Summer Tunes

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks from Foster The People on Vimeo.

I posted the track to this tune a bit ago, but I dig the video, too. I'm a sucker for the mainstream indie stuff, I know.

Rocking out.

Directed by Tony Kelly for American Apparel from Tony Kelly Photography on Vimeo.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Favorite lines —

"So my hope for all of you here is that you're going to walk across the stage and get your diploma, you're going to go out tonight or maybe all summer and celebrate (you deserve it), and then you're going to lean way into your career. You're going to find something you love doing, and you're going to do it with gusto. You're going to pick your field and ride it all the way to the top."

"The most important career decision that you will make is whether or not you have a life partner and who that partner is. If you pick someone who is going to share the burdens and the joys of your personal life, you're going to go farther."

"A world where men ran half our homes, and women ran half our institutions would just be a much better world."

"Do not lean back, lean in."

"Put your foot on the gas pedal and keep it there, until the day that you have to make a decision."

"Try until you find something that stirs your passion, until you find a job that stirs you and stirs others. It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."

"I hope that each one of you have the ambition to run the world, because this world needs you to run it."

"Go home and ask yourself: What would you do if you weren't afraid? And then go do it."

This is... my alma mater

This Is from Alex Silver on Vimeo.

YSL et Pierre Bergé, L'amour FOU

Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Image via NY Times Magazine

"L' amour fou" (2010), directed by Pierre Thoretton from sleek magazine on Vimeo.

A clip from the documentary, L'Amour Fou, directed by Pierre Thoretton — it features an "uncharacteristically unguarded (and frisky)" Saint Laurent taking a Proust questionnaire.

Study Muuuusic

Amazingg.

Break (AOTL) by Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino + Adele + Jamie xx = eargasm



If you didn't already know, Childish Gambino is Donald Glover, comedian // actor // indie rapper, from Community:



Bahahahaha. That face. Reminds me of the Pauly D faces (i.e. the only reason I ever watched the Jersey Shore...).

 

 

 

 

This could battle out the Troy/Donald Glover look, I think.

Haha hope you enjoyed the little study break pick-me-up!

Simple, humble pleasures

I meant to post this video via Aerie by American Eagle when it was relevant during the holiday season. But, it stills feels a bit springlike, and I've been a fan of the french film, Amelie and its incredible soundtrack since way back. I guess it's never to late — Here it is!



The soundtrack by Yann Tiersen:

Amelie from Montmartre_OST by ostt

My favorite scenes from the movie:



As long as we're on the note of happy, cute French films — Here's another favorite:

(Sorry, there are no subtitles on this video. A little context: The middle-aged man is a professor of a French high school for delinquents. He just got fired, because of his "contemporary" teaching methods, which involve teaching the youngsters how to sing à la Sound of Music. Poor guy, he basically changed their whole overlook on life, gave them new hope, yada yada. However, as he's leaving, the children start singing and flying paper airplanes with inspirational messages on them.)

If I've learned anything these past few days, it's not to take life and or simple, little pleasures (Sunshine, warm cup of coffee, a friendly face) for granted.

Weekend Music: Sweet or hot, doowop doowop doowop

Lady's got sass and spunk. Ella totally kills it here. I always listen to this song for inspiration on how to live my life. With sass, with spunk and as always, with style.

Idol, Muse, "The Man Behind the Camera, the Genius"

The Man who first got me into menswear.

Pale Yellow Flounces

Yael Naim - New Soul (ReLex Re-Edit) by ReLex

Springtime, Angela

My design for the 27th annual Cornell Fashion Collective showcase. So happy I could burst! Click {here} and scroll to slide 8 for another feature :)

Inspired by:


Corinne Bailey Rae "Put Your Records On" from Orange Films on Vimeo.

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."

We all get dressed for Bill.

And the sun might be shinin' but it's colder than it seems; 'cause the weather's dialectical: there's no in-between

I chose that title, because it reminds me of Ithaca right now. Lolz.

Getting back into my whole trip-hop phase. Blue Scholars gave a concert here back last fall. This video is pretty old though (like 2007...), but it's still my favorite of theirs. How they come up with these lyrics is beyond me. It's music that has a lot of layers, a lot of depth..

Gah! So good. Even if you just read the lyrics, you can get a perfect sense of the stresses and the rhymes that he intended... 

Favorite lyrics (starts at 1:47) —

North of Martin Luther King: a straight warzone
Detours through the concrete, cranes, and bulldozers
No, the Hill is not over still
Every block got a coffee shop; it's overkill
Focus, know the deal
Dope to see Kalil back, the medicine is good again
The feeling: illegal, and coming back to your hood again
It's priceless, I write this, our lives are in crisis
Most talk, but don't walk, the path of the righteous
Despite this...
I measure each step, walkin' closer to my final destination of death
When I'm layin' to rest, I'm only savin' my breath
The Northwest fills my lungs, heals the pain in my chest
Clutch the moment, a transfer in my hand
Still listening
Lookin' out the window to the gold and the gray
And the sun might be shinin' but it's colder than it seems
'Cause the weather's dialectical: there's no in-between

In walks an old soul
A First Nation native, cat's chiseled like a totem pole
No words, as he stands and looks over us
He gets off and says, "Have a good day, you foreigners."
I, crack a smile one time for the acknowledgment
Northbound, now we start to pick up more college kids
They try to study on the ride
To make up for the fact that they probably kicked it hard last night
And I ponder if it's time to save up and get a car
And pay for the gas that we're takin' from the war
I'd miss all the colorful faces, the places, and spaces I've embraced with
The faith that I can rest and raise kids here even with these cats set
Trippin'
Bringin' '95 back again, same old conditions
From Reagan, to Bush, to Clinton, to the Bush the 2nd
No matter the neighborhood in the city you're reppin'
It's gettin' serious y'all
You can even hear the rebel call
Gettin' off, leavin' hella pieces on the walls
Seen it all, sittin' sideways with my townmates
Only place left where majority is brown-faced...