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It’s time to welcome your old best friend back into town,

Framed Magazine. Fair greetings to you once again movers

and shakers. Here we meet again, and we’re back to give you

a heap of scrumptious, never-seen-before content. This issue

will have your taste buds tingling and your eyes popping out of

your head as we bring you 3 individuals, each with a creative

and arty-farty skill that will have your jaw drop like a japanese

elavator. Meet Brendan, a man with 3 bands in his pocket, Car-

leigh, a fun-loving freelancing Graphic Designer, and Michael,

a local guy who knows how to use a paintbrush. We write the

fun and interesting stories and facts about them - you read

them. It’s a deal you really can’t refuse! So go on! Get on with

it! Skull that drink that’s limiting your page turning technique,

eat that dirty burrito so you don’t spill salsa on your favorite

sections and say ‘Hello!’ to the greatest 30 or so pages of your

life!

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DOWNRACKETTURN THAT

Young he is, and gaining increasing local fame

(especially with the ladies) due to the recent release

of a five song EP recorded with one of the three

bands he’s involved in. The enthusiastic bass player

has been ripping up countless gigs by night while

studying a Bachelor of Commerce at University by

day. Brendan Young definitely knows his bass guitar

business and is currently pursuing his musical

dream with the bands Soap Box Derby, BowTie and

The Conspiracy Plan. We talk to Mr Young to find

out why all the ladies love him so much.

BRENDAN YOUNG- musician

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Why did you learn how to play the bass? I started playing

the bass because there was no one in my year, at school,

who played bass, so I thought I’d give it a go. We were just

mucking around with music, and then we didn’t have a bass

player so I started playing. That was when I was about 14.

How do you manage being in three bands? It’s challeng-

ing especially with juggling the bands with work and univer-

sity, but I guess it’s all about using my time wisely and time

management. It’s a bit hard when gigs clash with other bands

but you’ve just got to weigh up the options and weigh up

which ones are going to be more important to what band.

Daniel Southern is the drummer I play with in two of the

bands, that’s Soap Box Derby and The Conspiracy Plan.

We’re best mates and we get a long really well so that helps.

What attracts you to the style of music that you play? It’s

just fun really, heaps upbeat. I’m a fun type of guy, I like fun

times. I play a lot of pop punk in Soap Box Derby and The Con-

spiracy Plan. I just love playing it. I listen to a lot of it and we

take a lot of influences from Blink182 and Sum41. They’re my

favourite bands. Then I started doing BowTie, (which is an in-

die folk band) just as a favor for my mate coz he needed a bass

player and asked if I wanted to do it, but I really enjoy the music.

Who are your musical inspirations? I used to be in-

spired a lot by the bass player of the Red Hot Chilli Pep-

pers, Flee. He’s pretty renowned for his bass lines. Then

there’s the Hillsong bass player, I don’t even know his

name, but whoever writes the bass lines is a freakin legend.

the who’s, the how’s & why’s.


the more interesting questions

What is your favourite song to play live? I recently did

a school tour with The Conspiracy Plan, and there was so

many fun songs to play, coz its pretty fast stuff. We play a

song called dangerous, that’s one of my favourites, and then

there’s teenage summer which is definitely one of my favour-

ite songs to play. With Soapbox probably a song tracked off

our EP that we called surrounded which is really upbeat and

fast tempo. It’s a song you can really get down to and jump to.

If you could do a gig with anyone, who would it be?

Oooh tough question.. The first band that came into

my head is Blink182, so I’m just gonna go with that. I re-

cently bought their new album that they released not

long ago and I’ve just been obsessed with it for days,

close to a week now. That’s all I’ve been listening to.

Do you have any pre-gig rituals? I think my biggest one

would probably be tuning my bass guitar, and then I tune with

some girls in the crowd (laughs). I figured while I tune my

bass I may as well tune some girls, it just made sense to me

in my head. Double tuning! Killing two birds with one stone.

Has anything embarrassing ever happened on stage?

Yeah, to Duanne and I, that’s my old guitar player. There was

a part in a song where we used to jump off the side speakers

together, and I jumped off, but somehow when I landed, my

feet just came straight out from underneath me and landed

on my bum. I don’t even know how it happened. Before I

knew it I was in the air and the next thing I knew I was just

sitting down on the ground. I hopped up and kept playing.


Describe the best gig you’ve experienced. I think

the best one that we had was when we performed for

a school in Unanderra, and we played to junior school

(years 7-9) and they weren’t allowed to come down the

front coz they were so crazy but, oh man, they were itch-

ing, it was so funny! They hated their teachers after

that. They said they actually start to get really violent.

Where do you usually practice your music? The

bands I play in practice in a rehearsal studio in North Wol-

longong, named Aspire Studios so we practice there

and we just go there whenever we want and we do re-

cordings there, yeah its definitely a real handy thing to

have coz we can use it whenever we need to. We can

start practice at 2 o’clock in the morning and finish at 8.

What is the strangest thing a fan has said or done to

you? A girl asked me, I think she was about 14, if I was

Filipino. I was packing up my stuff at the end of the gig,

and I told them my name was Charles (which its not re-

ally) and I hear ‘Charles! Charles! Hey Filipino!’ then they

just kept asking me if I was ll these different nationalities.


we ask the gang what their favourite wearable whatever is.

Comfort or sun protection? You choose, but

the truth is that it’s completely irrelevant as

Brendan told us that his black Vans cap is his

favorite thing to wear. So go on and hate hat-

ers! It’s back in black and it’s branded Vans.

Pretty simple but pretty damn radical.

Scarves, long necklaces and pearls with bling!

These are a few of a girls, particulary Car-

leigh’s, favorite things. You’ll agree when I say

they make or break an outfit combo, but when it

works, these jewels really work.

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With a pair of sunnies in his hand, Michael is

ready to go. He claims he couldn’t live with-

out them, we claim he’s probably right. You’ll

notice he’s got them popped on his face in his

shots (you’ll find them later), so he must find

the sunglasses as a commodity.

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EYESSQUARE

MISS

One energized pre-school teacher, mixed with

a passionate love of tea and brunch, brings us

the vivacious Carleigh Pett, who has a particular

niche for graphic design. Designing anything from

punk-rock posters to piano recital promotions,

Miss Pett thrives in anything creative (and don’t

be fooled, just because it involves a computer

doesn’t mean she’s a nerd!). From the very lively

age of 17, Carleigh has developed her own inde-

pendent Graphic Design business known to the

locals as Carposaurus Design. Starting out as a

simple way to return favors to friends, Carleigh’s

design business is gaining a golden reputation

with her clientele made up of numerous famed

musicians and eminent local businesses. We

get a delicious inside scoop of Carleigh Pett’s

dynamic life.

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CARLEIGH PETT- graphic designer

When did you first realize graphic design was your

thing? I used to always love doing art, so I wanted to be

an artist, but there’s not very much money in art, so I

just started doing stuff on the computer, and it kind of

just came naturally, so I figured that I’d just go with it.

You run your own business, how does that work?

I started when I was in year 11 and I just started offer-

ing to do things for people for free or as favours. Then I

made it a bit more formal by year 12 and just had every-

thing on Facebook and Flickr, I started going to festivals

and introducing myself to bands as that’s more my field;

doing music design and that kind of thing. I really enjoy

designing so I guess that’s why it came so easy for me.

Who do you generally design for? I generally design for the

youth demographic. I do a lot of music promotional stuff; mak-

ing posters, flyer’s and logo’s as opposed to corporate type

things, that’s why I did it freelance. I did work experience in two

different design places and they gave me all these corporate

jobs, like a logo for a medical centre. I was very creative and I

didn’t find it very fun. That’s what I like about doing freelance;

you can choose your demographic and your target clients.

What inspires your work? I think it depends on who my

client is at the time. For hardcore bands, I tend to be in-

spired by a lot of grungier stuff, and then if its something

that I’m designing for myself, then it tends to have more of

a vintage flare. I like to try and stay with or ahead of cur-

rent design trends. I do like to challenge myself to try things.



How did you come up with the name? For all of those who

have no idea as to why my business is called Carposaurus

Design, in my early teens I picked up the nickname ‘Carpy’

from playing a game on Playstation where I spelt my name

wrong, and so this typo turned into a nickname that’s gone

from just my youth crew, to my school friends, to now my work

colleagues. Through that, it was always going to be ‘carp’

related. I used to draw all these little logos for really terrible

names that I came up with. I had this one and it was going to

be called ‘Magic Carp Design’ and it had this little carp fish

with a magic wand coming out of his mouth, shooting colors!

It was bad. It was really bad! People always gave me different

derivations of carp, like Carpy, Carpolani, Car key, Car park,

and someone was just like ‘Oi Carposaurus!’ and I loved it!

Where is your favourite place to work on design stuff?

Some design’s I’ll just get straight on the computer and do, if

its something where I feel I have a lot to contribute to it, and if I

need inspiration, my house backs onto mountains and the sun

sets right there, so I’ll go out there with a sketch book and just

draw there in the ambience. Normally when I design, its usually

very late at night, when no ones around, with all the lights off,

with ‘Boy and Bear’ playing. It gets my creative juices flowing.



Are there any food or drinks that get you in the zone?

Oh a cup of tea for sure! I love my cups of tea! It has to be

Earl Grey for sure. When I run out, others will do, but gen-

erally Earl Grey. One day I was designing and my brother

bought banana pancakes in, but normally just a cup of tea,

otherwise I just get too distracted cos I really do love food.

What do you do when you’re not designing? My day job

is that I’m a preschool teacher. I’m also involved in leading

a youth ministry. I like to go on road trips. I like spontane-

ous and coffee dates and brunch! Brunch is my favorite

thing in the world. Blueberry and banana pancakes is also

probably my most favorite thing in the world, with a latte.

What was the most fun thing to create? The most fun thing

I have done would probably be this poster I did for a friend,

who was graduating university and doing a piano recital. She

just gave me the name of what it was, which was ‘Down in

Bird Land’, and gave me all the information and told me to

just do what I want with it, and it turned out to be a massive

pile of vintage stuff; we counted it and it had over 90 layers

that contributed to make this thing, and there was a lot of

work and hours that went into that. Normally I like to just sit

and design in one go, but this one took days. It was prob-

ably the most fun, because I got to be the most myself in it.

Describe the strangest thing you’ve had to create. Proba-

bly my logo, designing a little dinosaur was a bit weird. But the

most recent, strange design was a hardcore band and they

asked me if I could somehow incorporate the moon from ‘The

Mighty Boosh’ but he wanted it to be subtle, so you couldn’t

really tell it was there yet still have a hardcore feel to it.


carleigh’s graphical goodness


Like most kids of his day, Brendan aspired to

be a rockstar, playing shows, striving for fame

and meeting ladies after gigs. It’s not wrong to

say he semi-made it. He’s in bands and loving

it. Lucky for him, because I’m sure the other

90% of the world desiring stardom haven’t

made it... yet! The aspiring to be a music star

follows behind being a superhero on the list of

kiddies dream jobs, with being Spiderman the

top hit! I’d say we’ll see more music stars than

superheroes though... I hear the pay’s no good.

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our special artist friends tell us their darkest secret... what they dreamt of being as a youngin’.

A Chef! What else could we expect from Mi-

chael?! He confessed that he truly does love

his food, but believed when he was younger

that he wasn’t cut out for the kitchen and so

settled for being a waiter, an idea that slowly

faded. I’d say because its not the greatest job

of all time, but hey! Who wouldn’t want to work

with food?! Although maybe being a food critic

would be more enjoyable; no cooking, prepara-

tions or cleaning, just eat, judge and leave that

place!

From art teacher, to just a normal teacher, to an

architect, Carleigh knew that she dreamed of

doing something arty, and as you’ve discovered

reading her segment she made it into Graphic

Design... a heavily artisitc time-spender, while

being a pre-school teacher too. What a double

whammy!! Now, just to give you some statistics

so you don’t lack any knowledge, you should

know that teaching is in the top 10 dream jobs

of younger kids. Crazy! Who knew so many

people want to go back to school!

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THIS TOWNPAINT

LET’S

Painting. Sketching. Sculpting. You name it, this man does it.

Michael Kadwell, a young man with a particular eye for art has a

lot on his plate. After receiving numerous art awards in school,

and drawing endless doodles (the arty kind) in maths, physics and

every other class that allowed him, Michael finally found himself

amongst hundreds of other young, ecstatic, art enthusiasts. I hear

you say ‘but where?’ Well, it was in fact at the Australian School

of Art (fancy I know) where he was sent to endure a profound Art

Scholarship for the summer. Michael talks to us about his arty

experiences.

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MICHAEL KADWELL- artist

When did you realise you were good at art? I think one

of the biggest milestones was when one of my works was

actually selected to be put in a show. It was just a pencil

drawing of flowers in a vase, I was in year two, and it got

in the show and got second place. I was always the one

who drew over the colouring-in, instead of colouring it in.

What element of art do you usually concentrate on? I used

to be focused on drawing because I never thought I could

paint, but then after doing a course at the National Art School,

my view on painting has been changed forever! I just love it!

What do you usually paint? At first I was really into

landscapes. Then I just started experimenting with

faces, and I discovered that I could actually paint fac-

es. I was shocked! I thought it would be way out of

my league. However, at other times I won’t even paint

an object as such, but more just graphic designs.

Where do you best work artistically? Surprisingly

I work best late at night in my room. I love when I’m feel-

ing fresh in the middle of the day as well. Just sitting

on the veranda in the sun, catching rays while I paint.

Who are your inspirations? I’d say my cousin influenced

me a lot with her works. Seeing her works just inspired

me. Also my mum did art herself. She always encour-

aged us to be creative. She would set up a little tray of

stamps, or some paints and what not and let us go for it!



Do you do anything wacky to help you get in the mood? I

hate being tense when im painting, cos’ usually it restricts me,

so I love just cranking up some music so loud that I can’t hear

anything. Its good as it blocks out distraction, but apart from that,

nothing wacky. No handstands or dances or anything like that.

Describe your favourite piece of art that you’ve created.

I’d have to say my pop art painting is one of my favourites, just

because I loved how effective the concept of it was and the

composition. I loved how the bright colours just popped out

– hence the term ‘pop art’. I think that’s when I kind of found

out I could draw faces even though its just cartoon. The paint-

ing is of a girl who is using Aerogard (it had to be Australian

inspired), and is crying because she has Aerogard in her eye.

‘Aerogard Stings’, that’s what its called. Roy Lichtenstein was

the artist who inspired me, but his original version of the ‘cry-

ing girl’ was nothing like mine, it had no Aerogard (laughs).

So you received an art scholarship? How’d you get that?

It was very spontaneous! My art teacher said to me ‘there’s

this art course, do you want to do it? You just have to apply’

and I was like ‘why me?’ and apparently she thought I was

the only one up for it. So then she told me I just had to send

off some work, write up a little statement and get permission

off of the principle. At the time I didn’t think much of it, I mean I

thought is sounded good, but my teacher never pushed me to

do it, so coming up to the actual cut off date I finally got my act

together, and thought ‘I could really, actually do this.’ So I got

my stuff together, submitted it and did not think anything of it,

and did not hear back until a month later, thinking I mustn’t

of got it, then one Friday afternoon I received an acceptance

and was accepted into my first preference (which was paint-

ing) and I was over the moon! I actually did a little dance!

Were there any typically arty looking people there?

Heaps of people were the ‘crazy-out-there’ artists! It is quite a

prestigious art school, and if you go there you are quite well

known. To compare, I think I was quite normal. There were

some other freak-of-nature talented people, but you would

never pick them cos they were just so down to earth. But

then you did have those crazy blue tights and pink-topped

girls with the frizzy hair everywhere! There was one girl with

a top on with her bra on the outside… it was interesting.



michael’s paintings, portraits and picturesque peaks


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