blue all the way through.

Mia Wasikowska - Dazed & Confused by Laurence Passera, March 2010

I'm loving this trend of colored hair!

before the explosion

You have to hold your head high, because people would pay money to see you fall. Look at them, standing in line at the theater, dollar bills smashed in sweaty palms, desperate to see some misery that isn't in their own heads, that isn't in their own lives. Desperate to grab onto some emotion that they can own for an hour or two, desperate to watch it fade away into the night as they leave.

A ghost of a feeling, a whisper of a time they knew what they wanted, knew what they felt, and felt it with all of their heart, felt that their chest and heart and lungs would burst with it. That feeling just before the explosion, just before the firecracker becomes a firework, as the last thread burns and simmers, and you know what's coming but it's too late to stop it, to late to do anything but watch the beauty and light and horror and glory.

We used to try to live those moments. Now we pay money to feel them float through us. Because we fear that uncontrollable moment, when it's out of our hands. So we act as though we can control it, turn the feelings on and off with the moving pictures on our screen and then move into our own lives as shadows, drained of feeling, drained of fear.

But we forget that no matter how hard we try we cannot ever truly live like that. We cannot have the firework if we won't light the firecracker. If we don't take the risk and chance of that moment, the moment filled with gasps and wonder and worry and question and dispute and love and suspense and fear, we will never see what it becomes. A light beaming through the streets, tiny fire sprites dancing on the pavement, a belief in magic.

all the dirty details

(well, not quite "dirty" details)

to continue on my last post,
Marchesa Fall 2010 up close

I'm so in love with these tattoo tights!
I found something similar on etsy...

you leave me speechless

Marchesa Fall 2010

Go here for more pictures

so amazing.


P.S. listen to this while watching. then watch the actual video after.

this song+these dresses=heaven

Eye love you.

This picture looks really scary.

But I think it also looks really cool.

so I decided to share it.

I can't stop looking at it.

raindrops fallin on my legs......

loooveeeee these.

//Edit (Thank you Madelyn!)

They are from the genius minds of

"Les Queues des Sardines"

aka the makers of the cutest most amazing tights ever

Check out some of their other creations....

rat-a-TAT-tat

I love tatoos. I'm fascinated by them, by the way they represent people, by the way they make the body a canvas. My friend is thinking of getting one that will read "Si existe el amour" (If love exists), and then, when she finds somebody and believes in love, she'll change it to "Sí , existe el amour" (Yes, love exists). Isn't that clever?