Stop the pity party

Yes life is hard, yes you have been through a lot but there is no reason for you to act like a victim. You are not a victim of life, you are a survivor. The fact that you are living and breathing right now proves this. Instead of dwelling on what life has done to you, focus on what you can do to make it better because it can be done. Pull yourself together. As it is Easter we should try and remember what Jesus went through, having to be publicly humiliated and hung on a cross, if Jesus was able to endure this and still not act like a victim then you have no excuse.

People have had to overcome difficulties greater than what you have right in front of you. Focus on the bigger picture. Believe you will come out of the situation and it will happen, the key is to keep on and on for as long as it takes and I mean as long as it takes.

We are born fighters our biological makeup proves this, when we have an infection,our body immediately tries to fight and heal this. You should do the same mentally.Believe in yourself!

Dermal Implants!!!

A new craze which can be done in many piercing shops, in which body jewlery is placed underneath the skin, the skin then heals over it creating a design. Why???

Ipad?

So just when we had all gotten used to the I-phone Apple has launched the Apple I-pad in the US, a cross between an I-phone and Macbook. It has been speculated that the price in the UK is to cost £389.

Heres a video on the I-Pad.

Cassie new face of walmart

Cassie teams up with Walmart ( the American version of Asda) and models for OP. Celebrities that have also modelled for this brand include Solange Knowles and Christina Millian.

What I want to know is what happened to Cassies shaved head?

ORISUE

Mens clothing brand . Worn by celebrities like Nas. Up-coming hip-hop artists Fashawn and Yelawolf are the fresh faces of ORISUE’s spring/summer 2010 campaign.

Model Focus: Hair raising statements

Nandy Silvestre

Bettine Mccabe:

Diesel campaign

Vouge Italia

Crash Editorial Commuun, Winter 2008

I just thought that I will shine the light on Bettine Mccabe and Nandy, both two models who make serious statements with their hair.

British born Bettine Mccabe is signed with Next model management, Select, Muse and Flair. And has also appeared in Disel and Tommy hilfiger campaigns as well as Vogue Italia.
Bettine is studying fashion promotion at 'Central Saint Martins' college in London.

Nandy Silvestre is signed with Fashion model management S.P.A

Misguided clothing

Ladies, good place to get the hottest clothes without burning a hole in your pocket.

http://www.misguided.co.uk/

T-pain's christian album

Who would have thought that T-pain would be coming out with a Gospel album? He stated

" I am a deeply spiritual person. Dude, I go to church just as much as I go to the strip club. That's saying something."

I wonder if T-pain will have the power to take us back to church?

Can I get a window seat? Don't want nobody next to me

Wow Erykah has really caused a stir, with her new video window seat. Recently being fined $500 for inappropriate exposure in her video.

One question that keeps on coming up is, what is the meaning behind the song and Erykah Badu's video? Her song and video reveal two different concepts. Erykah's song lyrics talk about wanting to be alone because her lover has gone.On the other hand in the video she strips off, taking off her clothes to remove everything that is repressing her and defining her in the world. Eventually she is left to her true naked self but is shot because people do not understand it (and evidently judging by her fine the state doesn't either.)

People have been bringing up the fact that many artists have exposed their naked bodies in videos. Examples are Alanis Morissett- Thank u, Britney spears- Womanizer and Rihanna - Umbrella. Despite this I think the issue at hand was the fact that nobody knew about her stripping and there were no licences etc.

One point I found interesting that someone made, was that this video caused a lot of controversy because Erykah Badu was a black women stripping in a non-sexual nature. Black women have been naked in many hiphop artist video's such as 50 cent.This however has not caused much controversy as it is accepted by society that black women can only be naked in a sexual manner. Or is this all women in general?

Maybe in the words of Erykah Badu we should open our eyes, renew our mind....
Heres a video of her peforming the song.

White Elephant

It has been two weeks now and I have been meaning to blog about this .What is that? I hear you all ask? Well my White Elephant experience of course!!

If you are wondering what I am talking about.White elephant is an independent music and arts group. They recently visited my university with their show' never accept something average' - which should be everyones philosophy in life.

Being someone who is a huge fan of music and poetry sitting through the show was definitely a good experience . These guys can really saaang, rap, play instruments do it all!

White elephant renewed my faith in RnB keeping it true to it's soulful roots as well as adding a hip hop flavour and to top it all off they are from the UK! If you are a fan of hiphop, Rnb and live music I know you will love them. To find out more about the artists visit http://whiteelephantworld.wordpress.com/about-white-elephant/

You can also watch some performances on youtube and visit them on myspace.

Here's one that I managed to get, only a snippet of what they have to offer

Here are some pictures that I frantically tried to get whilst watching the show. They aren't the best but lord knows I tried:P.

Music performances

Drama