Evolving Influence... fashion bloggers

If you're in New York this week and are into fashion blogging this looks like its going to be a rad workshop

Date: September 9, 2010
Time: Conference 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Place: Good Units, Hudson Hotel 356 W 58th St, @9th Ave NYC

Register online by clicking here for $60
Register at the door for $75

Livestream Available

SCHEDULE:

ONE: It’s Just Business: Make a living with your blog 
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Brought to you by Bloglovin’
Whether you’re getting up and running, or taking monetization to the next level, this session will help you demystify the business of blogging.

Speakers: Mattias Swenson - Bloglovin’ • Phil Oh - Street Peeper

TWO: Get Involved: Cultivate a passionate readership
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Brought to you by theFashionSpot.
One of the best parts about blogging is community engagement. Learn from the masters how to get your readers excited about your blog, and how to keep the love alive!

Speakers: Yuri Lee - LOOKBOOK.nu • Gala Darling - Gala Darling

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch

THREE: Foot in The Door: Launch your new career with your blog
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Blogging can open the doors to amazing new careers in fashion. This session will share experiences from those who made it happen for them.

Speakers: Susanna Lau - Style Bubble • Bryanboy

FOUR: Content is Queen: Captivate your audience with compelling content 
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Brought to you by TheFind.
What makes a great blog? Writing? Photography? Style? Je ne sais quoi? Here we’ll talk about how content will always bring your blog to the next level.

Speakers: Amy Odell - The Cut • Emily Schuman - Cupcakes & Cashmere • Rumi Neely –Fashion Toast

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Woodcut from Hans Staden: True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America, 1557

Theodor de Bry Collection des Grands and Petits Voyages.1592

                                    

Slave Market at Rio

 Martha Graham 1821 

K to the P it's your birthdeeeee...

What did the big candle say to the little candle?

 You're too young to go out....                                                                                

   It's my best friend Kendal's birthday, everyone wish her a happy birthday! 

                The night before my birthday Two yeARS ago I took this friend to a routine evening pilates class, we had just started becoming friends again since high school and  at the time she had no clue that my birthday was so close. When I told her, I swear to god her mouth dropped with shock, almost in resentment as if I told her she had to throw a party for the president and would only be given two hours.

          

      I've never really had a big deal made out of my birthday, let alone my birthday's eve, and this friend went home with record speed and rounded up some more friends at her place and surprised me with balloons, a bottle, and flowers, we then proceeded to get a little crunk and shake our tail feathers. That was one of the sweetest things a friend has done for me. I ended the night puking on her bathroom floor, and she sat on the carpet against the wall beside me and was totally happy just keeping me company, and through our slurred and broken sentences I can remember feeling so lucky that I had found such a great friend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND!

Tom Ford.

smudges

really though, it's okay to put in effort.
no one's going to laugh if you fall.

extra cushion... a reminder to myself

The last two months I have lived in a vacation town, it has been fun, but the visibility of a repetitive string of unhealthy habits is coming to outshine the party at this point. My habits have changed to suit this place, I allowed my self to get by on the idea that I was giving myself a treat or break, but nothing could be further from the truth.

As I started to see a little layer of womanly emphasis accruing, my aesthetically driven mind jumped to ideas about dieting, drinking less, exercising. Result: All these things I'd increase or decrease for a few days, a few hours, until I eventually let the party begin again.

It's been a little frustrating because I'm seeing the effects in every aspect of my life; but, up until now I realize I have been preoccupied with my own aesthetic disapproval. I sat down and meditated for a bit and then it hit me, that I don't feel well. I just realized why...

Somewhere along the line I got lost and forgot the whole basis for how I take care of my body rides on the desire of wanting everything to work more efficiently; and, because of that reason I am cautious about what goes in it... because I want more energy and I want mental clarity, I've not had to worry about my weight or any outer or inner ailments because I don't like the way bad things cloud my brain and make my body feel. 

"....Sometimes I don't agree 

with my thoughts on being free

Lion In a coma.

Lying in a coma....."

effortless..

Pig Love

Alfred Hitchcock 'Suspicion'

This movie is worth watching, quite unpredictable. It's based of Francis Iles 1935 book, 'Before the fact.'

Cow Love

re-edit of something I started on a darker day...

Beauty all around me

Flowers and their mothers

Like soul mates and lovers they grow side by side

Colors and warmth lay within my reach.....

But I’m an iceberg where nothing grows and nothing breathes

This ground I’ve paved so everyone leaves

And I don’t sleep

And I don’t eat

So I don’t have the energy to grieve

In this place of the darkest space

There are no stars there are no smiles

But if you look hard enough

You’ll find my scars stand trial

because underneath my skin

is where I hide all the treasures and sin

and I don’t even mean to do it

I’m like an involuntary chameleon,

I’m not afraid to do it,

I’m not ashamed to talk,

But I worry that the weight of speech

on this early dock

Will sink our ship

And land us both on rocks,

so for now my dear forgive me

if I don’t always shine the light

it’s just I’ve left a trail behind

 and I can’t always map it out right

it’s not that I don’t love you

I’ll come around, you’ll see,.

But for now I’m tired of the past

And in the present I am free

exponentially love this song

meet my girl 'Boots'

1974 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Hartop

OHHH babayyyy. I like your color.

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Chicken Head

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The metro sign means I am home free, I mAde it out of the darkness out of the cold, here i am speeding home again

out of the closet

Today's purchases= $11. Western/Hollywood 'Out of the Closet' is the Jamy jammerman. Aside from the occasional bum scent, its a total gem! 

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Mobil bAthroom

New yeArs xXday

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The bus is a dirty dirty bird

Nice people loud people chatty just to be chatty people scumbag pimps, born agains, hobo derelict, prostitute feind, mexicans blacks elderly disabled, drugs all around, mentally labeled.. it's a melting pot on the bus...after the last few months it is me....not like in the beginning when I was just another foreign optimist,

little girl transplanted with her sunshine and a smile,

  inevitably the dirt adds up, incredibly this scumy bench fuZz and the fast fuckin talkers only an idiot would trust, (I've been that idiot more than 100xs)

I've had enough already to fill these sandbags, 

making walls like locks out of memory blocks,

now stacked all around I'm learning how to survive this town,

descending on the metro, no other choice, drag me down into the smell where they only offer rags, a place with all the other's, lifeless and gagged... 

raising my fist taking off my make-up, that fraudulent fake-up, i'm a city girl now so I guess I'll have to adjust... But I don't know if I want to be, am I really going to let this place become me, please los angeles don't drag me down with all those plastered plastic frowns, and the trekky corner clowns:please don't follow me home today, please don't let this place brake me... if your not helping you're hurting...

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I love cane lane!

OCCULT SYMBOLISM IN CORPORATE LOGOS (AND WHY SYMBOLS ARE POWER ELEMENTS)

OCCULT SYMBOLISM IN CORPORATE LOGOS (AND WHY SYMBOLS ARE POWER ELEMENTS): "'Symbols instill beliefs and shape attitudes that underpin social structures. The binding force of culture, by and large, is a web of symbols that enables people to control and make sense out of experience in patterned ways. We should have learned from the history of colonialism, slavery, and Nazi eugenics that the way one group in power sees and imagines another group of people can set the stage for violent action. A democratic society does well to attend to the dominant images it puts into mass circulation, particularly media representations of vulnerable groups. Images and symbolic representations drive public policy.' - Dwight Conquergood, Chairman of the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University’s School of Speech. http://www.uic.edu/orgs/kbc/Features/Power.htm"

Stoked Mentoring Charity

CALL FOR ARTISTS: STOKED SESSIONS LA 2009
Stoked Mentoring just announced a call for artists for its annual Stoked Sessions LA event.
Stoked Sessions is an art show and fundraiser for Stoked Mentoring, a non-profit organization for at-risk youth.
Stoked is looking for a variety of artists who identify with the West Coast, Southern California, or Los Angeles, as this year’s theme is “I ‘heart’ LA.” Stoked is specifically looking for artists whose creative expression is inspired by surf, skate, or snow, but the main objective is to receive original submissions from artists with dimensions that are 10” x 10” in a variety of mediums and materials.
The deadline for a submission is April 25th, 2009. The Stoked Sessions LA show will go down Saturday and Sunday, May 2 & 3, 2009 at Upper Playground in Downtown LA. Details on Stoked Sessions LA here.

Esperanto, an artificial language introduced in 1887 and intended by its inventor, Dr. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917), a Polish oculist and linguist, to ease communication between speakers of different languages. In the 20th cent. it has been taught in schools and universities throughout the world but has not received wide acceptance as an international language. Its grammar and lexicon are relatively unfamiliar to users who do not know other Indo-European languages; its syntax, spelling, and pronunciation are influenced especially by Slavonic

HAhaha this is my favorite christmas song. God, I Love Skiing. And one Piece jump suits.

FAILE

I can't wait til I have a spot of my own. This space looks perfect.



PRAYER WHEELS CARVED AND PAINTED ON WOOD

Quality

two minutes in the box. by yourself.
and you feel shame.
then you get free'd.