tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post7612700294224473263..comments2024-03-18T03:06:37.050-05:00Comments on style rookie: Things I Try To Remember When I Am In A Style Rut, OR, This Looks Like A Refrigerator With Cheesy Magnets, OR, I Have Reached New Pretension LevelsTavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-17826932971693265982010-06-20T06:54:58.534-05:002010-06-20T06:54:58.534-05:00ah be quiet girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am 12 and i ...ah be quiet girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am 12 and i wish i were you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />how dare you say that lige sucks!?!!!anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13000903908676318034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-26789228764569660172010-06-11T18:22:52.516-05:002010-06-11T18:22:52.516-05:00Joanna Newsom is like listening to a foreign langu...Joanna Newsom is like listening to a foreign language only I can understand.<br /><br />Her voice isn't very much a voice, but a cry.<br /><br />Sometimes we cry together, me silent, she having the balls to be loud.<br /><br />duckstheblog.blogspot.comKeren, rhymes w/ Heronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07623478851727029146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-27491280739604582952010-06-02T22:27:59.427-05:002010-06-02T22:27:59.427-05:00great read tavgreat read tavMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10750694634979659483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-72698760201609828642010-06-01T22:46:52.112-05:002010-06-01T22:46:52.112-05:00Tavi - love the Kubrick answer.... "The most...Tavi - love the Kubrick answer.... "The most terrifying this about the universe is .. that it is <i> indifferent</i>" The universe! Imagine the universe is "thinking" about us, or you, or Brooklyn (where I live). NOT!<br /><br />Once you realize life is meaningless (we simply *create* meaning) then you can do ANYTHING, create anything. Really - what do you have to lose? But you clearly, clearly.... know that somehow.<br />Cheers, Ianweebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16730177123272399591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-74191272720861919032010-06-01T13:51:56.919-05:002010-06-01T13:51:56.919-05:00WOW, I really liked that piece. It made me think. ...WOW, I really liked that piece. It made me think. <br />Basically, get over the ‘shit’ you! Sometimes you might have to grin and bare IT, but push through it because you are what you make of it (your life that is!) Dress up and look good because even if you feel like crap, you still look good! You are what you wear!saharmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05700394472072956801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-76206954721366751592010-05-31T14:31:00.329-05:002010-05-31T14:31:00.329-05:00Hey I've been reading this for just a few days...Hey I've been reading this for just a few days (since Feministe linked to one of your posts)but I honestly have to say that reading it is getting ME out of a rut. So maybe you will not be shaking your head over the "teenagerness" of it. At the ripe old age of 27 I can honestly say I have not thought as clearly or hope-fully or creatively as I have in the last six months since I was thirteen (this is due largely to life events, though, so do not let adulthood scare you). So reading this puts me in touch with this part of myself that got unfairly silenced. Thanks for putting your thoughts out where others can benefit from them. :)Ry Soutarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16807379265380661420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-26234888191370826762010-05-28T14:56:00.232-05:002010-05-28T14:56:00.232-05:00is the model on the cover of Lula Ali Michael? If ...is the model on the cover of Lula Ali Michael? If not then it's just one of the multiple look a likes on the runway.<br />http://kemichic.blogspot.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09280025136069242350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-80409032247723324632010-05-28T13:04:47.051-05:002010-05-28T13:04:47.051-05:00One of my favorite passages on being in a rut, or ...One of my favorite passages on being in a rut, or otherwise being uninspired, comes from a personal letter of John Szarkowski's that's published in the book <b><i>John Szarkowski: Photographs</i></b>--<br /><br /><b>Summer 1958<br />To Dorothy Burge</b><br /><br />Dear Dorothy:<br /><br />I am immersed in a lethargy deeper and broader and more sticky textured and sweet smelling than any I have known before. I must even screw up my sense of purpose to go trout fishing, and the fishermen who hold <i>salon</i> at the Menard Lounge are beginning to whisper that I arrive on the stream downstream, with the current, like the old men do. The last is a vicious libel; in truth I have been lying supine on the bank, watching the leaves unfold.<br /><br />... A week or so ago... I got a letter from [Helen Clapesattle,] formerly head of the U. of M. Press, [who said] that she hoped that I was now lying fallow, as I deserved. The put a whole new light on it, a respectable, almost shining light. So now when my fellow townsmen ask me if I am just loafing I cut them dead with my archest look and say, not loafing, stupid; lying fallow...<br /><br />One of my friends at the college here, not so easily put off as most of the townsmen, said the other day: well, if you are lying fallow why aren't you doing it in Mexico City, for example; why do you always show up here when you are out of work?... I said that I always came back when I had a couple of months to look for my Grandfather's watch, which I lost while trout fishing at the age of twelve or so. It was gold, and as big around as a beer can, and as thick as a pack of cigarettes, and had a winding stem as big as a cockle bur, and I lost it. This was said not to answer the question but to avoid it, but it seems to me now, in the middle of the night, that perhaps that is the real answer after all. Or if not to find the watch, then to find something else of a similar nature, once owned, and irreplaceable, and admirable, and perhaps irretrievable...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423284791494811248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-36635649477263661052010-05-27T14:34:02.782-05:002010-05-27T14:34:02.782-05:00I'm so pleased to read this article, because I...I'm so pleased to read this article, because I've been in SUCH a rut the past week, and I've been going round thinking I'm the only one, so to know that people who spend their time writing about fashion, instead of politics or fiction or TV, like me also suffer and for I think the same reasons, is kinda reassuring. I also feel when I discover new blogs or books or websites like OMG I WANT TO ABSORB ALL THIS CULTURE, and I too try to remember that when everything gets kinda grey and sad, and I read things like yours and other people's articles on Terry Richardson. So thanks for sharing your fashion rutness, and letting me and other people know we're not alone :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-73742086516502900192010-05-27T06:34:54.966-05:002010-05-27T06:34:54.966-05:00I completely agree with you. I think most school-...I completely agree with you. I think most school-goers want to be themselves but they are afraid and so conform and that can breed hate. I remember when I would tell myself to completely be myself, and by the end of the day I was pooped and so not myself. But now that I'm not legally obligated to be in that hostile george orwell-like environment I feel a lot more comfortable....I'm probably not helping, but I empathize.Criteriamourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03760866725083560434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-18660313628877577242010-05-26T16:43:00.820-05:002010-05-26T16:43:00.820-05:00Inspired quotes!
Tavi. I have so much to say and ...Inspired quotes!<br /><br />Tavi. I have so much to say and so much advice that I want to impart, but I don't feel it's my place. <br /><br />Keeping that in mind: Things will get better, things will get worse-- and if this blog is a result of your angst, then I hope you never grow up.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505383218009464060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-85468314213350721482010-05-25T20:04:56.905-05:002010-05-25T20:04:56.905-05:00Are you still reading comments after all of these?...Are you still reading comments after all of these?<br />I don't think what you described is part of teenagerness, I'm 21 and still feel like that sometimes and I believe everyone does at some level (obviously only people with some degree of brilliance can understand how good it is to create one's own world) but, at least for me, it's always like this. I'm always feeling like REALIZING if life's either fantastic or horrific and art and images and music almost always bring me up and leave me believing that yes the greatness outshines the suckage. This Kubrick answer is pure brilliance! I was actually thinking about something like that today and reading his genius words is relieving, in a certain way.<br />Btw, I'm not bipolar, life's 75% of the time fantastic. <br /><br />http://ledazzler.wordpress.comMarcelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622063318800030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-72469996465194189392010-05-25T16:52:22.593-05:002010-05-25T16:52:22.593-05:00philosophically, i'm with Mr Kubrick on this o...philosophically, i'm with Mr Kubrick on this one. life really has no meaning besides those we are able to impose on it. we gotta take that calmly.<br />ruts come and go. so does discontent with oneself. same with periods of creativity. i'm pretty sure you'll learn how to deal with that. try to put yourself not under too much pressure. enjoy beauty in all those different varieties of art and nature and companionship. of course you will experience defeats and throwbacks and whatnot. just don't let this discourage you. i know, easier said than done, but life's the proverbial dance on the razor blade. between "wow, i just wanna vomit, or maybe set something on fire" and "i'll compose my own 'Ode to Joy' now" might just pass a few hours.<br />you wrote: "And as far as life sucking goes, this then makes me want to create and learn and absorb as many interesting things as I can."<br />can't think of a better antidote myself. the narrow-mindedness of people has many causes and will not go away anytime soon. the human mind evolves slowly and needs the right framework conditions to do so properly. today, when progress seems to be synonymous with technical advancement, people tend to forget this.<br />so keep a stiff upper lip, go and knock 'em dead.cancercowboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03401355722303790941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-22907377799049453552010-05-25T10:09:40.514-05:002010-05-25T10:09:40.514-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18141720375489443404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-40218536728006284882010-05-25T10:09:38.660-05:002010-05-25T10:09:38.660-05:00Tavi, you won't read this post in many years a...Tavi, you won't read this post in many years and shake your head at the teenagerness because I don't think it's your age that makes you realise that life is 'poopy,' it's your intelligence! Smart people are always going to see most aspects of every day life as pretty meaningless and futile, but then there are moments of pure beauty in life and art that makes everything seem perfect for a moment, your imagination & creativity will award you quite a few of those moments in the future.<br /><br /><br />'The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.' - George LoisMehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18141720375489443404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-66933991094163688742010-05-24T22:35:59.178-05:002010-05-24T22:35:59.178-05:00Hi there! i have just made a blog, check it out!
...Hi there! i have just made a blog, check it out! <br />Tavi you're sooo inspiring and originall!! Congrats!<br />=)Ramona Appleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06393937640260184817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-5718243114371995532010-05-24T20:58:54.206-05:002010-05-24T20:58:54.206-05:00I purchased a back issue of Lula and asjdklasjdlka...I purchased a back issue of Lula and asjdklasjdlkasjdlaskjd it's like a bible.Raychelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17449290615902520128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-22741552236918441582010-05-24T15:40:39.320-05:002010-05-24T15:40:39.320-05:00I'm in my twenties, and I still think middle s...I'm in my twenties, and I still think middle school had some truly awful moments...For some reason it's a place that often tries to squash creativity and unique expression. However, the people that can stay strong in their ideas through all of that are the ones that come out on top. My best friend was much more into fashion in those days than I was. She would pour over books and magazines and started to make her own clothes...As you can imagine some people didn't quite get this. But she stuck with it, and to this day she is a beautiful, serene person. She's lived all over the world, she loves yoga and cuisine and fashion still, and she's currently in design school, living it up in Chicago! <br />It's not always going to be easy to hold on to youthful enthusiasm, but it is always worth the effort! Trust me! :) <br />And that's a random bit from a geezer in her twenties!! <br />I love your blog, I think it's fresh and sharp and not a little genius. So best of luck, and lots of happiness to you!Lillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03641675815683611449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-7571923239634778542010-05-24T13:34:21.701-05:002010-05-24T13:34:21.701-05:00okay this may be all blahhhh but me im so very pos...okay this may be all blahhhh but me im so very positive.about life and stuff.so i know everythings not hunky dory but all i know is that we should get over the bad stuff and stop dwelling on it becuase its a waste of time.what annoys me the most is when people are like whats the point of living.god i hate that.its like shut up please. the f-ing point of living is to live even if it is sucky you've got to laugh and say ow well.i seem to laugh at my misfortune even when it was my heart brocken.it actaully sometimes annoys me that i get over stuff so quickly but i guess im just lucky.we've only got one chance we've just got to remember to laugh and smile and be happy.because without those things nothing would be worth it.<br /><br />i realise i ramble but i get very in to t his kinda thing becuase it really gets me going<br /><br />please look at my blog xxxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-76893012876758444992010-05-24T13:24:56.918-05:002010-05-24T13:24:56.918-05:00Wow, I just read some of the comments to your post...Wow, I just read some of the comments to your post.<br /><br />There is one post in particular by someone who sounds not only sad, but depressed and hopeless. I hope I am wrong. <br /><br />There is another post by someone who is sad, but is just biding her time til she can stand on her own two feet, two feet that will take her away from where she is now. She has hope. This makes me smile.<br /><br />Tavi, I hope you never lose hope. You've seen for yourself how big this world is. And you know that there is more to the world than the middle school you attend. As you grow and mature, so too will some, if not all, of your peers. You will all change and as you get older, your peers will see the error of their ways of sexism, racism and the like. Well, at least some of them. <br /><br />I'd like to share a quote from Tim Blanks on the passing of McQueen. "... He was also an arch romantic with a pessimistic streak. It produced some of the most beautiful, shocking images in the history of fashion, but it’s a state of mind that can lead to endless disappointments. ..." This was poignant for me because I am a romantic with a pessimistic streak, and indeed it has lead to endless disappointments. But, what keeps me going is the realization that when I have hope, my eyes are open wider than when I have doubt. The thing that sucks so much when your eyes are open is that you see some pretty ugly stuff. But the great thing about having your eyes open is that you get to see the beauty in this world too.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09469737436836557726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-10196349778137760882010-05-24T07:56:41.150-05:002010-05-24T07:56:41.150-05:00hi Tavi. visit me on the http://fashion-world-styl...hi Tavi. visit me on the http://fashion-world-style.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br /><br />yoursNew witch in townhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047405737249846988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-74358582983265426162010-05-24T07:17:33.095-05:002010-05-24T07:17:33.095-05:00Love it <3
If you like the french vintage style...Love it <3<br />If you like the french vintage style qo on my fashion blog:<br />http://leblogderoseparis.blogspot.comRoseparishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06064487974585337586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-29727172171244918892010-05-24T00:51:20.866-05:002010-05-24T00:51:20.866-05:00<3 Cooltop
cool-top.blogspot.com<3 Cooltop<br /><br />cool-top.blogspot.comCooltophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284673096578885627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-14714989117779773022010-05-23T18:27:36.969-05:002010-05-23T18:27:36.969-05:00Tennessee Williams used to say that hapiness is a ...Tennessee Williams used to say that hapiness is a total lack of sensitiveness. You´re very sensitive and sensible, girl. You won´t take life for granted ever, despite all your creative skelpticism. <br />Excellent quotes. You are Andy Warhol´s reincarnation. I´m sure you´re founding a new concept of pop. I wish I could show you a song of mine called "Mary Shelley", but it´s in Portuguese. <br />Don´t worry about your angst. Everything that is really alive experiment the pain and joy of existence.Mathildahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836576080870976124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-80848742725661972152010-05-23T18:26:52.759-05:002010-05-23T18:26:52.759-05:00I know what you mean!!!! School just gets you down...I know what you mean!!!! School just gets you down. And then you feel uninspired and sad and also you're mad at yourself for not being optimistic. I think you're handling this well, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com