Stark lines and Dots?

Pop Art

It's kind of weird in my opinion but that is the point. This portion of this blog allows me to write my opinion about anything. According to ArtyFactory:

"Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterised a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles."

Most of what I have seen of Pop Art in the 21st century have been in old comic books and recently in makeup artistry.

Madeyewlook - Youtube

From what I can tell, Pop Art is characterised by strong lines and/or highly contrasting colours developing a vividness and unreal quality. As you can see from Madeyewlook's redition, she uses strong lines and keeps it simple yet vivid. Later she adds tears but that wass for fun and dramatic effect.

Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning girl

It is great for conveyng sadness as the tears are so obvious and in your face. They have a specific shape and with just a few lines, you can turn from sassy to sad.

Carry on lovelies! xox

Taz

But dear... Pastels?

YES!

So all day I've been thinking of what to write about and as I was scrolling through Pinterest boards I saw this:

I do have a slight fascination with pastels, I like the delicateness and soft nature of them. Less harsh and more cute. I like how you can mix a bunch of different pastels together and more often than not, it works. Colour blocking to lace even to Gothic Lolita, pastels have you covered if you are into that.

I would feel so adorable wearing these clothes. That is the point I guess, to achieve a desired look and feel comfortable doing so? I want pastel mint hair.

There are days when you want to be a fairy and there are days when you want to be Morticia Addams.

Stay Sassy! xox

Taz

Well that was a long weekend...

I worked 20 hours in 3 days!

Friday:

On Friday I get up early for a history tutorial at University, manage to get all the answers correct without reading all the readings and spent the rest of the two hour long tute, designing a proposal for a bookshop. We figured out the clientele, the location, the layout and even the design and rewards system and even a business proposal. It was pretty sweet. 

I then caught a bus to a friends house so i could go with her to book her first tattoo (such excite!) We went and got lunch which was pretty sweet and went to the tattoo parlor. Then I went to work for 6 hours. Get home = sleep yay!

Saturday:

I woke up at 11, and went to work at 2... home at 11pm. So freaking tired. 

Sunday:

Sunday consisted of napping and gym session with my mum. Work at 5, and managed to finish at 9:00?!?!?! what? when does that even happen?

Monday:

That's today! I am officially on Uni holidays today, meaning I still have school work but I do not actually have to go to campus. I bought a new phone today, which is awesome because my old phone has been turning itself off randomly, has very little memory and is just plain old now. Its charging now and I'm so, so excited to play with it and install all my apps. 

I am hoping Tabby is staying safe and having a great time in Disney. Hopefully she has some time off to explore and meet new people.

Stay safe lovelies! xox

Taz

Tabby's Airport Snapchat Story

Adelaide > Melbourne > Los Angeles

In flight entertainment

Music: Veronicas, Taylor Swift, Brittany Spears

TV: 2 Broke Girls, The Big Bang Theory

Book: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Departure: 5:30am

Breakfast: Ham & Cheese Croissant

People in photos: Me & My Brother

Tabby's Trip to Disney!

In light of Tabby's trip, today's fandom is DISNEY

Lets go back to the original Disney princess: Snow White!

In the original story, the evil queen tries to kill Snow using more than the Huntsman and a poisoned apple. In the original, the queen disguises herself as an old peddler and tries to sell Snow a bodice, which she laces so tightly that Snow is unable to breathe and faints. The queen leaves her for dead, she is however saved by the seven dwarfs just in time! The next day, the evil queen sells Snow a poisoned comb, she is yet again revived by the dwarfs. 

When reading the story I began to think Snow was kind of stupidly naive. After THREE attempts on her life, she still takes food from a stranger and is poisoned... again. Of course the queen tricks her by eating half the apple (the non-poisoned side of course) but nowadays? YOU DON'T TAKE FOOD FROM STRANGERS! Heck! We were told from a young age not to even speak to strangers... mind you, then most of us ended up on the internet. I suppose this is a story that teaches young children a valuable lesson; if it seems too good to be true? It probably is!

Model: Rachel Weisz

So yea, Snow White's stepmother, like most stepmothers in Disney was a heinous... woman. At least the Huntsman had some morals! He chose to let Snow go and instead gave the heart and liver of a wild boar to the queen as "proof" of Snow's death.

Bon Voyage! xox

Taz

Corsets? Pirates? Cthulhu?

Have I got the genre for you!

H.G Wells, Jules Verne and Mary Shelley are who I consider to be the most significant original writers of Steampunk fiction. I threw Cthulhu in the title because technically Steampunk Horror is a thing and H.P. Lovecraft was pretty damn good at that...

hahahahahahahaha nope

What is Steampunk though? The answer is basically: a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.

How I would describe it: Picture the Victorian era as if steam-powered technology advanced further than it was supposed to, that dirigibles and airships were the main mode of travel and automatons were utilised as household staff for the wealthy. Scientists with questionable morals (see Frankenstein) and the Industrial Revolution has begun and yet electricity is not on the scene as of yet.

Steampunk can be dystopian, Utopian, fantasy, horror, science fiction, or any other genre spin-off you can think of! It is an incredibly versatile genre that can include anything from Cowboys on dinosaurs to Tesla coil induced time travel (second one is made up of things that I would totally read, Tesla and time travel? yes please!).

The best Steampunk series I have read to date is The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger. She introduces the concept of a measurable soul while adding werewolves, vampires, and of course automatons to the series beginning with Soulless. 

We follow Alexia Tarabotti on her adventures with her trusty (and well equipped) Parasol

Goodnight! xox

Taz 

Tabby's USA Dance Adventure

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you breaking news!

As you may have noticed, I didn't post anything yesterday...this is because I was packing for Disneyland!

While away I will not be posting to the schedule but instead posting travel updates. So Taz I leave you to take care of this blog while I'm away. (Love you xx)
Well I gotta go finish and hand up my 1000 word essay on women in media.

Catch you later xx