Oh My Gosh. Willow Smith is AMAZING!

This girl is 9 years old. NINE! And she's just wow! I mean...I know Will Smith had talented children, but WOW!

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9 years old and she's amazing. I couldn't stop smiling while watching this. She's quirky and adorable. It's gonna be strange seeing her and her brother when they're older and I'm like...30-something and saying "I remember when they were born!" Just wow.

Just wanted to say I like her style. It's interesting! I think Rihanna needs to watch out. There's a mini trendsetter storming the streets! x

Steampunk day!

Ha. I'm way too into the auto-tune viral videos at the moment! Wah.

So yeah! This week we had guys working on our studio space. We had to move our old tables and they built us shiny new desks!! Ace - and apparently they're even better than all the other desks in the room! It's so nice to have shelves and things. Yay extra storage space! Check it out!


Pretty swish. :) Love the kettle Stacey and I have! She's clever as well! Using the kettle to the fullest by having soup and pot noodle. Kudos to her!

In other news, I had a steampunk workshop today. =D Radical. Learned fun things and felt really inspired! We learned how to work sheet metal and use all the cool tools in the fabrication room. It was really worth it. The technician was a good tutor and here's my almost finished piece!


Strange, huh? It's a sort of instrument, I suppose...I need to add some nice gramophone bits and it'll be done =D Yay! Next project will be googles for Horigan (my awesome steampunk mentor!).

Back to designing! x

Where did I go?

Hey. It's been a while. No excuses though. I haven't been that busy where I haven't had the time to post - it just slipped my mind. *cough* for over a week...

Anyhoozle! We got our brief yesterday for creative practice....basically we need to promote ourselves like mad and have a mock interview at the end of the year. A bit unsettling because the work is piling up and I'm barely swimming through it, to be honest. I'm so ridiculously relaxed and work is slowly getting done, but it's aight! It's all cool, bruv.

Here's some fashion news! I've done a nice little colour palette and customer board. I need to do a mood board next so tomorrow is a computer day! My eyes will die but that's aight! =D I'll come out with loads of pretty designs. Promise.

Here's who I'm comparing myself to!

Mercibeaucoup

John Galliano

Juun J

Quite similar, but again quite different. I feel as if I should be doing really incredible things, but I dunno...I feel a bit flat. I want seriously incredible pattern cutting...my collection doesn't feel fabulous enough. I think I'll just do my showpiece just to do it, but change alot after the deadline. Would that be silly?

I think I'm moving away from my original research. I'm kinda forgetting the Korean aspect of this. I'll nail this. Fingers crossed! x

Week 3

Oh man. Where did the past two weeks go? ...uh oh. I just noticed that you know...times running out already. This is ridiculous. I did nothing since we started uni! Well I did stuff, but not enough! I need to make lists, but I'm still too lazy! Ugh this is bad. I need to get out of this funk, yo.

So went to uni today and guess who we all saw in the office? Satyen was sat chatting to Ali. To those who don't know who I'm talking about, he's this designer. He's a nice minimalistic designer, methinks, but everyone was quite wary of him this morning. From what my course mates and I noticed from last year, he was quite tough as a tutor. Could be nice, but then could be very nasty.

Yeah, there was a bit of fear in the room when he walked in and I was just sat doing my own thing in the studio and he comes up to me first. I wasn't actually scared, just unsure of where to start...but hey! It's was aaaaalright. We just had a casual chat about my work (or rather, my ideas) and he helped me realize that I needed to get on with it and edit my research down a bit.

I need to plan out my life now. I'm too comfortable to do work, so I'll make lists. Lists are always fun. x

Humidity!

It was humid as hell today. Mmmph. Rather uncomfortable to be honest, but it was nice that it was warm enough not to wear a jacket!

I tried looking online to find Korean magazines to order and my GOSH they're expensive. 12 quid for a mag? I think not! I may have to cough it up anyway...I really want one!

I met up with a friend that used to work with me at Starbucks today. It was so lovely seeing Weijin! She's as cute and sweet as ever. We walked around Park St and went to the Bristol Museum. I loved catching up with her and having a lovely Thai lunch with her. :)

I think I may like to work here when I'm done with uni! Angels! They're costumiers for like movies and theatre and stuff!! I asked to go on a tour with them to see what they're all about and to see what kind of things they so there! So coooool.

Gloucester tomorrow to see another lovely friend. Yay for friends! x

Acid and The Hippodrome

The acid dye workshop I had today was rather dull..I do love me a bit of acid (dye of course) but it just so happens that the workshop as a whole was a lil' shit. It's good that I have the knowledge on how to professionally dye lovely colours onto silk and wool but meh. I wish it happened last year.

But I've decided I'm gonna use wool as one of my fabrics :)

We had a meeting about the fashion show and how we need to designate jobs to everyone to make the workload more reasonable for everyone. I'm quite excited about this fashion show. We still have a helluvalotta fund raising to do, but the end result should be radical.

Ah and for my interview today. Talk about intense. 10 girls, one theatre. Ha sounds like a bad porno, however that's what it was! We had a maths test and individual interviews in these quite rooms, I was actually a bit nervous :/ I hope I get the job though cos my other potential job fired me before I started. Haha yep, on the way to uni this morning I got a call from the cafe and the lady said that she had someone else and she didn't need me for Sunday. At least my weekend freed up. =D And I wasn't bothered anyway but I reeeeeeeeally hope I land the job at the Hippodrome. I'd be well happy.x

Productivity

As I declared on the good ol' facebook, it was a productive day. At least semi productive. I got a nap in and managed to whip up some more of my digital sketchbook. The one that I made at uni wasn't recognized on my InDesign CS2 so I just started all over again and quite frankly, I like my newer sketchbook anyway.

My original plan of doing 70 designs today was a taaad bit unrealistic. Well totally unrealistic cos I didn't do any designs today really. Not my fault! I was researching print ideas! ...kinda!

Anyhoozles, I just got back from a pirate themed party with my former Drama Society family. I say former because I didn't join Drama Soc this year, but I just went to check out the new recruits, catch up with the former fam and scope out some models! I managed to rope in a few for my bud Viv! Oh how she'll love me.

Ah and I came across something today. Man skirt. Yay or nay? They amuse me. I think the right person can pull it off. But everyone else just looks funny.

Um...? Giuliano Fujiwara?

Er...
But somehow is that one done better? Oh men in skirts! So confused! Shall I include that in my collection? Its really hit and miss innit?x

Day off

Ooo how naughty I am. I'm playing hookie and staying home today. =D So are Slawa and Stacey so it's all good in the hood.

I'm gonna clean my room and then do some serious work. And maybe make some flapjacks. x

Beep.

Awesome little dance. Gotta love your "viral" videos!

Got a call from the Hippodrome - they want me to show up for an interview at 6pm next week. I wonder how that will go...? I hope Monty gets an interview too. I only found out about the vacancies because of him in the first place :/

Nothing to report today really. Went to uni, came back early and now I'm attempting to design but I think I still need to do more research before I come up with things that I like and that are well...me! I want to start toiling next week so I need to crack on with it, man! I think it's time for another cup of tea soon.






Cosmic Wonder is an awesome company, btw. Yakinori Maeda is a genius.





And you see that? Korean Nylon did a Big Bang GDragon photoshoot and they just put him in a woman's cape (by Marc Jacobs)! But he still looks pretty fly. I think that's what I'll do. Put Victorianesque womens silhouettes on men and vise versa. Bang. x

Start of another week!

Happy Monday, ya'll.

Today was quite productive! I got a job this morning at yet another local cafe up the road! The lady made me make a cappuccino just to see if I could do it properly. Ohoho - I've been making coffees for too long. Part of me wants to go back to the easiness of Starbucks but most of me doesn't. Lawl. I bumped into the famous cupcake-making Rosy today at uni! It was lovely chatting with her cos I haven't seen her since I quit the 'bucks which means I haven't seen her aaaaaaaaaall summer. :) I'm glad we're on the same campus!

I ended up socializing most of the morning to be honest. Socializing is a very important part of Monday morning! ...well every morning, really, but epesh today cos it really got me in the mood to do work. Up the library I went again. I claimed a table and sat with magazines and books and just perused for hours with the random-ass sun darkening my already dark-ass neck. Why was the sun out today? Why was it such a nice day out? I swear this country is just just confused in the weather department, man. Last week it was cold and rainy and today was a completely different experience!!
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But it was nice to go out without a cardi :)

I got a brilliant book out of the library today! Just a few hundred pages with naked and clothed peeps in these different poses at all angles. Freakin' brilliant. Some of the pages are just inappropriately funny. Like the "Vicar blessing girl"...


Just LOOK! I know you can see it. And with that, I'll leave you. x

End of the week!

Whew! I managed to send in a job application 10 minutes before the closing time. Woop woop! Fingers crossed! And on that noteTGIF, yo. Oo...I should go eat there. It's been a while. Mmm T.G.I.Fridays *nod*

Anyway! End of the week - how nice! I had my meeting this morning and it was quite successful. All I need now is responses...Good things come to those who wait! I started my "sketchbook" on InDesign today. I even got a book out on how to use the software properly. I felt like such a nerd in the Epi Centre, but by golly it was fun! I've only got so many pictures, but it'll come together! It's a good money saving tactic, methinks :) £7 for one 30-page empty sketchbook or £7 for 47-page filled sketchbook. Ooo! Bargain!

Stace and I (well more Stacey, to be honest) cleaned the kitchen downstairs and now its all clean! Yay! It's so much nicer to do work when you know all is well in the kitchen and all the recycling is sorted (thanks Stacey!). Oh and it's also nice when you make brownies too. Mmmm brownies with lots of squirty cream...they were nice. x