Lucy+Orla

[Calligraphy tattoo, via Betsy Dunlop]

I first stumbled upon this beautiful tattoo on A Cup of Jo (a gem of a blog I really should be reading more of). Betsy Dunlop offers amazing calligraphy for special projects, and this must be one of the most special ever – the names of his daughters on a father’s arm. Forever.

DJ take my iPod. Please.

Just one of the countless sit-down breaks we took at yesterday’s (not-quite) Old School K-Pop Party.
A lethal combination of J’s lethargy and my killer heels. Killer, like literally.

You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddeness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.

- W. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

When will the fat lady finish singing?

So here I sit, after midnight, craving for a sizzling bowl of bibimbap (or bimbimbong, as B hilariously coined it today) while sifting through the scores of food pictures I’ve taken over the years. Not the wisest thing to be doing at this hour.

I thought I did quite a good job today as I banged up a whole pot of salmon and porcini mushroom risotto, albeit the fact that it was a tad wetter than I’d have liked because I used Korean rice and not arborio. But it really doesn’t cut it now, as I’m suffering from sad hunger pangs and a serious case of food envy.

You shall have your sunset

16D personalities FTW.

I’d probably dress up in you

[Unnamed skirt, FW/09, R E D  D O L L by Tatyana Merenyuk]

I don’t have the Amazonian legs to pull off creamy waves of ruffles, gorgeous draping or ruching, but it doesn’t mean I don’t know a fabulous creation when I see one.

Lights will guide you home

There is little better than a top hat on a Saturday night.

Oh-Em-Gee belatedly

I haven’t paid much attention to SHINee until
NOW.

They are, hands-down, the best dancers in K-Pop.

Dolliances

[My Year in Paris with Christian Louboutin, BarbiexLouboutin, via Refinery29]

I’m so incredibly late in posting this up, but I suppose it’s only now as I’m in the thick of reading Baudrillard that simulacra and hyperreality are starting to fascinate me. Barbie and Christian Louboutin himself strike up a lovely dolliance in their pictures together, don’t they?

To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one hasn’t.

[Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations (1988)]

Crayola?

[Luxiare]

Where do you think is the best place to hold one of these crayons?
Between your fingers or between your lips?