May 2013
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“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists.”
– Milan Kundera
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How To Have Style
Wrap all presents in silk ribbon. Emphasize a flaw to make it your best feature. Got a big mouth? Put on some red lipstick. Think of Katherine Hepburn and the black turtlenecks she wore that accentuated the forceful line of her jaw. The French call this une belle laide, literally a beautiful ugly woman. Don’t advertise for a status brand by wearing obvious labels. Louis Vuitton should be...
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April 2013
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“It’s what you do that makes your soul.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Into the Gloss: Courtney Love's Beauty Rituals →
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March 2013
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Stoker: A Short Film Review
The local Albuquerque theaters finally got Chan-Wook Park’s Stoker in this weekend, so you can bet that my butt hit the cinema velvet seats on Friday evening as soon as I got off of work. And holy shit, where do I even begin?
First off, this movie is gorgeous. Almost absurdly stylish cinematography and set design polish the ragged edges of this sick little thriller, making the dark...
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“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous...”
– Charles Bukowski
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Redefining Integrity, Or Why Sarah Burton's...
One of the joys of being an aspiring renaissance woman (referred to with some suspicion as multidisciplinarity within academic circles), is that the various bits and snippets of information I gather from disconnected sources in the short time before my attention span moves onward allow me to notice larger patterns arcing over seemingly unrelated phenomena. Lately, I have been struck by the...
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Finding A New Rhythm
As the streets become more familiar, the blue sky now an expected and appreciated part of my day, I find myself growing comfortable in this city. At first a dry, dingy place full of irritatingly aggressive men and astonishingly bad drivers, now Albuquerque seems more notable for its majestic, protective range of mountains, preponderance of excellent baked goods, and funky art community. There is...
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Today I'm Grateful For
Dollar movie theaters
Coconut cupcakes
My baby brother’s voice on the other end of the line
70 degrees of sunshine and a wide-eyed blue sky
The perfect pair of jeans
Lindsey Stirling on my Pandora station
Japanese Art Deco at the Albuquerque Museum
Sweet spring air
Image via Bon Appetit
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“Chic, is first, when you don’t have to prove you have money, either...”
– Luca Turin
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February 2013
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“Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
– Mary Oliver
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The Narratives of Perfume
One of my classes this semester is a seminar in museum interpretation. For our final project, each student is supposed to design either an exhibition or educational program that integrates the concepts we’ve learned over the semester with a subject dear to our hearts. Of course, I immediately went to my professor’s office and asked whether she would allow me to design an exhibition around...
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Valentine Goodies
Happy Valentine’s Day all! I’m taking it easy and spoiling myself today since my boy isn’t here to do it for me. I slept in, ate a massive cranberry-orange scone for breakfast, and intend to spend the rest of the afternoon looking at fashion week photos until I go out for dinner. In the spirit of this sentimental season, here are a few appropriately sweet and sexy gatherings...
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“Sometimes sadness
Comes inexplicably in
Like a gray cat
Or a muffling woolen...”
– MGC
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“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad...”
– Diana Vreeland
January 2013
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Afternoon Musings
I love sitting on the couches of the library, four stories above the city, looking out at the mountains across winter-bare arms of tall gray trees. Everything looks golden and wistful in the late afternoon sun, the warm light of a day almost over lending a gentle nostalgia to otherwise ordinary shapes and forms. I want to gather up every image and put in in my pocket: the way aluminum...
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“The point of life is happiness.”
– The Dalai Lama
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