You think I'm pretty

Katy Perry - Teenage dream

They smelled of moss in your hand // Muse #36

You wish that life is gentle, kind and clear to your mind. But sometimes you just can't avoid what life includes too. It has fear, wilderness, challenges, survivals. And sometimes you just can't sit down, you have to struggle and fight. Not against yourself but for yourself. And after that it will be calm for you again. A little different story than you are used to from me. But life has so many sides. Just like characters. I believe in variety, and characters with countless traits. I guess that is what this story is for me about.

xx Emilie

'We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.' 

Quote: Henry David Thoreau

'Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.'

Quote: Cormac McCarthy

 Aline Weber shot by Beau Grealy For Muse #36 Winter 2013

December editorial update

Drake Burnette shot by Mel Bles for Muse #36.

Freja Beha Ericsen shot by Craig McDean for Interview, December 2013.

Avril Alexander in Cosmopolitan Australia, December 2013.

 Via Sea Scaped

Drop in, pull in, kick out!

When I was like fifteen years old my fascination for surfers started. It was not only the sport I was intrigued by, it was more the look and feel around the lifestyle. Billabong, Quicksilver, Reef Brasil, Brunotti and O'Neill. The girls in the commercials and campaigns looked so happy and free. I think it was the time I started to take life a little bit more serious. Maybe more than I wanted. So having a look at those lifestyles brought me some escapes. And secretely I wanted to be part of it. It was the reason that I had my intershipduring my fashion study at Brunotti, a board sport brand. I got in touch with the really cute girl and boy riders, and my fascination never stopped.

By posting this new entry I like to share the feeling that the lifestyle can give you.

I'm curious to your feelings as well. So please tell me your experiences. And don't forget the amazingly beautiful video with a translation of this style in video cuts, a girl named 'Katie van Daalen Wetters' made. Just found today on the net.

Njoy.

xx Emilie

Someone said that "only a surfer knows the feeling". With "no waves, no glory" and "drugs, no thanks I'm a surfer". All we know is "when in doubt, paddle out". For some, "life's a beach", for others, "life's a wave". Someone said "work is for people that don't surf". We might agree and "if it swells, ride it".

Katie van Daalen Wetters cuts videos and makes new ones with those amazing atmospheres. Watch it in the morning, in the evening, every time. Also starring Lindsey Wixon, who is teasing the camera on a shoot.

In crowded surfing days, "if in doubt, paddle out". That might be the only wave available. In big days, "Eddie would go" and he would certainly keep saying "just one more". "I surf because...", I believe "surfing is life, the rest is details". Surfing has several rules, too. When "surf's up", you'll simply "drop in, pull in, kick out".

 Images:

Robin Waters photography: 1,4,6,10,19,24,25,32

Billabong: 8

O'Neill: 21, 26

Nirrimi: 33

Sea Scaped: video

Surfer Today: quotes