stupidmas day

parallels and perpendiculars

wearing this to bluebird for my roommate's 30th birthday... and then whirlyball.

no way i'm playing.

dress and sweater both urban outfitters, but sourced for next-to-nothing at their expansive, only-location-in-the-US outlet. it's in chicago, on clark and fullerton. pretty sweet.

forcefield against your charm

that quote has nothing to do with my drawing. i think.

"it took years to rebuild my brains forcefield against your charm and i feel ike u seal team 6'd ur way in again and caught my common sense sleeping on post"

once in a great while, TFLN is amazing.

usually, it's just a bad influence.

hipster girlfriends

this hipster paper doll is pretty stupid, and rather limited, but i just put together some chicks that look like me and some of the girls in my life. are you deserving of the pejorative smackdown if your paper doll is a decent approximation? i'd have made more of my friends, but there are no black, asian, or hispanic options.

it's kind of cute. whatever.

moi

cassandra

janet

kyra

rita

is it hipster because the illustration style is scott pilgrim-ish?

november daisy chain

outfits for yesterday, (second from left, the white flowers sweater as featured previously, worn with a collared shirt and gray cords) and the past few days besides. yesterday was a post-thanksgiving hang at my friend matt's house. we played "horse," (a nerdy spelling game) debated gentrification, and then i commandeered the music situation and loaded it with old funk and reggae.

1. black wool mini-dress, paired with dark gray tights and mulitmedia miu miu courts. worn to Girl and the Goat.

3. gray cardi, collared shirt, wool shorts, and sheer blue stockings, worn with garters and beater boots. worn to the CAN.TV taping of the Nick and Nora variety show.

4. blue velvet tube dress over gray silk-blend turtleneck and gray thigh-high stockings. black rubber melissas with open toes and tortoiseshell bows were involved. worn to the garfield park conservatory.


okay okay, i know that drawing is impossible to see, especially since i got lazy and the girls turned into stick figures. snapshots!

mara was wearing pale purple hose - cross-genertional twinzies photo-op

even with the fern room closed for repairs, one of the best spots in chicago

stems

an outfit that is mostly uninteresting unless you're the one happening to have on bright, Bright green thigh-hghs. the sheerness of the shirtdress doesn't really read in the photo. that is where great lighting comes in, or fashion illustration gains its communicative powers.

egon schiele was the jump-off point. the cons are a nod both to victorian lace-up boots and to the punk-grunge girls i love, who wear seamed stockings with their chucks or docs.

adopt me, please

tavi, the mulleavy sisters, miranda july, and kirsten dunst: a solid dys/functional sisterhood

(buddying-up at the 2011 MoCA gala)