ISSUE ZERO
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The famous opening line of Charles Dicken's novel A Tale of Two Cities about sums it up. Is there ever a good time to start an online lifestyle magazine, of course there is. When do we all need a light, relaxed, read? Summer! Issue Zero is just a teaser, an insight of what's to come from Ember and it's contributors. It's short, sweet and inspired by... you guessed it: Summer! A word from Kate & Krystal... Sometime during the early stages of Ember we re-learnt a valuable childhood lesson... “always be yourself”. It’s so tempting in this online obsessed world to reinvent yourself or embellish your ‘coolness factor’ but lets face it, we’re not young and we’re totally not cool (despite rocking the 80’s). Just a couple of fast approaching 30yr olds who like pretty things. We know you'll enjoy Ember as much as we do xx
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// CREDIT Kate - Editor + Co-founder Krystal - Creative Director + Co-founder Ky Webb - Head Photographer {summerlily} Our gorgeous cover image & Issue Zero shoot which you'll see throughout the mag was shot by the very talented Ky, from Summerlily.
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Baking With Joy
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Even Tough Boys Need Love
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Cabin In A Loft
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Ready Or Not - Ember Shoot
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Dear Santa
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Creative + Curious + Charming
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Meet This Photographer
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My Camera, Your Home
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Do It Yourself - Dare You
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Illustrator Interview ~ Ewa Mos
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Small People Style
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When I was 5yrs old my Mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life. ~ John Lennon
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Midnight Black
2 1/2 cups whole milk 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar (just 1/2 cup sugar if using regular cocoa powder) 1/3 cup black onyx cocoa powder 4 teaspoons cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 large egg yolks 2 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1/2 vanilla bean 1 cup heavy cream 2 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1/2 vanilla bean
Chocolate Pudding
Place 2 cups milk in a medium saucepan with sugar and cocoa powder. Heat over medium heat until steaming and warm. You don’t necessarily have to boil the mixture, just heat it up and whisk it together. In a medium bowl, whisk together remaining 1/2 cup milk, cornstarch, salt, egg yolks, and vanilla extract. Drizzle about half of the steaming hot chocolate milk into the egg mixture, whisking constantly. This will temper the eggs, making them a bit warm before they’re cooked over a flame. Return all of the chocolate, milk, egg mixture back to the saucepan. Heat over medium heat, whisking nearly constantly. Make sure the get into the corners of the pan where the pudding might stick and overcook. When pudding starts to boil, continue to whisk and boil for about 2 to 3 minutes. Pudding will thicken. Remove from heat and spoon into 4 ramekins or jars. Cover with plastic wrap (on the surface of the pudding if you want to avoid pudding skin). Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
pinch of salt For the whipped cream, whip together heavy cream, sugar, vanilla bean, and a pinch of salt. Dollop over cold pudding and serve.
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I have a wonderfully exciting, secret ingredient in this Midnight Black Chocolate Pudding. It’s Black Onyx Cocoa Powder. See how black it is? Especially compared to the regular cocoa powder hanging out in the back. See? Intense. Of course you can make this recipe using regular cocoa and not the fancy Black Onyx… but, hey! Let me tell you a little about this cocoa powder. Black Onyx Cocoa Powder has been alkalized to the max. That means that it’s acids have been super neutralized. If you’re using this cocoa powder in a recipe, you’ll probably want to pair it with baking powder, as it doesn’t have the acid to react with the baking soda. Still with me? This cocoa powder has less fat than regular (lighter) cocoa powder, so it may produce a more dry end product. It’s been suggested that you use half black cocoa and half regular cocoa. Black cocoa powder is an intense chocolate flavour. It smells like crushed up Oreo cookies. It makes cookies, puddings and cakes as dark as midnight! I’m so into it. It’s perfect in this pudding because there’s no worry of over drying. I love this pudding recipe because it’s thickened by both egg yolks and cornstarch. The yolks provide a nice richness while the cornstarch is a no fail thickener. Look how luscious! Wait… is luscious an awkward word? A little.
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Even tough boys need love. By Nicole Curry
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The Green Bamboo shelter for street boys is where my teenage son Silas and I have been spending our Friday morning’s for the past few months. One of our favourite kids is Tri, he befriended Silas the first day and every week we look forward to seeing him. Lately my youngest Arlo has been tagging along and now he and Tri are good friends. In fact, I think Arlo would move in if I’d let him.
Today Tri met us at the door. He was unusually sombre and didn’t follow us upstairs. Disappointed, Arlo waited in the hallway with their colouring books. I went in and started talking with some of the other boys. I could hear a child crying somewhere in the house. Tri came in. His eyes were red, his cheeks were smudged with dirt. I sat next to him. Water pooled below his dark brown eyes. He wiped his face, he tried to hold it back, he wanted to be tough, but it was too much, the tears came hot and fast. I moved closer. Tentatively he laid his head to my chest. Slowly he wrapped his skinny arm around my waist then his hand gripped my shirt. I folded him into me.
I hold him closer until his crying stops. Arlo quietly watches then sets up a colouring book and some crayons at another table. Tri looks up and wipes his tears, a small smile crosses his beautiful face as he joins Arlo. I ask another boy if something happened. He told me that some of the kids had gone to visit their families but that Tri's mom didn’t want to see him. My heart breaks into a thousand pieces.
It almost time for us to go, Tri doesn’t want us to leave. He holds on to Arlo. He draws a heart on Arlo's hand then writes “Don’t Forget me” on his arm. Arlo gives Tri the colouring book and markers. Tri leads Arlo to the “sleeping room” (no beds just a hard floor for 30 of the Tri should be given what he’s crying for. What he craves 60 boys) and pulls a box of old cookies from his locker. to his core is his birthright. I know that he is not the He gives them to him. Arlo hugs him tight. only one. His voice is an echo of so many others. Every nation on the planet knows his pain. These cries are not As I lay in bed that night I wonder how many of those for food or water but it is just as much a necessity. He boys that seem so tough cry themselves to sleep each speaks English but today through his tears comes the night. It brings tears to my eyes. I go around the language of his land, the language of his circumstance, but house taking turns laying next to my sleeping children I recognize the name he calls out. We all do. “Mer...Mer”. whispering words of love into their dreams. I wish I could do the same for the boys at green bamboo. His request is simple, he cries out for his mom. I understand this. We have all wanted it from our own mothers and I’ve felt the need for it from my own sons. To be held and cared for. To feel unconditional love. It’s like the sun and the rain to a blade of grass. It feeds our souls. { 11
C A B I N IN A LOFT An interview with Terri Chiao.
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P H E B E RENDULIC What's your story? Where are you from? My name is Phebe Rendulic and I'm a photographer and musician from Adelaide, Australia. I like cats, the Flinders Ranges, buying too many magazines and I definitely don't like cauliflower. You seem to work with a lot of different styles of film/ cameras...what's your favourite? I have so many cameras - even one's that you can't get film for anymore - but my favourites will always be my Polaroid cameras. I only recently bought an SX-70 so I'm having fun experimenting with the Impossible films but my heart will always belong to my 600. After shooting these images, I now only have one expired pack of Polaroid film left in the fridge. It's going to be tough using it up so I have to wait for the right moment! What do you like to do on a free Sunday? When my partner has the weekend off our favourite thing is going somewhere for breakfast first thing. Sometimes we just get McDonalds and sit in the car at the airport lookout and watch the planes come and go. Also, not sure if any one else feels the same as me, but I actually really enjoy doing the laundry every Sunday and hanging the clothes out to dry. Sunday's are also the perfect day to sit on the couch and watch too many DVD's.
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M A R T I N STRANKA Tell us a bit about you? Where's home? I was born in Most on Friday the thirteenth in April 1984 in Czech Republic. I was involved in photography since 2007, but I never studied it and I have always self-taught myself. My solo and group exhibitions were possible to see from South and North America, through Europe up to Asia. I love the smell of autumn and sparkling grains of dust floating in the sunset. And where is my home? Really nice and simple question - I feel home in my inner world which I materialize into my art. How would you describe your style? I perceive photography as a unique space located in a balance and serenity. My work exists in that narrow space of few seconds between dreaming and awaking. Favourite editing accessory? I can say, I use Photoshop as a really powerful tool for finishing the dreamy atmosphere in my pictures. It hatches in my mind, then it comes through my hands and ends in Photoshop for the final touch. Your Bio is very impressive, what is your biggest achievement so far? My international photography awards. * Emerging Talent Award in Nikon Photo Contest International 2010-2011 with over than 60.000 entries * Finalist of Sony World Photography Awards 2010 with over than 43.000 entries * 1st place in International Photo Award 2010 * 3rd place in Digital Photographer of the Year Awards with over 300.000 entries
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Anne-CĂŠcile Esteve is a lovely, beautiful, awesome french photographer living in Bali, Indonesia. Anne takes photos of expatriate families living abroad, capturing memories of their transient lives in a photo book.
Pun {Punyo} & Loz {Lorraine}, their daughter Jaiya {5yrs}, twins Felix & Siri {2 ½yrs}, Lola the Bali dog and Monty the cat.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loz & Pun, what's your story, background? Loz} We met at University in Bristol, UK in 1995. We both shared a passion for adventure and travel and spent the next 10 years working in the dot com boom. I was a web project manager and Pun a designer. Over the next few years we made it our mission to see as many places as possible during our holidays - from Columbia and Equidor to South East Asia. Just before we turned 30 we took a year out and went to Sydney, Australia and lived in North Bondi which was fantastic! We returned home to London where we renovated a house and were married shortly after in Bangkok.
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language barrier to overcome but it doesn't take long to settle back into a routine when kids and schooling are part of the equation. Do you have any advice for anyone thinking of heading down a similar path?
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THE OLD M A N A N D THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway
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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week.
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deepcreased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
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Materials 1 Old barn wood or any wood for that matter 2 Wood screws 3 2 x roughly 1” x 4” x 65” boards for support/legs 4 Wood shims or scraps of wood incase your wood varies in thickness 5 Scrubbing brush 6 Fine sand paper 7 Finishing spray - see which works best for the type of wood you are using (Sarah used 2–3 cans of Valspar clear flat spray) 8 4 x 2” bolts with 5/8 hex nuts 9 Saw 10 Wrenches/spanners for tightening bolts 11 Drill 12 Air compressor - not a necessity
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EWA MOS ILLUSTROGRAPHER? What's your story? My name is Ewa Mos, or to my friends Moscva. I finished 6yrs Fine Art School in Cracow. When I started I was 12, the age when people are not really sure about what they would like to do in the future, but I think it was the best decision in my life I've learnt so much! I was very tired and sometimes so angry that l didn't have time for anything else but effort always pays off! Now I've lived in the UK for year and a bit. I'm studying Graphic Communication & Illustration at Birmingham City University. When I began, I was very excited about a new adventure, the people, places, cultures and I still am, but it's also turned out to be school of true life. So I have no regrets! I love drawing, illustration, graphic design and photography. I am most happy when I can combine photography with illustration. All of my works are hand drawn and colorised in digital way or painted. I won't ever give up traditional techniques, it has the biggest value for me. I'm also keen on animation and movie making.
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Boys Outfit: Cried Wolf Hat $30, Minti Pocket Shirt $70, Kiniki Denim Shorts $55 Girls Outfit: Ada Ada Alonite- Woven Dress $68, Daily Tea Leggings $19.55, Salt Water Sandals $69
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