They're only €15! Can you believe that? By Gogo Philip, who is apparently only stocked in Topshop but you can buy them online too. His website. I spotted a necklace of his which was a bra in G2 yesterday & can't find it anywhere? Still amazing. I think I might but them on my Christmas list.

We weren't going to have a 'proper' Christmas because we're going away for my mum's 60th birthday on the day after Boxing Day, but my sister has suddenly decided (with less than a month to go) that we are. & that we all have to have something to unwrap. Any suggestions for a sister who likes clothes (quite fashionable but not particularly avant garde), hip hop, going to the gym & taking the piss out of her little sister ("no you can't come to my wedding, you'd wear something weird & you can't do anything with your hair, like a chignon or something.")?

I'll work on it.

This weekend my whole world kind of turned itself upside down. & I kind of feel ok about it.

Anyway, it left me with a whole Sunday free to catch up with the art work I've been neglecting. Hence the above. I got the images from an old American Apparel promotional magazine thing & these were two of the most horrible images (as I'm sure you're aware of AA's questionable advertising campaigns) of a girl in the back of a taxi & a girl on the floor, her eyes...jeez.

So I made them out of fabric in some kind of weird twisted feminist message, or whatever I wrote about it in my art book. I'm kind of all out of theoretical bullshit... Now I just need to get in some life drawing & create 1-3 life size knitted cartoon female bodies without heads. & for English I'm recreating a 'bloody chamber' from the Angela Carter short story, The Bloody Chamber. We're making an iron maiden and sticking pins in barbies. I think I'm turning into a goth kid at 18.

College is awesome.

The winter dilemma. 4 layers, 1 hat, 2 gloves, 1 scarf, 2 pairs of tights, 1 pair of socks, 5 badges & 1 pair of rocking Doctor Martens. Ok so maybe I did take it a bit too far today, but this morning it was needed! Not my fault it suddenly gets sunny whilst I'm in the central heating of Physics.

Three days seems like a long time in blogland. Sorry. My heads been exploding & then imploding all over the place. I'm now going to comment everyone back & hopefully next week I can get back to my 5 days of posting.

Wouldn't that be lovely.

The other night I helped my friend Eve dye her hair & we took some wicked photos which go pretty perfectly with the wise words of Mr Douglas Coupland. All the below are extracts for the Future Legend at the end of his new novel Player One. They're basically new definitions & they're pretty frickin' cool.

Aloneism
A recognition of the fact that it is a burdensome amount of work to be an individual, and also that many human beings were not necessarily cut out to be individuals and are much happier being lost inside a collective environment or a self-denying belief system. Individualism may, in fact, be a form of brain mutation not evenly spread throughout the population, a mutation that poses a threat to those not possessing it, hence the ongoing war between religion and secularism.

Attack-Moderates
The result of a common political tactic used by members of extreme orthodoxies. By forcing people in the political middle to polarize over issue about which they don't feel polar, the desired end state is achieved - one in which the hyper amplification of what was not very much to begin with creates a tone of hysteria amid daily cultural discourse. This resulting hysteria becomes a political took used by the instigators to push through agendas that would never have been possible in a non-hysterical situation.



Catastrophasic Shifts
Enormous life-changing decisions that are delayed until a crisis has been reached. In most cases this is the worst time to be making such decisions.

Centennial Blindness
The inability of most people to understand future time frames longer than about a hundred years. Many people have its cousin, Decimal Blindness - the inability to think beyond a ten-year time span - and some people have the higher-speed version, Crastinal Blindness - the inability to think past tomorrow.

Collapse Attraction
The situation in which people are usually at their most attractive and interesting shortly before a total personality collapse. While some of us are attracted to those who are vulnerable - because it makes us feel good by comparison, or it makes us feel good to be able to help, or to think we can help - it also turns out that if you are convinced that nobody could possibly like you, you often become less inhibited. Not caring gives you a bulletproof aura of mystery and aloofness.



Cover Buzz
The sensation felt when hearing a cover version of a song one already knows.

Me Goggles
The inability to accurately perceive ourselves as others do.

Rosenwald's Theorem
The belief that all the wrong people have self-esteem.

Standard Deviation
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness, yet it is the feeling of uniqueness that convinces us we have souls.

Why We Keep Our Distance
Once you've seen a person go psycho, you can never look at him or her the same way ever again.


Word Love.

Link 1//Link 2

"I want you, all tattooed
I want you bad.
Completely mistreat me,
I want you bad, bad, bad, bad, bad"

Holy crap: click here. Awesomness: click here.

Internet Love.

Photos by Heidi Slimane.

A woman who is almost better without clothes. Because me & fashion are on a bit of a break. The "don't buy anything, you are skint" message has crossed into my "be creative with fashion" thinking & so I find myself wearing the same outfits, or a variation with them, just so I am warm enough to go to college or work or wherever. I need more awesome jumpers but for now, I'm bored of it. December magazines were deadly uninspiring too & although I do have a posh Christmas party to go to that doesn't mean I need to buy 50 dresses in different style PLUS a suit because androgyny is like so great. How many proper Christmas parties do people go to?

So instead my brain has been filled with music. Generally (still, I know, change the record, literally) The Smiths. But also We Are Scientists were fucking amazing last night, The Drums were good before everyone knew (I'm a snob ok), Everything Everything were awesome when I saw them a couple of weeks ago. But there are three songs that have been filling my head. So I thought I'd share them with you:

The Smiths - I Won't Share You

Regina Spektor - That Time

Beck - Loser


Likey?

Three months late. But here are my pictures from Paris (plus one of Jack on a tire swing in the French countryside). You can see them all here. They're done on a Diana+ lomo camera that I still haven't got the hang of but am pretty much in love with.

Today:
Listing swear words in English
Trying to get the 2nd verse of I Won't Share You down for tomorrows band practice
Sitting in my coat & scarf in my freezing house trying to write an essay
Listening to Regina Spektor
Everything smells like TCP from old school homemade tattoos of last night (not on me)
Getting really giddy & excited to finally see We Are Scientists again tonight!

What are you doing today?

Yet another window in my house used as an outfit background. There's something very flattering about too much light & slightly softer focus. The reason we have so many weirdly shaped windows in our house is because my dad used to make stained glass & when I was a baby he knocked down our house and built it back up, only keeping the original front, so he put in all these church type round topped windows. I'll put up a photo of the little one between our kitchen & hall one day...

Enough about windows. More about this coat. Jay came into his own discussing coats with the scary gun men in the Army Surplus shop. I say scary gun men because the person who was before us was asking about different types of bullet holders. & it was Rememberence Sunday so there were a lot of "warry" people around anyway. Not my natural habitat in over the knee socks & dress printed with pin up girls. But after one of the scary gun men brought out this second hand coat with lovely hood & cotton & waterproof lining & a string around the waist for a svelte silhouette (as my brother would say) I was hooked. After hanging it out to air (ie, stop smelling like wetness) for a couple of days I can finally wear it. Well happy.

Also the amazingly inspiring Jazzy Elizabeth over at hivennn has done an interview with me about SWEAT & general other things. It's a lovely blog that you should visit anyway but you can read my interview here.

Can I just say hello & thank you to all the new followers & how mathmatically lovely it is that I reached 111 followers so close to 11/11 or at least over Rememberence Sunday when we had the two minutes silence at 11.11. How perfect it would've been to be 11/11/11.

Can't wait.

Enough politics. Enough being told by teachers to "sneak" into uni this year before the fees go up, rather than fight against it for everyone. Onto coats. Parkas to be specific. I can no longer battle against the elements with a flimsy umbrella whilst trying at the same time to hold my skirt down & preserve my dignity. I want a proper coat, with a hood & waterproof exterior.

For anyone that knows me this is a pretty big step as I have a lifelong aversion to practical clothing. Until about 13 I refused to wear any coat at all, instead seeing through winter with layers of vests/t-shirts, with a hoody, scarf & some gloves. The first coat was a revelation, then came the "shoe issue" of every time it rained. Mainly the fact that I insisted on wearing my converse until they literally fell off my feet. So a couple of years ago when I tried on & bought my very first pair of Doctor Martens (after the initial pain of wearing them in, which I am now an expert in!) I stamped through those puddles, I strode through the mud on impromptu country walks & I marched through the ice & snow.

And now finally at the age of 18 I think I am ready for a raincoat that I will actually wear. So this weekend, unfortunately I will not be buying one of the Miu Miu, D&G or Urban Outfitter ones above but I'll be trawling the charity shops with Jay, the expert in practical second hand clothes buying (he exists in a uniform pretty much as if he were in the army, min using the combats for black jeans & the white t-shirt for a black one displaying some other J Rock band I have never heard of).

Wish me luck!

Links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.
Link.

From what I know, a few of my friends made it into Millbank. At least one was arrested but I haven't heard anything since. Please sign this petition to support them (obviously, only if you agree). The others I have heard from, most home already had a good day of peaceful protest, against being kettled by the police & barricaded in at Parliament Square. They have proven that the only language mass media understand is violence & destruction, it is headline news, it is around the world, it isn't just 52,000 slightly angry people. It's 52,000 very angry people. Let's remember that whatever we think about those who broke into Millbank (& breaking in seems like a strong word see here) that we should be united against the government not each other.

Edit: 0.0615384615% got arrested. Interesting maths considering the coverage.

Nick Clegg, we know you
You're a fucking Tory too!

Here is a song & some devil horns for the thousands of people demonstrating against education cuts in London today. I would be there but I have physics & mixed feelings (another band name?). Mixed feelings because I feel like there are bigger issues than university fees, like the widening in the gap between rich & poor or the taking away of funding that goes directly to students (EMA) in favor of 'premiums' that are distributed evenly throughout the school system regardless of area or pupil diversity.

But hey. Here's something for everyone: TUMBLEWEED. A zine created by the wonderfully talented Samantha of Scribbles, Ink, and Thrown Out Pages. The cover alone is stunning & I'm sure the interior will not let us down. Not that I'm bias because my work is in it or anything...

Oh & I know I have posted this jumper & this skirt before but as I am a real person (who sold a lot of her clothes at the beginning of the year) I wear the same things more than once. This is the first time though, that I have worn them together, in my hall.

So there.