David Bailey, Jean Shrimpton New York



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I absolutely adore this David Bailey photograph. It was taken in 1962 at the beginning to the British invasion. I was watching a little biopic about David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton at the time he took this photo with a few other in New York for Vogue a couple of days ago. This is definitely my favorite - I just love how she looks so natural in it and her perfect reflection in the puddle. I wish I could take photographs that are at least tiny fraction of this quality.

Olola

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Easy to Love?

'Let me be easy to love.'
 

The Jezabels - Easy to Love, 2010

Because I know along with my closest friends that love for me will be one hell of a rollercoaster.

I want to be easy to love, I think I'll be easy to love but words cannot describe how much I'll be consumed by it when my time arrives.

Underworld - Scribble

I don't think this song can ever stop having the effect of just taking me to another world.

It's just so beautiful. And whenever I hear this song I can't help but think of how good things could be - me being happier, bigger and so much better. Or just having the lyrics 'It's okay you give me everything I need' said to me over and over again would just be a dream.

Olola

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Baking Bread

I've been dreaming of this day for so long and I finally did it. I baked bread!

The recipe was quite simple. All the ingredients I used are in the first image.

I guess the reason I wanted to bake bread is because I love bread - I really cannot live without it and I had got to the point where I was sick of always having to go out every few days to buy bread (It actually works out a lot cheaper to bake bread than to buy it).

It took me just under two and a half hours to get to the finished product. Though the funny thing was that the crust was rock hard and the texture felt wooden - you could have actually killed someone with the loaf. Having said that I wouldn't have wanted it to turn out any other way.

Given the texture of the bread I was unable to cut the slices any thinner, however it is quite filling which is great because I do have the tendancy to over eat.

I will certainly be baking bread every week from now on. It's so worth it and I had loads of fun!

Can't wait until the next bake!

Olola

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Writing

'I write for nothing but a sense of escape.'

Me, 2012

It's true I do because for the period of time that I'm focused on a piece I am nothing but the characters in the piece. Hopefully the piece I am working develops into on masterpiece of emotions, thougths and absolute mental genius.

Hammock - I Can Almost See You

I stumbled across this atmospheric piece - it's beautiful!

It really does open up your eyes - things seem like they could be better; dreams seem achievable.

This inspirational comment I found on the video sums it all up perfectly:

'This song makes me think about how lucky I am to be in this world.

That's more important than any girl, friend or any other feeling. I'm going to live the days as if they were the last ones. Being myself, concentrating on the small details that often scape from us and enjoying every drink of air.

I think that's the spirit. And doing that, all our problems can be solved easily.

Girls [&] friends will come automatically.

Just choose how [yo]u want to live your life.

I'm 18 and I've chosen.

Adri, Spain.'

I've chosen too.

Olola

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Lovers

I have a thing for drawing hands so as I was searching the web one day I came across an image that said the the interlocking of fingers between a couple meant that they were lovers.

So I decided to draw it.

Olola

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Flight Facilities ft Giselle - Crave You

Oh to crave or to be craved - what a song!

Olola

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The Return of The King!

bbc.co.uk

Arsenal 1 - Leeds 0
9/1/12

Olola

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'Inside me a lunatic sings'

'Inní mér syngur vitleysingur'

Sigur Ros

I think if I ever were to get a tatoo this is what I'd get written vertically from my right underarm to my hip. I don't why - I guess because it's true - 'inside me a lunatic sings' - I like it that way.

Jesse Boykins III - I Can't Stay

I feel in love with this song a couple of months ago.

I discovered it through a model I follow from the US called Love Fola. She actually appears in the video too in the head wrap and white dress.

I love its freshness and sound which is full of such escapism - I think there comes a point where we just have to walk away from things and not turn back at all.

Olola

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Every Tear Drop is A Waterfall

This picture wa taken by me at the Coldplay Itunes gig that I won tickets for in July 2011. We were showered with confetti towards the end of 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall'. This picture never fails to put a smile on my face.

This day is most certainly up there with Dizzee Rascal's Lovebox performance in 2010 as one of the best moments of my short life so far. They were absolutely mind-blowing! I still have so many magnificent bands/artists to see.

Olola

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Fallen

And there it is

That moment that you realise that you've fallen.

And as much as you want to you just can't get up.

You put all your effort into doing so but you just can't

You know that you may never get up.

Nothing makes sense anymore

Life is no longer straight forward

You no longer feel as complete alone

You are no longer yourself.

Your knees are weak;

Arms bruised;

Head hurts.

And you just can't see.

All you know now is that you'd rather fall

Than to not have fallen at all.

This feeling is amazing.

Time has no significance.

You seek solace from an embrace

Consisting of incalculable pulsations and sharp intakes of breaths

And in moments of blissful ignorance

You know that you have been saved

For you have not fallen alone;

They have fallen with you.

Olola (2011)

Loui the ZU ft Leroy Clampitt (The Good Fun) - I Want You To Know

I just disovered this a couple of days ago; there's no doubt in my mind that will be on repeat for a while.

It's so relaxing and my imagination runs wild in slow motion.

I love it when I find new songs - It's I get to know myself a little bit more everytime.

'I [just] want(ed) you to know'...

Olola
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Strange Person

'I guess what it boils down to is the fact that I do strange things because I'm a strange person.'

Me, 2011 

I don't remember when I said this it was probably on the phone to my best friend.

Being Bigger & Better



Heya.

 I'm Olola and this is my blog.

I'm a born and bred Londoner and I am currently at uni studying Economics and Politics. It's interesting. But I do have a thing for property and would love to own my own property developing company at some point in the future. 

I want to use this as a creative space; it's a place where I can discover and express myself through the means of Art, Music, Literature, Fashion and whatever I find interesting. Hopefully by the end of the year and the year after that, and so forth, this blog will develop into a space that I can look back on and be proud of and also one that anyone who stumbles across it will find interesting.

I love Architecture, Music, and London. There'll be random posts of whatever I find interesting such as Quotes, Images I find inspiring and funnily enough some of my Baking exploits. I'll also share my poetry which I'll hope to post at least once a month and songs that I discover.

Part of my self-discovery journey is about me growing as a person and into a person that I am happy with. There will be Fashion posts on here of clothing that I find inspiring as I am trying to discover 'my style'. Once I start developing my style I'll begin to post pictures up. I've also been thinking of giving photography a go - hopefully the pictures come out okay.

I am a well-known rambler, so I'll try not to live up to this trait. I just wanted to explain the reason I gave this blog the title 'Being Bigger & Better'. It has been my moto for a while now and it embodies my aim in life. Bigger in the sense of dreaming big, wanting to achieve and believing in experience being the main form of development and Better in the sense that improving for oneself is of utmost importance and never settling for what you are not absolutley content with. 

I want to be Bigger & Better not for the world but for me.

Olola
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