NEW UNISEX T-SHIRTS 2009 EDITION.

It's been 2 years. well over 2 years! Since i released anything to be purchased off the internet.

is that right?
(strokes chin and brings eyebrows together)

yes. yes i think thats right.

I worked on those collections, travelled a bunch whilst djin all over the place.

argh.

i can't concentrate. dougs watching judge judy and her bellowing voice is like a drill in my head. She keeps shouting at people and won't give them a chance to talk!

ok let me write this later.

ok i'm back and the tv is off.

what was i saying?

.........

oh yes. well.

i have new t-shirts out.

They're really different to the tees that i designed when i was a bit younger.

In my opinion they show my growth as an artist and my developing skills in design.

I based them on my best friends. The ones that are closest to me and that i know love me dearly.

Kitty.



and Bella.



I decided to do them without colour because it's something that i have always loved and has been used in my logos from the begining and i wanted to create something neutral that can be worn with anything. It also brings it a giant step away from the tees i used to do altough when i think about it they were all predominantly black and white too. with loud splashs of colours...




It took a really long time for me to perfect these designs and i had to revise them over and over again. Eventually i got it right and sent off for samples.

At the moment i'm staying in Atlanta at Dougs dads condo and its super cramped in here with 3 ppl a wolf and a jungle cat. I didn't want to do a full shoot for the tees as i didn't want to search for models and book a place to do it when we were just about to head off to mississippi. So i just set up a makeshift studio in the living room and took the pics myself.

You know i'm a pro at takin pictures on a timer so doug helped me set up the paper and i got on with it.



I had been planning to cut my hair for a while so i decided to do it to model the 2nd tee seeing as i wanted there to be a different look for each one. So Doug snipped my hair off and i took snaps in the kitty t-shirt.



Once the shoot was finished we packed up and i edited the pics. They came out lookin like this..



It was super fun. I mean you know me. I'm so pro DIY. I choose to do everything myself and learn along the way.

Anyway we went to missisippi for July 4th and came back and built up the website. It took forever and was really hard. But eventually we got it done and put the tees up for sale.

A lot of hard work went into them. I'm not just some big brand who hires graphic designers to make some graphics, slap it on a tee and sell it to the mass market on karmaloop and all that shit.

This is all part of my process to become a great artist/designer and this is just another achievement to add to my list of things to feel proud about. I have a small following of people, some creative, some not who have somehow found their way to my world. Some people say they really love the t-shirts and some say they would like me to sell the old ones again. But like i said back then in 2007. Those were 1 off designs and would not be released again. I can only move forward and look at how i have grown.

Anyway. I think that's it. I was going to post these tees on my blog ages ago but i thought that i would really try and talk you guys through it seeing as you come and check on me and see how i'm doing and what i have been up to.

If you want to buy a tee go to...

www.inaworldofherown.com

There is a limited number and just like the last ones, these will not be sold again.

Lots of Love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Kesh. xx

OVER IT.

The frohawk has gone.
The frohawk is dead.
The frohawk is no longer welcome around these parts.
It had it's time.
It had made a nice home on my head for the past 6 years and now i want nothing to do with it.

It was a slut. It was all over the place on the heads of beautiful girls around the world and i couldn't believe it would do me like that.

To be fair the frohawk was generations older than me and my mum always told me to keep away from those old predators.

So here is me.

The new me.




This is the pic i took last summer when i planned to do it and chickened out. (it's all scraped to 1 side)




But lifes to short and 8 months down the line it was time to kick that slutty frohawk to the gutter where it belongs.

So yeh.

A lot of people are saying they will miss the curls, and if you feel the same you can just run on down to your nearest hair and beauty supply and pick up a pack of erm... i guess its called 1B, and give it a hug to cherish the memories we've all had together.




(oh wait is 1b the colour?) I dunno i only wore weave once and my friend bought it and did it for me. Oh it was a hot mess.

It looked like this...




and if i really question myself i can actually admit that i loved that crazy weave. I would flip it around in a tranny diva like manner and stroke it like it was some sort of large unidentified animal living on my head.

It didn't last long. It pulled my weak ass hair out and i dashed that to the curb too!!

sigh.

Anyway. A whole post about my hair.

How exciting, interesting and intellectual. (roll eyes at myself)

Let me get out of here 'real world cancun' has come on and the vein on my head forehead is pulsating and ready to explode if i do not switch it off.

HGTV any1?

yes please.

Goodnight i've missed you all.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

p.s i look like an indian boy now so if you see a scruffy looking indian boy with a kitten on a leash in some part of america it's probably me and kitty trippin in the streets :) xxxxx

DAMN

i'm gettin mad.

real talk.

janky internet is the worst thing in the world.

i'm tryna write this long ass blog and show you lot whats been hapnin out here in mississppi.

But the wireless hates me and won't give me an ounce of respect.

To be fair i am in a TINY town in mississippi with a downtown area that is a dusty road with 4 stores on it. We didnt even think we would get internet out here. So i got a scrap.

Anyway just letting you know the situation and i guess i will post everything when i get back to ATL.

oh and i got the NEWWWWW tees droppin on monday or tuesday depending if we get lost on the way back or not.

Ok bye.

Happy 4th of July Americans

and happy standard day for everybody else.

EVERYDAY IS A CELEBRATION.

BE GRATEFUL FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!

(shakes hair in dutty wine motion and closes laptop) xxxxxxx

I MISS POLAND.

I miss my friends in Poland.
I was at a party in Atlanta & i started to think about them...

The lovely Stan + Olka




Stan takes wonderful pictures like this...




and this...




and is one of the nicest interesting people i have ever met.
you can see more of his stuff at http://www.bobrowiec.ownlog.com/

I stayed with him in Poland and met his lovely girlfriend Olka who is equally as talented!!

She makes amazing art like this...




and this...




talk about power couple!!

and then there is sylwia and piotr...

i couldn't seem to find a pic of piotr but here is me and sylwia




They are a dj/promoter duo called Hungry Hungry Models.

they booked me to go and dj in Poland. They took great care of me & made me drink coffee, beer and vodka all in 1 night. (which i never drink)

I spent a week in Poland & sylwia showed me around the town and took me to the charity stores.

Last but not least Sebastian!




he has a great band called ROTOFOBIA.

some songs are in english and some are in polish and i really love their music.

www.myspace.com/rotofobia

i miss them all and would like to click my fingers and be back there for a week. I think that if i make a lot of money i will buy a little holiday apartment out there and maybe open a cat shelter.

we'll see.

Anyway when i was thinking of them and the great times i had out there i realised i never posted pictures that i took whilst i was out there.

Unfortunately i broke my cam on the first night but Stan let me borrow his old camera... i uploaded a 1/4 of the pics i took but didnt have enough memory on my laptop to store them all. I asked stan to send the pics to me when i returned to London but there was a technical error of some sort & all the pics got deleted.

sighhh...

anywayyy here are the ones i did take :D

































and that's it!

I have to get ready now i think we're going to some party out here in Atlanta but really i just want to be in Chicago setting up my new studio.

August 1st we move in. very very excited!!! xxx

MAILING LIST

finallllyyyyy

i have a mailing list.

i'm so stubborn i won't let anybody do any kind of technical stuff for me. i guess thats my downfall.

anyway i finally got a mailing list up so if you want to know when my new t-shirts come out.

or the when the chromeo t-shirts i designed are for sale.

or want to see the hennessy bottle i co designed with david burrows and know when its released.

or see the 30 day photo diary i did for WAD magazine.

or artwork i will be doing for various companies and people

then you should sign up. I'm not gona bombard you with crap parties that are a million miles away from where you are.

Just an every now and then update of my work.

:D

go to

www.inaworldofherown.com

and pop ur e-mail in :D

........................


i'm in atlanta at the moment. People are really nice here.

but boy oh boy when i say its HOT. my skin nearly melted off yesterday and i have the most gnarly shoe tan lines.

Think we're going to a pool party 2day so i need to go and d some work before we leave.

byeeeeee xxxxxxxx

oh and kitty and bella say hiiiiii





(lazy bitches)

HOUSEHUNTING IN CHICAGO. GO. GO.

Last weekend me and doug went to Chicago to find a place to live forever and ever and ever. Or for the next 3 years which seems just as long.

We saw this place online and was like fuck yeh let's go and look at it 2moro.

So of course we went to bed at bloody 5am and got up at 10am! my eyes were redder than the a sunburn on an irish grandma in Brazil.

I was tired.

tired i tell you.

So we bundled in the car and hit the road.

We left kitty behind because like i keep saying she is a total bitch and WILL not co-operate with the rest of the family! She whines and moans in the car and rapes my hands for strokes and snoozes and gets annoyed when i move to get comfortable and so on and so on.

That kinda behaviour will get ur arse left at home.

Anyway so we drove 5 hours to Chicago.



It was an easy ride and i didn't fall asleep once!

(I'm 1 of those people that fall asleep ALLLLL the time)

((and not some cute kind of sleep. the one where ur head flops back and ur tongue goes in ur throat so you snore and bang ur head on the window))

We stopped to get some petrol & i went in the back to give Bella some water & a hug.



(she loved it)

there was this delivery lady living the good life..



i've ALWAYS wanted drive 1 of those trucks with no doors. I bet it feels like you're flying.

we hit the road again and took some sights aka the highway, roadkill & this dude on his motorbike



i wore my new ralph lauren glasses which felt pretty nice.



and next thing you know we were in Chicago. We went to the place and got a call from the estate agent saying he was stuck across town and wudnt be able to make it for ages. So we were like erm ok!

and went walking. We had a look at the area and it was beautiful. There was grass everywhere..



so beautiful!

we got bored waiting



and the guy kept putting the appointment off.

so we called another agent and he said he had a perfect place for us. :D

We went to meet him and he took us to this huge house which was at the end of this walkway...



a) i'm not walking down that walkway to my front door everynight.
b) the space where my studio would have been had crap windows.
c) every single window faced into somebody elses.


D R Y B O N E

i hated it so me being the outspoken lovely lady i am said..

"oh no. no no no."

and he said

"i do have this 1 really weird place....."

and we said

"go on...."

and he was like "each room has a differnt era and it's more expensive than this place..."

and we were like "ok whatever, let's go look"

so we went and had a look and it was A M A Z I N G

but S C A R Y!!!!

It's the place i told you about before... (you know. the haunted one)




but it's ok.

i have to overcome my fear at some point.

I was going to show you the big pictures of it but i don't want to show you with other peoples boring stuff in there.

Anyway i have to go because my computer is about to die and i want to play the wii.

the tank game!!

anybody played that?

it's amazing but i can only get to level 15 everytime. ARGH!

ok bye. x

5 OF MY READERS.

woooowwww

we started with a great 1!

1st up was 28yr old Sean Padilla from Austin Texas who is a singer who makes indie/rock/pop music in a band called 'The cocker spaniels'

Here is the link to the myspace so you can listen to his music..

www.myspace.com/cspaniels

I <3 <3 <3 your music sean!!

Soso & Lola was my fave.

It makes me want to get in an old VW bus and drive barefoot round america with a flower in my hair.

this is him.





:D

this is fun!

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ok number 2 is Ugo Mozie. He is working on a mens clothing line.




I'm not sure if that's an all in 1? But it looks cool. I like adventurous clothes on men.

Here is his blog if you want to check him out!!

http://www.astonmozie.com/

Thanks Ugo & it was nice to randomly meet you that time in New York. :D

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Number 3 is 20 year old James from London.

He's studying graphic design and is also an artist. This is a piece of his art in progress....




it's great! I love the different hair on the mermaids! I have a similar reflected theme in a t-shirt i have coming out!

If you want to see more go to www.stupendoustremendous.blogspot.com

:D

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Number 4 is Tom Lambert and he's from England somewhere (which i figured out from his phone number on his website)

Here my fave bit of work i picked out from his website...




isn't it gorgeous!!

Tom make me a peice of art to hang in my big new apartment in Chicago. I will treasure it til i die!

for more go to.... http://www.tomlambert.me

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anndddd Number 5 is... Desmond! He is 20 years old and from Texas too!

He is a music producer and truly talented. He has 2 tracks on his myspace that sound super professional.

Dear Christina is brilliant!

This is the back of Desmond hard at work!




and here is his myspace...

www.myspace.com/thetracknavigator

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That's all for now!!

I have a big smile on my face!! It's really nice to see who you guys are and how talented you all are! :) :) :)

I will post the the rest bit by bit just like this.

If you want to show your stuff put your info in the comment box of this post...

http://therealkesh.blogspot.com/2009/06/enough-about-me.html

ok bye bye. love you all.

xxxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ENOUGH ABOUT ME....

what have you guys been doing?
what you been working on?

show me!!!

wether it be a project for school or your own business venture, clothing line, hair styling or whatever you are proud of at the moment....

post a comment with your name and details (i.e website, myspace, facebook etc etc)
and a couple images of ur work and i will post it on here.

(there's no need to put your picture as you know how it is around here. How good looking you are doesn't affect your level of talent)

:)

Here lemme give you an example...

*
Hiiiii my name is Archibald, i'm 19 years old and from Berlin.
I'm studying to become an artist and here is a picture i drew last week...

Here is the link...

http://img15.imageshack.us/i/vfacedrawing.jpg/

my myspace has more of my work on it. www.myspace.com/archibaldtheartist

*

another example

*

Wagwan bredrin.
mi name is Chantelle, i'm twenty tree, from jamaica an ya na mi gonna be a air stylist when mi get out ta school.

Ere eez a peecture or de lars air style i did.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/3629768569_14ff96579a_o.jpg

my website is www.airstylesbychantelleyusimmi.com

(sorry to all jamaicans but i love to attempt to type in patwa)

*

Anyway you catch my drift.

I'll post em on my blog over time so make sure you put your right details if people wana check more of your work.

i shall leave you with a pic of a wonderful side eye moment....




ahahaha he is looking at him like "motherfucker you need to stop"

ahahah.

k bye. x


oh p p p p p . s

dnt put links to your myspace as the picture because im not trawling through myspace after myspace, uploading them to imageshack and all that shit. Give me something with a url so it's super easy for me to repost.

ok love you byeee xxxx

FAME

is something i do not want.

I just want to be a respected artist and move through the wind inspiring the creative youths in the generations to come.

Fame is an ugly thing nowadays. You gotta suck a dick or sell your soul.

Don't fall for it. It ain't needed.

Whilst ur young keep a sharp tongue.

It'll help you stand up for yourself.

:)

Here is a collaboration art peice i did with the very talented artist David Burrows when we started our Hennessy project.




this piece is actually HUGE!

Hennessy bottle coming soon :) xxxxxxxx

WRITE ORN.

i don't have much to say today.

Apart from the fact that i am going off twitter.

I have so many thoughts run through my mind every day and to put them out to 5000+ people might just be too far.

I also seem to have no self control and can't just keep them to myself.

I think i will try and delete my twitter in a couple months. Or at least take a break from it.

I'm listening to juliette and the licks

i'm into juliette lewis. she's a fuckin babe.




and to be honest woody harleson would have got it if i wasn't pre pubescent in the 90's.




anyway i'm rambling...

(coughs shuffles papers)

in other news.

i went to chicago yesterday and put money down for an apartment.

i'm having SERIOUS doubts about it.

It's 100 years old.

I REPEAT. . . . . . . ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

it's haunted i tell you. haunted from top to bottom. Its got a bathroom that was designed purely for somebody to take a bath and get murdered in it.

We took a crap pic with dougs iphone but around the side of the wall is a HUGE mirror and stuff.




I'm petrified of mirrors and window reflections at night so we'll see how this all works out.

Look at it. You can picture me with my back to the door takin a shower and pulling open the curtain and...

(or is that just me and my ridiculous imagination)

i have a REALLLLYYYYY over-active imagination and well you know me... my emotions are all over the place.

I saw a ghost in the mirror when i was 13.

She had blonde hair, sharp teeth, was screaming with no sound coming out and standing right behind me.

My parents were never home and i was alone in the house. I froze for what seemed like an eternity then ran to my bed and screamed and screamed and screamed for 7 hours until my mum came back. After that i slept with 1 eye open with my mum until my parents divorced and we left that house.

hands down the worst experience of my whole entire life.

I've got tears in my eyes thinking about it.

If i see another ghost i don't think my heart will be able take and it will probably explode out of my chest and throw itself out of the window. (i'm not even joking)

Anyway so this place is amazing and it has old radiators throughout and a HUGE deck in the back and in the front. Space for me to have a studio and a kitchen the size of the whole wide world (exaggeration ;p)

I dunno. Doug loves it and i'll love it when i'm not alone there (which will be all the damn time) So fingers crossed that it's not haunted and all the people that have died there fucked off somewhere else to chillout and do dead people stuff.

Although i'll tell you what is fuckin scary. The basement. It doesn't belong to us. It belongs the landlord who will be moving into the apartment below (nobody has seen him yet........) anyway they showed us the basement because its next to the garage and it's about 3000sqft of fuckery.

plain pure fuckery.

I was like :|

that was my face. :|

the WHOLE time he showed it to us i was like :|

no.

in fact i was like 8|

my eyes were all wide and shit.

so as i was saying... 3000sqft of fuckery. 1 dark badly lit entrance with a flickering light and a bunch of rooms filled with old dusty pictures of people that looked like they lived there 100 years ago and stray shoes and 70's gym equipment and sinks and tables and just STUFF. (sounds kinda cute and like a antiques store right?) WRONG. right at the back there is a little staircase that leads to the landlords home and a door that looked so scary we didnt even approach it.

I just gave it the eyeball and ran out.

So i vowed i will NEVER EVER go down to the garage and i when learn to drive i will put my car in the street. I would rather shovel 60 inches of snow of my car everyday than ever go down there again.

All in all our apartment is VERY beautiful and a lot nicer than the other shit we saw. Once we give it our special touch you know it's gonna be ill.

OMG i can't believe i just typed so much!! I was pretty sure i didn't have shit to say.

Anyway let's hope we get approved and everything goes smoothly. I'll show you pictures of the whole thing when we move in.

I'm going now i want to watch some HGTV or maybe a bit of CSI.

You know i love a good episode of CSI.

ok love you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

GASP

I STILL EXSIST!!!!

i completely forgot about my blog for a while and knew there was something i was meant to be doing when i was coming online.

a pretty weird thing to forget right?

My mum came to see me from Trinidad. She spent 6 days and then headed back to england.
It was pleasant and went very quickly.

We've been looking for apartments in Chicago and found the dream one online yesterday. We called to ask about it today and it was gone :( :( :(

Fingers crossed we find the right 1 with enough space for everything we need.

sighhhhh.

hmm what else.

i dunno. i been working on these 2 new t-shirts and i absolutely LOVE THEMMM.

nothing like the crazy/loud t-shirts like i did before. (which i worked very hard on and am still proud of)

But these are something to symbolize my growth into an adult but that still shows that my creative side and random thoughts and obsessions.

Let's hope it's something you are into :)

i havent got any pics to show. I have only been using film cameras and havent got anything developed yet.

Got a new cam to add to the collection. Dougs mum just gave us her old camera from back in the day which is in pristine condition...

wait lemme go get it to take a pic....




isn't she loooveeellyyy... isn't she beaauutiiifulll.

i hope the pics come out nice. we'll see. I'll make sure to show you.

I bought some new shoes too.

i bought about 4 pairs of new shoes but these 1s are my fave..




I don't know why i insist on buying new heels. I hardly wear them.

in fact the last time i wore high heels i fell over remember...

did i even tell you bout that? i'm sure i did.

new sunglasses too. I hardly wear sunglasses but these were ralph lauren mirrored teacher frames for cheap at a tj maxx so i kinda had to get em.




(you know i don't really wear brands but i have always been a fan of ralph coz my dad rocked him!)

((my eyebrows look like caterpillars. <3's it!!))

In 10 days time i will be in Atlanta hosting this...




and then spending a few weeks there. We planned to roadtrip most of the summer stopping in Portland, LA, Houston, Tennesee and some other spots but decided not to.

Just gonna move to Chicago in July.

I'm just too excited to get into my own settled space and knuckle down and make you remember why you follow my blog in the 1st place!

I have so many ideas pouring out of my head i just neeeedddd to start doing it all. But i'm very particular about where i do my work and have a small case of the OCD when it comes to preparing my work space.

I just wrote out all my requirements before i can start working and then deleted them because it just makes me realize i have a problem. I just typed out a list of 20 things!!!! :O

ok so what else.

that's it i think....

oh yeh kitty is turning is 6 months old and is a total bitch. If she keeps actin up she's gonna get knocked out...




nah just kidding i fuckin love her.

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying this emotionally challenged summer.

kisses xxxxxxxxx

OHHHHH AND A BIG HUGE P.S

i'm not getting locks anymore. I bumped into 2 ladies in TJ MAXX with locks who were commenting on my "beautiful hair" and they told me that its going to be superrr hard for me to do it because my hair is so soft and it would be a lot of effort. and i told you i wanted locks for the NO EFFORT.

mi nah wan nah ard 2 andle air.
(i don't want hard to handle hair)

ok that's all bye xxxx

GOOD NEWS!!!

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

(does little dance on the carpet)

I just got off the phone with the lovely Hennessy people in Paris and David in London (all in a 4 way phone call) and they told us some great great news!!

Remember the Hennessy bottle that David and i worked so hard on?

It was only going to be released in the European market to see if it kicked off well as Hennessy have never had an artist bottle designed and sold in stores.




Welllllll....

they showed it to the American buyers and they like it!!!




In fact they just doubled their order and just ordered 50'000 bottles. :O

and more good news...

Australia loved it too and they just bought a tonne!!!




and

MOOOREE GOODDDD NEWSS!!!

JAPAN LOVE IT TOO!!!!




YAYYYYYYY. it's a success so far. Let's hope the success continues!!!

fingers crossed :)

ok i'm really sleepy. i woke up at 4:30am with a good idea and then had to type it out on e-mail to make sure i didn't forget. I couldn't sleep after that because i was pondering on it for a few hours. Next thing it was 9am and i had the phone meeting at 10am. yawwwnnn.... (stretch)

Ok i'm off. Gonna have a cat nap. (meow)

oh, and if you are wondering what those pics were about i just googled european people, american people, australian people and japanese people and picked the best pic on the 1st page of google so dnt please dnt get offended.

p.s america blame google because the dog pic was the best 1 that showed up on the 1st page! :/

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

xxxxxxxxxx

TIME TO LOCK IN.

i dnt know if i have a problem & won't rest until all my hir is gone but.....

i'm gonna put my hair into locks..........

i am so fed up of my curly hair. You think you can do a lot with it.

And to be fair YOU probably can.

But i cannot. I JUST CANNOOTTT!!!!

I do no have the patience or desire to spend an hour a day on my hair.

So i'm gonna put it into locks and hope for the best.

I started it today ..




It just looks curly at the moment but it will start to matt soon as my hair takes about 2 days to knot up.

I think i might have to go to a hair shop and put a lock wig near my face and see if this really is a good idea. I dnt have 1 of those pretty lisa bonet faces so i'm not sure if it will be a good look.

hummm

ok well that's all.

I don't know why i'm posting ao much about my hair all of a sudden.

ta ta xxx

LONG HAIR? DON'T CARE.

it had to be done.

you know me...

i get bored quickly so 1 day i thought hmm. should i cut my hair?

i asked twitter and 90% of people said no.

I don't know why i asked i was gonna do it anyway.

So i asked Doug to get the scissors and we began.

Here is me and my crows nest before the cut..



(don't you just love my seaworld t-shirt)

we just cut the back off and shaped it up.
To be honest it feels no different seeing as i was wearing my hair up ALL THE TIME anyway.

Let me find a pic of me with my hair down so you know the level of crows nest it was at...



CODE RED!! CODE RED!! LEVEL 10 CROWS NEST!!!!!

anyway once it was off i felt happy. real happy.

of course kitty had to get involved somehow...



she kept trying to play with the cut hair!! gross.

anyway here's the final product.





anyway it's gone so let's not cry over dry hair.

oh and look!! i found a baby crow living in there...



yayyyyyyyyyyyy.

anyway i'm going i'm tryna learn spanish with those rosetta stone computer programme thingys.

later xx

HMMMMMMMMM

i dont know what to tell you.

i have written out a post 3 times to fill this space and deleted it because it's just stuff that is completely irrelevant. And not in a kesh irrelevant waffling on type of way. But just like hmm i'm just typing this to fill the space in my blog.

So i deleted them all because like i said before i don't just write shit to write shit.

I'm sitting here in this city called farmington hills.

It's in Michigan and i've been spending an amount of time in detroit too.

But let me tell you.

This place is strange.

On 1 side of the road is detroit where the streets are full of potholes and the grass is kinda yellow and there are shutters drawn on almost every shop on the streets.

On the other side of the road is farmington hills where the grass is green, the cars are fancy and the people are 90% white and pretty much all RICH.

I have been here 21 days and in farmington hills i have seen 3 black people. THREE.

People are scared of me and doug round here in farmington...

like actually scared.

It's something i'm not familiar with as although the town i grew up in was VERY racist. Practically nobody from there has manners or class. So it's very in your face shouting and spitting instead of women clutching their handbags and running to their cars in terror.

I don't hate it though. I don't blame them either. Usually when children are brought up by ignorant narrow minded people in a ignorant narrow minded neighbourhood they usually grow up to be ignorant and .... you guessed it!! narrow minded.

So i just sit back and watch like it's an episode of planet earth or documentary on under-devoloped societies and wonder in what year will racism be completely gone in this world. I predict the world will probably end before this happens.

Anyway i am sitting here trying to edit my project for WAD magazine.

I just ate a shitload of shrimp and cod and coleslaw and chips (fries) and bread and now i am ready to explode.

I weigh 144lbs. I weighed myself today for the 1st time since i was maybe 12. I think that might be overweight. I tried to work it out online but theres no answer apparently its all about bodyfat and all that jazz. I Dunno. I'm 5'9. (yes very tall)
but i think maybe 144lbs is a bit big....

hmmmm (strokes chin and looks to the sky)

well anyway that was irrelevant information but still thought i would share.

what else...

OH YES!!! i cut my hair.

i was bored. i was growing my sides out but it was that uglyyy mid length and the curls were looking like ocean waves on the side of my head. (and not the cool missy elliot style, the weird akward angle tough curl way)

I've decided since my last visit to the hairdressers that i hate them all and they have no idea what they are doing...

So i asked doug to do it....




he did a great job but it's not finished. I will show you the final product in a couple of days.

i bought a mood ring today.




It's my new favourite thing in the whole wide world. (cue all fashion houses to release trendy mood rings) I used to have so many when i was a kid. I had an amazing one i wore everyday and ten i lost it when i went to visit family in malaysia. I used to wear it with my floor length 2 tone velvet dress and blossom hats.

Speaking of blossom hats....




I found that little number in a thrift store in NYC. I was exactly like the one i had when i was about 9 so i had to buy it. It was the same day i bought the most ULTIMATE HAT...


(deep voice booms) "UUULLLTTIMMMAAATTEEE HAAATTTTT"




:O

like omg. It was $10 and i love it. I wear it occasionally but now i have the new haircut maybe i won't roll with a hat for a little while. agh i dunno. It is pretty amazing.

I love random ethnic hats. Remember the chinese fishing one from before. yeh u remember.

p.s i got black!! I laid out in the sun this morning for 26 minutes and i went from light brown to superbrown. I tried to put my makeup on and it was too light for my face!

Hmmmmmmm what else.

nothing really. I have to finish up this project so i can send it off 2moro. I hope they like it. I hope you like it too.

i will leave you with pictures of the traditional mongolian hat.










it's something i truly desire. If it fell into my hands it would be to my great joy to add it to my budding collection of traditional ethnic hats.

I WANNNNTTT ONEEE!!!! (screams and throws self on floor)

i would be in heaven if i found one.

see...




HEAVEN I TELL YOU! ooh it looks good.

Ok really i have to go now. Also must look up cheap flights to mongolia.

Goodnight all xxxxxxxxxxxx

NOT READY.

i'm about 10 mins from jumping in the car and heading to chicago.
We're going to view this amazing loft space 2moro morning.
We're also going to meet out friends Daniela and Tommie




and go party in the Modern wing of the art institute of chicago. The dresscode says modern cocktail attire and i have nothing to wear. We'll see what i come up with eh!

hmm what else.

Oh yeh we got kitty a new litter tray which she loves and we took bella to the dog groomer to get her nails cut and she got thrown out for being a big fat diva.

I don't have any pics to show you this time.

ooh apart from where i am living at the mo...




SURBBUURRRBBBIIIAAA

michigan is super duper chill.

It's a wonderful cleansing process. Anyway i gotta go i'm still in my damn towel and i am NOT READY!! xx

PAUSE PICS.

Here are some more pics from the shoot we did at my house.









styled by contessa and i.
photographed and edited by me.

good times.
feels good to know that i am developing my skills.

I'll let you know when these items and the rest are up for auction.

Anyway i'm going to bed.

p.s listening to the news and i think it's ridiculous that 12'000 solidiers have been discharged from the US army because they are gay.

I'm disgusted.

completely off-topic but it's something i had to mention!!

FUCK NO.

If you are gonna steal my photographs AND cut out my watermark then it's probably not a good idea to be my friend on facebook.....

Imagine you take a picture of a memorable moment in your life.
upload the picture.
resize the picture.
crop the picture.
edit lighting on the picture.
put you name on the picture to ensure nobody steals it.

and then see this....




as somebodys main picture on their facebook and accepting compliments for the picture in the comments section.

It's kinda fuckin upsetting.

(ORIGINAL PICTURE WITH HUGE ASS WATERMARK)



i will call you out and put your name on my blog for a few thousand ppl to see.

I know most of you who read this blog are original and creative and wouldn't do shit like this.

If i could sue people for the amount of times i've had images stolen i would be so paid my shoes would be made out of solid gold. Damn i could even buy you a pair or 2.

Oh yeh AND i forgot to tell you.

A multimillion $ brand had their whole 2010 collection inspired by ...

guess....

ME.

THE WHOLE WOMENS SPRING/SUMMER + AUTUMN/WINTER COLLECTION.

Their walls are covered from top to bottom in pictures of me.

and guess how much i got paid for it???

NOTHING.

i found out from a friend who stopped by to pick up some stuff from the head offices.

what the fuck is goin on?

mindboggling i tell you.

is it worth killing myself over. no.

They can attempt to take my "style" but it's something that cannot be recreated.

eat shit big uninspiring brands.

R A N T O V E R.

PAUSE.

ok.
i failed.
i failed to meet my deadline for the online vintage store.
and then a bunch of shit got in the way.
then i started thinkin.
i'm on the road all summer..
what sense is it to release the 1st set of vintage clothing then go travel and set up soewhere else.

It just makes NO SENSE.

so i'm postponing the store until i set up in Chicago, get some assistants and can actually do this without bursting a vein in my forehead tryna do all this shit on my own.

Sigh. I'm one of those people that start 100 things and never get it done. It sucks because i'm so excited about it and blabbing away to you guys and then something else comes up and then i forget about it!!

But this something else might be something you're interested in.

I'm PLANNING to release a new t-shirt.

Notice how i said PLANNING.

i say PLANNING because i'm bang in the middle of Michigan with no contacts or resources as to getting my samples and product. In fact i've never produced any tees over here in the U S OF A.

So i've started the design and it's looking good so far. These are realllyyy different to the tees i used to produce. As you have probably noticed my style has changed and i've grown up a lot. So this is something different. We'll just have to wait and see if you like it!

Anyway i am starving i haven't eaten anything today out of pure laziness so now i shall go and raid the cupboards and find some tastiness to devour whilst brainstorming the second t-shirt.

I'll leave you to look at some of the final pics from the shoot we did for the online store. All these items will still be the 1st to be sold when the store is launched.

well fucking hell. my computer is being an absolute piece of shit and not letting me do what i want. photoshop is giving me intense wheel of pain and making me throw myself on the bed in a 'everything is the worst' teenage manner.

Anyway i managed to do 1. I'll post the rest as soon as my computer switches off cunty mode and gets its shit together.



:D

THE LAST MOMENTS OF NYC. PART 2.

OH HAIII.

ok here are the second batch of pics from the last moments in NEW YAWK CITTAYYY.

Not sure how many are left but it was just all too much to post at once.

with antwan doing the mirror thing. I was chanelling old kesh that day. Thats how i used to dress when i was in college before i took the shortlived run of 80's hotmess.



TAXXIIIII



chin up.



that slut kitty has a shoe fetish!!



rode to the park to meet antwan and his friends.



rode to the waterfront to watch the sunset. we weren't the only one with the right idea...



definately worth the wait.



hung out with grace before she went back to London. She left her phone in a cab just as we arrived to some bashment club so we said "fuck the club" and sat outside for about 2 hours waiting for the cabbie to come back from deeeep Brooklyn. Good times. I <3 grace.



cosondra came over to see the place and meet kitty and they got along swimmingly. Kitty even agreed to loan coso her tail as a comedy moustache. hoo haha.



i dunno i'm pretty obsessed with repeated mirror images. when i catch em i gotta post em.



the greatness that was the new york loft with lame sign, american flag, wall of frames all in 1 shot. and also me naked. sigh. I'm never clothed when i'm alone or asleep. But you've all seen me pretty much naked in the semi naked shoot from a while ago.




(censored my tittays they were a bit out)

with chuck and roxy at the camron party



we had so much fun i was dancing the night awaaayyyyyyyy. They played soulja boy - turn my swag on 4 times! wtf.




good times :D



my music video....



heheh

john came over to help us pack and just ended up having sexual intercourse with his hot bitch girlfriend... aka bella.



Honor also came to help but he fell asleep after we fed him hotdogs.



but luckily we had mel and adam to help us. I dnt have any pics of those 2 because they were at the truck most of the time.

Anyway thats all i have from the last days of nyc.

Turns out i will be back there in June to meet my mum.

My cousins got a wedding in Trinidad so my mum is gonna stop through NYC on the way home. yayy. i miss her i haven't seen her since last year sometime.

Anyway i better get going. I have to write this huge proposal for this idea i had in the car.

I ate chipotle 2night.

Was delicious.

OK goodnight.

love you all.

p.s hope you are all doing great and following your dreams! xxxxxxx