Showing posts with label baby blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby blue. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2014

blue songs are like tattoos

hello hello! *air-kisses* (imagine me saying that like a wealthy socialite because i'm typing it feeling like a wealthy socialite partly because i'm wearing giant sunglasses indoors and eating fruit out of a champagne glass- but mostly because i'm A-list on the Kim Kardashian game)
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 i've decided that instead of going through the somewhat-weekly anxiety of stressing about what to blog about- i'm just gonna do weekly roundups where i go over my vibes and music etc (in addition to any posts about ~important~ stuff). and hopefully this helps me get into a better blogging schedule for the future.

/ music



: unfinished and muted and beautiful



new-wave disco jamz n smart lyrics that sound like they're being breathed rather than sung



: sublime

I've been listening to these three songs on repeat for the past week-ish (which is really convenient considering they're pretty close to one another in the "B" section of my iTunes library) and they put me in a very specific "blu" aesthetic that's kind of similar to right after i watched submarine. 

but basically the idea is: walking through a rainy sea-side suburb of london while the sun rises and telephone wires hang precariously 


the sky in my neighborhood a few days ago. 

/ outfit








*note the very clean shoes which are a tell-tale sign of a professional fashion blogger*
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sport goth or whatever. i'm sure one day in the not-so-distant future, i'll regret wearing a tutu over sweatpants, but not right now. 

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shirt \ yard sale
tutu \ childhood
sweatpants \ unknown 
bracelet (worn on ankle) \ childhood
boots \ unknown (but the reason i don't wear the super cool steel-toed boots anymore is because they were tragically stolen/lost)


/ work

thewanderingcollective:

old-ish journal entry
-=- kanyinsola a.

whoa i’m seeing my own stuff on my dash
~funky~

old GIF-ed paper collage from my journal i guess inspired by a search for personal identity in a vast ocean of uncertainty; and the sensation of drowning in said ocean aka: being terrified but also feeling a breathtaking calm (deep?) (like the ocean) (yah- i went there)

/ inspiration


unknown by siza vieria via tumblr

this looks kind of like the inside of a swimming pool and i really like the reflections of the clouds and the shape and shadows and i'd love to know where/what it is. when i checked the similar images on google- all i got were basically pictures of fleshed out bathrooms which was both calming and uncomfortable:



/ cool thang


Maggie from Futile Ramblings wrote some crazy insightful stuff about how time "exponentially decreases into infinity" and it was mind-blowing (further proving that teenage girls are incredibly complex and intelligent).

/ crushin hard





You could argue that Giambattista Valli Fall Couture 2014 is what inspired my outfit but I took those photos in March/April and the show was in July so I'm forced to "imply" that the collection stole my style (I'M KIDDING). 

But anyway- I really love the looks in this show: it's like feminine and elegant but lazy - someone who rolled out of their pajamas to go to a wedding with enormous dyed feather skirts, and silhouettes from the 50s. 

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Her blog is amazingly hilarious and creative and fun to read and i'm so happy it exists (heart emojis)

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what did you think of all the music and vibes and clothes- and what are you into this week? 

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kanyinsola

Thursday, April 17, 2014

in a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy

  
Recently I've been experimenting with different mediums. This collage was made  on MS Paint using photos from Tumblr, a Jenny Holzer quote, and screenshots from Submarine- which I was watching while working. 


Submarine was beautifully written and directed and was almost an endless stream of lovely sea-side shots and Alex Turner's voice. It's one of those films that are kind of like  Wes Anderson movies because they have a  self-defined genre (does that make any sense at all?) I just mean the films are so original that they don't really fall under any pre-existing set of film standards, they just create their own. guhh I'm sorry- words are very confusing. But the movie is rated R (for sexual stuff and profanity) so keep that in mind . 







 screencaps from my tumblr when I thought it nicely represented my thoughts/vibes.

themes:
pastel
blue
water/ocean
plants
light
unrest
survival
dark green

vibes:
Submarine
Blue is the Warmest Color
greenhouses
overrun gardens
King Krule 
Picasso's blue period
Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division


I did these designs a few days ago; hopefully I'll be able to take a fashion class next year and these designs will end up somewhere other than the back of m
y closet. I'm extremely confident that I'm going to look back on this in a week and want to destroy it anyway so..? I feel a little weird because the designs are a little too simple for clothes I could actually see myself wearing, but maybe it's because I was drawing with the fact that I have no sewing experience on my mind.


gif of my thoughts throughout the designing process




Journal page feat. badly-drawn little collage-comic


blue sketches

I'm not really sure if I like any of my art/writing or if I'm just disillusioned that it's good until I create something better- at which point I'll realize how terrible it is. Maybe that's just a sign that my art is slowly getting better- which is good. 

I don't know, what do you think? Do you have any advice for artist's block or whatever it's called when you hate everything you make?

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kanyinsola
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