dying to see this movie.




would it suck? yes. i love this film idea and sometimes i find it so hard to imagine the people who think of great ideas like these... I AM DYING TO WATCH THIS.

"we have the technology only if it can deliever an emotional message"

nuit blanche: this is absolutely breathtaking

happy new year !
this year was the greatest year yet !! tore it up in france, muskoka, michigan and all over the place! I enjoyed it at Kaitlyn's house with a bunch of great friends. We played Beirut, rockband, watched the canada vs. usa junior game (CANADA, YEAH!). it was epic.

anyways, i was at urban barn checking out some xmas gifts earlier this week-- and i realized that i absolutely love all the furniture and the way they furnish everything. I found this little... head? bourque? can't remember what it's called... anyways it was a head with all the areas of the brain and where it divies up basic emotions. very cool. that made me start thinking about our basic human emotions and how we interpret situations.

anyways, nuff said. check it: http://changingminds.org/explanations/emotions/basic%20emotions.htm

well hi !
heres some things to remember;



thats right ! sheep dancing on their way to the butcher, folding newspaper flowers, lost job, parking ticket... but still, life is a good good thing!

I've been looking a lot into the buddhist concept of 'meditating ones own death to really experience life' and this was one of the things that I thought related to it-- we can fear death and not want to be associated with it ever... Or we can accept the inevitability of our deaths and understand that we'll die eventually and not let it get us down!

Secondly, some tunes:

Happiness -The Fray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NE1S1HyTsY
Isaac wrote this song to his 87-year old Grandfather who checked himself into an old folks home where he decided he would live the last 10 years of his life. Then, he met a girl. Maggie was an 88-year old who lived there too. They got married. :)
WELL NOW, talk about accepting life in order to live! Only after the grandfather had accepted he would die eventually, did he not fear it. He embraced falling in love again and decided to live life to the fullest while he could!

Hazy Ocean Lullaby -Kitty the Lion
http://www.myspace.com/kittythelion

Nothing imparticular... I just think she sounds great (and I love the band name).

I was just on the CW Youtube channel when i stumbled across these... It's a fashion update with the 'costume' director of Gossip Girl. After watching some of the segments (one on each blair, serena, vanessa and jenny) i realized just how much GGs intense, and expensive, wardrobe reflects each of the characters personalities. its just another example of how many simple things in our lives reflect artwork and can be interpreted in a different way.

blair - i used to think the headbands were a little much... but now that gg is in a later season and she's at NYU and no longer wears them (thank god) i realized that they always did make her seem a little immature... i never picked up on it until now. blairs put-together look makes her seem more mature, but personally i don't like how everything in her life is so structured. some dresses are great! and i looooove them. but her style in general is not how i could ever see myself dressing.

serena - i like the 'imma throw on a cardigan with my big slouchy bag and leave looking great' bit about kate moss and such, but as it continued i found everything about serena was just a little too loud. the german blazer (didn't really love that one) and some of the bedazzled jewelled vests and necklaces... this just backs up how she's going back to her old party-girl lifestyle though, so of course it relates to the plot development in the series. Of all the character segments i've watched (only B, S and V) i can see myself dressing more effort-lessly like serena. however at school my look is def. more put together than hers and less BLAM-IN-YO-FACE. (maybe a serena/blair happy medium? hmm...)

vanessa - i used to love vanessa's easy-going-laid-back style because it never seemed like she tried to hard like some of the other girls. not only that but vanessas more indie look with neutral tones and big bangles were always something that i was attracted to (pretty sure i used to go on jessica szohr style websites and try to mimic some of her great looks, hahaha). but when i was watching it, there was a comment from one of the youtube members that touched on the fact that EVERYTHING he dressed her in was tribal printed. i know in the book that V strives to be different, and maybe we're associating thrift store finds with tribal patterns here? i'd like to see vanessa out of those and dressing a little more toned down accessories + pattern wise? she's gorgeous and maybe she needs a little more structure (a-la-blair). we respect that V is the independent film-maker coffee shop girl she is, but that doesn't mean she has to dress like a hippie.

overall, each of their style reflects who they are as a person. he does a great job and they are all lucky to be able to work with someone who is SO good at their job--- and work with such high fashions like its nothing !


here's serenas vid:

WOW ! we checked this video out in my challenge and change class -- she is a sand artist and her name is Kseniya Simonov from Ukraine's Got Talent. i believe that she won. (hopefully, this is absolutely phenomenal) its amazing how artwork from things we consider so simple... i'm thinking sand... can provoke such strong emotions in people. this performance is based on when the soviets invaded Ukraine. you can even see the people in the crowd crying because it brings back such crazy memories!

we don't realize that art has such a huge impact on our lives. its more than a paintbrush and a piece of paper... same with things like music, dance, drama... these are things that i hope generations never lose. check it out! amazing!

He's kinda good
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=201526773

greatest idea, by Christopher Doyle
i was wildly entertained... and I'd like to make one for myself when I get time one day so that I can keep it forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever

http://www.formfiftyfive.com/guidelines.pdf

WOW. I found this website that shows you pictures of movie costumes in film, original concept art and from different costume conventions so you can see patterns and designs up-close and still. There are tons of different movies and all of the stuff is really awesome. (ESPECIALLY the concept art which is GORGEOUS)! I read somewhere that the #1 recently voted favourite movie costume of all time was Cecelia Tallis' green dress from Atonement. I totally agree because I definitely love that dress and I think it's totally epic after the symbolism related to it in the book... Anyways, they have all the pictures of Keira Knightley wearing the dress, publicity photos, individual pictures so you can actually see patterns and stitching. It's a really, really awesome site. My favourite thing on there (from what I've seen so far) is definitely the concept art from Kate Winslet's "heaven" dress in Titanic. I never really noticed it in the movie, but it looks so so great in the drawing. I wish they had close ups of the lace patterning.