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Life and Art
2007-03-06 18:53:00 My friend Sam's mate, Roxe, was killed recently in Cardiff. He was a graffiti artist. Here's a memorial site for him featuring his work, and under "beats" you can hear his brother's rapped eulogy. In the gallery there's a particularly poignant picture of Roxe spraying "Evil". It got me thinking about Life and Art and who is imitating whom.Paradox though it may seem--and paradoxes are always dangerous things --it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life. ... they knew that Life gains from Art not merely spirituality, depth of thought and feeling, soulturmoil or soulpeace, but that she can form herself on the very lines and colours of art and can reproduce the dignity of Pheidias as well as the grace of Praxiteles. Hence came their objection to realism. They disliked it on purely social grounds. They felt that it inevitably makes people ugly, and they were perfectly right. We try to improve the conditions of the race by means of good air, ...
Love Lily Allen?
2007-03-05 07:30:00 If you've wanted to raid Lily Allen 's wardrobe, or at least steal a few of her dresses, you're in luck. Lily is coming out with her own line, Love Lily, this year. This could be the best singer-turned-designer event since Gwen Stefani launched L.A.M.B. Personally, I'd like to raid her jewelry box and closet.
Everybody's Talking About: Catherine McNeil
2007-03-05 03:07:00 Last season Agyness Deyn was the freshest face on the runway. This season, everyone's talking about Catherine McNeil. The seventeen year-old Aussie model is hitting her first runways, and opening for shows like Givenchy (walking ahead of fellow Aussie and top model Gemma Ward; Carmen Kass and Jessica Stam). Not a bad Fashion Week debut. The New York Times just published an article on her.Sure, she's beautiful and bears a striking resemblance to Isabeli Fontana, but I'm not sure what makes her so exceptional. Agyness's look is unique and fun. Catherine almost blends into the crowd of models. Am I wrong?Maybe I just don't know what constitutes exceptional beauty anymore. But that's more or less what the New York Times article is saying. The beauty 'ideal' changes as often as the fashions. Who are the timeless beauties? Are today's top models really timelessly beautiful? More About: About , Talk , Talking , King , Ever
Sunday Afternoon
2007-03-05 01:36:00 Currently reading The Stranger by Albert Camus and listening to Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder. My favorite movie most recently seen is Half Nelson. Ryan Gosling is devastatingly good in it.Wearing a $5.99 vintage dress that is navy blue satin, with a boat neck, true waist, and a painstakingly pleated skirt to the knee. I'll try to post a picture of my latest finds soon. I think I've purchased five cardigans this week. I'm obsessed.Wearing two new (but antique) gold bangles that cost $1 each. Just saw Jessica Stam wearing an identical one in the new Vogue that I know didn't cost $1.Enjoying my new balayage. I was inspired by Carrie's lazy grow-out in Sex and The City, season four I think. I want hair that I can let grow out lazily. It's similar to Gisele's summer-highlights-grown-out look.Spent the afternoon in Capitol Hill, Seattle. Went to the B&O Espresso with Anje and ordered drip coffee and oatmeal. Their oatmeal comes with pecans, dried apricots and... More About: Sunday , Afternoon , After , Day After
"What's This Baby's Butt Doing Where Your Face Should Be?"
2007-03-03 18:41:00 It's been a while since I've written about a product I like, but after I used Dove's new SkinVitalizer yesterday, and my sister exclaimed, "What's this baby's butt doing where your face should be?", in reference to the smoothness, I couldn't resist writing a blog with the same title.Dove's SkinVitalizer is an at-home facial system that includes a hand-held facial cleaning device and little textured sponges. Anyone who's used Dove before knows how good it smells, and this product is no different. It's like facial massage and aromatherapy in one.I gave both my sister and I both mini-facials and we loved the results: skin that glowed and felt smooth as a baby's bottom. I'm a tough customer, usually displeased with every product I buy, but I think I might become a little obsessed with this one. More About: This , Face , Here , Should , Where
More Intellectual Elitism
More articles from this author:2007-02-28 06:29:00 Mary-Kate Olsen has forayed into journalism, debuting this week in the New York Times. Not a shabby newspaper in which to debut. Many talented journalists spend their careers living paycheck-to-paycheck, pounding the pavement, trying to make connections and get work. For the most ambitious, the New York Times is a dream gig. Mary-Kate Olsen does not know the meaning of "paycheck-to-paycheck", she might know what ambition means, but she certainly has connections because by the looks of her writing, it wasn't her writing talent that got her the job:I have a large, red quilted Chanel bag that I borrowed from my sister Ashley. I wore it to an event and never gave it back. Luckily, she's moved on to another bag, so I'm safe for now. I'm not quite sure how many bags I have, but let's just say I have a few. When I find a bag I like, I tend to wear it to death until I become obsessed with another one. This probably happens three to five times a year. But I always come back to the C... More About: Elle , Intellectual , More 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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