BIP! BIP! MOVE OVER, CHUNG.

She could be your little sister's potty-mouthed bad influence of a friend who just happens to be 21. Her name is matter-of-factly onomatopoeic and perfectly reflective of her tiny stature. She blogs with multi-colored fonts and winks in gif's. She looks like trouble and a Powerpuff girl all rolled into one.

Bip(asha) Ling, art student-turned-blogger-turned-DJ-slash-model-slash-TV presenter, is invading the blogosphere with swirly neon markers and whiplashed hair. Her style is schizophrenic, never lending itself to a one-liner: she alternately (or simultaneously) embodies punk, pretty, pink, playful, prints, and prepubescent. She's colorful, raucous, witty with her own sub-brand of English humor. She listens to music acts that sound more like they belong in a Lord of the Rings spin-off: Grum, Gonjasufi, Zongamin.

Oh, and when asked why she thinks she's like a pony, she replies, "I am a pony because I have long hair, and I like to do my make-up in a My Little Pony style – black eyeliner and that. And I love My Little Pony."

Of course.

thisislondon.co.uk/twinfactory.co.uk/bipling.com/

HOWDY!

Indeed, it has been a great long while. More than a year, to be, uh, inexact. As the saying goes, real life gets in the way. Yet another saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. <3


Think of this as that random poke you get on Facebook from an old friend, or that missed call on your phone by an unregistered but familiar number, or that email you momentarily thought as spam. It may have been infrequent, it may have been arbitrary. But a nice, friendly welcome nonetheless. 


So, howdy, hello, and a hug from me to you. :-)

 For now let me leave you with some musical goodness featuring three personal faves. This song's perfect; it has intermittently yet stubbornly been in my head for a good year or so--around the same time of my blogging hiatus. 

Enjoy, beautifuls.

1:19 = lykke li goodness

1:44 = santigold

and the actual vid's not bad, either. ;-)

pop!

fashiongonerogue/aldo

life!

alexander mcqueen walks the runway as he closes his show (spring 2009).

what a life.

pairing.

what a pretty pairing. vanessa, you'll always have a special place in my heart.

stranded.in.this.spooky.town.

she took my heart; i think she took my soul

and it's coming closer....

menage.

wow, kate. 

justjared