Indefinite Hiatus

photo from found magazine


As much as I hate ignoring this blog and writing this type of posts, I simply can't go on with this anymore. I've been having a lot of personal problems of various kinds during the past weeks; with all the emotional drama going on, I tend to be quite brain dead and even the things I once loved are starting to be a drag.

I don't know how much it will take me to get back on track , probably enough to lose all the few readers I won so far... yet I simply can't write about anything at the moment. It's that time when I'm too depressed to get out of bed or eat... I will try however to channel my energy into leading a more or less normal daily life and school attendance.

Anyway, there are of course things that will always keep me going and cheer me up, like Cat and Girl, Girls with Sligshots and Questionable Content. I recommend you all reading at least one of these comics, they're a great break.

Hoping everything will eventually work out fine, I do look forward to getting back to this place soon.

Short vacation

I hate to say this again, but I'll be away for a few days. My mum and I were going to visit grandpa in Roman and talked about it for a while, but she didn't confirm it until today. Basically we're meeting there at his house (her childhood house also); it's not really a particular reason we're going there for, but we thought the place wood look splendid this time of year, the weather has gotten better... And there's the best bakery I know! I also hope I'm gonna talk him into showing me the oldest family photos there are around there; I was also supposed to pick up my mum's old accordion from him, but apparently my uncle took it to my place in Bistrita, so I'll have to wait a while until I get my hands on it. It's quite a shame because I was really looking forward to try my hand at it (i never played any instrument)...

The funny thing about this picture is that Danny bought it from the flea market in Budapest and it was laying around our room, but when he showed me the pictures he took on the trip I realized we actually photographed the same thing! How weird is that?

Anyway, I'll write a full report on the trip and hope the weather is gonna be as nice as they predicted.

Maple leaves and chrysanthemum

This is gonna be a total filler/eye candy post, but at least I hope it will be a nice filler. My week has been quite hectic with school, a review I had to do for the local Time Out and, most important of all, it was me and Danny's anniversary! I'm pretty much amazed by this,considering is my most long-lasting relationship this far and certainly the nicest.









But that's not what I wanted to talk about; for the last 2 days we had a little sunshine (I like to think I summoned it back with my last post) and I remembered these old photos I took before moving to Bucharest some 3 years ago. I still love them and find them very relevant, especially because they encompass the two things I especially love about autumn : the maple leaves and chrysanthemum. The park in Bistrita has a lot of maple trees and I think their leaves get the prettiest colors in autumn. I used to come home with real bouquets of these and just hang them in my room.

Another amazing autumn thing (in Romania at least) are the chrysanthemum; on the 1st of November we celebrate the Day of the Dead, which means that everyone goes to the cemetery and cleans the graves and decorates them with many many flowers. It's quite magical to walk through one the day after, no matter how creepy it might sound. And the prettiest thing is that after mid October you start seeing almost every person on the street carrying bouquets of chrysanthemum. Of course, the custom was more easily observed in Bistrita and Cluj, but it still reverberates here. Also, in Cluj at least, other than chrysanthemum you can see street vendors with fried chest nuts!

Maybe I just became a little melancholic and I feel like going back to Bistrita for a couple of days, even though it snowed(!!) last week. I actually remembered those pictures because that year it snowed in October as well, about one week after i took these! Pretty amazing,huh?








What's funnier is that at the time I took those pictures, I had in mind the Untitled[Flowers] series by Fischli/Weiss and when I showed these to one of my uni teachers she stated that the pictures have more to do with fashion editorials than with contemporary art. Now that I use them for my "fashion" blog, I guess she was kinda right in a way.

Yet again, the whole "what is and what is not art" is a very tricky discussion nowadays. So I give you the most beautiful autumn pictures that I have; I do hope I'll be able to catch up with everything and make time for more interesting posts.








I wish you all a wonderful and sunny weekend!