#lifetime
“One day, you will be withered and old from all those days earning money for me and I’ll have to move on to a younger financial slave. That’s why I have to get the most out of my slaves before they are too old to work.“
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This is what makes life special ♥️
Project Runway All Stars Season 4 - Episode 12: Some Like it Hot Dog
Is it just me or the episode titles are getting worse? Jeeeez.
Anyway, I was really excited to see what this challenge was about as I didn’t understand anything from the preview the week before, and I was happy to see that they had to design a look for a Gala event such as the Oscars - the fact they were inspired from Marilyn Monroe was just an excuse to talk about the new film being released on Lifetime, wasn’t it?
A pretty safe choice from the authors, as you usually take some shimmering lace, cover your model, leave her back naked and you have an amazing Elie Saab sort of gown - I just realised I perfectly described Michelle’s dress for this challenge.
But first, in the workroom they had a really stupid mini-challenge which didn’t have anything to do with the main one and which only served to give Michelle her only win before being eliminated. They had to make, in a very short time, some dresses for dogs getting their inspiration from film genres. Michelle won the chance of being artistic director for a dog clothing collection of I don’t know what. It was all pretty out-of-place, TBH.
Dmitry of course blew me away. It didn’t even surprise me as I’m so used to getting amazed by what he and Sonjia do. From the choice of tea dying the fringes to give that antique look, to the sheer lace he chose - very Dmitry style! - and, omg, the invisible straps - I agreed when one of the judges said she’s never thought about invisible straps as a sophisticated detail, and yet in this dress that was one of the most exciting aspects. Yes, it was perfect, and I can see tons of stars catfighting to have that on their next red carpet apparition!
It was hard to choose between Helen and Michelle but I opted for the former, not because I can’t stand her - even if it’s true that I can’t - but because after all, Michelle’s dress had more thinking behind it. I appreciated Helen went for something really minimal, it looks a little bit 90s, which can be a good thing as the 90s are back in fashion - even though I’m seeing this trend disappearing more and more. I still don’t know if I liked the colour and the beading, I don’t understand if I find it very matronly or very fresh. One sure thing is that it was too long. Anyway, all these doubts about it are nothing good, and between her and Michelle I would have gone for Michelle all the way, I was curious to see if she could pull off an amazing collection - which I didn’t expect from her - just like in her PR season.
Michelle didn’t have a good dress, everything, from the silhouette to the sleeves, looked way too long, and I would have completely avoided that cheap chain behind it - Zanna told her during the critique, but she couldn’t just get over those f****** chains! I didn’t mind the fabric, in general it was a predictable evening gown which you can see in every red carpet, that’s why I wasn’t excited about but at the same time that’s why I wouldn’t have sent her home.
The judges had another mini challenge for the bottom two girls, where they had to pick at least three of the eliminated looks from this season to create a new garment. Of course you can’t do much in one hour, so they came out with some very shitty outfits - even if the judges were all saying how gorgeous what they made was. I mean, of course it was pretty amazing in one hour to pull off those things, but it was nothing special, come on. Helen did something very basic, maybe too basic, and even if Michelle’s look was possibly uglier, at least there was something in it - but you also have to consider she used only two from the past looks and she realised it only after they finished. Anyway it seemed pretty obvious to me that the judges wanted Helen to go to the finale, so she could even came up with a fig leave over the model’s patsy, they would have chosen her anyway.
One thing I couldn’t stand was her crying and saying for the 100th time how miserable it was to go home just before the final in her season and no, no, I don’t want this to happen again, oh my god, how can I do…. Really girl, SHUT UP.
She’s going to make some cape dresses, some total red look and screw everything with choices she thinks are outside the box and instead it’s only crap. I’m sure of this.
Sonjia or Dmitry, one of them is going to win.
xxx
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i sat up in bed at 1 am and made this (living is a curse)
Do you think I can have one more kiss? I’ll find closure on your lips and then I’ll go. Maybe also one more breakfast, one more lunch, and one more dinner. I’ll be full and happy and we can part. But in between meals, maybe we can lie in bed one more time. One more prolonged moment where time suspends indefinitely as I rest my head on your chest. My hope is if we add up the “one mores”, they will equal a lifetime and I’ll never have to get to the part where I let you go. But that’s not real, is it? There are no more one mores.
I met you when everything was new and exciting, and the possibilities of the world seem endless. And they still are… for you, for me, but not for us. Somewhere between then and now, here and there, I guess we didn’t just grow apart, we grew up. When something breaks, if the pieces are large enough, you can fix it. Unfortunately sometimes things don’t break, they shatter. But when you let the light in, shattered glass will glitter. And in those moments, when the pieces of what we were catch the sun, I’ll remember just how beautiful it was. Just how beautiful it’ll always be. Because it was us. And we were magic. Forever.
Someone Great (2019) Jenny Young
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We were carefree, tonight. We felt the way we did years ago, when we were younger versions of ourselves. When we had less responsibilities and we only thought we had real worries.
We used to talk into the late night hours, eating bread with cheese and olives and drinking wine, lying on the hardwood floor of your artsy apartment, listening to Damien Rice sing depressingly real songs about life, and love.
Those moments were real, then. We were seduced by that beautiful narrative, wanting it to mean both more, and much less. Wanting it to be different in the end, yet exactly the same. Exactly. Never failing to see the romance of a moment, even if the true price would be too much to bear.
Now, the hardwood floor has been replaced with a leather couch, a heavy dining room table and big chairs. The music is the background hum of family, of an old television. But we still have the same bread, cheese and olives and look how sophisticated we are now, having upgraded to Pink champagne.
So we toast to life, love, and friendship, and another year. And marvel, what a ride it’s been.
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It is horrifying discovering that majority of your friends are either into or trying hardcore drugs that could change them for a lifetime.
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L’artiste pluridisciplinaire Christelle Oyiri (aka Crystallmess) nous offre, pour “Lifetime”, une pièce sonore inédite rendant hommage aux ancêtres, avec la participation de l’artiste Julien Creuzet pour la voix et les textes.
“Kiss & Tell” utilise des enregistrements et des samples récoltés par l’artiste lors de son séjour récent en Guadeloupe — île natale de sa mère dans laquelle elle n’était pas retournée depuis 12 ans.
Christelle Oyiri raconte : « Kiss & Tell fait coexister différentes temporalités et différents espaces. Une ôde à l’hantologie, où l’aïeul devient un spectre bienveillant que l’on invite à habiter la maison du présent. C’est se réconcilier avec l’idée d’être en présence d’un fantôme, qu’il soit vivant ou mort. »
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Today, NTS radio’s resident artist Christelle Oyiri aka Crystallmess shares with us, for the “Lifetime” project, a new unpublished sound piece in homage to the ancestors, in collaboration with Julien Creuzet for the voice and the texts.
“Kiss & Tell” uses field recordings and samples collected by the artist during her recent stay in Guadeloupe - her mother’s native island to which she hadn’t returned for 12 years.
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Kate McKinnon | Lifetime Presents Variety’s Power of Women 2021
Will you use your precise minutes of the day and watching the sunset this morning?
I am one of those people who time seems to go by too fast in a day. One day turns into a week the next morning but when you stop and enjoy the moments a day seems to last a life time. So today, on this Saturday, I am going to forget about time for once and let the seconds pass me and not try to chase them for once in my life.
☀️ Ingrown Sun Flower ☀️
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كل عام وانت رمز الأنوثة، كل عام وانت الحكمة، كل عام وصبرك أُمثولة.
كل عام يا عزيزة النفس، يا من تُرفع لعزتها النفوس، وتُقام لفرحتها الطقوس.
كل عام وأنت لعائلتك الميزان، وبيتك بالحب والاحترام ملآن، وعملك بالشغف مكلل بالنجاح.
يا امرأة كوني كما انت، ولا تتغيري، مهما تغيرت الظروف والأزمان. فإن عزة النفس، لا يشترى بها، ولا يباع.
“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.”
- Albert Camus. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, 1951.
Art: Edward Hopper. Boy and Moon, 1906-1907.
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I’ve often marvelled at how quickly some people become your best friend and how others, no matter how much you will it to happen, just… well… don’t.
Like most, I have the childhood friends that I value deeply, carry with me everywhere in my deepest treasured thoughts and memories and the uni friends that no matter how long we don’t speak for we always pick up exactly where we left off.
With me for a lifetime!
Like most, I also have those friends that were incredibly close for so many months (and even years!) that are now, regrettably of course, not even on the agenda. Sad as it is to say, they are friends lost through time and space. Literally, actually, when one moves away and distance is a troublesome factor. Or when schedules don’t coincide for months on end. Or the simple nature of the human race that allows us to grow, develop and finesse out skills to incredible depth. Expectedly so, this can cause a diversion of interest, away from the initial path ensures that 2 people’s futures and fates no longer wear out the same route.
With me for a season.
Similarly, there are those friends who have shared intense closeness over an era that leave behind a remarkable sadness in your heart when the natural course of life, namely the above, takes it’s grip on a friendship. I’ve often wondered why it’s a bigger deal, almost hurtful, but certainly sadder, when some friends are lost along the way over others.
This led me to thinking that perhaps it’s not so much the reasons for the diverging life patterns but rather the reasons that gave birth to the friendship in the first place. Perhaps it’s the presence of a genuine connection, maybe a shared experience, a bonding over similar trials and tribulations as opposed to a circumstantial scenario throwing several people in the same direction (work) and forcing each individual to adopt the survival instinct to make friends, build allies and make good of a somewhat shit situation.
With me for a reason…
So as I wrote this, lying in bed at nearly midnight it got me pondering existing friendships and reviewing the lifespan of them. However, milliseconds into this train of thought it is evident it’s a moot point. Only time will tell the story of a friendship, and only time will tell whether the closest of friends now are purely there for a season, or a reason, although in the case of my new and slightly bat shit crazy roomie, I do hope it’s for a lifetime!
From the original Client List 2010, which was the initial template for the show that followed.
Chicago Tribune, Illinois, August 23, 1891
I’m into it. You could drop a bath bomb in that thing and rock back and forth in a sea of bubbles. My primary concern would be splash from particularly aggressive rocking waves.
Okay so I want this
“Last a lifetime”. Show me a single product made in the last 50 years that is made to last a lifetime…
(Except Nokia phones, of course)
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