About Me

So you wanted to find out more about me? Jen is short for Jennifer. Kudos to my parents for giving me an original name. I’d almost rather be named Guinevere instead.

I’m a design student, majoring in visual communication (and no, I won’t explain what that it is, for the umpteenth time, figure it out yourself!) at Monash. I worked bloody hard to get in and sometimes I feel incredibly inspired and privileged to be among such talented people and mentors, and then there are those times when you just wish everyone and everything could just be obliterated to several millenia and dimensions away. Angst and joy aside, it’s pretty damn cool I will be in a job that I love and get paid for. If you’re interested in my art and design work, please visit my portfolio.

I love like to have an excuse to snark and gush about, well, anything, really, but mostly art, design, films, books and TV shows. I read copious amounts of crime, art/design/history/cultural theory, romance, historical fiction, classic literature (in all, very eclectic) and the occasional fantasy and sci-fi (I’m very hard to impress in that alley for some reason).

I love period dramas, especially those set during World War II and in Victorian England. My dream fictional men are Bruce Wayne, Mr Thornton and Alexander Belov (Barrington) (OK, maybe Mr. Thornton is more realistic). Move over, Mr Darcy, physically and emotionally tortured men is where it’s at!

If you’ve read up to this point, I’m startled impressed with you!

My very, very condensed list of unwavering, all-time forever favourites:

Movies
The Painted Veil, Bright Star, The Mummy, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Casino Royale (2006), Pride and Prejudice (2005), Howl’s Moving Castle, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Spirited Away, Amelie, Mulan, Little Miss Sunshine, The Sound of Music, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, In the Mood For Love, Fantastic Mr Fox, Goodbye Lenin!, The New World, Strictly Ballroom, Watchmen, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

TV
Frasier, Mad Men, Batman: The Animated Series, Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, House, Doctor Who (2005-10), Little Britain, North and South (2004), Pride and Prejudice (1995), Jane Eyre (2006), I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Batman (1960s), Bleak House, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Planet Earth, Heston’s Feasts, Iron Chef (Japan), Collectors, The New Inventors, Spicks and Specks, At the Movies…

Books
Harry Potter series (JK Rowling), North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell), The Bronze Horseman (Paullina Simons), Girl with a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Wedding Officer (Anthony Capella), The Girl in Times Square (Paullina Simons), Great Expectations (Charles Dickens), Goddess of the Hunt (Tessa Dare), Scandal (Carolyn Jewel)… Y’know what, just go to my Goodreads.

Comics
The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller and Klaus Janson), Batman: Private Casebook (Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen), Batman: Heart of Hush (Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen), Batman: The Long Halloween (Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale), Batman/Huntress: Cry for Justice (Greg Rucka), Batwoman: Elegy (Greg Rucka), Tiny Titans (Art Baltazar and Franco) …

Music
Clazziquai Project, Au Revoir Simone, Girls Generation, Rain, SHINee, Twelve Girls Band, BoA, Ayumi Hamasaki, Katie Melua, Kylie Minogue, m-flo, Goldfrapp, Gwen Stefani, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, The Kooks, The Shins, Coldplay, The Bird and the Bee, Julie London, Hayley Westenra, Sarah McLachlan, Eisley, Anastacia, Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set, Super Junior, Rumble Fish, Julie London, Doris Day, Psapp, Emiliana Torrini, Dido, The Pipettes, Stornoway,

Composers
Alexandre Desplat, Dario Marianelli, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tan Dun, Yann Tiersen, Nicholas Hooper, Adrian Johnston, Martin Phipps, Joe Hisaishi, Erik Satie