Carousel: Week Ending 13th November 2009
[ 13 November 2009 ]
Yay, Friday the 13th! Go spooky go go! Here are some things to keep your eyeballs busy this weekend.
Win 1 of 3 copies of Zoe Foster’s Textbook Romance with Frock & Roll! Corrine says…
Zoe has just released her second novel here, Textbook Romance, and it’s an absolute gem. It’s one of the best books that I’ve ever read, because in addition to offering fabulous, no-nonsense relationship advice for any girl on the hunt for true love, it provides delicious tidbits on how to be the best version of yourself possible, and insight on how not to lose your sense of self once you actually FIND a magnificent partner to create something special with!
Mmmmm, hibernating beds from Apartment Therapy.
This is what Rachel Zoe’s home looks like. She also answered some questions about her approach to interior design.
Animals Twice Dead is a gallery of taxidermied animals being installed in museums, galleries et al. It’s very intriguing & particularly eerie.
Porn star Sasha Grey was on Tyra Banks a little while ago. You can read about it here, but it isn’t safe for work. Well… most workplaces.
Jimmy Choo is holding a competition to support the launch of Project PEP, a charity which donates 25% of its sales to the Simelela Rape Centre in South Africa. The money goes towards providing the HIV-preventative treatment PEP (which must be taken within 72 hours of exposure to HIV) & counselling to rape victims. So how can you support them? Just take a great photograph! In return they’re giving away the ultimate Jimmy Choo VIP experience. You’ll win a day of luxury at Jimmy Choo HQ, as well as being able to choose 7 pairs of shoes & 2 handbags to keep forever! Amaze. Even if you don’t win the grand prize, over 100 other Jimmy Choo prizes will be awarded. Enter at Jimmy Choo 72 & have a look at some of the top-rated photos, they are GREAT.
McSweeney’s Recommends. Yes’m.
Who knew reviews for the Bic ballpoint pen could be so heated?
You’d think, with all of the new anti-obscenity laws, that this pen would have a V-chip installed. It DOESN’T!!!!! You should see some of the filthy words and drawings that my children were able to write with this product. I am going to file a formal complaint with the FCC. Buyer (with young children) Beware!!!!
Sassisam (who I !) interviewed Sarah Wilson, who I also , since she is the woman who introduced me to so many of you! She gave me my first real writing job off the strength of iCiNG, as a fashion columnist for Cosmopolitan magazine. Anyway, the interview is great, I am so excited to hear about Sarah’s new show & it was great to get a broader sense of who she is.
Living Opals was started by nonpareil Seren & it is seriously RAD.
Bjork, Plutonian. I love her.
“I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up. & kill it in the evening, which is a bit outrageous, but there you go.”
Participate in The Bad Words Experiment!
Comparison of vampire traits on Wikipedia. Wow. Um…
Rappers That Suck. Oh, it’s mean, but it’s funny.
1000 Awesome Things: #844 Celebrities on Sesame Street. The ultimate countdown.
I know that everyone is linking to The Photodiarist at the moment, but it’s for a reason! Click click clicketty click.
Twitter stalkings! HA! I love them. Too bad you can’t get your Twitter username printed on the other leg, though… Thanks, @queen_evie!
Kate Moss’ motto is “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. Really? Really. Ugh.
The 1987 Dance Aerobics Championship looks like it was a good time. Look how high they can kick! Hahah, amazing! @Eliza, we love you!
Faux-Rachel Zoe’s Recession Fashion Tips are the bessssssssst. Also I need that t-shirt. I found this via @nmoore6. It is so genius.
What does Twitter say about you? Some of my favourite tags for @galadarling are coven, peopleiwanttopartywith, stalking & uh, porno!
I think I know what I’m getting Nubby for Christmas…
Learning Something Every Day! So cool. My favourite one is about Crayola.
It is Dark Moon in Libra right now. Read about it on Mystic Medusa & also see Shopping On The Dark Moon! While you’re at it, you should subscribe to her Daily Mystic service. It is always the first email I read in the mornings & it makes me smile.
Print Society is the BEST way to find affordable, rad art.
On that subject, the Keep Calm gallery sells prints too. Some of them are painfully twee but some are excellent.
Oh my god, this is so cool.
...& here is some wisdom.
“There are different species of laziness: Eastern & Western. The Eastern style is like the one practised in India. It consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea, listening to Hindi film music blaring on the radio, & gossiping with friends. Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so there is no time at all to confront the real issues. This form of laziness lies in our failure to choose worthwhile applications for our energy.” — Sogyal Rinpiche
Yay! + O.D.B.
WHAAAAAAAAAT. Ish is bananas.
Tim Burton at MoMA is going to be amazing.
P.S. A lot of these links came from swissmiss, which is like a repository of wonderful. Go there.
P.P.S. If you’re in New York & want to do a good thing, click.
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Great list, as always, Gala!
Yay! Thank-you so much for the mention, Gala!
Corrine — You are welcome like mad!
Yay I’m glad you liked the Rachel Zoe video as much as I did!! :)
Just a question…do you get the links and such that people who follow you on twitter that you may not be following send? I have no idea how that part of Twitter works & I will send any Carousel links to your e-mail from now on if that is so : )
I can’t WAIT to go to the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA!
gala, you’re wunderbar.
Learn Something Every Day is SO DARN CUTE!
Awesome stuff.
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If you’re wondering about the text in the film about pandora’s box: it tells the story about pandora’s box in German (greetings from there!). :-)
I am SO excited for the Tim Burton exhibit and I love the Friday the 13th pic! :)
Gala, Gala, Gala — what are you doing to me today?! I’ve been on this page forever, clicking all of the links and finding more and more awesomeness. Work is just getting pushed to the backseat for sure after coming across this post. Thanks for sharing all of the glittery goodness here. LOVE IT!
hibernating beds!! and Tim Burton at MOMA!!
My little brother was born today!
Oh my. Those dance aerobics made.my.day.
And also brought back memories of high school dance team – complete with sequinned bun covers and ‘It’s Raining Men’ dance remix. Awesome.
So, I have known about this site for a while, but never really went there for a while. Somethingawful.com is pretty funny. It is like 4chan, but with smarter people and less porn. Every Friday is Photoshop phriday and it is all based on the same picture. Some of these pictures KILL me because they are so funny. They mostly make fun of something, so not really in the spirit of iCing, but it is funny.
They also have their own forums witch has a ton of useful (and useless) information. They have topics in almost subject ranging from the effects of drugs to work out routines to fashion and make-up to cooking and to just posting pictures of cute animals. There is something for everybody. My boyfriend has been a member for a while (mostly so he can buy used board games and video games for cheap). There is a $5 membership fee, but. It is just a 1 time deal, and you get access to post in any of these threads (there is no charge to just read all the useful information or view pictures of animals). I have only recently checked out the different threads and it is pretty cool!
Hello, Gala! I haven’t finished Carousel yet, I’ve just watched the Sasha Grey interview on the Tyra Banks Show. I’d love to hear your opinion on that particular interview.
I personally think it’s shitty and disgusting how the show from the very start suggests porn and prostitution are something evil made only by disturbed people, and how Tyra doesn’t want to understand Sasha, or give a complete portayal of her, but instead she’s permanently trying to push her to say she’s been abused, or is miserable, or she regrets being a porn star… It seems to me that she pretty much brought her hoping to break her like the other girl, make her cry and so make a dramatic show on how sexual industry is evil.
I think what this kind of shows are actually as devious as Tyra says the porn industry is. And by that I’m not saying the porn industry is perfect, or good, or anything. It just makes me angry how these shows are all about drama and manipulation.
Anyway, what do you think?
UGH. That Tyra episode always makes me angry. I worked in an adult store for over two years. I met “porn stars” for signings. These people are not all idiots or sexually abused as children. It is not a totally corrupt and drug laden industry. It is perfect and rainbows all the time? Im sure its not. But theres a lot more than people realize, a lot of regulations and a lot of women who are in charge (Digital Playground is an all women run company, and one of the largest producers out there!). I feel that Tyra exploits Sasha Grey in this episode more than the adult industry ever would.
But I’ve also read Sasha’s interview in AVN magazine about that episode and how frustrated she was to see it edited like that. She said that Tyra was quite flustered that she (Sasha) was articulate and not abused or “trapped” but in it by her own free will. OY!
Pelouse & Natalie — I know, the whole thing is infuriating. What are the stats on child abuse? They’re enormous, out of control, so honestly you could try to draw parallels between being abused & ANYTHING. Being a brunette, or working as a janitor, or getting a college degree. The whole thing is ridiculous. Women who try to shame other women who do sex work make me really mad.
You always have the best carousels, Gala. I have a million tabs open right now, so thank you! Can’t wait to explore everything. :)
These links are fabulous! Thank you!
Also, have you seen lookbook.nu?? It’s pure aesthetic bliss, I think you’ll like.
Thanks for the shoutout, Gala!
Love your lists! I just posted a sneak peek at the Tim Burton exhibit on my blog. I’m so excited, can’t wait!
Cheers!
Suzanne
AHAHA I did the What Does Twitter Say About You? and I got ASSCHAPS.
WHAT THE HELL D:
PS totally forgot to add: You can definitely shop on the dark moon, its a time when amazing markdowns can be found. The trick is to have your preferences in order before the dark moon hits!
Cheers!
Suzanne
I just watch the sasha grey interview too and I totally agree with the above opinion’s. The more I watch of that show the more judgemental Tyra seems… why can’t a self respecting girl work as a pornstar, why does she had to have had a terrible childhood or something? It’s really frustrating to watch cause I just want to stand up and give Tyra a piece of my mind. The editing on the video is just disgusting and the things Tyra says…trying to find some disturbing thing in that girls past, saying things like: I hope you sit down with yourself one day and really do some soulsearching etc, it just get my blood boiling, it’s so condescending.
Now im gonna go read on:P
gala, did you know shitmydadsays on twitter is going to be made into a show???
aaaahahaha HELL YES!
Ha, I read the Kate Moss quote, frowned, and took a bite of the chocolate I was eating. She obviously has not been eating good quality food ;).
The Sasha Grey interview on the Tyra show made me so mad. It was kind of funny how Sasha handled herself with more class and seemed more intelligent than Tyra, who was just trying to get her to seem messed up and abused.
I bought the stockings to wear to the 140 conf – they didn’t arrive in time but I’m saving them for something good!
hahah oh my god, those bic pen reviews are hilarious. “very good if you need to write on paper”!
Ugh.. The MysticMedusa link on shopping during dark moon was such a downer.. Today started a Jimmy Choo @ H&M special collection sale and I was just about to dress up and get me those super ueber lovely indigo blue striped sandals when I glanced through Carusel and found this warning.. Argh! Seriously? I should stay at home and sterilize my bathroom instead?
I hope you are right, Medusa.. cry
thank you miss gala. i heart this weeks links very much. tu est une etoile! biz biz xxx
That isn’t a quote from Kate Moss. It’s from a book called Thin. Kate Moss is a little…kooky but she wouldn’t say something so ridiculous.
I wish, in a way, that I had the ability to do some of that Western laziness. (OCASSIONALLY or maybe ONCE, AT LEAST). I find it so hard to just…DO NOTHING. How does one even learn to do that and be okay? Hahah.
I need those beds. I would get such great sleep in them! Or never get out of bed again….
Isn’t Kate Moss the one who only recently advocated curves?
www.theinsider.com/news/417723…
www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyl…
Uber false, nein?
Pfft.