Carousel: Week Ending 26th February
[ 26 February 2010 ]
Oh my god! Look at the date! THEORETICALLY, Radical Self Love month is almost over. But rules were made to be broken. I have lots more to say on the subject… So we’re extending it. Stay tuned! MWAH!
Anyway, here are some things I thought you might like!
Sam sent me this link to a pirate wedding... Cute! I like the way they’ve done this, because it is totally not tacky, even though it would have been really easy to go in that direction. Self-discipline is the key!
How To Order, aka Steve Pavlina’s Guide To Manifesting Absolutely Anything™! I don’t think this is a perfect guide to manifesting things (I should totally write about that, huh?), but it’s an okay intro.
Eternalsparkles.com wrote to me a little while ago, saying they wanted to give me — & you! — 30% off all purchases! Enter GALA30 at checkout, & it expires March 1st, so don’t delay! They have great, inexpensive rings & jewellery… A magpie’s dream!
Style Like U is a rad look into closets around the world. & who doesn’t want to look into other people’s closets?!
Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush is amazing & an essential for any international playgirl! (Thanks for the links, Latha baby!)
Seablanket is adorable & rad. She is my new hero (making me a customised feather headdress!!!) & look how cute she is!
The perils of justifying yourself from my favourite Canadian superhero, Danielle LaPorte. (Loooooove you!)
This is so good for self-employed smarties: Do-It-Yourself PR: Press Release 101. Worth bookmarking!
From Trend De La Creme: When a unicorn vomits below the belt & why post it when you can finger it? Haha!
Sex At The Museum: Swingers In Vienna Art Hall from NPR.
In the name of art, an Austrian landmark is encouraging visitors to confront their sexual inhibitions by having them walk through a swingers club to reach one of Gustav Klimt’s masterpieces.
Dating Tips for Introverted Women: 6 Ways to Get Past Your Shyness via StyleCaster.
Overplot is Overheard In New York… plotted on a map. Cool.
The Burberry show was amazing & you can watch it right here! I was so inspired by this show. I was very lucky to be invited to attend the 3D screening in New York (along with like, Hamish Bowles & Cathy Horyn, um, wow) & the music plus the clothing plus the scent in the room all came together to create this really marvellous experience. I am going to write all about it for ChinaShop, so don’t fear! Anyway, in the meantime, watch the show. It really was excellent.
Makeunder: How & Why. Thanks, Catherine!
18 Awesome David Caruso Memes. Okay, I don’t watch stupid crime shows & I don’t like David Caruso, but god, this is so funny… The Dish & I looked at them together & cried from laughing so hard. If you don’t click anything else, you should click this one. Promise.
Veronica iBarra is a fab photographer, & she posts lots of inspiring images too.
11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s says what most of us already know… But it is sure is useful to have a reminder!
Body scale with affirmations instead of numbers! Yes! Even better, it is pink & fluffy!
“Totally like whatever, you know?” via Coilhouse. Mer got some flack for this piece. I don’t think she is a “snob”. I may be biased because I love the pants off of her, but still. To the haters, I say, “WHATEVER!” Hee.
David Barton Talks: Unfashionable Drinks. I love David Barton & I love his gym. He is nuts (in the best way possible) & his gyms are like hanging outside inside giant pieces of living, breathing art. His gyms have a Twitter account now, too — @lovetraindbgym!
Astro-Fashion – Russia Vogue Does Virgo, Gemini & Pisces… from Mystic Medusa. So funny! Yes, the Virgo one is appropriate. I dressed as a rubber nun for hallowe’en in 2008!
Feel like editing your consciousness? Maybe you need Spray To Forget!
SPRAY TO FORGET is a conceptual and functional product based on the possibility that “a substrate to physical reality exists, and that it can be deterministically altered and influenced by human intention.” – Duncan Laurie, The Secret Art … SPRAY TO FORGET functions as a beneficial editor for one’s consciousness, removing undesired memories from the user’s psyche via supported intent. Reed Seifer proposes that “in order to forget, we must remember something else. Spray to Forget acts as a conceptual sideways-elevator, nudging the unconscious to release a difficult memory and replace it with a more appealing one, or to create a new memory through experience… It also happens to smell quite good.” ... While based in concept, SPRAY TO FORGET utilizes well-researched ingredients in support of its function. An aesthetic olfactory experience is provided through a blend of essentials oils selected for their reputed aroma-therapeutic benefits in grounding and elevating the emotions. Herkimer diamonds and black tourmaline, crystals believed to metaphysically assist in the elimination of tension from the body, were steeped for several days in the purified, magnetized water used to create the spray.
DEALBREAKERS: you don’t reciprocate oral sex & you’re creepy. Aahahahah.
Hard hitting news? I’ve got your hard hitting news right now… Rise In Teen Pregnancy Proves Teens Still Got It & Former Prom King Now Living Anonymously Among Commoners...
Are non-smokers smarter than smokers? from Reuters.
Hells Angels may hold key to pirate hero Störtebeker’s missing skull!
Would you ever contribute to I Just Made Love!?
Prohibited advertising campaigns. NSFW! Also the banner ads on this site are kind of… not charming, so consider yourself warned!
BME has been holding a competition to find a Tour Intern! Basically this person would be involved in going around the world with BME, documenting body modification culture. Rad, right?! Well, nonpareil Kaelahbee is a finalist! VOTE FOR HER or I will hunt you with a big stick! Watch her video, she is so cute & totally deserves it. Go Kaelahbee!!!
A Shocking Instance of Self-Discovery from Raptitude. This was a great read, I think a lot of us can identify!
The Dark Side Of Blogging: When Free Gets Ugly. Every blogger needs to read this. NEEDS. TO. READ. THIS. EVERY BLOGGER! YOU HEAR ME?!
Frisky Q&A: Angie Jackson, The Woman Who Live-Tweeted Her Abortion. Okay, okay, I know. That sounds really horrifying. When I first read that title, I made a face. But then I read the article & I think she is to be commended. Check it out.
I think any time that we are silent about things or secret about things, it is unhealthy. I say this as a sexual abuse survivor. When I stopped keeping secrets [about the sexual abuse] and starting telling somebody, life got better…
10 Examples of Tremendous Business Leadership. Leadership as a concept is so interesting. Here are some anecdotes about leadership done properly.
5 Fashion Designers’ Beauty Secrets from Marie Claire. Including Rodarte! Nice background on how they put together the beauty looks for their shows.
Tarina Tarantino at her beauty launch, awww! So happy for her. & did you see her beauty brand is stocked at Sephora now?!
1000 Awesome Things: #566 Unforgettable friends.
Hahah!
I love Drew Barrymore.
Love & love & love,
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Awwww sweetie….you are the bestest! :)
that darkside of blogging post is awesome but scares me…
Yes !!! you should totally write about manifesting !
Can’t wait
xoxo
Please do write about manifesting! I’d love to read about your perfect method!
I love the “I just made love”!
The smoking thing seems a little audacious.
Love this week’s carousel and I definitely can’t wait to see what you write about manifesting!
This post is so wonderful and had heaps of helpful links!!
The pink sparkly docs at the top of the post… Where are they from? I love them. LOVE. I simply must know.
Oh man, I wish I knew about that BME contest when it started, that’s seriously been my dream job for years, I gave it up when I went into college though because everyone kept telling me you can’t go to school for anthropology and take it into body mods around the world!
The “live tweeting abortion” (I agree, whaaaat a sensationalist title) interview was actually really good. Although the link to her blog in the article goes to a doomsday clock website? Weird.
I actually loved the discussion in the comments on the Coilhouse article, I found it really refreshing to see people thinking & talking about things (of course I was one of the commenters so I might be biased ;) ). I don’t think people were really hating for the most part, just discussing.
I have bookmarked the DIY Press Release link, I’m sure it’ll come in handy some day! And Dave Navarro’s blog posts are pretty much always worth reading – thanks for the link.
The Dark Side of Blogging is very similar to something that went around in the burlesque community a few years ago – there were so many women so excited to perform, there was no valuation standard – it made it really difficult to get patrons to pay when so many girls would have completely free shows.
Some very inspiring links as always, really enjoyed the PR 101 and included it in my own links. Would love to hear your thoughts on manifesting. Thanks so much!
I LOVE Jasper Conran’s sequined Docs. I have a white pair myself, that I never wear. Any DIY ideas for converting plain white Docs to a wonderful sugar-sparkle-sequined success?
Bailey — I am definitely not a DIY genius, but I would have thought that you’d just take a pair of white or pale pink Docs, superglue some sequins on & replace the laces with ribbon… ? I am tempted to do it myself!
That I Just Made Love site is quite an interesting concept, I definitely wouldn’t have thought of it tbh. I wonder how people will take to it! And that dog is my fav.
OH MY STARS! THANK YOU GALA! The support is so so so incredibly amazing! You are a star! Thank you thank you thank you! This has me most certainly giddy!
xo
Kaelah
I always read this young boy’s blog : riverdelfin.blogspot.com/
He is going to become a top model, and I think it is interesting to read how this world works, and how newbies get to the top,
I let it here just in case it interest’s you too :) !
Thanks for the nod, Gala.
Amazing to see a pirate wedding pulled off with so little cheese. Halloween usually brings out the worst of the worst in pirate attire. Blackbeard is applauding from his grave.
HaHa A Lot Of The “Prohibited advertising campaigns” Have Appeared In Our UK Magazines. Particularly The Deisel & Calvin Klein, & That Jean Paul Gaultier Ad Is The Only Ad For Them I’ve Seen In The Last Year.
Yet Another Fantastic Set Of Links, Thanks Gala x x x
Haha, these made me laugh so hard. And also, I am not sure if it was you or another blogger who liked Zoolander, but just in case it was you; They are making another! Blue Steel returns!
And those boots are awesome. It’s like fairy dust for your feet.
I would kill for an article on manifestation!
aw man i’m so glad you are extending Radical Self Love month! I planned on keeping it going on my own but i love all your posts on the matter. Whoo hoo!! I can’t wait to see what else you have to say.
pirate wedding – can’t show my fiancee that – he’ll get ideas …. bad ones
even though it’s an end to radical self love month – hopefully everyone will continue to love themselves.
there is a website i can’t think of the name featuring women/girls accepting their impurities/problems/etc and embracing it as beautiful – lots of pictures of peoples with signs, i liked “cellulite happens” _
still have some of this post to go through – it always takes me forever to go through everything!
Sending the David Caruso link to my husband now. He’s going to love it. He calls Caruso “Sunglasses” due to all the sunglasses action on CSI Miami.
Please write a guide to manifesting, as Steve Pavlina’s was probably the most confusing and unhelpful thing I’ve ever read. I have a feeling that you could write a much more useful guide, so please do!
The shoes are really awesome O.O Want
Is it nacre on them?
Did you guys already see the video where Kirsten Dunst dances through Akibahara with a blue wig on.
Very colourful and sparkly.
Interesting to see how she evolved from Lux Lisbon to Marie Antoinette to… Bluehaired Supergirl?
—> www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITEZw…
Gala— it looks as though the shoes are shellacked or something afterwards. I’m definitely going to try re-creating them. To the Craft Lair!
please do write about manifestating things!!!
Those shoes remind me of the rainbow fish.
Loved that book as a kid.
Ahh childhood memories…
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LOVE the dog eating lunch!!!
I really love this week’s carousal…such a great batch of links!
I especially loved that you linked to the abortion tweeter’s interview. I too was a little “wtf?” when I read an initial summary of what she was doing, but after the interview I was very moved by her words and the reasons behind her choices.
Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, her insight to the background and procedure is so valuable to every woman.
That style closet site is pretty cool; the first thing that grabbed my attention:
This guy’s (http://stylelikeu.com/closets/carter-emmart/) occupation: Director of Astrovisualization at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History
Doesn’t that sound like the most awesome job title ever?!
Also Do you have a Tumblr? You should have one just to follow the tumblog’s you like on your dashboard. (*cough*like mine!cough) or you could can set it to just auto blog your entries from here.
OMG I just found this: http://fuckyeahgaladarling.tumblr.com/
:D
Funny to read about the Secession in here.
I live about 3 minutes from there and I can tell you, there are no mass gatherings or something.
I hardly ever see people walk into the club.
Mostly they are amused or interested tourists.
OMG, David Caruso meme just totally made my day! Thank you!
Hey,These cookie cutters are pretty rad…
www.williams
the dog clip was very funny as well
Drew Barrymore is my Godess! I absolutly love her strength, persiverance, determination & sheer enthusiastic gumpsion! She inspires me everyday to grab life by the balls & squeeze as much euphoria out of it as possible! Thanks SO much! I hadn’t seen this clip & u SO just made my night! See? THIS is why u RULE! You just know what makes ppl smile!
Millions of hugs & kisses
& Thanks.