Hallow Hallow Hallow










Chemical


I am made of feelings and thoughts. Still, all is well.

[J']ADORE.

Ni hao miercoles





I probs need to acquire some new guy friends ya'll. *nerves* haha
...but for real. Pretty sure there are enough guys in the building to fit on one hand alone. Sometimes, you just have got to relate testosterone to testosterone. I am ridiculous, I realize. Just a thought for the universe to take hold. Free shipping's ok.

In the mean time I managed to run away to Washington for the (massive) weekend. No pictures, but alot of relaxation, eating, and running errands. Honestly, I'm so lucky to be able to go. Nothing like taking in a big gulp of air and it not being New York. However, it is always good to be back. --And I am so ready for the week. I believe. Hello Wednesday.

Day Trip












Gratitude:
--A few weeks ago, I began an internship at MOSCHINO, viva italia!
--I've found this awesome playlist on youtube, 
--Uncle Lucien's lunches
--Driving lessons take two
--Maslow's basic needs are getting covered.
--The beautiful weather we have been having
--Friends to adventure with
--Possibility always on the horizon.

Santiago


A few weeks ago, I mentioned how impressed I am discovering all the things I would like to do and become good at doing throughout the rest of my life. Most of my predicament has been to decide which of these feelings are the truest. Should I pick a specific order to try them out, how many days/months/years should I give to each? Essentially, what is my destiny.
I stopped at Barnes and Noble searching for gift ideas for Jane and came across a Vincent van Gogh quote written on a soap sleeve:
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Perhaps we aren't made to limit ourselves.  I probably limit to make things more manageable, easier to wrap my mind around. The potential...who knows.

While on the note of Barnes and Noble, I would kindly suggest the book responsible for my affection for van Gogh, A Lust for Life. It was a required book at St John's, but it's one I won't forget. Extremely descriptive, a little romantic even, and something to pass the time on the subway. I mean, Candy Crush?

Inspiration Book 27




Do all things with a happy heart.

Dulce



Throwing all my gratitude into the sky above, and much, much, much beyond that.
Thank you.

ph| Alexandra Benetel

Self Help Generation

If I've noticed anything over the last few months it would have to be the multitude of articles telling 20 somethings things to do or stop doing in order to be more likable, more successful, a top star post graduate performer and I have to admit I've been pretty much sucked into it too. But how many lists must there be? If I carry out everything that thought catalog tells me too (Have good hygiene, be kind to others, stop trying to be someone your not) yes I am sure these are all things I should be doing, but is this really a formula to make me something special (thought catalog: "you are something special"/"you are not something special") but what is causing this explosion? Is it really this bad of an epidemic we care so much about what others think about us? (yes.. I mean we have twitter and instagram and facebook so EVERYONE can see how awesome our current life, future life, and inner linings of our brain look). Haha.. I am thinking I and everyone else in my age group need a little self help for our self help addiction. I'm not thought catalog and I don't have the answer to this one. But my best proposition is to forget all the eyes on yourself all the time. I know that's a tough one ---- after all what's a blog post for anyway. I think we are a generation fortunate to be able to create a spotlight on ourselves, rather easily. Sure, it's nice to bask in the light, but when we aren't in it, we want it and when we have it for a moment, we would like more. The human condition. I like thought catalog, but after reading the last few, I'm really letting myself get bullied around. Just a thought for your rolodex.

Checkpoint:



Recently, I've been thinking about how when becoming seemingly closer to someone, the closer our clothes begin to match. A lady asks the attendant if she can take the seat next to mine, and I confirm that's alright. Later, she asks what I had studied in college. "Fashion". Wide-eyed, she laughs, she used to be a model. In this moment, I take off my sweater, I look at her shirt, she looks at mine and we laugh --practically forever. #gondolalife #kismet #grandmatogo

Last Day.



Finish line

At 11 o'clock i will be sitting in final 2.5 hours towards a BFA in fashion design.
Unreal is the world.

In Excelsis Deo.

Lights On









" Thierry Cohen photographs cityscapes and then photographs deserts at night, combing the two to show us what our cities would look like with the lights off. The stars are not enhanced, they are actual photos from relative latitudes that would expose the same starry sky view if it weren't for light pollution. Click on each photo to see which city it is."
Source

Real life




With Jie Jie
My dear housemate Maggie Ge is an aspiring animator, specializing in lighting, molding, and making good food. We love you, Beijing, 

Many eggs, Many baskets, Two hands


I imagine, it must be valuable to hold several aspirations, rather than holding onto few. Maybe we are meant to want/have many. Even ones unrealized. 
There will be assistance.
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You know what, this whole thing is so funny, because there really used to be only one thing I wanted to do for quite while now. I felt that if I focused all of my energies and attention into this one goal it would pipeline me to a favorable destination. And, it actually has. Looking around, it has treated me well.
Truthfully, I would find it really weird when people weren't sure of what they wanted to do or what direction to take. Like, when acquaintances would change their majors 3 times in one year and still ask me what they should really be. Now all of a sudden I am somewhat finding myself in those shoes. I have the same ideas, the same goals, but I feel as though they have sprouted a little. Now there are several ideas poking at me, several goals flashing in front of me. And I think mostly I am still awake because I want to grab onto all of them. Can I do that? I don't know. Who knows... Is there a certain sequences I should take between these events? So many new questions.
And in all of this (present), day to day thinking, pondering, wondering around Savannah, I've realized, I think I am living a little too intensely. I am always trying to figure out if I am doing things the right way, in the right order. Haha, it is a little too hot outside to be so uptight. And, it's embarrassing because I can trace myself being this way several times. "Should I or should I not tell someone this about myself", "Should I or should I not wait to do this at a better pace with full attention", "Should I have sent this email at a more super appropriate time using my long distance mind reading powers?" Lol I am literally trying to eat myself. Let goooo Miguel, let go. Just take your hands off the keyboard and eyes off the screen. Then again, may be I am commanding this too intensely.

(Photos: Cuba, Tokyo, Opera House, S Korea)

A Good day

I'd like to share some nice things I've recently stumbled upon. ----And find myself watching one of their videos multiple times a day. Have good days too.



Matthew Hussey


Noah Hammond
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