"We are painfully obscure, but beautifully so"

Bob

Photo of my new bob braids hairstyle. Recently cut. Still getting used to them. Very Jada Pinkett- Smith circa 90s no?

thanks to my friend lindsay michelle purdon for the pictures :)

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M.I.A : Bad Girls Do It Well

All inspiration. All talent and fashion forwardness and risk taking!Love MIA.

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Dark Nights x Dim Lights

Friday,14 June.
This was a relatively calm night out. We were basking in the dark in a very dimly-lit bar in our local student town Grahamstown and enjoying a well deserved from a very busy two weeks. When we aren't hustling for our degrees, we surround ourselves with good company. In staying true to my fashion loving ways, I wore a thrifted red turtle neck top, a gift from a friend, old school leather jacket; my mom's, high waisted jeans; also thrift store and finished the look off with a gold chain and hoop earrings. The pictures aren't typically editorial but here's just a little look into my life. Lovely people on a lovely night.

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A bunch of very over-exposed pictures, right? Anyway, just thought I'd add some more personal touches to my blog. In order to not "incriminate" anyone on this public space, I should add that we are all just friends.

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Missing Summer, missing home

Looking through some old photos(well, from December of last year) and felt slightly homesick. These were taken on a spontaneous day in the Bloemfontein CBD with my little sister and mother. These are not of a professional nature but rather personal, I had such a good time on this day wearing my favourite print shirt and just being in the city. Thanks to mom for playing "photographer" for that day. Love and light

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Inspiration

Now that exam time has beckoned, I've been buckling down and trying to get into a mindset that is going to guarantee the best outcome. It has also got me thinking about what it takes for one to actually be motivated to start something and follow through with it. My best guess would be passion, not as if nobody knew that but passion fuels potential and turns it into something great. I was very uninspired for a very long time, having gone through a few setbacks in the past 3 years I almost totally forgot that the purpose of learning is to get an education, but whilst doing so remembering that which inspires you to do what you're doing. In many ways, life is unpredictable, things do not always turn out the way we want them to but when you remember how far I've come it's difficult to back down. I am still learning and growing and learning and carefully molding myself into the person I want to become, living vicariously through inspiration from people I look up to. All I'm saying is that it is important to not forget why it is you're doing something, purpose is everything and without it I know that I have gone astray. I would like to think that I'm on the right track to making my dreams come true. Comparisons kill the soul and doubting yourself is the worst bruise you could inflict on your self-worth. I hope that whoever reads this remembers that there is more to life than a number on a piece of paper, grades don't define us and neither do past mistakes. I vow to live fully from this day forward. Inspiration is everywhere, you just have to open your eyes and acknowledge it.
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Undefined

Hi!

I spent this past weekend reflecting and thinking about the things which define me as a person, the people who influence me. I wasn't too sure which angle I should take in creating this post so I thought it would be a good idea to make it personal. For as long as I can remember I have never been someone who "fitted in", the friends I have are from a multitude of backgrounds and have different personalities.  I am still searching, trying to find myself in this big bad world and often I come across things that take my breath away. Not for any particular reason, it could be something vague and this "thing" usually takes the form of a picture or a musical piece. Something that moves me in a way I cannot explain, something that I discover new parts of me in when I see or hear it, when I experience it. Taking from that point, I wanted to make this blog a creative space for myself, where I share what I like with the world without being too generic about it. What this post is about is me, in a weird sort of sense it's about me finding these two pictures whilst surfing the internet and being moved by them. I could not trace the authors/photographers or model of the first picture but I did for the second one. They do not have any worldly significance and this is not a post that's going to change anyone's life but it is a post that simply shares. I'm amazed at the way people can make even the simplest things look beautiful and I still can't put my finger on why it is I randomly chose to blog about these pictures but I hope you see the beauty that I see in these pictures; how they are both dark and almost evasive but also undeniably beguiling. 

Soo Joo by Marton Perlaki for Oyster #102

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Food for Thought

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not the desire to beat others"

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