Carousel -- Week Ending 11th April 2008

[ 10 April 2008 ]

Carousel
Photo by yyellowbird.

<3 Hot Gay Sex Is For Homophobes & WTF Is Feminist Porn?, Violet Blue’s most recent columns in the SF Chronicle.

<3 The Positivity Blog is my new favourite place online! I especially like 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School, Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life, Do You Make These 10 Mistakes In A Conversation? & 18 Ways To Improve Your Body Language. Awesome ++.

<3 12 Rules for Getting a Grip on Massive ProBlogger Email by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. Great tips for anyone who receives a lot of email, like, uh… me! Here’s what Darren Rowse did to get in control of his email: From 10000 to 0 Emails in an Inbox in 24 Hours.

<3 An amazing photoshoot based on Maggie Gyllenhaal’s role in Secretary. Thanks, Julia!

<3 Savvy Strategies for Seven Shopping Problems. Merci beaucoup, Carleen Bean!

<3 This week I have been a panelist in the E-Festival Of Ideas’ panel The Creative Entrepreneur’s Toolkit: A How-to Guide for Young Artists. If you click the link, you’ll see what we’ve been discussing — it’s pretty interesting, if I do say so myself!

<3 Laura Laine does lovely fashion illustrations. I featured a couple of her illustrations in my Things I Love Thursday mosaic yesterday! (More here!)

<3 John-Paul Pietrus did a fabulous Egyptian-themed shoot. Queen Nefertari Museum? I would so love to go there! (& I featured two of his photos yesterday, too!)

<3 A beautiful day planner for April which you can print from the Epinettes community on Livejournal. So cute.

<3 6 Ways That Bloggers Are Like Rappers from Copyblogger. Okay, well I thought it was funny!

<3 Overheard In New York for life!

<3 prim. is a new online magazine. It was a collaborative effort & everyone involved in putting it together was aged between 15 & 19, & I’m pretty impressed! Have a look!

<3 I love Winona so much! It should be illegal to be that hilarious. Swoon!

<3 Top 50 Sex Myths from The Daily Bedpost.

<3 10 Things Karl Lagerfeld Could Do Without from Jezebel. Yes, this feaure makes him look like a pretentious, insensitive miserymonger. I still love him! (& he’s going to be in the newest Grand Theft Auto, too. What a strange world we live in.)

<3 Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently by Raul Gutierrez. I like this.

<3 Swissmiss has discovered ink-jet tattoo paper! How unbelievably awesome & tempting is that?!

<3 Photographs by Jennifer Tzar. (NSFW.) I love the girl dressed as a Native American (even though it looks kind of like Lily Cole, who I normally don’t like), the girl with an eye-patch & the girl lying on the ground in a military jacket. Sauce central!

<3 On the hunt for a fun, colourful dress to wear this summer? Shrinkle‘s your girl! She just put up a whole lot of new designs.

<3 Similarly, are you on the look-out for some interesting art to adorn your walls? Check out these prints from The Stuntkid (aka Jason Levesque).

That’s all I’ve got for now!


Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala <3


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  1. omg i’m already following the advice of the positivity blog and the thought of the month of progress up ahead. Therefore I’m not allowed to read this weeks tantalising carousel until my essay is complete! ARGh it’s going to be so tempting!

    <3 lolarose · Apr 10, 06:18 PM · #
  2. Shrinkle dresses + positivity blog = love!

    <3 Alexa · Apr 10, 06:23 PM · #
  3. Thanks for the mention, Gala, I really appreciate it. And I’m glad that you like the blog. Have a fun weekend! =)

    <3 Henrik Edberg · Apr 10, 06:36 PM · #
  4. Those shopping strategies will come in very handy!

    Now I just need some advice on how to cut my shopping addiction ;)

    <3 Brooke · Apr 10, 07:44 PM · #
  5. I never comment but I am a constant reader… Your posts are always filled with inspiring positivity and I love that you come up with so many more fun, interesting things to read and look at every week! This fantastic quote solidified why I will be moving (back) to San Francisco as soon as possible:

    “Once, under the rainbow flag in Harvey Milk Plaza, some guy literally got up on a crate and started shouting anti-homosexual scripture at passers-by. Within a few minutes, another man arrived dressed in white lace drag and brought a boombox, set it up in front of the man on the crate, played Madonna’s “Material Girl” louder than the man could shout, and danced until the other man gave up and left.”

    HAHAHA and amen! Keep up the great work, Gala! And thanks!

    <3 lo. · Apr 10, 08:09 PM · #
  6. I love those articles by Violet Blue! She kix.
    Those lies for the 3 year old are so sweet&touching…I want to write them down &put them up around the place.
    The Jennifer Tzar photos are really beautiful too..love the one with the skeleton makes me giggle. I love art that is surprising and intriguing. also loved the egpytian photoshoot.

    the last stuntkid link didn’t seem to work though? just went straight through to shrinkles shop again.

    yummmy carousel again thanx gala.xo

    <3 cookie · Apr 10, 08:11 PM · #
  7. i LOVED the Karl Lagerfeld link – GOLD!
    i love when Carousel’s are long with lots of links, it makes my fridays at work go MUCH quicker!!
    xo

    <3 Danique · Apr 10, 08:58 PM · #
  8. lo. — Aw, thank you so much! & yes, I love that description of SF too, it made me really happy!

    cookie — Ah, thanks for the head’s up! Just fixed it :>

    <3 Gala · Apr 10, 09:10 PM · #
  9. “I hate all children. For other people, it’s fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.”

    Karl Lagerfeld and I have something in common…who would’ve guessed?

    Love the Secretary inspired shoot. I love that movie :)

    <3 Erin B. · Apr 10, 09:26 PM · #
  10. anyone who is looking for the tre awesome tattoo paper in australia can order it here

    www.temporarytattoos.com.au/pa…

    :)

    i loved the idea so much i had to investigate!

    <3 kellyclare · Apr 10, 10:05 PM · #
  11. nymag.com/daily/entertainment/...

    Check this out if you are a die-hard fan of Sweet Valley High!!!!

    My opinion – why fix it if it DEFINITELY ain’t broke??!!!

    xxxx

    <3 Rach · Apr 11, 01:42 AM · #
  12. my mom got me tattoo ink-jet paper for christmas ages ago and i still haven’t tried it! i’ll make a vow to do it this weekend.

    especially because i’ll be 18 soon and it’ll give me a chance to test out some of my tattoo ideas!

    <3 maggie · Apr 11, 01:51 AM · #
  13. I LOVE Overheard in New York!! It’s so funny and totally shocking that people would actually say half the stuff on there

    Hope you have a good weekend Gala!! :)

    <3 Teresa · Apr 11, 03:37 AM · #
  14. Oohh, nice! Gonna take my time to have a look through a lot of these cool things! :)

    <3 Sarah · Apr 11, 03:55 AM · #
  15. thanks so much for all these beautiful links, gala! i esp. love the article on karl. the man’s just a class of his own, and he always re-invents reality as he likes it best.
    “I put on weight in the early ’90s because clothes were so large, then they got tighter, so I slimmed down.”

    fashion had nothing to do with him piling on the pounds. he did put on the weight because he simply did not care about himself anymore when his great love jacques de bascher passed away but acknowledging that would be too human, too normal, for karl lagerfeld, and so he prefers to say that his weight gain was all about fashion. i feel sorry for him in a way…

    <3 Stella Mayfair · Apr 11, 04:00 AM · #
  16. Great links this week Gala! I found many of them extremely useful. I look forward to when I’ll have more time after class to go explore them all.

    <3 Ashley · Apr 11, 09:51 AM · #
  17. Awwww, why don’t you like Lily Cole, Gala?

    <3 Valerie · Apr 12, 02:13 AM · #
  18. Valerie — I don’t know! She just doesn’t appeal to me & I find her really boring. It’s hard to describe. She just doesn’t turn my crank, unfortunately.

    <3 Gala · Apr 12, 02:23 AM · #
  19. I could NOT sleep last night and overheard in new york had me in fits of laughter at 5.30 in the morning

    <3 Katrina · Apr 13, 01:04 AM · #
  20. ahh i love jezebel!
    and karl. he so crazy. it’s amazing.

    <3 bluebird · Apr 13, 04:36 AM · #
  21. Aww, you mentionned prim! I’m the one that made the post about it on blackcigarette :)

    The positivity blog is great, thanks

    <3 Anna · Apr 13, 11:41 AM · #
 

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