Carousel -- Week Ending 19th June 2009
[ 19 June 2009 ]
The ‘I love you’ graffiti pool on Flickr (examples above!) rocks my world. What a great thing to do with your camera — hunt out lurve-related graffiti. CUTE-O-RAMA. Top THAT!
Insead research shows living abroad linked to creativity: “Living in another country can be a cherished experience, but new research from Insead & Northwestern University suggests it might also help boost creativity.”
Tag Poetry & Personal Style is such a cute idea!
Angelica got accepted into the Atlantic Acting School & now she needs help to get there. Can you get involved?
Icons according to Bjooti honoured me last week! (Scroll down for an English translation.)
Natalia Vodianova rocks pink hair!
The Sparkle Factory is a blog documenting the goings-on at Tarina Tarantino’s workspace, affectionately dubbed (you guessed it) The Sparkle Factory! It’s a nice little glimpse into the life of a jewellery queen.
Want a scary washing machine?!
Cate Blanchett as Coco Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld, HELLO, awesome.
André Balazs: The king of America is an old (2006) but fascinating article about the hotelier. I love the way he thinks, viz:
People go to clubs and restaurants for a couple of hours or so, but the experiences of guests in a hotel can last 24 hours or more and, Balazs explains, can range “from the deeply personal moments, to the public moments, the business moments and the friendship moments. It means trying to provide every kind of nuanced space and thinking about how to provide the best environments for each of those activities to unfold. That’s what fascinates me. It is not just allowing them to unfold but stimulating their unfolding.”
“One of the few luxuries left is travel,” he explains. “And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there. So I think that one of the things that most matters and will matter increasingly is that when you are in some place you actually feel like you are there, that the ‘there’ is very different from whence you came. When you’re in London, you should feel like you’re in London. That unleashes a whole creative process. There should be no confusion whatever between London and New York or even between SoHo and Wall Street. What has been fun for me about this is that we have always looked at this as not just what city or what neighbourhood you’re in, but even what building.”
Jazzi McG shows you how to DIY a DIY (& it looks so good.)
Overheard In New York. Just that.
Where I send people who ask me where to go for spa treatments in Sydney by Miss Zoe Foster, who officially Knows Her Shizz. (& she’s on Twitter!)
My friend Stef, also known as P.O.S., is up for MTV’s Favorite Freshman 5 artist, & you should vote for him because he is totally rad.
Look how freaking cute he is. C’mon! Apparently I am responsible for helping him escape the Warped Tour when it comes to New York, too, so don’t think I won’t hear whether he won or not! If you don’t vote for him, I’ll know! Please vote! He deserves it more than you could possibly imagine.
The Uniform Project is amazing & inspiring &, wow, gosh. (Merci, Leah!)
Something Awful is a treasure trove, especially when you’re heavy into procrastination mode. I like Photoshop Phriday best — check out A Day At The Science Fair, Reimagined Literature & Unnecessary Advertisements. Too funny.
It’s all about love from Boner Party.
Who Would Buddha F*ck? by Brad Warner. Who indeed?
How to use Twitter for marketing & PR. Hahahahaha.
Hahah, Grilla Styling cracks me up.
Welcome one and all to Grilla Styling- the new pastime. But what is it? is it a new type of competitive cooking? is it some kind of rap? No- its sneaking into large clothes shops and styling and shooting a vignette in their changing rooms- all in 30 minutes flat. here is the recipe: 2 friends, 2 digital cameras, a stopwatch, 2 large handbags full of tights belts shoes jewellery sunglasses etc(stuff which you can’t take into changing rooms generally), 2 packs of cards, a fat black permanent marker.
1. write on one pack of cards, using the marker, 52 colours, textures, materials. 2. fill up the other pack with countries, slebs, rockstars, and fashion genres. 3. shuffle the packs (seperately). 4. sidle up to the nearest large clothing outlet. 5. pull out one card from each pack to give you the look to style. 6. start the stop watch- you have 10 minutes to find the clothes/accessories- remember the changing room limit- only one trip in allowed! 7. 10 minutes to style. 8. 5 minutes to shoot, (each other) 9. 5 minutes to make exit. 10. relax. 11. repeat. 12. blog it.
No Time Wasters. Audrey sent me this link, what a champ!
Fallen Princesses is a clever but slightly grim project.
This thing will let you make a tiled background out of any image, I love it!
Readable bed sheets are mad awesome.
Accents from around the world! I find accents interesting so I thought it was a pretty cool find.
I think I am definitely in love with you, but I’m not sure from Exploding Dog.
My amazing friend Angel did this interview with Larkin Grimm for Coilhouse which I found totally compelling.
“I was sleeping on the floor in a bare room with a few instruments and a typewriter. I was studying to be a psychic at the time and the experience was pretty overwhelming. I cut myself off completely from friends and lovers and focused inward, on work and meditation. I was writing songs in my sleep. It was great. I don’t think that experience could ever be duplicated.The stars were just aligned in my favor at that moment. When it came time to record, we did it mostly analog, with great engineers and dynamic characters going in and out all the time, ghosts and pirates and even a succubus showed up while we were staying in that old mansion. I tried to keep my psychic channels open and let the ghosts have a say in how the music should turn out.”
How To: Audrey Tautou in Coco Avant Chanel.
Snacks & Sh!t is all about really bad rap lyrics. Nice.
& here are some videos…
This is for Nubby!
Rad.
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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this carousel’s amazing! i love the grafitti and the mighty boosh is one of my all time favourite shows. thankyou! xx
So much goodness in this list! I’ll have to come back and spend some time visiting all of this stuff this weekend. (Drat, launch-time at work!) Thanks for the link love, gorgeous.
the fallen princesses was one of my favourite things of this week, I linked to it on my own blog this morning, too!
That Scary Washing Machine post is hilarious! I grew up with a friend who had one just like that! It eventually flooded their whole house.
Thanks so much for posting the PS22 Chorus! I never thought I’d like that Lady Gaga song. I always forget how amazing the piano is. I kind of want to marry their music teacher.
i love you! SA is my absolute favorite thing about the internet!! I can waste sooo much time there (of course, time i spend on your site is technically never time wasted & i love it almost as much ;) The Nacho Hat is my newest SA love. Worth every penny to have forum access.
I looooove yoooouuu!!! ♥♥♥ Thanks so much for providing such excellent procrastination fodder!
woah. Cate Blanchett is awesome. She has that uncanny ability to totally transform into whoever she portrays. She doesn’t look a thing like herself in these shots.
& in the last pic, she really reminds me of you… maybe it’s the fierce look in her eyes, or the pout? :D
“impossible to be unhappy in a poncho”...yep, that’s how I feel about tutus! great post.
Omg Snacks and Shit is hilarious! I had to stop reading I was laughing so hard, I’m talking tears and everything. Thank you Gala!
Oh how I love Grease!
YES! I am LOVING that DIY necklace project. I never would have found Jazzi’s site without you so extra thanks! I do Roundups of Fashion DIY’s from time to time, thought you might be interested. Here’s a recent one:
www.oneprettything.com/?p=4004
I hope to see more DIY’s in your Carousel-you find the best links!
I loved the Tag Poetry and Personal Style site! It’s super-deluxe cute! One quick question- How do you make a sleepover fun and exciting for a gaggle of teenage girls?
Great Carousel today! That washing machine auction made me laugh so much.
I should start a website for people to give me money to pay for my tuition. I’m more needy than her who has “Ms. Cadena has worked as an advertising copywriter and TV producer.” Get a job and pay for it yourself.
Im the daughter of a single parent who can not afford to send me to University, so I am on student loans which I will be repaying for the rest of my life because I also chose to be an actor. Its a BFA program, so its more expensive than this little 2.5 year thing.
Oh my bob! Holly Vodianova!!!
I just came from the hairdresser to get a haircut and my hair looks just like hers! same color (I am loving lighter pink ATM) and same straight cut bob O_o and what she is wearing is totally my style! Garter belts, great stocking, puffy skirts and platforms…HELLO!
If I only have her face…don´t we all would love that?
I am loving this carousel, have a merry go roundish weekend Mademoiselle Darling.
that cate blanchett photo shoot is to die for. happy friday. :]
I love mighty boosh i just watched the episode last night. oh vince.
Gala, this is probably my favorite Carousel of yours to date :) Chock full of great link goodness!
i love the boosh.
oh i looove the fallen princess project, i found it a few days ago. i played cinderella in this crazy musical (into the woods) last winter and the cinderella-in-a-bar photo is currently my facebook profile picture.
also i agree with heather; this is my favorite carousel so far!
That PS22 chorus is amazing! Also I made a yummy wallpaper. I love Carousel!
Thanks so much for putting my site up! It really is a dream come true…
OH GALA!
this is the greatest carousel ever.
i loved the scary washing machine thing…its good to see you’re still keeping in touch with nz “current events”! :]:]
this is just fantaaaastic because um, i um, have…exams and…um, I LIKE TO PROCRASTINATE YAAAY.
awwww @ the 3rd video…love the kid who is singing at 1:35 with the other kid in the background dancing tehhehehe
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! squee Those kids are fantastic!!!
Yussss, a long carousel this week.
Awesome links :D
I think you resemble Cate Blanchett, now that I think about it…
What a fantastic set of links! I absolutely loved this week’s ‘Carousel’, and can I just say, I LOVE Zoe Foster! I’ve been a fan of her writing for years now, and after meeting her last year at the signing of her book ‘Air Kisses’, I was only further smitten! She is lovely, and so talented :) Thanks, Gala!
when is the next icing challenge gala? :)
Oh. God. Am LOVING those kids singing Lady Gaga’s Just Dance… so totally fabulous!
oh, this is the best carousel EVER! i’ve spent the last hour or so reading through these. i almost fell off my chair when i saw that cate blanchett/coco chanel shoot. she is achingly beautiful.
I am ALWAYS just on the fringe of dyeing my hair pink…or purple…or blue…or forest green…and all those beautiful images of Natalia Vodianova are really pushing me over the edge…it’s the first time I’ve been able to see bright, delightful pink on a haircut very similar to mine!
Vodianova—one of my favorite photoshoots. Ever. I’m designing a blog/website right now with one of those images in the banner.
I always love your carousels! Definitely one of my favorite things about the weekend.
The PS22 chorus is so amazing! And the Sparkle Factory is awesome! Ahh, love this. :)
OUR WASHING MACHINE IS JUST LIKE THAT
i think we got it fixed though
our lingering household problem is these giant 2 inch long cockroaches that come out of kitchen counters at night! It’s very frightful.
Aw I’ve always loved that Natalia Vodianova shoot. And that children’s choir is amazing!
so i too have just discovered the ps22 chorus. about 2 weeks ago my sister comes in the room
“why are you crying” her
“they sound so good” me
“i love this song cause it makes me believe i can do anything. when i leave this stupid country this is the song i’ll listen to the entire way on the plane” me
“you are such a loser. don’t ever call me a weirdo again” her
“don’t stop believing” me
ohmyohmy. mighty boosh. i want every outfit vince has ever worn on that show. LONG LIVE METALLIC BODYSUITS! :)
Excellent little follow-up fact.
It was PS22 that did the chorus for Passion Pit’s many songs of of Manners. Awesome little kiddos.
Love Grilla Styling haha! so creative
I love SA, probably my favourite thing on the internet. And the Fallen Princess series blows my mind, definitely something that’ll be circulating the internet for a long time.
Great carousel Gala! Cate Blanchett looks amazing as Coco- i think even more plausible than Audrey Tautou!
First glance into Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland remake
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What a wonderful Carousel- I feel honored to be a part of it! Yes to The Mighty Boosh- Vince Moon is my secret teevee boyfriend! Those kids singing made me so happy. Seriously, I got all choked up- what an awesome choir class, eh? My choir experience was not like that at all, alas! Giant smooches to you lovely!
oxoxox
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