tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61590902150829451112024-03-19T00:15:25.919-05:00style rookieTavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.comBlogger672125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-77329507688807098672019-03-14T12:20:00.002-05:002019-03-14T12:23:14.157-05:00Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-14089026422754089142016-12-09T14:28:00.002-06:002016-12-09T14:48:36.719-06:00end of 2016Yikes, what is the function of this blog anymore? Everything is basically on my Instagram, but out of habit or a need for tidiness, here's the latest...(crickets, crickets):<br />
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☆ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BIIY-s9DWHF/"><i>The Crucible</i> closed</a>, then <i>The Cherry Orchard</i> opened! I played Anya, and wrote a little about that show's timeliness <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/12/editors-letter-62/">here</a>, which is mostly a piece about the election, and the importance of championing humility, nuance, and complexity as antidotes to how little truth or factualness seem to matter right about now.<br />
☆ <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/09/editors-letter-59/"><b>Rookie turned five years old!</b></a> Our theme that month was Infinity, and I published a series called <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/tag/the-infinity-diaries/">The Infinity Diaries</a>, about my move to New York, heartbreak, doing my first play, and how writing and acting are kind of like opposites but can become friends. I don't think I've ever been more scared to share anything but I'm very glad I did.<br />
☆ Other recent Editor's Letters that felt especially good to write: <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/11/editors-letter-61/">Awakening</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/10/editors-letter-60/">Cast of Characters</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/07/editors-letter-57/">Soulmates</a>.<br />
☆ I interviewed <a href="http://system-magazine.com/tavi-and-miuccia-prada/">Miuccia Prada for <i>System</i></a>, <a href="http://www.wmagazine.com/story/exclusive-solange-knowles-in-conversation-with-tavi-gevinson-about-a-seat-at-the-table">Solange for <i>W</i></a><i> </i>and for <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/09/first-drafts-solange-knowles/">Rookie</a>, and <a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/kenneth-lonergan">Kenneth Lonergan for <i>Interview</i></a>--basically just secretly made them my college professors for an hour or two.<br />
☆ I was on podcasts like <a href="https://soundcloud.com/this-week-had-me-like/khloe-vs-chloe">This Week Had Me Like</a>, my favorite source of bizarre celebrity news/way of coping with absurdity, and <a href="http://www.unqualified.com/2016/08/25/bonus-episode-tavi-gevinson/">Anna Faris Is Unqualified</a>, in which we broke down all my defenses and shared tales of love and loss and people who lie about being the children of famous filmmakers, etc.<br />
☆ I wrote about the secret lives of objects, being a collector, and documenting your life like it's a picture book, for <a href="http://www.amagazinecuratedby.com/issues/alessandro-michele/">A Magazine Curated By Alessandro Michele of Gucci</a>.<br />
☆ I did an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/100000004557011/illustrated-interview-tavi-gevinson.html">Illustrated Interview for <i>T Magazine</i></a>.<br />
☆ I was on <a href="http://www.teenvogue.com/story/tavi-gevinson-cover-interview-grace-coddington-september-issue">the cover of <i>Teen Vogue</i>'s September issue</a>, interviewed and styled by Grace Coddington and shot by Inez and Vinoodh, so 12 year-old me was dying. Also, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTIFVLkK_s">here's a video we did in my apartment.</a><br />
☆ <a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/from-writers-singers-and-actors-to-feminist-activists-meet-petra-collins-inspirational-women">Petra shot me for </a><i><a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/from-writers-singers-and-actors-to-feminist-activists-meet-petra-collins-inspirational-women">i-D</a> </i>which was deeply satisfying in the way making visual dreams come true with her always is.<br />
☆ Patrick Demarchelier shot me for <a href="http://www.glamour.com/gallery/american-woman-in-2016"><i>Glamour's</i> rad portraits series</a> of American women working in a range of fields and mediums.<br />
☆ In <i>Dazed</i>, <a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/32372/1/tavi-gevinson-takes-centre-stage-broadway-rookie">Claire Marie Healy wrote one of the profiles</a> of myself that I felt most understood by (a seemingly sad sentence that's more just like, hey, it's nice when someone <i>gets </i>it!). Ethan James Green took the all-Rodarte photos.<br />
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Today I am 20. <a href="http://www.thecrucibleonbroadway.com/?gclid=CjwKEAjw9OG4BRDJzY3jrMng4iQSJABddor1ewzDe4uc37s6wFv1dIuXAgl6OL1hDNXs5X1bnaIEAhoCOi_w_wcB"><i>The Crucible</i>, in which I play Mary Warren,<i> </i>opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre</a> three weeks ago, March 31st—also the eight-year anniversary of this blog. I have a lot of trouble comprehending that writing Style Rookie led to writing for other places, then starting <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a>, then being able to audition for plays that I love and to be inside of them for long periods of time, which is an inexplicably wonderful way to live a life. But I am really really really insanely thankful for all of it, and many of you have followed for a LONG time, and that means a lot. Right now, I'm very slowly writing something that I hope will effectively articulate the strangeness of the way these all overlap—the fictions we get to try on via diary/blog-keeping, and acting, and personal style. But that's a longterm hermit project. I just wanted to mention it because in my attempt to briefly list recent stuff I've been up to, I may sound callous, but: None of this goes unexamined or unappreciated.<br />
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I went on tour for <i><a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/shop/rookie-yearbook-four/">Rookie Yearbook Four</a></i> and got to meet Rookies across the U.S. It's always surreal and<i> </i>the very best heart-nutrition to see long-time readers and meet new ones! Here are some <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/11/road-rookie-yearbook-four/">photos</a> of it all.<br />
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Recent Editor's Letters for Rookie about stuff like: <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/10/editors-letter-48/">Glory</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/11/editors-letter-49/">Assembly</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/12/editors-letter-50/">Potential</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/01/editors-letter-51/">Truth or Dare</a>, and <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/03/editors-letter-53/">Cult of Personality</a>. In my letter for the theme On Display, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/02/editors-letter-52/">I also wrote about David Bowie</a>.<br />
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Back in the fall, Bowie commissioned a series of videos set to songs from ★ by <a href="http://instagram.com/instaminiseries">Insta Mini Series</a>, and you will find me in <a href="http://instagram.com/instaminiseries">some of them</a>.<br />
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I am also hanging out with the coolest/cutest girls in the world in <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/04/carly-rae-jepsen-boy-problems/">the video for Carly Rae Jepsen's song "Boy Problems,"</a> which <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/petra">Petra Collins</a>, Rookie photographer and personal partner-in-crime, directed.<br />
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For the online magazine <i>ILY</i>, I <a href="https://ilymag.com/2016/02/09/tavi-gevinson-essay/">wrote</a> about how liking movies too much can cause one to dissociate from real-life events such as love. Shoutout to movies, love you movies!!!!<br />
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Some brain-expanding interviews I have conducted—<br />
For Rookie: <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/10/adrian-tomine/">Adrian Tomine</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/10/carly-rae-jepsen/">Carly Rae Jepsen</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/10/joanna-newsom-interview/">Joanna Newsom</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/11/hailee-steinfeld/">Hailee Steinfeld</a>, and <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/03/first-drafts-danai-gurira/">Danai Gurira</a>.<br />
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For <i>Interview</i>: <a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/winona-ryder-2">Winona Ryder</a>, high priestess of my DVD shelf.<br />
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For Studio 360: <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/tavi-gevinson-ben-whishaw/">Ben Whishaw</a>, who plays John Proctor in <i>The Crucible</i> and is a magical person.<br />
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I also <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/bonus-track-tavi-gevinson-olivia-bee/">interviewed Olivia Bee</a> for Studio 360. She is crazy talented and has <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/author/olivia/">taken photos for Rookie</a> since the very beginning, and now has a stunning book out with Aperture called <i><a href="http://aperture.org/shop/olivia-bee-kids-in-love">Kids in Love</a></i>, in which I wrote a thing or two (two).<br />
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I got to be a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, <a href="http://callyourgirlfriend.com/post/135438021124/phone-a-friend-tavi-gevinson">Call Your Girlfriend</a>.<br />
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I<a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/11/tavi-showed-up-on-scream-queens-last-night.html"> was in an episode of <i>Scream Queens</i></a>, dressed in homage to Rosemary Woodhouse and having SO MUCH FUN. Here is Jamie Lee Curtis ruining my life:<br />
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And while we're at it, here's Ben ruining my life in <i>The Crucible</i>:<br />
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I gave a tour of my apartment in <a href="https://www.nowness.com/series/my-first-apartamento/my-first-apartamento-tavi-gevinson">this video</a> for Nowness + Apartamento.<br />
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I wrote some + edited a round-up of feelings about the two-year anniversary of Beyoncé's self-titled album <a href="http://www.thebeatjuice.com/read/2015/12/11/14204/can-you-even-believe-its-been-two-years-since-we-were-beyonce-d/">over at BEAT</a>.<br />
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I was <a href="http://www.crfashionbook.com/book/tavi-gevinson/">featured in CR Fashion Book</a> and beloved Rookie illustrator <a href="http://instagram.com/foxyfries">Mithsuca Berry</a> did the artwork. (Photo by Sloan Laurits.)<br />
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I was shot by empress/emperor Inez and Vinoodh for <i><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/03/disrupters-art-film-and-fashion">Vanity Fair</a></i> while Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" played on a loop inside my head.<br />
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I was on the cover of a zine Rookie illustrator and world wonder <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/author/kati-yewell/">Kati Yewell</a> started, called <a href="http://katiyewell.com/events/2016/4/2/noisy-kids-zine-opening-release-party-and-art-show-at-alt-space-brooklyn">Noisy Kids</a>. She interviewed me and took photos where I am swimming in my documented spirals I mean diaries.<br />
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I was also on the cover of <a href="http://www.polyesterzine.com/">Polyester Zine</a>, interviewed by the brilliant Ione Gamble and shot by <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/eleanor">Eleanor Hardwick</a>, who I <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2009/01/it-only-took-me-like-hour-to-narrow.html">interviewed</a> eons ago on this blog and who's also been at Rookie since day one. It was SO SPECIAL to finally meet her and work together; the internet to IRL is amazing!!!<br />
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If you've read my blog or Rookie for a few years you know how much I love <a href="http://www.sethbogart.com/">Seth Bogart</a> or even that my friends and I <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2012/05/sixteen-and-spring.html">weaseled</a> our way into his 18+ shows in high school. I got to sing on the song "Barely Legal" from his new self-titled album, which is a huge treat all-around; here is a tiny clip of it.<br />
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I<a href="http://pirellicalendar.pirelli.com/en/the-cal-2016/home"> was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the 2016 Pirelli calendar</a> in the company of my every living hero, and I wrote some about it here:<br />
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It feels wrong to write about a play—one of the last things in this MODERN TIME which can't be captured or effectively described to anyone who wasn't there in person—but I am so so proud of <i>The Crucible</i>, and of everyone involved in the production. I talked about that here.<br />
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HEY THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!! See you at the stage door, or at a Rookie event, or if you're ever on the streets of the Big Apple and you're like "who's that girl squinting at directions on her phone and inconveniencing everyone around her?" I just want you to know that the answer, always, is <i>me</i>.<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/shop/rookie-yearbook-four/">Rookie Yearbook Four</a></i>, the print edition of our fourth year, comes out October 20: 352 pages of beautiful writing and art by young people, plus print-only contributions from people like Amandla Stenberg, Kiernan Shipka, Jazz Jennings, Dev Hynes of Blood Orange, Emma Roberts, Sarah Paulson, Charli XCX, DeJ Loaf, Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, Donna Tartt, Shamir, Chloe of Kitten, Rashida Jones, Tracee Ellis Ross, Joy Williams, Hayley Williams of Paramore, Lorde, Tyler Ford, Ariana Grande, Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear, Solange, and Willow Smith. WHEW. See also: stickers, posters, a cut-out diorama and banner, ET CETERA FOREVER. I've never been able to choose a favorite Rookie Yearbook until now. It is our final one (senior year!) and I can't wait for Rookies THE WORLD OVER to see it. (<i>Mr. Burns laugh</i>, but in the name of good things like self-esteem and creativity.)<br />
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I'm also doing a tour for the book, reading from the book with local Rookies and signing copies. <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/09/rookie-yearbook-four-book-tour/">You! should! come!</a><br />
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More exciting Rookie news: After four years, we have our own office. We also launched a <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">redesign</a> of the site that makes me feel warm and fuzzy.<br />
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Acting-wise: <a href="http://thisisouryouthbroadway.com/" style="font-style: italic;">This Is Our Youth</a> closed in January. Starting in February, I will play Mary Warren in a 20-week run of <a href="http://www.broadway.com/shows/crucible/"><i>The Crucible </i>on Broadway</a>. I was also in an episode of <i>Scream Queens</i> that airs this fall.<br />
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Writing: I interviewed <a href="http://www.elle.com/fashion/a28210/taylor-swift-elle-june-cover-2015/">Taylor Swift for the cover of <i>ELLE</i></a>, guest-edited a section of <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/250600">the July/August issue of <i>Poetry Magazine</i></a>, and <a href="https://instagram.com/p/8ELqAOm_bB/?taken-by=tavitulle">guest-edited a Rookie section of the October issue of <i>Nylon</i></a>. So many talented people of all kinds are featured in both, so take a look! I also wrote <a href="http://www.randomhouse.de/book/Babe/Petra-Collins/e466234.rhd?pub=58500">the introduction to Petra Collins' book, </a><a href="http://www.randomhouse.de/book/Babe/Petra-Collins/e466234.rhd?pub=58500" style="font-style: italic;">Babe</a>, which showcases the work of many of my favorite artists.<br />
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Here are some recent Rookie editor's letters I am proud of: <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/02/editors-letter-40/">Acting Out</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/03/editors-letter-41/">Trust</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/04/editors-letter-42/">Both Sides Now</a>, <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/08/editors-letter-44/">Give + Take</a>. <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/09/the-deep-web/">This</a> is a list of some of my favorite longreads (and long-listens, and long-watches) on the internet.<br />
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Podcasts: I talked about my favorite episode of <i>Freaks and Geeks </i>on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/buzzfeedrerun/episode-1-freaks-and-geeks-tavi-gevinson">Rerun</a>, and discussed teenage loneliness on <a href="http://www.wbur.org/2015/07/30/dear-sugar-episode-twenty">Dear Sugar</a>.<br />
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I'm also in a campaign for <a href="http://www.clinique.com/face-forward">Clinique</a> in which I talk about confidence and creativity, my two favorite things/biggest sources of anxiety ♡♡♡<br />
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The 2016 <a href="http://www.vogue.com/13351454/2016-pirelli-calendar-annie-leibovitz-serena-williams-yoko-ono/">Pirelli calendar</a> is of clothed women with a variety of achievements, and I am stoked to be one of them, in intimidatingly good company. Here is a behind-the-scenes photo from the shoot with Annie Leibovitz, in which I am wearing my soul in sweatshirt form: <a href="http://gracemiceli.com/">GIRLS AT NIGHT ON THE INTERNET</a>.<br />
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<br />Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-22449592733193242202014-10-20T03:14:00.002-05:002015-08-11T17:28:57.193-05:00For the unacquainted:<br />
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Hi! I'm editor-in-chief of <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a>, a website for teenage girls that I founded in 2011. Every year we put out a book that compiles the best content from that year of the site. Our most recent is <i>Rookie Yearbook Three</i>, published by <a href="http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/razorbill/">Razorbill</a>. It is just over 350 pages, and in addition to loads of beautiful artwork and writing are print-exclusives like stickers, valentines, a Rookie pennant, and contributions from the likes of Dakota and Elle Fanning, Shailene Woodley, Lorde, Grimes, Kelis, Sia, <i>Broad City</i>, <i>Bob's Burgers</i>, and more.<br />
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Other recent developments: I was on the cover of magnificent, ad-free <i><a href="https://thegreatdiscontent.com/magazine">The Great Discontent</a></i>, as well as <i><a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/08/tavi-gevinson-from-fashion-to-broadway.html">New York Magazine</a> </i>and <i><a href="http://www.nylon.com/articles/nylon-october-2014-it-girl-issue-cover-tavi-gevinson">Nylon</a></i>. <i>This is Our Youth </i>playwright Kenneth Lonergan wrote something about me for <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/09/tavi-gevinson-this-is-our-youth-annie-leibovitz-photo" style="font-style: italic;">Vanity Fair</a>, and Annie Leibovitz took the accompanying photo in the same backyard where I used to take pictures every day after school for this blog. Here I am babbling on about all this lunacy:</div>
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<a href="http://rookiemag.com/shop/rookie-yearbook-two/">Rookie Yearbook Two is out</a>! It is the print edition of our best content from our second year as a <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">website</a> and I am crazy proud of it. This one was a real labor of love -- I flew to Montreal twice to work with <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/">Drawn & Quarterly</a> in person, and what you see in these pages came from two suitcases full of my clothes, trinkets, jewelry, cut-outs, record covers, journals, et cetera times infinity. It is so hugely satisfying to have put our contributors' amazing work into a tangible form, exhaustively designed and obsessively detailed. There are also a bunch of extras you can't get on our site: letters to our readers from Judy Blume and Mindy Kaling, an interview with Mindy by Lena Dunham, pages from Grimes' sketchbook, and enough stickers to make you swoon. Here are <a href="http://instagram.com/p/eqViXrm_fV/">two</a> <a href="http://instagram.com/p/b5hgIWm_QV/">videos</a> of tiny previews of my favorite spreads, and <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/10/23/rookie-yearbook-two-gevinson.html">two</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/10/rookie_yearbook_two_by_tavi_gevinson_reviewed.html">reviews</a> that made me feel like, cool, yes, we put this out into the world and other people feel the way we do. More important than what a buncha fancy GROWN-UPS think, though, is that our readers like it, so thank you to anyone who's come to any of the events on our book tour and shown the love. I'm rubber, you're glue, your enthusiasm bounces off me and sticks 2 u.<br />
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I was asked to share my "big big world" at the <a href="http://ideas.sydneyoperahouse.com/2013/tavi-gevinson-tavis-big-big-world-at-17/">Sydney Opera House</a> and the <a href="http://www.mwf.com.au/2013/?name=Writer-Gevinson-Tavi">Melbourne Writers Festival</a> and mostly talked about fangirling, the anxiety of influence, and being happy instead of putting pressure on yourself to be some tortured artist. I love Neil Gaiman's "make good art" <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/14/make-good-art-neil-gaiman-chip-kidd/">speech</a>, but I wanted to talk about what happens when you <i>can't</i> make good art, and about how fulfilling it can be to appreciate other people's art. If you prefer to watch the FIRST-EVER DELIVERY of this thing, the Sydney one is <a href="http://ideas.sydneyoperahouse.com/2013/tavi-gevinson-tavis-big-big-world-at-17/">here</a>, but I've embedded the slightly-updated Melbourne one above.<br />
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I tackled my love for Taylor Swift in <a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/201307/?read=article_gevinson">a 4000-word piece for the Believer</a>. A nice Tumblr user scanned <a href="http://rookiemag.tumblr.com/post/56131794522/hundredmilesperhour-tavi-gevinson-notes-on">the whole thing</a>. I HAVE NEVER STRUGGLED SO MUCH WITH WANTING TO GET SOMETHING RIGHT. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xg3vE8Ie_E">This love is difficult but it's real</a>.<br />
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Last August/September, I filmed a supporting role in <i>Enough Said</i>, real live goddess Nicole Holofcener's recent movie. (Early readers of this blog will remember lame references to musical theater. In the words of KP, <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuwfgXD8qV8">This is a part of me</a></i>.) It's out in theaters now! I'm really proud of it and still shocked that I got to work with such funny, wonderful humans.<br />
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I am on the latest cover of <a href="http://bullettmedia.com/">BULLETT</a>, accompanied by <a href="http://bullettmedia.com/article/tavi-gevinson-like-role-model-whatever/">a piece by Fiona Duncan</a>. As you can see, my hair is also shorter. I'm not much taller.<br />
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Finally, this month's theme on Rookie is <i><a href="http://rookiemag.com/theme/forever/">Forever</a></i>. My <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2013/12/editors-letter-26/">editor's letter</a> went up tonight, and it's already been hugely validating to see the response from those of you who feel similarly about this period in one's life. I mention in it that <a href="http://www.petracollins.com/?portfolio=the-teenage-gaze">Petra</a> gave me a book of her documentation of our shared adolescence, and above is the cover and last page.</div>
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The past few years have been dauntingly magical, with many thanks to supporters of Rookie and of the other odds and ends listed here, and I'm just at an interesting time right now in figuring out what's next. Thanks for sticking around, coming by for a first time, what have you -- I know <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2013/04/five-years.html">I said last spring</a> that I was trying to let go of my need to document, but I figured out in writing the <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2013/12/editors-letter-26/"><i>Forever</i> letter</a>:</div>
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Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com242tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-8990340232314992702013-04-03T00:46:00.001-05:002013-11-18T13:10:34.124-06:00five years<br />
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Sunday was the five-year anniversary of this here blob, which I've neglected in the past months in the interest of <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a>, high school, friends, sleep, and other things. Aside from that, I don't feel like I have much to say, or rather, I prefer now to say it in private. My most recent journal is my favorite thing I've ever made, and nobody will ever see it.</div>
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I have been thinking a lot lately about what validates an emotion/event/observation, makes me feel like it <i>really happened</i> and I <i>really lived</i> it, and this seems like the right occasion to word-vomit these ideas. (Plus, I miss having time to keep this thing going, and I do feel an obligation to people who have read my blog for a long time that is not unlike the unspoken understanding you have with your first best friend, the one who watched you like stupid bands and stupid people and embarrass yourself and cry a lot, whose insight into whatever you do from now on is shaped by a unique knowledge of all the ties which bind New You to Old You, and who refrains from bringing up in front of new acquaintances that time you were on the 8th grade hip-hop team in the interest of letting you become more of yourself. In other words, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IknVRuEKU4&noredirect=1">we had a time</a>, but there's so much time ahead, and it is, somehow, at the <i>same</i> time, quickly running out.)</div>
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<b>I.</b> The school year begins, ending a very special summer. I begin breaking down the different kinds of memories I have:</div>
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"Everything you can imagine is real." <span style="background-color: white;">—</span>Pablo Picasso</div>
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I keep a list in the back of one of my journals called "Moments of Strange Magic." It contains events that were either (a) just really, really happy (jumping around to Beyoncé with friends) or (b) aesthetically cohesive and perfect and synesthetic (driving through the desert in a blue convertible to Nancy Sinatra's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xl0Qry-hA&noredirect=1">Bang Bang</a>" past a bunch of neon-sign motels and trailer parks). Each event is marked with a symbol indicating whether it took place in real life, a movie/TV show/book, or my imagination. Examples of some imagined (b) ones would be: sweaty teens in shiny pastels dancing in unison at a wood-paneled, tinsel-covered community-center room to "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowxhLX70_o">Snowqueen of Texas</a>" by the Mamas and the Papas; a view from the side of a guy walking down a school hallway to Frank Ocean's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7HyAJAQuXc">Forrest Gump</a>," passing lockers painted in the 1970s and a ton of muted, rowdy students; a girl submerging her head into a tub of red hair dye to the chorus of St. Vincent's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEY9GJAm8bA">Cheerleader</a>."<br />
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Where do these episodes come from? A past life? An innate discontentment with everything life already offers, combined with a form of voluntary synesthesia developed from an adolescence of perpetual loneliness manifesting itself in movie marathons and an inconvenient impulse to pay attention to every visual and auditory detail of every situation as an escape from the social interaction at hand?</div>
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An argument for the past-life theory might include this anecdote: A drawing I did in my journal of how I remembered the backyard of my boyfriend's house looking on a night that it was snowy and dark included a metal swingset. The next time I went over there, I realized I'd only imagined the swingset, though he later told me that they did have one when he was little. My mom then told me that our family almost bought that same house before I was born, meaning that, in that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedial_Chaos_Theory">timeline</a>, I would have known <i>that</i> metal swingset, in <i>that</i> backyard. </div>
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References: Zoltan Torey <a href="http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/oct/22/seeing-dark/">copes</a> with blindness by reconstructing reality in his head. Wes Anderson called <i>Moonrise Kingdom </i>a "<a href="http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/wes-anderson-moonrise-kingdom-it-s-memory-fantasy-41376">memory of a fantasy</a>," and envisioned the whole "These Days" scene from <i>The Royal Tenenbaums</i> when he first heard the song, building the rest of the movie around that moment (I have no source for this, a friend told me, I'll choose to believe it's true). I also wrote a bit about this in relation to <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/12/26/163570963/teenage-disconnect-and-the-virgin-suicides">here</a>.</div>
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Unlike imagined memories, dreams are not witnessed or crafted by the conscious brain (then again, "WHAT'S <i>CONSCIOUS</i>, MAN?" <span style="background-color: white;">—t</span>he tiny stoner living inside me who mocks my every semi-<i>deep</i> thought). I account for dreams as real memories, or at least truthful ones, because of the idea that in dreams come truths that are too difficult for the conscious mind to accept.</div>
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If a dream is not considered as valid as "real," conscious memory, then I'll still regard it in some corner of the mind as a tiny piece of my history and identity. In Chris Ware's <i>Building Stories</i>, one character is able to partially reconcile her life's regret of neglecting to pursue a creative career because she dreams she had written the book she'd always hoped to. The fact that this book could exist even in her subconscious fantasy was enough for her. Just the <i>notion</i> of her own potential had her wake up in tears.</div>
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References: Agent Cooper's dreams in <i>Twin Peaks</i>. Jenny Zhang's wonderful <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2012/11/only-in-my-dreams/">piece</a> for Rookie. Joseph Cornell's dream diary. Robert Altman's <i>3 Women</i>, which<i> </i>came to him in a dream (the casting, the colors, the story, everything) and was shot without a script, with only his memory as a guideline.</div>
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Secondhand memories come from storytelling <span style="background-color: white;">—</span> a movie, a book, a song, or a person recalling an event of their own past. </div>
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When I saw Ware give a talk about his book last November, he said that he could remember what he'd visualized as a child listening to his grandmother tell stories about her own life better than he could picture some events that actually happened <i>to him</i>. When I <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2012/11/chris-ware-intervie/">interviewed</a> him for Rookie, I asked about the one character's dream, why he included that Picasso quotation on the inside cover,<span style="background-color: white;"> </span>what convinced him that such memories could have the same effect on a person as real ones. His response:</div>
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When I remember eighth grade, I recall scenes my mind illustrated while reading <i>Norwegian Wood</i>, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">just as well as, and in some cases more vividly than</span></span>, classmate interactions and walks to school. I spent a lot of freshman year analyzing my close, personal relationships with <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/04/this-is-when-we-talk-about-rayanne.html">Rayanne Graff</a> and <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/04/shes-full-of-secrets.html">Laura Palmer</a>. I cried when I had watched <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> so many times that I could no longer remember how I'd first visualized the book. I still miss the characters I'd pictured before, and the school, too. Strangely enough, my first mental images of the Lisbons' house came flooding back to me when I set foot inside a neighbor's for a wake a couple years ago. When I walked outside, I saw that across the street was an old brown Cadillac surrounded by bushes and a sunset, mimicking <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6503015415_c39091874a_b.jpg">two Corinne Day photos</a> from the set of <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> almost exactly.</div>
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I don't actually think these events <i>really happened</i> <i>to me</i>, but they'll still come to mind when I think back on a time when a secondhand event seemed to hold some kind of truth that reality did not. Example: I felt all weird and drifty at the beginning of last summer, and when I try and revisit that place, I don't literally imagine the view from behind a car windshield and how everything must look to the narrator in Yo La Tengo's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0d-fsqLsE">Today Is the Day</a>," but I sure remember the exact sadness that it captured.</div>
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References: Ronald Reagan, long before he had Alzheimers, would repeatedly recall some great war story with tears in his eyes. As it turned out, the incident was actually from a 1944 film called <i>A Wing and a Prayer</i>. Every other part of the <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/21/speak-memory/?pagination=false">Oliver Sacks essay</a> where I learned this is also amazing and relevant.</div>
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These memories worsen with time. The original events often occur in adolescence, are usually social interactions, and, at worst, were intended to be romantic. One remedy is to frequently remind yourself that you won't have to live with your humiliation forever because MORTALITY. Or that our perception of reality is pretty inaccurate no matter what (see: Chris Ware; the tiny stoner I quoted earlier). Or that technically <span style="background-color: white;">— </span>TECHNICALLY <span style="background-color: white;">— </span>we have no way of knowing for sure that <em>any of this is happening </em>AT ALL. You could also just watch <i>Freaks and Geeks</i>.</div>
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This is when the act of remembering an event becomes more enjoyable than the event itself, conjuring feelings that are warm and fuzzy, but also <i>painful </i>in the best way. From what I've gathered, the majority of people feel nostalgia most strongly for:</div>
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<b>(a)</b> Adolescence. Not for all the sweaty, horrible stuff mentioned in #4, but for the positive feelings and experiences which are only accentuated by the fact that your developing brain is taking them in for the first time. And even the sweaty, horrible stuff can be kind of great to revel in. Or, in the words of John Hughes, "At that age, it often feels just as good to feel bad as it does to feel good."</div>
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<i>Lolita </i>and <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> combine (a) and (b) most perfectly, both being stories of men who spend their entire adult lives trying to hold onto what they once had, or once wanted.</div>
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References: <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/high-school-2013-1/">Why You Truly Never Leave High School</a>. Paul Feig's <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/gd/gd090429paul_feig">guest DJ choices</a> on KCRW. Chuck Klosterman's <a href="http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2055-dazed-and-confused-not-so-long-ago-but-very-far-away">essay</a> on <i>Dazed and Confused</i>, in which he states, "<span class="s2"><i>Dazed and Confused </i>is not a movie about how things were; <i>Dazed and Confused</i> is a movie about how things are remembered." </span>Those fuzzy photograph-looking paintings by Gerhard Richter. Any Rodarte collection that cites California as inspiration. <i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</i>.</div>
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<b>II.</b> My understanding of death deepens. I think I'd always assumed I'd at least get to watch my funeral go down and have a few suspicions confirmed concerning who would write awkward "Happy Birthday! Miss you :(" messages on my Facebook wall long after I'd passed. I thought I'd get to still see how this whole "world" thing turns out: Do we all explode? Do things start to suck less first? Does everyone get sick of technology and start to live like the Amish, inspired by that one episode of <i>Arthur</i>? DO PEOPLE STILL WATCH <i>ARTHUR</i>?</div>
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<b>III. </b>I start watching <i>Six Feet Under</i>, which helps in some ways ("Why do we have to die?" "To make life important") but feeds my anxiety in others (every episode starts with some really unfortunate freak accident).</div>
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Everything is now a matter of life and death. Math homework: NOT A PRIORITY WHEN THE END COULD BE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. Cleaning my room: IS THIS REALLY HOW I WANT TO SPEND MY LAST HOURS ON EARTH WHEN I COULD GET HIT BY A CAR TOMORROW? Etc. The habit that blog-keeping instilled in me of compulsively archiving <i>every single thing</i> only worsens. If I get behind in my journal, I spend hours wondering where to even start. I can't pay attention in class, only make scattered notes where there should be a timeline of the Industrial Revolution, listing all the details I need to get down properly as soon as I have time: The music we listened to in Claire's room, the old man I saw on my way to school, the view from my boyfriend's car when we sat in a 7-Eleven parking lot watching people walk in and trying to predict their purchases, along with a record of what each person looked like and what they bought. My hands tremble, relaxing only once everything has been sufficiently documented, each memory in my grasp, as if by putting them down on paper, I can make them last forever.</div>
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I develop my own form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_geometry">sacred geometry</a> to find the secret knots among these details and fit them into the rest of my journal. I go through one every two months or so, and for that period of time, coordinate it and all other parts of my life with a specific mood. My handwriting, my doodles, the clothes I wear, the books I read, the music I listen to, the movies I watch, and the streets I walk down all match up. One goal of this is to create memories that are aesthetically pleasing and cohesive and perfect and synesthetic, each element in place (and never repeated in another journal or memory, making its singular usage especially special) so that the nostalgia will feel <i>extra</i> good. The other is to be as many people as possible, until I'm nobody at all.</div>
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<b>V.</b> I get to the finale of Six Feet Under. One character begins readying a camera until she's told, "You can't take a picture of this. It's already gone."</div>
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I tell Claire that before, I felt like an event had only really happened once it had been documented, shared, and praised. Then, just documented and shared. Now, just documented. She reminds me that there are always more moments to come, and that they will be fully experienced only once I've let go of those of the past.</div>
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<b>VI. </b>My boyfriend and I take a tiny road trip during spring break. We skip stones on the beach, drink Coke out of glass bottles, and watch a pink sunset sky settle into nighttime. We walk along train tracks in the dark and stop to look at an old car behind a restaurant. I ask him to stand in front of it so I can take a Polaroid, the only picture I would have of him.</div>
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I retrieve it from my bag once we're on the dull Midwestern highway, leaving for good. The photo got exposed in the streetlight and came out as a mess of brown and blue spots. In a panic, I rapidly replay the day's events in my mind, and jot down a few details to remember. At some point, my notes turn into questions that I just can't shake:</div>
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The endless gray road with its yellow lights begins to feel less like a stretch of perpetual sameness, and more like an infinite sky filled with stars.</div>
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I think blogging for a period of time (especially a formative one) makes a person sort of eternally obsessed with recording and organizing everything, so this is what I've mapped out for the coming of fall:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUKHSO073mpuPz5TOHAgZvyDMYVlZMpLrtRIJ9uc98i1ssb53VlNF4tPd_tL-Kc12mmN1zg3EP1I17IJZ_jYOMINYBZ25haegg1UID8f7ADi3AoCFkbV2VCgQqwJ1_3h_1FdhnBwh81IWB/s1600/fall2012a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUKHSO073mpuPz5TOHAgZvyDMYVlZMpLrtRIJ9uc98i1ssb53VlNF4tPd_tL-Kc12mmN1zg3EP1I17IJZ_jYOMINYBZ25haegg1UID8f7ADi3AoCFkbV2VCgQqwJ1_3h_1FdhnBwh81IWB/s640/fall2012a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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Clips (spoiler alerts! Not like PLOT HEAVY stuff necessarily, but if you haven't seen any of these movies don't let me rob you of experiencing these scenes in their full glory!):</div>
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One thing I forgot to write down was the shared Super 8 memory sequence in both <i>Paris, Texas </i>and <i>Submarine</i>. SO HEARTWRENCHING.</div>
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<a href="http://www.rotterandfriends.com/wisdom/index.php?itemid=293">Deeper Fleetwood Mac jams from Turquoise Wisdom at Rotter and Friends</a></div>
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<b>1. Opening - Cowboy</b> 2. Strange Magic - ELO <b>3. Wild Heart - Stevie Nicks</b> 4. Long Live - Taylor Swift<b> 5. Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac </b>6. Love Me Like Music (I'll Be Your Song) - Heart <b>7. Marie - Jack Nitzsche</b> 8. Pardon My Heart - Neil Young<b> 9. Don't Let Me Down - Dillard & Clark</b> 10. These Days - Nico <b>11. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones </b>12. Baby Just Break - King Tuff <b>13. Love is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia </b>14. Cancion Mixteca - Ry Cooder <b>15. A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole </b>16. Crazy - Patsy Cline <b>17. Sometimes I Cry - unknown </b>18. Unknown - Yellow Balloon <b>19. Snow Queen of Texas - Mamas and the Papas </b>20. The Moonbeam Song - Harry Nilsson<b> 21. Unknown - Saba Lou </b>22. Hiding Tonight - Alex Turner<b> 23. Forget About - Sibylle Baier </b>24. Lady O - Judee Sill<b> 25. The Weight - Jackie DeShannon</b> 26. Crossroads - Robert Johnson <b>27. Rock and Roll - Velvet Underground </b>28. Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill <b>29. What's Important - Beat Happening</b><br />
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I hope your fall is really, really enjoyable.</div>
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We have a lot to catch up on. I guess I've put off writing this because there is SO MUCH.<br />
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It was always in the back of our minds that we* would do a yearly print edition of <i><a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a></i>, and by the time May rolled around, we realized that we should probably get on that if we wanted to publish it in time for our September anniversary. After a call with <a href="http://drawnandquarterly.com/">Drawn & Quarterly</a> (and years of admiring basically everything they publish), it was clear that they were the perfect publisher for this...book? magazine? of<i> online content</i>, edited by a <i>minor</i>. IT IS SO AMAZING THAT THEY BELIEVED IN US. I cannot think of better hands to have been in.<br />
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In early June, I spent the summer days I had at home living out the PG version of <i>Dazed and Confused</i> and working on the book. In late June, the <a href="http://rookiemag.com/tag/rookie-road-trip">Rookie Road Trip</a> kicked off in New York. We went record shopping and banner-making in Philadelphia, got ice cream in Columbus, played arcade games in Ann Arbor, made zines and saw Girls Rock! Chicago in Chicago (and my WORLDS COLLIDED through a viewing of <i>Superbad</i> with my school friends and Rookie staffers), went vintage shopping in Iowa City, saw <i>Moonrise Kingdom </i>and crafted at Urban Outfitters in Omaha, raced go-karts in Boulder, made banners in a sculpture park in Salt Lake City, I was sick in Boise, made crowns in Seattle, got Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, got ice cream in Eureka, got ice cream in San Francisco, hung out at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, and created an installation in Los Angeles, where we held a week of events.<br />
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<a href="http://rookiemag.com/tag/rookie-road-trip/">These diaries on Rookie</a> and <a href="http://rookiemag.tumblr.com/tagged/rookie-road-trip/">tidbits on the Rookie tumblr</a> might begin to give you an idea of how amazing it all was.<br />
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I realized recently that most of my memories are of things that never happened -- I rarely get nostalgic for actual events, just for book illustrations or scenes from movies or fantasies or unmet expectations. This summer created the kind of moments that I always thought would've only existed in my memory as fantasies. But they were real life! And they were shared with people who really wanted to be there! It's all too much for me to wrap my brain around, frankly. Last summer was when I <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/07/room-part-1.html">really</a> <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/07/room-part-2.html">started</a> transforming my room into my <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16588790">own</a> <a href="http://stylelikeu.com/closets/tavi-gevinson/">world</a>, and it became the school year's setting for feeling really happy and really sad and everything in between. Last summer I also started working on <i>Rookie</i>, and it became the school year's setting for a bunch of us for dealing with feeling really happy and really sad and everything in between. The installation in LA, <i>Strange Magic</i>, was basically a mutant teenage bedroom/gigantic shrine, with photography from <a href="http://theardorous.com/">The Ardorous</a> curated by <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/petra">Petra</a> on the walls, and teen bedroom arrangements by both of us everywhere else. The whole thing -- creating it, dismantling it, and all the events -- was heinously and overwhelmingly emotional in a way only silly teenagers crave and thrive off of. I'd shipped a huge box of stuff from my own room to the space for us to use, and we asked girls who came to our meet-ups to bring souvenirs from their own sanctuaries as well, and it was such a perfect manifestation of everything that's shaped how I see things these past few years that I feel like there's nothing else I can do to honor them all. Like it's time for me to get really into sports and black clothes and never watch <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> again. We ended up shipping home FIVE BOXES of everything accumulated, and I think I just need to put it all in a time capsule. Then I will simply lie on a mattress on my floor with nothing on my walls but a <i>Pulp Fiction</i> poster as a reminder to just be Mia Wallace. Then my parents will suspect I have turned to drugs, and then I will probably once again go back to all that <i>Strange Magic</i> stuff eventually. You can see photos of the installation <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2012/08/strange-magic/">here</a>, and photos of our last event -- a prom -- <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2012/09/and-there-were-stars-in-our-eyes/">here</a>.<br />
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<i>Rookie Yearbook One</i> is officially out, available on <a href="http://rookiemag.com/shop/rookie-yearbook-one/"><i>Rookie</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1770461124/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk">Amazon</a>, at <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rookie-yearbook-one-tavi-gevinson/1111944773">Barnes & Noble</a>, and at various independent book and zine stores. Because it's a more unique situation than if I had just written a book, this is how it worked: I send the moodboards/theme/musings about the theme to our contributors for every month of the website, <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/anaheed">Anaheed</a> and I choose from our contributors' resulting pitches, Anaheed and <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/girlscout/">Phoebe</a> edit everything and I put together the photo albums, I sometimes have a couple notes on written pieces. For <i>Yearbook</i>, Anaheed and I narrowed down the pieces from the site that would go in, I gave initial direction and feedback on how every spread should look, every photo story edit, every title font, every border, every illustration placement, I scanned my doodles and fabrics and handwriting for decoration, etc. Sonja decorated most spreads with her beautiful collage and illustration, and Tracy from D&Q designed it. I knew we couldn't just transfer all this content you can get for free online in a simple, minimalist layout, plus I get too excited about the look of each monthly <a href="http://rookiemag.com/theme/drama-2/">theme</a>, so this book was obsessively art directed with lots of love. I don't think I've slept since Rookie started last September, and I couldn't be happier. Not sarcasm!<br />
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Then I went on <i>Late Night with Jimmy Fallon</i> to talk about it, and to teach him how to bitchface (and got to wear a lovely dress by my pal Rachel Antonoff, which had me feelin' like I could lead a ladies lunch seminar on DRESSING FOR CONFIDENCE):<br />
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I am also on the August/September cover of one of my favorite magazines, <i>Bust</i>, which you can get <a href="http://bust.com/">here</a>. Support them! They rule! Anaheed did the interview, and <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/laia">Laia</a> styled the shoot, and I just think often about how grateful I am that my favorite people are also the people I work with.<br />
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I suppose that's it for now? Life is very strange and very funny and I am very, very, very lucky that I get to do something I love and that you pay even a smidgen of attention to it, so thank you, times a lot, times a bunch.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*We = me, my dad (our unofficial business advisor), managing editor Lauren, and editorial director Anaheed.</span>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com277tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-88672880272691414322012-06-22T19:48:00.000-05:002012-06-23T01:53:20.139-05:00my united states of whatever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://petracollins.com/">Petra</a> visited during spring break a few months ago to take these photos for <i>Oyster</i> and we were way in our own world and it was so pretty and kind of like<i> Heavenly Creatures </i>without the murder and stuff. You can see the spread <a href="http://oystermag.com/oyster-99-tavi-gevinson-x-petra-collins">here</a>, where I also wrote a little bit, but these are my favorites, and I happen to be looking down in almost all of them! It was just really satisfying to make a thing with someone whose brain is similar when it comes to colors/the various subcategories of suburban homes' doors' windows/points of inspiration/etc. and feel slightly less crazy for being obsessive over all those details. In general, I guess, it can be isolating to realize your world is very different from that around you and it's easy to decide whenever there's some conflict that it's because you yourself are too strange and your point-of-view is too twisted, but it makes it all the more comforting and exciting to find someone who kind of feels or sees the way you do in some way or another. Man, whoever invented friendship was really smart.</div>
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And, as it goes without saying, Petra is ridiculously talented and makes everything look 2903x prettier. Normally I don't post press stuff on here (especially since I rarely post here at all anymore) but I feel that I can take credit for more than just standing there this time and I am psyched at how it turned out.</div>
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Also, HAPPY ROAD TRIP KICK-OFF! If you don't know what I'm talking about, read <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2012/06/editors-letter-9/">this</a>, and then look at <a href="http://rookiemag.tumblr.com/post/25676437913/official-rookie-road-trip-line-up">this</a>!<br />
(Here's the poster for it. Also of me by Petra from when she visited. It felt a little weird making it MY FACE but it's blurry and sunsetty and American and a pretty photo so shrug.)<br />
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These are some photos I took a while ago for <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.com/">MAC</a>'s MacZine that just came out, so here I am now, posting them, online, on the internet, on my weblog!!!!! The theme of the issue was "Wanderlust," so I did a Los Angeles-inspired moodboard and outfit, which is not surprising to readers of this blog. (This is also basically the outfit form of next month's <a href="http://rookiemag.com/theme/power-2/">Rookie theme</a>!)</div>
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<i>Weetzie Bat</i>, postcards from a Peter Max paper airplane book, Joan Didion, Elle Fanning in Rodarte in <i>A Magazine Curated by Rodarte</i>, postcards and photos from an antique store I went to in Pasadena with <a href="http://autumndewilde.tumblr.com/">Autumn</a> and <a href="http://arrowscanaryman.tumblr.com/">Arrow</a>, a tapestry my mom made a long time ago, daisies from the craft store, and Joni Mitchell's <i>Song to a Seagull</i>, which ends with <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/12/literally-the-best-thing-ever-joni-mitchell/">my favorite Joni song</a>, "Cactus Tree."</div>
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IN OTHER NEWS, I saw <i>Moonrise Kingdom</i> yesterday thanks to a screening set up by their PR for me and my friends, and it was EVERYTHING I'D HOPED IT WOULD BE AND MORE. During the school year I usually avoid watching movies that I know will make me that <i>emotional</i> and <i>inspired</i> because I'm left with all this energy that school doesn't allow for and then it has nowhere to go, but it's almost SUMMER, so soon I get to run away and read fantasy novels and play records as much as I want! (People rolling their eyes right now might like to know that I thought the movie did a good job of not being too self-indulgent on the montage-of-cute-people-doing-cute-activities part. Just enough for me to be like, "Oh <i>Wes</i>, that is so you! Typical Wes! Wes, you aesthetically-defined bitch! =P I heart u so effing much!!!!" before <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdjk0sviTHo">complimenting him on his shoes and throwing my yogurt spoon in the air</a>, but not so much that it stops actually helping the story move along. Also the main kids were so absolutely perfect, and too witty and dark and confused to be cutesy, too. The other kids were also absolutely perfect. So were the grown-ups. Oh my god it was all so good. I may have liked it more than <i>Royal Tenenbaums</i>, which is my favorite Wes Anderson? Oh my god I don't even know I just want to go back. I plan on seeing it at least four more times once it's out in theaters.)</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com241tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-39424216107735679242012-05-03T19:12:00.001-05:002012-05-03T22:54:58.197-05:00sixteen and spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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But I still like having this outlet, and so, my spring so far:</div>
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Claire and two friends both named Alex and me performed at V-Day, a good, loud celebration of <a href="http://www.vday.org/home">vaginas</a>. Autumn took those photos. The last one is me in the last hour of my 16th birthday a couple weekends ago. I am wearing my friend's sweater, a skirt I got to keep from the <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2012/04/i-sometimes-move.html">Wren shoot</a>, and a jacket gifted to me by <a href="http://www.ristobimbiloski.com/">Risto</a>.</div>
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A car Petra and I found, a sundae Grace and I shared, a crown of real roses that Ella gave me for my birthday, and the view from my angst-gazing/<i>Say Anything</i>-worthy window.</div>
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These photos are by <a href="http://www.laurendukoff.com/">Lauren Dukoff</a>, styled by <a href="http://www.ashleyfurnival.com/">Ashley Furnival</a> for Vogue Nippon. We shot in January, but they fit in so much with what I've been feeling for spring -- the '50s/'60s jumble, the beehive, applying the bright, pink/green/orange/sky blue colors I normally associate with Los Angeles (see: <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/01/valley-of-dolls-continued.html">these</a> <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/06/ive-got-high-school-crush-on-california.html">posts</a>) to '50s shapes I normally associate with being home in a suburb (<a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/10/fall-vibes-part-4.html">see</a>: <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/09/fall-vibes-part-1.html">fall</a> <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/10/fall-vibes-part-2.html">vibes</a>). I was really lucky to get to work with friends who understand my loyalty to my personal style (see: inconvenient pickiness over VIBES and COLORS and HOW THEY FIT PERFECTLY IN REFERENCE TO ALL OF THE THINGS THAT <i>I</i> LIKE) and wanted to create looks we would all love. That last picture is of Ashley and me, and it's so dusty 'cause it's been on my shelf.</div>
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<a href="http://www.petracollins.com/">Petra</a> and her boyfriend visited during my spring break and we basically lived in a bubble of our own vibes and references and color associations for days in a row and it was MAGICAL. Like <i>Heavenly Creatures</i>, only instead of writing and molding intricately designed fairytales, we just tried to wear relatively nice things while watching <i>Dazed and Confused</i> and found ways to call junk foods <i>aesthetically pleasing</i>.</div>
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Claire and I saw Hunx and his Punx and it was<i> many many kinds of amazing</i>. Our underagedness got us seated at a counter behind the bar and it was actually really nice because we had room to dance and were elevated so we could see and people-watch. I wore my <i>Twin Peaks</i> best friend/rosary necklace and kept my Hunx comb in my sock like a switchblade and Claire's skirt looked like the red room floor in TP. Hunx and all of his punx were so NICE and ALIVE and then when we went home and watched <i>Community </i>we kept pausing it to be like, "Wait, THAT SHOW WAS SO GOOD."</div>
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Here I am attempting to channel <a href="http://i15.tinypic.com/2zs8rwx.jpg">Wanda Woodward</a> with a pout-<a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/10/diy-bitchface/">bitchface</a> hybrid. My coat is also from the Wren shoot and Rachel Antonoff gave me the spiffy saddle shoes and my top is vintage and my hand-me-downed pants are made of lace and I think it's like the one time I've ever worn pants other than when I had a bad week where I wore jeans every day.</div>
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Drinks at the bowling alley, Petra's situation, a day I spent in the treehouse reading Chris Ware comics and listening to Fleetwood Mac and sleeping, and FRIES.</div>
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For my birthday I had friends over for dancing and hugging and waffles made out of cake batter. The waffles were a huge hit, and I highly recommend the recipe for your next social function, or just your next meal, or every meal ever. Grace and I decorated our dining room like the high school movie prom of my teen dreamz, with bubblegum colors like <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2012/02/come-sail-away/">this shoot Petra did for Rookie</a> and banners that said SWEET 16 (not pictured) and POOP (definitely pictured). I wore that Wren skirt again 'cause I guess it's perfect for everything, and a baby blue embroidered top, and sandals I got at a vintage fair. I was prepared to be all mopey and Samantha Baker about it just in case it was underwhelming, but it was honestly the bestest day of my life? A song like "Blister in the Sun" kind of reaches a new level when a bunch of people who are used to dancing to it alone all go at it together. <a href="http://latterstyle.com/">Meagan</a> is responsible for these lovely photos. Also not pictured: the love notes "Justin Bieber" (Grace and I -- don't tell anyone!!!!!!!!) left sitting around.</div>
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<a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7213/6988468906_12f77ab0ff_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7213/6988468906_12f77ab0ff_z.jpg" /></a></div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com212tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-89560022639149772282012-04-10T21:19:00.002-05:002012-04-10T21:45:02.270-05:00i sometimes move<span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">Here are two moderately accurate representations of me in <i>motion</i>, save the absence of my tail, which I cleverly hid. First is this</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "> video lookbook for Wren's Fall 2012 collection:</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span ><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aZQQA8Ce7Yo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">We shot it on the one rainy L.A. day of the year, and it was cool outside, and the house we were in had wind chimes and rugs hanging everywhere, and we listened to Cat Stevens, and it was really really rad working with people I've admired for years, and I quietly wept about the realization that life cannot always be this <i>PRETTY</i>.</span><div style="font-style: normal; "><br /><div>It also occurred to me at some point recently that most people don't love talking about <span style="font-size: 100%; ">OUR DAUGHTERS</span><span style="font-size: 100%; "> AND THE MEDIA at parties, so I took those thoughts to TEDxTeen instead:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6osiBvQ-RRg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="font-size: 100%; "></iframe></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; ">I hope you like both of them, and that you have a good rest of your week.</div></div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com194tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-24176464346176303382012-04-01T16:08:00.003-05:002012-04-01T16:16:59.743-05:00small things<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Yesterday was the four-year anniversary of this blog! Congratulations to me for never pressing the "delete" button. I spoke at <a href="http://tedxteen.com">TEDxTeen</a>, which was a nice way to bring it all full circle or something, and that video will be up next week. I couldn't think of a good April Fool's joke for today, but I will direct you to </span><a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/04/changes-around-here.html" style="font-size: 100%; ">last year</a><span style="font-size: 100%; ">'s and one from </span><a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2009/04/confession.html" style="font-size: 100%; ">three years ago</a><span style="font-size: 100%; ">, both of which I am still very proud of, so proud that I don't know why I haven't won any Nobel Prizes or presidential elections or other fancy things for them.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Here is a photo I took with help from my dad (I'm never sure how to credit someone if it's just me being like LISTEN TO ME AND STAND HERE AND PRESS THIS BUTTON AND DON'T MOVE?) in L.A. a couple weeks ago. My coat was a gift from Wren and I got the shoes at a vintage fair.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 467px;" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6101/7036406019_7fa144a816_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com277tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-28752062718082711962012-03-27T09:00:00.009-05:002012-05-01T15:58:52.897-05:00there are holes in the universe<div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: left;">T</span><span style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;">hese books I've been making lately have been a good format for aesthetically cataloging the little worlds and movies I think I see sometimes, all the images and stills and songs and clothes and passages of writing that somehow make sense together. I used to try to embody each world in an outfit, but now I just want to dress like I'm actually <i>in</i> the world, so my outfits lately have been more simple…like when I got into Twin Peaks, I would wear my Laura Palmer pin, now I'd rather <i>dress like</i> Laura Palmer, if that makes sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;">Anyway, I guess disappointment is kind of eternal ("YOU'RE WELCOME" -my prophecy), so in that way it makes sense that these images aren't specific to one time or decade. And I did mention California but I think it's because the California I've experienced (just LA, really) is such an </span><i style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;">exaggeration</i><span style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;"> of the dreams that are stored everywhere else, these suburban houses that are NEON, and giant gold churches, super tacky and cheaply decorated motels and psychics with huge signs…and <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/10/daydream-nation/">Salvation Mountain is a whole world of its own</a>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;">Oh, and there are a lot of sources I couldn't find and Google Images got really slow for me so please email me if you know what any of the unknowns are! I'd like to be able to credit people properly and all.</span></div>
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galaxie 500, beth hoeckel, two unknowns</div>
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joseph cornell film still, <i>angela</i></div>
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rodarte at yellowstone by todd cole for pop, internet k-hole</div>
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luigi ghirri, galaxie 500, <a href="http://turnedout.tv/archives/1538">turned out by maya</a>, luigi ghirri</div>
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internet k-hole, kurt cobain by unknown photographer, george plemper, tim walker's <i>the lost explorer</i>, internet k-hole</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Creatures of the Wind's fall 2012 collection kind of felt like the physical clothing embodiment of all of these ideas for me. <a href="http://sparrowhair.com/">Sheba</a> described it as being from the past and future at the same time, and that's exactly it…it at once appears to have an untraceable origin, time and place-wise, but also contains so many tiny references and motifs, fuzzy sweaters and soft flannels and liberty prints in '60s colors and quotes from The Last Unicorn and Mexican tweeds and patchwork, that all together make up something so familiar. Images related to the '60s or the Southwest have always felt like old memories to me, even though I was obviously not alive in the '60s and when we visited my grandparents in California when I was little - my only experience in the Southwest - we spent the whole time inside their house. They did have a great little hill in the backyard with grapefruit trees on top, and I liked to go up the stone path and pretend I was looking out on the whole world even though it was literally just the rest of their retirement community. God, that's depressing. But that's what I'm saying! Where did that delusion GO? And where did it COME FROM? Maybe I traveled throughout the Southwest in the '60s in a past life or something. Maybe I'm tired and still delusional! Wah wahhhhh.</span><a href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6224/6998296985_314f5a03ff_c.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6224/6998296985_314f5a03ff_c.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 534px; width: 800px;" /></a><br />
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Basically what I'm trying to say is, I think this might be my favorite collection of all time. Seriously. I wish I had never complimented anything else before in my life so that this would all have a stronger effect. It has a perfect feminine/masculine balance, there are all those little details that have MAGIC in them, but the pieces don't feel too fantastical or out of reach, they're still comfy and practical and made for a woman and not a little girl playing dress up. And the fabrics are from all over…the patchwork is made from bags from the '30s that Chris and Shane got at a thrift store, the lace overlay on this skirt is from a couturier in France, but the fabric underneath is from the '80s, thrifted.</div>
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God. LIFE, AMIRITE? Here's a playlist I made for all this too.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Parking Lot - Galaxie 500</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Broken Dreams Club - Girls</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Do You Love Me Now - Breeders</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">I'm Not There - Bob Dylan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Ceremony - New Order</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Wish Fulfillment - Sonic Youth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Used To Be - Beach House</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Army Dreamers - Kate Bush</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Walking the Cow - Daniel Johnston</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Dreams - Fleetwood Mac</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Here - Pavement</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">When Will You Come Home - Galaxie 500</span></div>
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It's such a satisfying feeling when things make sense together this way.</div>
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</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-64726916421510182492012-03-19T21:15:00.009-05:002012-03-19T21:59:31.625-05:00IT IS SPRING<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eAM9diyVRiM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="font-size: 100%; "></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7079/6852563496_9e3506ef1d_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 467px; " /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span><i>(i am NOT MESSING AROUND)</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; ">This weather is beautiful (luv ya global warming! #yolo♥<span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">) and I'm so ready to break out the spring vibes and dress like a cult leader from the '60s (see: above photo). Also, I'm blonde now, thanks to </span><a href="http://sparrowhair.com/" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Sheba</a><span style="font-size: 100%; ">, and it's nice going back to my ROOTS (that was a joke do you guys get it do you get my joke) after a two year <i>adventure</i> of blue and gray and red.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; ">Also also, I was interviewed by the *wonderful* Elisa and Lily for <a href="http://stylelikeu.com/">Stylelikeu</a>, and here it is! Photos and text are at their <a href="http://stylelikeu.com/closets/tavi-gevinson/">post</a>. I don't have much to add, it's all in the video really, other than that it was so nice to have a day of dress up like ye olden pre-high school days, and talk purely about fashion and getting inspired and all those good things. Hope ya like it.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><span> <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/38793836?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com160tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-23354213266007984672012-02-16T20:18:00.000-06:002012-02-16T20:18:00.592-06:00vomit pink<span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">Here's a (shaky) video I took flipping through the insert I curated with Edward of Meadham Kirchhoff for the last issue of </span></span><a href="http://garagemag.com" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">GARAGE Magazine</a><span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">. It's all included in the intro I wrote, scanned in below, but basically when Dasha asked me if I had any ideas for the debut issue I was feeling really inspired by blogs and zines of girls and young women who wanted to take Riot Grrrl nostalgia a little further through their writing/photography/etc., and felt very drawn to the idea of creating a space for that in a prestigious art and fashion magazine. When I sent all those links to Edward he was inspired by them too and because he basically <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/10/meadham-kirchhoff/">lives in a vacuum of lace and stickers and ribbons</a> he thought we should decorate their photos and everything ourselves, so everything throughout the insert is a little embellished.</span></span><div style="text-align: center; "><span ><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36873977?byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p></p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div>Unfortunately parts were edited out once we passed it on to the magazine, but thanks to everyone who contributed and let us use their work: <a href="http://arvidabystrom.tumblr.com/">Arvida</a>, Beth of <a href="http://girlsgetbusyzine.tumblr.com/">Girls Get Busy</a>, Claire, Clementine of <a href="http://grrrlvirus.tumblr.com/">GrrrlVirus</a>, <a href="http://gracemiceli.com">Grace Miceli</a>, Kaitlyn of <a href="http://www.kerplunk-punk.com/">Kerplunk-Punk</a>, <a href="http://kelleymcnutt.com/">Kelley McNutt</a>, Louise Gray, <a href="http://mollysoda.tumblr.com">Molly Soda</a>, Natalya Lobanova of <a href="http://happy2bsad.tumblr.com">happy2bsad</a>, <a href="http://petracollins.com">Petra Collins</a>, Sharna, and <a href="http://sophieconvey.blogspot.com/">Sophie Convey</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I also moderated an interview between Mellody Hobson and Ikram Goldman for that issue, but the magazine is too speshul to bend and scan and everything. It was a delight, however, to interview businesswomen for a fashion magazine. This is me, recommending that you buy and read it, because there are also Prada dresses made out of fruit, and that's just down right enjoyable.</div></div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com96tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-27635338057796660362012-02-15T19:47:00.007-06:002012-02-15T21:07:30.308-06:00hang in there!<div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><span style="text-align: left; ">My friend </span><a href="http://kiwilovesyou.com/" style="text-align: left; ">Kiwi</a><span style="text-align: left; "> gave me this book of motivational posters from the '70s so I made it into my diary and it turned into a physical manifestation of </span><a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/12/strange-magic.html" style="text-align: left; ">strange magic</a><span style="text-align: left; ">.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/6884103729_462f0e3da6_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/6884103729_462f0e3da6_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6884106205_ed581a9482_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6884106205_ed581a9482_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6884140559_c0326af5a6_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6884140559_c0326af5a6_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6884108931_bb2bcb09c2_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6884108931_bb2bcb09c2_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6884111507_b6103fd4f5_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6884111507_b6103fd4f5_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27IW08mC3zE">listen</a>)</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6884114351_0b644cb3b8_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6884114351_0b644cb3b8_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6884116793_a60f8dba64_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6884116793_a60f8dba64_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6884119625_37aea9b7d1_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6884119625_37aea9b7d1_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6884122613_56a808bab0_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6884122613_56a808bab0_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6884125411_6da35b5f68_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6884125411_6da35b5f68_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6884128097_1634bd5697_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6884128097_1634bd5697_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6884129717_80cb662c0e_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6884129717_80cb662c0e_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_aYibUx1B8">listen</a>)</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6884130481_2411ce7816_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6884130481_2411ce7816_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6884131799_a214fbcf31_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6884131799_a214fbcf31_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7190/6884132895_c8e0be638d_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7190/6884132895_c8e0be638d_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6884133927_51397f3473_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6884133927_51397f3473_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6884135017_e04566c757_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6884135017_e04566c757_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6884136171_2b190a6d69_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6884136171_2b190a6d69_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIh-amV-dVs">listen</a>)</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6884137255_bb7de91297_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6884137255_bb7de91297_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiqrj05nf4">listen</a>)</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6884138377_2f87a4634d_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6884138377_2f87a4634d_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UM249-WfP4">listen</a>)</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6884139499_8d55bbf128_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6884139499_8d55bbf128_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; "><span>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjeBZba7-6o">listen</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdZTNyZewY">watch</a>) (the second one is kind of dumb but my point is that that song is in both of my favorite things)</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; ">Once I realized it aligned so perfectly with an aesthetic I like I think I really took advantage of being able to call the melodramatic teen girl-ness of it an <i>artistic choice</i>. Horses! Butterflies! Hearts! Heart lyrics! Fleetwood Mac lyrics! (Or what I thought were Fleetwood Mac lyrics until I looked at the record notes and saw that it's actually "I <i>never did</i> believe in miracles." Oh. Depressing.) Yup, all TOOOOOTALLY ironic. *side eye, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfxS0ZN25Hg">snart</a>*</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com201tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-19422671705940431402012-02-15T18:50:00.005-06:002012-02-15T19:41:19.688-06:00look like that<div style="font-style: normal; ">More photos from Fashion Week for <a href="http://garagemag.com">GARAGE Magazine</a>'s street style contest, <a href="http://garagemag.com/stops">STOPS</a>! The names of both of those things are supposed to be in caps, I am not yelling at you.</div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6883812995_733e4bdb64_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 482px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6883812995_733e4bdb64_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div><span style="font-style: normal; ">More stylin' <a href="http://rookiemag.com">Rookies</a>. It was so great to see <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/leeann/">Leeann</a>'s fashion writing genius manifested into a REAL LIVE OUTFIT. Her sweater sitchiation is very close to this month's half-</span><i>Sweet Valley High</i>-inspired <a href="http://rookiemag.com/theme/obsession/" style="font-style: normal; ">theme</a>. <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/therubylotus/" style="font-style: normal; ">Ruby</a> was wearing SEAL barrettes that you can't see but which were every bit as crazy good as they sound and more. (Also she doesn't know it but I've adopted her as my little sister even though we are only a year apart. WHATEVER I'M TECHNICALLY HER BOSS I GET TO DO WHATEVER I WANT) (That's like, ethical right?)<br /><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6883812865_a87cc47d3a_z.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 481px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6883812865_a87cc47d3a_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: left; ">Alley of <a href="http://stylelikeu.com/">Stylelikeu</a> had this long wool coat-dress that I wish I'd gotten a better picture of -- you can kind of see that the right side is scalloped to fit the shape of the buttons. If I were a cartoon character and had to have copies of the same outfit in my closet and no other options, I'd want it to be this dress. <a href="http://keikolynn.com">Keiko</a>'s hair-glasses combination was already impeccable, but the striped sweater with a leopard print bag realllllly got to me.</div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6883813183_c458c2c069_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 481px; " /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">My vintage dress started out all clean and pretty and throughout the day got torn and black at the bottoms because I let it drag on the ground, but I kind of really like it this way. <a href="http://autumndewilde.tumblr.com" style="font-style: normal; ">Autumn</a> said it's kinda <i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i>, which my jacket, a gift from Rodarte, only adds to in the best way. I made my headband. <a href="http://www.tweevalleyhigh.com/" style="font-style: normal; ">Kristina</a>'s hat killed me a little, but then her necklace was glasses and her bag scarf had horses on it and then I died completely and this is actually my ghost writing this post, right now.</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-73845593886571935442012-02-14T00:04:00.006-06:002012-02-14T00:46:20.596-06:00PIZZA SHIRT<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Today I got to spend some time hanging out with my friends who run </span><a href="http://stylelikeu.com/" style="font-size: 100%; ">Stylelikeu</a><span style="font-size: 100%; ">, one of the best things to come out of the internet and one of my favoritest things ever. This you will understand when you get lost in their videos. I recommend starting with </span><a href="http://stylelikeu.com/closets/ilona-royce-smithkin/" style="font-size: 100%; ">Illona</a><span style="font-size: 100%; "> and </span><a href="http://stylelikeu.com/closets/annakim-violette/" style="font-size: 100%; ">Annakim</a><span style="font-size: 100%; "> and </span><a href="http://stylelikeu.com/closets/rachel-trachtenburg/" style="font-size: 100%; ">Rachel from Supercute</a><span style="font-size: 100%; ">. And, it's the best site for procrastinating homework, because you are learning LIFE LESSONS! Getting to talk about style with them in real time was a delight.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Here are today's photos I took for <a href="http://garagemag.com/">GARAGE Magazine</a>'s <a href="http://garagemag.com/stops">STOPS</a>, as explained in this Fashion Week's <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2012/02/human-league.html">previous</a> <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2012/02/purple-hair-and-jaguars-and-retirees.html">posts</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6874048059_820df789e6_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 481px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Emmaline, who is like if Penny Lane was way more of a badass, and Lei Lei, who is like that lady where you're like, HOW DOES SHE DO THAT? In a you-look-magically-fancy-and-casual-at-the-same-time kind of way, not in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn_OrhwIidA">Sarah Jessica Parker kind of way</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6874048493_a81e20145c_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 480px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lily made a Stella McCartney sweater seem like its story is just as unique as that of her other clothes -- the scarf is made of bedsheets. I am wearing a Vaselines tee, my Twin Peaks/rosary necklace, a vintage skirt, and shoes gifted to me by Rachel Antonoff. I had a flannel layer and lots more skull and Jesus jewelry but it got exhausting. LIFE IS HARD.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>We also had a get-together for the New York <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a> staffers, involving cake and pizza and PIZZA T-SHIRTS.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6874048793_54ac71f905_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 479px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lori, acting like it's no big deal that she looks so goddamn cool, and Anaheed, clad in her <a href="http://pizzashirt.net/">PIZZA SHIRT</a> and Comme des Garcons and PIZZA SHIRT. Sorry, wanted to make sure you got that: PIZZA SHIRT.</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com78tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-20500125611146609802012-02-13T02:26:00.004-06:002012-02-13T12:15:43.012-06:00human leagueTonight was the bestest. I held a party with my pal Jonah for a short film he made and I voiced a character for called <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEQQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F32140907&ei=W8o4T6r3IYKL0QGXs6HFAg&usg=AFQjCNFEaeFxDqHyUadognmOPwQAz8kSrg" style="font-style: normal; ">Cadaver</a>, and after the screening, we danced to the music of a fantastic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twhypgQP4d8" style="font-style: normal; ">Jean Ralphio</a>-esque DJ whose name was actually DJ Martial but who myself and my other fashion blog buddies and <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a> staffers referred to as <i>DJ MRAHHHHHH</i>. He asked us for bands to check out and we gave him awful fake band names. Then he was mad at us and apologized for not being cool enough to be in our "pin frown club," because <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/anaheed">Anaheed</a> was wearing a brooch and I guess we were all frowning. Despite our differences, we bonded over the beauty of Dexy's Midnight Runners and the Spice Girls. MUSIC REALLY DOES BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.<div><br /></div><div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: left; ">Here are more photos I took for <a href="http://garagemag.com/stops">STOPS</a>, <a href="http://garagemag.com/">GARAGE Magazine</a>'s user-generated style catalog where you can submit your own look and enter in gifting contests for the most creative interpretation of whatever brand or style you're wearing.</div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6868327889_ce80e97b64_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 479px; " /></div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; ">Jenna from <a href="http://jezebel.com/">Jezebel</a> had a really great collar-necklace thing happening, and <a href="http://www.deluneblog.com/">Claire</a>'s dress has faces on it, and the color of the faces' necks matched her socks perfectly, and she has red hair like the faces do, and I freaked out a little bit.</div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7050/6868327653_f6822f6f08_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 481px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://surlytemple.tumblr.com/">Brodie</a> did a stripes-and-floral situation, also known in all circles that matter as the BEST kind of situation, plus schoolgirl shoes. <a href="http://www.latterstyle.com/">Meagan</a> was a beautiful witch. Watching her dance was an <i>experience</i>.</div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6868328097_62d2b918ed_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 479px; " /></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://geometricsleep.com/">Laia</a> solved the problem of wanting to be comfy and dance freely but still look awesome, and her event-appropriate HEART necklace was perfect and looked so good with her tattoos. I wore a vintage Wednesday Addams dress that has 20 buttons on it, tights given to me by the Rodarte sisters, shoes given to me by Rachel Antonoff, and my Twin Peaks/rosary necklace.</div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: left; ">For real though, the best decisions I have ever made were starting <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a>, doing Reading Olympics in elementary school, and being on my "Language Arts" teacher's hip hop team in the 8th grade. That footwork is probably the only thing I learned in middle school that I have found myself using often.</div></div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-57098590078495566582012-02-11T22:34:00.005-06:002012-02-11T23:16:51.985-06:00purple hair and jaguars and retirees<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">I am now at Fashion Week, stalking people whose style I admire to take their picture for </span><a href="http://www.garagemag.com/stops" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">STOPS</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">, the street style project of </span><a href="http://garagemag.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">GARAGE Magazine</a>, at which I am a contributing editor<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">. It is one of my favorite fashion magazines <i>ever</i> for how interestingly it incorporates all other kinds of inspiration. I am pleased to work for any fancy publication that would let Edward of Meadham Kirchhoff and I curate our own section devoted to the work of young feminist artists and zinemakers and girls making inspiration diaries from their bedrooms. (I really need to make a video flipping through it soon.) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">Here are today's subjects, whose pictures I plan on compiling at the end of the week into a game of Guess Who, as well as a quilt, and a giant posterboard to hang in my room that says BEST OF FRIENDS.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6860467439_0e64eea59a_b.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 960px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6860467439_0e64eea59a_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; ">I really appreciated MJ's rainbow pills with the black and white crazy pants print.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6860467967_ba864eaf07_b.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 960px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6860467967_ba864eaf07_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://fashionpirate.net/">Arabelle</a>, who also <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/arabelle">writes</a> for <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a>, could wear sweatpants and still I'd be like OMG YOUR OUTFIT YOUR HAIR, but she also wears vintage lace collars that correspond with her <a href="http://garbagedress.com/">Zana Bayne</a> harnesses and by that point I can't even handle it anymore.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6860468631_480e4933ee_b.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 960px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6860468631_480e4933ee_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://kristinprim.com">Kristin</a>'s very textured self understands my need to be constantly entertained and amused because I kept freaking out about each individual detail. KNEE ZIPPERS OK.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6860469027_c6ce81a75b_b.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 960px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6860469027_c6ce81a75b_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.nicolettemason.com/">Nicolette</a> was wearing </span><i>jaguars</i> and <i>polka dots</i> together and it needed to be documented.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/6860468219_5151c28952_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 960px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>And <a href="http://www.calivintage.com/">Erin</a> said she hated her school uniform when she was in school and now she is a grown lady who wears that style by choice all the time. I recommend her <a href="http://www.calivintage.com/2012/02/lauren-moffatt-fall-2012.html">coverage and lovely photos</a> of Lauren Moffatt's presentation, which fits right in with her adorable outfit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Here I am, <i>contributing editing</i>. Photo by Arabelle.</span><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6860466903_f35f7fcfec_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 960px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sweater from Edward, skirt gift from Miu Miu, Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony shoes, and I borrowed the bag from <a href="http://rookiemag.com/author/anaheed">Anaheed</a>. The sweater has the little flying heart witch from the album art for Hole's Live Through This, my desert island album. This outfit is kinda like <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/11/heart-n-soul.html">this</a> combined with <a href="http://www.thestylerookie.com/2011/05/alien-she.html">this</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6860466603_ac4af217c0_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 553px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The necklace is my mom's, the barrettes are all randomly accumulated, and the ring I made by gluing a thing to another thing. Lately all I do is sit at my desk and watch stuff and find things in my room I can glue onto rings or to pipe cleaners to then shape into rings. (I do this using my muscles.) The button my dad got at a retirement party. Little did young Billy (idk) know that he would one day be <i>immortalized</i> on a stranger's sweater! The mints just felt appropriate to include here.</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com97tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-23829045431365553142012-02-03T19:22:00.010-06:002012-02-03T21:20:47.611-06:00a thing to look at whenever you are bummed about the worldOne of my favoritest things <i>in the world </i>is <a href="http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/">Advanced Style</a>, a street style blog by Ari Seth Cohen of elderly ladies with killer style. Last fashion week, we hosted a party in honor of these women together at the <a href="http://www.acehotel.com/">Ace Hotel</a>, and it was really, really inspiring. It was really special to get to hear women with the most interesting style philosophies discuss it together, and guests seemed relieved to be at a non-gross party where people really were just interested in clothing and style and character and celebrating an unabashed enthusiasm for it; the kind of thing that, ironically, often gets lost during a time of year that's supposed to be about fashion. Ari's friend Lina Plioplyte made this video of the night, which makes me smile every time I watch it.<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZCOBvFolKc4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;">And, while you're renewing your faith in humanity, I really highly suggest watching this trailer for the Advanced Style documentary (!!!!!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nWKTfqivbRQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;">And here's Illona's Stylelikeu video, talking about her eyelashes and being generally amazing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24944817?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="640" height="426" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;">Wrinkles and scars and imperfections are signs of <i>life</i>, not of being young and naive and sexy and nonthreatening, so if an aging woman doesn't take measures to erase indications that she's built character through experience, if she can no longer be viewed as a sex object or as recently discovered and relevant, she may as well just disappear. It's subversive to age as these women do, making themselves present, because <i>they</i> <i>want</i> to be. I know now that I'd rather keep all my life scars and be erased for doing so than have to erase them myself. Seriously, these videos are go-to save points for when you feel like the world sucks.</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com105tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-12741926352078663682012-02-01T18:50:00.003-06:002012-02-01T22:02:40.079-06:00technicolor<span style="text-align: center; ">Now I've been combining my</span><i style="text-align: center; "> aesthetic catalogs</i><span style="text-align: center; "> with my diary, becau</span><span style="text-align: center; ">se it was too hard to carry around a million (or two) books at once and then it's like double the nostalgia and I'll feel really accomplished and complete when I look back and have these cohesi</span><span style="text-align: center; ">ve m</span><span style="text-align: center; ">emories and maybe it'll be interesting how the aesthetics end up aligning with whatever diary stuff I am writing about at the time. Wooooo.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://spencertweedy.com/">Spencer</a> gave me this journal for my Bat Mitzvah. The guys on it are the Young Rascals, because I got that book <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Five-Hundred-45S/?isbn=9780061782411"><i>Five Hundred 45s</i></a> but I never look at it so I cut out all the album art I want to hang on my walls or use for collaging. The hearts and back are from old wrapping paper from my pal Edward of Meadham Kirchhoff, and the words are from the Young Rascals, too.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6804015251_a14169fec4_b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 818px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6804015251_a14169fec4_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6804015581_50f0dbbe5e_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 826px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't have much to write because this one doesn't have a narrative or concept or anything the way some others I've talked about recently have, just a bunch of images and colors that make sense together in my brain:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6804015493_edf9f4f8bc_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 407px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6804015493_edf9f4f8bc_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6804015347_c6a0ab0139_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 580px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6804015347_c6a0ab0139_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; ">This is the inside of the back cover of the journal, I forget what 45 it's from.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6804016055_9baac35011_b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 1001px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6804016055_9baac35011_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Album art for Q and Not U, and teacups at Disneyland.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6804015841_d1f9abdd76_b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 950px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6804015841_d1f9abdd76_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://feelslikewhitelightning.com/">Elizabeth</a> and <a href="http://geometricsleep.com/">Laia</a>'s feet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6800066471_d74de60eee_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 149px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6800066471_d74de60eee_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6800066539_abc1785251_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 181px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6800066539_abc1785251_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6800065507_7736c56a0e_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 410px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6800065507_7736c56a0e_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mary Blair is probably the most important here. She worked at Disney through the '40s-'70s, developing characters and coloring movies like <i>Peter Pan</i>, <i>Cinderella</i>, <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>, <i>Fantasia</i>, and <i>Dumbo</i>. She wore differently tinted glasses every day because she enjoyed the colors, and her nickname at the office was Marijuana Blair. She also designed It's a Small World at Disneyland, which is SUPER IMPORTANT:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6800065447_07c89ea4cc_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 970px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6800066767_9ffde99e2f_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 223px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6800066821_9a39e4a66c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 239px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6800066821_9a39e4a66c_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I just like Disneyland because it feels frozen in time. Everything is so specific to how it originally was, so even the Churro carts are pretty...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6800066587_218f28c068_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6800066587_218f28c068_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I loved these pictures<a href="http://spencertweedy.com/"> Spencer</a>'s mom let us <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/12/memory-lane/">post on Rookie</a> of her trip there and to Universal Studios in the late '60s and early '70s. When I went a few months ago the trash can in the photo below, on the left, had the same design. See what I mean? I'd just like to force everyone who goes into dressing like Little Bo Peep and then it will finally be the creepy pastel churro utopia I've always dreamed of.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6800066305_2a1dbd0168_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 316px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6800066305_2a1dbd0168_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6800066375_4d6d64b527_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 315px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6800066375_4d6d64b527_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6800066265_0967685e00_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 317px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And a letter her friend wrote her while she was there, with matching colors:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6800067117_d91b60564e_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 1264px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6800067117_d91b60564e_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6800066145_14ddfe0f24_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 284px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6800066145_14ddfe0f24_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6800066091_75fd23c464_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 334px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rodarte's Spring 2012 collection was inspired by the rich glowy coloring in old Disney movies, so there must've been a lot of Mary Blair in that inspiration, too. Which then got them to Vincent van Gogh, who used similar colors. The whole thing is a VISUAL DELIGHT.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6800066675_737a463104_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 405px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6800066675_737a463104_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6800066723_a4161232aa_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 313px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6800066723_a4161232aa_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">My French teacher's room, which I was weird and took pictures of during study hall, matches all this.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6800066035_657e89c2bb_o.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 409px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6800066035_657e89c2bb_o.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6804121593_b8aa72b037_o.png" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 640px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6804121717_08810b7300_o.png" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 571px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6804121431_0ee1b1a43f_o.png" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 636px; " /><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6804121241_c7be135d6f_o.png" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 639px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6804121909_c150dbea47_o.png" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 500px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6804122151_48fb07d463_o.png" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 416px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6800065847_3bca0560c8_b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 755px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6800065847_3bca0560c8_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kellyoconnor.carbonmade.com/">Kelly O'Connor</a>'s collages of It's a Small World, old Disney, and Willy Wonka. The blue and orange diamond one perfectly matches the Churros cart from Disneyland above!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6800065569_309e8bd0e6_b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 960px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6800065569_309e8bd0e6_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6800066629_bca2f7c7c4_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 194px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6800066629_bca2f7c7c4_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, and the poster font</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6800066887_a5bb7fc642_b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 711px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6800066887_a5bb7fc642_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Munchkinland from <i>The Wizard of Oz</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6800066421_a3e10b1d87_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 179px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6800066421_a3e10b1d87_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Suzy's entire essence, Frances McDormand's '60s printed dresses, and the font from <i>Moonrise Kingdom</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6804015129_c1ac459d31_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 640px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6804015423_bd468b3db5_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 443px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My red saddle shoes, a gift from Rachel Antonoff, and this vintage dress of mine mentioned on the notebook page as "my dress I wore to make churros with Emily & Siobhan." CHURROS ARE SO GOOD YOU GUYS.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6800066225_e33a21b60d_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 437px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6800066225_e33a21b60d_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Mad Men</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jIw86LC9ugo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6800065361_885971a3b2_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 481px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6800065361_885971a3b2_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Old NBC peacock</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6800066185_3fcd2b65c7_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 376px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6800066185_3fcd2b65c7_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Colors and prints and shoe/sock situation and slightly prim deal going on with Creatures of the Wind Spring 2012</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6800066977_a8dc98a1e9_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 438px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6800066977_a8dc98a1e9_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6800067027_78fac62d9d_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 420px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6800067027_78fac62d9d_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Colors and shapes in these photos <a href="http://petracollins.com/">Petra</a> sent me for inspiration</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6800065707_cedc618e48_o.jpg"></a><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6800065707_cedc618e48_o.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 347px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6800065707_cedc618e48_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6800065643_1de1be4925_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 463px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Flight attendant uniforms of the '70s</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And here's the snippet from my <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/12/an-interview-with-dan-clowes/">interview with Daniel Clowes</a> that I wrote about on that notebook page way up above:</div><b></b><blockquote><b>What was influential to you growing up, visually?</b><br />Just the whole world. As a kid I loved the look of the early ’60s, kind of the pre-hippie era, just the haircuts and clothes and the way women dressed, it was really appealing. And then all of a sudden people started wearing, like, filthy clothes and messy hair and stuff. That seemed really hideous and horrible to me. It definitely relates to what was going on in my life at the time because, as with many kids who grew up then, my family was just disintegrating while all that stuff came in, so it represented this chaos that was entering my life. But I still have an affection for that pre-1968 look, that kind of saturated Technicolor look. That seems like the real world to me, or like the way things should be.</blockquote>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com89tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159090215082945111.post-10146333033349192952012-01-15T02:39:00.020-06:002012-01-15T16:22:06.985-06:00a hodgepodge, if you will.Hi! These are random photos I've taken recently. Not exactly outfit photos but I guess they go with the whole "character" thing. My face is the same always but that's because moving it would take effort and muscle and energy.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6699810909_2c60a1f826_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 883px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6699802193_c6715a53dd_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 656px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6699776035_ae844874a1_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 655px; " /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm getting better at the beehive! My sister took this picture below. We only have a tree because my mom is Norwegian so we do JUL for tradition's sake, but I SWEAR it's TOTALLY DIFFERENT from Christmas and that I really am a good Jew. I want to make this clear because I'd hate to get kicked out of the meetings, where I get to see my good friend Woody, the Stiller boys, Sarah Silvs, Natalie, Nimoy (or "Nim<i>goy</i>," our name for him ever since he let it slip that he laughs at <i>Whitney</i>), the woman from your babysitting co-op, and the whole rest of the gang.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6699769529_73ae31e100_z.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 427px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6699769529_73ae31e100_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Sound of Music </i>is on our television set.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Did you see the post on <a href="http://rookiemag.com/">Rookie</a> of <a href="http://spencertweedy.com/">Spencer</a>'s <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/12/memory-lane/">mom's diaries and stuff</a>? Here are the photos I neglected to include of just how much stuff there was. Ahhhh!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6699770073_0f05f4125c_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 427px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6699820321_662d9c920b_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 960px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6699776609_3c4b702c22_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 588px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6699771859_3c6552e044_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 427px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; ">So pretty and cluttered!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've recently come to understand, on an inarticulate level, the perfectness of Heart.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6699773623_0f16c4b63e_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 427px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6699775689_55d1f5b0fd_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 427px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I added junk to the Twin Peaks best friend necklace I'm wearing above. A Jesus charm and a scented rosary, both from friends.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6699772805_932aa7396f_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 427px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I bought this vintage jacket on Etsy, which isn't the coolest back story, but oh my GOD who cares it's so cooooool. When I was walking to school in it this old guy with a really long beard gave me a peace sign.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6699774891_d3bbf22f42_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 427px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Some choice phrases: Not Cool, Are You For Real, Outlaw Underwear, Encourage Nudity in Flowers, Hippies Are More Fun Than People, Give Adam & Eve Another Chance, and Rembrandt Painted by the Numbers. Lots of them are from <i>Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In</i>. It's totally worth watching this clip of Goldie Hawn explaining time zones, if only for her crazy saucer eyes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4b7BGBa6MTI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div>And while I have your YouTube attention span, I LOVE this video of a 13 year-old talking about slut-shaming and why it's wrong. She's so badass and smart and articulate and I'm really glad to see the video becoming popular. Of course, this means people are already calling her script plagiarized or written by her parents, discrediting and invalidating the girl's intelligence and only further proving that sexism still exists. Could people quit it with that? I don't really have to deal with it anymore now that I'm 15 and it's been a few years, but damn, I guess people are horrified by whatever they were like in their awkward phase and so they can't imagine that any 13 year-old could be well-spoken. "WHO <i>TALKS</i> LIKE THAT?" This girl, obviously! So do her friends, because sometimes when your friend calls someone a slut and you say that's dumb and explain how you feel, they identify with it. She and her friends all sit around and say smart things and then in the future some things will be as awful as adults say they will and some things will be better, and we'll all have her and her friends to thank for being the people who make things better. I want her to beon <i>Ellen</i> and stuff so more girls can be praised in our media for being smart and articulate and feminist.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SXH2K7OC37s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;">We just watched <i>Miss Representation</i> in my women's history class (school is great when it doesn't suck) and I also recommend watching that. You can find it online free if you google it, and the trailer is below. I wish it was required watching for our whole stupid school (school sucks when it isn't great) because of that <a href="http://rookiemag.com/2011/09/male-gaze/">girls-ranking list</a> that went around last year and because so many posters for our new feminism club were defaced. One was taken down by a teacher who said he was offended! Awesome. Whatever, I'm just gonna go talk to my friend <a href="http://feministryangosling.tumblr.com/">Ryan</a> about it, he totally understands.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6gkIiV6konY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">This girl is great, too!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-CU040Hqbas" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">And the new Wes Anderson trailer came out, but you've already seen it and posted it to your Facebook with some variation of "awtiuehfkj" and cried about how the world will never look this beautiful.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7N8wkVA4_8s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'M SO EXCITED! And I will present any audience member who cries "hipster" with my AM I SUPPOSED TO JUST NOT LIKE ANYTHING EVER? monologue, which goes like this: AM I SUPPOSED TO JUST NOT LIKE ANYTHING EVER? AM I ONLY ALLOWED TO LIKE THE REALITY SHOW ABOUT THE STUPID PEOPLE SO I DON'T SEEM PRETENTIOUS? WHY CAN'T I LIKE THAT <i>AND</i> WES ANDERSON? Ugh, stereotypes are so complicated. I like "graphic novels" because I can be a member of the cultural elite without having to know any big words. I've cracked the code, suckers!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway, I've already taken screencaps, analyzed each one, and cried over how easily I can see myself throwing away everything I own after seeing the movie to reconstruct it all out of sticks and then remembering how much I love the reality show about the stupid people and then I'll look around with sorrow at a room full of poorly crafted handguns and books called <i>.'--l</i> because sticks don't have letters on them except sometimes on accident it looks like it because of weird marks like<i>.'--l</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>THINGS TO DISCUSS:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">THIS GIRL. Her eye makeup! Her hair color! Her kneesocks! Her collars! Her luggage! Her hand kisses! Her name is <i>Suzy</i>! I just know I'll try and emulate her essence for about half an hour after leaving the theater, my confidence shaken by a single fart. I'm sorry, I just refuse to believe that people like this fart. (Also, I'm obviously way into the love story as well. So glad those of us who never want to be in a position where you have to compliment or receive a compliment from the person you're dating now have a precedent for our dreams of a relationship that means just listening to records and trying not to be a dick.) (Omg, I'm such a Carrie!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6700144813_60592bebe8_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 358px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6700145069_dcd208a024_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6700145709_3de7b489ab_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6700142077_595477d12c_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6700143307_1323c7fa0c_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6700146317_8a146e90ee_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6700144595_df25826fec_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 360px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6700146067_bf54ef0583_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6700146595_0cbe6359e8_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6700147931_3fa1af0264_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">FRANCES MCDORMAND AND WARDROBE. It looks like all 60s prints and sweaters and raincoats. This is totally perfect.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6700166613_f6a0d610c6_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 356px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6700166619_684071cd35_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 358px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6700166615_38663478e5_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 358px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ALL THOSE WES ANDERSON DETAILS THAT WILL MAKE YOU STARE AND TWITCH AT YOUR LUNCH TABLE MATE'S UNATTRACTIVELY DESIGNED POP TART PACKAGING WHEN YOU GO TO SCHOOL AFTER SEEING IT.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6700143123_1958491c4a_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6700143553_116f640edd_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6700143879_16585e9602_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6700142337_9220fdecfa_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6700142629_826b669189_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 361px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6700145327_78f4f6c0e1_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6700144273_a12e9b677d_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6703947931_4a2ac7322b_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 354px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">THEIR WACKY ADVENTURES. I would be content with just a series of still lifes of carefully arranged pinecones, but we get a <i>plot</i>, too?! <i>Enthusiastic foreign p</i><i>hrase I can't pull off in real life</i>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6700146717_223417224f_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 360px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6700147295_3a09c42a19_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 357px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6700146985_dfbeee5796_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 359px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">THE CAST. No caps for this one, but I'm really excited about all the possibilities of those two kids/Frances/Bill Murray/Jason Schwartzman/Bruce Willis/Tilda Swinton/Edward Norton interacting.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">OK that is all, hope your January isn't sucking!</div>Tavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576171411356820271noreply@blogger.com206