Back in time

Absolutely love this featured work - floppy disks, Nintendo gameboys, clunky cellphones, cassettes, all part of my youth which wasn't too long ago! Check it here on Behance

Loving Dazed

Tweeting

I properly discovered Twitter a few months ago and it has completely diffused my need to blog which is sad but at the same time I had to eat my hat because it is damn interesting. The real time barrage of info is mind-blowing, not to mention how much you learn in such short time.

If you fancy it @leahbazikkar

Other than that, lots of huge changes taking place in my life which I am truly excited about. I love the fact that Lee and I can just make impulsive decisions about our lives together and see where it takes us... and this is the year for it, again! More info soon.

For now, started swimming which is really amazing. We're working with Greenpeace and Glastonbury Festival this year on design and creative concepts for the field to celebrate 40 years of Greenpeace, which is super exciting - we are paying homage to the Rainbow Warrior and are going a week earlier than planned with Helena, Sami and Bobby to name a few - cannot wait! But also don't want to rush life too much!

Am also working for Harvey Goldsmith's company Ignite which has been really amazing, super friendly and what a hardcore team - very professional which is refreshing! And they know their shit which I love being a part of. It's also great for Electric Peacock Festival....

Some cool shit

Time oh where for art thou - its May 18th! WTF?

A couple of cool blogs by people I know, Lara Spier from Cunning NYC, picture above courtesy her.

Some cool stuff from the guys at Boxpark

Incredible augmented reality schtick: dude decides to tattoo his Mii AR card on his wrist, oh yes it's right here

A new master of direction

And so he arrived into this world on Friday 4th of February - and he belongs to two of my incredibly wonderful friends Lara and Isuru, hello little Divesh. Meaning Master of Direction and Light, which is good because Lara mentioned she is crap at the former.

So I keep staring at this photo and thinking, having known Lara as a gawky best friend from the age of 8 to drinking tequila on the balcony and going for basketball practice the next morning at the age of 15 and then bam! a baby. Wow. Time really does mess with the head.

But if it means bringing a cool little dude like this into the world, then hurray! I find it so strange how it can go from being in the belly, to ta da! here I am world, ready or not.

Congratulations guys!

Electric Peacock Festival MADNESS

Our logo courtesy of KumKum of Grants!

So Tasha and I (along with my mother and some awesome friends) are putting on Sri Lanka's first live music festival this December: Electric Peacock Festival, bringing down UK acts like The Duke Spirit (thank you Luke and Liela!), Trophy Wife, Covert Boom (thank you Sam!) and Funk Royale System along with the sooper dooper Nihal A from BBC Radio 1! It is just so exciting to think it is coming together after all this time, Tash is on a flight to Colombo as I write this and I am on my way out there after a ridiculous 11 month absence, next week!

Its going to be held on 18th December on Negombo Beach in aid of The Sunshine Charity and its going to be a 24 hour rocking party. Sri Lankans brace yourselves! So much to do!!!

Yipeee... I love it when a plan comes together.

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The gorgeous Liela Moss of Duke Spirit



Google Earthing our location

I love Skype

This is part of awesome video call I had with my good friend Sami (now work partner yay!), initially about work, but then his family - mother, sister, wife and daughter - all joined the call. So incredible what we can do these days, when people had to wait weeks (sometimes months) to hear from their families through delayed postal letters...

Parents

I don't think I say it enough, but I love my parents, who they are and what they do... but mostly how their cup is just overflowing with love.

This is them, on their beach where I got married.

Team Toscana

The view from the pool


Mad Men, complete with theme tune courtesy of Tim


Race!

Ahhhhh yeeeeeeh. So another brilliant idea from the Mazzetti Higginson duo (now trio) to go to Tuscany for a week staying in a beautiful villa called Tizzano outside the tiny town of Barberino Val D'Elsa with 11 great friends... and that's exactly what we did.

Relaxation, plenty of local food and wine, a few excursions, some seriously competitive doggy paddle races and some incredible company. Not forgetting a beautiful 1 year old who charmed the pants off us all. Oh and the awesome Mad Men dress up night we had...

Lee and I flew to Pisa for one night before we met the rest and stayed in this awesome Medieval dated hotel (not rough at all) called The Royal Victoria Hotel, it reminded me of our Galle Face Hotel only this one knew how to capitalise on it's history. It was right on the river and Lee and I had a great time in the Piazza the night we arrived, getting drunk with the locals.

We just got back from the holiday and I wish I could go back in time, it was such a lush time, but moreso to be able to hang out with the wonderful Glyn and Ella - so sad to say goodbye...

Pictures....

Fforest Carnival

3-legged race with Tom and Guy either doing badly or really well.


The Jim and the Katharine.

So in the grandest celebrations possible we threw and had a MASSIVE carnival party over 3 days at Fforest, Wales (Lee's dad Bobby's place) to celebrate Helena's 30th, Bobby's 60th and Lee's 34th. My folks came, so did Ashvin and Alex and so many of our other bodacious dudes... it was hilarious with a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, Carnival and general merriment in the field. Pizza's, paella's, Prosecco...mmmm.

The been and gone summer

What a summer it has been, crazy to try and summarise it in a few lines but it really sped past me. I am in total denial that it is the middle of September though the grey clouds and slightly wintry air give it away somewhat.

This has been the summer of DIY - never before have I put these gentle hands to such labour (drama queen anyone?). We moved into our gorgeous little flat in Maida Hill but not before refurbing most of it, from new floors to painting the place and assembling furniture and buying antiques - every living free moment went on the flat but now as I sit here, it feels so worth it. Such a strange feeling to move into your 'home' before it really feels like yours... it's like 'that's not my toilet', 'that's not my bed'.

Still, what I love most, is that we built and designed almost everything ourselves - including this gorgeous book shelf which was Lee's idea, black baroque flower wallpaper with thick pine shelves we picked from the timber yard and most importantly, tiny aluminium roll bolts to support, each one made by Lee in his lunch hour.

Lapse. Again.

I think life completely ran away with me these past few months, seems to be a pattern. Or just busy. So here's a summary of what I have been doing, this way I can expand on them later in no particular order or preference!

Finished massive project for Honda - launch of CR-Z at Amplify, The Dream Factory

Went for Jim's dress up party (amongst many others which photos shouldn't feature for a number of drunken reasons!)


On my own again, freelancing and pursuing my feature films and documentary projects (sorry, its still secret)

We bought a flat! Finally! It is gorgeous and has a small garden and we are still decorating - stressful but so heart warming

We went to Glastonbury, worked to build the Greenpeace field and heavily involved in concept, design and build of the Rainforest Showers before the fest started - Lee's idea from our experience in the Amazon, and wow what an incredible 10 days that was. The best Glasto ever: all the pics here with a taster below!

Dressing up for our mass wedding - we married 18 people, biggest ever!


Just hanging out by the campfire with the Greenpeace crew


Night before the crowds descend - we didn't want them to come!