fucking amazing

CLICK THIS SHIT. It has Good Fucking Design Advice that applies to real life. I now just have to figure out what merchandise to get, but maybe I should stop fucking procrastinating on my homework...

My school rents out an island, what does your school do?

So during Orientation week, Columbia rented out Governor's Island to throw a party for all of the first years in their 4 undergrad schools. So I went (YES, a party, I know, weird), and it was lame so I probably spent about 9 minutes there in total, but it was still fun. Kinda. At least the water taxi was free, and had a beautiful view of the Brooklyn bridge. Enjoy.

Fleet Foxes

I SAW FLEET FOXES THIS SUMMER. I can't believe it took me THIS long to upload them, I may have even forgotten that I took pictures at this concert, but this concert was July 21. My how the time flies.

They are amazing! If you haven't heard/heard of them, you must hunt them down on iTunes/Spotify/Youtube/whatever. Now that I'm in New York, they make me think of home, but in general they're just good mellow/slightly upbeat music, way less depressing than Bon Iver, but kinda country, and just overall amazing. There's no way that I can do them justice with words, so just look them up, or, better yet, here's a video.

So, amazing, right?

Well any who, it was an awesome show.  They are incredibly talented, especially the guy on the far right playing the bass; he also played the violin/viola (the bow strings were gone at the end of one song), the flute, the guitar, the saxophone, and bass guitar. He is so incredibly talented and so passionate about the music that he's playing.

FNO

THESE SHOES. OMG. I love them, but they were the worst idea; I could have at least gone for something a little shorter. I ended up with a blister on the ball of my foot, and at the end of the night, there was definitely some limpage going on. But enough about these shoes, DID I MENTION I GOT THEM AT THE BARNEY'S WAREHOUSE SALE?! CAN YOU SAY ALEXANDER WANG FOR CHEAP?!, I went to Fashion's Night Out! It was awesome! If there ever could be a block party on 5th ave, this is it. I saw Tilda Swinton, who is probably one of the only actresses I would be excited to see, because, well, she is the SHIT. S.H.I.T. And then a floor above that was A DIGITAL GRAFFITI WALL!

And the lovely lady next to me is Julie, she runs the blog thefbomb.org. CHECK IT OUT.

So I drew a face. It's awesome.

And Caroline drew a dinosaur. This is amazing. We definitely showed up Doutzen Kroes, who just happened to be up next. Oh me, oh my. Caroline has an awesome tumblr, http://thelibrarylemon.tumblr.com. CHECK IT OUT.

And then there's Karolina Kurkova, no big deal or anything.  And, ANNA fucking DELLO RUSSO. She is wearing the same dress and Karolina, but in purple. You can definitely kinda see here in this picture, but the moral of this story is that I took a picture of them on someone else's phone for them. It was cool, and I know what you're thinking, but I don't take pictures with famous/quasi-famous people. It's on principle. And, yes, that may be slightly pretentious, but I don't care.

Sadly, we got to Alexander Wang late, but we still managed to see these two awesome hipsters dancing their hearts out in some awkward chicken style.  It pretty much made my night.

P.S. Caroline was awesome enough to take all of these pictures (except for the one I took of her) seeing as I was too lazy to do that, so THANK YOU CAROLINE YOU ARE THE BEST.

Dear Irene,

For the week before I moved into college (GO BARNARD) I stayed in an apartment in Park Slope with my mom. It was the best to have a week alone with her so I could get a little sick of her before we parted ways until Thanksgiving. And, of course, we were made to stay together for a couple days straight because of good old Tropical Storm Irene, which now seems like it was such a long time ago. You can't tell from this picture, but the ivy outside the window was undulating, and one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen. I was probably just nostalgic for home, and kinda scared for what I was about to move into, but the only other time I have seen something this beautiful was when I was in the gardens of Versailles, which I unfortunately was unable to get a picture of because my camera battery was dead.

So I guess I can actually thank Irene for bringing some more beauty into this world, but now I'm getting cheesy so I should really stop typing right now.

New Beginnings

I love iPhone apps, especially photo ones. I took this in LA when I was there at the end of July and the beginning of August, just of the 405.  There's something about roads that seem so romantic to me. I love the possibilities that they present, of leaving the familiar, the bad, or the mundane behind and searching for something new, something exciting. There's just so much that can happen on the open road.

Forgive me if I'm waxing poetic, but I guess going off to college means having that same freedom, and I still can't believe I have it.