Carousel: Week Ending 11th December 2009
[ 11 December 2009 ]
Style Section L.A. is really great & the writing is smart & clean. Read up!
I love Rita Konig, she is so clever & insightful. These columns are extra-good: Sweet Dreams (how wonderful does that bed look?!) & Let’s Eat In. She writes perfect, cozy things for cold days. Also it makes me happy to think that she lives in New York City.
Trixie + Peanut is the cutest shop ever. LOOK! Crocodile dog costume, shark attack hoodie & leap-frog dog hoodie ahhhhhh. I NY!!! Notorious D.O.G.!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay I’m done.
Why Fewer Blog Comments Aren’t Bad (and How to Get What You Really Want) from Seeing Good.
10 Proposals for Fixing the E-Mail Glut. I love this & would like to implement all of it.
The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods. “Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding food of nutrients. That dream is closer to reality than ever.” This article is quite horrifying. Did you know that the filling in an Oreo is basically sugar-flavoured Crisco? Ugh. Read this & wake up to the truth of what you’re really eating, ESPECIALLY if you live in America. Read the comments too.
Also: oh my god. UGH.
I am linking this because it is the best & most beautiful news headline I have read: Monster Black Holes May Grow in Giant Star Cocoons.
Filament #3 is out & I’m in it! They say, “Comic writer Warren Ellis, New York society gal Gala Darling and Author Zoe Margolis guest on our advice columns.” I say, “Filament is awesome, buy it.”
Are you part of The New Aristocracy?
From You Are Remarkable: a hardcore romanticism & one year:
“remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it. live & love so intensely that when death comes there is nothing left for him to take. wealth is love, music, sports, learning, family, and freedom. above all, stay gold.”
Social Media Freeze Up is a blah title for a GREAT article on blogging, focusing on something we all struggle with at some point or another.
I LOVE Inès de la Fressange’s house. Gary Card & Henderson McCue’s place is pretty colourful too.
P.O.S. live at the MTV Woodie Awards! & don’t forget to vote for him in the SPIN polls! I love Jigga & everything but he isn’t as much fun to eat a burger with as Stef. Vote vote vote! VOTE! Thanks :D
There is a strange spiral thingie in Norway! In the sky! Um, cool. Scary. What?!
Chris Pirillo kills it at Le Web with this talk about community, passion, blogging, social media, etc. Seriously good.
Dr Sketchy’s has a Tumblr full of art & yummies for yer eyeballs.
TeuxDeux is an amazing free application. I have just started using it & love it! I would love to be able to customise the colours but that’s just because I am picky. Try it out, fun times!
Sante D’Orazio’s ‘Barely Private’ exhibition looks cool.
Mmmmm, hot chocolate on a spoon, though as one clever commenter pointed out, you can easily make your own. The perfect Christmas present? I think so. Actually, that blog, giverslog, is brill.
Santa, NO! (What?!)
Danny Devito is on Twitter. I love his profile picture, hahaha.
I need these. I’m gonna re-align your chakras motherf!cker! My love for you is a great blog too!
Can I have this for Christmas please?
Sub-studio‘s gift guides organised by colour are fantastic! Just browse through the front page to see ‘em.
The facts about bottled water. !!!
You need a real woman in your life, that’s a good look, taking care, home is still fly, that’s a good look, I’m gonna help you build up your account, that’s a good look, better yet a hood look, ladies that’s a good look. When you’re in them big meetings for the mils, that’s a good look, it take me just to complement the deal, that’s a good look, anything you cop I’ll split the bill, that’s a good look, better yet a hood look, believe me, ladies that’s a good look. Partner let me upgrade you, Audemars Piguet you, switch your necktie to purple labels, upgrade you, I can up, can I up, let me upgrade you, partner let me upgrade you, partner let me upgrade you. Flip a new page, introduce you to some new things & upgrade you, I can up, can I up, let me upgrade you, partner let me upgrade you…
I love Beyonce! She is so excellent.
Check out the fashion; mind-blowing.
Un petit blast from the past.
Okay, I’m done. Have an incredible weekend!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Yay! Love the Carosel this week! That wee dog in a teacup should come with a warning, I’m dying from the cuteness! Filament looks brilliant, I’m so buying the issue, I’ve been in need of a new magazine for an age!
perhaps this will probably be deleted but I think Beyonce has lost it. Video phone is a yucky yucky video- multi-coloured guns? what the hell.
I don’t know what to make of those spiral sky things, very intriguing. I can’t say if it worries me or not. The other I day I had a conversation about what would happen if the sky turned pink all over the world for three days. Would things change, would people stop hurting each other.
haha how can that dog actually be real?! its sort of like a tarantula puppy (the face) but strangely that combination turns out to be very cute =)
anyway, I like having interesting things to click on, thanks!
My mum and dad brought us back that Amaretto Hot Choc on a spoon. I think I’m going to allow the Kiwi to have it, as I have a horrible feeling that once the chocolate melts off the spoon, the spoon would have that horrible splintery feeling that the spatula the doctor shoves in your mouth has – know what I mean?!?
Just that photo of the spiral over Norway gave me the shivers…
Born Slippy has been a big part of my week this week….spooky!
The spiral thingie over Norway was actually a russian rocket launch gone wrong :)
ohno…my dog is going to get a bunch of those hoodies for christmas. no prezzies for anyone else this year!
The hot chocolate spoons link has instilled a nutella craving in me, so much so that I may have to buy some on the way home from work this evening and eat it with a teaspoon!
Great carousel Gala, some really interesting stuff here :)
GALA, I don’t know if you have already seen this, but I think you would definitely find it interesting. I always warn people it’s a horror movie though :/ And there’s no shock footage of animals, btw!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
mmm beyonce is amazing. her image actually played a role in me beating my eating disorder. she’s soso lovely. have a great weekend gala!
Where is that first photo from? Such an amazing image :)
Holy Brilliance Gala! This Carousel was huge! :) :)
I subscribed to a couple of the blogs you mentioned today and saved the nest articles to Evernote. BTW, are you using Evernote? It corrals everything ever so neatly, and is perfect for Virgos!! :D
I can’t beleive that dog is real. It looks like it would fart rainbows and bark sprinkles.
Great roundup, Gala. Loving it.
Also, I totally love the crystal brass knuckles. AWESOME.
I loved a lot of those links, but have to rant! Beyonce is comparing herself to Martin Luther King in that song, what a joke! She is the poster woman for unethical consumption, not ending poverty!
Preaching female empowerment while dancing with your legs open and wearing dead animals to feel a small shred of self-worth doesn’t really work for me.
I’m not the only heavily tattooed woman with a deep love for B?!
Thanks for the Beyonce vids, Gala. Great round-up overall.
I love beyonce… Ive loved that upgrade you song forever… that you for the Saturday morning geek sessions
A puppy in a teacup! Thanks for cheering up my otherwise dreary Friday evening, Gala. You’ve inspired me to head over to TED as well, and get some more eddycation after that Chris Pirillo speech! What a dude.
xx
The food article WAS interesting- I always knew there was a reason I didn’t like Oreo’s. However, the comments are kind of infuriating (in the way that internet comments tend to be). Oh, & also I find it interesting he thinks eating pork shoulder is ‘nasty.’ SPAM is definitely weird, but the shoulder is just as edible as the rest of the piggie… oh well.
And HOT DAMN TeuxDeux is sweet! Thanks for that!
Aw Gala, your links are always awesome. I have bookmarked about 10 things to review later on. Thank you!!!
Have to say I’m not really very impressed with that food article: “Every child has fond memories of being nursed back to health by sipping at the warm, nutritious broth of chicken noodle soup. Of course, mom probably didn’t realize at the time that she was setting you up for a future of high blood pressure and kidney failure.” Sheesh, sensationalist much. The writer of that article needs to take a chill pill. Most of those foods are fine as long as you don’t pig out on them constantly. That’s why they’re called junk food! This is not new information, even in America we are aware that this stuff isn’t nutritionally valuable.
Anyway, always enjoy your posts.
Love,
JL
becca love, i find it interesting that you have a problem with beyonce ‘dancing with her legs open.’ how does her dancing style oppose female empowerment?
OH MY GOD. Teuxdeux is WIN. Since I’m one of those.. list addicts >_> xD
That first fashion photo is hot. And did you know we’re both on the Kiss Me Deadly website (wearing the same exact bra even!).
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hands down best carousel ever!! especially digging all the Beyonce vids.
The oreo/Crisco thing and all the other eye opening food info freaked me out, seriously. It makes me want to dump my Campbells soup down a sewer drain. I always thought it was too salty anyway.
And the thing about all the oil it takes to make plastic bottles is depressing.
But thanks for ending it all with the Beyonce/ Lady GaGa video! Have a great weekend.
Thanks for the Underworld Gala! That song used to be my theme before entering high school. I had it timed down to the opening of the door and the rush of the crowd. It motivates me and takes me back!
Beyonce is absolutely amazing!!!!
Beyonce! So proud that she’s a Virgo like us :) And boy, she can krump!
omg i totally want to have one of those puppies and name it doodad
Thanks for the Beyonce videos! I am 100% in the mood to dance now!
Seconding the Beyonce love. She gets so much hate but girl is FAR superior talent-wise than most other “performers” out there! And nothing beat throwing on some old Destiny’s Child and jamming out!
Oh my! My city is getting a Dr. Sketchy!!!! squeel I found him on Nubby’s website first. You and her are my personal super heros.
Ah ha! I knew bottled water was a crock but I never knew it could actually be worse than tap water. I love my tap water, well I am in New Zealand so that helps I guess! But people over here still buy bottled water like in the states but on a lower scale. It’s WATER! Don’t buy it, it comes out of the friggin’ sky! A little giardia never hurt anyone :P good for the immune system.
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Beyonce is such a positive influence for girls, I love her. & hey, why not colored guns?! I LOVE BEYONCE. Thanks so much, Gala.
Born Slippy remains one of the best electronica songs ever. Underworld was a pioneer, goddamnit!
Dear Gala!
I think you are superCOOL. Just checked you out on last.fm and it’s cool you like DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE. They ROCK. I’m a girl from the netherlands, and your website inspired me to do some cool stuff. I decided to study in Sweden for a semester, this was so cool that I’m now living in Sydney. In january I’m going to checkout your home country for a couple of weeks :)
Oh I’m sure you will love Stockholm and did you know LYkke Li yet?
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Little fact for you Gala,
that purple poster you posted a couple of weeks ago, in the Melbourne Sun Sunday magazine, a guy had one in his house, but it was a maroon colour and it says ‘Keep calm and carry on’, well apparenty they’re WWII posters :)
Well obviously not the one you posted, the one you posted has the same design but with different saying and colours :)
I’m in the university library right now, everyone around me is studying for finals, and I definitely am sitting here tearing up after watching Beyonce sing. She sounds like a heart bleeding open! Jeeesus.
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