Category Archive: Creative

Travel: European Couch surfing in pictures

Somethingyousaid.com’s Koren Helbig crashes on couches of Eastern-European strangers: It’s remarkable where in the world one can end up after firing off only the barest of emails. The wonders of the internet have… Read More

Adolescent decoration, by Isidore Tillers

Germany-based Australian Isidore Tillers revisits her childhood bedroom: I went home a few months ago. And by home I don’t mean my beloved Sydney. Despite spending a good part of my childhood, as… Read More

Kick start the Cat Skin film project

Cat Skin is a film project created by an enthusiastic group of talented young things from Brighton. The film follows, within close range, the troubled tale of a photography student and her pursuit… Read More

Art: Drawing Owls Out and About

Somethingyousaid.com’s Alice Parsons embraces the opportunity to sketch some winged creatures: Instructed to keep my eyes closed, I was led (quite literally) up the garden path of my parent’s homestead. Having been told… Read More

Olly heads to the Northern Territory

Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath (pictured, above) navigated his way outta Sydney and into the Northern Territory, trying not to swallow too many flies along the way:  The Alice Springs desert is physically the furthest… Read More

Dating, non-responses and Nathaniel P

Something You Said’s Elaina Ransford explains that everyone knows Nathaniel: Remember that awesome scene in Midnight in Paris when the Hemingway character says that he knows he’ll hate the main character’s book because… Read More

It’s Something You Said’s 1st Birthday!

Exactly one year ago today, somethingyousaid.com hit the worldwideweb for the first time. With a dedicated, talented team of contributors based around the globe, our remit was to throw interesting stuff at your… Read More

Ode to the SüdWest Stadt

Isidore Tillers considers the aesthetic, the smells (and the doors) of Karlsruhe’s SüdWest Stadt: I’ve been living (on-and-off) in the South-Western German city of Karlsruhe for the best part of a year. Life as a… Read More

The (deep fried) Texas State Fair

Three hours north of Austin, up the deathly straight tarmac of Highway 35, an even more lethal congestion of charming southerners slightly losing their grace awaited me, in the tight side streets of… Read More

Brighton Fashion Week – SUSTAIN

Immediately after a 30-something hour journey from Sydney to England I was really looking forward to Brighton Fashion Week’s day two show. The show was aptly named Sustain. I drank my bodyweight in… Read More

The Kid Secrets, by Something You Said

We played a remarkably different version of princes and princesses than you when we were kids:   Honestly, I was always a kinky kid. I blame it on the one year that I… Read More

Havas Gets a Pepsi Tattoo

Some bromantic folk carve each other’s initials into trees, or get each other’s names inked, but these cats totally play by their own goddam rules. Sydneysider Daniel Havas decided to have the Pepsi… Read More