Showing posts with label Cool Pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cool Pictures. Show all posts

Friday, 20 June 2008

COLOURFUL LIKE HERMES

God..everytime my friend Naomi goes on trips she hauls back the most four-dimensional, character-brimming shots. Have a couple of my faves...


[the eldest son gets his head shaved for a funeral ceremony. I hate it when my friends back in T'dad have to go through this. Who wants everyone to know that a loved one died while you're walking down the street? Bless him.]





[dig the guy in the dark sunglasses in the background]

Anyway, the parts of Abu Dhabi and Dubai you don't see are starting to morph into this. This place is thick and spilling over with hidden beauty. Fuck the Burj. Try looking behind that, in the shadow of its impressiveness. I urge you, if you have no obligations and you find yourself in Dubai, take the public buses. ABSOLUTELY don't if you are planning to get somewhere on time, though. But I've experienced the real Dubai just by being stuck on public transportation all. day. long. for this internship. It's been a real eye-opener. So, as much as the hours are long, and the office chair at VIVA can seriously paralyse your bum, and the 2 hour bus journeys that it takes for me to get there, I am very grateful for this experience. I've never seen so much of this place that I live in.

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

THE TEN THINGS

1. SUMMER SEGMENTS! Or Spring rather. A natural wonder spread across the fields of Hitsujiyama Park in Chichibu, Japan. Moss Phlox flowers.



2. I had a dream about it being really early morning. I was sleeping in my parent's bed but they were not around. My sister was making racket outside and knocking on my door and trying to get me to wake up and come out and go sailing with her. She wouldn't stop begging. I just ignored her. Eventually I got so fed up and wanted to get back to sleep so I flung the door open to yell and there was Ellen Page looking at me, smiling. She said it was her all along, and she really really really needed me to go with her because I knew how to handle the boat better and she was scared to go on her own. It was so early it was still dark out, and the waves would be major and thrashing and angry. So, because it was Ellen Page, my girl crush, I started getting dressed slowly. She told me that Diablo Cody(Juno screenwriter) always talked about me, my work, my writing, how great I was at my craft; and said she was always quoting me. And she was serious too. And that's why this was a dream. Anyway, it ends off, I think, with me saying 'Well tell Diablo I said I think she's fuckin' hot.'

3. I got a Facebook Friend Request from Sherel. Still not believing that she blocked me in the heat of fury. Anyway, there is no explanation for why we are now friends and talking again like...a month later. She just up and texted me one day while I was at a bus stop at 2am somewhere...and we've planned to meet up for drinks this week like nothing ever went down. Okay. I can dig it.

4. So I just spent roughly £6 on this Keracare foam wrap set formula to attempt wrapping my hair at night to keep it smooth and stuff instead of rowdy and chaotic when I wake but I have serious skills issues. How come all other black girls wrap their hair effortlessly as if they were born doing it save for me?! UGH I'm such a fuckin' Oreo! It's in a fuckin' ponytail for bed. FUCK THAT!

5. I can't believe how hot I am.

6. I went to the library at 9am for some reason today, to get out copies of 'A Moveable Feast' and 'The Lonely Londoners' but apparently, today was a bank holiday (so they were opening at 11am). So, I jumped on a happy sunny bus with happy sunny people to Marble Arch and went on a ridiculously fruitful Primark shopping spree, where I faced my fears and dug into size 8 pants (rather than my usual size 10) and I came out with the sexiest motherfuckin' pair of tight as lycra black skinny jeans. Jen from Gnarlitude ain't got nothin' on me in them jeans. SHIT. As soon as I came home I just HAD to set myself a task in them. So I braved the student-infested lawn and went to get a coke from the vending machine. This hot lounging blonde guy reacted instantly! ...Okay, but not to my jeans. He said, 'Wow, that girl's sunglasses are fucking epic.' That's okay though. I still took it and flipped my hair and ignored him and walked on in my metal band tshirt and SEXXXYYYY JEAANSSS (AHH!). But I really have to question his whereabouts over the past year, as my sunglasses were only the increasingly popular red wayfarers featured in my blog's header :s

7. I find it really difficult to produce a short story now that it is not required of me. But today, after my Primark haunt, I sat in Starbucks for roughly two hours and wrote several pages of any and everything for the first time since school got out. I'm really worried about this in the future though...It seems like story ideas have evaded me with the arrival of vacation.

8. Four words on film. The Science of Sleep. Rent it, buy it, burn it, steal it, just so long as you see it. Gael Garcia Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg!!!
9. I have nuff love for my friend Damian. He messaged me to find out the dates I'll be in Trinidad this summer because he's having a major joint birthday party with his girlfriend and isn't holding it unless I am there. AND I'M SO THERE, BABE! And organizing the DJ it seems...And I'm thinking that I just might re-do my 19th with them too because I didn't get a fair shot this time around what with all my crying and depression over getting old. Yeah, I have incomprehensible issues and am probably making my entire reader population feel geriatric. Sorry.
10. There's something you should know. I own retainers. I make everything cool though so they are hot pink. My teeth are back to their old shifty ways so I am going to start back wearing them as much as possible this summer. I'm talking to myself to hear the slight lisp it creates when you are re-familiarizing yourself with them. I guess I'll have to remain speechless for a couple days.

Friday, 2 May 2008

SUMMER SEGMENTS: SHOW, DON'T TELL

Those epic photographs I've been meaning to post by Hedi Slimane. I wish my summer could look like this



























Yes. Ugliness/Dirtiness is the new Pretty. That is why I will not be combing my hair today to go out for lunch. Actually, that's not why, I just can't really deal with it since it's all frizzed and it looks kinda feathery and cool so I'm attempting to play it cool. 'Oh ya, I rock this all the time. I'm a bedhead girl. I wake up when you guys have your lunch breaks.'





Saturday, 12 April 2008

THE FRECKLES IN OUR EYES ARE MIRROR IMAGES

Oh my. How much sweeter can the world get? A website devoted to photographs from around the world, by contributing photographers, of the ones they love, their better halves. I think you can submit your own work if you email the owners your shit and they like it. IT'S SO CUTE! *sigh*


I'm all sap crappy this weekend.
Lots of complicated ex-boyfness and Hanif Kureishi literature. AND MY FRIENDS GOT ENGAGED IN HONG KONG!

PLUS I found out it's true that when one door closes, a window opens (or whatever that rank cliché is). I came back from Dubai and found out my friend sold my two Bjork tickets (probably to a much higher bidder) for the show on Monday and I was really down about that. BUT THEN I met up with a friend Mathew who came down from Nottingham for a bit and he told me about the Defenders of the Faith Tour. TWO of my all time favourite metal bands (along with two insignificant others) are playing: Opeth and Arch Enemy! That means I am going to see 'The Akerfeldt' in all his long-haired droopy-eyed sex appeal, AND a hot Swedish chick growl at me! OW! The show's on the 26th. Plus the tickets were significantly cheaper. I love that everyone in London hates metal. £18.50 for 4 bands, 2 weeks before the show? That's the kind of math I like best.

Saturday, 5 April 2008

BEFORE I GO



RAWR!






THE WISPY HAIR AND EYELASHES

I'D DO MISS STAR TATTOO ON THE RIGHT


CLICK ON THE PICTUREEEE. HER SUNGLASSES ARE WORTH IT. I LOVE PINK HAIR!

YES, THAT IS A PREGNANT LADY HAVING A SMOKE

CHECK OUT HER BRIGHT NAILS. JUST YOU CLICK ON IT. FUCK YEAH!

THIS GUY IS UNBELIEVABLY HOT. I CANNOT STRESS, THEREFORE I WON'T

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY PEOPLE HOLD THEIR CIGARETTES THAT MAKE THEM SO APPEALING TO DIE FOR


HERE HE IS AGAIN ON THE LEFT! HAWT!
[PHOTOS COURTESY THE COBRA SNAKE]