LOOKBOOK.nu (and a little giveaway)

January 31, 2010 by Kourai

So I am right now part of Lookbook.nu. I’ve loved that community for such a long time and today I received an invitation to join. I’ve spent the day surfing the pictures, users and hyping the things I like the most.

So, as a celebration I will be offering some invitations to the lovely [RINGO-ISH.org] readers. All you have  to do is state why you love fashion. You can either contact me here or send me an e-mail. Please, don’t forget to include your e-mail address.

LOOKBOOK.nu: collective fashion consciousness.

So comment here or e-mail me, and you’ll get it :) . This is for a very short time, I’ll announce when it’s over.

- Kou

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Juno

January 19, 2010 by Kourai

Look, in my opinion the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what-have-you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.

-Mac Macguff

I love Juno. I just do.

It should even be included in the list of Stuff white people like, along with Mean Girls (if they’re not already). One of these days I’m going to write a bit of what I think of Mean Girls and why I love it.

Kisses.

-Kou

EDIT to say Juno is actually on Stuff white People Like. I KNEW IT!

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Paving my road

January 10, 2010 by Kourai

I normally don’t bring too personal issues here, and certainly I rarely complain here, but this time I think I need to vent a little.

I need to write this on my shoes

I am at this very moment, the victim of my own actions. I made a terrible decision a few days ago, and I don’t feel like handling the consequences right now.

During the last few days I’ve remembered the series of unfortunate events that lead me to create this blog, things I won’t get into right now. I’ve had this website for a little over a year and a half, but hadn’t done much with it until I decided to turn it into a blog, mainly to force myself to find new good and positive things to share with the world. That’s why you barely see any negativity here.

Pretty much  halfway through the year I realized I was living a life I didn’t want to live. Not so long ago I read somewhere that we can be both creators and destroyers in our lives. I was becoming a destroyer in mine, a dream-crusher, living a life of misery and sadness. Sinking deeper and deeper into something I consciously choose for myself. So I decided I would take control over the way I live and the things i allow in my life. As the picture above says ‘If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one‘ I started paving mine. And I started feeling a lot more positive about everything that was happening in my life.

Pretty much the last 6 months of my life was full of absolute bliss, absolute joy and love.

Today? I don’t really feel the love, and that is because I managed to immerse myself in something I don’t wanna be immerse. I have such great plans for 2010, there are a lot of things coming soon, and I hate to be suddenly carried away by things I choose, but I’m not enjoying as I thought I would. I get the feeling that I just took a leap back in time, and I firmly believe in always moving forward and never looking back. I think the only thing I can do is get over it.

I once read Malloreigh saying: ‘I found Money has a fun leaching effect.‘ And it’s true. I am feeling stressed out and bored as hell.

Take this as a life lesson, ponies. Don’t imitate me on this one.

Now, just to give a positive touch to this entry, here you have a video that always manages to cheer me up.  I am even dancing it right now.

That’s it, Now that I let everything flow out of my head, I’m feeling much better. I promise I’ll come back with something else soon. As a matter of fact, I’ll come back very soon with an article on Lady GaGa. On the meanwhile, enjoy the week!

- Kou

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Highlights of the last days.

December 30, 2009 by Kourai

This is what’s happening in my life.

+ About 4 months ago, my mom decided to buy a house. She tends to move a lot, so she has been renting places here and there in the hope of moving to another city anytime soon. It’s not happening, so she got a really cute house, (I even got a bedroom there, and I don’t even live with her). Right now we’re moving everything to the new house and it’s a royal mess. I’m super tired.

+ This has been happening to me the last few nights: I am here googling, tumblring, tweeting and when I notice I have all this tabs with iCiNG articles on them. It’s even happening right now. I have 5 tabs open, and 4 of them are iCiNG articles, the 5th one is WordPress.

+ Speaking of, if you have any kind of goal for the new year, and you have no idea of how to start, I would totally recommend you to read Getting Organized for 2010. It helped me a lot! Gala Darling never ceases to amaze me!

+ I’m going through a process of detachment right now. I’m saying goodbye to a lot of memories, throwing away old letter I hold no interest in keeping anymore, old pictures, old burdens. :)

+Speaking of (II) I’m cutting off a lot of negative people I have in my life. I’ve been trying to do this for quite a while but somehow a lot of them remained there for some reason, ok, it’s not really ’some reason’ I actually know the reason, but it’s always hard to cut people you love out of your life. Right now I’m giving myself a limit of 2 months into the year, I’m going to try to work things out with these friends, if it doesn’t work, they’re gone. I can’t stand negative people, they are like happiness vampires…

+ I decided that the next year I would take part of things I would have love to do this year, but found out too late, like Watching 52 movies and reading 52 books in a year (one per week), and the 365 self-portrait project. I am excited about this, I will post a link to my Flickr account very soon.

+ Twitter got ridiculously popular among my friends in the last 72 hours! About 20 of my acquaintances and friends got an account… It feels weird.

Anyway… that’s it… I am super tired right now, and i think I’m going to bed.

- Kou

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Ohh the new year…

December 27, 2009 by Kourai

Wow! The New Year is coming and you wouldn’t believe just how excited I am.

For a couple of months my creative drive went insanely dry, I worked in some projects and explored things I hadn’t explored before, but for some reason, I just couldn’t keep working on the things I used to work. Well, not anymore! About an hour ago, I dipped my toes in the creativity pool (I can’t stop stressing the creative power of Tumblr), and something too perfect to be true just materialized in my head; and boy, it is perfect! I think I can’t even describe it in the fear of spoiling it.

I already have lot’s of plans for 2010, they go from reading a book  and watching a new movie every week, to keeping a paper journal and training my dog, So I’m just waiting for this vacation to be over, so I can go back to my house and start working on everything.

What about you? Do you have any New Year resolution?

- Kou

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Your Ringo-ish Guide to Survive the Holidays (X-mas edition)

December 21, 2009 by Kourai

Then again It’s ‘That’ time of the year. Suddenly everything turned red, green and gold, and everyone is either on an incredible good mood or really stressed out. So, this is your very own Ringo-ish guide to survive the Holidays, at least on the way it works for me, with a few tips on how to make it a bit more celebratory if things seem not to be working in the way you expect them to.

  • Be cooperative. Holidays are always stressing, and it’s easy to come out with a long list of things left to do. Help your family, or whomever you’re spending christmas with.
  • Set aside some time for yourself. It’s always cool to spend time with your loved ones, but everyone needs a moment to unwind and just read a magazine or watch a cool documentary while everyone is going crazy over dinner.
  • Go out, but not too much. I know, this is the time for partying around, but don’t go too over the top. Find a balance between your family, your friends and yourself.
  • Don’t leave everything to the last-minute. If you have the money and the time, don’t leave your christmas shopping to the last day. Everyone does it, and I can guarantee you will spend in the stores twice the time you would spend there if you only do it even a few days earlier.
  • Speaking of shopping, don’t forget to buy something for yourself. Getting something for yourself in a time when you normally shop for others, makes it even more special.
  • Take some time to thank. For real. Even if it’s just thank for having some time away from school/work, thank for it. It will make you feel better during this time.
  • Let yourself feel like a kid. Do you remember when you were younger and watched Charlie Brown’s Christmas on TV? Do you remember how much you used to enjoy it? Why not doing it again?
  • Watch a movie that has nothing to do with Christmas. And I mean, nothing. This is the best time of the year to watch those scary movies you’re never brave enough to watch. None can be scared during Xmas, that’s for sure.
  • Watch a movie that has everything to do with Christmas. Specially after the previous one. May I recommend any Meg Ryan Romantic movie? Not all of them are Xmas themed but somehow you always get the feeling they are.
  • Avoid the drama. Remember that when you spend too much time with someone, (in this case, family, friends, roommates or your loved one) everyone can get a bit over sensitive. Take time to breath away before you say anything you may not want to. Things tend to be magnified on special occasions.
  • After the celebration is over, and after everyone is already on bed, take some time  to enjoy it with yourself, sit a moment alone next to your tree, feel the last moments of holiday bliss. Remember that it comes just once a year, so try to get the best out of it.

And that’s all, be sure you enjoy it. Set your mind on it from now. You still have time to put all of this point in practice, so start today!

Happy holidays!

- Kou

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Dreamers

December 17, 2009 by Kourai

dreams

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of evrything at the same time, the ones who never yawn to say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…

Those two are certainly the most touching and poetic Rules to live by i’ve ever posted here. And so very true.

Amino Love and Acid Kisses

- Kou

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15 reasons why my weekend was FAWESOME

November 23, 2009 by Kourai

This is the list of reasons why this weekend was FAWESOME. And, yes, I said FAWESOME…

Amen!

Amen!

  1. I raised my Tumblarity to 207 (yey!). I’m seriously getting obsessed with Tumblr, it makes me happy, and it inspires me so much, you wouldn’t believe it.
  2. I got to see pictures of my future dog. It’s so damn cute, I want it now! But i’ll be getting it until  Dec 18th.
  3. Finally got time to watch Kill Bill.I hadn’t yet, but as soon as i finish with this list, I will, Then I’ll tell you how I feel about it.

    Here comes the Bride :)

    Here comes the Bride :)

  4. Got new ideas for the last painting I’m do for my class, Controversial ideas. You’ll see pictures, be sure of that.
  5. Bought a new pair of earphones cause even though i love my huge pink headphones, sometimes it’s more comfortable to wear discreet earphones. These are baby blue and white.
  6. I Cut it off with negative people I sometimes can’t even stand. At least I just blocked them for a while.Sometimes I can’t elieve i still have people like these around me.
  7. Updated [RINGO-ISH.org] (ok, ok, i will with this) Lately i’ve been so empty of ideas. Ok, i do have ideas, but i don’t want to write about how happy I feel some days, every single time. I don’t want to bore you.
  8. Discovered I have the very same haircut Shiina Ringo had on her Watashi to Houden cover. She’s my favorite singer.

    I just comb it differently

    I just comb it differently

  9. I was told my Little Mermaid tattoo got posted on my tattoo artist’s Portafolio page. I still have to go and finish it up.
  10. Spent Sunday lazying around in Leon, I really needed this after the week that just finished.
  11. Read Tokyo Jihen (My favorite band) is having a new single out on my mother’s birthday. It’s always the same. Somehow they always release new stuff on important dates for me. :)
  12. Watched New Moon and loved every single second of it. Seriously, they did something amazing to the book.

    This poster is ridiculously fake and poorly done, but there's not a better description than this.

  13. Learned my grey stockings look fawesome, and i didn’t expect them to do. I normally look too young with that kind of clothes.
  14. Phineas and Ferb showed one of my favorite episodes. Haha, not that it really matters, but they can make my day, any day.
  15. Got to spend early Friday with someone real special. And even though it’s still sunday, I am still smiling. Still smiling

On the Down side, I think i lose my purple reading glasses, but tomorrow i might get a new pair.

That’s it. :) Now, Make your own and share!

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Let’s have an awesome week

November 10, 2009 by Kourai

It’s super late in Mexico, I am here, sitting on my kitchen table, listening to some Le Tigre, and writing this. I feel Oddly blissful.

Balloons_by_Cajun497

Since this Wednesday it’s my birthday, i decided i was going to celebrate it the whole week, I already have some things planned for this to happen. This are my plans for this week (Yes, this is one of those self-centered updates, :) )

Monday:
(This is basically today) Have lunch with my friends at one of their houses. I chopped the tomato, though i can’t stand it, and hugged a kitty for a while cause he’s the best (I adore kitties) and then went underwear shopping, cause, you may not know this, but i love getting new pretty underwear.

Tuesday:
Drink huge amounts of coffee with one of my best friends in my house while talking about ponicorns (F yeah!) music, art, pets, and then watch Kill Bill, cause I’m the only person i know who hadn’t seen it yet.

Wednesday:
My birthday! My friends are coming over for lunch (Prepared by me!!), happy time, then movies with another friend, and maybe later we’re going to a coffee shop. <3. <3. I just want to be with the people i loooove <3

Thursday:
I’ll have my Only Vegan friend over for lunch, so it’s vegan day. Then, In the afternoon, nice date with a friend, this is the think i’m more excited about in the whole week.

Friday:
Visiting my mom, going to watch ‘Coco Avant Chanel’, being the fashion enthusiast I am, I’ve been waiting for it for a while. Later, we’ll have dinner together, I miss my mom so much.

Saturday:
A friend from a nearby city will visit me. Movies and trips all around the city. I have yet to plan this day as you can see.

Sunday:
Sad panda comes back to the city cause the collective i belong to, has a big installation to work on, So that will be a long, long day. I guess. Things can go differently.

So, this is just a small update on how happy I am (and stressed out, but happy) :) Don’t forget to congratulate Martinolli cause we boths celebrate our birthdays on the very same day. Just as Leonardo DiCaprio, Calista Flockhart and Demi Moore.

Amino Love and Acid Kisses

- Kou

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Shiny Happy People: Ferretbite

October 24, 2009 by Kourai

From time to time one manages to bump into this amazing people who are certainly amazing without even knowing. This is the story of my very good friend Ferretbite. I met him about 3 years ago on SG. He was one of my very first friends there, and we got along pretty well right from the start.

aimforawesome

He’s always been awesome to me, but the reason it’s something more specific i discovered today.

I’ve been intending to write an article called ‘How to be labeled as ‘cool’ by a random stranger’ full of silly ideas on how to make your life (and yourself in the way) a lot more interesting. Thinking about that i wondered: What makes someone awesome? I could think of a number of people, specially famous people i consider awesome for a variety of different reasons (Take for instance Gala Darling and Shiricki) but somehow Ferretbite kept appearing in my head. Yes, he’s a great friend, he’s always been there for me, and stuff, but then i realized something i hadn’t notice about him.

For about 6 months he has been telling me about this amazing little game on Facebook called Pet society. I know, some of you may already know it, some of you may like and some may not. Anyway, he has been telling me about how much fun this game was, about the great time he has playing it, how much he likes his pet, anyway, trying to lure me into it. I must tell you during all this time it just didn’t work with me :P .  I’m just not a game kind of person, not even video games (though i love tetris kids, tetris has always been my thing) But then one day, i decided to give it a try.

Boy, he was so right! I’m having so much fun playing that little game!

Ferretbite's pet Draco DeFuret

Ferretbite's pet Draco DeFuret

But this game is not the reason i’m writing about Ferretbite, at least not directly. After playing it for a while i noticed he’s not the kind of person who would tell every single one of his friends to join the game. He does it cause he actually believes you will enjoy it. That is what makes him awesome to my eyes.

He’s just not someone who is trying to lure you into doing something cause he wants to get a benefit out you doing it. He does it, cause he enjoys it so much, he’s so convinced you (you, among a lot of people) will too!

I just can’t help but loving people like this, people who think of others and share the joys in their life. That my friends is absolute and pure Awesomeness.

Now it’s your turn to put someone in the spotlight. Who do you think is awesome for an absolutely selfless reason? Share your Shiny Happy People!

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