Merry Christmas!!

Well it's been a great way to end 2006! We'd like to say a big thank you again to all our friends, family and customers for your support in our first months of business.

Merry Christmas to all of you. Enjoy the holiday, eat lots of great food, and wherever you are, bring in 2007 with a bang!

Rachel and Matt.

Farewell Gibbo!!

My lovely housemate, Melissa Gibson, has headed off on global adventures and I must say she is already sorely missed! Mel's in Israel right now, then heading to London, Ireland, Western Europe, then heading back to Oz with a quick month or two stop over in India and Thailand!!

Yup, I'm pretty green with envy!

Looking forward to hearing many a crazy story from her adventures...

Who's going to Woodford?

Yay, I can't wait.

We're heading to the Woodford Folk Festival for a few days next week... a few days of camping, meeting amazing people, listening to fantastic music from all over the world and generally spreading the love!! It's a great way to end the year.

Check out the website to see this year's fantastic line up. Hope to see you there!

And check back here in the New Year for hopefully some awesome shots and stories of the fun and frivolities I plan to have there!

Stop Press

Our first bit of media attention came with a great story in Queensland's Courier Mail.



Click here to read the article. Or go to PascoePopArt.com to view our collection of personalised Pop Art portraits.

My New Favorite Pascoe Pop Art Portrait

One of our latest additions to the gallery. I love it!

Pascoe Pop Art now creating gloss prints

In response to feedback, we are now happy to announce that we have a new option for our Pop Artwork – gloss A4 prints mounted in a black frame. This will cater to our customers who are keen to convert a photo but are not yet able to invest in the higher-quality canvas art. They start at $69 (AU$79) for one, which includes the artwork, printing, frame and free shipping worldwide. Check it out on the Prices page or in How to Order.

A not so merry Kookaburra

Ok, for the non-Aussies reading this, we have a little children’s song that goes:

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,

Merry Merry King of the bush is he,

Laugh Kookaburra, Laugh Kookaburra,

Gay your life must be.

Lovely, isn't it! Merry, Gay, Laughing… that must be one happy bird, right?

Well we have a mate, appropriately named “Kookie”.

And I’m afraid Kookie is not so happy. In fact, we are quite convinced Kookie is completely deranged. Kookie sits on our window ledge most of the day, and looks so cute as he fluffs up his feathers sings his Kookaburra song. But then, when you least expect it, Kookie will launch himself into full speed Kamikaze mode, and BANG, slam into the window. Every 10 or so minutes throughout the day. Now obviously Kookie is seeing a rival in his reflection in the window. So we’ve tried move him off the window sill with all sorts of implements (not hands, have you seen the size of a Kookaburra’s beak close up!). But Kookie stands his ground, and gives us a look as though we were the deranged ones. We’ve tried covering the window, but he then moves to the next… and we really would prefer not to have to block our lovely river views by covering all our windows with newspaper to save Kookie’s beak. We are yet to try some further methods, so will keep you posted. If you’ve got any ideas, please let us know!

There are worse places to spend your days…

I have to share with you some pics of our little office in Brisbane.



It is really just by chance that Matt stumbled across this place a couple of months ago and it is just perfect for our at-home office – right on the Brisbane river, 10 minutes from the CBD, and our window is level with the tree tops – Australian native eucalypts full of Australian native birds. It doesn’t get much better than that as far as I’m concerned. Although there is a down-side to all this nature… the phrase “The Early Bird Catches The Worm” has so much more meaning to me these days, although I might add they not only catch the worm early, they also like to tell their mates at the other side of the river all about it. The NOISE coming from these colourful little feathered creatures, starting about 5am, is incredible! Not that I really am complaining too much, I have always liked being a bit of an early bird…but 5am starts do take their toll when you’re trying to have grown up conversation at 9.30 at night and all you want to do is go to bed!

Ha ha... Matt and I warming up for our Courier Mail photo shoot! Must say I'm looking particularly feral... I promise I got a little more presentable in time for Mr Courier Mail to show up!

Work it baby…

Wow. Pascoe Pop Art headquarters has been pretty busy of late… what with all the photo shoots we’ve had to do lately… haha OK only two, but we’re loving them!! There’s something about staring into the lens of a Nikon while some cool old hippie who just returned from India is telling you to “work it” and ripping off a million shots… good for the ol’ ego! Haven’t seen the results though… he really didn’t get my good side (you know when your hair is doing just the right thing on one side and shit on the other) so I’m not feeling too confident. Anyway we’re appearing in the local free rag as well as the Brisbane Courier Mail this Saturday. Not bad for our first month. The free publicity just before Christmas will hopefully be very handy as well.