Cultural Revolution

I keep thinking that my generation needs a cultural revolution. In the 20s they had flappers with their bobs and chic clothing and then in the 50s there was Elvis and the whole movement that we call "Retro" now. In the 60s there was Twiggy, the invention of the mini-skirt, and the "hippie" style which spilled over into the 70s with the whole Vietnam War.

(Pictures in order from the way they were mentioned)
What will I be forced to call my generation in the future? The "Electronic Generation"? That's totally lame compared to every other generation. My English teacher has the privilege of calling herself a "Flower Child" (referring to a hippie) and what will I get if nothing changes? An "Electronic Child"? A "Cellular Child"? BLECH. 
What will we be acclaimed for? Justin Bieber and the Era of Disney Stars? I sure hope not! The only music I ever hear is horrible country, pop, and rap!

I'm still on the lookout for a cultural revolution and an answer to my question: What is the zeitgeist of my generation? If you have any answers, then by all means, type on!


Much sunshine,
Hana

On Grey Stuff

I find that taking photos randomly is great fun. At lunch yesterday, my friend and I took some pictures with her phone. Some we put in black and white and were very serious. Others...not so much.

As I was saying...not so serious...
On a different point, I find that even though the general population believes that serious and good photos are usually in black and white, you can take equally serious and good photos in color. Although the color photo in this instance says so otherwise...


Much sunshine,
            Hana
 

Tiger Hoops aka Gauges

So, gauges. One word as a starting point: YUCK.
This fad is SO VERY popular and gross. I was walking down a hallway at school (as I often do) and at least 40% of the people standing around me had gauges. Guys always go with the ridiculously huge holes. I always imagine that a well trained circus tiger or lion would easily be able to jump through these gauges.

                      

Looking at this picture, ARE YOU NOT EMBARRASSED?! YOU LOOK IDIOTIC!!!!
Girls tend to go with the smaller gauges. Sometimes they're very sutle looking. But they still look downright stupid.

There was one time that the hazards of gauging were revealed to me. It was in ninth grade and a druggie with huge gauges was sitting in front of me in art class. His lobe tore apart a few minutes before class started. It was disgusting. I don't understand why a person would submit through the pain of opening up they're ear so much only to have it me ripped apart if not done with extreme care, all for a stupid looking fad. They're ears will be forever malformed unless they undergo extreme plastic surgery!

Among other news, my friends and I finally had the masquerade we always dreamed about. It was awesome and other pictures will be posted in the future but I picked this one out because I think it's hilarious. My friend, Alex, was obviously going for the American Gothic painting style with the props that we had at the Masquerade.

Much sunshine,
             Hana

Walking Billboards and Such

On walking billboards at my school: The clothes brands that I recently talked about (Hollister, Aeropostale, etc) are all advertisements to the rest of the world. Just about every article of clothing that they produce have the brand name plastered across it. Really. The people who wear these clothes are now walking advertisements or, the term that I prefer, Billboards. I walk around all day with HOLLISTER or ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH screaming at my face. Why has fashion become another way to advertise. It's not even a subtle form of advertising either! I'm sorry to the brands but I have no intention of falling for these clothes.

Picture of the day!

Yes, that's a dog house. Clothes from Hot Topic (Wow, this is a lot of advertisement for Hot Topic isn't it. At least the brand name isn't plastered all over it.) And yes, I angled the camera just right. That was subconsciously too.
This next picture was not taken by me, nor was I anywhere near when it was taken. I found it on Facebook. It's my old friend, Cora. I just love it so much. It has a sort of magical feeling.

Much sunshine,
                 Hana

The CHS Ninja

On Friday, Katy and I were walking around school getting interviews and pictures for our Journalism class. I'm doing an article about the boules of my school and Katy is doing an article of the CHS ninja. After taking pictures, we stumbled across this fellow in the auditorium. He knows all about the secret passages and areas of the school. He's like the Fred and George Weasley of our school. He told us all about how he found a way into the locked sound booth.

The seats are a few feet below the booth and there is no glass in the middle frame. He somehow jumps from the backs of the seats onto the ledge of the booth. We caught a picture of him doing this.

After this, he told us about a panel that opens up in the auditorium. Inside is a space that you can hide in.

He then continued to drag us up the spiral stairs behind the stage. It was SO HIGH UP and it was overheated. Although I had a hard time taking pictures because of my hyperventilating, I did.

This is the view out over the tops of the curtains and stage.
He then ran back down and showed us what he considers amusement.

Thats him swinging on the curtain pullers.

This is me with a Hot Topic corset. Makeup by Katy. Picture taken in a trailer.

Much sunshine,
                    Hana

HAIR HAIR HAIR

I am here to talk about a VERY serious issue. HAIR. The lack of originality in hair styles in my school is astounding. Its like everybody WANTS to be a conformist. So I've categorized the different hair styles into a few groups. The first one is the "Pouf".

Poufs generally are worn by ugly sluts in suburban areas and make it so that the short people (like me) can't see the math notes on the overhead. They are designed to looks classy and slutty at the same time but generally make the person look like they've got an overgrown tumor on their heads.
The next category is the "Hair straightened straight".

Hair straightened straight is generally popular among the average prep. They spend up to an hour straightening their LONG LONG hair and after a while, it tends to look a bit fried. I have noticed that long hair is very much popular among people in America. What happened to the chic short hair? Well, I'm trying to bring it back.
The next category is the "Crimp".

Girls like to come in with BIG hair if it is not MEGA straight. This style is also popular among preps and also makes that overhead notes unreadable. Yesterday I sat behind two girls with the Crimp in math and spent the whole time craning my neck. This style also uses too much gel-ish stuff and looks stiff and artificial.
The next category is the "Horrible Dye". These hair styles have long faded dyes stuck out in random spots and are all fried and frizzy. There is no picture because no celebrity has this and I'm not so mean as to post a picture of some random poor soul.
The last category is "Aux-Naturel". This is self explanatory. People with Aux-Naturel leave their hair as is and that's fine but if you look disheveled its not a good outer presentation. I'm not one to criticize someone for their looks but I am very much into my "outer presentation" and I find that people who go into public looking like slobs don't respect themselves and the people around them. The other hairstyles above are pet peeves and cliche hairstyles. ALSO, notice that ALL of these styles are LONG HAIRED. Personally, I find short hair refreshing. On to guys cliche hair!
The first style is the "Beiber".

This style is completely boring to me. There is no originality in this style. Almost EVERYBODY has it. Okay, we get it. You think this style is attractive and air-head girls across the United States are falling for it. Big whoop. Get some originality.
The next category is the "Wave Beiber".

This is for guys who are not girl enough to straighten their Beiber cut. Again, cliche and a VERY slobish look.
The next category is the "Jock".

This hairstyle is for jocks who grow out the bangs and spike-gel them up. Some guys just use too much and its a look that says "Hey, I'm trying too hard!"
I could go on and on but I want to get to styles that I go for. We'll start with guys. I think that guys should take a look at themselves before presenting themselves in front of someone they might like, or just public in general. A style that I think is acceptable is this:

Layered to perfection and in a way that complements the face.
For girls:

I always loved the short, cropped style of Horikita Maki and I think that its great for girls who want short hair. (And I know I'm being prejudicial toward Asian hair but you've got to admit, they've got GREAT hair tips!) For girls who prefer longer hair, something like Maaki from HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR is good if you like curls. But there are also many examples in magazines like Popteen.

I absolutely LOVE bangs but not everybody can pull it off so beware! If you also like bangs and want to try some out, then here's an excellent tutorial I found>> http://universal-doll.com/2010/03/bangs-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-gal-styling/

I have more news but I will get to it later. I have pictures of the Legendary CHS (abbreviation of my school) Ninja.

Much Sunshine,
                      Hana

Congrats on Your Lame Fortune

So, a few nights ago I had Chinese food and got just about the lamest fortune in my fortune cookie. It said:

'A nice cake is waiting for you.'

Seriously?! What the hell kind of fortune is that?! In fact, I've been noticing a serious decline in the fortune-ness of fortune cookies. About a year or two ago, Katy got a fortune cookie without a fortune in it. How anti-climactic is that?! The whole point of Chinese food is the sweet bliss of cracking that fortune cookie in half and seeing that slim piece of paper within. But finding a lame fortune or no fortune at all is just depressing.

To the poor people who have to manufacture the fortunes in the fortune cookie: PLEASE MAKE THE FORTUNES MORE EPIC! Something like this will be better.

It would actually make me laugh and not make me go "What the hell?" And then maybe I'll blog about how great the fortune was!

Oh, and if a nice cake is waiting for me, well then it better damn well be the one shown above or something similar.

 Katy and I after we ran around the new costume store in the mall. Great for pictures but I don't know about having that as my costume...It fogs up if you wear it too long. But it is kind of scary...

Much sunshine,

                    Hana

A Slightly Baggier Version of K-Fed

As I've said before, I live in the outskirt-suburbs of a city. So as you could imagine, everything is cliche in this typical suburb. Immaculate lawns, scattered housing developments, shiny cars, typical stores, and the PEOPLE. So, today, I'm going to go over one type of cliche fashion that goes around at school....among the GUYS.

There are all types of cliques at my school, being a typical suburban school, and one of the cliques is the I'm-a-wannabe-gangster. You know, they look like a slightly baggier version of K-Fed.

 So, this clique at my school typically wears shirts that have some sort of South Pole related logo all over it and usually wear the size two times too big for them. And then the hat. It also has a gangster logo on this "baseball cap" but they keep the brim FLAT. That is what makes it "gangster". I don't understand why you would wear a baseball hat that doesn't keep the sun out of your eyes. Isn't that the purpose of a curved brim? To keep the sun out of your eyes?
These Gangster-Wannabes also wear they're pants sagging halfway or all the way down their butts. First of all, how do you even manage to get to your classes, if you even go to class. And second, I prefer not to see your boxers, thank you very much.

 I once saw this kid in gym who was running with his pants like this. He was pulling them up and then when he realized they were too high up, he pulled them down once again. What an idiot. Why would you pull up your pants and then pull them down once more?
Another time, there was this kid in my Global History class that had his pants this way as well. I looked at him and then looked at the two belts that I had put around my waist. (I only put them there as accessories.) I offered to let him borrow one of my belts to help him keep his pants off of the ground. He just glared at me...

This was taken at the beginning of spring. It was actually kind of cold that day. That's my cat, Lily. I'm wearing wooden shoes from Japan called "Geta" and a dress that I found at a used clothes store.


Much sunshine,
                  Hana

Spangled glasses and Tubthumping

There is a point after school starts that you start to get bored of the mundane, everyday schedule. It usually happens after homecoming week for me. And then its kinda OK until after Christmas Break when its just winter and blah with no holidays coming up and really no good chunks of breaks. Around these times, I start to do things in school that make people point and go "Oh my god. What is that person doing/wearing??" And the people I do know are just like, "Oh, its that time of year again."
So yesterday, I told Katy to bring in her "geek-glasses" that she wears on her dad's motorcycle. Why? Because I wanted to do something out of the ordinary in lunch. I brought my hot-pink, spangled sun-glasses. Oh. And mustaches. I needed new pictures and so did she. So we took some.

And then our friend, Hannah, came and I took a picture of her too.

After lunch I had two more classes and people were like "You're crazy." And I got a whole bunch of weird looks. In band, I play percussion and our section is pretty crazy in general. Since we mostly just stand in the back, we can walk around, take naps, dance, party, etc. We were having one of our more crazy days and people were all "What is with the percussion section!" Haha, its pretty normal, dude. You would get bored standing around too.

Also, I'm going to get a song into your head that you won't be able to get out. In my opinion, its one of the most catchy songs I know. You should be able to recognize it too. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc&ob=av2e 

Now go watch it!

Much sunshine,
               Hana

The Way Some Stores are Out to Freeze You

Before you read the following, you should know that I live in the suburbs in the outskirts of a city. The people here have no fashion sense at all and generally wear cliche garments.

So, when I was a freshman (in high school), I was sitting behind these two girls in math class. They were dressed in the normal, what I call "prep" style which includes Aeropostale, American Eagle, Abercrombie & Fitch, etc. They were chatting before class started and I happened to eavesdrop as I often do when I'm in "People-Watching-Mode". One girl goes, "Oh my god!!! We're wearing the same flip-flops!!!" And the other went, "Oh my god!! What a coincidence!!"
I looked down at their feet. Mind you, it was January. And they were wearing flip-flops, in the normal prep fashion. JANUARY. Ok, 1, don't wear flip-flops in the middle of winter and complain that its cold. 2, IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT YOU BOTH SHOP AT THE SAME STORE AND HAPPEN THE BUY THE SAME THING!!! EVERYTHING LOOKS PRACTICALLY THE SAME ANYWAY!!!!!!!! Here, I'll show you.
American Eagle

Abercrombie & Fitch

HEEEELLLLLOOOOOOO!!!! THEY LOOK THE SAME!!! HAVE YOU NO ORIGINALITY!? ITS NOT A COINCIDENCE!! All of the "prep" shops produce clothes that look more or less the same to me. Plus, I've been in Abercrombie & Fitch, and I practically choked on the toxic fumes they call "perfume" there and I needed flood lights to see where I was going. Unfortunately, they didn't sell flood lights so I was guided around by the friend that dragged me in there. Also, I noticed that they like using half nude guys on their advertisements. Aren't you selling clothes?! Why don't you have your model WEAR your clothes! I prefer to see great clothes compared to the "ripped" upper physic of a guy. 

SERIOUSLY!? 
Also, they seem to be in summer 24-7 in everything. Honestly, I don't want to shop at any store that is out to freeze me in the middle winter.


Ok! Photo of the day!!

This picture was taken in the evening when we wanted to cram in a few more photos before nightfall. (It got dark and scary on our way back through the woods.) This is Katy in the wooden crate at the Living Room in the Forest. Don't ask me why crackheads dragged a wooden crate along for the ride. It boggles my mind just as much as it probably boggles yours. We figured we'd go for a "Just Killed" look. (She was "shot" in the stomach.) The photo was edited by Katy. The "blood" is just realistic brushes. Here's the version with me in it.

We decided I was shot in the side of my stomach. My eyes are open to make you creeped out.


Much sunshine,
                Hana