Carousel -- Week Ending 8th February 2008
[ 8 February 2008 ]
Happy Friday! Yay!
Food & Money, a Flickr photoset. Photographs of families around the world with the food they eat in a week & how much they spend on it. Very interesting. There is one guy who has taken the time to leave weird ranty comments on each picture, but it’s quite intriguing to see the way people eat & how they spend their money. From those photographs, the main thing I can deduce is that people who spend the least eat the most heathily — & look happiest — while those who are spending the most seem to be pretty much filling up on absolute rubbish. Pre-packaged, sugar-laden nothingness. Not what I would have expected at all.
Foodland. Wow.
I believe that literature is working, even amidst this chaos, with a power that can change the world — an interview with Haruki Murakami, one of the best authors everrr.
How To Thrift Like A Pro by Miss Cedar.
Absolutely mind-blowing underwater fashion portraits. So beautiful. I used one of these pictures yesterday in TiLT.
How to deal with Mercury retrograde — which we’re in right now — from Astrostyle. I love Astrostyle. The twins are awesome.
Miniature spy guns! Gun pipes, crucifixes & lots of other cool stuff. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with spies; this link totally re-activated my obsession.
New year’s resolutions to spice up your sex life from Daily Bedpost! I guess I should have posted this in January but you can start any time!
Nectar & Light is a beautiful new photography blog worth your time!
The Secret To Huge Breakthroughs On Your Goals from Dumb Little Man. It’s February & your goals might be lagging a bit — but it’s never too late to pick them up & dust them off!
Nubby’s having a Valentine’s Day sale on her heart-themed t-shirts! They’re only $10 a pop & they’re fabulous. I have been meaning to pick up one of her black heart/cross shirts for a long time, so I think finally the moment has arrived!
Anyone who takes Paxil or Seroxat should read this.
America’s Next Top Model top 10 makeovers. I’m not sure that I agree with all of their choices, but still!
Hilary Alexander‘s blog for the Telegraph is essential reading for anyone with a lust for fashion — & I love her even more because she, too, gives it up for Victoria Beckham.
Raw stuff: The Joy Of (Less) Sleep & Super-Hydration (I am going to give this a go).
Why Wearing Stilettos Could Boost Your Sex Life from the Daily Mail. Ooh, ahh! Like you needed any more excuses… !
Real Sex Tantalizes As Processed Porn Gets Boring from Wired. But wasn’t processed porn always boring?
What can you do with your garden?
AMAZING.
Pretty.
Yoko Ono reading from Grapefruit (one of my favourite books).
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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hehe, I just realised I do have to pick up my goals and dust them off a bit – thanks for the reminder!
Have a happy weekend Gala.
I love the nubby twiglet shirts! And the underwater photography. [:
haruki is such a great writer.so intense.
i’m in love with underwater pics. they’re magical, ethernal, fabolous
oh, and flashmob freezing thing. as you said- AMAZING.
yesterday re-found that crazy paintings after few years
http://www.markryden.com/
as well as this amazing brass menagerie(cat-like creatures are my favourite)
http://www.jessicajoslin.com/jessica/index.html
bon apetite
Wow Gala! Thank you so much for featuring my thrifting tips on Carousel this week! Your site has been such an inspiration, it feels great to be linked from your site!
The food and money set on Flickr was an eye opener! It was interesting to see the two countires with the lowest incidence of heart disease have the most fresh fruit and vegetables in their diet!
The underwater photography was stunning also. Gala, I wonder whether you have ever perused stylesightings.com? It is an amazing look at New York street fashion.
thanks for the goal link! youre definetly whipping us&our lives into shape arent you? ;)
the spyguns! ee! ive been wanting a gun that shoots out a little flag that says “BANG” on it for months now!
love the flashmob thing remember they had them in melbourne at flinders but I was too chicken! ;that video is really freakin cool though made me really giggle that poor bloke on the little cleanup car thing.hehe.
love love love the underwater shots..
spanx gala youse da shiznit! (its a good thing) xxoo
Yay! Thank you so much for linking to those amazing underwater photos. And the Grand Central Station freezemob is AMAAZING.
Hey, I have tickets to 27 Dresses at Sylvia Park, Wed 13th at 5.30. An East Auckland nonpareil needs to email me! (I SO don’t live in East Auckland.)
i spent my summer with haruki murakami & a wind-up bird.
it’s funny that i bought the book just because i loved the cover (white, with a graphic peacock) & now murakami is one of my favorite writers.
limiting my daily to-read-pages (i wanted it to
last as looong as possible, yea im a bit retarded) – thinking about what outfit and/or drink could go with the book & if i should read the book in the hammock or under the olive tree this day were my biggest concerns…
yes, summer is fun.
we are cold. at the moment :/
i saw the food & money photos in an earlier discovery or national geographic mag & it was accompanied by some great reading too. less is more. well, sometimes.
Hey Gala, what happen to ‘icing day’? It isn´t for this weekend??
Hey Gala, what happen to ‘icing day’? It isn´t for this weekend??
what does it say about me that i loved the foodland pics so much? while the 6th down is the least visually pleasing for me, i was so impressed when i realised that the water is smoked salmon. honestly, how on earth does someone realise that smoked salmon will make the perfect tropical sea?
would it be terrible if i said those pictures were a “feast for my eyes”?
the flashmob was wonderful to watch. i wonder if the general public was expecting Xavier to come wheeling through. i wish flashmobs didn’t only ever happen when i’m working. one day…
thankyou for brightening my day
Food and Money was fascinating, but I disagree with you as to the weird ranty comments. They are my favorite part! Sooooo funny.
I love how he seems to hate Coke and soda.
Oh wow, that gardening video is AMAZING. If I had a garden I would totally turn it into a veggie homestead… sadly I am loving my apartment in the city just a little too much right now. But one day!
Awesome links, as usual, Gala!! :) I especially loved the one on thrifting like a pro. Even I, who consider myself a pro (I started thrifting weekly with my mom back in the early 1990s), learned a couple things and was reminded of some great principles!! :) Hooray!
honeyange — I meant to update about it but keep forgetting to… I’m not doing iCiNG Day any more! I have really lost my passion & enthusiasm for it so it seems silly to continue doing something I don’t enjoy. You are, of course, free to celebrate it any way you wish ;D
That Wired article makes me super proud to work at kink.com. I love my company!
my boyfriend sent me that heels/Daily Mail story the other day. I think it was a hint. :)
The raw food one!! I had no idea it could have that affect on your sleeping patterns! And the model’s pretty tasty as well – can’t believe those beautiful underwater photographs, how did the make up stay on?! Great links Gala thank you again for brightening my cold English morning! :) XXxxxx
I love Haruki Murakami, the way that his stories unfold and how the tiny details hint at something much more deeper. I picked up The Wind up Bird Chronical on a whim (I hadn’t even herd of it before) and have be reading ever since. I love slightly absurd and slightly political novels.
I read that he was inspired by Kafka somewhere which makes sense too.
The food and money photographs made me think.How much food do I actully need to buy incomparasent to how much I waste? Maybe a food diary prehaps could help? I’d really like to stop my overly consumerist ways, but it takes alot of will.
Re. the hydration thing- optimum hydration is great, but it is possible to damage your health by drinking too much water (as I’m sure you know). Taking in excessive amounts, or drinking too much in one go, can mess up your electrolytes and make you unwell. Sorry if you’re well aware of this already, I would just hate for you to end up having ill effects from your new lifestyle.
dude these carousels keep getting exponentially better! thanks!
i LOVE the interview with haruki murakami (he talks like he writes in a way!) and the article on how to deal with mercury retrograde. this retrograde screwed up my birthday and i’m figuring out how to recover and move upward and onward…
I just finished reading Kafka on the Shore; really appreciated the Murakami interview.Thanks X