Normal cool and pretty girls
Jan. 21st, 2007 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Today I want to talk about cool and pretty girls. Normal ones with nothing commercial, heightened or enhanced about them. In fact, wouldn't it be great to have a blog that talked exclusively about cool and pretty normal girls, with nothing enhanced, a blog that just sought them out and celebrated them? Because, in this world, there can never be too many cool and pretty normal girls. And no, I don't mean Suicide Girls. I mean just normal cool and pretty girls, honky-donkeying around on their own blogs, and the blogs of their friends, mostly.I've noticed that my friend Toog puts lots of pretty girl pictures on his blog. They're pretty pretty, very young and sometimes naked. But they're not quite the same kind of pretty girls I'd put here, if I were to make an entry called something like "Cool and pretty normal girls". They're a bit
more the Virgin Suicides type. The Citizen K type. They look styled, ingenue, somebody else's wet dream. I prefer more normal girls, presented the way they choose.Now, we might all disagree about what a cool and pretty normal girl is. We might express post-feminist doubts and qualms even about using the word "girl". We might worry that these girls, talked about all over cyberspace, would attract the wrong sort of attention and get cyberstalked. We might talk about who has the right to celebrate these cool and pretty and normal girls and who doesn't, and how old you have to be before you're a dirty old man. (The age after my next birthday, is the answer to that.) But, you know, let's not bother with all that, shall we? Life's too short, and we die. Let's just talk about cool and pretty normal girls today, girls who are putting their photos online because they know this makes the world a better place. We believe they are correct.
In theory I like the idea of the Flickr Wardrobe Remix Pool quite a bit. Girls (and some boys too) put their today's outfit up there, day in, day out. But I've only ever seen one really cool girl on that -- a Hong Kong girl called T T.
I obviously find Japanese girls some of the prettiest and coolest anywhere, but there's generally a modesty and self-effacement thing going on in the culture which prevents people there from flaunting it even if they've got it. Most Mixi pages, for instance, are illustrated by icons of rabbits, rag dolls and amusingly-shaped root vegetables rather than the faces of the pretty girls behind them. But there are sites like Love Useless Resistance, set up by Sakiccho and Haachu, who set themselves the goal of finding a boyfriend by Christmas Eve. They ended up publishing a book instead. Which I suppose has to disqualify them as "normal" girls. They work for some kind of star-making publicist-manager, apparently -- Kuro Miho, "mastermind woman of the blog world". Harumph.I suppose you could say people in bands also have a commercial reason to show themselves. I already mentioned Nobuko Hori, who makes music and visuals. I could add the charming Yoshimi from Lullatone. (Shawn, her partner, is himself something of a pinup in the paddling pool.)
What about LiveJournal girls? Well, I must say it's always a delight to see new self-portraits on my Friends List, especially when it's
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obelia posing nude in a cardboard box. Or wendypants without any make-up on. Or may_kasahara in her room. Or ultrakurtzwelle (Connie) spiky-bobbed in black and white.
Nice, normal, cool and pretty girls make this world a great deal better. Here, to prove the point, is Hikaru dancing an "organic dance" in a video by Andrew Benson.
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Tell me your favourite nice, normal, pretty, world-bettering girl... and her URL.
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Date: 2007-01-21 11:35 am (UTC)"A SURGE OF MANLINESS BILLOWS THROUGH ME"
after gutting a trout.
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Date: 2007-01-21 11:30 am (UTC)The thing about her, other than shes adorable, is that there is NO ONE like Beka. And I mean that in the best way possible. As style all her own. Shes not only a writer(anime smut fanfic mostly.. but very well written), but also studying to be a graphic designer. She's taking on two degrees at once(liberal Arts and graphic arts). She has been such a light in my life in the past months. And that is why she is "world changing". But, as the topic goes, shes just not the kind of person you might see on a runway, or as a trophy wife(UGH!).. but that's all crap anyways. Shes sweet and incredible and that makes her stand out. And she's beautiful.
This is a picture I took during 3d Design class, after I had just marked up her arms with my, then, new graf characters.
http://ursweetheartles.livejournal.com/
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Date: 2007-01-21 11:54 am (UTC)Would a video of her doing a Celtic dance inside that box be of more interest to Click Opera perverts?
And also I think you might like my friend Edine's style:
http://www.myspace.com/frenchybambi http://www.flickr.com/photos/hktripper
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Date: 2007-01-21 11:55 am (UTC)http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendypants/313680868/
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Date: 2007-01-21 12:32 pm (UTC)my name is javier, im a sound artist from argentina, big fan of your music, particulary the last 3 albums...
im in berlin, for a week or so.
do you think maybe you could point me out some interesting places to go to and events to attend to??
im interested in contemporary arts, sound and music..
i would really apretiate any data at all...
my mail is indiscipline2@msn.com
thanks a lot, you great one eyed man!
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Date: 2007-01-21 02:49 pm (UTC)There are so many, but I'm really not sure what the word "normal" means anyway.
But here are some nonetheless. (And I am disqualified (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v27/beketaten/?action=view¤t=DSCN0592.jpg) because pretty much everyone I know thinks I'm a freak in some way or other.):
This is Kaja (), she is Polish, and one of the most radiantly lovely girls I've ever meant in my life. Practically as soon as I got the first pleasure of seeing her up close, I fell in love with her, but when I broke down and told her about it at the end of the year, she just smiled sweetly and told me she wasn't, er, fruity, and gave me a hug. We are friends to this day, but ah, what beauty, I say! A photograph hardly does her justice.
This girl's name is Emma (http://community.livejournal.com/ditl/272149.html). She is a brilliant, sensitive soul from Sweden who uses "normality" as a guise to be under cover in the daily life of wherever she goes; she is in New York right now, and there is no telling what her quiet, deliberate and rapturous mind will make of her connection to her surroundings. I do quite love her.
And last but not least, for now, another Swedish girl (http://johannakatt.livejournal.com/266540.html#cutid1) I do not so much know, but she is possessed of such an astounding natural beauty, and is somewhat of a recluse, "normal" in the sense that she doesn't make a big fuss of herself except to her little world, whence come all her beautiful little things she has given herself time to make and do.
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Date: 2007-01-21 04:41 pm (UTC)My girlfriend is an MD/PhD student and I find her at her most alluring when she's working at her lab bench or explaining apoptosis. She, too, finds me most attractive when I can help her figure out some lab problem. I think that demonstrated intelligence is most attractive to me and glues the erotic and practical aspects of the female form together in my mind. It's a shame that all these "pretty girls" make a living out of being pretty; what will they do when their looks fade and a new crop of 18-year-old camera whores take their place? The female musicians are in a better spot because of their music, but they had better be good once they hit 35...record executives aren't as forgiving to women with wrinkles.
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Date: 2007-01-21 05:33 pm (UTC)I think pretty girls are some of the best designs out there :P
...Aside from pretty boys XD
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Date: 2007-01-21 05:28 pm (UTC)Normal cool and pretty girls
Date: 2007-01-21 05:34 pm (UTC)berlin suite
Date: 2007-01-21 06:02 pm (UTC)so no interesting music or contemporary arts event worthwhile this week besides that one ?
(thanks for the tip though, nick!)
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