january/february playlist

• video girl // fka twigs
• lovers in the parking lot // solange
• mama says // ibeyi
• talk is cheap // chet faker
• need ur luv // charli xcx
• go your own way // fleetwood mac
• budapest // george ezra
• retrograde // james blake
• riptide // vance joy
• drop the game // flume, chet faker
• alors on danse // stromae, kanye west
• hot knife // fiona apple
• my club // the asteroids galaxy tour
• yellow flicker beat // lorde
• stolen dance // milky chance
• marathon // tennis

the beginning of this year has been whirlwind and strange and i love it. i'm getting a lot of perspective on things that seemed unimportant before, and i'm trying to be better instead of just thinking about being better.

also videos that were really aesthetically pleasing to watch: 

i love love love ibeyi, and it makes me so happy to listen to their beautiful voices, and even happier as a nigerian girl/woman

and a song that wasn't on spotify: 

tell me if you've got any recommendations for march! thank you, 

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kanyinsola

a hundred jewels on throats

if you read none of this weird rant, please read the bold part:

//note// it recently came up on the 1st birthday of this blog (woohoo) and when I realized it I felt kind of shaken  because I don't think I've accomplished as much with this as I'd hoped to by this time. and then i realized that i feel that way because

. time is mind b(l)oggingly finite (hahaha) and i suck at prioritizing -- I'll work on it.  

. i tend to assume that if i can't create something that meets up to a set of arbitrary standards - then i can't create anything at all; this means literally hundreds of ideas and poems AND BLOG POSTS that I've tossed because i thought they weren't good enough -  not recognizing the fact that i could actually learn from them, that perfection is far from instant (i sound like a guidance counselor but sometimes those people know what they're talking about.)  basically what i'm saying is that right now i'm trying harder to accept the fact that anythingeverything is a process and it's super cliche but everything i make has value even if it's just in pushing me to create something better: art is evolutionary also, growth requires introspection (ie if you fail horribly, trying again is almost useless if you don't recognize the circumstances of the failure) so yeah, hopefully that pans out into this blog as me growing as a person through trial and error as well as figuring out who/what i am (i've already ruled out cyborg prince)- because wasn't that the purpose of this blog in the first place? (the self-discovery, not the cyborg part).

. and also realizing what Eli at melodifairytale said about her blog and i will forever apply to mine:
"it's my self-controlled kingdom! my safe space!"

 . so i guess you could say these are some of the many lessons that this blog has taught me in a year (which is way more than i learned in economics)

anyway, to all the rad people who follow this blog and reads and comment, thank you for putting up with me for a whole year. 

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. here's a little snippet of an outfit i wore a few days ago that is a bit like a more laid back version of what i've been into recently.

scarf diy
sweater childhood
sandals childhood
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1// Art in Architecture in San Francisco by Toshio (Flickr)

2// unknown via tumblr

3// Nozawa 2-32 by guen-k (Flickr)

4// Untitled Print by Elena Boils

5// Sky's the Limit by Maura Wolfson-Foster 

6// unknown via tumblr

7// Concrete City by Rosalind Duguid (Flickr)

8// unknown via tumblr

9// cat ink plant (?) by eero lampinen

i guess: 

dark green + geometric patterns + black and white + palm-like plants

so basically this video: 

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a hundred jewels on throats by radandmad featuring vintage black shoes

what do you guys think of all this:

. do you like the photos?
. what's your opinion on lorde's music?
. do you know of any other clothes that kind of fit this vibe?

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kanyinsola

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