Carousel -- Week Ending 8th August 2008

[ 8 August 2008 ]

Clara Bow
...With your host, Clara Bow!

<3 24 Hours Of Flickr happens today, Friday the 8th of August! Take a photo of your life today (or tomorrow, dear Americans) & share it in the Flickr 888 group. Yay!

<3 Patrick Demarchelier & Gemma Ward for Vogue India. Pretty. Shiny. Good.

<3 Nogoodforme interviews Francesca Lia Block! Yay!

<3 Dealing with email overload? Keep your responses to five sentences or less! This is pretty much something I have had to implement, even before I read it, because otherwise I would spend my entire life digging through my inbox. Anyway, it’s an interesting read, have a look.

<3 I love the crazy broads at Coilhouse. They’re putting together a magazine, did you know? The Making Of A Magazine: Coilhouse Issue 01 is a cool behind-the-scenes peek. Craigslist Ad For Super Mario Bros Sex is pretty amazing, too.

<3 The scariest cakes I have ever seen. & I don’t say that lightly!

<3 Rich People Rooftops NYC is a Flickr set of, well, you probably already guessed, but the finest-lookin’ rooftops on offer in NYC. Some of them look pretty great. I still have a special fondness for my one, though!

<3 Watermelon pink nail polish for everyone!

<3 Twitter seems to have sorted itself out so I am back to encouraging everyone I know to sign up again! Twitter has been a great source of joy to me this last week, so make an account & follow me & HAVE FUN!


Mary-Kate Olsen for Elle UK.


Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala <3


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  1. Wow is that really Clara Bow?

    <3 Amy · Aug 8, 11:55 AM · #

  2. oohh Gala, I really don’t need another internet addiction. But twitter is sooo much fun and I downloaded twhirl today so I can obsessively tweet more efficiently. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing though.

    <3 Valentina · Aug 8, 12:00 PM · #

  3. Amy — Oui! Cute, huh?

    Valentina — Twhirl is fantastic. I love it!

    <3 Gala · Aug 8, 12:07 PM · #

  4. The conversations that may arise from ballet!

    What exactly is Twitter? I’ve joined hi5, bebo, myspace, facebook, some others I don’t remember… is it just social networking?

    <3 Dulce · Aug 8, 12:15 PM · #

  5. Ahhh Clara Bow!
    “The girl of the year…someone to stir every pulse in the nation…” (- F. Scott Fitzgerald)

    <3 Birdie! · Aug 8, 12:17 PM · #

  6. Dulce — Twitter is like having a personal public broadcast system. It’s kind of like the Facebook status update thing except you can actually communicate with other people. I basically use it to keep up with what my friends are doing as they go about their day. It is an awesome way to keep in touch & contact, soooo good!

    <3 Gala · Aug 8, 12:19 PM · #

  7. I love Twitter. Whenever anything silly happens to me or when I have a particularly witty statement I want to share with the world – I can! :D

    There’s this really great little anecdote story called ‘Carousel’ in the book “The Goddess Guide” by Gisele Scanlon. The majority of the book is pretty hit or miss (anyone who reads iCiNG would not gain much by reading it) – I’m just finishing a review of it for my blog, but that story is good.

    <3 Lady Julianne le Fay · Aug 8, 12:35 PM · #

  8. LOL WTF Super Mario sex?! That is the weirdest thing I ever read…

    <3 Annie Spandex · Aug 8, 12:37 PM · #

  9. Watermelon pink! So cuuute! And the rich people’s rooftops – wow.

    <3 Nadine · Aug 8, 01:13 PM · #

  10. I just joined twitter a few days ago! I have an entire 1 follower (sad!). And gala, you are completely addicted to that thing! I love it though.

    <3 Ali · Aug 8, 01:18 PM · #

  11. Thanks for the links! I loooove Francesca Lia Block, so I’m excited to read the interview.

    <3 Dollface · Aug 8, 01:42 PM · #

  12. Thanks for adding me on Twitter, sweetie :)

    <3 Doe Deere Blogazine · Aug 8, 02:06 PM · #

  13. Ahh the Clara Bow picture makes me want to watch “It” again, she’s the cutest thing.

    I’m new to Twitter and would love to befriend some nonparelis, let’s get the ball rolling and follow each another! twitter.com/robotnic

    <3 Nicola · Aug 8, 02:36 PM · #

  14. wow, i didnt know who clara bow was until you mentioned her. just read up on her in wiki – facinating life!

    <3 Ivy · Aug 8, 02:42 PM · #

  15. XDD I already follow you on Twitter. I’m waiting for the 24 hours of Flickr, I have my camera ready!!

    <3 Juls · Aug 8, 02:47 PM · #

  16. That Cake Wrecks site is beyond hilarious!
    I’m a bit TOO into the NYC gardens flickr, voyeurism at it’s best :)

    <3 popartpistol · Aug 8, 03:31 PM · #

  17. I didn’t get the point of Twitter but now I can’t get enough of it.

    If anyone wants to follow me, I am at twitter.com/missmarisol

    Nicola – I added you.

    <3 Marisol · Aug 8, 04:20 PM · #

  18. yay, thanks so much for posting the mk video. i’d seen the magazine scan but not that. ahh does not top the nylon video though. amazing. xx

    <3 Harriet · Aug 8, 04:25 PM · #

  19. i do love me some twitter!
    twitter.com/yaymaryann

    <3 nerdyspice · Aug 8, 04:38 PM · #

  20. i fall in love with this site more everyday. of course i should have assumed you would love FLB too. shes amazing =) anyway, just wanted to say i just signed up for twitter thanks to this post && i love it. so i wanted to share a little something with you…i was recently @ lollapalooza in chicago && heard a wonderful band chromeo. we seem to have verrrry similar musical taste (atmosphere (!!!), fleetwood mac, biggie, girltalk etc.) so thought you might enjoy them. =D

    loveee

    <3 erica · Aug 8, 05:06 PM · #

  21. oh i forgot to mention: i also LOVE me some francesca lia block! the weetzie bat books, nymph? oh yes yes yes!

    <3 nerdyspice · Aug 8, 05:13 PM · #

  22. Ooohh, I looovveee Clara Bow! I’ve debated a Clara portrait tattoo for a couple years now. :)

    I was watching her on Youtube last night, and liked this one in particular:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1nY3…

    To be able to convey such emotion with just your face (and mostly, her eyes)! sigh

    <3 eliza · Aug 8, 06:30 PM · #

  23. oh clara bow, i love her so!

    <3 nico · Aug 8, 08:01 PM · #

  24. Deformed foot cake is the worst and greatest thing I’ve ever seen!

    <3 kitten` · Aug 8, 08:54 PM · #

  25. i love the francesca lia block interview, thank you for sharing! i’m excited for her new stuff, especially “how to uncage a girl.”

    that cake blog is great, i can’t believe how many people comment on the posts & i wonder how the writer keeps getting new material!

    i love blogs that are a stupid but funny idea taken much too far & becoming a thing of itself; stuffwhitepeoplelike.com is funny (but go back into the archives…) & hipsterrunoff.com can be hilarious.

    <3 Rachel Radness! · Aug 8, 09:38 PM · #

  26. A friend of mine is developing a brand new thing for Twitter & Facebook – It’s gonna be awesome!

    OOh & those Gemma Ward pictures are soo good! Yummy.

    <3 irmak · Aug 9, 01:07 AM · #

  27. hey gala, what is your friend’s website who sells thouse amasing pants? (knickers!) ???

    <3 B · Aug 9, 03:59 AM · #

  28. Oh my god, that cake blog! There goes my day….

    <3 Joanne · Aug 9, 04:03 AM · #

  29. Also, I am such a sheep:

    twitter.com/iamtheparty

    <3 Joanne · Aug 9, 04:14 AM · #

  30. twitter.com/ameliafell

    <3 Amelia Jane · Aug 9, 04:49 AM · #

  31. Thank you so much for including the FLB interview! I wasn’t aware of it (and I call myself a fan). ;)

    <3 Cassandra · Aug 9, 04:53 AM · #

  32. aaaahhhhh I love Clara, that’s such a cute pic!

    <3 B · Aug 9, 05:02 AM · #

  33. I was so excited to see Clara Bow on your page, she’s one of my fashion icons and I have a picture of her as Rough House Rosie for my desktop. Very inspiring ;P

    <3 bri · Aug 9, 06:36 AM · #

  34. CUPCAKE?! I’m losing it!

    FLB interview = love.

    <3 kylie · Aug 9, 06:38 AM · #

  35. Those cakes are HIGH-larious.

    My parents threw us a mini wedding reception in my hometown for folks who couldn’t make the big event. We’d asked the ‘rents to read a quote or poem during the ceremony, and my smart aleck dad recited the lyrics to “Zip-a-dee-doo-da.” So, when Mom ordered the reception cake, she asked them to write. “Zip-a-dee-doo-da.”

    It said: Dippity Do Dah.

    NOICE.

    <3 Sal · Aug 9, 07:02 AM · #

  36. thanks so much for the link! and i love the scary-cake blog!! xo

    <3 liz · Aug 9, 08:03 AM · #

  37. oh my gawd that super mario craigslist is the funniest/worst thing i’ve ever read…

    how do you respond to that?

    “i’m game. punINtended”
    “one up me”

    the possibilities are surprisingly endless.

    <3 bettyoakes · Aug 9, 09:02 AM · #

  38. Oh my… I had a good little look with my mum (the professional baker, with her own cake making business) through the pages of scary cakes.
    She was mortified. I thought it was hilarious!

    <3 Amy · Aug 9, 09:24 AM · #

  39. Wow, I was just looking at Lia Block books online after posting another one to give away at Paperbackswap.com!
    I also just spent an hour laughing at the cake on that site!
    Great links this week girl!

    <3 Sydney Hell · Aug 9, 09:41 AM · #

  40. I lovvvve twitter (& using through twhirl) @treslola .. <3

    <3 Katie · Aug 9, 03:17 PM · #

  41. Those cakes were pretty funny, however, I still maintain that THESE are the scariest cakes I’ve ever seen:
    http://shapeandcolour.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/bread3.jpg
    They’re from a place called ‘The Body Bakery’. Pleasant, no? I wonder how much demand they’re in!
    xx

    <3 Kirby · Aug 9, 05:18 PM · #

  42. I always forget there’s not as much icing on weekends. I wonder how gala’s intern went and what happened to her…

    <3 Amelia jane · Aug 9, 07:11 PM · #

  43. Mwahahaha! Sometimes I feel watermelon pink too!

    <3 nana · Aug 9, 09:34 PM · #

  44. I just started my twitter account…and its brilliant. Now I need to figure out how to upload a pic without it telling me something is wrong with the photo…RARRR. Techology is so frustrating sometimes!!

    twitter.com/phobbs82

    I need to follow some inspiring people. Funny people will do too :)
    —gala…already following you…nubby too.

    Cheers!

    <3 PHobbs · Aug 10, 10:39 AM · #

  45. I just spent the last hour reading every back entry on Cake Wrecks. I am mightily amused.

    <3 Super Kawaii Mama · Aug 10, 01:13 PM · #

  46. I love the Twitter too, my dear!

    I love hearing what everyone is doing all the time. It’s better and IM, I think especially as I can share while I’m running around and with pics from the phone.

    If anyone wants to follow, I’m at twitter.com/PrincessPoochie
    and will be on the look out for you too!

    Luv
    Poochie

    <3 Poochie · Aug 11, 12:51 PM · #

  47. I should’ve mentioned above that I’m happy to gain more followers too! twitter.com/alibell
    I added everyone who put their address here! for some reason I’m much more comfortable twitter-ing to people I don’t know than my everyday friends!

    <3 Ali · Aug 12, 03:11 PM · #
 

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