Carousel -- Week Ending 27th March 2009
[ 27 March 2009 ]
Why Dudes Dress Bad by Blueprint. Mmmmhmmmmm.
Terry Richardson shot the Gossip Girl cast. Also, last night he came into my local pizza joint, where I was milling around waiting for David Dallas (check him out) to ge a slice. I smiled at him. He smiled back. It was pretty rad, actually.
Worn Fashion Journal is good stuff.
Simon (you know the one!) wrote a good article recently — These Are Not Your Stories. It’s worth reading.
Sassi Sam’s Pop Culture Gossip is way fun.
The world needs more awesome people giving out compliments without an agenda.
“I honestly can’t tell you what drove me to give people free compliments,” said Westcott, 19, a civil engineering student from southwest suburban Plainfield. “Just overall, making people’s day is really satisfying.”
It’s Never Too Late To Change Your Life from Motivate Thyself.
Photoshoots of EXCESS! Magdalena Frackowiak in Vogue China April (YESSSS) & Sigrid Agren & Karlie Kloss in Vogue Italia February.
Miss Piggy & Kermit Are Highly Compatible... astrologically. This is from Mystic Medusa, who I love. Also, she’s on Twitter, add her!
Tatiana Urina by Steven Klein for Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2002 was deliciously creepy.
Mind Of Man: How To Date A Loser from The Frisky.
“What gives a person character lies not how perfect they are, whether they are rich, stylish, or good-looking. It’s about how they persist despite their flaws.”
Frida Come Back To Me from Dujour magazine. Nice colours.
Abby Lee Kershaw, Eniko Mihalik, Constanca Jablonksi, Sessilee Lopez & Fernanda Tavares in Lady Lust, Vogue Nippon April 2009. I’m not really sure what I think of this (& beware of gratuitous boobage), but I do like the eye make-up very much.
“Dear Audrey, My boyfriend and I live together, we bought our house together, we have a dog together, all of that. We’re practically married but anytime me or anyone talks about it, he gets all defensive and says not to pressure him. We split everything in our lives 50/50 but he still keeps all his money separate, and says it’s ‘in case something happens, you never know’. But I know he loves me… What is going on?”
Ms Spinach writes about The Festival Of Colors. Pretty. I want to go!
1000 Awesome Things still makes me laugh like a maniac. Especially #802 Watching something download really fast & #804 Gym pain.
& Zoomdoggle is still fantastic. Make an oversized Cadbury Creme Egg, hot air balloons time lapse, make your own tiny ice-cream, hip-hop meets Zelda, & finally, this is completely amazing: Ying-Yang Twins on Cribs translated. “I dare Chuck Berry’s ghost to come slap me!” Wow.
Miss Nubs linked to this too & it is really intriguing: Mike Tyson’s abandoned mansion. The comments are preeeeetty incredible too.
I have this friend called Sam. I link to his stuff a lot because he has this uncanny knack for finding the most ridiculous/awesome things. So here we go. 1, 2, 3. Word up.
Thanks, MJ!
Have an amazing weekend!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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I haven’t looked in on Miss Spinach in ages – thanks for linking to her Festival of Colors post. Gorgeous!
Giiiiiant empty house, lots of homeless people on streets. Oh world.
However, compliment guy totally made my day!! Aww, I WANT TO DO THAT! :D
...Of course, in my neighborhood, I may get shot…
That Mike Tyson mansion photo-series is totally interesting!
Also interesting in an abandoned place sort-of-way (via Time):
www.time.com/time/photogallery…
What a slice of Americana!
I love giving out as many compliments as I can each day. It makes me a little sad when people get all weird with me after I compliment them!
Gala! I’ve been obsessively reading your blog and back entries for the last two weeks and I’ve been slowly building a beautiful life and personal style! Thank you for iCiNG!
I very much disagree with Simon’s article about our stories. It seems as though, if it were up to him, the only stories of ours that matter are the times where we chose for ourselves. That would exclude all the bad things that ever happened to us – and yet what’s important ABOUT those stories is how we came out of them. What defines us as people is what we did about those stories, even way after the fact. Igonoring the bad isn’t “empowering”, it’s delusional. And it robs us of the power we developed from lessons learned.
Savannah — My pleasure!
Teresa — You have a point. I think what he wrote is interesting & has validity but is not necessarily “right” for everyone (obviously, since nothing is). You might want to comment on his site though, ‘cause I don’t know if he will even see that I linked to him!
Thank you thank you thank you for the Worn shoutout!
I too share your joy in 1000 awesome things.
Much love
Every Easter, without fail, my sister opens her Creme Egg Easter Egg and sighs forlornly, ‘I wish they’d just fill the whole easter egg with fondant.’
So thanks for sharing that, because this Easter I’ll not be at home with her :( but at least I can let her know that her dream is indeed possible, haha.
wow, simon’s blog is great! thanks for sharing! i intend to take some time to reflect on his ideas.
i went to a holi festival celebration at a local indian restaurant last weekend and it was great! SOOOO MUUUCH GOOOOD FOOOOD! and we all got painted when we came in! by the end of the night all our colors were smeared on our faces from kisses! (:
I will comment on his site! I very much like a lot of his other stuff – I just thought this one kind of missed a key point. But thank you, in any case, for giving us so many interesting things to read! I look forward to the Carousel every week!
Maybe we can find our own abandoned mansion….
I was at the mansion he sold to 50 Cent shooting something for my old job once. Someone let 50 cent’s pack of pitbull puppies out, and Tony Yayo asked me “Why you scared? Why you scared?”
...and here’s my abandoned mansion right here:
http://www.missilebases.com/adironback
I LOVE the Lost Generation video!
number one of Sam’s findings just gets crazier and crazier! Woah! Those interactions happen from time to time but that was like…. there aren’t words!
I got complimented by the compliment guys a couple weeks ago in Indianapolis – it’s amazing how famous they have gotten recently!
Nubby — Neverland, baby giiiiiiiirl.
Thanks for the mention! :-)
Very compelling video, BTW. Thanks for sharing it with us. Eric
Awesome carousel as always, Gala!! By the way, the link for the Vogue Italia photoshoot turns up an error. Similarly the China web page opens but without pictures.
Best. Carousel. EVER.
Thanks for posting the video up Gala, I was shocked and offended when Mum forwarded me the link to it a few weeks ago … until I got all the way to the end and was like … wow.
xx
Your links are always so interesting! Thank you!