LINDSEY TXAKEEYANG
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love love love
Last night, my friend sent me this beautiful piece to read titled, “On Behalf of Love.” While Valentine’s Day was 11 days ago, love is still in the air. My parents & sister sent me some enchanting flowers,
and I stuffed envelopes full of candy & Justin Bieber valentines for all of my favorite friends (except for the roomie, who got a dino-mite box of chocolates and a hand-written letter).
A few days before Valentine’s, I shot some pictures of my friend Patrick and the Hobbes doll his girlfriend made him, as part of his Valentine’s gift to her. I got really into it because, well, IT WAS JUST SO CUTE.
the circle of life
One year ago today, my Uncle Tony passed away in an unfortunate accident. 6 months later, my family and I flew to Alaska for his daughter’s wedding. While today is indeed a sad day, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite photos from the wedding this summer as a reminder of how love, beauty and happiness will always continue:
The Rocheleaus are the foster family that took in my dad when he first came to America. Today they still consider him–and he they–an integral member of the family. There’s a saying that family runs deeper than blood and my dad and the Rocheleaus are living proof of that.
That boy clearly thinks way too highly of himself…
The handsome and hilarious groom.
The maid of honor/the bride’s sister.
The beautiful bride and our Uncle Rich.
Tahoe
Great weekend.
Images That Struck My Fancy, Week 1
This is the first in a new weekly series called “Images That Struck My Fancy”–ITSMF (pronounced it-smif) for short. Ideally, overtime I will build up an inspirational catalogue of visuals I can pull from anytime I need to spark a moment of genius. So here we go, the ITSMF for January 6th to the 12th, pulled from lectures, Instagram and blogs. Chyeah.
These first three are photographs by Jamie Beck, one of my all-time favorite photographers and definitely an influence on my own photography.
These girls, Nicole Warne of Gary Pepper and Aimee Song of Song of Style, look like they’re living the dream–beautiful clothes, constant traveling, successful careers. They’re utterly fascinating.
This lovely dancer is actually my best friend’s sister. She’s gorgeous (as are my best friend and the other two sisters–an extremely handsome family). I pulled these from her Instagram. I hope that’s not creepy.
Cranes because it reminded me of all the people I know studying in Japan right now. Particularly missing my study partner!
I love this picture. Like really. Even the title, “Fairy tale of a girl whose body comes alive every night under his sensitive hands.” It’s magical. I can’t explain it. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. Okay that’s definitely a cop out to say but, eh.
Last week’s favorite. Supposedly Lady Godiva is the legend of a woman whose husband taxed the town ridiculously. She was sympathetic and tried to convince him to change his ways. He, however, said he would do it only if she rode through the town naked. She agreed but only after making the entire town promise not to look. Only one man broke this promise–Tom. Thus the term “Peeping Tom” was born.
STANFORD vs UCLA
My night in camera phone pictures:
(Courtesy of Ramon Flores)
Getting our Asian on (courtesy of Mando Castillo).
The only way I could see anything when we stormed the field!
Clearly this little girl felt the same way.
“Play hard, study harder. Nerd Nation.” See you bitches at the Rose Bowl.
Sacramento Hmong New Year
I went to Sacramento Hmong New Year on Saturday the 24th. It was my first time (that I can remember) at Hmong New Year! I mostly just enjoyed creeping with my camera on all the cute babies and beautiful clothes. Here are my favorite shots from that day (minus most of the babies so that I don’t look like a creeper):
First the lovelies I went with (minus Lao, sorry).
The girl on the left in this picture totally caught me creepin’ and eyed me out… my bad.
I absolutely love Hmong guy clothes. I want pants like these for myself.
Pov pob!
I also want this headdress!
I bought a pair of these:
This girl also caught me taking her picture but I just continued anyways. Look at her face, how could I resist?
And now my absolute favorite of the day. So adorbz. Forreal.
We Need YOU To Finish The Job
SO READY FOR FRIDAY.
survey responses
The past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a project /potential startup with someone and we’ve finally reached the point where we can recruit others interested in our idea. To do that though we need a name. After brainstorming for a bit on Wednesday, we chose our favorites and put them into a survey that I emailed out to various lists at Stanford. I also posted it on my Facebook and Tumblr. Besides our own ideas, we also asked for people to suggest alternatives. I met with my partner today to go over the results. Here are my favorites out of the comments we received:
- “t-yang and the gang”
- “Potatoesaredelicious”
- “The Laurence Txakeeyang News Team” (Laurence Txakeeyang = my brother)
- “Company motto suggestions: “We ballin’ on the mothahfuckin’ Compton streets.” “We flip flop and serve hoes like flapjacks.” “Bitches on my nuts like clothes.” “Motherfucker need to step back, hell yeah.””
- “Too be honest, all the options are poor.”
- “Wat”
Clever, guys, clever.
Black Friday shopping!
…at 3pm because we’re lazy shits who didn’t wake up until 1.
The only time I can ever resist something with sequins is when it doesn’t fit me properly. And unfortunately this shirt did not. Or else I would be in it all day err’day. This was also my first time in Foreign Exchange. I love it. The extremely charming cashier who rang me up had me fangirling all the way out the mall.
I have a tendency to make ridiculous, unnecessary purchases. For example, a few days ago I spent $11.25 on a 500-pack of origami paper then came home and realized I had no use for them. Thank God I found someone to buy them off me for $10. Today though I did pretty solid. A 50% off shirt from Cotton On, 40% off fancy-pants from American Eagle, and a 2-for-1 deal at Foreign Exchange that landed me a beautiful white lace dress and swagalicious (what a great word) varsity jacket. I also resisted like $70 more of unnecessary things. Yay for self-control!
Junk picture cause of my ugly carpet, sorry!
LINDSEY TXAKEEYANG 