Katy Perry "Part Of Me" Teaser

Not too much to get excited for is there? They needed to have at least a 5 second snippet of the song - atmospheric sounds just don't do it for me.

I am interested to see the narrative behind this video but I'll be angry if it's a regular length because there is no point in releasing a teaser (hello David Guetta and Nicki Minaj re: "Turn Me On") if it's going to be more riveting than the actual clip.

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What am I?

I am tired, have a 5 o'clock shadow, smell of all kinds of bad and just watched a dildo being made.

I am a Jason Richards.

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The Royal Family "Polyswagg Lesson 2"

It's times like these I wish I were a cat. Eight more lives would be pretty good right now because the Royal Family just killed me. There's something about this clip that's much more intoxicating and engaging than any we've seen before.

Choreographed by Parris (of course!) and with the help of Laurence and Lance, this video allows everyone to have their shining moment and is particularly strong during the first and second plays of the chorus. I enjoy watching the Miss Thang attitudes come out of Kiel and Paul. And as always, the end sequence leaves me craving more. There was only a two week gap between this release and their last so here's hoping we won't be waiting too long!

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Boy & book on bus

Excuse my bus voyeurism but I just had to capture this moment! 

I was boarding the bus to work and behind me was just ya ordinary laidback, westie bloke in the standard hoody, dickies and (probably) Etnies skate shoes get up. He sits down and whips something out of his pocket. At first glance I thought it was a woodstock, but it was actually a novel that he read for the entire 40 minute ride!

Is it just me or is this a very rare occurrence? Curse my prejudice eye (even though my analyzations are normally correct) but it was just really nice to see. So let's revisit the old cliche saying "don't judge a book by it's cover".

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Miu Miu

I love myself a full body print! It's such a painfully pleasing eye sore to see a pattern applied to an entire look. To avoid further blinding us and turning this 70's chicness into a complete clashing crime scene, the makeup is kept minimal and the hair effortlessly sits behind the shoulder. I'm still not sold on the pimpin' shoes. View the rest here.

 

Miu Miu  /  Ready To Wear  /  Fall Winter 2012  /  Paris

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Tsumori Chisato

Ahhh can Fashion Week not happen so quickly? With school work, job work and boyfriend work, how's a girl supposed to keep up to date?!

What an amazSKIing collection - there's a top with fucking gondola's on it! That's all I used to do when I went to the snow. Up and down and up and down. I like that not every look has to have such an obvious connection to the skiing theme though as you can see through her use of retro colours and subtle transparencies (like on the stockings, it's a snowy mountain!). View the rest here.

Tsumori Chisato  /  Ready To Wear  /  Fall Winter 2012  /  Paris

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Nude Drawings

Lifeless objects like pots and vases are just so boring so I've never really liked objectively drawing until now. I'm really enjoying having nude models! I haven't laughed or cracked a woody once! No, but seriously I think you begin to see them purely as shapes and tones and it's not until you pull your pencil off the paper that you're like "Oh, I've just drawn a naked person" and you head off to the bathroom for a quick break. ;)

Apologies for the crappy quality and crinkled paper but here are some of my works from the past two classes where we've been focusing on tone and light. The three drawings of the guy below were done in pencil, the first in an hour time frame, the second in five mins and the last in ten mins.

This willow charcoal and white chalk drawing was achieved by concentrating only on the highlights and dark shadow areas. It's really quite hard to put together an image when you can't sketch the outlines of the figure. You'll notice some of my proportions are way out (hello arms!) but it's definately an interesting way to build up a drawing.

I'm really happy with the outcome of these two. It's amazing how little you can sketch and yet still be able to make out the picture. These were both completed in ten min time frames, again with willow charcoal and white chalk.

I feel bad for making the model look a little heavier than she really is and for giving her a munted right hand but I tried my best in the hour and a half we were given. I work better in the quick sketch exercises because I'm more free.

Yeah, so, if anyone wants to be my Rose, I'll happily play Jack and draw you nudie.

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