Carousel -- Week Ending 11th January 2008
[ 12 January 2008 ]
Truly a bumper edition of Carousel! Phew! Click away, cuties!
Great mash-ups! Best of Bootie 2007, all free to download. I especially like Placebo vs. Pet Shop Boys vs. Kate Bush!
Underwater sculpture! These are beautiful & quite incredible. Thank you, Miss Emma!
Fantastic news! Rachel Zoe is coming to a telly near you! This will be really insightful viewing, mark my words!
On the subject of Ms. Zoe, here’s her house — on the market. It’s interesting to look at it — it doesn’t seem very “personal”, know what I mean?
Pantone has selected a “colour for 2008” — blue iris. Pretty! & it’s the exact colour of my hair! COINCIDENCE? I think not! (Thanks, Tricia!)
Coilhouse presents… artificial lumiescent eyelashes! They would be great for clubbing — light your way to the bar! Ooh! They also did a little piece on delicious book autopsies. Yum.
Bobby Burgess is, & always has been, totally awesome.
Fireworks in Oslo! (Long story short: in Norway, it’s so cold that they don’t have one big fireworks display that everyone goes to see. Instead, people let off fireworks in their own backyard. Someone happened to take a photo at the stroke of midnight on new year’s eve, & here’s what you could see!)
31 Days To Better Energy, from Limes & Lycopene (recommended to me recently!). Lots of great ideas here from an Australian nutritionist. God, I love information sharing. The internet is SO COOL! She also asks, are you really too busy?
My Life In Fashion, an article on Daphne Guiness — who I discovered through a magnificent piece on Glam & Tonic!
Fashionable Fellows — men’s style dissected by the mavens at WhoWhatWearDaily.com.
Dachshund handbags! OOH. Obsession flaring!
Beautiful photographs by Kim Kyung Soo for Vogue Korea.
Australia’s Most Romantic Destinations. Ooh, decrepit castles in rainforests! Eeee, nomadic but modern tents in the desert!
Beloved is iCiNG’s sponsor of the week, so pay them a visit! Beloved is a small boutique stocking the cream of the Australian fashion crop! My picks? Grace Sun’s Tulip Dress, Laurence Pasquier’s Athena Silk Dress, & Natasha’s Butterfly Print Kimono Dress. They’re all totally gorgeous, sexy, elegant pieces, & even better? They’re all ON SALE — & if you use the discount code ICING, you’ll get an additional 10% off!
Marilyn’s Last Sitting by Bert Stern.
Steampunk boys with high collars, top hats, scarves & ruffles. Rawr!
I love Violet Blue. Here’s her weekly column, How To Have Sex Like A Porn Star. Be warned — it is crass & pretty ugly, but at least it’s the truth!
Tina Su presents: A Guide To Happiness Via Self-Forgiveness.
Let The Real You Shine Through, with the Telegraph’s fashion guru, Hilary Alexander.
E! (snore) on raw foodism. Totally interesting, even though David Wolfe gives me
the creeps. Notice that all the raw foodists glow & the dietician… doesn’t!
Tarina Tarantino shop opening & party, in 4 parts!
Happy Friday!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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YAY! I <3 those Dachshund bags, the red one is most definitely my favourite! & you are so right lady, Rachel Zoe’s home is utterly snooze worthy. It looks like a showhome. Then again, maybe she’s already up & gone and has filled the house with hire furniture? Maybe…
Okay, still digesting everything else, hehe! What a glorious distraction from actual work on a Friday. :D xox
Thanks for the underwater sculpture. Beautiful! There is a mermaid sculpture on the bottom at popular dive site on the west coast of Canada. So beautiful to sink down through the green ocean and see the face of a mermaid :) A nice side attraction to the giant pacific octopi :)
Violet Blue is a star. I can’t look at my Bran Muffin now, however …
marilyn’s last sitting almost brought tears to my eyes… i really loved that post.
I don’t like that Rachel Zoe. I think she’s a be-yotch! And those piggies are too sad. Do we really need to do all this animal experimentation?
Ugh!
Great links, Gala!!! I especially love the color forecasting; I always love hearing what new colors they think are going to be big. If nothing else, it always introduces me to a new shade or tint of a color I already love!! :D
It’s amazing how you manage to find all these wonderful sites. I love the best of bootie 2007 and the streampunk boys. WELL DONE... again =D I’m totally addicted to this site =D
oooh yay what a delightful lot!
I defy anybody to watch those tarina videos ¬ want her life- Milan here I come!
oh and those steampunk boys…they’re a whole lotta yummy.pprr..could eat them with a spoon!..tophats are a major weakness..
the fireworks! “the spontaneous power and happiness of the people”..very touching
& I cannot believe this but this vid& all the discussion has Actually got me considering raw food and/or veganism!- who wouldnt want to be glowing with energy& happiness??
xxoo
My grandmother has three dachshunds and she has all kinds of little dachsund things around. She would love that purse. I personally loved the red one.
I loved Marilyn’s last sitting. All those pictures were so beautiful. I got a picture of Marilyn for Christmas, I’m so excited to hang it up.
Wow, thanks Gala!
Great links this week!
i love the ‘marilyn’s last sitting’ post. i wish i could read a translation of the writing on the post :3
i recently finished reading ‘blonde’ by joyce carol oates so i’m having a little bit of a marliyn obsession now~
I was so moved by that Bert Stern photoshoot (I posted it on my blog, too).
I LOVE the Tarina videos! It’s always so exciting to glimpse into the life of the famous. Very motivating and inspiring.
Happy Thursday, Gala!
xoxo.
SQUEEE!!! James Franco is one of the Fashionable Fellows.
Sorry, he’s just my favorite celebrity crush!!
yay, i knew you’d dig Limes & Lycopene. it’s fantastic isn’t it?
Thanks for all the links! The pictures you link are always so pretty and whimiscal :)
The porn star thing is so true, and very comical hehehe :D
Gaaah, I looked at that Marilyn post for like an hour when I saw it on my friends page. So sad and beautiful.
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh Edwardiana! I like my men a little rougher around the edges than those model boys, but the outfits are so dead on it kills me. (My personal hero & fellow Edwardian obsessive Mark Gatiss does this look down to a T, he’s absolutely beautiful) Last time I dressed all out ruffle-shirt & powdered hair I ended up with an incredibly cute lesbian on my arm, who claimed not to like androgyny, really. She was lying, blatantly. Of course I was every inch the gentleman and escorted her home safely. Hah!
I loooove Bootie! When my sweetie was first pursuing me, he took me out dancing to the club where they have BootieSF, and they had Mini-Bootie in one of the separate rooms. I got a free CD with “Don’t Stop Believin’ in Planet Rock” (track 18 on that best of list) and it is AWESOME.
In May, we went to Pirate Prom, which was also excellent. Getting dressed up as pirates and dancing to mash-ups all night long with my friends was fantastic, and, since we were staying in a fancy hotel in the city, being dressed as pirates in this swanky hotel was even better.
In case you don’t have any of Party Ben’s stuff beyond the Bootie list there, I’d recommend “Hella Dare You to Smoke” and “Hung Up on Soul”.
I can’t believe I forgot to check this year’s Best of Bootie! It’s so great, I can’t bear to take any of the tracks off my iPod, heee. Thanks for the head’s up!
Oh, by the way, there’s an artist I think you might like – his name is “soce the elemental wizard” and I met him once! Great guy, brilliant ear for hip-hop, very smart instrumentally vocally and … computer-ly, and also HILARIOUS. His myspace is myspace.com/soce , and he’d definitely be on my carousel of the week for coming out with new material! (he has a livejournal, too, which isn’t updated all that often, but which has extra stuff, like videos, teehee!)
Um, I didn’t follow the link but wouldn’t luminescent eyelashes like, blind you or something?
~What is this? Best of Bootie? i LOVE mashups! Thank you!
~ The daschund (spelling?) purse was cute, but if I owned it, I’d have to put on some eyes, because the X’s make it look dead, which is sad. :(
~Also, I don’t know if I fully approve of the underwater sculpture thing, because it seems rather like pollution, even if it is art.
Thanks for all the lovelies, Gala! You rock. :)
I love that you mentioned Bobby Burgess! I’ve been reading him for about five years or so, and have never encountered someone else who has! His name jumped right off the page at me in your post – that made my night! :-D
You know…I think the only reason the dietician in the raw foodist clip doesn’t glow is that she isn’t horribly sun tanned like the others…!
Poochie, I agree with you about those poor pigs. There really are other ways to improve human medical procedures rather than using animals.
Those photos of traditional Korean dresses are AMAZING!
To the people above in the comments who had problems with the fluorescent piglets:
Making an animal fluoresce is a standard and essential scientific protocol that allows scientists to know immediately if a gene transfection as been successful. A hypothetical example: cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder and people who have it have a very tough life-long treatment regimen and they die in their 20s or 30s because of the disorder. However, if we can transfer genes into their genome by use of a specially modified and harmless virus, we might be able to cure them. But how can we easily know whether the gene transfer has worked? We can conjugate a fluorescent protein to the gene, so that if the gene transfer is successful and it produces the necessary proteins, a fluorescent protein will also be produced and the glowing will immediately show that the gene transfer has worked. This is a hypothetical situation, but it is quite realistic and this approach has worked for other disorders and diseases in the past and may work for cystic fibrosis in the future. However, we can’t just go around injecting genes into humans without knowing what the genes do or if the whole thing even works. That would be unethical, harmful and irresponsible. This is why the experiments are conducted in animals (and the experiments must adhere to strict ethical guidelines regarding the treatment of the animals), and the experiments are a complete necessity if diseases and disorders are to be cured and if a lot of suffering is to be prevented.
Just a little explanation from your friendly neighbourhood scientist. :)
Brilliant carousel!
(I loved it all and am now floating in a little bubble of happiness…)
The sculptures are amazing – although if I happened to spot one without knowing what it was I suspect I would get a bit of a fright!
and I love the eyelashes – AWESOME!!!
It was all most fantastical and I am not going to tell you all about everything I loved because, well, it is right there and I might embarass myself with the overuse of the word awesome…
:)
thank you gala! i am downloading best of booty ’07 right now!
i love mash-ups for getting ready to go out or hooping practice; or both at the same time, which happens more often than not! helps me turn my brain off… ;D
Purple is last season and dead now? Wasn’t another article from last week telling us purple was just coming in? Gala, what’s going on? I need to know the fate of mon couleur préféré! i.e. whether I should be hitting the charity shops now or later…
wow, gala, this carousel is incredible!
thanks a million for the best of bootie 2007! the songs are brilliant mixes, i looove’em all!
(my fave is Symphaty For Teen Spirit, it sounds awesome)!
Kisses!
Thanks so much for posting that Kim Kyung Soo shoot- the pictures are a dream! I’m going to print some of them out; they will look fantastic above my desk.
Yayyy! Raw food!! :D
I happen to live in Oslo, and yup, that’s my city alright! (Also, I think I celebrated my New Year’s Eve almost exactly where this photo was taken – but, of course, indoors.) The water in the middle is the Oslo Fjord.
I wasn’t aware of how unusual this kind of celebration was until now, but it’s true, it is always so ridiculously cold on the last night of the year that three layers of woolies and my grandmother’s old sheepskin coat leaves my knees blue. I love reading about strange and fascinating traditions around the world, but it’s sometimes hard to realise that your own is interesting too!
Great blog, by the way :)
well, here in germany it isn’t cold at all, but just as in norway, people let off fireworks in front of their house. just wanted to let you know it’s not so special actually. (;
Hi Gala, love the Norwegian new year’s eve picture. Totally different to here in Australia. Plus, thanks for including my blog in your Carousel.
this post is WIN. i love mash-ups, so discovering that bootie mix website makes me SO HAPPY.
Jess: Peter Singer may possibly have some words to say to you and your fellow scientists on the subject, but unfortunately, I have not the IQ to speak for him. None the less, it all makes me quite sad.