Taking Picture of You (the Kooks)

Did I ever tell you about one of the best weekends of my life? Oh, well it was a couple months back. It was blazing hot in Austin Texas and it was my second year to go to ACL!
Coldplay, Young the Giant, Kanye, Stevie Wonder, City and Colour, Foster the People, Awolnation, Fleet Foxes... and ARCADE FIRE! I was so fortunate to be able to see all of these amazing bands, and so many more!
My favorite part besides the wonderful music is always the atmosphere. I love the lights, the colors, the movement and the energy. It makes me feel like a complete teenager when I am there and that is a GREAT feeling!

Brackett, WI (Bon Iver)

So this is a video of my friend Grace and myself in Austin at a music festival. We made it using a super cool spinning mirror thing we found in the park. To this day, I still think that it is awesome. 

Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye)

Ok, so first, of all, I decided to start naming all of my posts with the song that I am listening to whenI write then. Second of all, like most teenage girls my age, I hate cleaning my room! Surprisingly however, I quite enjoy the occasional reorganizing of my make up, jewelry, or clothes. I guess seeing everything that I own, inspires me to create new looks and to wear things that I often forget about because they have slipped back into the deep dark depths of my cabinets. My favorite accessory: gold necklaces. I have a good amount of them, and this necklace tree is the perfect place to hang them!

Jewelry Tree from Urban Outfitters

My morning at the Newseum

I think self expression and artistic freedom are two of some of the most important things in life. After all, isn't that why I have a blog and all? I only realized this fully however, when I visited the Newseum in Washington D.C. over thanksgiving break. This is a wonderful museum; it traces the influence, history, and evolution of the media from hundreds of years back. 

Out of the 5 floors, the basement caught my eye. It was a piece of the Berlin wall. The eastern side, bare and white. The western side, graffitied and painted in protest of the limitations to the personal freedoms in Soviet Germany. I have always admired the actions of standing up for one's rights, but here it is beautiful. It is creative and artistic, and riveting.

 I actually got to touch part of the wall!

The view from the roof of the museum was not bad at all.

An exhibit of the first pages of newpapers for a hundred years!

A memorial to all the reporters and journalists who have lost their lives trying to cover a story. 

my new obsessions

I'm back, and I know... its been a while! Sorry for my disappearance the past few weeks or shall I say months. It has been a crazy fall, and I have changed quite a bit. 

My New Obsessions...

1. Songs that are solely piano and vocals. My favorite right now is 14 year old british singer Birdy (her songs Without a Word and Shelter are beautiful)

2. The color brown. For me, brown is the new black. Other colors that seem to be catching my eye: mustard, maroon, navy, and camel. 

3. Spin Magazine. It is just great. Read it. (runner-up is Nylon)

4. Cape coats. I know that these sound dreadful, but I am dying to find one! I guess it is something about the silhouette that I think is absolutely fabulous. 

5. The talking twin babies video part 2. Communication always fascinates and I wonder what these kids think that they are talking about!

Concrete Jungle

This is the view from my hotel in NYC at midnight.

"This is too freaking fancy!"

Went to dinner in New York with one of my good friends, Jacqui! She is an amazing person I met while in Thailand this past summer! Love her! We dined at a restaurant called Al Fiori... it was a good night!

To quote Jacqui- "These are the prettiest plates I have ever seen!"

sorry for the bad photo quality

Top: Urban Outfitters

Pants: Marc by Marc Jacobs

Shoes: H&M

Blazer: Madewell