vivian maier

amazing photography of vivian maier. her pictures capture a moment in time that is so natural and real.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/12267/destroyed-apple-products.html

I'll be up up and away up up and away cuz they gon' judge me anyway so whatever

song of the moment:

i can't seem to get this image out of my head. it's so carefree, fun, fresh, and hip

cheers to a new beginning!

i haven't updated this since i was back in kingston. apologies to my very small readership. life has been quite eventful, crazy, fun, full of tears and fears. my sisters was definitely the highlight of the year, besides finishing my undergrad business degree. it was such a beautiful wedding and so emotional because so many close friends and family gathered to see my beautiful sister and awesome brother in law get married. they have finally tied the knot!

i've included some snapshots of my sister's wedding taken by an amazing photographer daniel usenko. check him out at danielusenko.com and also a wedding video made by the amazing norrisfilms (check him out at norrisfilms.com

Jackie + John 5.30.10 | Same Day Edit (Seattle) from Norris Films on Vimeo.

so another exciting new beginning is that i'm employed! i was nervous and scared at first but it has been an easy and smooth transition. the paychecks are pretty sweet.

leave it to the imagination

these amazing photos remind me how awesome it was to be a kid. props to tim macpherson.

song of the moment: dog days are over by florence + the machine

undergrad CHECK!

i have finished my undergrad classes officially! marg and i celebrated with a nice bowl of pho and spring rolls! one of my fav foods in the world. also, i got to eat pie and cheesecake in my last class provided by my prof. a good end to the past four years! work is not over yet... now i'm off to writing my paper on a feminist art piece i created. oh, the joys of exam month!

nostalgia

my favourite pastimes, painting and drawing for hours is something that i miss a lot these days. the last time i remember working on an art work was this one below for a studio art class i took in second year. it's a reproduction of one of degas' pastel works, but i used oil paint instead. i need to sit down one day and just spend the whole day drawing or painting again. i miss high school art classes.

degas ballerinas

self portrait in pointilism

georgia o'keefe inspired flower

putting things into persepctive

this is a great way to express how i'm feeling right now. my life is like the picture on the left, a big mess of lines. i need to look at this in a different perspective and know that everything will fall into place and become a clear picture. other than that, these pictures are pretty cool yeah? i should paint one of my rooms like this!

make your own viet wrap party!

it all began in second year when my friend chloe introduced us to the idea of making vietnamese wraps. this was a brilliant idea and if you've never had a vietnamese wrap, you need to go to your local vietnamese restaurant and get them! basically they are vegetables with meat or shrimp and sometimes vermicelli wrapped in thin rice paper. how our parties work is that we have all these freshly chopped up veggies, fruit, shrimp, and steak and we can pick whatever we want to put in our rice paper. and then we wrap it all up and take a big bite out of the fresh piece of goodness. the best part of it is that you don't feel bad for stuffing your face because you're stuffing your body with a lot of healthy stuff. and its always fun to eat with your hands!

check out CLEMENTINE IS MY SUNSHINE

clementine is my sunshine is an amazing one man band. talented in guitar, piano, harmonica, banjo and can carry a tune; all this rolled up in one. we gotta wonder who that lucky girl is.

check him out at: www.myspace.com/clementineismysunshine

and he is currently #4 at http://www.ourstage.com/contests/3900-singer-songwriter-male and listen to 'head high'

my last reading week of my life was a nice bang to almost four years of drooling on textbooks and cramming sessions. so what did i do? instead of laying in the sun and getting my pale skin darkened by the sun, i went to tijuana, mexico and built a home for a family. it was an amazing experience to see a group of students turn a pile of wood and buckets of paint and nails into a home for a family in two days. there isn't much i can say that wouldn't sound cheesy and cliche so i'll end with a photograph.

freaks and geeks

this show has got to be one of the best shown on television. well, it is definitely on the top of my list. with all the shows like gossip girl and one tree hill, where the lives of teenagers and days of high school are too good to be true. we only wish that we could be dressed looking like we just walked off cat walk or be the most popular girl in high school and own our own fashion line by the time we're 25. yes, watching these shows is one of my guilty pleasures. but every time watching an episode of gossip girl and cringing probably every 5 minutes makes me appreciate great shows like freaks and geeks. so, what is so good about it? it makes you feel like you're on top of the world by seeing how much fun these people have by being who they are and having people to share the things they find most fascinating about this world. you don't watch this show coveting what these characters have but rather for the odd sense of connection you feel with them. no matter how geeky or pathetic the crew might be, you can't help but long to play dungeons & dragons with the geeks or hang out under the bleachers with the freaks. this show truly did die too young.

one of my favourite scenes:

Neal Schweiber: So I wake up this morning, and guess what is sitting on the end of my bed?
Bill Haverchuck: A turd?
Neal Schweiber: Yes, Bill, a turd.
Bill Haverchuck: Ewwwwww! Gross!
Neal Schweiber: An Atari video set. Is my dad the coolest, or what? So shall we say Asteriods, my place, 3:30?
Bill Haverchuck: Yeah, if that's when you wanna get your butt kicked.

you have to watch to understand!

cat eye sunglasses!

next pair of frames i need to get a hold of:

proenza schouler extended cat eye sunglasses

i first saw these glasses on charlotte ronson 2009 fall campaign video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdAr8AeCxI

you can get them here: http://www.lagarconne.com/store/item.htm?itemid=4916&sid=648&pid=648

aren't they marvelous?

i absolutely hate job hunting. what i have been doing to keep my sanity is watching season 2 of the rachel zoe project. another show from bravo that glamorizes the world of fashion, when it really is probably slave work. i don't know if this show is healthy for me because shopping online has been a current addiction of mine ever since coming back from nyc and knowing i can ship things for so cheap to jon in ny! must get back to work!