I Think I'm going to take a break from blogging

I'm gonna take a break.

I've been really busy with school and friends and clubs and sports and everything else, so I don't really have a lot of time for this.

I'll post when I get a chance!

Love you all!



Magazine: Russh
Issue: #24 September/October 2008
Title: Brooke
Photographer: Steven Chee

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I have been terribly busy with school work, but no fear, I'll be posting an outfit soon (hopefully).

Picture of the Day:


Magazine: Flair Italy
Issue: August 2008
Photographer: Jem Mitchell
Model: not sure

Ooh, the Spanish influence on this picture is so fascinating. I love it. I want tomato red tights and a ridiculous red cape. Maybe I'll even get some red flowers...

Birthday, First Day

Today was my birthday, yay.

Today was also the first day of school.

The good thing about having the my birthday on the first day of school is that I get to see all of my friends again. The down side is that I sort of forgot it was my birthday. Ha.

I got a camera which is always nice. It's the same kind as the one that I broke all those months ago, so it's good since I already know how to use it. And I plan on doing an outfit post (finally) because now I have both a tripod and a Samsung Digimax L85.

Btw, the cupcake is from a place called Kara's Cupcakes- or at least I think it is, I found it off of google.

I also watched Atonement the other day. I guess it was interesting. Sort of boring. The clothing at the beginning of the movie was so beautiful and light.

Picture of the Day (or rather, pictures of the day):

Campaign: Chanel Fall 2001
Model: Angela Lindvall

Ooh, that bag is fancy. I wish I could carry a bag like that in real life and be really overly extravagant. I would love to see what kind of little fun toys she carries around in there.

Doesn't her bed just look so crisp and comfy?

Fish Out of Water

Alright, my last post was a big failure. I'll admit it. Which is why my new post is called fish out of water. Fish swim. There is a reason why they don't have feet. Here's my reasoning: if fish had feet, they'd also be able to breathe above water. But, since they don't, they sort of roll around and flip over.

Flopping.

See the connection?
I'm most likely using the term wrong, so forgive me.

Picture of the Day:

Magazine: Wallpaper
Issue: May 2004
Title: Hoe Couture
Model: Jeppe Zeller
Photographer: James Waddell

I love this picture. It's so bright and colorful. A lot of editorials these days focus on creepy colors and using strange shadows to highlight a sense of mystery. It is rather refreshing to see an editorial that is lively, but one that is also called "Hoe Couture."

You might see a hoe in this picture (is that how you really spell hoe?) and I see one too. I just think that it's so incredible how the stylist and photographer and everyone managed to make a hoe look just a bit innocent.

Zero Day(s)

The Olympics begin tomorrow. I'm extremely excited and I really cannot wait.

When I was seven years old, I took a martial arts class. The instructor or head (I seriously don't really remember who he is...) said that in 2008, they would be flying to China to perform at the Olympics. I remember how excited everyone was, but now, looking back, I don't ever think he really meant it. It really does not make much sense.

So, specifically, what will I be paying attention to? Definitely volleyball (since I play that sport), and swimming (since I also swim...), and gymnastics (since I just love watching that. It's always so fluid and beautiful whereas other sports- besides ice skating- is more about power and speed).


Pic of the Day:

Magazine: Fashion Rocks
Issue: 2008
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Model: Sasha Pivovarova
Featuring: Dhani Harrison

This picture is thrilling. Maybe not in an obvious "let's go on a roller coaster" way, but they look so carefree and happy and as if nothing would matter... even if some rabid squirrel were to come in and try to bite off a toe. After all, they are wearing closed-toe shoes. Alright, that wasn't funny.

I also love the styling in this picture. It's so absurd to ever think that anyone would wear a thick fur coat (which I am strongly against) in the dead heat of the summer. It looks like it's summer. The trees in the background still have their leaves (unless those trees don't shed? Is that the word?). I love how the stylist mixed such wintry items with such summery accessories (the hat).

update:
I was watching the opening ceremony, and it really blew me away. It was really quite fantastic, but I'm sure you all know that from watching it. But I have a question, if you were paying attention during the parade of the countries (or whatever that's called), they introduced this one guy from a country in Africa (I think. It might have been an island country) who learned how to swim nine months before the Olympics in Athens. He couldn't finish the 100 meter, so the audience cheered him on. Do you guys know what his name is? Or what country he's from? I'm trying to find out.

Lucy and Jude

To all: I'm sorry about my lack of posts during the last week. I've been rather busy and haven't had time to update. Okay, that's a lie, I was being lazy. I did make one post, but it was pretty horrible, so I ended up deleting it.

Anyhoo, moving on to the picture of the day:
Magazine: Jalouse
Issue: December 2002/January 2003
Photographer: Paf! Le Chien
Model: Heather Marks

This editorial is called Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (The Beatles) which just happens to be one of my favorite songs. I'm not sure if you can see the image or not, so if you need to, just click on the picture and it'll redirect you to a bigger one.

I absolutely love both images, what with the double image thing blended to form one. I'm not sure what you'd call that? Dual? But it's absolutely stunning. The styling was so effortless and simple, not too modern, not too outdated. These pictures are classic.

I couldn't have picked a better title for this editorial.

All the World's a Stage

All the world's a stage.

What many people do not know (and what I did not know until very recently), was that this poem supposedly bringing so many people inspiration, is about death. Well, according to my English teacher that is. But I seriously doubt his wisdom, he seems to be wrong a lot.

But it makes sense. The whole poem is building up to a single climax where, in the end, we all die. A nice thought to think about in the middle of summer, no? Okay, so, you may be wondering why I want to bring up this poem and here is why: I used to hate this poem.

If you've ever watched Kenneth Branagh's version of As You Like It, you may understand what I mean. When Jacques (Jake-es? Jacque-ui? Let's ponder over this for a while...) so eloquently reads this poem, it took nearly ten minutes. The sun could have set and risen again in that amount of time. I'm sure that good actors will take their time, but by the end, I was really getting very impatient.

But that was just the movie. When I actually read As You Like It, "All the World's a Stage" and the "Epilogue" was about as much of the play that I liked. So why did I suddenly like this tenminutelongforJacquestoreaditaloud poem? Well, maybe it was the idea that Shakespeare wrote it, or maybe it was the fact that it didn't take ten minutes to read.

My dear bloggers, today, find a poem you thought you always hated and read it again. Try to find the beauty in it, maybe you will.

Today's picture:


Campaign: Bergdorf Goodman
Photographer: Candace Meyer

Last time I used a rather dark photographer and I was just about to use another one with that same tone when I stumbled across this bright little picture. I am guessing that this flower is a lotus? But, me being unschooled in the world of flowers, I am not sure at all.

I think that the reason why I chose this picture is very self-explanatory. It's beautiful and simplistic. Just seeing that one flower rising out of the water with dozens of lily pads (lilypads?) floating around it makes me wonder at how this little flower can be so inspirational. But it is. And it doesn't hurt that this one picture has beautiful lighting.

Girls Do What They Want

"Girls do what they want (woah oh woah oh)"

What better of a quote or rather, song lyric, could sum up my day? Or not really my day, but my whole summer... FYI, the song lyric is from Girls Do What They Want by The Maine. On the subject of The Maine, they came out with their first actual album today. How exciting is that? Do check it out. It's called Can't Stop Won't Stop. I do believe that it's taken from a line in one of the songs.

Still on that topic, Danger Radio ALSO released a CD album today. This one's called Used and Abused. I haven't listened to it yet, but being an avid fan (not really avid... maybe just a normal fan), I'm sure that the music will be great just as usual. In order to take up some space so that I can put in another picture without them getting all squished together, I'll delve into the word avid. Isn't it just wonderful? Okay, enough of that.

I really wanted to make a post dedicated to today's releases, but I realized that I really wouldn't be able to write very much. So I'm sort of going to add in another tidbit of information:

Because of my recently broken (I can't think up of a suitable word, so I'll just use the most boring one) camera, I'm not going to be able to put up outfits so instead, I'll put up interesting pictures in their place. Today's picture is:


Magazine: Numero 94
Issue: June/July 2008
Model: Natasa Vojnovic
Photographer: Alix Malka

I wish I could make this picture bigger, but I can't without it getting all fuzzy and that bothers the crapola out of me. The picture is so dreamy and creepy all wrapped into one. Doesn't it make you worry about this ever happening to you? Being submerged into a deep lake wearing a floaty outfit which will just float right back up to the surface? To me, that whole floaty clothing thing is either a check or a minus. Sometimes it can just look cheesy.

BTW, if you're wondering, I'm getting all or most of these pictures off the Livejournal community, Mixologies. It's rather awesome. I recommend you check it out.

Smarticles and Tea Parties

If I were a smarticle I'd be reading literary classics all day long... but sometimes I find that they take a rather long time to read. But for the past two weeks I've been reading Jane Eyre. That's about how exciting my life's been.

But anyhoo:

Magazine: Tank
Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2
Model: Iekeliene Stange
Photographer: Cameron Smith

If there were ever a utopia that wouldn't get all AnimalFarmHarrisonBergeron-y, this would be it. Eating pizza while having a tea party with a bunch of ponies in a room full of books. But since life isn't like that, we'll have to live with our alternative music, instant messangers, and our fabulous blogs.
Btw, if you actually read that little piece of information on the bottom of the photo... then please tell me, what is a volume? Now I sound all stupid, but the word volume and the way it's applied never makes sense to me.

So it's pretty obvious that I don't have much to say and that I just wanted to make an update.

update 7/7/08:
I haven't mentioned this yet, but I just remembered. I'm basically what I consider as a terrible writer. So part of the reason why I have this blog is to practice my writing skills. I'm not eloquent at all and everything I say is so short and not elaborated upon.

So my reasons for having a blog:
1. To practice writing
2. To ramble on and on
3. To post pictures that I like
4. To put up my outfits that I wear.

Sadly enough, 4 won't be happening anytime soon as I sort of broke my camera a few days ago. And I don't mean "oh let's just go charge the battery, maybe that'll fix it" broken. I mean more like I smashed the whole screen and broke the inside of the camera. Sigh.