INSPIRATION //

INSPIRATION //

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INTERIOR INSPIRATION

I feel like I've already told everyone this, but I'm moving in with my boyfriend in a month or two!  I've been thinking a lot about it, from kitchen supplies we'll need to buy to how nice it will be to come home to a house where I can sit in the living room, but my main thought it how I want to decorate.  I love thinking about arranging furnature and making a space my home whenever I move to a new place (I've moved quite a few times in my life), it's actually one of my favorite parts!  I've saved spaces I like on Pinterest for a while, so here's a nice collection of some interiors I like.  All images are from my SPACES Pinterest board.

Many framed artworks on the walls.

A long desk for work and play.

Pops of color and my very own armchair.

A beautiful and eclectic vanity.

A place to put shoes by the door.

Shelving and practical decoration.

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FEBRUARY INSPIRATION

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"Love isn't a state of perfect caring.  It is an active noun like struggle.  To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."  --  Fred Rogers, The World According to Mr. Rogers: Important Things To Remember

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HAIR & RECENTLY

The most recent development to my life is that I've decided to bleach my hair white.

Hello again to you!  It has definitely been a while.  I've written up a couple of posts over the past weeks and just wasn't inspired to post them, which in part contributed to my radio silence.  I just felt un-inspired and all around just not in love with the ideas I was coming up with, which is why I thought I'd just make up this little hair mood board for what I've been thinking about recently.

I work at a salon, so I'll be able to get my hair done for cheaper than normal and I'll also be a part of the training of some of my lovely co-workers.  I've been thinking of a cool-toned white, which I know will damage the bejeebus out of my hair, but I'm ready for it.  I enjoyed having my natural hair color for the past year, but suddenly I just wanted another hair change.  Especially since I have access to having it done professionally!  So that'll be exciting.  I think it'll happen sometime next month, so I'll make sure to post photos (of course).

Other than that?  I've been el suprimo un inspired in terms of my art.  I've had long conversations with Brian about it, though, and he just told me to draw and create what always comes easy to me: fan art.  That way, maybe I could even sell some stuff as well as getting back in to the art making groove.  By creating fan works, I don't have to focus on creating an entirely new concept, I can draw from ideas that already exist while stretching my conceptual and compositional muscles.  So hopefully, I'll produce some work soon enough.  I've watched two episodes of Peaky Blinders, Netflix's new original series with Cillian Murphy, and it's alright.  I just really like Cillian Murphy, if I'm honest, so I'm just going to draw him a bunch and maybe make a screen print.  It'll be good.

I've also picked the bass back up, but not in any exciting way.  Brian introduced me to the Pixies, and I've been listening to them a lot.  They have some really good bass lines that are reasonably simple to learn, so I've been playing a couple of those.  Maybe I'll create some music at some point.

Work has been good.  It's super strange to be working full time, if I'm honest.  This is the first time this has ever been a thing for me, so it feel super weird but also awesome?  I just feel all adult and strange but also totally ready for it.  Either way, it's satisfying to work and then use that money to pay my own bills.  ADULT STUFF.

I should be putting up an outfit post or two soon.  EShakti sent me a great dress for me to review, so I'm planning on putting up a post about that soon.  It's just been hard to find time to take good photos of myself in said dress, especially since it's been cold here in Buffalo and I work 6 out of 7 days a week.  Brian said he would take photos of me soon, so maybe the first weekend in November.  Halloween weekend is going to be super busy, since it's mine and Brian's one year anniversary!  I can't believe we've been together for a year, but at the same time it feels like it's been forever (in a good way).  Maybe I'll make a nice post about it on sunday.  I also can't wait to share some photos of my halloween costume(s?).  

Happy updates! 

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INSPIRATION // A CONCEPT OF THE APOCALYPSE

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A NEW SET OF IDEAS

Something I've been really interested in (for a while, really) is the concept of the apocalypse.  You wouldn't think it, since I was terrified of zombies at a young age due to a neighbor showing me The Night of the Living Dead, but now I love to think about it.  My senior thesis revolved around the idea of a doomsday/end of the world scenario and that seemed to be only the beginning.

For a long time, my only sorts of media input on "the apocalypse" were two concepts: the zombie apocalypse, and some sort of grey end of the world, like The Road.  28 Days Later is my favorite film because it redefined the image of the "zombie" for me.  That movie enabled me to be able to watch a zombie film, as it was a thriller rather than a horror.  I devoured Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide and a few years later, World War Z.  I was no longer afraid of zombies, so I was able to think about them (something I will never be able to achieve with things like ghosts, for example).  Then there was The Walking Dead, which I read and watched (but I'm not caught up too... oops!).

I love the idea of the apocalypse, because it enables the ability to push people to their breaking point.  It allows for humanity to become their "true selves" without the hinderance of law and government and social values.  This then brings up the question of: which of those values need to be upheld, even though the people are now in a lawless situation.  This enables the character of a person to truly come out, and for moral values to be put to the test.

So, that was how I thought of the apocalypse for a long time.  That was how I thought about it all throughout creating my thesis, and those are the values and ideas I wanted to get across in my work.  However, recently I've been playing Fallout 3.  If you've played it, I'm sure you can take a guess at where I'm going with this.

Fallout 3 revolves around The Capital Wasteland, the area around Washington D.C. 200 years after World War III, when China and America bombed each other to hell with nuclear bombs.  The concept of the Cold War and nuclear holocaust was never an apocalypse idea I had considered, even though it had been an actual real fear to people all over the world fifty years ago, including my parents.  The Road seems to play upon this concept in a similar way (nuclear winter), but I had never really considered nuclear fallout as a concept.  I have no idea why.

I then was prompted by my boyfriend (who also loves this stuff) to start devouring Cold War and nuclear holocaust media.  I watched Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, which is satire about Cold War paranoia being the cause of the destruction of humanity, rather than any actual real threat.  I then watched A Boy And His Dog, which is a really weird movie.  That one I didn't really like, because the characters are all awful people with no redeeming qualities.  However, everything else about that movie is amazing!  The design and ideas of the movie are really spot on, which is why Fallout was based largely on that film.

Fallout is even cooler, in a way, as they took it a step further.  The war in Fallout didn't actually happen until 2077, but the key to the design of the game is that the United States was kind of stuck in a strange continuation of 1950s culture.  As soon as you say that, I love it, because I love the 1950s period, but to push it that far makes it even cooler.

There's also the whole concept that the game takes place about 250 years after what we consider "now," which means that the things that people know of life before the war are few and far between.  Setting the game so far in the future as well as essentially in the past is an amazing design choice, and it's extremely effective.  By choosing that timeline, it enables the player to become placed in a future that they feel like they already know, therefore creating a much more immersive game.

I am so hype over all this stuff, I couldn't help but write about it.  I've been struggling with this blog, and I haven't had much I felt like writing about, so I opened this document just to see if I could come up with something.  Seems like I could!

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INSPIRATION // BEAUTI FÜL SPRING 2014

To see more of the collection, feel free to check out the website here.  This post is not sponsored, I'm just a fan of the photography and the model, James Quaintance.

Disclaimer // I do not own any of the art featured in this post.  If this is your work and you would like it removed, please contact me!

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