I've always supported the idea of tattoo's and body mods because in all honesty, your body is your canvas. What you chose to do with that canvas is your choice and some are just more eccentric then others in the ways they express that. When I turn 18 I plan to change myself a little bit. I'm an art major, what could you really expect? Everything I do with my body has been very much thought out for quite awhile so I intend on following through with it. First is my septum piercing. I've never really been a big jewelry person and nose rings have never really caught my attention but septum rings have always fascinated me. I've seriously been wanting this done since I was 13. Even though I've only really considered this during the teenage years of my life, I believe that I've thought about it enough that I really won't regret getting it done. And even if I don't like it then I can just take it out and it'll be like nothing ever happened. I preferably want a tiny one, no big hoops. I really only care about the little ends of it sticking out my nostrils. Second is my hair. I'm not 100% sure I'm going to go through with this one yet but I've always wanted to dye my hair a fun color and pink has been the one calling my name! I would love to dye my hair a light peachy pink color. Not sure if I would leave my roots out or only dye half of it or all of it! But I want to try something different. Hair grows back people! So testing out fun colors is no big deal, you're just expressing yourself through your hair! Third is my tattoos. Now, these will be done spread throughout my entire life. When the moment feels right for each piece. And of course when I have the money because I would want to invest in a work of art that will be on my body forever! I like the idea of getting a variety of various small tattoos on all different parts of your body. I wouldn't want an entire sleeve but more like hidden little gems. I don't need to be my tattoo's to be the center piece of my body. I want them to seem more like they've just always been apart of me. 1. The first piece is my strawberry. I would get this to be matching with or within the same meaning as my best friend Sunny. The Beatles have played a pretty significant role in not only our lives but our friendship as a whole. We've never hung out without having a least one Beatles song passing through our playlist, especially Strawberry Fields. This song really signifies a pivotal changing moment in our friendship and marked it from being just high school friends to making the decision to attempt to be life long friends. Maybe we'll get them done on our trip to Japan together? Oh yeah, that's a thing. We're totally going to go to Japan together the summer of 2018! Woo for Japanese strawberries. This would for sure be a tiny tattoo and I would love to get it on some random part of my right arm. Maybe the upper forearm. Either just a single strawberry or something that brings the Beatles into it a little more. 2. This next one is both very sweet but a little funny according to it's origins. It's another matching type tattoo with both Sunny and Viv. I will get a Sun, Viv will get a moon and Sunny will get a star. We can all have them done in whatever style we would prefer. But the reason for them is that I would have Sunny, Viv would have me and Sunny would have Viv. We got this idea from mostly this guy we all go to school with. He wrote this story and all of us are in it. It's a fiction syfy type of book and each of us resemble either a sun, moon or star. Me being the moon, Sunny being the sun (duh) and Viv being the star. Hence the idea. It's another reminder of our friendships and impact we've all had on each others lives. I would also like this to be another tiny tattoo, and extremely simple. I just want it to be a black line tattoo, no color. Not completely sure were I would want it yet, but as of right now I'm leaning somewhere more towards my foot reign. 3. Guess what? another tiny tattoo. This one is also going to be very simplistic, just black line work again. It would be of a tiny cactus or desert type setting. This is to just remind me of home and where I grew up! The foundation of your life is really important for growth and development within your self. So just realizing that place in such a clear image it's really amazing. Growing up in the Coachella Valley has been a real trip, and not until this year have I realized that I've been so blessed growing up in such a rad place. Really makes you feel special in a strange way when you realize this. 4. This one is for Frida. When I first learned about Frida Kahlo she forever changed my out look on life. Really marking the time in my life when I became more aware of my body and myself and loving the hell our of being a woman. I became so empowered! Not to mention her art, and her impact on myself as an artist. The first time I saw her piece, "Frieda and Diego Rivera" at the SFMOMA I cried. Just being in the same room with a piece she had worked on years ago, probably in her own home and that that painting had been through so much history overwhelmed me. It was a complete honor. Art really moves people in strange ways and the fact that she was able to covey some form of emotion in me amazes me. This would be a bigger piece on the back of my left upper arm. Nothing to huge but I definitely want it to be a visible memorial type piece. I would either get it of just her or of her work "Henry Ford Hospital". That piece has just always been one that has moved me and is my favorite work of art by her. I really love all the styles below, and would love to have someone combine them all together and create my own unique piece. Since this one is so special I'm defiantly going to make it a point that I have someone very skilled do it. I guess you can say that this post kinda sums up my current "mood board" but I've really put a lot of thought into everything and I think these changes are just going to be able to reflect my personality just a little more louder then other people would. We all have the right to do whatever we want with our bodies and that should be respected.
Your body, your art man!
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So guess who didn't get their license today? Ding ding, right over here. It's not even because I didn't pass the test. It's really just because I made a stupid mistake and it was really the last thing that I thought would prevent me from getting my license today. I accidentally miss counted the amount of months it would take until I met the 6 month requirement of having my permit. I counted 5 months instead of 6 and waited eagerly within those 5 months thinking I would get my license today. The worse part was I was SO confident that I was going to pass. So getting there and being told I'm not even eligible to take the test was kinda a major bummer. It's a little funny now but I really make stupid little mistakes like that all the time and when it happens so often it gets to you a bit. But, there's really nothing I can do about this so now I just have to wait until June 12th and then I will hopefully pass my test with flying colors.
I find myself making minor mistakes a lot in life and bad academic choices. I'm a pretty good student but this year I've been slacking a bit. I never study and I feel like that small aspect of myself is starting to really effect me. For instance, I have to enroll in an early start math program because I scored incredibly low on my entry level math exam. Math has never been my strong suit and standardized math tests have always reflected that. I just have never put in the effort into memorizing all of the formulas and rules of basic math functions so when I receive a test that covers basic math knowledge it's pretty foreign to me. I'm starting to realize the consequences of my choices and I'm ready to learn from them and grow as a person. I'm hoping that with this math course I'll be able to discipline myself to really put in the effort to actually learn and understand the material instead of just rushing to finish to get it over with. Along with this I hope to develop good work ethic and study habits. Since I'm going into college this is going to be really important because at that point it's really up to me and the way I work to do well in my classes. We all make small stupid mistakes in our lives but you just can't make those mistakes a habit. That's when things go south real fast and the longer you let them happen then you won't be able to fulfill your full potential as a human. When you make these mistakes don't get sad and let it weigh you down. Learn from your mistakes, accept yourself and move on. You have to love yourself and realize that every decision you make will have a consequence. But it's up to you and the choices you make if those consequences will be positive or negative. I personally hope for more positives then negatives, but doesn't everyone? Hello humans.
Yesterday sun bun & I went on one wild adventure. A while back i was scrolling through instagram and came across an ad for a Mac Demarco concert in pioneer town at Pappy & Harriet's which is literally like 40 minutes away from where i live so of course i lost it! When i got to lunch i ran up to sunny and told her a news and we immediately bought tickets. The tickets on the website sold out in literally 2 minutes so we ended up needing to go on this sketchy 3rd party website named "ticket liquidator". It didn't sound that great but we read some reviews and placed all our trust in them with our money. We ended up paying almost 300 dollars for our tickets but THANK GOD they delivered and we were set. Thank you Ticket Liquidator. Now heres a little side note, this was going to be my second time seeing Mac live within the span of like a month? So i was stoked. i saw him at Coachella this year and it was AMAZING he's such a cutie and a great performer. Anyways, sunny was supposed to go to coachella with me but she was in Africa doing her humanly civic duties so that really didn't work out. She was really heartbroken about missing his performance so this upcoming concert was seriously the answer to her problems. Getting there was seriously an adventure in itself. We originally wanted to camp out in joshua tree after the concert but plans fell through and we had to end up driving home. BUT, when we got to the concert they accidentally parked us in VIP so after the concert we were literally parked right next to the house where the after party was happening. Needless to say we got to meet and hang out with Mac and some other seriously stellar people! Everyone was so sweet and kind to us! I even talked about the universe with him and it was the cutest little experience I've ever had. love him and his music so much! such an inspiration! THE CONCERT was insane. He ended up playing basically the same set he did at coachella but the small size of the crowd and the energy everyone had is what really made it a completely different experience. I go in flip flops practically everywhere and may i just say i think i deserve a mental of honor or something for what my feet went through. At one point Mac jumped off the stage and started crowd surfing which was pretty intense. I touched his leg and butt! lol. and then i accidentally got thrown into the middle of the actual "surf board" aka mac demarco's body and that soon turned into a mosh pit where i almost broke my glasses! But low and behold i survived. Since the crowd was so small the intimacy of the set was on point. After the entire show was over and the crowd had kinda left we were able to go up to the front of the stage and just chill with the band as they were packing up to leave. it was super cute. Once we finished mingling with the band and Mac himself we somehow got enough energy to go back into Pappy & Harriet's and have a mini dance party because they still had a live DJ playing! Since it was Cinco de Mayo they were playing a lot of rad latin rock remix's. Sunny & I were for sure dancing our little hearts out and met some cool people along the way! The drive home was pretty chill, i couldn't really hear anything but we just jammed out to some soft music. We stopped at a gas station for some coffee and barbecue chips which ended up being 50 cents more then what i had! But thanks to some rad local that lent us 50 cents we were able to get our snacks and drive home. I definitely ate A LOT of crap that day so i'm kinda starting to get back in my routine of eating healthy and working out. I feel like my body has so much potential but i'm just not taking advantage of it! In correlation with that I'm also doing some belated spring cleaning and getting rid of a lot extra stuff that i don't need anymore. For instance, i'm getting rid of my tv and ps4 because it's just distractions to life! We should always try to live in the moment and those are things that prevent that. |