So, one woman who particularly inspires me to create is the amazingly stupendous Karen O (Who is pretty much the only awesome person named Karen) Not only is she the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but she also recorded the soundtrack for Where the Wild Things Are, and she just recorded with The Flaming Lips! By the way, she was born in South Korea (Random right?! she is half polish and half korean) And she attended Tisch in NYC. The crown jewel on Karen O's tiara of awesome is her fashion, or should I say her bff designer Christian Joy's fashion. Christian Joy has been making costumes for Karen O since 2001! Anyway, Karen O is oh so amazing, and she inspires me to scream crazy, stay funky and effortlessly achieve "hip."
So here's a bunch of kooky people from all over the world pretending to be Karen O, singing along to one of my favorite songs from Show Your Bones... here's "Cheated Hearts"
... and for the real deal (and an MJ tribute), here's "Heads Will Roll" from Its Blitz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0IlrQYOxM
So as far as costume design goes, Colleen Atwood is my hero. So I figured I would just make a small shrine to her work (keep in mind these are just my favorites...no where near all of her work!)
Alice in Wonderland 2010
Nine 2009
Public Enemies 2009
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007
Mission: Impossible III 2006
Memoirs of a Geisha 2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 2004
So these are the Danger Bears, and they are so flipping cute, and I kind of absolutely hate them for it. (Its just because I'm jealous) Anyway, yay for some local talent!
Dublin - Summer 2008 So I obviously have Ireland on my mind today. Hopefully 8 months from now I will be able to take more photos of this beautiful country.
So, I basically fell in love with this woman's poetry today. And I hope that as I age, I can perhaps be like her. What I loved most about her is that she treated all of her work as though it was all still "in progress." Here's some of her poems I particularly enjoyed (She also had some amazing Odes, which I couldn't find online.):
Topography by Sharon Olds
After we flew across the country we got into bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like maps laid face to face, East to West, my San Francisco against your New York, your Fire Island against my Sonoma, my New Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho bright on my Great Lakes, my Kansas burning against your Kansas your Kansas burning against my Kansas, your Eastern Standard Time pressing into my Pacific Time, my Mountain Time beating against your Central Time, your sun rising swiftly from the right my sun rising swiftly from the left your moon rising slowly from the left my moon rising slowly from the right until all four bodies of the sky burn above us, sealing us together, all our cities twin cities, all our states united, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
hello! So, here are two very odd images of "blotting out" that I ...modified...to get the point across. Any way, enjoy the weirdness because I sure do!
