So the derby team had newbie tryouts yesterday from 6-9, BUT, I couldn't be there because I was at a portrait drawing class as a model.
To get 30$ to pay dues for April.
Apparently we've got sixteen-seventeen new girls!
I'm excited to see them.
I'm kind of dissapointed in my lack of real development to be noticed by the evaluation SO, my goal is to get my time for 10laps down to 1 minute, I can do it!!
I hope!
I'm also going to be mastering T-Stop, Turn arounds, derby form and turn around toe stops within the next two weeks.
I want to be on the next hitting group she creates, which means I need to make a LOT of progress and fast.
So, that is what I am going to do!
Wish me luck!
I'm applying for a fall job on campus at The Studio, writing lab.
I'm trying to finish all these art pieces and find a new job.
Man am I going to be busy this coming month!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Faiza & Ab - Rue de Rivoli - Paris
Faiza & Ab of OTT Dubaï (click !)
Ab is featuring already on the Wrapper of Easy Fashion in Paris !
Look at this funny 2.55 XXL !
Lou - Place Vendôme - Paris
I am a student in Fashion Management
I wear a coat by ZARA
Shoes by ALDO
Blouse, belt, pants vintage
My scarf is a gift
Perfume "Hypnose" by DIOR
I am surrounded by Fashion
My look is vintage
I love travelling. I hate hypocrisy
I f I had 1 000€ I would buy LOUBOUTIN Platforms
My message to the world: May fashion be with you !
Enigmatic Sweet Fuschia lady - Place Vendôme
Have you noticed, she has five beauty spots on a line ?
Monday, March 29, 2010
Roller Derby Practice
So lately we've been doing a LOT of endurance and we had an assessment yesterday.
I got 2:46 or something for 10 laps around the track, it sounds bad, but I did the math and I met my goal for the 5 laps which was around 1:20.
I am getting more comfortable on skates, except yesterday I felt like a n00b again, I couldn't find where I normally set my weight when I skate so I was unstable.
Bad day to be unstable when your being assessed on how stable you are, for a hitting group next week.
I figured out I skate faster when in derby stance than standing up!
I think that is a good thing.
We did more pack skating and I got compliments from Jessica and Kimberly saying that they noticed i've gotten a lot better.
Which is good to hear.
I can't go to practice tomorrow, i'm a model for a portrait class tomorrow (they are drawing my face in case you were confused, like my step dad, and thought they were drawing me nude. WTF?}. Because I get 30$ to sit there from 6-9 while they draw me and I need the money for dues, because I get paid after dues are due so i'll owe them around 20 when I get paid.
We played capture the flag today, on skates, and I accidentally hit two girls in the boob to tag them.
Oops!
I've been really busy lately.
Trying to make more art and finding a new job.
I've got an interview Thursday at 3pm, and i'm applying for a writing job at ICC for the fall.
April is going to be REALLY busy for me.
Alec and I celebrate our THIRD YEAR together April 13th, not too far away!!
We had two girls from Quad Cities come and practice with us: Go Go Berserk and Elizadeath, they were awesome to watch!
I LOVE ROLLER DERBY!!!!
The Lost File Girl - Les Tuileries - Paris
Oh la la ! Once again I lost the sound file about this young lady ...
It was so cold at this time. I could have deleted by error.
If you see this post ....
But thank to Tuwie and Mama de Martina
We know now that it's Andy of Stylescrapbook !
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Some of you ...
are waiting for pictures. I know that.
I try to do my best, but I have to work on my extra time on this blog.
Please forgive me and be patient. Your time will come !
Thanks
Busy Fred
I try to do my best, but I have to work on my extra time on this blog.
Please forgive me and be patient. Your time will come !
Thanks
Busy Fred
Coralie -Les Tuileries - Paris
I am a student in a Fashion School
I wear a Hooded Cape made by myself
Pearls net jacket vintage (1€ !)
Shoes vintage
Bag Selfmade
Fur bracelets by le PRINTEMPS
Saturday, March 27, 2010
William - Rue de Rivoli - Paris
I am a student in communication
I wear a jacket vintage from New York
Mink Scarf from my mother
Slim black jeans by DIESEL
Shoes by ZARA
Security Building Site Glasses
Perfume "Opium" by YSL
Fashion is to have fun with clothes
If I had 1 000€ I would buy a leather bag
I love sharing. I hate hypocrisy
For the love of the Dames
We were featured in the Newspaper today!
For the love of the Dames
MOSSVILLE —
Jennifer Gilbert grew up here, but she’s the first to tell you Peoria is not her kind of town. Roller derby brought her back.
“I am so stoked!” Gilbert says, after conducting a two-hour workout with the Peoria Push Derby Dames.
Two months ago, the Dames did not exist and Gilbert was still living in St. Louis. Now, nearly three dozen women practice four nights a week at the Peoria Palace roller rink, just off Route 6 in Mossville. They skate, pack, fall, block, push and jam while preparing to unload the growing sport of women’s flat-track roller derby on central Illinois later this year.
They are teachers, health professionals, business managers, college students, wives and moms. Some wear more ink than a newspaper. Some appear to have retained the Easter Bunny as hair stylist. Others might have been pageant queens.
But they all fit the roller-derby profile.
“Strong women who want to preserve an identity for themselves, whether as a mother or a single career woman or whatever, and rope off an area just for them,” Jennifer Gilbert says.
Gilbert is a derby veteran whose derby name is “Pro.” She is the Push’s coach. More in a moment about how that came to pass, but first you should know how and why the Peoria team was born.
Last year, there was a movie titled “Whip It,” starring Ellen Page as a small-town Texas loner who discovers her inner strength with a roller-derby team from Austin. In Peoria, Becca Rees saw the film and decided, “This looks like way too much fun.” Her friend Jessica Nolan had the same reaction. “We were hooked,” Rees says.
The two women found out there was a league going in the Quad Cities, so they drove over to check it out. There, they were told another Peoria-area woman, Teresa Thompson of Hanna City, had been showing interest, too.
Thompson had discovered a Facebook page, “Peoria Needs A Roller Derby League,” started by an East Peoria woman named Sam Boehle. When Thompson contacted her last fall, Boehle had just delivered a baby and couldn’t skate. But she gave Thompson permission to take over the page — and by the way, Boehle had a high school friend named Jennifer Gilbert, who was big into flat-track roller derby. In fact, Gilbert was playing for a touring team out of St. Louis known as the Arch Rival Roller Girls.
Thompson contacted Gilbert, who drove to Peoria for an organizational meeting.
“After the meeting,” Thompson says, “Pro says, ‘I can be your coach.’ And we all said, ‘Hell, yes!’”
Gilbert, 29, is a freelance manuscript editor, with a flexible work schedule and freestyle life. A few years ago, she traveled alone to a friend’s wedding in Cleveland, where she met some derby girls.
“I ended up getting wasted with the Cleveland league,” she says. “I didn’t buy a drink all night. I stayed an extra week to go to their practices and then basically ran away with the circus.”
A former high school distance runner with a motor stuck in overdrive, Gilbert says her derby name is short for “pro-agonist” or “pro-agony.” Injuries have curtailed her competitive career, but she has helped start recreational leagues in St. Louis, and so she jumped at the opportunity to build the sport in her hometown.
Pro says she loves the derby, but the real draw is the empowerment felt by the women who play.
They come in all shapes, sizes and ability levels.
Thompson has worked as a welder, served in the Army Reserves, and she rides a Harley.
“Anything weird and awful is me,” she says. Until Push practices began in mid-February, Thompson says, she had been on roller skates only a couple of times in her whole life. “My husband says, ‘Does everything in your life have to be a challenge?’”
According to her smile, yes.
On the other end of the ability spectrum is Beth Anderson, event manager at the Peoria Civic Center. Anderson skates as if she was born with rollers on her feet and aspires to be a jammer, the derby position whose job it is to score points by lapping members of the rival team’s pack.
“This fit right in with my mid-life crisis,” Anderson says.
One appeal of the sport itself is the physicality. It’s legal to knock down opponents in the process of blocking them, as long as a player does so with shoulders, hips and buttocks and contact stays below the shoulders and above mid-thigh. Illegal contact, which includes elbows and head butts, is penalized.
Another appeal is to the players’ alter-egos. When they hit the track, they’re no longer “Mom” or “Sis” or the woman in the office down the hall or the girl next door. They’re “Pro” or “Crackerjack” or “Siouxsicide Bomb” or “Cougar Candy” — or whoever they want to be.
After passing a basic skills test, each player gets to pick a name. At that point, they’re also a step closer to being able to form teams and start competing under the rules of the sanctioning body, the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association.
The process is a grueling one. Coach Pro has a five-phase plan to get the Peoria women ready: basic skills, pack work, hitting, scrimmage drills and finally, “full-on game” — or “bout” as the contests are called.
Pro was teaching pack drills last week. She and the Push members hope they’ll be ready to compete by mid- to late-autumn.
Meanwhile, the women pay $50 a month in dues, which help pay for rink rental. They also invest anywhere from $175 to $350 apiece, and sometimes more, for equipment, which includes skates, pads and helmet. Finally, there’s the eight hours per week of workouts — all on top of their jobs and home lives.
But the payoff doesn’t come in dollars and cents.
“How often,” Rees says, “do you get to push the heck out of somebody for no other reason than to play a game?”
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Catherine - Place Vendôme - Paris FW
I am a Fashion Joiurnalist
I wear a coat by BURBERRY
Boots by CHANEL
Hat by JUNYA WATANABE
Shades by CHANEL
Bag by BALENCIAGA
Perfume: CHANEL N°5
"If I had 1000 $, I would buy this nice pair of LOUBOUTIN !"
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Katia - Les Tuileries - Paris FW
I am a student in Cinema
I wear a jacket by ZARA
Pants ?
Shoes by H&M
Blouse by H&M
Bag by ZARA
Necklace and Bracelets by H&M
Perfume: "Coco Mademoiselle" by CHANEL
I love Life. I hate prententious people.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
If Reading was a Crime, I'd be on America's Most Wanted
A lot of shit has gone down in my life as of late.
I ran out of money.
Ci|Creative is shutting down and we are re-locating to a place downtown for events and gallery space.
Alec and I are moving in to Amy & Job's basement, which is being turned into a spiffy apartment, with colored walls, appliances, and a bathroom.
We don't have to pay for it, we just have to help them remodel it.
So sometime within the next 2-3 months, i'll be moving out.
Tomorrow is Ostara, i'd like to start a garden but I don't have any little pots, Amy wants me to start the garden in their backyard.
I'll have to ask her more about that.
I've got a C in English right now because I missed one reading quiz and one peer review, 20pts down the drain.
My Earth day even is going to have to hold off until we get the new space.
Which kind of sucks.
I'm finishing a couple of a pieces to put in to a Winery Show Alec is Curating that we have to set up for next Tuesday.
I've been reading a lot.
We had practice yesterday and 'Pro' told us that we were going to be knocked down by Grave Danger from ARRRG, the St. Louis Roller derby team. Once we progress to needing to learn how to take a hit in derby, on skates.
She hits you square in the abdomen and has actually made girls urinate before.
Awesome right?
I'm actually pretty excited.
I found out what she looks like
SHE is going to be beating us up.
I'm excited!!
I've been posting our derby cards at Borders and ICC, i've been thinking of just handing them out to girls who look like they might be interested in roller derby.
I took Melinda to the vet on Monday, she has some upper respiratory problems, she has very little pathways for air.
So she is on medication.
The doctor wants me to start feeding her more people food and take her outside when it is nice, for fresh air.
I'm supposed to bring all three to the vet in April so he can see how all three are doing.
Alec and my three year is April 13th.
I've been applying to other jobs.
I'm buying Alec a tattoo for our three year.
I'm paying 75$ next week to get the car towed to Alec's house so we can get it fixed.
I might go to a bout next Friday.
I've been finishing the FAFSA and ICC's scholarship mumbo jumbo.
I need to write an Artist statement.
P.s.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
M. Guerre - Paris FW
I am a writer and a photographer (Swagger360)
I wear a Tweed Vintage Jacket from England.
Pants and Shoes by RALPH LAUREN
Tweed Cap and Scarf
Turtle neck Whool Sweater
Bag Self designed
Perfume: "Eau sauvage" by C.Dior
"I am not so much interested in Fashion than in Style.
Style is what you create ...
My look is casual Fly, good enough to go in any environnement ...
If I had 1000 € to spend in Fashion stuff, I would buy good wine & cheese ..."
I love to accomplish my passions. I hate giving up.
My message to the world: Keep your eyes focused on what you want to see accomplished".
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Sasha Pivovarova - Paris FW
Les modèles n'aiment trop qu'on les prenne en photo quand elles fument.
Je ne sais pas pourquoi, elles planquent leur clopes comme des petites filles qui se font choper
en train de faire quelque chose d'interdit. C'est marrant.
Mais Sasha Pivarova, elle non. Je crois qu'elle s'en fout.
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