Category Archives: B.L.O.G Big Long Open Gash

General blog posts involving emotional turbulence, highs and lows, personal projects, thoughts, feelings, journeys ad finitum etcetera.

FURIOUSLY FREE

By Sophie Ward | February 10th, 2012
“I don’t believe we have the time to mess around pretending that something’s happening if it isn’t, or vice versa. I’ve been freaked out, scared witless, furious and broken hearted often enough to have compassion for most of what turns up in on the dance floor, and to know how precious it is to enjoy [...]
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WHEN I SPOKE WITH SIR BEN KINGSLEY

By Sophie Ward | January 29th, 2012
Last year I interviewed Sir Ben Kingsley for the latest Corduroy magazine just as he’d finished work on The Invention of Hugo Cabret with Martin Scorsese. I saw Hugo on Boxing Day and enjoyed seeing Kingsley’s character in action. He plays Georges Méliès, a legendary filmmaker and visionary who created worlds from the fiber of the [...]
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SYNESTHETES

By Sophie Ward | January 23rd, 2012
This Christmas I worked with Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin on the special text for their exclusive perfume gift. Inez and Vinoodh are two of the most prolific photographers working today, and a dynamic duo who also created a son together. I met them at their son’s birthday party last year, and boom – [...]
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CULTIVATING GUIDANCE

By Sophie Ward | January 17th, 2012
“Remove the expression ‘have to’ from your vocabulary and your thinking, because it is going to release a lot of self-imposed pressure on you. You create tremendous pressure by saying” ‘I have to get up.’ ‘I have to do this.’ ‘I have to, I have to.’ Instead, begin by saying ‘I choose to…’ It puts [...]
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RITES OF CROWNING

By Sophie Ward | January 13th, 2012
The caffeine from the drip coffee that my husband brought to me is coursing through the vessels of my brain as I sit here at a glass desk in San Francisco collecting my thoughts after breakfast by a sapphire pool. I have come through a membrane, through some veil of time and space, and I [...]
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A YEAR OF METAMORPHOSIS

By Sophie Ward | December 31st, 2011
Narnia Chronicles. Mr Tumnus. Mighty Ducks. Ice shoes. Frozen creeks. These are the few things on my mind as I lay in bed this Friday evening approaching 2012 with a diamond ring on my finger and many thoughts in my head. Winter is not the only subject filling my soul, as these last few weeks [...]
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LOVE STORY

By Sophie Ward | December 12th, 2011
Going to the chapel and we’re gonna get married… This appeared in newspapers all over Australia. I thought I’d share it with you, in case you hadn’t heard the news. It’s extraordinarily exciting and I can’t quite process it all yet with words, so we’ll have to wait until the dust settles to read more [...]
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