tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51381084037595471592024-03-05T01:26:25.737-06:00ventricular projectsVentricular Projects is an Austin-based independent curatorial, design, and publishing collective started by Tricia Gilbride and Caroline Knowles with the goal of publishing on a small-scale the collaborative work of young writers, artists, photographers and illustrators.
We always welcome collaboration and new project ideas. Please contact us if you're interested in working with Ventricular Projects.Tilde Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494393294712274052noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-39495809532211390632012-11-12T18:46:00.001-06:002012-11-12T18:46:42.699-06:00R.I.P. ventricular projects...HELLO FANGIRL!<b id="internal-source-marker_0.3131265388801694" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello! </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a while now, we've been hinting about changes around here and doing a lot of behind the scenes plotting, and now we’re ready to share our new venture - <i><a href="http://blog.fan-girl.us/">Fangirl</a>. </i> </span><br /><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The past couple years of blogging and working on creative projects together, Carly and I been figuring out where we want to take this. Opening a store has always been a far-off dream. Making things ourselves, of course. Supporting and collaborating with people whose work we enjoy, definitely. Writing more about my pop culture feelings (for me - sorry, world...but I use the internet as my diary and most of my emotions come from listening to pop songs). Working with our local creative community. More girl power<i> always and forever</i>! With that in mind, we’re launching Fangirl - a <a href="http://blog.fan-girl.us/">blog</a> and webshop. </span></b></span><br />
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</i></span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Generally speaking, I’m bad at playing it cool. Sometimes I try, though, like when I’m talking to people who I think are beautiful and talented and stylish, but it never lasts, which is a good thing because I’m sure I’m terrible to talk to when I’m trying to impress you. Using the word “fangirl” in these types of conversations is </span></b><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">particularly good at shifting the mood to a place I’m comfortable - unrestricted enthusiasm. It's like a secret code to let people know that it's </span><i>okay</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> to gush about your favorite things. </span></span></span><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fangirl is a corner of the internet carved out for a little old fashioned appreciation in the digital age. Our focus is primarily on emerging talent and D.I.Y. spirit, but anything’s fair game for inspiration. We'll be launching the webshop in a couple weeks with a few pieces by super cool girls and constantly expanding to stocking a diverse collection of affordable items perfect for gifting and treating yourself alike. We also hope to get more involved with the local creative community and plan events like pop up shops and workshops. </span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We hope you all continue to follow us on the internet and are just as excited about our newest venture as we are. Thank you to all who have supported us along the way and who will continue to be fangirls with us in the future! </span></b></span><br />
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There are actually very few photos of Carly and I together, so I'm glad that this one exists.</div>
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I got a zine & sticker pack from <a href="http://www.gracemiceli.bigcartel.com/">Grace Miceli</a> ages ago, and I had high expectations for fun, but I was still impressed by the sheer volume of zines (The Official Digital Valley Girl Coloring Book, We Would Be Sisters, and Hey Net Girl Hey), stickers, and temporary tats that she stuffed into that 5 x 7 envelope. <br />
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I used to have one of her Pawnee Goddesses stickers that had been a gift from Caroline, but I put it on my car and that car was totaled. I was sad about the whole thing...you know, being in a scary situation that resulted in months of inconvenience and pain, but also losing the sticker, so I when I placed my order, I requested Miss Knope as one of my stickers if it were at all possible. She was all out, but included a Pawnee Goddess print which was super nice of her and totally unnecessary But I guess us glorious female warriors have gotta look out for each other!<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/109165401/cat-zine-cat-haikus-and-art-and-stuff">Cat Haikus and Art and Stuff</a> is a zine my friend Melissa recently put together that is, of course, exactly what is advertised by the title. It features an illustration based on one of my photos and some pretty excellent cat Tweet screenshots. I proposed that we put together an entire zine of Tweets about cats, so look out for that if I ever decide that doing something I would enjoy and could accomplish easily would be better than not doing anything. You can check it out Melissa's <a href="http://acatinthewindow.wordpress.com/">cat blog</a> and <a href="http://acatinthewindow.etsy.com/">Etsy shop</a>, both called A Cat in the Window. <br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SadGirls">Sad Girls Issue 1</a>, which features work by some <a href="http://sad-girls.com/zinegirls">pretty cool contributors</a> , is available now! I've been looking forward to it ever since <a href="http://leahgoren.com/">Leah</a> let me check out a PDF of the zine when I stopped by her apartment a couple months ago <a href="http://www.ventricularprojects.com/2012/07/summertime-sadness.html">on my fittingly sad vacation</a>, but I didn't give it a proper look through because I thought it would be really antisocial to just show up and hang out on her computer. The physical copy is super nice and its coffee table presence has already (really unexpectedly) led to my favorite kind of argument (basically the only kind I'm ever in) where everyone's a little drunk and talking over each other and I'm just sitting on the couch laughing really hard.<br />
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Sad Girls and some other fun Leah Goren things! It is just a fact that zine girls are nice and want to give you stickers. I'm especially into the compact mirror with a girl putting on makeup. </div>
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<a href="http://yelenabryksenkova.com/">Yelena Bryksenkova</a>'s work in Sad Girls and a stack of other zines I dig. I don't think Megan McIsaac's Excerpts from 2011 is still available, but I'm just gonna take a second to say that she's still killin' it, so go look at <a href="http://meganmcisaac.tumblr.com/">her photos</a>. </div>
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And, finally, a little throwback to my zinester beginnings! I initially got into zines when I was in jr high and posted on message boards about punk rock. I loved reading scans from old fanzines and eventually that led to exchanging personal art zines with like minded individuals, one of which I came across recently. <br />
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I never made a fanzine myself, just a lot of featuring my photography and creative writing, and I'm starting to think that maybe since I've been into all this for a decade now, it's about time, but who will the lucky subject be?Triciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01828942664513390553noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-729992739420655112012-09-28T16:15:00.001-05:002012-09-28T16:15:45.327-05:00telluride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The town itself is supercute. They don't allow franchises, so it's all local businesses and there were plenty of fresh flowers everywhere. I set up a bit of a residency at a coffee shop that generously rewards patrons with free pastries and refills, because life requires caffeine and family visits require a safe space to duck off to. </div>
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I have long maintained that being on mountains with dogs is an important activity to participate in as frequently as possible, and I've gotta say, I had some of the best dog/mountain time of my life on this trip. You can't tell here, but I was actually very high up a few feet away from a pretty intense drop, so if Loki had decided to misbehave, he could have sent me flying off a cliff as he is much stronger than I am. It was cool, though - we just played! Good dog.</div>
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Easter egg snake prints! Psychedelic florals! Neon pom-pom looking things! Sure to be called "country club on acid" by many lazy people, but certain other lazy people might just predict what the first set of lazy people would say. </div>
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Here's something about me that you might not know but hopefully will not be surprised to learn: I<i> hate hate hate</i> Renaissance Faires. There is nothing redeeming about them; they are simply the worst. I got coaxed into going to one last year, though, after I worked on a dress for a Ren Faire production that cost upwards of $1000 and kind of wanted to see it in action. "It will be fun!" they said. It was <i>not</i> fun. I showed up at about 11AM and quickly started drinking so I could be drunk for as much of it as possible before sobering up to drive home early in the evening and ended up spending all those hours not doing much of anything because everything was really expensive and wouldn't have even been worth doing it it had been free. At about 5PM, I was sober and more than ready to head home, only to find out that I couldn't leave until after the Faire was closed for the day because I had taken advantage of the free staff parking and my car was locked in. I was escorted to the camping area to wait it out, and a bunch of gross dudes kissed my hand when they introduced themselves (get it? chivalry?) and then I had to listen to them talk about how potential employers expecting them to have professional-looking haircuts is "sexist."<br />
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I had not heard of Marques Almeida, but checked it out on a tip from my girl <a href="http://ripped-knees.blogspot.com/">Ana</a>, who knows about these things. It's sort of easy to glance over it quickly and notice how much it has in common with the Acne collection (flowing lavender and white, chunky 90s sandals, etc.) but I get different vibes from the collections. Marques Almeida is more "Fuck this! I'm going to the beach!" and Acne is more "Fuck this! You don't know my life!"<br />
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<a href="http://stayhomeclub.com/">Stay Home Club</a> (the brainchild of illustrator <a href="http://www.oliviamew.com/">Olivia Mew</a>) recently launched to brighten the spaces we should probably never ever leave because the world outside is terrifying. The shop is currently stocked with pillowcases featuring the work of some of our faves and plans to expand to include a greater range of limited run textile-based home goods created in collaboration with supercool artists. <i>As if we needed convincing to avoid getting out of bed!</i></div>
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Photographer Brigette Bloom recently put together a small book of her photos, which you can find out more information about <a href="http://brigettebloom.tumblr.com/post/28998249858/i-made-a-small-batch-of-books-to-sell-softcover">here</a>. To order a copy, just donate what you can via PayPal and you'll get sixty pages full of fields, forests, mountains, beaches, plenty of cute dogs, and the occasional human (most often in combination with the aforementioned elements.) You know, the good stuff.</div>
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After a lot of excitement and truly appreciated face-to-face time with people I love, I'm beyond thrilled to be hunkered down for a bit devoted to semi-solitary pursuits. This includes finally focusing on my writing for the first time too long and going at it for real this time. Though I'm currently catching up on a few things I've already promised to people, I will be looking for more more more to do very soon, so if any lovely readers want to point me in the direction of people/publications to pitch to, it would be much appreciated! FULL SPEED AHEAD ON MY DREAMS</div>
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Obviously, Ursa Minor is the best name for anything, and so I'm quite happy that <a href="http://ursaminorstudio.com/">Elizabeth Hudson's clothing and accessories line</a> is so good and full of the other things I'm super into when I'm not too busy loving bears and space. These shots for Fall/Winter by <a href="http://patternclash.com/">Francesca Tallone</a> capture the perfect dark-meets-light, dreamy, and unfussy thing that I'm always going for and never achieving quite this well.</div>
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Vivian Girls is one of those bands I'll always have a certain affection for, and so it's pretty cool that they all have side projects and that their ex-members (like Frankie Rose!) do cool things too. Earlier this year, bassist Katy Goodman released her second record as La Sera entitled <i>Sees the Light</i>, which was the perfect happysad break up album. Cassie Ramone's band with Woods' Kevin Morby, the Babies, will release <i>Our House on the Hill</i> later this year and I'm looking forward to it. I think the Vivian Girls charm for me, personally, is that they always seem to provide something I need at the time. Like, right now I'm inching towards the end of summer and it's still too hot and I'm just over it and tired and I don't really want to talk to anyone about anything. These bands are perfect for indulging my angst without getting too deep into it. </div>
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Despite compelling evidence to the contrary, I find it pretty hard to actually care about celebrities. Gossip's entertaining and all, but I typically don't feel any sense of personal investment. Now and again, though, I do get fixated on certain people who I will almost definitely never meet, and right now I have it bad for Aubrey Plaza.<br />
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My sister got a kitten recently and, though all kittens are wonderful, this one is especially great, I think. The day I met her, she spent a full hour napping in my lap and, though I was exhausted myself, the thought of closing my eyes and missing a single second of her cuteness didn't quite seem worth it.</div>
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Earlier this month, I snuck away to visit Boston & New York for the first time since moving back to Texas <span style="background-color: white;">for a much needed visit with everyone I've been missing too much. I feel like to adequately describe how important it was to me would inevitably end up in mega cheesball territory, so I'll just say this - nothing quite like staying up 'til dawn with people who know and love you right down to your rotten core to peel a few layers of cynicism right off of you!</span></div>
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I also got to spend time with folks I don't know nearly well enough and meet a slew of good new ones! However, one downside of going above and beyond my normal level of social interaction was that I went through spells of complete brain death. To the lovely people who I could only respond to with blank stares and jumbled thoughts that sounded bad in my head and worse when said aloud, my apologies. Here's to a next time if you'll have me?</div>
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Pam and <a href="http://daysofdane.com/">Dana</a> slurpin' slurpees. Dana is one of those people who I had only met once before moving, but became tight with after we lived very far away from each other and now I feel very comfortable reaching out to her if I need fashion advice or someone to text about my feelings (important things.)<span style="background-color: white;"> Getting to bring our friendship's newfound slumber party vibes to real life was a treat! </span></div>
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Finally, a person I am not friends with being angsty without my explicit direction! The last night of my trip, Noelle, Alanna, and I saw Dirty Beaches & Ice Age and it was excellent and the events that followed turned into quite the send off. Noelle and I initially met when she recognized me from the internet at a Best Coast show, which I maintain is the most hilarious and stereotypically me way I have ever met any of my friends. She became one of my very favorite people quite quickly and music has been a big part of that, so going to a show together again was exactly what my nostalgic heart needed.</div>
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<br />carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05158631737816647011noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-60217439316376660672012-07-10T20:31:00.000-05:002012-07-10T20:31:18.967-05:00SHELVES!What is it about being in your mid-twenties that suddenly makes organization and shelving units so appealing? I'll be moving into a new apartment next month with limited kitchen storage and have been obsessing over shelving possibilities. After seeing how expensive ~rustic shelves are over at West Elm (see below), I've decided to take on the task of making them myself! All I need is a drill and some wood. I CAN DO THIS! And do not fear - there will be pictures and a tutorial: "Shelves - How to overcomplicate what should be simple"<br />
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<br />carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05158631737816647011noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-5822168345167831532012-07-02T19:30:00.000-05:002012-08-25T04:56:51.104-05:00goodbye, girls<br />
People who know me well are aware that I'm a big advocate of bands breaking up at a point in their careers when it still hurts to lose them. And dammit, you've done it to me, Girls. <br />
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Frontman Christoper Owens announced this morning that he was leaving Girls, and anyone who's a fan knows that he <i>is</i> Girls, so the band is effectively over. To me, he's intriguing because of the seemingly opposing qualities he possesses - he's damaged but pure, flamboyant but humble, universally appealing in his isolation. Earlier this year, he posted sixty pictures from his trip to a cactarium to his Twitter account in rapid succession, which I thought was a very Kanye West thing to do but knew it was not done for Kanye West reasons. That's what I love about Christopher Owens...his sincerity and passion; I don't think they are something that he should ever compromise, and I hope this decision is one he made to hold onto what's great about him. <br />
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I can't be too sad about the breakup, though. After all, I've been lucky enough to see them a few times at various points in their career; as the opening act yet to release their record in a dirty club where I tried (and failed miserably) to explain to those around me why they were special before they took the stage, playing an acoustic set in a record store full of enthusiastic kids, and, most recently, at a festival performing on a flower-filled staged to god knows how many onlookers. One girl in the front row was trying desperately to get his attention and let out quite the shriek when he finally, sheepishly waved back. At one point, I had to shift positions because the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne was standing in front of me blocking my view with his signature salt and pepper curls. It's nice that I always saw the rise and never the fall, you know?<br />
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Anyway, here are some pictures that I really love of the band taken by <a href="http://lovebryan.com/sandy/">Sandy Kim</a> in 2008 to remember these two together by. <br />
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<br />carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05158631737816647011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-66905292000926900202012-06-26T19:46:00.000-05:002012-06-26T19:46:10.687-05:00little snippets!After going back through our blog over the past few weeks, I realized I haven't updated in forever. I blame my hectic schedule over the past few months and general apathy with just about everything - working 60+ hours a week and having two jobs will do that to you! Luckily, I just started a *new* job about 3 weeks ago that I already love. Never say never but I never want to have to work retail again, I honestly felt like my soul was being sucked out of me every morning I had to wake up at 4 am (did I mention that before? 4 AM!) and then spend the day being nice to strangers even though it's the last thing I felt like doing. I'm not allowed to go into too many specifics about my new job (they told me I wasn't allowed to! Specifically "don't take pictures in your office and post them on Facebook. Just don't mention ANYTHING on Facebook") but it's definitely a more ~adventurous office job with benefits and PTO. Finally a grown up job!<br />
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Basically what all this rambling means is that I will now have time to start blogging again! Tricia and I already have a few ideas for new paper-based projects and blog features.<br />
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In the mean time, here's a few photos from my <i><a href="http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/user/4287641/">Instagram</a></i>. Sorry not sorry they're all mostly cats.<br />
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Super casual office attire - beige cardigan, J.Crew chambray puff sleeve top and a necklace I made during my jewelry making phase</div>
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<br />carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05158631737816647011noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-3403476462101657112012-06-25T11:59:00.001-05:002012-07-30T00:20:32.890-05:00myth & symbol previewNot trying to insult the intelligence of any readers here, but I feel the need to remind you Texas is really big. So big that I'm not even close to seeing a fraction of everything worth seeing here despite having spent most of my life living here. With that in mind, I figured it's long overdue for us to start featuring nice <span style="font-family: inherit;">places for local readers to check out and maybe even tempt out-of-staters to visit if we do a good enough job! Texas love forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">First up is a preview of </span><a href="http://mythandsymbol.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">Myth & Symbol</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, a shop which will be opening very soon in Houston and stocking clothing and </span>accessories<span style="font-family: inherit;"> from emerging designers such as <a href="http://www.feralchilde.com/">Feral Childe</a>, <a href="http://uzinyc.com/">Uzi</a>, and <a href="http://www.dusendusen.com/">Dusen Dusen</a> as well as printed, home, and beauty goods. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It's not hard to imagine that the future customers are a lot like me when it comes to buying clothes...girls who focus on a wardrobe consisting of a small rotation of pieces truly special to them from sources they feel good about supporting. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The obvious benefit of</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> the shop stocking plenty of designers whose work hasn't yet be sold in Houston (and in some cases, all of Texas) is that it will give customers the opportunity to check out the fit and feel of pieces they might have only admired online or possibly never would have been familiar with otherwise. I think the appeal of Myth & Symbol goes beyond that, though. When I stopped by to check out the shop while they prepare for their launch, Trang and Chau Nguyen (2/4 of the Myth + Symbol team) were equal parts enthusiastic and informed as they showed me pieces from the store, sharing tidbits they had learned from their Brooklyn studio visits such as which designers share space and the inspiration behind certain prints. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Eventually, they plan to use the space to host events such as jewelry making workshops to foster Houston's own creative community. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your store is being created by a group of people with a diverse group of talents. What made opening a retail store seem like the best idea to combine your interests? </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many aspects to operating a boutique so it's really beneficial having a team with diverse backgrounds. You need someone who knows the business and the creative side. All four of us (Ameet, BJ, Chau and myself) contribute our own unique talents and each bring different skills to the table. Chau is actually my sister. BJ is my brother-in-law and I've known Ameet since high school.</span></blockquote>
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Some of the accessories in stock by designers including <span id="goog_100431678"></span><a href="http://asmallcollection.com/">Alyson Fox</a><span id="goog_100431679"></span>, <a href="http://shop.renneshandmade.com/">Rennes</a>, <a href="http://fayandrada.com/">Fay Andrada</a>, and <a href="http://baggubag.com/">Baggu</a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The response from other local retailers... especially from other boutiques who also are focused on independent designers. Everyone wants each other to succeed. </span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Houston tends to be overlooked, from a national and even specifically Texan level, in terms of creative ventures, despite having a really impressive museum district and artistic community. What made you want to stay in Houston instead of setting up shop in a city where the brands you’re carrying might have more recognition?</span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Houston has definitely been overlooked. I think this outlook is slowly changing though since there's been an "Austin-effect" emerging in this oil city. Houstonians are becoming more conscious and aware of the way they consume and buy. I can't completely knock down Houstonians though. We've always appreciated fashion, it just isn't easily accessible. The idea of Myth + Symbol came about because my sister and I knew we weren't the only ones frustrated that we couldn't find our favorite designers in our very own city. There's a big demographic that has yet to be tapped into here.</span></b></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In my perfect world, every retail location (book stores! clothing stores! grocery stores!) would have a section devoted to aesthetically pleasing, independently published printed material.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://fayandrada.com/">Fay Andrada</a></span>'s Elli Necklace<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">has been on my personal wish list for months. It's kinda pathetic of me but sometimes I would just go online and swoon over the necklace. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://samanthapleet.com/">Samantha Plee</a>t's Cosmo Dress is one of those dresses that just make you wanna swirl and twirl. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm also a proud Texan so I can't wait to feature a local designer, Myan from <a href="http://www.hiddenvices.com/">Hidden Vices</a>.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.dusendusen.com/">Dusen Dusen</a> prints.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.odetteny.com/">Odette New York</a> jewelry.</span></td></tr>
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If you're unable to contribute (totally understandable), help get the word out! I just want all the cool girl zines to be as big as they possibly can be.Triciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01828942664513390553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-15946406857736928722012-06-11T14:46:00.002-05:002012-06-11T14:48:15.224-05:00we never sleepThere's no shortage of inspiring new jewelry designers to watch out for these days (which, by the way, is so cool! room for everyone to succeed!), but <a href="http://wenvrsleep.tumblr.com/">We Never Sleep</a> has definitely been a personal favorite. I'm thrilled to see Sarah Beaver taking on new projects with the venture - hand painted silk bras and metal floral hair accessories, no less! Plus, getting other talented ladies on board for the photos (like Jenny of <a href="http://fashionforwriters.com/">Fashion for Writers</a> and Wray of <a href="http://www.ambitnyc.net/">Ambit</a>), of course, sweetens the deal. <br />
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I had a very stupid day yesterday, so I'm glad that I already had some kitten/friend time scheduled to take the edge off. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/acatinthewindow">Melissa</a>, who is actually helping out on the new cat zine (forever making cat zines), is fostering a mom and her kittens for <a href="http://austinpetsalive.com/">Austin Pets Alive</a> right now! I love APA - I've had a few friends foster with them and I adopted my little love Beaker from them last year and they were the best, so if you're in Austin, I definitely recommend supporting them in any way you can! Of course, these guys will be up for adoption eventually, too, and I plead for you all to snatch them up before I do something irresponsible, like adopt all three.</div>
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I initially met these tiny, tiny creatures last weekend when they were even tinier, but got a lot more quality time with them today and had my camera handy, so naturally I snapped away furiously. Xylophone, the littlest kitten with the pink nose, took a particular liking to my hair, and when it was time to leave, she would not let go of me and I obviously wasn't feeling too good about leaving her, either. </div>
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<br />Triciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01828942664513390553noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-18203138140904881712012-05-24T09:02:00.002-05:002012-05-24T09:04:38.449-05:00ladies' man, indeedI remember seeing this photo of Tom Cruise and his <i>Risky Business</i> co-star Rebecca de Mornay on the excellent <a href="http://oldloves.tumblr.com/">Old Love</a> a while back and thinking that I needed to know everything about her, but then I (foolishly) did not pursue the matter further.<br />
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But then this morning I was looking at old pictures of Newport Folk Festival, and I came across <a href="http://1heckofaguy.com/2011/07/10/more-leonard-cohen-rebecca-de-mornay-photos/">some pictures of her with Leonard Cohen</a> (not actually related to Newport Folk Festival, but you know how looking at things on the Internet goes...) and found out that they were actually a serious couple in the early 90s. She even co-produced <i>The Future! </i></div>
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So, um, I guess their relationship wasn't a secret or a scandal seeing as how, you know, she was credited in his liner notes (although for whatever reason, photos of them have only recently surfaced and there are very few)...but I figured the fact that<i> I</i> just found out means there are other people who this information would appeal to who were unaware. </div>
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Old gossip is the best gossip, right?Triciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01828942664513390553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-1185247794617641012012-05-21T19:37:00.000-05:002012-05-29T04:49:13.293-05:00baby, my head's full of picturesSometimes, when you are very exhausted from the combination of an especially nasty sinus infection and a lot of exciting things, what makes the most sense is photographing everything new that you don't think you will ever get around to showing anyone in real life because when you're pretty damn sure that when you fall asleep tonight, you might just decide to finally commit to eternal slumber. <br />
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I bought this little terrarium at Renegade from <a href="http://simplyplanted.com/">Simply Planted</a>. My bedroom is teeny tiny, and the wall I face when I'm in my bed only has room for this window without much of a scenic view (mostly a wooden fence) and a mirror that wouldn't quite make sense anywhere else, so I'm thrilled to have something nicer to look at. <br />
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This little print clothesline is another new-ish addition to my bedroom. It features work by <a href="http://cargocollective.com/carolineknowles">Caroline</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellobonjour">Kensey</a>, <a href="http://stepheneichhorn.blogspot.com/">Stephen Eichorn</a>, and <a href="http://thedisasterlife.com/">The Disaster Life</a>. </div>
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Beaker looking pensive next to a couple old & new things. The shirt was a thrifted cream silk blouse that I spent $2 on and wore about a hundred times before the various tiny stains all over it seemed to be a bit much and I decided it would make a good tie-dye experiment. I like how it came out, and the fact that it's a shirt in the style I wear most frequently (a soft, collared button-down) means that it might get worn quite a bit despite being out of my normal, very limited comfort zone. The necklace is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/100353854/leather-and-brass-cat-bunting-necklace">my Little Pancakes collab</a>, and I'm happy to (finally) have one of my own! My friends Maggie and Joyce both purchased one over the weekend, which is really awesome because obviously cool girls matching each other is my favorite thing ever. <a href="http://daysofdane.com/">Dana</a>, <a href="http://ripped-knees.blogspot.com/">Ana</a>, and <a href="http://theriomorphic.tumblr.com/">Venice</a> all have <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/91503809/gold-and-black-laser-cut-leather-chevron">this necklace</a>, and I like to think (and maybe have confirmed????) that they're able to send good cosmic vibes to each other whenever the necklaces are being worn. <br />
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Melissa and I each made ourselves a couple one-of-a-kind necklaces together to commemorate her visit. Hers features a mint green bear accompanied by dangling brass triangles and mine this cool crystal & chevron thing that I was really bad at photographing on myself because I forgot how hard it is to take pictures of yourself with a 35mm lens when you hate self timer. <br />
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Finally, new reading/oogling material! The stack on the left came arrived all the way from Dublin today...tons of independently published goodness courtesy of my pal Liz! The next two were purchased today when Caroline and I took Melissa to a few of our favorite spots around town before she caught her flight back to Boston. Apartamento via <a href="http://spartan-shop.com/">Spartan</a> & <a href="http://beccastadtlander.com/">Becca Stadtlander</a>'s volume of Living Things via <a href="http://www.domystore.com/">Domy</a>. <br />
<br />Triciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01828942664513390553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-74496757376233428412012-05-09T03:22:00.003-05:002012-07-01T13:59:25.666-05:00our brand could be your life<div style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="color: #444444;">This is a blog post that I’m writing mostly because the title popped into my head and I wanted to use it. I love non-fiction books about music - preferably focused on anything angsty, rebellious, and catchy from the last 40 years. <i style="font-family: inherit;">Our Band Could Be Your Life</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is one of 'em, hence the title. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I devour these books like they’re trashy romance novels, and some of them totally </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">are</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> trashy romance novels.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Right now I'm re-reading </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Please Kill Me</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (like I do) and I'm totally fine with revisiting everything I loved as a teenager instead of broadening my horizons.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">That isn't what this post is about, however. I am here today to muse on my favorite subject to devote too much time/energy to... FASHION!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;">Here is a photo Miley Cyrus posted to her Twitter account in which she references Kanye West's Maison Martin Margiela reference. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.0008768553341105267" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I spend a lot of time looking at clothes that are available for purchase (mostly online and</span> thrift stores), but It’s pretty rare for me to actually buy something these days; my only wearable purchases in 2012 have been a pair of shoes and a ring. Which isn’t to say that I plan my wardrobe and any additions to it obsessively like <a href="http://grayzine.no/deadfleurette/">Dead Fleurette</a>; I’m a total impulse shopper; it just takes a really, really good deal (the kind you can't plan for) to get me to part with any part of my (currently pathetic) income.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">So in terms of brand loyalty in fashion, mine exists on a weird (mostly) fictional plane because I don’t have much experience with the labels I admire - if (big if) I own one of their products, it’s probably the only thing by them I have and so I can only speak to the quality that particular item. However, there are a couple notable exceptions of brands that I feel okay having strong opinions about, because sometimes lightning strikes twice (or, er, five times.) I do own two pairs of shoes by Rachel Comey that have made me a believer in comfortable heels. I also have a weirdly high number of APC things in my closet, but one of them is a striped t-shirt that totally bled (really, APC? Forever21 can make cotton t-shirts that don’t bleed and you can’t? I guess there's a reason why it was on The Outnet...<i>ouch.</i>) So while I aesthetically dig APC, I don’t know if I’ll ever buy anything by them again unless it’s like crazy cheap and cute. Or just moderately cheap and crazy cute if I'm feeling reckless. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Still, I have “favorite” brands - including labels that make clothes I have never even seen in real life, and it typically isn’t just the actual look of the collection that sways me one way or the other. It’s all about selling the lifestyle, man. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Like on <i>Project Runway</i> how they're always asking, "Who are you designing for? Tell me who this girl is!" Invariably, the designer gives a really earnest response about designing for their mom, who was very stylish and tragically died during childbirth, and Michael Kors snarkily chimes in with something that makes no sense whatsoever like "she looks like a lobster who just fell off the plate on an Elizabeth Taylor themed cruise" and everyone laughs, except the designer, who is crying. Now, <i>Project Runway (</i>to me, anyway) is pretty rarely spot on when it comes to fashion and mostly just a reason for Heidi Klum say cute things and wear sequins on camera...but that question is <i>totally</i> spot on: I like certain brands because I want to be that girl that they're designing for. Her life seems better than mine, and their clothes can help bridge the gap between our worlds ... or so it seems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Isabel Marant is a pretty good example of really creating the entire world of the Isabel Marant woman - and for that, I think she's an evil fashion genius. Here is something she said once:</span><br />
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easy to make magic on a red carpet - except just how many of us live
that life? But how do we make it happen every day on the sidewalk?
That's why I love to design.</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Which I think is weird coming from someone who purposely makes her work inaccessible. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> Even if you had all the money in the world to buy her clothes (and trust me, you will need all the money in the world) ... you might not be able to, because she's very particular about the quantities of her clothes that are available and where they can be sold.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Here is a quotation from <a href="http://isabel%20marant%20combines%20femininity%20and%20edge%20in%20a%20way%20women%20crave%20today%20-%20effortless%2C%20chic%20and%20wearable.%20according%20to%20trina%2C%20customers%20love%20isabel%20marant%20because%20they%20can%20incorporate%20her%20pieces%20into%20their%20existing%20wardrobe.%20here%27s%20what%20interesting%20-%20women%20who%20buy%20isabel%20marant%20pieces%20are%20downtown%20urban%2C%20bohemian%20and%20career%20women%20that%20want%20to%20look%20sophisticated%20but%20not%20stuffy.%20they%20are%20moms%20who%20want%20to%20be%20comfortable%2C%20but%20not%20at%20the%20expense%20of%20sacrificing%20their%20style%20to%20sweats.%20style%20is%20what%20these%20women%20share%20in%20common.%20/">a Huffington Post piece on her, which is (hilariously) titled "All the Cool Girls Love Isabel Marant"</a>: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Isabel Marant combines femininity and edge in a way women crave today -
effortless, chic and wearable. According to Trina, customers love
Isabel Marant because they can incorporate her pieces into their
existing wardrobe. Here's what interesting - women who buy Isabel Marant
pieces are downtown urban, bohemian and career women that want to look
sophisticated but not stuffy. They are moms who want to be comfortable,
but not at the expense of sacrificing their style to sweats. Style is
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Fashion can be bought, style one must posses yadda yadda aside, can we just talk about how scary cool Isabel Marant is? Not because I'm into Parisian street chic or whatever...I currently do not give a fuck about Parisian street chic. If you wanna spend a lot of money to <i>not</i> look you spent a lot of money except to a select few people who will worship the ground your Dicker boots walk on, please do your thing, but that isn't what I, personally, get from her...I just think she's rad because she controls minds. I don't know what it's like to wear her clothes, but I'm also not sure that I know what it's like to feel cool...and the fact that those two actions are linked to so many people is no small feat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Oh, and the best part is that she just goes off to a cabin in the woods with her cute little family every weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of brands go for the opposite strategy, though (particularly new, hip-to-what-the-kids-are-blogging ones) and use </span>accessibility<span style="font-family: inherit;"> as a tool. Capsule collections and partnerships with major retailers are huge these days, and, at the very least give a sense of perceived luxury . That isn't to say, however, that making a brand lifestyle "accesible" has to be synonymous with polyester and waiting on line for Target to open, though. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Like music before it, fashion's gone digital, and the industry is changing as a result. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Blogging and social media provide a lot of label-to-potential-customer interaction without either party necessarily dropping any cash; i<span style="font-family: inherit;">t comes in a lot of forms, from highly-stylized lookbook videos to behind-the-scenes Instagramming. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I mostly think it's great, </span>because<span style="font-family: inherit;"> as a potential customer, I can dip my toes in the water, think about how it would feel to maybe one day be "that girl" and at least <i>feel</i> really smart because I'm enjoying dresses without buying them, which is something I can't do with, say, a cup of coffee, which I physically need to have at least twice a day to function.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Once the relationship is built, though, and I promise you, eventually, some of the many Twitter followers/blog readers/Facebook fans/whatever gives in ... the 21st century version of Chinese water torture. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I know this phenomenon isn't fashion specific, though, and obviously not a new thing in advertising (totally underrepresented on <i>Mad Men</i>, where they seem gloss over most professional sliminess in favor of personal sliminess), but as someone who is youngish, possibly intelligent, and definitely tech savvy, the idea of social media using me instead of the other way around is not an easy pill to swallow. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">My favorite variation of all this fashion lifestyle branding business is what Acne has done with <i>Acne Paper</i> - cool brand, cool magazine. You can own something by them (even get, yes - cool packaging) that is high quality without spending what you would on their clothing. Maybe not as satisfying as a sheer gray floral blazer, but certainly kinder to my bank account.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Uh, I don't really have a conclusion to all this exactly, except that I'm really fascinated by fashion marketing, I guess. I have to find some way to justify going to college and studying psychology, don't I?</span>Triciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01828942664513390553noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5138108403759547159.post-23307514558601826362012-05-08T01:49:00.003-05:002012-05-08T01:49:38.437-05:00seventies babes in black and white<br />
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Michael Caine, Shakira Baksh, Ringo Starr, and Maureen Starkey on their way to Elizabeth Taylor's birthday party, <i>naturally</i>.</div>
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Anjelica Huston</div>
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Mick and Bianca Jagger on their wedding day (she wore a YSL smoking jacket with nothing underneath.)</div>
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Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin leaving SNL practice.</div>
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