  give them a second chance, more fool me.

I love curries, I love south-east Asian curries in particular and now I have finally been to this place I have a whole menu to explore. I was too busy chatting with Michelle – the Love Freo blog-reader who insisted I try this place out – to do anything useful, like write down what my dish was called, or make a note of their opening hours. But I did get this superbly average picture with the Love Freo phone-cam which doesn’t really come close to doing the food justice.

My lamb curry was delicious, rich in flavour, with good quality non-fatty lamb, and cost about 10 bucks, which for Freo is an absolute bargain. The blonde likes a good laksa too, so I’d say we’ll be fairly regular at this gaff.

Delicious food at Cafe 55. The fly on the papadum (not the Cafe's fault) was just an added bonus.

Thanks to Michelle for suggesting this place. People please feel free to suggest any other glaring omissions from the Love Freo food hall. Next week: Hungry Jack’s!

Café 55
55 High Street
Fremantle
WA 6160
(08) 9336 2604‎

Open from sometime in the morning until about 3pm (I think).