The reappearance of Bobby Socks

I apologize for my hibernation for these past few weeks. Like Bear Shiny, my schedule has been bananas and I haven't had much time to update! I have been thinking of really cool post ideas though!

Right now I'm sort of just eating out of a chocolate ice cream carton... I hardly ever get to eat Culver's. I tend to stay away from all fast food in general!

Big apology for the webcam quality! Anyways, I've noticed that Bear Shiny and I have different writing styles when it comes to our post. Sarah usually focuses on one topic and I am random. I always have too much to cover! And today is no exception. Since my Golden Globes post, I've been watching the rest of the award shows this year, and I've found a crap load of dresses that I felt like I needed to share....

The Talented Florence Welch at the Grammys!

Mila Kunis looks gorgeous at the SAG awards!

Natalie Portman at the Oscars

Mila Kunis at the Oscars

Nicole Kidman at the Oscars

I would probably post about 5,000 more of the dresses I liked from the Oscars this year, but that would take forever and there are still other things I'd like to cover in this post!

I seriously enjoyed the Grammys and the Oscars this year. I'd seen most of the nominees up for best picture, and I'm so glad the King's Speech won! If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend it, the movie is just fantastic! And the best part about the Grammys was Arcade Fire winning "Best Album of the Year." It was a total surprise, but the band deserved it over any of the other nominees (Sorry, Eminem).

Not to be completely random.... but is it just me, or does Eminem look like he's going to shoot a baby? I've never seen that guy smile.

MOVING ON. As usual, I've been listening to a ton of new bands in the past month or so, it's crazy. I've been finding them all through the free music Urban Outfitters offers on their website. They usually have 5 songs for free every Monday and then they come out with about 20 songs for free about once a month. I love free music too much and finding all these great bands is a plus. Urban Outfitters is really too unbelievable sometimes (especially when it comes to their clothing costs).

A reason I started blogging was because I became inspired from reading really great blogs. One of the great blogs I've been reading for awhile now is called  Where the Lovely Things Are. They always have a ton of great art and clothing up, and update their page frequently (something I should do....) I could spend hours and hours on this blog and never get bored!

Now, I've really got to get going and such. I leave you with a bunch of awesome photos that make me feel like sunshine inside. WE LOVE OUR FOLLOWERS.

Love Love Love &Cheers, Bobby Socks

(By the way, most of these photos were taken with a Holga camera, a favorite of mine)

Forest Girls with Bear Shiny

my dear goodness it has been forever! 

For about a month, I was sucked into doing Backstage crew for a local production of the musical Grey Gardens Which is a musical inspired off a documentary made in the 70s of a mother and daughter pair of spinsters. It is really an interesting show and really, there is a lot of lovely and very 70's fashion in it that is lovely so I really think you all should check it out! It is really interesting. :)

Because of crew there was a major lack of internet in my life and my considering I was only able to be on at most 10 minutes each night, not to mention my computer was taken away about 3 times by my family >.<

Considering this, I really did not have much time to anything but check my email and I was always tired my the time I got on that I could not do much intelligent real surfing of the web I would typically do, so I became very Tumblr oriented. 

Tumblr is amazingly addicting and there is a continuous stream of lovely photography and fashion that I adore! I have always had an obsession with forests, pretty vintage things and natural colors, so naturally when I came across Mori girl style on tumblr I was instantaneously obsessed!

Mori girl is a Japanese street fashion meaning "forest girl"  involving long flowing skirts, thick warm and vintage knits, natural and light makeup and laying of lots folksy vintage pieces. The style is very natural and pretty and I am in love with it!

A few pictures in particular that I have posted on tumblr and are my favorite:

I just love the colors and the layers!

I have noticed myself beginning to dress a bit more mori every day! It really is not a high fashion or very well known style, but from the looks of it, it might become more popular in just a little bit.

I really adore the whole concept behind the style, a girl living in a cozy cabin by herself, everyday taking in the simple and prettiest things of life and nature! Aaaah! I love it so much! ^-^

I really don't have much else to say for now but I'll be back soon. I will leave you off with a picture of myself that I took recently for tumblr posting purposes :D

everything that I am wearing is thrifted from the local Salvation army family store except for the cardigan which is second hand from a friend :)

see you all soon and lots of love! <3

~Bear Shiny

All pictures references and sources should be listed on my tumblr page!

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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/ysisarahlds

Golden Globes 2011

  I was looking for an excuse to procrastinate on papers tonight and decided to write up my review on the Golden Globe Awards this year! The whole night I was taking notes on the dresses the stars were wearing and the winners of the Golden Globes themselves. I'm a really huge dork if you haven't noticed. It's time for me to turn on some Of Montreal and start reviewing! I'm going to begin with my all time favoritest person at the Golden Globes, Natalie Portman. I love her work! I'm so glad she won best actress for Black Swan! She truly deserved it! That was such a difficult role to play! Her dress was so cute too! Since she's going to be a mother soon, her dress needed to be maternity-friendly. She ended up wearing Victor & Ralph in pink with a rose near the top! I thought it looked great on her!

 

 

Isn't she classy? I thought this dress looked really gorgeous on her! She's just too beautiful! Since I could probably go on all day about how amazing she looks, I'm going to have to stop myself here and move on! As much as I enjoy Carson Daily, I thought his co reporter for the event, Alexa Chung, a favorite of mine, upstaged him on the red carpet! She had such personality talking to the celebrities like they were all great friends of hers. I couldn't find too much of her in her dress (bright red Valentino, mind you), but I did find a picture of the Valentino model wearing it down the runway.

Alexa looked so cute in it as she entertained me for that somewhat boring hour before the actual show. She also revealed her three favorite dresses, including Natalie Portman's! Besides these two adorable dresses, I would love to keep going on and on about all the things I saw at the pre-show. But to save you the trouble, I'm just going to post pictures with captions that give the details on who wore it, designer, etc...

The gorgeous Scarlett Johansson in Elie Saab! Looks as stunning as ever!

The adorable Amy Adams in Marchesa

Carrie Underwood wearing Badgley Mischka

Christina Aguilera, whom I'm not too big a fan of, wearing a gorgeous Zuhair Murad dress

I know Helena Bonham Carter might be getting a lot of crap for this dress, but I love it! Vivienne Westwood made it look great! It suits her so well! (PS, she should've won best supporting actress for King's Speech)

I love Sandra Bullock's Jenny Packham dress! It's so beautiful!

Another favorite of mine, Tina Fey, looks amazing in Lauren Scott. (sp?)

Now onto the dresses that I thought were a little bit..... horrible. I don't want to give too much thought to them, so I'm not even going to bother putting the designer down. (Plus I'm lazy and need to start working on other things soon)

Good try, Jane Lynch. Did you try to copy Ke$ha and make a dress out of a garbage bag too? Oh, and you also shouldn't have won the Golden Globe for Glee. Just saying.

Oompa Loompa Doompedy Doo, I've got another question for you. Why does she look like a tangerine in a shapeless dress? Emma Stone's new makeover isn't "Easy A" on the eyes.

Looks like Angelina got the ugly Christmas sweaters out a little late this year...

Who knew you could turn a snuggie into a dress, Catherine Zeta-Jones?

Moving on from the harsh criticism... Wait, not done yet. I wasn't happy that Glee kept winning everything. Their second season has been... ok. Just ok. Bear Shiny and I aren't big Glee fans, and we weren't too pleased with the results in the comedic tv show catagory. Also, I did see The Social Network. I mean, it was good and all, but I don't see why it won everything. The King's Speech and Black Swan I would place higher in the rankings than The Social Network. And I don't hate the Social Network at all, I loved the screenplay and knew that would win no doubt. Pluses for the evening were the Best actor and actress in a motion picture drama. Colin Firth in The King's Speech and Natalie Portman in Black Swan were excellent! If you haven't seen these movies, I recommend both of them with all of my being! Also, I really enjoyed Ricky Gervais. I know he got a lot of crap about "going over the boarder," but at least he made the night entertaining. The next awards show coming up is the Grammys! You can most certainly bet that I'm hoping the best for Florence + The Machine for best new artist! We'll see how that goes! It's time for me to get to work!

Cheers, Bobby Socks

It's been awhile...

I apologize to all of you for being such a lazy person! Finals have been killer this week and I haven't had much time to post anything. Now that I have a longer weekend, I can finally get around to writing about some stuff. Since the last time you've heard from me I've cut my hair (See picture below)!  I've also received a new, red laptop with a webcam, meaning I can upload some screen shots I've been taking such as....

 

A picture of yours truly geeking out to some Narnia in horrible quality!  Anyways, along with all the new stuff I've mentioned thus far, I've also been listening to quite a few new bands! One in particular (that my amazing hairstylist suggested) is called Eisley. As soon as she mentioned it, I started geeking out, since Mos Eisley is the name of a place in Star Wars... 

 

Their stuff has sort of a rock feel (always a plus), but their acoustic songs and live performances make me love them even more! The members of the band come from the same family and they have written their own music since they were little kids. I suggest you all check them out on youtube or their website http://www.eisley.com/index.php/. (PS, they have an album coming out in 2011!) Moving on, Bear Shiny and I were at Borders last night skimming through the new collection edition of Vogue. We saw quite a few of sheer pants and shirts in the Paris shows, and we weren't too pleased about it.

                                                                                                

Something only Liza Minnelli would wear. No thanks. Something that did catch our eye, however, were two collections each with their own unique themes going on....

Alexander Mcqueen's spring collection that appeared in Paris looks like something out of Narnia! All the dresses in the collection are very unique, and I love the element of nature the designs have to them! (Not to mention they all look extremely magical) You can see the whole collection at http://www.alexandermcqueen.com/int/en/corporate/archive2011_sslook_womens.aspx?section=show_collection_lookbook

The Louis Vuitton summer collection for 2011 didn't disappoint! After the last season that came out, (a personal favorite of mine for last year) filled with long skirts and vintage-looking pieces, I had high expectations for the summer. The thing that I enjoy the most is the use of color in the collection, down to the painted toenails of the models! I love all of the bright, oriental-infused pieces designed by... I want to say Marc Jacobs. I'm pretty sure he designed it! Ads are already designed for this collection, and I love the makeup for it

You can see the whole fashion show here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_audWRKX48

I was disappointed at Miu Miu's collection, since I'm an avid lover of their feminine designs, but their shoes were fantastic! You can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIBumv3yGUQ. I also recommend looking at the other designer's collections in the recommendations box. Unfortunately, I didn't get to finish the magazine, or find out if Tommy Hilfiger or Dolce and Gabbana had collections in it!

Also a new thing! In one of my last posts, I wrote that I wanted a less boring coat. Yesterday, I bought a new blue coat for $10! Should post pictures soon!

Keep warm and have a great winter! I'll try to post much more often!

Cheers!
Bobby Socks

PS, Golden Globes are Sunday! I'm very excited to see what my favorite stars will be wearing! (Sounds like a good idea for my next post...)

personal reflection with bear shiny

 So, I do not know much about you guys but I know personally that I have been involved in and signed up for many, many, different social networking sites over the years. Since about 2008 I truly became involved in internet everything!

  One site in particular that I have been on and off with is dailybooth.

Dailybooth is practically what it says it is, its a website that you post a picture of yourself daily to show after years of growth how much you change. There is a huge community behind it, you have your trolls, plenty of hipsters, LOTS of scene kids and many many more or less normal people. (I would kind of like to consider myself apart of the "normal people" but meh, I'm crazy)

Well, the reason why I am bringing this up is because I have been posting on dailybooth since about early 2009 which really baffles me because that basically means I am coming up on three years now in about two months. 

scary. 

Due to the new year, I decided to go through my pictures and reflect on the ways that I have grown and changed from age 15 through age 17.

And let me tell you now, there is a lot!

 

 Its crazy to think this is my from 2009, I mean that was forever ago! I grew put of that shirt within a month, I broke those head phones after two usages, and I avoid having myself stay up that late on the computer during a school week. ( it was 3:00 in the morning in this picture!)

Summer 09'

 

(upper left)  freshman year 2009 when I was in the school musical as a cave lady

 (upper right) The freeze of 2009 winter

(lover left) Church christmas party of 2009

(lower right) summer of 2009 wearing a vintage hat (can't find it anywhere any more!)

 

 (top) First time going to salvation army, I got a TON of jewelery! (lost practically all of whats in the picture though)

(middle) Photo of my self highly edited, one of my favorites :)

(bottom) 2008, when I made The Ben Folds lip-sync of You Don't Know Me"

 These are actually the most recent of my pictures from the last 1-4 months. I think that there is a signifigant difference and you look through the pictures of the ways I have grown.

 Dear goodness so much! 

I feel as if I have solidly changed for the better. I have grown more confident in wearing what I really want to wear, I feel more independent, much less internet and camera awkward, and most of all more comfortable with who I am. I think that these pictures really show that way that I have grown. I feel as if this is a representation of the future possibilities That I have.

I would like to take this moment to recognize a few new years resolutions;

1. regular blog posts that are NOT weeks upon weeks apart
2. original images and photography of my own or that really and TRULY inspire me rather than simple examples
3. regular video making on my youtube page
4. more confidence in who I am and what I want to be
5. no soft drinks! (they are horrid for you!)
6. read more, like a LOT more
7. &, continue to do all the things that make you happy

This is me at the moment of posting this blog, I hope to be here a year later with another post of some solid reflection. If you have any new years reflections of your own or resolutions that you want to keep this year, leave a comment and I will try to respond and help to support you all the way! I hope you are all inspired to start a dailybooth so that you can have something visual of yourself to look back at. I suggest it completely!
See you all soon!

<3 Bear Shiny

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