The little bit of random...

Spring Cleaning: Part Two!

I love the names of these two mouth washes! Wicked Fresh, reminds me of this kid I knew when I was 15, he said wicked...a lot.

And the name of this brand just makes me laugh.

Hey Dan, that hat looks amazing! Zebra is definitely your thing. Remind me when I see you next to give you my matching zebra shoes, leggings, and arm warmers. And maybe to break up the crazy amounts of black and white zebra, I have a red and black zebra hoodie that you would love!

Dan might be the only dude that can pull off a zebra hat, I swear.

I'm really glad they finally are making garlic shampoo and conditioner. This will really help keep those vampires away from my hair.
Oh this totally reminds me of that new Sonic commercial with the vampire, has anyone seen it? It makes me so sad :( 




















I absolutely, positively love this display! This is The Limited's new window display in the mall, and I just love it. The concept is pretty great and the display is so cool. It's so simple if you think about it and the cost seems quite minimal, not to say that presses on it's quality, because that's not true at all. It's just all around really cool.

Day 68!

LittleMissMatched and Billy Elliot photo shoot! So exciting!

The little girls from the Broadway show Billy Elliot came to the LittleMissMatched flagship store on 5th Ave in NYC. They were the cutest kids. The event was about jumping for the stars, so in the back of the store we had a mini photo shoot set up, where anyone could come in and jump for the stars alone or with the Billy Elliot dancers. It was a lot of fun and what was even better, I was the photographer! I had sooo much fun doing that. If you want to see all of the photos you can find them on LittleMissMatched's Facebook page, some of them are just too funny. Here is my shot, lol.

Yup, I'm wearing a tutu! You were supposed to dress up in some awesome LMM gear or a tutu, I opted for the tutu, seeing how it matched my cupcake pin.

During the photo shoot I met a lot of interesting people, one being this lady from Rio de Janeiro. She gave me her business card, too bad I haven't a clue what it says : (

BTW I'm not sure if I have ever mentioned this before but I've been interning with the marketing department of LittleMissMatched since February. It's been an awesome experience so far. If you've never heard of LMM, it's one of the coolest brands. Their whole concept is all about mismatching. They sell much more than this now, but they started with socks. Selling them by the threes they mismatch, but still have a theme so you know they go together. It's actually really cool, and you might want to check them out. LittleMissMatched.com.


















Here's what the 5th Ave store looks like.

Also if you know any girls between the ages of 8 and 14 that have nothing to do this summer, LMM is offering this really cool virtual apprenticeship program. They have three different programs, one for blogging, photography and product design and they are totally free, which is even better! For more details go to MissMatchedFun.com

Day 67!

"It takes trying to rip your skin to really know how thick it is"

If you care to know what one of the visual labs look like at LIM this is it. This is where I had been spending my finals week. Oh in the corner there, that's Amelia.


















And this is me desperately trying to finish my floor plan to my carnival theme shoe store.

And this is part of my second project. A lingerie store I had to make in the program Visual Retailing. My theme was 1920's, basing it off of speakeasy's, jazz clubs, prohibition, Some Like It Hot and of course Chicago.

These are only a few stills of the store, there was so much more to it.

This seriously was the craziest/best week. School=done, my projects received decent grades, I saw Maniac anddd I played photographer at a mini photoshoot (post about that coming soon!). I think though, between living off of clif bars, monster energy drinks, peanut butter sandwiches, having three hours of sleep a night and spending most of my time desperately getting all of my work done in a four day time span, as well as dealing with the stress of thoughts of not getting my work done, I give myself another three days before I collapse from the after math.

Day 66!

For every spontaneous action there is an intended reaction...

Finals week, probably the most stressful week next to midterms. Most projects have been completed, but not all and that is why the visual lab has become my new home. Tuesday I got to school as soon as the automatic doors permitted, at 7am. The plan was get there early, leave early...yeah right!

While working on my projects, through out the day I was getting updates on Twitter from the band Maniac, which consists of Shawn, formally from The Matches and Jake, from Something With Numbers, saying they were on their way to New York City. This being a very big deal for that fact that they traveled from Los Angeles to New York, with minimal bags, money and plan, not to mention they were hitch hiking all the way over. Crazy! They were doing this for a documentary, their friend Emily, who went as well, documented the entire thing.

Not even remotely done with my projects I get a tweet saying they'll be in Union Square playing by the L train, which is about 2 miles away from my school. Ahh! What to do, what to do? Not done with my work, but not wanting to miss Maniac, I contemplated for about 45 minutes, realizing I was about to hit the 11th hour of sitting in the visual lab, I left ALL of my stuff in the room and bolted to Union Square. No joke, I don't think I ever walked so fast, there and back was probably done in record timing for me!

I couldn't stay the entire time they played, though I would have loved to. But I seriously left everything in the lab, including my MacBook, not too smart, plus I had major work to still get done. It was well worth leaving for the hour and a half though, I had to get out of the lab, get some vitamin D. Also I couldn't miss out on seeing Maniac/Shawn Harris, I not-so-secretly have had a crush on him since I was either 15 or 16. Also I may be in the documentary, which will be just lovely because you know being up since 3:30 am and then running nearly 2 miles in the humidity leaves you looking the best you ever will and all. Psh lol.




















Oh so my spontaneous action for the day was definitely going to see Maniac. The intended reaction... Ego boost! Eh it's hard to explain...lol

As I always do when I talk about bands, I demand you to go check out Maniac...please.
http://maniacmania.com/splashpage.html

You should also check out Emily, the photographer/videographer, she was the sweetest person!
http://www.ediphotoeye.com/

"If you ever give your best, we'll give it better."

The little bit of random...

Spring Cleaning: Part One!

I'm going through the ridiculous amounts of random photos I have taken on my phone, none of which I've had the chance to post about. So I'm going to do two mass photo posts of a few. Here we go!

Walking to NYIT, to the ceremony for my Sigma Beta Delta nomination, (Yeah don't know how I got on the International Honor Society, but I did.) I saw the cutest scene. An old man sitting on a bench next to a bronze statue. It was so cute! They looked as if they were two friends just hanging out on a nice April afternoon. I wasn't brave enough to take a photo of it from the front so I took one of behind.

However my friend Amelia is much braver than I and got a shot of them. This photo doesn't capture the true cuteness of how it really was. Maybe if stupid me wasn't standing there it would have been a better shot.

I'm not really sure why a movie theatre needs to have this sign. I mean would it not be obvious? I guess not to those damn weapon carrying toddlers, being that this sign was about two feet off the ground, as you can see the reflection of shoes in the glass, it was obviously targeted towards them.



I don't really have words for this. Other than good luck!
(Photo, compliments of Joe)

I was sick on a Sunday which of course meant I couldn't go see my regular doctor because she was closed. So instead I went to a place in Shrewsbury that you can just walk into, after sitting there for half an hour I was told they don't take my health insurance and it would cost $180, as opposed to the $20 copay I would normally pay. No thank you, I rather suffer! I'm convinced that they were discriminating against me. Yup, as you can see they have parking specifically for emo kids,  and since I'm not emo I wasn't helped!
















Obviously only kidding here ; )

Day 65!

North-bound train on a Saturday. Here I come New York City.


Saturday...one of the only two days I'm not riding into the city, and yet I still am. But it was cool, I had my internship and I actually like that place. Plus with a less crowded train I didn't feel silly taking a picture out the window.

I can't figure out if this building here is abandoned or not. Over grown with weeds and trees, broken windows and the lack of smoke coming from those smokestacks, would make one assume it is. However it's a factory, and that whole abandoned look may mean nothing. Plus every so often I spot trucks around. Well either way, I want to go explore this place/use it as a backdrop for a photo shoot. Not just this one specific place, but the nearby area too. Being the factory is on the water, across from it are docks/rocks, everything is covered in graffiti, as well as the buildings nearby are all broken down/for the most part knocked down. It's a complete mess, but on either side of the water, if you're into that whole urban look, both scenes would make some great edgy looking photos. I know a photo shoot will be unlikely, so really I'd just like to go check it out if nothing else, it's kinda awesome and creepy at the same time.

"When you're in need and desperate to fall asleep. Well ain't it wild, though aren't you tired? Oh, isn't it making you lose your mind?"

Day 64!

 When I walk to school I always pass the New York City Library, sadly I've yet to visit it, but obviously would like to. So while passing it today I happened to see something I found amusing.

Is it just me or is this not the funniest thing? Or maybe it's only funny when you're running on three hours sleep and it's not quite 7 am...nah it's just funny lol

I'm not sure why the lion statue is sporting an orange cone as a hat, but I think he looks pretty fancy.