Past Lives

So I've been really into Buddhism lately. I'm starting to actually believe in past lives. It might explain all my "sixth sense" moments I call them. I think i experience Deja vu more than anyone I know. It also may explain my uncanny ability to step outside my "world box" and view someone else's or at-least  think I've lived in another. Being in touch with it I think is what drives my artistic thoughts and obsession with knowing languages and people that I feel like I've lived before.

-ANYWAYS- This week I was talking about how I really felt like I lived in an Eastern European country in my last life. Obviously this was as the party was winding down and everyone was chilling. So we all laughed at me.

- Then today I took the "Past Lives" Quiz. Which is complete bullshit I know. But this was a funny answer it gave me.

So this weekend I was talking about feeling like i was born in Eastern Europe in my past life.. ..  and.. I took a test...


Your past life diagnosis:
I don't know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Romania around the year 1875. Your profession was that of a map maker, astrologer, astronomer.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Timid, constrained, quiet person. You had creative talents, which waited until this life to be liberated. Sometimes your environment considered you strange.
The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:It always seemed to you that your perceptions of the world are somewhat different. Your lesson is to trust your intuition as your best guide in your present life. 

Love Aaj Kal [लव आज कल] [Love These Days]

Great 2009 Bollywood Flick!


Didn't get to see it in theatres. I had to wait till this month to finally get a chance to see it!
- My favorite actor [Saif Ali Khan] and the new "it girl" [Deepika Padukone] star in a very warming film. Its a story of love in the modern age, and a story of old world romance in 60's Punjabi India.

Jai [Saif] and Meera [Deepika] are the power couple in a group of friends living in London. Their lives split when their jobs take them to separate parts of the world. San Fran and Delhi. Being as far apart as possible they realize they need each other. Its only the stories of old world romance that bring them together.

Great Songs, Great cinematography, Sweet Story. Watch it

Rag and Bone

There's a really cool Vintage store in State College, PA.

Instead of taking all the crap they accept in Good Will and Salvation Army, Rag and Bone is run by Shelley Banker. She collects pieces from auctions and dealers. Everything in the store is amazing.

The store helped me dress many of the characters in my futuristic thriller film from the Fall, Mission Osiris.
I've also found great costume jewelry and even a snake skin wallet there.

If you're looking for something to wear but hate all the stores in this sad little town, thats the spot.

al-3Arabia

So, This semester there are too many kids in my arabic class for there to be proper study. So we split up every other day with one of our teachers. Today the lists came out, Eiyre b'hyati. I'm stuck with the teacher that hates me, opposed to the teacher that I get along with. Granted, this teacher will push me harder and get me to be a better speaker of the language, I'm still not looking forward to it.

Today we went over my favorite part of the Arabic language.

al-fa3ala
the verb , and its ability to be morphed into many other forms of its self.

you take the root, F-3-L [the judher], and put it into all the other patterns to change meaning.

if Q-T-3 [F-3-l] is to cut
then Q-T-T-3 is to chop up
Q-A-T-3 to cut off
A-N-Q-T-3 - to be cut off

etc etc. You get the idea. Well anyways there are 10 forms of a verb. And I have a quiz on monday on all of them, and need to know all the meanings, like as you saw above, A-N-F-3-L is to become the one taking the action instead of doing the action.
As an English speaker this is a pain in the ass to remember, but for an Arab this is heaven when it comes time to use a dictionary, or making words. Frankly, it makes want to crush babies.

But it does also work for nouns.

D-R-S is to study
D-A-R-S student
M-D-R-S-A - school

etc etc

ok I'm sure nobody cares haha, But I find it fascinating.

Вячеслав Михайлович Зайцев

SLAVA ZAITSEV

Crazy
Russian
Designer

Well at least his fashion is all know of. He is also a painter, graphic designer, and a costume designer.
What I love about him is his ability to make traditional Slavic designs into high fashion. The history, and stories that go into each piece are what amaze me. His family endured some hardships of Russian history [his Father was murdered in Stalin's camps] and I think it translates into his artwork. He once stated that all these years he's been making clothes in the memory o his mother. She worked as a seamstress during the Soviet years and never owned a fancy dress.

He creates what he lives. He's proud of his background. Which I somehow hope I can put into my work one day.

SHANTI

Feeling a lot of pain today. Please read this prayer that I found on a website.