2012.*

here we are. it is NOT the end. the age of aquarius is supposed to be the time for spiritual activism & inspiration, of unity & awakening. just a few things on the year's list that popped into my head: make little videos w/ my super8. play with smoke & wax & colored films & play with frames like zines, cut n paste. see oOoOO. learn more spanish. explore the southwest. visit sao paolo. integratron it. never lose faith. never stop seeing love & light in everything.*

Dripped: Holiday Runway Edition.*

last friday night was the holiday fashion soiree/trunk show event DRIPPED, filled with fashionistas, runway shows, some incredible performance art, and some of the most gorgeous handmade jewelry treasures i have ever laid eyes on. this event satisfied & inspired on so many levels. WIFE, the performance group below, was so beautifully postmodern with their movements between light & darkness. each artist linked below makes extraordinary treasures, and while i don't have the time to showcase all of their work, please do click on them and check out their baroque headpieces, personalized crystal jewelry based on astrological charts, and bead & metalwork. what's truly happening in the here & now is quite magickal.*

WIFE



(this one is my favorite:)


mapache


n.om



geisha, our hostess


gypsy junkies


marina fini


trillery



@ Dripped

and for party photos of the event in detail, check out young and sleek. enjoy!*

B L A C K - P Y R A M I D . *

my friend jen showed her gorgeous terrarium crystal balls at this shop Black Pyramid in SF and i stumbled upon their blog. the best part of their boutique, of course, is their jewelry. SO amazing (and so expensive), and reminds me a lot of my beloved bona drag. i know that my og witchy homegirls and i get perturbed that everything we've been into since seventh grade is UBER-hip right now, but on the other hand it's fairly convenient because everything that was so hard to find is suddenly readily available and i can stock up. it'll go out of style again in a year and then i'll just have more crystals and daggers and go back to being a dork.*

Crackly Drums & Screechy Howls.*

a couple cool bands/videos: i saw this band Bestial Mouths the other night in a basement, and it reminded me of the shows i used to see in 10th grade (in the best way). White Ring is this band that rebecca took me to go see but i was too impatient to wait for them to come on (i think it was very cold that evening). Grimes is just Grimes and here because i love her and for some reason this video totally reminds me of Madonna's "frozen" video from a decade ago. lastly, a lot of people haven't seen the new CocoRosie videos yet and the beautiful, goth-victorian creepiness is really worth the watch. for endless music downloading, i've been using frostwire, which is basically the new (to me) limewire. for infinite music listening, i finally got my ass on spotify, which is super dope since i got to check about 40 weirdo bands off my "to check out" list this week alone. thanks, interwebal technology. this would have been a really expensive endeavor back in the 90's.*

I Would Die for You.*

just in case you started to forget....don't. this music + these ideals of love = the best of being 13 in 1996.*

Cat Cult's Hidden Cove.*

ian took these beautiful polaroids on the fourth of july. i love them. el matador beach, tequilla and ginger ale, caves, tidepools, and reliving the craft. check out the cat cult tumblr for more.*

Living in Paradise.*

hawai'i is truly a tropical paradise. my best and oldest friends, weather made in heaven, living with aloha, white wine on the north shore, local boys, sacred falls, tantlis, menehune, house babies, and everyone just trying to enjoy life. basically like the polar opposite of la. just a few moments....*

E-Bay-Bay Vintage Party.*

the downsizing continues. i wince as i part with these items. more listings next week, but there are 3 days left, so happy bidding! visit my ebay store here. xo.*

floral boho skirt:


leopard print booties:





vintage jessica mcclintock lace and velvet dress:


....y mucho mucho mas.*

Tropical Future.*

so the lovely homegurl rochelle of mapache jewelry hosted this month's flea market at SPACE 15 TWENTY in hollywood. vintage paradise, good music, and a great art space installation by sprfkr y mapache. check out her interview on the space15twenty site as well as this fashion blog that kindly featured yours truly, my friend nicky lee of repose vintage, and other fashionistas/fashionistos of the day at pazzesca. stephie and i also finally got the pleasure of getting our nails done by the ladies of kleur. the tropical future took us over.*

90s Lust Strikes Again.*

i keep thinking about how much i miss being a teenager and watching "my so-called life," relating to angela chase and having these posters from seventeen mag up in my purple room as i dyed my hair red for the first time circa 1994. thank you, claire danes, for embodying our glorious teenage angst of the 90s. poor millennium kids got no role models as worthy as ours were, but maybe that's just my generational bias talking. whatever.*

Medicinal Botanical Wonders.*

so now that i'm preparing myself for graduate school for botany and plant biology, i am trying to teach myself chemistry. yes, this is as hard as it sounds, but i keep getting distracted with the pretty pictures, as usual. it's pretty cool to think that botanists were illustrating these well over 100 years ago, but the plants are still exactly the same. if anyone knows the original botanical illustrator, please comment, since as of the moment i can't hunt his name down anywhere. thx.*

80's Goth Nostalgia.*

so i stumbled across these images on this blog called nowthisisgothic and fell into a momentary lapse of the age-old "remember when..." nostalgic haze. i wasn't even old enough to be into this until a decade after it passed, but it still feels like a part of my heritage in a weird way. i wish real goth kids still looked this cool....*



thorston & friend, cermany. (who knows who this kid is, but he is only of the only non-band-related faces on the web from this time period.

@the bat cave in 1984.

skinny puppy.

bat cave, london, 1980's.

holly, vancouver. (i definitely wore this outfit recently.)

siouxsie