Dear Bad Mooders,

I shall not write about how unhappy and depressing exams are and about how cold it is and how I’m having the teenage blues and my life seems pointless and how “effing” superficial and stupid this whole school society is and how sad I am that the Grimes concert where I was supposed to go is cancelled. I'm almost crying! It meant SO MUCH to me. But, NO NO NO, I refuse to talk about that shit. Instead, I’ll talk about the cool stuff. MUSIC! PHOTOGRAPHY! FASHIIIIN! OOH YEAH. 

So let’s start to change our mood.

I’ve looked little up on the internet how to get back into a good mood and this was pretty much what I found:

1.    You must hydrate yourself. That’s good for umm… your body happiness?!

2.    You must do exercises because it gives you a huge boost in your physical energy. HA.

3.    Feel grateful. This is an easy way to get out of a bad state.

4.    Say 100 times in a row: “I want to feel good”. apparently it helps. Not.

5.    YOU KNOW WHAT? FUCK IT ALL. This will do the job :

Mama Do The Hump - Rizzle Kicks

you’re in a good mood now? Fine. Let the art start.

Sabine Ducasse 

I’m going to get a box of pearl beads RIGHT AWAY.

Hasisi Park

visit her website. You will get lost. 

"As a lazy and weird-looking Hikikomori (a Japanese term referring to the phenomenon of reclusive 

individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life), which may explain why I don’t use pretty models in my work. I prefer to appear in front of a camera. Being a Hikikomori is certainly related to my attitude and perception of art because it limits what I can get from outside. Rather than being a spectator, I choose to be objectified by frightened women, including myself. When you first look at my photographs, it seems difficult to identify with the character because she plays out what most women can’t present in normal life."

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LOOK AT THE COW TATTOO! 

Io Echo - Carnation 

Io Echo - When The Lilies Die

Shit London Awards

Shit London Awards started with a bunch of friends posting strange and unusual things they spotted on their travels around the city.  But fast it became an actual contest. If you're living in or going to London, grab you're cameras and take pictures of the most depressive views of the city and send it here. 

The categories for entries this year are…

UGLIEST BUILDING IN LONDON

BEST/WORST SHOP NAME

MOST DEPRESSING VIEW FROM WORK

BEST PICTURE

Can it be even more exiting?

Should I tell you a secret? The Guardian is the coolest website in this whole World Wide Web. It has e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Need some inspiration? The Guardian is- how boring it might seem - the best. 

Well, I guess that's it for today!

Au Revoir,
Jeanne

Be YAself honey!

It's funny. I'm 13. Just became a teen. And the past 5 months I started being interested in blogs. I think this is really a place where I fit in, a place that makes me move. Then sometimes I get what I call a 'creativity burst'. That's when I feel super Inspired! I just want to do so manny things and everything is like 'La Vie en Rose'. Ooh I love that song! I'm totally in to jazz right now. No actually I've liked jazz ever since my dad would put on his old LP's in the livingroom and I would dance. Jazz is so free. My mom once told me her parents would go to Harlem to listen to jazz. They would speak French ( which my grandma was, well actually Belgian, but that's a long story.) because the people in Harlem didn't like white americans around.
Anyway.
Well, creativity bursts don't come too often, mainly because there is this thing called 'school'. Yeah you know what i'm talking about. I don't think I have to explain. It's important, I know. But at some point teachers give you so much homework, that you're literally going to explode. LITTERALY. That's one thing that's hard for teenagers. The other thing is that I have the impression that everyone tells you how to be: your parents want you to be a well-behaving student, your friends want you to be a gossiping BFF that makes them laugh and that is a rebel, the fashion blog you follow tells you in what brand you have to dress and your favourite arty magazine tells you that it's cool to be a bookworm that always makes interesting converstations and is very aware of what's happening in the cultural and political world. AND IT ALL JUST DRIVES ME CRAZY! Who do I have to be and who do I have to satisfy?
And I think culture is very helpfull to that. You can talk about things you like ( and that can be like from Justin Bieber to Isaac Newton) . By talking and reading and listening you'll understand what you like and what you don't like and you'll understand yourself better and you will probably be much more confident.  God, i'm feeling like a psychologist right now. Time to stop writing...


Oh and this is a drawing I made this summer. I just thought it would fit for this post...

Au revoir,

Jeanne