Sent this photo to my friend who works in a very busy television newsroom (from here): 

her: oh my goodness

  his little face!

 me: eeehheee!

15:48 just standing on some cheeseburgers

  that is my kind of art

 her: currently stiffling silent laughs in the newsroom

15:49 me: mua ha ha!

15:51 her: aaand now it's my wallpaper

 me: YES

15:52 her: I want to know what's going on in his head.

  I imagine it's "oohhhweeeeiiirdddwwhhhyyy"

15:55 me: hahahahah!

 her: someone just asked me what's wrong because I had my shirt up over my mouth and my eyes were watering

boogaloo and shake!

My exceptionally talented older sister, Francie, and our equally talented amie Christobel made a video for a Le Specs competition, to advertise their new "lenticular" frames that change colour when you move your head.

Turns out that they won! This is amazing for them, and, well, embarrassing for me because I'm in it, and I'm a bit drunk. The video also stars Jennie, Georgie and William. All I can say is: beware of older sisters armed with champagne, asking for favours. You may end up on the internet.

The plus side is, free sunglasses!

I'm getting these ones :

thanks refinery 29

FOR SHOWING ME THIS:

and also I love this, big time

Its been a bit of a Han-heavy week, huh? But have you seen this blog? I enjoying looking at the odd personal-style-blog-by-pretty-french-girls-with-chloe-shoes-and-nice-hair but I love looking at Le Petit Echo Malade more...its probably about time that someone thought of this. They're totally cute boys too.

godzilla must go/so you cannot see the depth/ of his loneliness

I love random geniuses who come up with ridiculous tumblrs.
My personal favourites are Selleck Waterfall Sandwich and Godzilla Haiku.
P.S: Isn't Godzilla so cute? I've always found him adorable!

form and function

A much nicer photo of the blanket in lookbook action. I think they actually have two here though.

My friend Zoe has this amazing picnic blanket, it has sleeves, so you can turn it into a jacket, and get this, there are four of them! Amazing. I saw it at the Thousands Shop* when they opened but didn't realise until Australia day and the moment captured blurrily above how truly great this idea is. So then today I was looking at other things on the Thousands Shop's website and have come to the conclusion that I really like the work/clothes of ffiXXed. I also discovered that my friend owns a $400 picnic blanket, eeep!

That blanket again, just one this time. And a pretty dress to boot.

According to their website, ffiXXed is 'a collaborative design/art project with a focus on producing readymade fashion products. The label began in Berlin but its headquarters are now mobile, gravitating to whatever global centres in no particular order'. The picnic blanket is a project produced for/in collaboration with (still working this out?) Condiment - Adventures in Food and Form.

I particularly love and want the jacket above, and the pants down below. I love how clean this whole range seems.

A shirt with shopping bag attached! I don't think I could actually pull this off, but shirt-wise I love the brown buttons and crisp-ness

I want these pants! They also come in black and an icey blue which I think is becoming my new colour obsession, everything I've been drawn to today has been preppy, crisp, pale blue button down shirts and skinny pants.

*More on this later, one day, I assure you.

party party party party

We have a buddy who looooves Andrew WK.
And it's rubbed off big time.
Go look at his twitter. Go on.

Gif from here

bucket of chicken

"Some criminals just want to do hood rat stuff. This Pennsylvania criminal just wanted to do normal, everyday stuff. He broke into a house, cut his hair, showered. The homeowner returned "to discover him watching TV and cooking chicken." [AP]

From Gawker

how embarrassment

One thing that is really good about living in NZ is that you develop a healthy disrespect for celebrities. Its probably because its so small here, that when you see someone who is meant to be famous its also highly likely that you are somehow related to them, or have, like a baby with them. Or pashed them at a party one time. You know.

I've been going through this period where everytime I leave the house, I see some NZ nano-celeb. When this happens I have to text my flatmate Graham, who is the only person I know who cares. He usually says something like "WHAT IS WITH YOU AND THE NANO CELEBS?" and I reply "I don't know, lucky I guess?" and then it basically ends until I get home and give him a blow by blow breakdown of how I saw the celebrity at the checkout at Grey Lynn Foodtown, how they were wearing trackpants and how they looked normal in real life.

In fact, a few of my friends have stories of seeing nano-celebs and actually going out of their way to take the mickey. Like seeing them smoking a ciggarette and yelling "YOU'RE SMOKING THE WRONG STUFF NANO CELEB" or interrupting their participation in a children's triathalon by walking across the starting line just as they're about to yell "GO!". etc. I love my friends.

NZ Fashion week was funny because actual celebrities (Pamela Anderson! Rumi from Fashion Toast! (bracket in bracket - does she count? In NZ she does))came and we tried to play it cool around them. This didn't work with Lord of the Rings and it didn't work this time around. I think that our lassaiz-faire relationship with NZ celebrities just doesn't translate into people who actually, quantifiably, are famous. I remember Rumi coming into some afterparty and there being this rustle of whispers from all the beautiful people there: "just be cool man just be cool".

Anyway. All this was brought on by the fact that the Daily Intel posted a funny story about a Starbucks Barista who made a celebrity faux pas. I read the story. It was funny. Then I read the comments and they were funnier.

For example:

"Okay so I'm at Penn Station (waiting to take the train to DC) when I see Ali Larter. But I don't recognize her (this is pre-Heroes). So I walk up to her and I'm like "Don't I know you?" (because obviously she must be someone I know and not an actress). She smiles and says, "I don't think so." It then hits me that she is an actress and I say, "I'm so sorry. You're an actress aren't you?" And she smiles and says, "Yes." I then go, "What have you been in that I might know?" She's like "Maybe Varsity Blues" and she names some other movies I've never heard of. I'm like "No no that's not it." At this point she's starting to grit her teeth like "Why is she still talking to me." I then say, "I know! 'Drive me Crazy!'" And she's like "Yeah." At this point embarassment finally sets in and I say "Well it was nice to meet you. Have a safe trip.""

I LOVE Drive me crazy. Or:

"i saw ja rule at a bar this past summer. i went up and asked him where he has been for the last four years. he smiled and replied "around, girl, i've been around" to which i responded "well hurry up, we MISS YOU!!"...he just started to laugh and gave me a back pat."


and:

"One time I ended up to William Dafoe on the 1 train. Wasn't sure it was him, didn't really want to stare hard enough to figure it out. Thought "if only I could hear that voice, I would know it was him". Then he got off at the same stop as me and ran across the street next to me. At which point we both almost got run over by a cab coming tearing around the corner. He made the Green Goblin (Spiderman) face and screamed in that voice at the cab. So yes, at the moment I almost died, I realized I almost died next to William Dafoe."

Repeat: Willem Defoe made the Green Goblin (Spiderman) face and screamed in that voice at the cab. Amazing.