Blawg with an identity crisis. Occasional thrifting fashion guide. Money spending catalogue. Pop culture best-ofs. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25066780-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Tumblr (3.0; @thriftyy)http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a35188ec22ec0bf5062fbf578dd5deb4/tumblr_mijtp3NIRY1qbiwrzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mingling + mixing at the @hennessyus @bloodisthenewblack #poolartshow</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/43613573751http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/43613573751Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:31:50 -0800poolartshow<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mej7zq2rIf1qbiwrzo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Tuesdays.</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/37222851194http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/37222851194Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:28:38 -0800<a href="http://bit.ly/106KDWu">Holiday Fashion Ads AKA It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year</a>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/36149508051http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/36149508051Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:41:31 -0800<a href="http://www.theonion.com/search/?q=Kim+Jong-Un+Named+The+Onion%27s+Sexiest+Man+Alive+For+2012">Announcing the Onion's Sexiest Man of 2012</a>: <p>SWOON</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/35733348533http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/35733348533Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:18:33 -0800<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gIjR2_lhrfA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This will be the song that plays during the montage in my biopic in which i pick up the pieces of my life from a lost love, start my own business, and the seeds of new romance grow in the fertile soil of possibility.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.sexartandpolitics.com/post/35685723878/desree-you-gotta-be">sexartandpolitics</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Des’ree - You Gotta Be</p> </blockquote>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/35691388091http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/35691388091Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:52:39 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md47ycwXGb1qjnhqgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>#FALLWEAR #HAVE2HAVE</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/35280022947http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/35280022947Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:18:45 -0800<iframe class="spotify_audio_player" src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify%3Auser%3Aprojectshow%3Aplaylist%3A34g5nEgMT15mIpizOkrZeY&view=coverart" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" width="500" height="580"></iframe><br/><br/>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/33321071759http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/33321071759Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:48:37 -0700musicspotify<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2N-rUqk5mvw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Lady Gaga channeling Fiona Apple in “Future Love.” Homegirl continues to impress with the amount of styles she can pull off, and make her own as well.</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/31545578700http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/31545578700Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:21:50 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma42cxNbRV1qzleu4o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/31257158781http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/31257158781Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:28:48 -0700<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/hipster-wizard-of-oz-clas_n_1843476.html?utm_hp_ref=teen#slide=1453653">Hipster 'Wizard Of Oz': Classic Film Gets Hip Reimagining</a>: <p>Who, <strong>WHO</strong>, is responsible for conceiving of HuffPo slideshow content?</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30602171746http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30602171746Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:57:53 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ogpw5XT11qltlngo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30550582131http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30550582131Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:43:08 -0700<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F57346633&liking=false&sharing=false&origin=tumblr" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" class="soundcloud_audio_player" width="500" height="116"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Well, this is a Muse song i <em>kind of</em> (begrudgingly) like.</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30368616463http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30368616463Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:37:20 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m985c1Kc3Y1qbiwrzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Just left LV and wish I’d taken more pics to document these crazy past few days. Le sigh. Thx @projectshow @pooltradeshow (Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com">Instagram</a>)</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30051313700http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/30051313700Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:09:36 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m95zfyN4lb1qbiwrzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>It’s the last day of the show! Be sure to swing through all of our amazing lounges, get inspired in the #trendtank, and mingle w more than 250 emerging designers before it’s too late! (Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com">Instagram</a>)</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29969853966http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29969853966Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:07:09 -0700trendtank<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F54760832&liking=false&sharing=false&origin=tumblr" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" class="soundcloud_audio_player" width="500" height="116"></iframe><br/><br/><p>What do Mitt Romney and a UCLA rent-a-cop have in common?</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29676771278http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29676771278Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:14:12 -0700<a href="http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/05/12/the-faux-vintage-photo-part-iii-nostalgia-for-the-present/">Miss u, indulgent essays on social media, The Subject + authenticity.</a>: <p>Nice to get a little step back from the social media universe into the meta-social media -verse perspective. Though it is Interesting from a brand’s perspective… For brands, I’ve found that filters are more about maintaining a consistent aesthetic (admittedly, an “authentic” aspiring aesthetic), which, according to this dude, I guess is the branding equivalent of the personal identity we’re all trying to construct by using filters in the first place. Le sigh.</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29584451758http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29584451758Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:06:20 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr1pbae1u11qz51ako1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thou smell of a mountain goat.</p> <p><a href="http://zero1infinity.tumblr.com/post/9829602392">zero1infinity</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Learn to insult like Shakespeare</p> </blockquote>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29563811423http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29563811423Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:41:23 -0700<p>Dig-Hum strikes again! love the idea of rhythm textures.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kate-tito.tumblr.com/post/29343603669/on-the-road">kate-tito</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/98-on-the-road-map-kerouac-traces-his-trip"><img height="622" src="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/map-otr.jpg" width="500"/></a></p> <p>one map to another…</p> <p><a href="http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/98-on-the-road-map-kerouac-traces-his-trip">above</a>, jack kerouac’s drawn itinerary of a j<span>uly to october trip in </span>1947.</p> <p><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/05/07/writing-without-words/">below</a>, <a href="http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/wwwords/literary-organism/">stefanie posavec</a>’s <em>writing without words </em>- visually examining <em>on the road </em>through theme, form, rhythm…very amazing work.</p> <p><span><img height="647.5" src="http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/files/litorg2.jpg" width="500"/></span></p> <p><span><img height="708" src="http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/files/sentence-drawings-poster-thumb-600x848.jpg" width="500"/></span></p> <p><span><img height="708" src="http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/files/sentence-length-poster-thumb-600x848.jpg" width="500"/></span></p> <p><span><img height="708" src="http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/files/rhythm-textures-poster-thumb-600x848.jpg" width="500"/></span></p> </blockquote>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29558996070http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29558996070Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:11:43 -0700<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fSB_HA9GdDE?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><div class="km"> <div class="kk"><span class="kn" title="rachelakraus@gmail.com">GCHAT DIARIES</span></div> <div class="kk"><span class="kn" title="rachelakraus@gmail.com">me: </span> <span id=":3sn">i just ate a piece of chocolate cake</span></div> <div class="kl" id=":3sm">that was still frozen</div> <div class="kl" id=":3sl">via the kale diet</div> <div class="kl" id=":3sk">if you eat it with your fingers and don’t put it on a plate it doesn’t count</div> </div> <div class="km"> <div class="kk"> <span class="kn" title="danakelly415@gmail.com">danakelly415: </span> <span id=":3sj">omg stop it. my life.</span></div> <div class="kl" id=":3si">you life. our lives. last nights kale diet consisted of a pickle and a handful of life cereal</div> <div class="kl" id=":3sh">FTW</div> </div> <div class="km"> <div class="kk"> <span class="kn" title="rachelakraus@gmail.com">me: </span> THESE ARE <span>TDOOL!</span></div> </div></p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29375619639http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29375619639Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:18:32 -0700brucebrucebrucechocolatekaledietgchat<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CycssnIVnGI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Big Boi ft. Little Dragon: not sure where the kinda weird ’80s vibe comes from but I like it.</p>http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29060952749http://thriftyy.tumblr.com/post/29060952749Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:19:00 -0700