Carousel -- Week Ending 17th October 2008
[ 18 October 2008 ]
Cute girls photographed by Jonathan Leder.
How to be creative from gapingvoid.
This sex map is one of the most interesting things ever. I stared at it for a very long time the other night. The most amazing thing is that it’s not even comprehensive!
My amazing friend Dhrumil recorded this podcast about being overwhelmed. I listened to it the other day when I was feeling (shock!) overwhelmed, & it genuinely helped me.
From thecoolhunter: I want to stay at the W Hong Kong. I also like Tara Donovan’s styrofoam art.
Gisele Bundchen for W — amazing clothes. So good.
My girlfriend “settled” for me — and I don’t trust her. Cary Tennis for life!
Enter Winona’s Hallowe’en Costume Chronicles contest! The winner receives $100 from ModCloth (yay, Susan!) & of course, the wild admiration of the internet.
Banksy’s pet shop is now open in New York City! (I’m so going…)
Liz Wolfe is amazing. (Thank you, Olga!)
I know I quote from & link to Sera Beak all the time, but that’s only because she is one of the coolest girls I’ve ever met. Hope you can forgive me!
“That’s right, in my red universe, we are all spiritual superheroes and this is exactly where we should be right now. Each and every one of us have unique, but latent super powers that can only be realized, only be experienced and lived and shared if we are pushed to our edges… if we are moved out of our comfort zones and into the strange, the unfamiliar, the concrete bloody fear.
We have been warriors in waiting for far too long. It’s time to roll up our sleeves, pull up our superheroine boots, stretch our red hearts open even wider, and get down and dirty and thus divine with the best and worst of life… knowing, eventually, ultimately that there is no real difference between the best and the worst.
So superheroes and heroines, I can hear your inner timers ringing from way out here on my dreamy beach. Time’s Up. Come Out Come Out where ever you are and Come In Come In to who you truly are. We need you. You have a planet to save, a universe to serve, and some super fine new footwear to wear.”
& with that, here’s to a fantastic weekend!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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Aw man, I’d enter the costume chronicle contest, but I don’t have any funny stories behind them. However, my senior year of high school I was Richie Tenenbaum (and yes, I’m a girl) and it was the best costume everrrr.
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Wow that quote is incredible.
And Tara Donovan is a genius. In college we’re in the middle of the “green week” it’s all about recyling and global warming and nature. We’re having conferences every day and trips and a contest called Trashformers that’s about making art out of recylced stuff like plastic. This is an amazing example! I’m totally e-mailing it to my teacher!
Merci!
gala! this is random, and i’m not sure if you’re heard about this already BUT — you should absolutely check out lola staar’s dreamland roller rink on the coney island boardwalk! especially lately as she’s been having fabulous themed skating parties — there’s also a wonderful story behind how it came to be. check it out if you haven’t already: www.dreamlandrollerrink.com. and oh yes, from one NYC girl to another, welcome back!!!! :)
‘Becca’lise: That costume is perfect!
I too, wish I had more stories. I feel like I’m the only one out of friends who really likes going over the top for Halloween, which is sad. Dressing up and being someone else for a day is so much fun!
Haha, that sex map is amazing. I’m slightly unnerved that there’s nothing on there so far that I haven’t heard of or know what it is!!
Gisele is truly one of the most naturally elegant humans alive, isn’t she? Whew.
‘Becca’lise & Freya — I don’t really have any stories either! I once dressed up as a headless horseman with my best friend, that was pretty cool. & I was Jack the Ripper when I was about 10 years old, that was fun too. But no great stories! Maybe because I always had hallowe’en in NZ, where it’s no big deal!
audrey — Ahh, that looks like so much fun. & thank you!
Joanne — I feel you!
The map-lover in me wishes the sex map were proportionately sized to number of search engine matches or frequency of said terms in search engines per day (or week, etc.)...
And if you do go to Hong Kong, there’s this new restaurant there that sounds brilliant. Here’s an in-depth review of it: http://www.yongfook.com/items/view/217/hong-kong-food-report I bet none of the W hotels can serve up such goodies!
That is so weird…I just discovered Tara Donovan this week. Her installations are so amazing; I want to cover my own ceiling in styrofoam cups (I think I’ll settle for a styrofoam chandelier instead).
Great links as always, I loved the “How to be creative” list, it’s going to be printed and stuck above my computer when I get home :)
i absolutely loved Liz Wolfe’s photography. :D
oh i would sooo like to go to banksy’s shop if i were in new york…
so I suppose you’ve got ridiculous amounts of cupcakes coming your way now…
I actually really liked the how to be creative thing. I normally don’t like stuff like that but it was pretty good.
ah, ah, ah…...thanks for the sex map link and for the gapingvoid site. this one article on creativity has flipped my mindset on the subject matter!
sweetness to you!
The pet store.. :0 Wow. So post-modern and dreamlike.
Have a fantastic weekend too!
hi gala thanks for the banksy link love him!! this is unrelated to your post but after admiring your hair all year i’ve decided to get hair extensions i’ve had a few consultations with local hairdressers and haven’t been 100% happy so im just wondering if your real hair is overly thick and if there is anything you dont like about the extensions? ps if i didn’t live in queensland i’d be at wildlocks for sure!
oh my gosh! i love gaping void :)
Ha! I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I clicked on the “Petstore” link! Maybe I can get myself up to New York before the 31st…
re: cary tennis article
wow. that, I was not expecting. I think it takes a special person to give advice, and cary tennis seems just right. thank you for yet another site that I must visit frequently!
Gala dear,
I’m your fan and regular reader and respect you hugely,
however, along with some commentators pointed out before,
I feel disturbed with the Pamela ads…
Yes I visited the website and yes it might convey good intention and such, but please kindly be aware that your site caters to a broad range of audience, and I’m sure there are many of your readers who would appreciate this site being ‘family-friendly’ (or so you know what I mean).
Love.
I loved the Cary Tennis article. The advice was perfect. And I wish I had a good Halloween story for Winona’s contest. I’ve never been anything particularly interesting (witch, I Dream of Jeannie, Princess Leia, Wonder Woman). At least for the most part (except maybe Jeannie), they’ve been strong, smart women!
HAAA!!! So funny! 2 girls one cup is the name of a capital city to the North.
HAHAHA! 2 girls one cup! That sex map is worth the staring :)
& galadarling.com, family friendly? What does that even mean? I’m not disturbed by the Pamela ads.
Do visit Banksy, it looks great! I would have loved to go.
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i saw and thought of you!
Hi!! I just found your blog a few days ago and have been voraciously reading the archives. I LOVE IT. I just started my own blog and as fashion/style is a huge thing to me (I was actually a fashion design/fashion merchandising double major at one point) I’ve been looking at other fashion blogs – your’s is a breath of fresh air in a sea of updates on the latest Marc Jacobs clothing. I love your positive attitude and the way you write. Not to mention I love the hair, I’ve got unnatural color myself ;)
Also – this is really random, but I randomly remembered almost buying a magazine in a bookstore a while ago but didn’t have enough cash at the time. It was an Australian import so it was like, $16 there. But it looked awesome – was a magazine for women and I just remember one of the headlines being something about “how to win in a bar fight” haha. Any idea what that might be?? I’d like to find it again and see if it’d be worth subscribing to…
Thanks so much, hope you had a grand weekend!
Michelle
this is a really good carousel! the cary tennis article was super insightful and beautiful and the gaping void article -My God! it’s soo awesome. so long but SO Worth It! I’m going to send it to all my creative friends. I really do think it goes for anyone though, it fits quite broadly, just how to follow your dreams..
and the banksy pet shop is so funny and brilliant and the styrofoam art..wow. I likey.
xxo
Ahh love this carousel. My favorite in a long, long time.
I know a lot of people said this on the post, but I really wish it was anyone other than Gisele in the spread for W. I just don’t find her particularly talented or attractive as a model. The clothes are SOO amazing, but they just don’t “fit” her.
(btw thanks for replying to my email~!
Ra, I am really not trying to be rude, but can you please tell me what you find so disturbing about ads containing Pamela Anderson imploring people to boycott KFC and become vegetarians (granted, I get that the image promoting the video is a less-than-flattering view of an inflated breast, but still …)? Especially in light of the fact that there is a detailed sex map in this same article, which you haven’t mentioned? I’m genuinely curious?
Cheers!
im in support of the Pamela ad.
unique advertising which everyone obviously took notice on, so it has very much so done its part in drawing attention to a very worthy cause!
Hi all.
Wow, I never thought I’d got some popularity here ;-)
Natalie dear,
it is exactly what dallas said that bothers me the most:
“...in drawing attention to a very worthy cause.”
Sex sells.
Yes, that is the fact, and arguably nothing can we do about it.
If you agree to the above hypothesis you might also agree that throughout the history women have been using sex to gain power, just as men have been using power to have sex.
We can go into details of human theories here, but that is not my point :)
My point is, and I am happy to say that it is, that I see nothing is pretty in advertisements that contribute to the idea that women are nothing but sex objects, potraying unnatural and unhealthy body ideal.
Why do you think seven of ten girls in America suffer from low self-esteem?
(and that 75 percent of these girls reported engaging in negative, potentially harmful activities… disordered eating, drinking addiction, cutting, bullying… the list goes on)
Among one of highly contributing factors is that there is a shift in our way of defining what is ‘ideal’.
Why are we attracted to Icing?
You all have your own reasons, but certainly the air of positivity and confidence in Gala’s writing help :)
Do we find ourselves dying to be happier in life?
Yes, and it is no wonder that the pursuit of happiness is one of The Three Undeniable Rights.
But quite interestingly, do these rights give you a license to breach others’ rights to live, to live in freedom, and to be happy?
I’ll give you a story to illustrate (this is fiction, I made it up myself ;-)):
Once upon a time, there is a country in which everyone who lives there eats their own poo.
Whenever they go to public places, there are these flashing ads proudly displaying ‘How to Have Bigger, Larger Poo’, ‘Strawberry Flavoured Poo’ and ‘Now with 15 Vitamins and Minerals – Super Poo!’.
When children go to school, their conversations revolve around ‘How many poo have you had last week?’ and ‘Best beaches to enjoy free poo’ and ‘Eating poo together with your friends watching – it’s an adreline rush!’.
With such sophisticated conditioning, it is no wonder that everyone thinks eating poo is the ideal way of living, the ‘sine qua non’ of life principles, the coolest of lifestyles ;-)
Now can you find any similarities of this fictional world with the world we live in?
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The problem is not the freedom of speech,
but the lose of freedom to reason, by the freedom of speech.
Sometimes we need to take a step back and think deeper.
:)
Ra:
just don’t click on the banner then! It’s not like you can’t tell right away that is has something to do with sex. And what exactly do you mean by making this site more “family-friendly”? And why doesn’t the sex map bother you?
I too support the Pamela ad. Especially since it’s for a good cause.
If you mind seeing it, just don’t visit this site.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, Ra – the beauty of it is that we are all entitled to our opinions, but I do value yours – as well as the fact that you’ve made me consider a viewpoint different to my own, which is always a good thing!
Cheers :)