Carousel -- Week Ending 13th June 2008
[ 13 June 2008 ]
It’s Friday the 13th! I love Friday the 13th! I think I will dress in black & do epic make-up & walk under as many ladders as possible. I encourage you to do the same! I hope none of you suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia, though!
On that note…
I always wanted to be an Addams. For more creepy, kooky, mysterious & spooky fun, read Charles Addams: Master of the Macabre. Yay!
Now, onto more normal stuff!
Peek at some pictures! My favourites from the past week are the super-cute circus-themed photoshoot from Agent Provocateur; Dame de Paris from Harper’s Bazaar Russia, & photos by Christophe Kutner.
Andrew Blake: “Average Pornography Is Anti-Erotic” — an interview from BlackBook. My favourite pornographer speaks! (NSFW.)
Travelling Raw: The Survival Kit!
Marianne Williamson on A Course in Miracles.
I met a super-sweet graphic designer called Cynthia at the Sex & The City meet-up, & was delighted to discover her website, CMYKaboom! It’s a catalogue of her daily obsessions with lots of eye candy.
Past Notes is the website of someone who wishes not to be named, cough cough, but it’s such a cool concept. She has taken notes that were passed to her in school, typed them up & then written a commentary — who it was from, what the circumstances surrounding the note were, etc. I’ve really enjoyed reading it so far, it’s quite engrossing. It makes me think about all the notes I collected through school, though honestly most of them were pornographic or my best friend talking about how much she hated her parents & how cool Courtney Love was… haha!
Naomi sent me a link to the Helmut Newton Machine Topshop gallery. I LOVE it!
An interview by Guy Kawasaki that revolves around how to escape corporate America (or corporate anywhere, for that matter). If your job drives you to despair, this is for you!
Urgent Personal Finance Advice from Seth Godin. Read it. Promise me you’ll read it!
Tim Ferriss writes about travelling in Tokyo — how to do it like a pro & on the cheap. Read Hacking Japan: Inside Tokyo For Less Than New York part one & then part two.
If there’s a road trip in your future, check out NPR’s Road Trip: Songs To Drive By section.
Gala Mania! I was recently interviewed by Tim Hurley for MyBedHead about my wild shock of hair in the mornings! Have a read, it was a really fun interview. I was also interviewed by Lisa Clark for Pink World, about being a writer, what inspires me & my travelling essentials! Eeee! & Trend & The City, an Italian fashion blog, did one of those “steal her style” articles on me at Fashion Home-Made: Gala Darling, which totally cuted me out!
My friend Andrew recently started a site called Life Sans. He says, “Sometimes, less is more. I firmly believe that you can improve your quality of life by carefully limiting what’s included in it. This site is about living without certain things, either permanently or as an experiment. It’s based in part on my own experiences and experiments, and partly on the experiences of others that I read about. It’s also about things your life should not be without, those things that enhance the quality of your life.” Pretty cool, right? Here are two articles he’s written that I really like, & you might too: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone & Into A Whole New You & Working A Day Job Without It Eating Your Life.
Heat sensitive paint. WOW. The human mind is a truly magnificent thing.
Mike’s Amazing Cakes. It almost disturbs me what people can do with fondant, these days… P.S. The site has automatic music (major pet peeve!), so if you’re at work, turn down your speakers.
Unicorns are real! BELIEVE!
How To Build Relationships with Dr Oz & Keith Ferrazzi (whose book I am still reading).
We all love Winona. Why? Your answer: Don’t Show-cha Your Chocha, Volume XII & her alternative father’s day gift guide. Winona’s dad sounds very cool. I’m hardly surprised.
Black metal baking via Coilhouse. Too awesome for words!
Writers’ rooms: Roald Dahl is fascinating. Where did he write Matilda, The Witches & Charlie & The Chocolate Factory? Now you know. I love Roald Dahl so much. In fact, if I had a child I might consider calling it Dahl. THAT is how much I love him. Also, we share a birthday. It is my secret connection to him. There are other writers’ rooms here but most of those people don’t interest me as much!
DailyOM was on fire this week! (As in, super-hot content, not flames & whatnot!) I like this piece very much: The Death & Rebirth Of Self.
...& if you really need some distraction today, watch the movie Dark Days, available free to watch here on Google Video. It’s about the homeless people who live underground in New York City. If you don’t anything about the subject, read the Wikipedia page, check The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City out of the library (it is one of the most engrossing & fascinating books I’ve ever read) & educate yo’ damn self!
Enjoy your day, my boisterous, bootylicious, beatific beauties!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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Amazing brain food as usual, thank you =]
I recently found (and disposed of!) a huge collection of back-of-the-maths-class notes. They were hysterically funny but SOOOOOO boycrazy. Of course this is NZ, so all those boys are still within contacting distance. (Blush!)
If you like the heat sensitive paint then you’ll love these tiles: Make Magazine on Heat Reactive Tiles I think that if I were to have a car I’d use the heat reactive paint to turn my car from a deep blue to a light blue. It’d be delicious.
Dahl Darling. That would be epic. :D
I lovelovelove this:
Tell us who inspires you/who you admire and why?
People who are creating, producing, building things. Creating their own empires, constructing delicious communities, connecting like-minded people, using the talents they have & the magic of the universe to make beautiful things happen! People who aren’t afraid of their own magnificence, & are contributing positively… living wild & being unashamedly true to themselves!
Thank you for putting that into words, gorgeous girl.
Huuuuuuuge fan of Dahl. All of his books are lovingly in the eye-level shelf of my bookcase!
who doesn’t love Roald Dahl? I am always reminded of my primary school classroom & tiny library (it was a small school) and my year 3 teacher’s voices that he put on for all the characters!
I was just thinking what a modern, unique name ‘Dahl’ is when I realised my mum calls me Darl all the time! depends on your accent, but the words sound exactly the same to me, lol!
I want to name my daughter Matilda, so that’s Dahl-inspired!
Wow, lots of awesome this week. Who didn’t want to be an Addams? I read an article once that I can’t for the life of me find at the moment, but the title pretty much said it all: Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Marriage, I Learned from Gomez & Morticia. So true.
& O Dahl, namesake of my D. ♥ I used to try so hard to telekinetically move bits of chalk around when I was in grade school. I’d pretend my chocolate milk was George’s Marvelous Medicine, & I still want a bottle of fizzy drink in which the bubbles go down. . .
Also appreciated is the Hacking Japan link. I wanna go so bad~! It’s become a life goal.
& the unicorns. Unicorns ftw.
Happy 13th! It can’t be helped; I have to go listen to MC Hammer’s “Addams Family Groove” now. . .
Winona + Gala = True Love 4 Life
I seriously love Tom Lehrer.
Best Carousel Gala !! xx
❤ I think I mentioned on your flickr about how cute that AP shoot was! and asked whether you had picked up the catalogue at the time?
It was a black box and each photo was printed onto A5 card so you had like a deck of all the pieces and then included was a flurry of silver stars and a magic wand! I still look at mine all the time.
❤ Also if you go past the NYC Agent Provocateur anytime soon then check out the new Alice in Wonderland themed window that has just gone up, it’s super cute and they comissioned to make the hair bows from my collection for Alice to wear in her hair! yey! I’m trying to get photos from the ones all around the world:)
❤Also the reactive paint, so cute! I immediately thought of those Global Hypercolour tshirts that used to be popular, but basically just drew attention to your sweat hhehee.
❤ xxxx Loulou
We must see your Friday the 13th outfit!
Saxy — It’s actually not as witchy as I’d like, because I bought something AMAZING last night & I just HAD to wear it today! I went out just now & took photos, I’m editing them & about to upload!
Come to our Friday the 13th party! It’s in Williamsburg and it should be lots of fun!
Finger On The Pulse
FRIDAY THE 13th Let’s Get EVIL!!!!
Friday, June 13, 2008 10:00pm TO 4 am
The Royal Oak
Union @ N11
Brooklyn, NY
Come! Come! Come!
Woah! Biggest and best carousel ever, non? Just what I needed after the big fat week of exams. Let’s just remember that they’re sending me up North for university, which is just what I want :)
Lot’s of candy for my sweet tooth:)!
Hey I heard there’s a photograph exhibition somwhere in NYC about john lennon and paul mccartney, just in case you were interested.
Oh and loved the Pink World! interview!
GD – thanks so much for coming to play in my world ‘o pink!
Enjoy the NYC sunshine!
L x
I might have found it through iCing, as I really can’t remember, but in a similar vein to the notes from highschool, kinda…
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Eeeeh! I LOVE Mike’s Amazing Cakes! (As a ridiculous sidenote, it was the automatic music that convinced me that I needed a Mike cake for my wedding…it’s from the Goonies, my favorite movie!)
I married an Aussie boy in frrrrreeeezing cold Tacoma, Washington in December- and Mike’s Amazing Cake’s was the only bakery that not only didn’t think it was weird that I wanted the toppers to be koalas wearing hats, scarves, and mittens, but basically expected it!
So cool to see them on here! I adore your site- it’s my daily pick-me-up. :D
carousel is my favourite part of this blog. look forward to it every week. i had to email my bf most of your links. i especially crave the heat sensitive paint. stunning.
you have kept me up far too late Gala
Thank You Gala!
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